Friday, 05 March 2010 08:07 'A glib 33 second propaganda ad produced by the Kentucky Department for Public Health portrays skeptics of the swine flu vaccine as raving lunatics, despite the fact that the head of the Council of Europe’s investigation into the 2009 outbreak labeled it “one of the greatest medical scandals of the century.” The commercial, which is entitled ‘H1N1 Vaccine Myths,’ features a group of office workers spewing ridiculous theories about the swine flu vaccine that have never been embraced by any vaccine skeptic, in an attempt to build a classic straw man and smear people who question the necessity for taking the shot as unstable lunatics.' Read more: Government Swine Flu Ad Portrays Vaccine Skeptics As Raving Lunatics Friday, 05 March 2010 08:04 'According to Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian Prime Minister who now leads the Liberals in the European Parliament, “The ultimate consequences of identity thinking are the gas chambers of Auschwitz“. Politicians should be careful about dragging Holocaust references into everyday arguments. Even Churchill – who arguably had more right to make such references than the rest of us – suffered when he tried to draw a parallel between socialism and the Gestapo during the 1945 election campaign. Yet Euro-integrationists make the link so habitually and so matter-of-factly that they no longer realise what they’re doing.' Read more: When is it OK to Call People Nazis? When They're Euro-sceptics Friday, 05 March 2010 07:54 'One out of every three people killed by unmanned US Predator drones in Pakistan is a civilian, according to a new report that highlights the collateral damage caused by the targeting of Taliban and “Al Qaeda” operatives with missiles. The report by Washington think tank The New America Foundation has found that 32% of the more than 1,200 people killed since 2004 were innocent bystanders rather than dangerous terrorists.' Read more: One in Three Killed by U.S. Drone Attacks In Pakistan Are Civilians Friday, 05 March 2010 07:51 An angel/music cipher that points out 3 notes of the music to The Rosslyn Motet accounting for 70% of the entire cube sequence. It is so subtle a decoy that you are supposed to think it is a musician playing a Harp or Psaltery, but when you look in detail, he is actually pointing strategically at 3 different lines and spaces of a stave of music. Referring to the first 3 cubes rising above his head. Friday, 05 March 2010 07:17 'Taiwan's National Fire Agency says at least 12 people have been injured after a strong earthquake jolted the southern part of the country. The 6.4-magnitude quake shook Kaohsiung County early Thursday, but no tsunami alert was issued. The incident disrupted transport and also caused at least one large fire.' Friday, 05 March 2010 07:11 'Hundreds of passengers have been stuck in ice on board two ships ferrying them in the Baltic Sea between Stockholm and the Aland Islands, located between Sweden and Finland. Swedish maritime authorities say the vessels are not likely to be freed for some time. However, both countries have sent icebreakers to rescue the ships in what is being called the worst Baltic freeze in 15 years.' Read more: Ship Passengers Trapped in Baltic Sea Ice That's global warming for you!!
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