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Swine Flu Was Cultured In a Laboratory', Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director Says

We Need to be Inoculated Against Outbreaks of Panic 'Mostly, however, it's yet another dreary confirmation of how media organisations love to turn concern into panic into audiences into profit, and how governments, when they see a big running story, want to position themselves flatteringly and busily at the heart of it, when the people at the heart of it really ought to be health professionals. You wouldn't know it from the already feverish speculation, but there is no reason to imagine that this flu - and 36,000 people a year die of flu on average - is any more dangerous than any other flu. For Britons, in the short-to-medium term, this means a different winter flu shot to the one that vulnerable people already get, and a few other simple precautions. As Michael O'Leary of Ryanair so robustly put it, "the slum-dwellers" are the people at real risk.' Read more... As Swine Flu Spreads, Conspiracy Theories of Laboratory Origins Abound 'Perhaps due to the genetic makeup of the fast-spreading H1N1 strain of influenza -- which includes genetic elements from bird flu, swine flu and human flu spanning three continents -- there is considerable speculation that the origins of this virus are man-made. It's not an unreasonable question to ask: Could world governments, spooked by the prospect of radical climate change caused by over-population of the planet, have assembled a super-secret task force to engineer and distribute a super virulent strain of influenza designed to "correct" the human population (and institute global Martial Law)?' Read more... Only Seven Swine Flu Deaths, not 152, says WHO 'A member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed claims that more than 150 people have died from swine flu, saying it has officially recorded only seven deaths around the world. Vivienne Allan, from WHO's patient safety program, said the body had confirmed that worldwide there had been just seven deaths - all in Mexico - and 79 confirmed cases of the disease. "Unfortunately that [150-plus deaths] is incorrect information and it does happen, but that's not information that's come from the World Health Organisation," Ms Allan told ABC Radio today.' Read more...

Rogue Clamping Company to Help Set Code on Fair Parking 'A rogue clamping company that overcharges drivers and rejects legitimate appeals has been appointed to a Government-backed body that aims to ensure fairness in parking enforcement. Parking Control Management (PCM) is one of a group of companies entrusted with creating and enforcing a new code of conduct for the parking industry. Yet it has repeatedly breached the existing code by double-charging drivers. It forced an elderly couple to pay £375 to retrieve their car after they had parked on the forecourt of a boarded-up office for 30 minutes.' Read more...

Bend Over, America and Get Ready for the Largest Tax Increase in History... the Cap and Trade Scheme. 'The Weekly Standard  has done yeoman's work exposing the insane logic of an MIT professor, the St. Petersburg Times, and the Center for American Progress. The controversy centers around a study by MIT professor John Reilly that shows a carbon cap and trade would cost the average American household $3,900 a year. $800 of that figure comes from, according to Reilly, "the cost to the economy [that] involves all those actions people have to take to reduce their use of fossil fuels or find ways to use them without releasing [Green House Gases]." No one disputes that $800 a year cost. It’s the other $3,100 that Reilly, the St.Pete Times, and CAP want to disappear.' Read more...

'Extraordinary' £1m Salary of the Man We Pay to Fight Poverty 'The head of a Government-owned firm set up to eliminate world poverty has been criticised after earning almost £1million in a year. MPs yesterday attacked the 'extraordinary' salary of Richard Laing, the chief executive of the former Commonwealth Development Corporation now known as CDC. He took £970,000 in pay and bonuses in 2007, while other senior executives earned an average of £435,000. CDC, which is wholly owned by the Department For International Development, uses private equity funds to plough money into poorer countries, mainly in Africa and Asia. But MPs on the public accounts committee said there was only 'limited evidence' that CDC had made any impact on reducing Third World poverty.' Read more...