Helen Thomas' "retirement"

89 year old journalist Helen Thomas was forced to quit her job as a columnist for The Hearst newspapers after having made controversial remarks on Israel's occupation of Palestine. White house press secretary Robert Gibbs condemned the commentaries and called them offensive.

What she said was "Tell them to get the hell out of Palestine. Remember that these people are occupied, and it is their land, not Germany, not Poland...they should go home, [to] Germany, Poland, and America and everywhere else. Why push people out who have lived there for centuries."



Thomas has always been one of the few who has dared to ask the tough question and speak up even when her opinions were not politically correct. According to many, she took it a step too far this time, but it is actually quite irrelevant. What is interesting is how, in the wake of the Ship to Gaza massacre, her comments can cause so much outrage while Israel's killing of civilians trying to help out fellow men go relatively uncovered by media in America. We should be outraged by murder, not by people speaking up for what they believe in. And how come every time anyone dares to criticize Israel, they are called anti-semantic? Shouldn't it be the other way around? Those who speak up for the Palestinians, a semantic people, should be labelled pro-semantic? Of course, it is all a play with words, and while we focus on putting labels on people, there are real wars out there and real people dying.

If it´s not broken, don´t fix it!

...and don´t replace it with something that is a whole lot worse.

It's been a year now since I first wrote on this blog about energy saving light bulbs and their potential danger to the environment and to our health.

Now, a new Swiss study has found that energy saving light bulbs emit dangerous radiation, which may lead to acute nerve and muscle damage. It is now recommended that one avoids being closer than 30 cm to these types of light bulbs for any longer period of time.

To sum it up, energy efficient light bulbs are good because they lower your electricity bill by a few dollars per year, but they destroy the environment if they are handled the wrong way and thrown in the trash, if they happen to break, you may get poisoned, and you have to give up reading in bed as you may suffer cardiac arrhythmia from the radiation they emit.

Also, energy efficient light bulbs don't emit any heat like a good old fashion light bulb does, so if you live in a cold country like Sweden, you might not even save money on your electricity bill as you will have to compensate for the lack of heat from the light bulbs by turning up the heat on your radiator instead. It´s also pretty annoying to have to wait several seconds for the light to go on every time you turn on the switch.

Instead of reinventing the wheel, perhaps we should focus on inventions that actually bring real environmental benefit.

Source: Swissinfo.ch

Who is Herman van Rompuy?

Nigel Farage provides us with a colourful and slightly shocking description, and...well...bravo Mr. Farage.

Know thy enemy

By definition, an enemy is "One who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another" (source)

An enemy to me is someone who threatens my freedoms, humiliates me, lies to me and puts me and my family in danger.

Whoever tries to poison me through vaccinations, whoever lies to me and steals my money for their own benefit, whoever forces me to strip down in order to travel, whoever spies on me, whoever seeks to control what I write or say, whoever puts me and my family in danger knowingly while pretending to protect us...that is an enemy.

Al-Quaeda does not fit with my definition of an enemy, yet they are the ones we are allegedly at war with.

Link between autoimmune disease and swine flu vaccine?

Many who took the vaccine against swine flu experienced strong adverse reactions. The adjuvant, whose purpose is to enhance the efficiency of the vaccine, creates a strong immune response. Common short term side effects include muscle pain, swelling or tenderness at injection site. A small price to pay?

Well, more serious side effects have also occurred, such as Guillain-Barre syndrome, which is a neurological disorder.

When you read about side effects, you must also keep in mind that they only mention short term side effects. There is no saying how vaccines, and adjuvanted vaccines in particular, affect long term health. What's to say that there is no connection between autoimmune disease and vaccines?

Autoimmune disease arise from an overactive immune response of the body against substances and tissues normally present in the body. In other words, the body actually attacks its own cells.The immune system mistakes some part of the body as a pathogen and attacks it. (Wikipedia)

The adjuvant used in GSK vaccines is squalene, which is an oil that is present naturally in the human body. So if it is naturally present in the human body, it must be safe, right?

Well, just think about it. The point of a vaccine is to stimulate the immune system so that the body creates antibodies ready to attack the virus in case of infection. If squalene is added to the vaccine, is there perhaps a risk that the body sees squalene too as a threat?

A wild idea? Well, this article from The Gazette brings up the fact that Switzerland's medical regulator has warned patients with serious autoimmune diseases not to use swine flu vaccine from Novartis as there has been no study in the effect it may have on these people.

Swissmedic said on Wednesday it could not be ruled out that either or both of the adjuvant -- which can enhance the immune response -- and the antigen, or less active ingredient, could lead to an intensifying of autoimmune diseases.

Autoimmune diseases, like rheumatoid arthritis, are caused by an overly active immune system attacking its own body, targeting substances which are normally present.

So ask yourself, if the vaccine can worsen the disease among those who already have autoimmune disease, is it not also a possibility that it could trigger it among those who are genetically predispositioned to develop it?

Who is responsible for the scam?

So we were right all along. The pandemic was really a non-pandemic and yet 5 million Swedes were lured into getting vaccinated and the government spent 1.2 billion on buying in 18 million doses of the vaccine from GSK. Now that the "pandemic" is over, media wants us to believe that it was thanks to the vaccine. They never mention the fact that although very few in the rest of Europe got the vaccine, the death rates were no higher than in Sweden. The numbers just don't add up. The only conclusion to be drawn is that the whole thing was a scam and that the vaccines had no effect whatsoever.

Wolfgang Wodarg, head of health at the Council of Europe, claims major firms organised a "campaign of panic" to put pressure on the World Health Organisation to declare a pandemic.

He believes it is "one of the greatest medicine scandals of the century" — and has called for an inquiry.

An emergency debate on the issue will be held by the Council later this month.

Dr Wodarg said: "It's just a normal kind of flu. It does not cause a tenth of deaths caused by the classic seasonal flu.

"The great campaign of panic we have seen provided a golden opportunity for representatives from labs who knew they would hit the jackpot in the case of a pandemic being declared.

"We want to clarify everything that brought about this massive operation of disinformation. We want to know who made decisions, on the basis of what evidence, and precisely how the influence of the pharmaceutical industry came to bear on the decision-making."

He added: "A group of people in the WHO is associated very closely with the pharmaceutical industry."(The Sun)

Heads should be rolling, but they are not...

The "terrorist attack" has false flag written all over it

One would think that all the measures taken by governments to ensure airport safety would have had at least some effect, but as the Christmas day bombing illustrates, rigid airport security clearly isn't the way to go to combat terrorism. With help from the inside, all security measures will prove to be fruitless.

Yet, after every new terrorist attack, we can bet that we'll be introduced to more outrageous security measures that in no way has proven effectiveness. While security personnel treat the average traveler with a nail clipper or a bottle of water as a potential terrorist, real threats are ignored to such a degree that one starts to wonder if there is more to it than just plain stupidity.

Instead of media discussing how to further limit our freedoms by introducing more invasive security technology, such as full body scanners, they should be analysing how the "terrorist" could have been granted a visa in the first place.

[D]isturbing questions swirled about how the suspect was able to get on the U.S.-bound plane with a one-way ticket, a bomb in his pants and a questionable background. Abdulmutallab has been on a watch list by the U.S. National Counterterrorism Center for two years, an official said. There are 550,000 people with suspected ties to terrorism on the list. Relatives in Nigeria said the suspect's father - a prominent banker - was stunned his son was allowed to fly to the U.S. The father alerted the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria months ago that his son had developed "extreme religious views" and had disappeared, the Nigerian newspaper This Day reported. (Daily News)

Most travellers are well aware of the fact that one can't travel on a one-way ticket to the US unless one is a citizen. Yet, this young Nigerian man, who was on a terror watch list and of "questionable background" was granted both a visa and to travel with a one way-ticket. How hard is it to check if someone is on a watch list before granting them a visa? That should pretty much be the first step in the process. And if Al Qaeda had really provided him with training and a bomb, couldn't they also have bought him a two-way ticket?

Abdulmutallab's communication with his family had stopped while he was studying abroad. Before that, he had not shown signs of extremist views.

The disappearance and cessation of communication which got his mother and father concerned to report to the security agencies are completely out of character and a very recent development as before then, from very early childhood, Farouk, to the best of parental monitoring, had never shown any attitude, conduct or association that would give concern. As soon as concern arose, very recently, his parents, reported it and sought help. (The Sun News)

Why did this man all of the sudden cut of communication with his family and join Al Qaeda when he had a very promising future ahead of himself?

Furthermore, eyewitness Kurt Haskell states that a young man he could later confirm was suspected terrorist Abdulmutallab was able to board the airplane without even holding a passport, aided by an East Indian looking man in a suit. The East Indian man claimed that the Nigerian was a Sudanese refugee as an explanation as to why he was lacking a passport.

Shouldn't we be looking into who the well-dressed man accompanying Abdulmutallab is? What's to say that Abdulmutallab even had the device when he walked though the security check? The bomb could just as well have belonged to the Indian man.

Below is a video from CNN:

What I would like media to address are these inconsistencies and to scrutinize claims made by the government. Is really Al Qaeda to be blamed for this? The evidence so far is a video from Yemen with an alleged terrorist who happened to die a few days later as well as a "confession" from Abdulmutallab.

It will be interesting to see if the media does their job or if we'll just end up with more propaganda on how full body scans can prevent terrorist attacks and aren't deemed to compromise integrity like before, or about how it's necessary to expand the war on terror...perhaps to Yemen.

All this, while the real criminals run free and criticism is silenced.

The government hasn't failed us, they have fooled us...many times.