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The Pig Industry Revolts: Swine Flu Now Politically Correct H1N1 Virus

It appears in our not simply nationally politically correct society but now also "globally" politically correct, spokesmen for the World Health Organization have now  temporarily renamed the Swine Flu virus by its clinical name, Influenza A (H1N1).  The United States Department of Homeland Security is following now in lock step.

It seems that there were some concerns and proof that the pork industry was having difficulty getting "this little piggy to market," due to now the psychological connections between the virus and the carrier.  Except the World Heath Organization has also now qualified its stance on just whether or not pigs ARE the actual carriers.

Or just how it is transmitted between pigs and humans, although as a virus primarily attacking the respiratory system there is absolutely not a shred of evidence to suggest that ingesting or eating pork is connected.  Unlike the e coli virus which has been proven can be transmitted by ingestion of  both raw infected eggs and poultry.

Here are some other animals and insects who have been connected, fairly or not, to human disease:

dogs, cats, bats, skunks, raccoons - rabies

cows - "hoof and mouth," "Mad Cow" disease

ticks - Lyme disease

mosquitoes - West Nile, yellow fever, malaria

chickens,eggs - ecoli

tuna, shellfish - mercury poisoning

apes, monkeys - HIV

The swine, unfortunately, also has that carryover bad rap in other cultures and some religious connections to overcome as far back as biblical times due to both allegorical connections and dietary prohibitions, and its propensity in times past to be a carrier of disease before the refrigerator and freezer were invented.

It seems the pig family is now suffering from unfair discrimination.

Since 10,000 times the amount of lives have been lost due to the open Southwest borders in Ms. Napolitano's former home state, this former Arizonan wishes she would have been so "Johnny on the spot" protecting Arizonans eight long years ago after 9/11 and prior to the now Mexican drug wars and kidnappings there.  They appear to be still conducting business as usual.

A suggestion was made by one of the directors of the WHO that maybe a contest should be run in order to rename the virus to give it a less scientific, and more commercially accepted identifier within the non-Latin speaking, scientifically challenged portion of the population.

I came up with several:

Hog Native

Hemispheric Navigational (globally transferred)

Hispanic Neutral (originating in Mexico, affecting anyone)

or how about:

The HeiNie Virus (you know, as in "backside")

USDA and WHO:  Are those politically correct?

Maybe we should just call it "Global Economy Meltdown Sydrome"  (GEMS).  That surely is a psychological boost for the pigs, supermarket and people.

I think personally I just might fast.

Here is the link on the New York Times "politically correct" article:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/health/01name.html
 

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The DHS Memo: Are YOU On The List?

World Net Daily has published an article which includes the March 26, 2009 interdepartmental memorandum prepared by DHS for local law enforcement regarding the "extremist" groups of potential domestic terrorists.  The list is so lengthy it took over 10 pages in order to outline them all. 

You most likely are on the list, since it doesn't appear they left anyone out, unless you are a government employee drone or work in the mainstream media.

There was an interesting paragraph regarding who it was that actually identified these potential terrorists groups:

"Definitions were derived from a variety of open source materials and
unclassified information, then further developed during facilitated workshops with
DHS intelligence analysts knowledgeable about domestic, non-Islamic extremism in
the United States."

I wonder if these "intelligence analysts" got their degrees online?  There is now an online university that is cashing in on this booming surveillance industry offering courses that can be completed in the comfort of your own home for less than it costs for two years at the average technical college.

The memo, Ms. Napoliano claims, was immediately yanked.  And I've got a bridge to sell you in Alaska.

http://www.tdbimg.com/files/2009/04/30/-hsra-domestic-extremism-lexicon_165213935473.pdf

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Swine Flu Pandemonium

Throughout the news the American people are now being deluged with the news that there is an "epidemic" of swine flu with the Center for Disease Control under the Department of Homeland Security issuing bulletins and warnings now almost by the hour.

Interesting, that just as the heat was being turned up on this Department due to its activities last week due to the mass protests and demonstrations held throughout the nation with the "right wing" extremists memorandums targeting U.S. citizens due to their political ideology, a "swine flu" epidemic originating in Mexico now is the top story on most local mainstream news media.

In 2006-2007 there were 47 flu-related deaths in the U.S. of children due to the usual and normal seasonal outbreaks of flu in this country.  No true figures are kept, apparently, at the national level for adult cases.  So far, less than two dozen confirmed deaths have been attributed to this Mexican originated strain.  However, the World Health Organization has now upgraded this to a global threat, based upon those 20 deaths.  Huh?

This is also the same strain that circulated back in the 70's during the last economic crisis in this country and has been in  existence since that time, apparently.  What other health conditions were present in those who have died thus far, I would also hope would be eventually revealed - since it appears this strain has so far been far less deadly than the average flu seasons of the past, and the media circus now going on truly a little over the top in comparison.

The month of April actually is the end of flu season historically in this country, with most cases during the winter and early spring months.  Here's the graph of the actual flu season historically in this country for 2008-2009:

http://www.google.org/flutrends/

There was an update that stated now that this flu season has been the worst for "regular flu," with over 1,200 deaths - however, from the last information I obtained from CDC they don't even keep track of the deaths of adults from the flu, since there also can be contributory factors for many since it is the young and elderly that are mostly the victims due to their lesser immune systems.  Many who had this swine flu the last go around in the 70's and 80's most likely would still be immuned, since the flu virus has so many different strains in and of itself.

I wonder if such "terrorist" tactics and measures by this Department, as with its "right wing extremist" memorandum, would be reduced if the Department actually did its job and initiated adequate border security controls in this country with respect to the crossing of borders by foreigners? 

After all, in Great Britain dogs are quarantined for 12 months in order that they be checked for diseases in order to protect the animal population there.

In this country, we give free Visa passes, and I wonder if the disease HIV would have ever reached our shores if the quarantine measures for immigration in this country were as strict as they are for the animals in Great Britain, or even what they were during the 1920's and 1930's, when America had its largest influx of European immigrants?

Nice segway, media.  Are you wearing masks in the newsroom? 
 

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Department of Homeland Security: Marginalizing Our Military

www.backupamerica.org
 

In recent interviews after last week's Tea Parties conducted throughout the nation, much media spin and reporting has been done with respect to one group of individuals who were targeted as "potential terrorists" according to the Department of Homeland Security's "right wing extremism" memorandum issued prior to these events.

The entire focus has primarily been directed toward the returning Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and, as Ms. Napolitano commented, their susceptibility to being recruited by some of these "right wing organizations."

The attempts at marginalization of other groups, such as of the entire Catholic faith (an anti-abortion "one issue" group primarily also), victims of illegal immigrant crime and theft in this country, those that hold with the Bill of Rights 2nd Amendment provisions, war and tax protestors, and a host of other concerned citizen groups who also were included have barely even been given a nod, much less an apology. 

Many other Americans included on that memo could not in any way be categorized as affiliated with Ms. Napolitano or the Department's definition of "right wing," in this not racial, but  "ideology" profiling, a great deal of which was directed toward individuals and citizen groups fighting for fundamental Constitutional civil liberties and rights.

To this writer, this attempt is nothing more than mass propaganda and terrorism in and of itself, and in attempts to marginalize our military as potential terrorists or suscepitible to supposed "right wing extremist" ideology as defined by the Department could only be due to one agenda, and one only. 

To attempt to discredit them, and aimed toward silencing some of those returning veterans who just may have some more truthful information about what is really going on in Iraq and Afghanistan differing from what our mainstream media pundits have presented.

Or also to discredit those outraged at this point with their multiple tours of duty contrary to their understanding when first enlisting for this "mission" back in 2001 and the direction it then subsequently took.

Or even possibly in order to minimize the sacrifices of those men and women who are now being reported by Ms. Napolitano's very own Department of Homeland Security who are now and have been attempting to cross the Canadian borders and whose agents are now detaining and holding them for military trials as deserters, many of whom also were misled and who are now refusing to return to their active duty due to their multiple tours already within this past seven years.

I received two such reports of these detentions and arrests within the past 30 days since as a border security activist, I receive the DHS builletins released to the public.  I'm sure there are many more than what have been included in the official press releases.

If we can marginalize those returning war veterans, then we can also eventually deny them future benefits, and also continue the Washington "spins" with respect to this ever-increasing war now under the Obama Administration, in direct opposition to his stated intentions during that two year run for office.

And also discredit some of their stories when they return as unworthy of credence if contrary to governmental press releases and spins this past seven years.

This by the members of this Administration from a candidate who painted himself as the agent for "change" and the "Anti-Bush" who has now spent more under that unaccountable bank bailout he was instrumental in passing with those others in Washington last September.  

Mr. Obama has now instead enlarged the number of troops and war in simply moving the troops around the Middle Eastern chessboard and continued its funding in the budget and even an 83 billion supplemental appropriations bill, and has assisted in plunging along with the past and present Congress our nation into more debt than the last four presidents and administrations combined. 

This is and has been a Democratic Congress working alongside the Republicans in ignoring the American people now on every level, and in now calling war on its own military and citizens who are outraged at such misrepresentation and conduct.

To make matters worse, at the same time this country was floundering economically, this new Administration and its corporate backers instead staged an inaugural that puts some of the coronations of the Crown Heads of Europe to shame. 

The result has been that in less than 100 day later this country is continuing to further sink into the economic quagmire Washington itself created in September during the manufactured bank "crisis" when Mr. Obama was a member of the Senate Club in the Bush Administration.  While the media fudges on the approval ratings due to their corporate loyalty to this bi-partisan collusive effort.

With all the "crisis" that have occurred within the past eight years alone now in this country, I'm wondering if all of them don't simply work for the networks and their owners under contract for ratings and their advertising revenue. 

It seems to me that what has occurred the past eight years has been Washington's version of The Fear Factor - only the citizens are the unwilling participants.

What simply has occurred is that once elected, Mr. Obama threw money at the problems, and then began his domestic and foreign carbon emitting, energy depleting and expensive road trips to sell the American people on Washington's ever increasingly outrageous "fixes" and policies.  

In the process then apologizing to the globe, and a bowing to a British Queen and Saudi King, whose very citizens were reported and responsible for the largest massive attack and civilian casualties in this country post World War II.  And while our own southern borders and states are under attack, providing Black Hawk helicopters rather than securing again our own borders rather than Iraq's.

And then returning for the White House dog debut.

So how low can Washington continue to go in now not only declaring war on the majority of Americans in this "terrorist" bulletin, but also declaring war on its own military veterans? "

"Mea culpas" are not going to get you out of this one, Washington bureaucrats. Public apologies to every single American in this country by the President, Vice President and all 535 members of Congress and federal bureaucracy and resignation at this point just might do it. But only might.

After all, the Sergeant-at-Arms in both the House and Senate are there for a reason and function, and this position is not simply a ceremonial one.

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