Swine Flu / The Pakistani JF-17 Thunder

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Pakistan’s New Jets Can Change Balance


* The manufacturing and deployment in Peshawar was done in a record time, one of the shortest time lines in the history of aviation.

Now the Sri Lankans can have as many planes they want to fight the Indian sponsored Tamil terrorists. And the Middle Eastern Air Forces can begin flying the JF-17 Thunders without begging the U.S. And the small countries of Africa can own their own JF-17 Thunders without selling their souls to the Europeans.


And it’s not just the JF-17 Thunder. The success story of Pakistani ingenuity and the will to survive repeated American arms embargos and Indian aggression goes far beyond this single feat. Since the uncertain days of Independence in 1947, no other country has come so far in defense production in such a short period of time.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/pakistans-new-jets-can-change-balance/


Exclusive: The Reality of Drone attacks!

The reality of the drone attacks on Pakistan has been kept hidden from the eyes of the common man. Pakistan First’s Strategic Think Thank now reveals the truth. People of Pakistan deserve to know the truth. They have a right to information which affects them and which has put them in mortal danger.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/exclusive-the-reality-of-drone-attacks/


A Five-Point Plan For Peace In Afghanistan

It is time for peace in the region. The only way this is possible is for the U.S. military to let the Afghans freely choose their next president, order U.S. military to stand down, end combat operations, and ensure that no country establishes intelligence outposts in Afghanistan. This especially includes India. If this does not happen, the U.S. military will continue to destabilize the region for a long time to come. And India should expect a bloody conflict if it establishes a military presence in Pakistan’s backyard. Of all people, Indian officials know this is no walk in the park. Hence India’s reluctance to make its Afghan plans public.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/a-five-point-plan-for-peace-in-afghanistan/


Are US Nukes Safe

Before lecturing Pakistan on our nuclear safeguards, maybe the US government might want to check its own backyard

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/are-us-nukes-safe/


Indian Beheads Granddaughter For Good Harvest

No, this is not about some ‘anti-women’ Islamic extremists in Afghanistan, or some fake Taliban in northern Pakistan flogging a girl whom America is using as a pretext to destabilize Pakistan. This is India, the world’s biggest graveyard for newborn baby girls who are buried alive in the thousands each year. But you won’t hear about it in the American and the British media.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/indian-beheads-granddaughter-for-good-harvest/


Pakistan: Police and Judicial reform is no Goliath

It is simple really. No conspiracy against a country can succeed, if the country is not weak from within. Strong law enforcement can thwart any number of efforts on the part of individuals or militant groups to destabilize the country.Rule of law in the civilian population is enforced by the police. Judgment is the business of the courts. A few simple steps can make a tangible qualitative difference in both. A difference that a person on the street can feel.

The example of the motorway police is our starting point.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/pakistan-police-and-judicial-reform-is-no-goliath/


Grabbing Water Resources

India out of its hatred and revenge for Pakistan is leaving no stone unturned to damage the integrity of Pakistan. The implications of this move of India against Pakistan will be far reaching and disastrous. The water bomb needs to be defused. No nation should deprive another of a shared resource which, thanks to geographic design, collects in a basin within its borders. The Final Settlement calls for a cross-border body that will oversee the Indus water basin and treat water as a commodity to be shared equitably. Islamabad is acting mature and so should New Delhi.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/grabbing-water-resources/


‘Terror’ group in Iran linked to Mossad, CIA

ran said on Tuesday that members of a “terrorist” network arrested for plotting bomb attacks aimed at disrupting its June presidential election were linked to the US and Israeli spy agencies.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/terror-group-in-iran-linked-to-mossad-cia/


Syria to US: Leave Iraq or face crisis

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has warned Obama that Washington will face a crisis in the Middle East if he does not pull US troops out of Iraq. If US President Barack Obama does not remedy the mistakes made by the Bush administration, he will face a serious crisis in the region within a year, Assad said in Vienna on Tuesday.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/syria-to-us-leave-iraq-or-face-crisis/


US Supported Every Right Wing Dictatorship Since WWII

For leftists, Obama has been a total bust. He’s escalated the war in Afghanistan, increased the cross-border bombings of Pakistan, hemmed and hawed about prosecuting war crimes, refused to actively lobby House members to make it easier for workers to organize (EFCA), and surrounded himself with bank industry reps who’ve committed $12.8 trillion to sinking financial institutions with no assurance that the money would be repaid. Apart from a trifling bill on stem cells, Obama has done absolutely zero to confirm his bone fides as a liberal. The truth is, Obama is neither liberal nor conservative; he’s simply an inspiring orator and a skillful politician who has no strong convictions about anything. If he achieves greatness, it will be because he was thrust into a crisis he couldn’t avoid and reluctantly acted in the best interests of the American people. That possibility still exists, although it seems more unlikely by the day.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/us-supported-every-right-wing-dictatorship-since-wwii/


The Pentagon’s Cyber Command: Formidable Infrastructure arrayed against the American People

Friday’s report follows an April 22 piece published by the Journal announcing the proposed reorganization. The Obama administration’s cybersecurity initiative will, according to reports, “reshape the military’s efforts to protect its networks from attacks by hackers, especially those from countries such as China and Russia.”

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/the-pentagons-cyber-command-formidable-infrastructure-arrayed-against-the-american-people/


HRW: UAE’s torture royal must face justice

A leading human rights group is calling on the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to prosecute the brother of the sheikhdom’s crown prince for assaulting a migrant worker. Human Rights Watch (HRW) said video footage shows Sheikh Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan brutally torturing a bound man while being assisted by another man in police uniform and several other men.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/hrw-uaes-torture-royal-must-face-justice/


World Bank president warns economic crisis poses “human calamity”

The head of the World Bank warned over the weekend that the deepening global economic crisis threatens to unleash “a human and developmental calamity.”

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/world-bank-president-warns-economic-crisis-poses -%e2%80%9chuman-calamity%e2%80%9d/


Video: Global Financial Collapse - Experience from Argentina

An Argentine opinion on the Global Financial Crisis, describing the whole Global Financial System as one vast Ponzi Scheme. How will the Global Financial Collapse end? Are we on the way towards global war and world government?

Watch: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/video-global-financial-collapse-experience-from-argentina/


‘Deeper’ recession ahead says IMF

The IMF says this represents “by far the deepest post-World War II recession” with an actual decline in output in countries making up 75% of the world economy.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/deeper-recession-ahead-says-imf/


Irish economy faces record downturn

From 2008 to 2010 Ireland is to suffer the largest contraction of any industrialized country since the 1930s, think-tank predicts.The Irish gross domestic product will fall by 11.6% from 2008 to 2010, the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, forecast in a statement released Wednesday.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/irish-economy-faces-record-downturn/


Swine Flu - Full Coverage

Medical Alert: What you need to know about the Swine Flu

The number of confirmed swine flu cases continues to rise as officials across the globe try to get a grasp on this virus in terms of treatment and preventing its spread.Health officials are trying to combat the swine flu outbreak and are preparing for a worst case scenario.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/medical-alert-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-swine-flu/


Swine Flu: TAMIFLU, the Danger Drug - dont take under any circumstances

Isn’t it funny how Donald Rumsfeld has huge shares in Tamiflu and this is the governments number one choice for YOUR vaccinations if need be due to a pandemic. Read the following article and be shocked. I would not go near this Tamiflu at all. sounds fishy to me.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/swine-flu-tamiflu-the-danger-drug-dont-take-under-any-circumstances/


Mexican Reports: Flu Much Worse Than Reported

Once again, it looks like the internet is ahead of the official media. Comments on a BBC News site paint a much grimmer picture than we’ve been led to believe about the swine flu epidemic in Mexico. And while I’m reluctant to assume all commentators on a news site are telling the truth, I don’t think we can completely dismiss this, either. After all, Mexican authorities, already reeling from a sharp drop in tourism, have a strong financial incentive to downplay the size of this problem.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/mexican-reports-flu-much-worse-than-reported/


Global stocks fall on swine flu fears

Global stocks have fallen further amid concerns over the US banking system and mounting fears over a swine flu pandemic.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/global-stocks-fall-on-swine-flu-fears/


Swine Flu Deaths = 1936 Deaths In New England

For those that are watching “The Network News”, now conveniently changing course from the economy to the swine flu outbreak, the facts released are that as of yesterday twenty (20) people died of the Swine Flu in Mexico.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/swine-flu-deaths-1936-deaths-in-new-england/


Video: Ron Paul - Putting Swine Flu In Perspective

Congressman Ron Paul gives his thoughts on the swine flu issue.

Watch: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/video-ron-paul-putting-swine-flu-in-perspective/


The Last Great Swine Flu Epidemic

“This virus will kill 1 million Americans,” declared the U.S. in 1976. The panic then has a lot to teach us today.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/the-last-great-swine-flu-epidemic/


Swine Flu: Bringing Home the Bacon

As the world gears up once again for a flu pandemic that may or may not arrive (it actually seems possible this time), we might want to remember some of the lessons of the last flu scare. One of these is that there are winners as well as losers in every high-profile outbreak of infectious disease. First and foremost among them, of course, is Big Pharma, which can always be counted on to have its hand out wherever human misery presents an opportunity to rake in some cash.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/swine-flu-bringing-home-the-bacon/


Video: New Swine Flu Is A Man-made Spliced Virus

Investigative journalist from Washington Wayne Madsen says the outbreak of the swine flu virus is raising suspicions. The sources quoted by him say it could be manmade.

Watch: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/video-new-swine-flu-is-a-manmade-spliced-virus/


Flu Pandemic Hype: Another Pretext for World Government

During the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) Summit in Montebello, Canada in 2005, the “three amigos” (Bush, Harper and Calderon) released “North American Plan for Avian and Pandemic Influenza,” described as a “collaborative North American approach that recognizes that controlling the spread of avian influenza or a novel strain of human influenza, with minimal economic disruption, is in the best interest of all three countries.” The plan outlines how “Canada, Mexico and the United States intend to work together to prepare for and manage avian and pandemic influenza.”

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/flu-pandemic-hype-another-pretext-for-world-government/


Weaponizing Deadly Viruses: Historical Precedents

Many people react with incredulity when the assertion is made that the so-called swine flu outbreak in Mexico may be manufactured crisis. And yet history is replete with examples of government using biological and chemical agents for political purpose.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/weaponizing-deadly-viruses-historical-precedents/


Pentagon Prepared for Swine Flu Outbreak

In a worst-case scenario that the current flu crises threatens military operations, the Defense Department has already stockpiled enough vaccines to meet demand across the services, a Pentagon spokeswoman told Military.com April 27.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/pentagon-prepared-for-flu-outbreak/

Swine Flu Was “Cultured In A Laboratory”

On Friday, NPR reported that the deadly swine flu “combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before,” thus leading us to suspect it was cooked up in a lab.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/28/swine-flu-was -%e2%80%9ccultured-in-a-laboratory%e2%80%9d/


Is Swine Flu A Biological Weapon?

There are some factors that suggest the swine flu killing people in Mexico may be a biological weapon, but obviously no such conclusion can be drawn at this time. The World Health Organization and the U.S. government have been quick to deny such claims.

Read more: http://pakalert.wordpress.com/2009/04/27/is-swine-flu-a-biological-weapon/

[Ron Moseley]

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"On Friday, NPR reported that the deadly swine flu combines genetic material from pigs, birds and humans in a way researchers have not seen before, thus leading us to suspect it was cooked up in a lab.


Swine flu panic is spreading in Mexico and soldiers are patrolling the streets after it was confirmed that human to human transmission is occurring and that the virus is a brand new strain which is seemingly affecting young, healthy people the worst. Questions about the source of the outbreak are also being asked after a public health official said that the virus was cultured in a laboratory.


This strain of swine influenza thats been cultured in a laboratory is something thats not been seen anywhere actually in the United States and the world, so this is actually a new strain of influenza thats been identified, said Dr. John Carlo, Dallas Co. Medical Director


Medical Director Admits That This Strain of Swine Flu Was Cultured In A Laboratory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJuR0T...


Truckers transporting bird flu

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWDawx...

It is now becoming clear why there are over 500 FEMA concentration camps all over america with millions of plastic coffins..."


Swine flu is Man made

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok6igM7-Swk


Many people react with incredulity when the assertion is made that the so-called swine flu outbreak in Mexico may be manufactured crisis. And yet history is replete with examples of government using biological and chemical agents for political purpose.


As a primary example, consider the CIAs secret war against Cuba and Fidel Castro. The CIA used chemical agents and toxins then stockpiled at Fort Detrick against Cuba and Fidel Castro.


In 1975, the Church Committee revealed a CIA memorandum listing deadly chemical agents and toxins then stockpiled at Fort Detrick. These included anthrax, encephalitis, tuberculosis, lethal snake venom, shellfish toxin, and half a dozen lethal food poisons, some of which, the committee learned, had been shipped in the early 1960s to Congo and to Cuba in unsuccessful CIA attempts to assassinate Patrice Lumumba and Fidel Castro, write Ellen Ray and William H. Schaap (Bioterror: Manufacturing Wars the American Way, Ocean Press, 2003, p. vii).

[Sorcha Faal]

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[Muhammad Latif Chaudhery]

Win approval of the Ideology Council and have the course of their action legislated by the people of Pakistan through their elected representative. Any thing done to the contrary is unlawful and must be checked with force.


Islamic Republic of Pakistan with its constitution is perhaps the only country to survive in Islam if it is capable of implementing the judicial writ of its constitution.


May Allah guide us to the right path, the path of those who earned pride of performance.


Muhammad Latif Chaudhery

Student of Quran

[Dr. Shabbir]

With all due respects, I re-submit that we are talking about banning the beard temporarily.


An example: Deer hunting is permissible in Islam. But if the animal becomes an endangered species, the Islamic (or any) government may ban deer hunting for some time.


Taliban have indeed become an existential threat to Pakistan and a potential menace to the world. Therefore, radical measures should be OK.


2:11 When it is said to them, “Do not cause disruption in the land”, they assert, “We are but reformers, setting things right.”


2:12 Nay, it is they who are the disrupters. But they fail to use reason.


5:33 The just punishment for those who wage war against God and His Messenger and endeavor to commit bloody crimes on earth, is that they be killed or crucified, or have their hands and feet severed on alternate sides, or be entirely banished from the land. Such is their disgrace in this world, and an awful suffering awaits them in the Hereafter.


[Fasaad = Bloody crimes = Spreading corruption in the land = Creating disorder. ‘God and His Messenger’ ... None can physically fight against God, and the Messenger was a mortal man. So, God and the Messenger denote the Central Authority of the Islamic State. Waging war against God and the Messenger would mean rebellion against the Islamic State. ‘Severing the hands and feet’ may also be understood as cutting of their ability to create Fasaad. See 5:38 & 12:31. ‘Banishing from the land’ indicates exile or imprisonment for life. If they present to the authorities before getting arrested, they could be pardoned. 4:64]

[Dr. Shabbir]

[Dr. Shabbir]

You are right. All new ideas sound laughable in the beginning. I laughed too :-)


I do realize how radical the idea is. No doubt, the fundamental question is whether the government will have the guts to do it! Who will bell the cat? Let Zardari or Geelani do it and become immortal like Mustafa Kemal Pasha AtaTurk.

[Muhammad Latif Chaudhery]

To me the first step, the Govt can take is to stop Madrasa culture, on the historical ground that the first educational institution setup by the exalted Messenger of Allah (pbuh) at Midinah was a secular school where most of the teachers were not only non-believers but were the enemies of Islam. This, in fact, is the education policy of Islam with which we began.


Muhammad Latif Chaudhery

Student of Quran.


We have already decided that nothing in Pakistan shall be legislated repugnant to Quran and Sunnah and affairs of the country shall be managed through mutual consultation by elected representatives of the people of Pakistan, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of Pakistan. Why then any one, Sufi Muhammad and Muhammad Sufi picks up a gun and claims sole proprietorship of Islam. To me it is a case of flagrant rebellion against constituted authority and merit no rebate of reconciliation. The sooner we raise to the occasion the better it would be, lest the menace spreads in the entire Muslim world.


Allah save us of religious ransackers.


Muhammad Latif Chaudhery


Muhammad Latif Chaudhery

[Muhammad Rafi]

I do not agree with the proposal of leaving the final decision to the Council of Islamic Ideology. Who is going to appoint these members. The constitution sanctifies sects and many decisions taken by the Council have not been adopted due to stiff opposition from the obscurantist Mullahs, the latest being the woman's right to divorce.

Muhammad Rafi

Karachi

[Muhammad Rafi]

While the mail is probably written in a lighter vein, the issue merits serious analysis.


There's no simple quick way to get rid of Taliban and Alqaeda; the sure ways are probably too difficult to comprehend and act upon, given the mindset of Pakistani establishment and civil society.

The world now a days is too complex for grasping correct concepts through 'either/or' type of questions/answers, and one-step solutions to problems. To get to the right concepts, we should instead start thinking of multiplicity of causes and then classify these in primary/secondary terms. However, muslims generally, and Pakistanis in particular, seem to be too naive for any analytical thinking and only search for one-step solutions when it comes to socio-economic, political or religious issues.

What we see today is the result of this long standing neglect of the real issues that go in to the making of a modern day nation. However, some steps are quite apparent and should be taken. I'll try to list the ones of prime importance in the short, medium and long term.


Apart from Talibans, Pakistan faces a host of other problems like

Growing illiteracy

Healthcare

Declining quality of higher education

Almost zero dispensation of justice (here I'm referring to the 99% of cases in Pakistani courts pertaining to murder, robberies, financial fraud etc etc of which we've lost focus amid the Justice Iftikhar restoration issue. Ironically this CJ spent years in top office and never addressed speedy resolution of pending cases; his focus throughout was on suo moto actions against govt),

Increasing lack of respect of law

Huge expansion of an unskilled work force totally incapable of working in modern production and service sectors

Growing intolerance

Sectarianism

Ethnicity

and the list can go on and on. All these factors are no less important than Talibans and it will be futile to say which one is more damaging over another.


On analysis of each of these inter-related problems, you'll find that to resolve one problem it is essential to resolve another. So the problem, whose solution is a precondition to the solution of the other, becomes primary with the other as secondary.

In practical terms we'll only be able to achieve anything if we find out the primary problem and then solve it so that the resolution of the secondary problems becomes possible. We don't have institutions to do this analysis in a structured manner, the essentials of political parties in successful nations, so people like us who are not trained for such analyses keep on debating without reaching anywhere.

My unstructured analysis identifies bad economy as our primary problem, resolution of which is essential to solve other problems which are equally important but have become secondary to it. This is the surest way to deal with the problem but that is long term and we cannot say the country will suvive long enough to do that given the present situation.


While Pakistani professionals, businessmen, engineers, doctors etc, etc forming our elite are fairly proficient in applying their analytical skills in their own spheres, they become totally moronic in religious and political matters where they only follow what the religious or political guru says. For example, even Edhi is facing funding problems because the madressahs' share of charity monies is increasing because the donors believe that their donations will assure their place in heaven.

What is actually happening is that people in the lower social strata (like Pathan youngsters in Karachi who used to put in honest hard work in low end jobs) are turning away from jobs as they find a living with more security in madressahs without doing any work. This in turn is lessening the useful work force and creating a class which these same elites must keep on supporting otherwise they'll be destroyed themselves. The result: Their own future is in jeopardy just because of a lack of capacity of applying their analytical skills in simple but important aspects of human existence.

So one way to stop this menace is to stop funding the religious charities. This will make people work for their living which will increase their learning through experience and increase national productivity too. The way things are, we're turning our people into parasites who produce nothing, live off the body which they eventually destroy. Taliban and Alqaeda work the same way: They produce nothing, live off the food, fuel and money generated by the Pakistan economy and then they're out to destroy it too. The way to deal with them is the way parasites should be dealt with and the first step is to stop feeding them. This is a medium term step but again we don't know if the country survives that long.


In the short term, there is a need to effectively deal with this presently growing insurgency. To do that it is necessary to find out the reasons for it and develop the counter insurgency strategy accordingly. Here is my viewpoint as to what the real causes can be:


During the Afghan war of the 1980s a host of Islamic fighters gathered from all over the world, particularly from the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa into Afghanistan (and Pakistan) to fight the Russians. These people focused simply on fighting, and were left high and dry when the Soviet forces left Afghanistan. The new Afghan dispensation had no place for them as the governance was naturally handed over to the natives (for namesake) and the aliens were expected go back to their homelands. This was not workable as

They were not acceptable in their home countries and

after the success in the war their expectations were to rule their destiny and not become subservient to others' authority.

These groups remained in Afghanistan and soon discovered that with their armament and wealth, accumulated during the Afghan war, the best place to set up rule was Pakistan.

Reasons being:

With its greedy political leaders and cattle like parliamentarians, it is easy to buy their way into power.

Being adjacent to Afghanistan, it is easy to apply militancy when needed.

With a big segment of civil society emotionally unstable and having a self destructive mindset, manipulating public opinion is easy.

This was a pretty workable thinking on their part and on track till 9/11 when Pakistan became the epicenter of American geopolitics. The original plans were no longer workable, so they adopted a new strategy of insurgency within Pakistan to carve out their area of influence (worst case scenario) or to take over the entire country (their best case scenario).

Given the above reasoning, the insurgents are not rag tag fighters but well equipped organized militias with its soldiers better paid than the Pakistan Army soldiers, operating to implement a well defined agenda. So the counter insurgency strategy, combining dialogue and force, has the following alternatives/ constraints:

The commonly propounded viewpoint that the Taliban are sincere misguided people, harming the country out of ignorance and should be brought into mainstream by counseling and offering some concessions, will not work.

To go for a total elimination of insurgency. This means a long term total commitment and efficiency of operations on the part of political parties, Army and the civil society. The downside is that if these are missing then the whole country will be taken over by insurgency. Given the incompetence of our establishment and self destructive mindset of our civil society, there are little chances of success.

To go for containment.

To concentrate the country's military strength and economic resources into effectively stabilizing and developing the country to the maximum practicable extent. Towards this end even let some areas go into the control of militants; in fact they've already gone and we should openly accept that. The underlying principle being that the militants should organize their own defenses against the US and NATO forces, and Pakistani resources barred for them. If the militants succeed against them, they will consolidate their rule in those parts. If they fail, the territory will fall back to Pakistan, devastated but governable..

These are no easy choices and the way forward requires a realistic assessment of the current situation. Given the capabilities of our establishment, option (3) is a realistic option to adopt in the short term.


Lastly, on the role of Army: Think tank has acquired a different meaning in Pakistan. Those whose job is tank oriented are also the ones to think about the country's survival, and they're the "think tanks". Those whose job should have been to think about the country lack the capacity to think logically. We're capable of reaching new heights when it comes to irrationality.


Regards,

Muhammad Rafi

Karachi


Just to remind you, we look more worried about Feverish Taliban, there is a SWINE-Flu in Baluchistan ------- A large scale Vaccination is required there

[Tom Feeley]

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Spanish Court Opens Investigation of Guantánamo Torture Allegations

Allegations include sexual abuse and beating

By Giles Tremlett in Madrid and agencies

Judge Baltasar Garzón, an investigating magistrate at the National Court in

Madrid, said he would investigate allegations made by four detainees who

were held at the centre and later released without charges, according to a

court document quoted by the Spanish press.

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Torture Memos Expose Dark, Imperial Presidency

By Robert S. Becker

This was not a happy week for the torture lobby, nor its defenders,

derailing months of charm offensive by Bush-Cheney legacy boosters. A wary

President Obama backed off attempts to defuse the torture parade - fretting

over divisive investigations and hard-to-win court convictions.

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Condi Rice Pulls A Nixon:

When the President Does It, That Means It is Not Illegal

By Cenk Uygur

Condoleezza Rice was recently speaking at Stanford when students asked her

an excellent question on waterboarding and torture. They have her answer on

tape and it isn't pretty. Condi Rice absolutely pulls a Nixon.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22523.htm

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Somalis Say Illegal Fishing By Foreign Trawlers Drove Them To Piracy

By SHASHANK BENGALI

The international community is shouting about piracy. But long before this,

we were shouting to the world about our problems," said Eid, a bony-cheeked

former lobsterman with a bushy goatee. "No one listened."

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22522.htm

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DHS Sets Guidelines For Possible Swine Flu Quarantines

Anyone violating a quarantine order can be punished by a $250,000

fine and a one-year prison term.

By Declan McCullagh

A Defense Department planning document summarizing the military's

contingency plan says the Pentagon is prepared to assist in "quarantining

groups of people in order to minimize the spread of disease during an

influenza pandemic" and aiding in "efforts to restore and maintain order."


http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22524.htm

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Swine Flu?

A Panic Stoked in Order to Posture and Spend:

By Simon Jenkins

Health scares enable media-hungry doctors, public health officials and drugs

companies to benefit by manipulating fright.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article22521.htm

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At least 34 killed as ethnic violence erupts in Karachi:

"The situation is under control now and we are trying to maintain peace,"

Rafiq Engineer, provincial minister for special development, said.

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14 militants killed in last 24 hours:

A spokesman for Pakistan's military said Thursday that 14 militants had been

killed over the last 24 hours in operations against Islamist insurgents in

the country's northwest.

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Taliban holds town near capital hostage:

Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas says troops are encountering stiff

resistance from militants in Buner as the troops fight their way toward

insurgent strongholds.

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Manufacturing Consent For Attacks On Pakistan?

Obama Says Pakistan's Government Is 'Very Fragile':

The government doesn't "seem to have the capacity to deliver basic services:

schools, health care, rule of law and a judicial system that works for the

majority of the people," Obama said at a White House news conference last

night.

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Taliban Advance in Pakistan Prompts Shift by U.S.:

New consideration is being given to a long-dormant proposal to allow U.S.

counterinsurgency training for Pakistani troops somewhere outside the

country, circumventing Pakistan's refusal to allow American "boots on the

ground" there.

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Osama still alive, suggests Obama:

Addressing a town hall meeting in the central state of Missouri, the US

President also reiterated his administration's position that Al-Qaeda and

the Taliban "are the single most direct threat to our national security

interests."

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German Occupation Force Soldier Killed, Nine Injured in Afghan

Attacks : -

A German soldier was killed and nine injured in two separate attacks in

northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province, where the army is suffering more

frequent insurgent assaults.

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US occupation force soldiers kill two in northern Iraq:

Two people were shot dead and another wounded when US forces opened fire on

attackers near the troubled northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, US

and Iraqi officials said.

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Turkish Warplanes Attack Kurdish Rebels In Iraq -Army:

"The targets... have been hit effectively and with full accuracy," the

statement said, adding all the planes returned safely to base.

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Britain ends combat operations in Iraq:

The British military formally ended combat operations in Iraq on Thursday

after six years of conflict by handing over control of its main base in

Basra to an American brigade.

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Peres: Bombing Iran may not be the 'best solution':

"I'm not sure that bombing the nuclear facilities is the best solution. You

know, the moment there are centrifuges, you can destroy the centrifuges. You

cannot destroy the know-how to create centrifuges. You can postpone," he

told Channel 10.

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Ahmadinejad: West's claims of democracy "sheer lies":

"The recent anti-racism conference in Geneva ... proved that the West's

claims of freedom of expression and democracy were sheer lies," Ahmadinejad

was quoted as saying.

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/30/content_11291115.htm

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Lebanon frees Hariri suspects:

"The evidence available to him currently is not sufficiently credible to

request the maintenance and detention of those persons", Fransen said.

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Court rebuffs feds, reinstates torture suit:

A federal appeals court rebuffed the Obama administration's assertion of

secrecy Tuesday and reinstated a lawsuit by five men who say a Bay Area

subsidiary of Boeing Co. helped the CIA fly them to foreign countries to be

tortured.

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Obama: 'I believe waterboarding was torture, and it was a mistake':


Barack Obama has rejected the former US vice-president Dick Cheney's defence

of waterboarding, citing the refusal of the then British prime minister,

Winston Churchill, to resort to torture even at the height of the Blitz in

the second world war.

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US Attorney General says 30 current Guantanamo detainees approved

for release:

Holder spoke hours ahead of a speech appealing for Europe's help in closing

the military detention facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. He said the

U.S. is weeks away from asking certain countries to take detainees.

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Cuba's Raul Castro repeats offer to U.S. for talks:

We have reiterated that we are willing to talk about everything with the

United States, in equality of conditions, but not to negotiate our

sovereignty, nor our political and social system, the right to

self-determination, nor our internal affairs," Castro said in a speech to a

ministerial meeting in Havana of the Non-Aligned Movement.

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Mass. Senate approves pandemic flu prep bill:

The new Senate version would allow the public health commissioner - in a

public health emergency - to close or evacuate buildings, enter private

property for investigations, and quarantine individuals.

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World flu alert goes higher; Mexico plans shutdown:

Mexico took even more drastic action to squelch a swine flu epidemic,

ordering a suspension of private business activity and non-essential federal

government activities, as the World Health Organization ratcheted up an

alert, warning that "all of humanity" is threatened.

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Swine Flu Devastates Mexico's Tourism Industry:

The airports are empty. The beach you could have to yourself. The hotel

staffs are washing their hands every half-hour when they're not sanitizing

the doorknobs.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/29/AR2009042904650.

html

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Peru suspends flights to and from Mexico:

Peru suspended from Thursday all flights to and from Mexico over the ongoing

flu epidemic, in a decision that Prime Minister Yehude Simon described as

"painful but necessary."

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Swine flu spreads to Netherlands:

The case was reported hours after the World Health Organisation (WHO) warned

that the world is on the brink of a pandemic, saying "all humanity is under

threat".

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UN says Egypt pig cull real mistake:

Clashes were reported in Khanka, 25km north of Cairo, with pig farmers

setting up road blocks and smashing the windscreens of veterinary services'

vehicles as they sought to take people's pigs away.

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Will pandemic be mild, or kill millions?:

Keiji Fukuda, the WHO's acting assistant director-general, said that swine

flu appeared very similar to normal seasonal flu, a disease that is rarely

fatal for healthy adults but can kill the elderly and infirm. - Chan

acknowledged that the disease may well cause more discomfort than death,

noting that many patients infected in the United States have recovered on

their own and without medicine.

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U.S. Commerce Department: U.S. economy worst in 50 years:

It's official. The United States is mired in its worst economic downturn in

half a century, the U.S. Commerce Department reported Wednesday. Data

released by the department show that the U.S. economy shrank by 6.1 percent

during the first three months of the year - a full percentage point worse

than what analysts polled by Thomson Reuters had been predicting.

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2009/04/27/daily42.html

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Chrysler to File for Bankruptcy:

U.S. officials had offered Chrysler's secured lenders $2.25 billion in cash

if they would agree to writedown the $6.9 billion in secured debt that the

company owed. But a small group of hedge funds refused the 11th-hour deal,

forcing an imminent bankruptcy.

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U.S. March Consumer Spending Fell More Than Forecast:

Purchases decreased 0.2 percent after a 0.4 percent gain in February that

was larger than previously estimated, the Commerce Department said today in

Washington. Incomes fell for the fifth time in the last six months.

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This swine flu have been declared as normal flu by CDC, and its scaling back.

But Media has no yesterday, it moves on.


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