If we had an advance warning about 9/11, that it was a certainty, we'd have front page headlines obsessing on the subject every day in September 2001. We know of an inevitable attack on humanity that can kill 100 000, even 1000 000 times more people than died in 9/11. It's not good for business, so we're stuck with reality-tv type news - Hurricane Wilma, Delay, and delay delay delay.
The most important news, news that concerns you, isn't being reported. You should know that.
I will also post a leaked IEA Powerpoint Presentation (the IEA are the International Energy Agency, and their members are the 26 most industrialised nations), which will show you that they are fully aware of the energy implications facing the planet. It doesn't benefit big business for people to worry about health or investment - when they do they spend less on inessential things, and economies go into decline. You see, the world economy is based on us buying things we don't need, on a system that can't sustain itself (Cheap Oil).
It's really up to each of us to direct the focus of our consciousness where it is important. It's up to each individual to find valuable information, and act on it, rather than expect the media and their controlling corporations to look after our interests. They want our money and our votes, and to get both they need to absorbe our attention with continuous advertising, news and programming.
So what will it be, the red pill or the blue pill?
Bird flu found in Britain, Croatia
Saturday, October 22, 2005 at 09:56 JST
LONDON — The global battle against outbreaks of bird flu expanded Friday as officials confirmed cases of the virus in a parrot in British guarantine and among swans at a Croatian lake, heightening fears that the disease was spreading through Europe.
A parrot that died in quarantine in Britain tested positive for the H5 strain of the bird flu virus. The bird imported from South America arrived in Britain last month and had been held with a consignment of birds from Taiwan, officials at the British agriculture ministry said.
Chief Veterinary Officer Debby Reynolds did not want to speculate whether the bird could have had the lethal H5N1 strain, which has killed more than 60 people in Asia since 2003. That strain has recently spread into Turkey and Romania, which also reported a new suspected case on Friday.
"We do know it is a highly pathogenic form, but we don't have the formal, official confirmation of the N-type," Reynolds told a press conference.
Croatia also said further tests were needed to determine if the virus detected in the dead swans was the H5N1 strain, feared to be the precursor of a human pandemic that could kill millions.
"According to samples from organs of six of the swans which were sent on Oct 19 to Zagreb, we have isolated the virus, an H5 sub-type," Croatian Agriculture Minister Neven Ljubicic told journalists.
The swans were found in the lake at Zdenci in the east of the Balkan country, which is one of 20 sites Croatian veterinary services have put under heightened surveillance as part of a huge operation to take samples from wild birds.
A Croatian expert on migratory birds, Dragan Radovic, said that the dead swans did not come from Romania or Turkey, but that they could have come from someplace in Europe or Britain passing through Ukraine all the way to western Russia.
The European Commission last Friday also confirmed the Croatian bird flu cases and said it would adopt an urgent measure on Monday to ban the import of live poultry and poultry products from Croatia.
As Europeans grappled with the flare-up of bird flu cases on their continent, China pledged to step up cooperation in an increasingly fierce global battle to contain the disease as Thailand said a boy had been infected with the virus, which killed his father.
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