Maybe Janet should go have a gypsy read the tarot cards so she can give us even better predictions. Like for instance, what are they going to do to us when we start refusing the vaccine? That would be useful to know from the Department of Homeland Security.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano asserted Tuesday that pandemic flu is likely to flare up soon after schools open in the fall, well before any vaccine is available.

How on *earth* does she know this????

Napolitano also acknowledged that there would not be enough pandemic flu vaccine for everyone, at least in the early stages of the flu season. “There will be prioritization of vaccinations,” she told members of the USA TODAY editorial board.

The flu strain causing the pandemic, a new strain of H1N1 flu that is also known as swine flu, is especially dangerous because it is genetically different from virtually every other known flu virus. As a result, most people are defenseless against it — making vaccine the keystone of any effort to prevent illness and save lives.

OK it doesn’t get much more obvious than this. Ahem. The vaccine is genetically different from virtually every other known flu virus because IT WAS MADE THAT WAY ON PURPOSE IN A LABORATORY. (Oops! Steve Sternberg somehow forgot to mention that in his story for USA Today. Maybe he doesn’t read on the internet and never heard about Baxter and Jane Burgermeister’s lawsuit, but I’m sure he’s a great reporter because he has a job with a big newspaper.) Anyway… As A Result of the vaccine being genetically different from virtually every other known flu virus, (WINK WINK WINK), vaccines are KEY! to saving lives. That was the Whole Point!!!!

Napolitano said the flu epidemic is likely to be severe, but not as severe as the 1918 pandemic, the world’s worst. In 1918, flu killed at least 675,000 people in the USA and up to 50 million worldwide. She said it’s more likely that the pandemic would mirror 1957, when flu killed about 70,000 people in the USA and more than one million people worldwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s about twice the death toll of seasonal flu, which annually kills about 36,000 people and results in 200,000 hospitalizations.

Again, how on *earth* do they know this????

Napolitano’s statement that flu vaccine will be provided first to certain high risk groups indicates that the Obama administration accepts the consensus now established among public health experts inside of government and elsewhere.

Last week, a panel of experts advised the CDC that the first vaccinations should go to pregnant women; parents and contacts of children younger than six months; health care workers; all children and young adults and all non-elderly adults with chronic medical conditions.

The government has ordered 195 million doses of swine flu vaccine from five manufacturers, along with immune boosters called adjuvants that may be needed to ramp up the vaccine’s potency. So far, the federal government has spent about $1 billion on pandemic flu vaccine, with an additional $350 million disbursed to states, territories and hospitals for more vaccine purchases and to build surge capacity in emergency rooms and intensive care units.

Oh, it all sounds so reasonable, doesn’t it? That’s exactly the point. That’s why it’s psyops.

I set up another blog in case “something happens” to my blogs, this one or After Armageddon News. I also have Twelfth Bough on wordpress, though it has not been updated in months.

Update: Over at Goon Squad you can read the comments and reactions to Kenny’s Sideshow being scrubbed from the web. Kenny provided a hub. I don’t know what he had for traffic but his site worked and he has a great eye for story. It’s good to see the awareness and many ideas people have to circumvent censorship. As explained in Political Ponerology, many small acts of non-compliance by ordinary people will reliably disrupt evil.

Update: The mind-fucking never ceases! Kenny’s back up which is great. Of course, just a big black hole of confusion about what happened. I mean, it’s not like one should expect a busy website going missing and reappearing after a few days as being worthy of an explanation from a giant company like google/blogger. Why would they owe him an explanation? After all blogger is “free” as we all know. We’re “free” to use it and in exchange google/blogger is “free” to treat the content however they want. It does feel very much like being in a science laboratory accept we’re not the scientists but rather the microbes but hey. That’s life in the New World Order. But it’s rude to notice or you’ll attract some fucking little half-wit trolls defending the establishment that pays them and telling you to invent your own internet. Good times.

Somewhat more detailed information about the Jewish fanatics at al-Aqsa Mosque.

More than 200 Jewish fanatics on Wednesday morning stormed the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem and offered Talmudic rituals on the anniversary of the so-called destruction of the temple.

The Aqsa foundation for endowment and heritage said in a statement that the Jews spread in various areas of the holy compound and roamed its plazas while performing those rituals under the full protection of Israeli occupation police.

Uh huh. I see.

These Jewish “fanatics” appear to have plenty of support.

RAMALLAH: A news survey conducted by the Israeli Ynet news service and the Gesher organization found that about two thirds of the Israeli public want the Second Temple rebuilt. Gesher claims a 4.6 margin of error on a survey of 516 Israelis.

The Temple Mount, which is the foundation of the First and Second temples is today home to Islam’s third-holiest mosque, Al-Aqsa. The Second Temple, built by Herod the Great, was destroyed in 70 A.D. when the Romans sacked Jerusalem.

Sixty-four percent responded favorably to the question of rebuilding the temple commissioned by Herod the Great, while 36 percent responded negatively.

Among the practicing and orthodox Jewish Israelis, virtually all respondents wanted to see the Second Temple rebuilt.

Just under half of secular Israelis — 47 percent — also said they would like to see Herod’s Temple rebuilt.

Eighty percent of respondents said it was “justified” to mark what many Jews consider the saddest day of their history (the destruction of the temple) by rebuilding the temple.

The deputy chief of the Islamic Movement inside Israel Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib asserted that the temple would never be rebuilt.

“If the Jews think that their mourning will end and they will rejoice by destroying Al-Aqsa Mosque and building their temple, we say to them that their dream will not be fulfilled and they will continue to mourn,” he told Arab News yesterday. “Al-Aqsa is for Muslims only.”

Control over Jerusalem, which Israel captured during the June 1967 War, has been seen as the most sensitive and thorniest issue of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Palestinians are seeking to set up a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital, including Palestinian sovereignty over the city’s holy sites on the Temple Mount.

But the Jewish state says the city is its eternal capital.

The United States also supports this policy. US President Barack Obama stated publicly last year that he does not support a divided Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said recently: “The three major religions of the world exist in peace, have access to all their sites, only because Jerusalem is united and under Israeli rule.”

And there’s all this secrecy about the tunnels.

The Silwan project has aroused similar suspicions, in part because people are not allowed to see the tunnel, but primarily because the work is being funded by the Ir David Foundation, an Israeli settler group.

…”If it is an archaeological site and not a settlement, if it is a tourist site, then why can’t we go and see it? Why can’t anyone see it?” Ahmed Qarain, 37, a local resident asks.

The IAA has refused to allow anyone from the neighborhood or the media to see the northern section of the tunnel, and declined several requests from AFP to comment on how much of it has been excavated.

Officials there gave no reason for the ban, other than to say the work was in progress. However, they promised that the media would be invited once the project is completed. [wink wink wink!]

…”This is the most important place in the world for the Jewish people. We have been waiting for 2,000 years to come back to this area,” says Doron Spielman, a senior foundation executive.

…”You start wondering what is happening when they change the names of places,” Qarain says. “This is Silwan, but they call it Ir David. We know this street as Wadi Helwa Siyam, but they put up signs calling it Maale David.”

Fanatic settlers digging secret tunnels under the mosque and storming the premises to conduct Talmudic rituals under the protection of the IOF and with the support of two thirds of the Israeli public!??!! As part of a nefarious plot to control Jerusalem and all of Israel and actually, the world?!?!?

Inconceivable.

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” - Inigo Montoya

Why did David cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe?

When David spared Saul’s life, he took away evidence that he had him in his power: “Then David arose and stealthily cut off the skirt (hem) of Saul’s robe” (1 Samuel 24:4). Why did David do this, and why did his conscience smite him for having done it? Was there some special significance in what he had done? In fact the act of cutting off the hem (fringe) of Saul’s robe was of very great significance, which Saul was not slow to recognize. When the shouting began next day Saul said: “Now, behold, I know that you shall surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in your hand” (1 Sam. 24:10). David had robbed Saul of his status symbol, the fringe of his robe that identified him as king.

The hem of a Jew’s garment was not, as in modern clothes, a simple fold of the cloth, sewn down to prevent the edge from fraying. It was a decorative feature which made a statement about the status and importance of the wearer. The people of other nearby nations also had this custom. In texts found in Mesopotamia, references indicate that the removal of the fringe of a man’s garment was the equivalent of removing part of his personality. To cut off the hem of a wife’s garment was regarded as divorcing her. Tablets have been found with the impression of a fringe as the mark of the individual, a personal seal or signature.

Thus the hem or fringe of a garment indicated the rank or personality of the wearer. It will be remembered that Jesus castigated the Pharisees for enlarging their fringes (Matthew 23:5), the inference being that they were thereby trying to magnify their importance. The tassels on the fringes were formed by the threads decorating the fringe being brought together at the corners of the garment and knotted. The original purpose of the fringe and tassels as stated in the law became obscured in course of time, becoming a mere tradition.

Fringe: Those members of a group or political party holding extreme views: the lunatic fringe.

This is not good, via there are no sunglasses:

More than 200 Jewish extremists have reportedly entered al-Aqsa Mosque, positioning themselves inside the holy site, allegedly to perform religious rituals.

According to a statement released by the Al-Aqsa Foundation for Endowment and Heritage, the incursion was “significant”. The foundation has called on Muslims, Arabs and all Palestinians to take action in support of the mosque.

The attack comes amidst Tisha B’Av, also known as “The Ninth of Av” — a Jewish fasting day in commemoration of the destruction of the two Temples. The occasion falls on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, which usually coincides with late July or mid-August.

The First Temple was built by King Solomon and was considered the most sacred site in ancient Judaism. It was destroyed when the Babylonians pillaged Jerusalem (al-Quds) in 586 BCE.

According to Jewish accounts, the construction of the Second Temple was completed in 516 BCE on the site of the First Temple but was destroyed during the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 CE.

The destruction of the two Temples allegedly took place on the same day — the ninth of Av — but about 656 years apart.

The storming of al-Aqsa Mosque — a holy site in the eyes of many Muslims — has drawn anti-Israeli condemnation.

Former Palestinian minister for al-Quds affairs, Hatem Abdel Qader, has warned that the Israeli government is “playing with fire” by allowing far-right Jewish groups to put the mosque in harm’s way.

Abdel Qader resigned from his post last month after he censured the acting Palestinian Authority for neglecting al-Quds. He says the Salam Fayyad government refuses to uphold its commitments to the city, which is undergoing a difficult period.

According to Abdel Qader, the Palestinian Finance Ministry “contributes nothing to the effort to keep the residents on their land.”

There’s more information about the al-Aqsa Mosque if you click through.

Note that a couple hundred Jewish Extremists are bound to be heavily armed. What might these people be thinking? Here’s what one Jew said about the Dome of the Rock (next door to the al-Aqsa Mosque) in 2005 on some message board. http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Soc/soc.culture.israel/2005-11/msg00533.html

The Dome of the Rock needs to be dismantled and rebuilt on a different place in a predominantly Muslim region or it needs to be destroyed, simple as that.

The Jewish people, The Children of Israel, The Hebrews, The Ivrim are a Nation and People and have every right in the world to build a Jewish Temple over the Rock of Moriah as was built in times past during Greek occupation and Roman occupation.

Israel through legal UN charter is a Jewish State, Country and Nation granting full and legal rights for Jews from all over the Universe to practice the religion of Judaism.

In order for the Jewish people to observe the commandments in practicing the Jewish Religion it is necessary to build a Jewish Temple on the spot where the Muslim Dome of the Rock is.

This is not a request or an act of political affirmation but a Commandment that Jews must adhere to as a people.

The Muslims have Mosques in many many places. Christians have Churches in many many places and various other religions have built places of worship in their countries.

The Jews will rebuild the Temple over the Har Moriah hopefully in peace to perpetuate peace or after war if necessary.

Just remember unlike the Islam that doesn’t at present pose a nuclear threat to mankind because of lack of nuclear weapons, the Nation of Israel does have nuclear weapons and many of them, yet she remains a Nation of compromise and negation in the hopes for peace. [oopsie he went a little off the reservation there...]

She is a friend of the USA and all peace loving peoples. [snort] How do I prove that? If she wanted she could launch nuclear weapons on all Arab counties at one time including Iraq and Iran and in the process wipe some of the military might of the USA and her allies in the war against terrorism that are in Iraq and Afghanistan. But Israel and her people are not terrorist or murderers by nature. So we see Israel helping the USA and her other allies in the fight against terrorism.

The sooner mankind comes to the realization that Israel and the Jews are here to stay on Eretz Israel and whatever other place we chose to reside in according to the laws governing that country the better off mankind will be in not persecuting us because we chose to obey our God’s laws in his holy Torah while also obeying the laws of the nations we abide in including and especially on Eretz Israel.

The Dome of the Rock is categorized as an obstacle to peace in the Israeli Knesset and the Dome will be brought down either peacefully or in war.

Well that clears things up substantially. Just one voice, but is it an “extremist” voice? Is he a big blowhard or does he speak for many? If this is a Jewish Extremist opinion, what will be done about it? Will the Jewish People denounce these Jewish Extremists? Or do they agree with them? I guess we’ll soon find out.

Here’s the problem with Jewish Extremists: either they’re stopped or they’re not. If they represent a fringe movement, there is No Excuse for the IOF not putting a complete stop to their reckless behavior. If the IOF fails to confront and remove them, we must conclude that these extremist beliefs are not really all that extremist after all.

Pick one.

Update: Excellent history of this recurring problem at If Americans Knew. This is from July 2004:

Their fears are hardly misplaced. On Sunday, a Jewish rabbi allied with the messianic Gush Emunim movement which advocates the expulsion and extermination of non-Jews in Israel – told the Israeli army radio, Gali Tsahal, he fully supported the destruction of al-Aqsa Mosque.

“This is more than a positive thing – this is a desirable thing, and I am looking forward to seeing these mosques reduced to ruins,” said Yehuda Tzion, who in 1980 headed the underground Jewish group that had planned to bomb al-Aqsa.

Tzion has urged the Israeli government to “send army bulldozers to the site and destroy these buildings once and for all … and if the state is not willing to do so, let other Jews do it”.

One of the messianic Jewish groups that openly calls for the destruction of al-Aqsa is the Temple Mount Faithful, headed by Girshon Solomon.

A few years ago, he told the Israeli television, with the golden Dome of the Rock in the background – that: “it is time this pagan edifice ceased to exist”.

Such highly provocative statements go unpunished in Israel as long as they are made against non-Jews.

As anyone who pays attention knows, Israel wants war with Iran, and they want to get that going somehow without being blamed for getting it going, and immediately after that they want to take three giant steps back and let Americans die fighting Arabs.

The thing about Lebanon being right next door to Israel…it makes everything so very convenient for this sort of operation.

BEIRUT: Tensions ran high in south Lebanon Tuesday after Israel moved four Merkava tanks from the Arqoub region and deployed them 100 meters from the Hassan Gate in the oc­cupied Kfar Shuba Hills region. The tanks’ redeployment was accompanied by Israeli warplanes hovering over the area, before flying above the southern region of Hasbaya and Marjayoun. The regions of Beirut and West Bekaa also witnessed intensive Israeli overflights.

In response to the Israeli moves in south Lebanon, the Lebanese Army announced in a statement carried by the state-run National News Agency its readiness to confront any Israe­li assaults on Lebanon.

Both the UN peacekeepers and the army were placed on high alert on Tuesday.

The Israeli border fortifications Tuesday came after the Israeli press reported that Israel’s military officials were concerned that “future dangerous incidents” would take place on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

Israel’s The Jerusalem Post newspaper reported on Tuesday that the Israeli Army started establishing training facilities within its military bases “specialized in urban warfare.”

So, the Israeli press starts whining about “future dangerous incidents,” and then all this Israeli provocative military behavior happens, and the Lebanese response is a statement that yes, hey, we will defend ourselves. How provocative is that? The fucking nerve of those people. Don’t they know that self-defense has been reserved for Israelis only?

Let’s be very, very clear. Who wants a war? ISRAEL.

And this is how you know for sure, because they fucking lie like normal people breathe, since the Talmud says yes please lie to the goyim it’s your duty as a matter of fact.

However, Israeli Army commander Gabi Ashkenazi said on Tuesday he did not view the situation in the north as indicative of an impending war.

“We are seriously tracking the events on the northern border,” Ashkenazi said during a tour of the Israeli military recruitment headquarters near Tel Aviv. “It is quiet up there, and I am not aware of winds of war in the area,” he added.

According to a report published in The Jerusalem Post, Ashkenazi stressed that the explosion of a suspected arms depot in the southern village of Khirbet Silim on July 14, “proved Israeli claims that Hizbullah was strengthening their fighting capabilities.”

“We view this [event] gravely, [considering that this area] is under the watch of UNIFIL and the Lebanese government,” Ashkenazi said.

However, a letter sent by Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry to the UN headquarters regarding the explosion said the blast had been caused by munitions left behind by Israeli soldiers in a building under construction following the July 2006 war.

Furthermore, you know they’re full of shit because they made this cheap gesture of cement to the Palestinians, which in practical terms is a drop in the bucket, but it’s more than enough cement to bury the truth.

Israel will allow a one-time transfer of cement into Gaza for the first time since its war in the Hamas-ruled enclave and amid a new US peace push in the region, officials said on Wednesday. Hawkish Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak okayed the transfer of more than 310 tonnes of cement for rebuilding a flour mill, a sewage treatment facility and the British cemetery, one defence official said. The one-off consignment will also include some steel and is expected to be transferred “in the coming weeks,” he said….The rare Israeli gesture comes amid a flurry of visits by top US officials to Israel, the Palestinian territories and other countries in the region in a bid to revive the stagnant Middle East peace process that has been blocked since late 2008.

It’s just a PR stunt to take some pressure off and make it all look good so that when they entrap Lebanon they can start the “woe, woe, just when we were starting to make progress those damn hezbollah and hamas terrorists wreck everything” narrative. Hey let’s bomb Iran/Lebanon/Gaza so that we can have peace in Israel, the poor Israeli people can’t live in peace blah blah blah get me a bucket.

And finally, you know they’re lying because Lebanon is scheduled to get a present of used MiG fighter jets from Russia in a matter of weeks.

The Lebanese air force, which, apart from a handful of very outdated Hawker Hunter aircraft, at the moment consists mainly of helicopters used for both attack work and transport, is, significantly, awaiting delivery of 10 MiG-29 aircraft gifted from Russia which are due to arrive next month. These aircraft, when flown by experienced pilots and appropriately armed, will be a reasonable match when up against Israel’s F-16’s. Israel would certainly be keen not to have to deal with these aircraft, especially if the Lebanese contract experienced Russian pilots to fly them, and so would be anxious to take on Lebanon before these aircraft arrive.

More info on those jets here:

The MiG-29, codenamed Fulcrum by NATO, is one of Russia’s most advanced military jets, designed for an air superiority role. Ten of these Soviet-designed planes would not enable Lebanon to challenge Israel’s air superiority directly, but could threaten Israeli overflights over Lebanon and Syria. …He said the aircraft were not new and each warplane had a different degree of wear. He said Russia would upgrade the fighters to normal export standards before delivery.

No matter. The Israelis like to pick fights where they don’t have to suffer *any* losses, as evidenced most recently by their many sickening crimes against the defenseless Gazans. So if they want to pick a fight with Lebanon, it would be best to do it *before* the used MiGs come into play, for as we know, even one Israeli life lost represents a Tragedy of Epic Proportions in their twee little minds.

This organ stealing angle of the New Jersey corruption case is beyond the pale. The comment section alone from Brother Nathanael’s piece indicates this has been going on for years and years and years to the Palestinians. Now that all these other victims start coming out of the woodwork, I guess we have to notice, hmm? It’s not *just* the Palestinians anymore.

Here’s more from Joe Cannon, in which he links the practice directly into the Israeli government.

The American media’s coverage has led the public to believe that Rosenbaum’s kidney trafficking was purely a matter of private enrichment. But a former Israeli officer has said under oath that the Israeli government runs this ring, and that the master of the ring — “Ilan” is obviously Ilan Peri — functions as an agent of that government.

And how could that be? Very simple. It’s called Jewish Racism. Let Brother Nathanael explain it to you because he was born and raised Jewish.

This article is excerpted from comments at the first link, and you can find many other articles cited as well:

Israeli Occupation Authorities Illegally Harvesting Organs of Palestinian Children

by Saira Soufan

“Rabbi Ginsburgh asked rhetorically: ‘If a Jew needs a liver, can you take the liver of an innocent non-Jew passing by to save him? The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value’, he explained. ‘There is something infinitely more holy and unique about Jewish life than non-Jewish life’.”

(Prof. Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, “Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel”, Pluto Press, London 1999, page 62)

The latest face of Israeli terrorism was revealed during a live interview with Palestinian President Yasser Arafat by Al Jazeera Television.

President Arafat has accused the Zionist apartheid regime of murdering Palestinian infants, children, and youths and extricating their vital organs for transplants.

“They murder our kids and use their organs as spare parts` Why is the whole world silent? Israel takes advantage of this silence to escalate it’s oppression and terror against our people,” stressed President Arafat.

So Yasser Arafat has been dead (murdered) now since November 2004, and documentation of this problem extends back into the 1990s.

Is the world still going to be silent about these disgusting racist rabbis and doctors and whoever else helps them STEALING PEOPLE’S ORGANS FOR PROFIT AND MUTILATING BODIES because people are afraid to be called “anti-semitic?” Jesus God.

Some observations on this corruption charge and its deflection, reported in the Daily Mail:

A scientist who advises the Government on swine flu is a paid director of a drugs firm making hundreds of millions of pounds from the pandemic. Professor Sir Roy Anderson sits on the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (Sage), a 20-strong task force drawing up the action plan for the virus. Yet he also holds a £116,000-a-year post on the board of GlaxoSmithKline, the company selling swine flu vaccines and anti-virals to the NHS.

OK, so he’s a 1) scientist, 2) an adviser (presumably paid although the Daily Mail story doesn’t confirm this important detail) to the UK government on swine flu and 3) a paid director at GlaxoSmithKline. So some people think he should step down from the government adviser role. Seems totally reasonable. You can keep your other two jobs.

Sir Roy faced demands to step down yesterday amid claims that the jobs were incompatible. ‘This is a clear conflict of interest and should be of great concern to taxpayers and government officials alike,’ said Matthew Elliott of the TaxPayers’ Alliance. ‘You cannot have the man in charge of medical emergencies having any financial interest in the management of those emergencies. We need someone totally unbiased to tackle this crisis.’

Considering that the Taxpayers’ Alliance makes the charge, it seems that the UK government definitely pays Sir Roy to serve on the Sage task force drawing up action plans for the virus. Even if it’s a token amount, the real lucre comes from driving the government contracts to GlaxoSmithKline.

The Department of Health and GSK denied there was a conflict and said Sir Roy did not attend Sage meetings where vaccines and drugs were discussed. Sir Roy was appointed to Sage to ‘provide cross-government scientific advice regarding the outbreak of swine flu’. He was one of the first UK experts to call the outbreak a pandemic.

So here we see that the Department of Health and GlaxoSmithKline band together to defend Sir Roy on that basis that he sits out the meetings where drugs are discussed. The conclusion the reader shall draw being, presumably, that he has no influence on those decisions. However, in the next breath we learn that he is exceedingly influential. That’s why he’s on the task force in the first place! And in fact, he was one of the first UK experts to promote the outbreak to a pandemic! Later on in the story we learn more of his amazing, deadly influence:

During the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak, Sir Roy’s advice to Tony Blair led to the culling of more than 6 million animals.

Ahh, a powerful man indeed. Theoretically he could stop someone in the hallway after one of these meetings and “advise” them to choose a GSK drug… But listen, he is a man with both scrupulous ethics and impeccable timing!

A spokesman for GSK insisted there was no conflict of interest. ‘Professor Anderson stepped down from the government’s flu advisory group on appointment to GSK. ‘In May, he was asked to rejoin as a temporary member as the scale of the influenza pandemic became evident.

He stepped down from Sage after joining GSK but was asked to rejoin after the scale of the influenza pandemic became evident! And he, of course, as we already learned, was one of the first UK experts to call the outbreak a pandemic, a fact cited to prove his suitability for Sage, which resulting pandemic thereby facilitated his being asked to rejoin Sage. But since he very properly resigned first, it’s all good. See?

And all this other business about him making money hand over fist and wrecking people’s careers and having conflicts of interest, well, what of it? This is how it goes for people who have connections. All working stiffs understand that people like Sir Roy have natural good luck in their business affairs, which they deserve for being so extra-intelligent and hard-working in the first place.

During an interview for Radio Four’s Today programme on May 1, he praised the anti-flu drugs and called for their distribution. Listeners were not told he was paid by GSK. The West London-based drugs giant has had to defend itself from allegations of profiteering from swine flu after posting profits of £2.1billion in the last three months. Sales of the company’s Relenza inhaler, an alternative to Tamiflu used by pregnant women among others, are expected to top £600million. This figure could be boosted by up to £2billion once deliveries of the firm’s swine-flu vaccine begin in September. Sir Roy, 61, who was unavailable for comment yesterday, earned £116,000 at GSK last year, at least a quarter of which he received in shares. GSK’s share price has risen 10 per cent since May from about 1,060p to more than 1,160p.

Jobs? This guy finds great paying jobs lying all over the place. If he messes one up, a better one will surely be just around the corner.

The previous year at Oxford University, Sir Roy was at the centre of controversy after claiming a female colleague had slept with her boss before getting a job. He was forced to apologise and pay compensation. A university inquiry in the wake of the scandal found that he was in breach of rules by failing to disclose his business interests as director and shareholder of International Biomedical and Health Sciences Consortium - an Oxford-based biomedical consultancy, which had awarded grants to his research centre. Sir Roy was forced to resign, although his career soon recovered. He moved to Imperial College within months, was made the Ministry of Defence’s chief scientist and, last year, took over as Rector of Imperial College, London where he earns up to £400,000 a year.

Here’s his picture. Such an expression, so sad like Tiny Tim with no Christmas goose. I think Sir Roy has practiced this expression in the mirror many times. But if you look closely, around the eyebrows, the eyes that dead stare, the hint of a smirk around the mouth, you can see him laughing all the way to the bank.

The Fed ask US households to help with finance survey

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Monday it is surveying households for data that should yield a better understanding of how finances have changed as a result of the financial crisis that hit in mid-2007 and the deep recession that followed.

The Federal Reserve on Monday released a letter Chairman Ben Bernanke sent to households that participated in a previous survey, asking them to take part in another round of interviews.

“We need to look directly at changes for individual households,” he said.

The previous “Survey of Consumer Finances” was published in February and covered the period between 2004 and 2007, but contained additional estimates through October 2008 because of the sharp weakening of the economy at the end of 2007.

Fed economists projected that the collapse of U.S. housing and stock prices would push household net worth down by around 20 percent in 2008.

Oh please. I hope nobody is stupid enough to submit to an interrogation. This is like the arsonist going back to watch the building burn down and savoring every detail, preparing for his next crime.

This is very simple, Ben. WE ARE ALL WORSE OFF THANKS TO YOU AND YOUR CRONIES. Duh.

Kucinich: Fed pays banks a premium *not* to lend to Americans:

…because apparently, Ben would rather give the money to foreigners. If I understand correctly.

We hear incessantly of Israel’s right to defend itself, an excuse used to justify crimes against humanity.

If Israel very stupidly attacks Iran, Iran will defend itself by attacking Israel. We can expect such horrific events to be spun vehemently in the media on psyops wings, like Superman circling the earth to rotate it backwards, reversing time and thus saving Lois Lane from doom, in the hopes of insuring that people will apply a different standard to the idea of Iran defending itself than the one we’ve had crammed down our throats about Israel’s right to defend itself. But it’s the very same standard, and this isn’t Hollywood. Sovereign nations have a right to defend themselves against attack. If Israel can defend itself so adamantly against Palestinian bottle-rockets, Iran can defend itself against Israel’s US-taxpayer supplied state of the art military weapons. People will not be fooled by Israel’s double standards, and Israel will be destroyed, as they have been graciously warned.

Iran has the capability to strike arch-foe Israel’s nuclear sites firmly and will do so if it comes under attack, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards Corps said on Saturday.

Asked by Iran’s Arabic language television channel Al-Alam whether Iran has the ability to strike Israeli nuclear sites, Mohammad Ali Jafari said: “Yes, definitely we have this capability because of the advances we have made in the past two years to carry out such a task.”

“We have said that all of Israel’s soil is under the coverage of our missiles. We have such capability and can certainly respond to any attack” by Israel.

Jafari said Iran will give a “firm and precise” answer if attacked by Israel.

“We are not responsible for this regime and other enemies’ foolishness. If they strike Iran, our answer will be firm and precise. They will have no answer when Iran bombards them and sends several of its missiles.”

I don’t doubt it for a second.

Oh look, a jungle terrarium. In New Jersey.

Something like twenty people with mostly Italian and Irish names of various “public service” bends, people running the city or trying to run the city, take relatively small sums of money. Enough money to buy something nice for the wife, maybe take a little vacation.

Three Jewish rabbis do the money laundering.

Another dozen people with ethnic Jewish names run cash houses and courier services for the rabbis.

And then they all get caught. Ha!

Extrapolate that and you have a pretty good idea of how the whole world works. Oh dear God but it’s rude to notice.

American Goy has more on this charming story.