Sunday, 17 October 2010

Experts Admit Swine Flu Jab 'May Cause' Deadly Nerve Disease

'Health chiefs have for the first time acknowledged that the swine flu jab may be linked to an increased risk of developing a deadly nerve condition.
Experts are examining a pos sible association between the controversial jab and Guillain-Barre Syndrome, according to a report from official watchdog the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).

Previously, the Government has always stressed there is no evidence to link the paralysing condition to the H1N1 vaccine.'

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CNBC Senior Editor Says Congress Will Pass Law Sanctioning Foreclosure Fraud As Banks Continue To Rob American Citizens

'As the foreclosure crisis deepens, the calls for criminal charges against the big banks have steadily mounted. The whole reason laws are created are to prosecute criminal acts such as those carried out by JP Morgan, Citigroup and Bank of America.

Apparently their are some who believe that Congress will actually pass a law sanctioning bank fraud. Senior CNBC editor John Carney has predicated that Congress will pass a bill in the lame duck session that would do just that.'

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BP Attorney Suggests That the Oil Giant Might Seek to Cap Spill Claims at $75 Million

'In a seemingly never-ending parade of radio, television, print and web ads, in addition to numerous official statements, BP officials have repeatedly insisted that the company intends to make the Gulf Coast and its residents "whole" again. In the latest such PR blitz, BP employee and New Orleans native Iris Cross reiterates that the company will do everything it has to do in order to "make this right."

But yesterday in federal court, an attorney for the oil giant sent shockwaves throughout the Gulf region by suggesting that BP may seek shelter under the $75 million liability cap polluters can invoke under the Oil Pollution Act of 1990.'

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Foreclosuregate: Time to Break Up the Too-Big-to-Fail Banks?

'Although downplayed by most media accounts and popular financial analysts, crippling bank losses from foreclosure flaws appear to be imminent and unavoidable. The defects prompting the “RoboSigning Scandal” are not mere technicalities but are inherent to the securitization process. They cannot be cured. This deep-seated fraud is already explicitly outlined in publicly available lawsuits.

There is, however, no need to panic, no need for TARP II, and no need for legislation to further conceal the fraud and push the inevitable failure of the too-big-to-fail banks into the future.

Federal regulators now have the tools to take control and set things right. The Wall Street giants escaped theVolcker Rule, which would have limited their size, and the Brown-Kaufman amendment, which would have broken up the largest six banks outright; but the financial reform bill has us covered. The Kanjorski amendment—which slipped past lobbyists largely unnoticed—allows federal regulators to preemptively break up large financial institutions that pose a threat to U.S. financial or economic stability.'

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Anti-Austerity Protests Rock Europe

'Hundreds of thousands of people across Europe have taken to the streets to protest austerity plans, as major EU nations were hit by a wave of strikes. France has witnessed the most massive demonstrations as protesters in Paris and other large cities rallied to decry French President Nicolas Sarkozy's plans to increase retirement age from 60 to 62.

The strikes have closed hundreds of schools, refineries and train stations and grounded flights amid concerns that the situation could get worse.'

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