EU makes new divisions in airspace following false flag volcanic ash cloud

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New EU rules open Sweden’s airspace

Published: 23 Apr 10 07:06 CET
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Flights are now permitted across the whole of Sweden, with new rules in place for flights in the EU-wide risk zone two. This means that Stockholm-Arlanda, Bromma and Malmö remained open overnight.

The latest reports from Iceland indicate that the volcano remains stable.

“The new rules mean that all of Sweden’s airspace is now open to certificated airlines,” said Susanne Rundström, at airport operator Swedavia.

Arlanda and Bromma airports in Stockholm, Landvetter and Säve in Gothenburg, Örnsköldsvik, Skellefteå, Sundsvall, Härnösand, Västerås, Umeå, Borlänge are all within the risk zones two or three, established after a meeting of EU transport ministers last Tuesday to harmonize EU skies.

This mean that all airspace in Sweden is served by airlines with the correct permits.

The Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) has decided to amend recommendations to enable more flights to take place – even through the ash cloud. The three zones are now incorporated into Swedish airspace, to replace the previous two.

Furthermore flights will be allowed even in locations classified within zone two, where some ash is present, making it possible to fly in a much larger part of the sky.

The Swedish rules are adapted to the EU, where zone one means a total flight ban, zone two has some flight restrictions and zone three is ash-free. In order to fly in zone two airlines must now hold a special licence, flight must be time limited, and additional checks of engines and windows must be undertaken.

The Eyjafjallajökull volcano in southern Iceland remained stable on Thursday, although the eruption remains ongoing, according to the Icelandic authorities.

“The plume of ash remains low and the quakes have not increased,” said a spokesperson for the Icelandic rescue service.

On Wednesday, seismologists said that the plume had declined to “negligible” levels, but volcanic ash forced the Icelanders to close Reykjavik airport on Thursday, for the first time since the eruption began last week.

Bankers go to bondage club to relax, reports New York Time

April 23, 2010

C.D.O. Days, S&M Nights at Derivatives Conference

By ASHLEE VANCE

New York Times

SAN FRANCISCO — By day, they dealt with risk. At night, it got risqué.

Financiers, lawyers, traders and accountants gathered this week at the annual International Swaps and Derivatives Association conference here to discuss “Collateralization and Netting — the Impact” and “Systemic Risk: Advances and Challenges in the Wake of the Crisis.”

By Thursday night they needed to put out of their minds the specter of sweeping legislation to regulate the derivatives.

They escaped to Supperclub, a bar and restaurant, where some plopped on the beds that covered the floor while a waiter in denim short shorts, suspenders and a scarf delivered drinks. The truly relaxed turned over on their tummies and received back massages from a dreadlocked member of the Supperclub staff.

By midnight, others ended up in the S & M chamber with a bed-to-ceiling stripper pole and videos of dominatrixes playing in the background.

“They don’t seem nervous,” said Iam Crowley, who also happened to be at the establishment because his girlfriend puts on a burlesque show for the guests.

During more sober and somber conditions at the conference at the posh Fairmont hotel on Nob Hill the next morning, some of these people confessed that they were in fact very nervous about the future of the derivatives industry.

The drive to bring a bill to the Senate floor that will set tighter guidelines around derivatives trading has left many spooked, but largely unapologetic. Politicians want derivatives swapped in a more open fashion that resembles the way people exchange stocks, bonds and pork belly futures. “Generally speaking, there is a push against what the legislators are trying to do,” said Masaya Yamashiro, a vice president at Sumitomo Trust and Banking. “But, obviously, something went wrong to an extent.”

The United States has led the call for greater regulation in part because politicians hope to leave their mark on Wall Street ahead of November elections, Sarah J. Lee, associate general counsel for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told one session at the convention.

“Obviously, things are to going to become much more complicated,” Ms. Lee said.

And with complexity, attendees fear, will come costs and an end to the boom times so many people at the derivatives conference have enjoyed. Some traders assume the worst.

Robert G. Pickel, the executive vice chairman of the derivatives association, said he had even been receiving questions about whether this would be the last event of its kind. “I can ensure it is not,” Mr. Pickel said during a session. “Don’t even kid around about that.”

Richard M. Schetman, who specializes in derivatives at the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, said younger people were starting to question whether they should stay in the industry. “I think people have accepted that regulation is going to happen and that the business will probably be less profitable.”

Nitin Gulabani, the global head of rates at Standard Chartered Bank, said during a panel discussion, “As an industry, we just have to accept the moral obligation of what we are doing and how we do things.” As for dialing things back a bit given the widespread scrutiny surrounding the derivatives industry, well, that did not quite happen.

“Given everything that is going on, I would have assumed they would tone things down at the conference,” said Markus Grünewald, the head of over-the-counter derivatives at Norddeutsche Landesbank in Germany. “But things still seem rather extravagant.”

Slick German Defence Minister Guttenberg grilled over his lies

Guttenberg defends his Kunduz mistakes

Published: 22 Apr 10 17:43 CET
Online: http://www.thelocal.de/politics/20100422-26727.html

Facing a parliamentary inquiry into the Kunduz air strike on Thursday, Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg admitted he made mistakes in the aftermath but insisted he was let down by advisors.

 

In his long awaited appearance before the committee of MPs investigating the deadly attack, Guttenberg was forced to defend his sacking of two top advisors in the wake of the affair and faced pressure to explain why he had at first insisted the air strike had been “militarily appropriate.”

The affair has dogged Guttenberg for months, mainly because of questions about his handling of the information about civilian casualties, even though he had not actually been Defence Minister when the strike occurred.

German Colonel Georg Klein gave the order on September 4 last year to bomb two petrol tankers that had been hijacked by the Taliban. The air strike killed up to 142 people, among them dozens of civilians.

In his testimony, Guttenberg praised the recent federal prosecutors’ decision to clear Colonel Klein of any criminal wrongdoing. The decision recognised the special situation of soldiers deployed in combat, Guttenberg said, adding that case had “also had an impact on the trust our soldiers have in politics.”

In his evidence to the committee, Guttenberg defended sacking his two top advisors, claiming they had withheld information from him. Guttenberg insisted at the beginning of November that the air strike had been “militarily appropriate” but later turned 180 degrees on that assessment.

Guttenberg admitted he had made a mistake in his initial assessment. For that “misjudgement,” he took full responsibility, he said.

He had chosen that wording based on an “unambiguous, unequivocal” technical briefing from his ministry and the military, he said. But he acknowledged he had been “rightly criticised” for his initial appraisal that the air strike “had to happen.”

Later, he revised his assessment and described the bombardment as not militarily appropriate.

Of the sacking of Army Chief of Staff Wolfgang Schneiderhan, and ministry official Peter Wichert, Guttenberg said his faith in these top advisors had been “unsettled” because they had not told him everything about the attack.

As a new minister in his first weeks in the defence portfolio, he had been dependent on his advisers, he said. The air strike had taken place before he took the job. When he made his first assessment, he knew only of the NATO report and of a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

Then on November 25, he had learnt that Bild newspaper planned to report on a military police assessment. Only after asking several times did he get Schneiderhan to tell him about that report, Guttenberg said.

“Who is responsible for providing the information here?” Guttenberg said in the inquiry. “Certainly not the minister.

“My standard has always been that I make my decisions based on the fullest possible information.”

The documents later presented to him had contained more detailed criticisms than the ones he had on November 6. In particular, civilian victims had been clearly identified, he said.

The conduct of Colonel Klein was understandable, he added. Klein had not known when he made his decision to call the strike that civilians were on the scene.

DPA/The Local (news@thelocal.de)

Evidence Bill Gates’s vaccine campaign has sparked polio outbreak from WSJ

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Gates Rethinks His War on Polio

By ROBERT A. GUTH

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill Gates walked into the World Health Organization’s headquarters in Geneva—for a meeting in an underground chamber where global pandemics are managed—and was greeted by bad news. Polio was spreading across Africa, even after he gave $700 million to try to wipe out the disease.

That outbreak raged last summer, and this week a new outbreak hit Tajikistan, which hadn’t seen polio for 19 years. The spread threatens one of the most ambitious health campaigns in the world, the effort to destroy the crippling disease once and for all. It also marks a setback for the Microsoft Corp. co-founder’s new career as full-time philanthropist.

Next week, the organizations behind the polio fight, including WHO, Unicef, Rotary International and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, plan to announce a major revamp of their strategy to address shortcomings exposed by the outbreaks.

Nigeria is ground zero for the reemergence of polio. Now the country is making surprising headway against the crippling disease, in part thanks to an unlikely meeting of two leaders: Microsoft mogul Bill Gates, and the Sultan of Sokoto, the spiritual leader of Nigeria’s 70 million Muslims. WSJ’s Rob Guth reports.

Polio is a centerpiece of Mr. Gates’s charitable giving. Last year the billionaire traveled to Africa, one of the main battlegrounds against the disease, to confer with doctors, aid workers and a sultan to propel the polio-eradication effort.

“There’s no way to sugarcoat the last 12 months,” Bruce Aylward, a WHO official, told Mr. Gates in the meeting in the underground pandemic center last June. He described how the virus was rippling through countries believed to have stopped the disease.

Mr. Gates asked: “So, what do we do next?”

That question goes to the heart of one of the most controversial debates in global health: Is humanity better served by waging wars on individual diseases, like polio? Or is it better to pursue a broader set of health goals simultaneously—improving hygiene, expanding immunizations, providing clean drinking water—that don’t eliminate any one disease, but might improve the overall health of people in developing countries?

The new plan integrates both approaches. It’s an acknowledgment, bred by last summer’s outbreak, that disease-specific wars can succeed only if they also strengthen the overall health system in poor countries.

How a reservoir of poliovirus in Nigeria last year spread to other countries

If successful, the recalibrated campaign could shape global health strategy for decades and boost fights against other diseases. A failure could rank the effort as one of the most expensive miscalculations in mankind’s long war with disease. Already, polio has evaded a two-decade-long, $8.2 billion effort to kill it off.

Big donors have long preferred fighting individual diseases, known as a “vertical” strategy. The goal is to repeat 1979′s victory over smallpox, the only disease ever to be eradicated. By contrast, the broader, “horizontal” strategy has less well-defined goals and might not move the needle of global health statistics for years.

The polio fight is a lesson for Mr. Gates’s foundation, which is funding other vaccines that could face similar setbacks. In the polio fight, his foundation backed a program that was following an outdated playbook. Polio’s resurgence last year forced a major rewrite.

The shift on polio was informed by Mr. Gates’s trip last year to Nigeria, a nation with a history of exporting the virus to other countries. Mr. Gates was accompanied by a Wall Street Journal reporter.

Mr. Gates has forged himself as a global-health diplomat following his 2008 retirement from Microsoft. He is using his star power and $34 billion philanthropy to try to push businesses, health groups and governments to improve health in developing countries.

In the Nigerian city of Sokoto, the dusty center of a once vast Islamic empire, Mr. Gates drove to a palace, walked past a row of trumpeters and found himself looking up at a man on a throne wearing a flowing robe and turban—the Sultan of Sokoto, spiritual leader of Nigeria’s 70 million Muslims.

Just as Mr. Gates introduced himself to the sultan, the lights flickered out.

“I want to welcome you to the real world—to the real third world,” the sultan said to Mr. Gates from his gilded chair in the darkened room.

Men like the sultan are important allies. In 2003, Islamic leaders in northern Nigeria spread rumors that polio vaccines sterilized Muslim girls. Leaders halted vaccinations, allowing the virus to spread. The WHO said the virus eventually infected 20 countries.

By the start of last year, Nigeria was home to half of the world’s 1,600 polio cases. The sultan could help get the campaign back on track.

Speaking to Mr. Gates and a room of religious leaders, the sultan declared his support for the polio fight. “We want to show you our commitment,” he said. “The time you have taken to come here will not be in vain.”

But he, too, questioned the wisdom of targeting one disease. “Other health issues should be looked into,” the sultan said, “instead of just facing one direction with polio eradication.” He ticked off tuberculosis, HIV and AIDS, malaria, cholera and a parasitic infection known as “snail fever.”

After the global victory over smallpox 30 years ago, a rush of energy went into similar “vertical” attacks on single diseases. The polio program followed that approach and made great gains. Led by WHO and donors such as Rotary, the campaigns by the year 2000 slashed the world’s polio cases to under 1,000 from 350,000 in 1988. Polio fighters planned to eradicate the disease by 2000.

That date came and went. But polio persisted, eating up billions of dollars.

Critics argued for a shift away from killing polio to free up money for controlling multiple diseases. In some countries, polio campaigns became an example of a functioning vaccination system even as other diseases were missed. Mr. Gates saw that himself in Nigeria.

Arriving at a Sokoto health clinic in a Toyota minivan stocked with Diet Coke, Mr. Gates stepped inside and was soon leaning on a wooden desk, flipping through children’s vaccine records. “Do you know if this child had the first dose of DPT?” he asked, pointing to a record of a diphtheria vaccination of a boy who appeared to have missed a treatment. A health worker beside him didn’t have an answer.

The clinic also had no hepatitis B and yellow fever vaccines, the workers said, because the government’s system for supplying medicine wasn’t working.

By contrast, in front of the clinic, a polio campaign was in full swing. Health workers tended coolers filled with vials of vaccine for children gathered there.

At a meeting the next day in the capital, Abuja, Nigeria’s head of primary health care, Dr. Muhammad Ali Pate, reopened the vertical-vs.-horizontal debate. Even if Nigeria lowers polio cases, he said, the gains “can’t hold” without a broader health-care system, he said.

Mr. Gates listened, seated behind a name tag that read “Our Guest.” Dr. Pate showed a slide of a cartoon steam-engine train with cars labeled “Education” and “Disease Control.” Polio should be just one car in that train, he said.

Mr. Gates didn’t disagree—certainly Nigeria needs a functioning health system, he said in interviews. But it was a matter of priorities, he said. With the world so close to killing polio, countries like Nigeria should make eradication a top priority, he said. Victory would free up millions of dollars to pay for broader health improvements.

“So the benefit of finishing is huge,” he said.

On the plane, Mr. Gates strategized about what else would help win the fight, balking at one religious leader’s suggestion: forced vaccinations. “Strap ‘em, down, I say! Let’s make it illegal” to not take the vaccine, Mr. Gates joked. Then he got serious again, citing failed attempts in the U.S. to enforce compulsory vaccinations.

In many respects, Mr. Gates remains a tech geek at heart. Aboard his plane, he expounded on an array of scientific topics: From developments in genotyping, to research showing that Bangladesh’s high disease-immunity rates are due to “oral-fecal” transmission (when people build immunity by ingesting contaminated food or water).

In Nigeria, Mr. Gates scored a diplomatic triumph. He won commitments from the sultan, and from Nigeria’s governors, to take a more active role in polio vaccinations. “We really stand at the threshold of global health success on polio,” he told the assembled governors at the close of the trip.

However, just three days later, a new front opened 2,000 miles away in Uganda. There, a woman walked into a hospital to say her son couldn’t move his left leg. It was Uganda’s first polio case in 12 years.

Cases also popped up in Mali, Togo and Ghana and Cote d’Ivore, which hadn’t reported polio for four years. A girl in Kenya became that country’s first polio case since 2006.

Polio, which spreads through water contaminated by human feces, paralyzes just one person for every 200 infected. Discovering just a few cases could mean that thousands have been infected. That demands massive vaccination campaigns.

On Feb. 28, 2009, Mr. Aylward, the WHO official, was grocery shopping in Geneva with his wife and son when he got an urgent email about the Uganda case. For 30 minutes, Mr. Aylward stood next to a spinach display, working his phone and setting in motion a plan that 10 days later vaccinated 48,000 children in Uganda.

Costly emergency responses like this became increasingly common last year. The Gates Foundation had set $47 million aside for emergencies, Mr. Aylward said. By early June, the money was running down.

That month, Mr. Gates flew to Geneva for the meeting in the WHO’s underground room.

Mr. Aylward came with good news to offset the bad news about polio’s resurgence, he recalled later. After describing the outbreaks, he shifted to Nigeria’s progress against polio and described positive results from a trial of a new vaccine.

But those positives didn’t offset the risks of polio’s revival, say several attendees of a follow-up meeting. “It was becoming evident that the virus almost knew no bounds,” said Dr. Steve Cochi, senior adviser at Centers for Disease Control. “It kind of confirmed some of our worst fears.”

A month later in Seattle, Gates Foundation officials paused at a PowerPoint presentation showing the foundation’s polio grants were approaching $1 billion. It was a staggering amount for a program that appeared to be stalling. “We can’t go to Tachi and Bill and ask for more money,” without reviewing the program, one person said, referring to Mr. Gates and Tachi Yamada, a top foundation official, according to an attendee.

In August, experts commissioned by the WHO landed in Angola, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and Nigeria to evaluate the polio program. In Africa, a team found that once polio had been ended in some countries, weak health-care systems let it return. In northern India, bad sanitation, malnutrition and other intestinal issues are believed to hurt the oral polio vaccine’s effectiveness.

These findings echoed the message to Mr. Gates in Nigeria, and marked a turning point among the Gates Foundation and other backers of the polio fight in the debate over whether the strictly “vertical” polio strategy could succeed.

In October, the Gates Foundation summoned backers of the program, including Unicef, CDC and Rotary, to its Seattle headquarters for a major rethink. Two weeks later it called in independent experts for help. The outcome of those meetings will be reflected in the revamped plan coming next week. Polio backers say they are buoyed by reports of just 71 polio cases worldwide this year, vs. 328 in the year-earlier period.

If approved in May by member nations of the WHO, the new strategy will set ambitious goals for getting close to eradicating polio by the end of 2012. The plan bolsters the core “vertical” approach of polio program but also adds a “horizontal” strategy, including training for health workers on topics such as hygiene and sanitation.

Nigeria will be a key testing ground. The country has made strong progress against the disease since Mr. Gates’s visit. But stopping polio there, and in at least one of the three other countries where it’s deeply rooted, will be the main challenge in the next three years, Mr. Aylward says. Failure to achieve that goal will raise questions over whether the program continues, he says.

A big hurdle is money. The polio program is $1.4 billion short of the $2.6 billion it needs over next three years. The Gates Foundation will continue its polio grants, but says it can’t make up the shortfall.

But funding is just one worry for Mr. Gates in his new career. He built his foundation on the promise of life-saving vaccines, reflecting his penchant toward finding technological solutions to problems. As polio shows, technology can be hampered by political, religious and societal obstacles in the countries where he’s spending his money. He’s still learning how to navigate through those forces.

In Nigeria last year, Mr. Gates sat on the lawn behind his hotel reflecting on that. Science can simplify the job, he said, but “the human piece is the ultimate test.”

Write to Robert A. Guth at rob.guth@wsj.com

Children sick after three-strain flu vaccine: Western Australia suspends free jab programme

Fevers in 60 children linked to flu vaccine

April 23, 2010 – 4:42PM

More than 60 West Australian children may have had adverse reactions to the flu vaccine, the state’s health department says.

West Australian Health Minister Kim Hames announced yesterday that vaccinations for children under the age of five would be halted after a number of reactions to the three-strain vaccine, which includes swine flu.

Australia’s chief medical officer Jim Bishop today said health professionals nationwide should immediately stop immunising children under five with the vaccine, as a precaution.

West Australian Health Department chief health officer Tarun Weeramanthri said a higher-than-expected number of reactions to the vaccine, which is offered free by the state government to children under five, had been reported.

The Princess Margaret children’s hospital (PMH) had reported 44 children under 10 had presented with febrile convulsions, of which 23 related to the paediatric flu vaccine.

Of the 23 children, 12 were admitted to hospital.

One child is in a critical condition following their reaction to the vaccine.

Dr Weeramanthri said he had few details on the child’s condition but that they were “seriously ill”.

The average age of children who had reactions to the vaccine was about two years, but children aged between five and 10 also experienced fevers and convulsions.

Dr Weeramanthri said another 40 children under 10 had been taken to other hospitals in the state with febrile convulsions, and work was being done to assess if there was a link to the vaccine.

“Advice from West Australian clinicians has said that there is a consistent clinical picture that they’re seeing, with fever and vomiting around six hours and certainly within 12 hours of vaccination,” he said.

The West Australian health department is working with other states and territories to compile data, but there have been no reports of a spike in reactions to the vaccine in other states.

“It’s important to get an estimate of both how many have been vaccinated and how many children have potentially had reactions,” Dr Weeramanthri said.

The department and the Therapeutic Goods Administration had honed in on what they thought the cause of the increased reactions was, Dr Weeramanthri said.

“The Therapeutic Goods Administration is working with the manufacturers on two lines of inquiry,” he said.

“One is the data from around the country about where we’re getting any signals of increased reactions and which batches went where.

“The second is to actually directly test the batches held by the various manufacturers for any impurities.”

There had been no reports of an increased reaction rate to the single pandemic swine flu strain vaccine.

“So whether this is an issue about the combination of antigens … in this vaccine, which has three parts compared to a single vaccine, is something that TGA is looking at,” Dr Weeramanthri said.

“That’s the first time that particular antigen has been included, but one must remember that the strains of flu change regularly and so there are regular changes in the formulation of the flu vaccine.”

The West Australian Health Department had responded appropriately to the reaction and in a timely fashion, Dr Weeramanthri said.

“As soon as we got information from clinicians, particularly at PMH this week that they were concerned they were seeing something more than what they normally see, and people have to understand there is a normal incidence of febrile reactions after vaccination in children.

“Once we got that information we acted as promptly as we could.”

National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance clinical research head Professor Robert Booy said the experience was that children around Australia had demonstrated a good tolerance for the vaccine.

Dr Weeramanthri said he was hopeful a safe vaccination program could be provided once the safety of the vaccine could be ensured.

Case in South Australia

One young child has suffered a convulsive reaction to the seasonal flu vaccine in South Australia, health officials say.

But chief medical officer Paddy Phillips said it was still to be determined if one or more components of the vaccine were the cause of the South Australian case and the spike in cases reported in Western Australia.

“There’s no evidence at all that there’s any particular linkage, at this stage, to any of the components because we don’t even know if it’s absolutely linked to the vaccine,” Professor Phillips said.

“Clearly there’s a suspicion and that’s why we’re playing it safe and suspending the vaccine for five and unders.”

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Were the Polish elite abducted and killed in Poland? No evidence of bodies at crash site fuels speculation

Polish TV journalist Slawomir Wisniewski who was among the first to reach the crash site of the Tupolev plane containing key Polish military and civilian figures, including the Polish President Lech Kaczynski, has said that he believes there was no one on board the crashed plane apart from the crew.

In an interview with a Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita (RZ), he said he saw no evidence of bodies or personel belongings.

“There was no sign that 100 people had been killed by the crash,“ he said.

“There were no seats, suitcases, bags, simply nothing and above all no human remains and there was a terrible silence at the site,“ he said.

Wisniewski said that he had flimed another plane crash in 1987 and had seen the remains of bodies everywhere.

“The fact that i did not see them in Smolensk made me suspect that there were no passengers on board, and only the crew…“ he said.

Wisniewski was manhandled and thrown to the ground by Russian secret service agents, who confiscated his film, but managed to keep the tape that was later put on the internet.

Another film of the crash site that appeared on April 11 and that was shot by a Ukrainian journalist using his mobile phone also shows no sign of bodies. According to internet reports, the journalist died in hospital in Kiev after being attacked with a knife and after his life support system was disconnected.

The absence of any sign of bodies will fuel speculation that the Polish elite were lured to the airport or another location and abducted in Poland and then taken to prisons, possibly even CIA-run prisons, for interrogation before being killed. The plane crash in Smolensk was then staged to explain their disappearance.

The Polish central bank governor, national security chief and top army generals allegedly died in the crash as well as the president, two presidential candidates and much of the opposition party, clearing the way for Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to follow pro euro, pro-IMF and pro-Gazprom policies that will enrich the Gobalists.

There have also been reports of Polish agents entering the office of one crash victim to search through files two hours after the plane crash was announced, suggesting the crash was planned.

The two videos of the crash site can be seen here:

http://polskaweb.eu/recherche-absturz-tupolew-smolensk-46736569.html

Report that man who shot Polish crash site video with gunshots was knifed in Kiev and died in hospital

http://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/btla4/andriej_mendierej_smole%C5%84sk_plane_crash/

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Andrei Mendierej – amateur filmmaker from Smolensk is dead?

The first movie was recorded by the Russian disaster, in which voices are heard in Polish, if it is authentic, it is crucial evidence. It is hard to believe that it was so realistically assembled, except that then it would be likely in many of its online version, and there is one. There are clear voices in Polish and immediately after the shots. Another thing – the cockpit was saved, and strangely enough it was the bodies of pilots can not be found. They were in the seat, fasten seat belts in hełmofonach. The fire started after a disaster, so if the pilots were conscious they could jump out to prevent the spread of fire. They could die, but that their bodies had the best chance to escape in their entirety. Does the idea is to hide the real cause of their death?

Assuming the authenticity of the author filmiku risked mortal danger as a witness. So I put the information that comes from the Internet, and the truth alone can not fix, but I think that more editors being able to verify whether a man of that name was in the vicinity of Smolensk, and talked to families that what he saw, and other facts. If this is a false trail might be able to inquire whether the local residents have heard something about this filmiku and its author. Here is the info:

“The person who threw this movie the first was quickly removed and his account was deleted too! The author of this movie was Mendierej Andrei, who dug the knife in the vicinity of Kiev, April 15, 2010. It has been brought in an awful state to a hospital in Kiev, where he disconnected the apparatus! “

I know that the Polish prosecutor’s office will examine this movie. But in the past, many investigations had remitted, were at stake when possible objections to the well known politician and businessman. Still less could be the case when the game would fall international affairs. Therefore I have reason to believe that the prosecution will undermine the credibility of the material – even if it is true. Such matters should investigate and disclose to the media. Is the television and radio stations do not have specialized equipment to check the reliability of the material and the prominence of votes going there?

The fact that everything conspires against the presidential airplane (suddenly very bad weather, incorrect indications of the altimeters, not acting TAWS, poor co-operation with the tower) is already making serious doubts. For the entry on my blog I’ve added a lot of interesting new information and hypotheses about the likely (intentional or inadvertent) blame the Russians. And if you bear at least part of the blame (even unintentional) is that disclosure would be a huge blow to the image of Russia – which is why it can not be ruled out attempts to hide these facts.

We publish a letter received from a specialist that developed the three-dimensional navigation systems, which sheds new light on the possible causes of an aviation disaster in Smolensk. Here are the contents of this letter:

“I am a lecturer at the University of Hambuskiej and the employee responsible for the so-called. advanced research and development of Concern HarmanBecker Automotive Systems. I developed and co-created three-dimensional navigation systems, and therefore difficult for me to imagine how TAWS system that was installed in the airplane of the President, may fail if he does not “help.” (More here)

Author: Philip Stankiewicz Material sent to the “Free Media”

FROM THE EDITOR WM

“Free Media” asked the Forum members Smolensk, asking for verification of information about the author of film and its fate. If you get a response, we will notify you about it.

In praise of tired travellers

When Eurocontrol and European government air regulators imposed a ban on air travel last week in response to a computer model showing that there might be some volcanic ash in the sky, the travel plans of millions of people were disrupted, airlines lost hundreds of millions of euros in revenue — making them the next potential take-over targets of Goldman Sachs —  and governments lost significant tax revenue.

In the meantime, there is growing evidence that the volcanic ash cloud was another false flag operation designed to destablise economies for the profit of the banks – and also to offer US President Barack Obama, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Prince Charles and the other Bilderbergs an excuse to back out of their planned attendance at the funeral of murdered Polish President Lech Kaczynski in Krakow at the last moment and for unknown reasons.

I experienced the travel chaos first hand when I went by train from Vienna to Krakow last Friday returning on Monday. There were queues everywhere; booked out trains and rental cars. I met one elderly man who had had to take the train from Latvia to Munich because his flight had been cancelled; another Italian who had to change four more times to get to Rome by train. I spoke to people trying to get to France, Spain and even China.

In Krakow, I also met British tourists who could not return to their jobs, who had tried to book rental cars but had found none available and who had even asked taxi drivers to bring them to the UK but had abandoned the idea when they were told they would need to pay 2000 UK pounds.

Trains were so full that people were sleeping in the corridor.

And yet in spite of the stress caused by this false flag no fly ban, in spite of tiredness, of people having to travel on unfamilar routes through countries they did not know for hundreds of miles, I was astonished by the patience, courtesy, good humour and spirit of cooperation.

People of all nationalities, all ages and all works of life got along together without any problems at all.

The no fly ban turned into a chance to stike up conversations, exchange ideas, discuss politics, and make new friendships.

After so many enriching  encounters, I recognised why the globalists are so terrified.

We, the people, are very strong and we are very united.

Urgency needed in (bird flu) pandemic preparation: U.S. official

Urgency needed in pandemic preparation: U.S. official

Wed, Apr 21 2010

HANOI (Reuters) – The task of preparing for flu pandemics remains urgent, and the world must guard against complacency in the wake of the ( swine flu) H1N1 outbreak, which appears less deadly than a potential bird flu pandemic, a U.S. health official said.

Participants in a ministerial conference on influenza in Hanoi, “felt the need to re-commit” to the effort, Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs Kerri-Ann Jones said on Wednesday.

About 17,000 people have died from laboratory-confirmed cases of H1N1 but the World Health Organization, which declared the H1N1 flu a pandemic last June, has said the real death toll is likely to be many times higher.

Initial fears that the pandemic would kill millions have turned out to be unfounded so far. Orders for vast quantities of vaccines are being renegotiated.

Experts, however, fear that if the more deadly H5N1 bird flu virus mutates to become easily transmissible between humans it could lead to such a pandemic.

“We still continue to be in a period of urgency,” Jones told a news conference.

“There was some sense that when a pandemic did occur it was H1N1 and we were lucky, even though there was loss of life, which is always tragic, it was not as tragic or as virulent as H5N1 could be,” she later added.

“The sense is that that event may have led to some sense of: we’re over-reacting, we’re over-preparing.” The tone and message from the conference about re-commitment was: “Let’s not slip into complacency,” she said.

(Reporting by John Ruwitch; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani)

Globalist The Telegraph hypes next swine flu wave

Swine flu will be back in the winter: scientists

Swine flu will return in the winter and thousands of people could become infected, scientists have warned.

By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
Published: 7:15AM BST 22 Apr 2010

The pandemic is not over and the H1N1 virus is likely to return in the winter when flu would normally be expected, scientists have said.

Despite the feeling that most people have already had the bug, even if they didn’t show symptoms, tests have shown that in some areas of the country 85 per cent have not yet contracted H1N1.

 Uptake of the vaccine has varied from around 10 per cent to 30 per cent of those offered it so many of the most vulnerable are not protected, they said.

Prof Neil Ferguson, Director of the MRC Centre for Outbreak Analysis and Modelling, Dept of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, said there has been a resurgence of cases in the southern states of America and this time H1N1 appears to be striking older people.

Prof Peter Openshaw, Director of the Centre for Respiratory Infection at the National Heart and Lung Institute, at Imperial College London added: “The perception is that everyone has had it therefore won’t get it again. In London and the West Midlands up to 40 per cent of schoolchildren have had it but they are the exception. In most regions it was about 15 per cent so there are still a lot of people still to be infected.”

The scientists said despite criticism that the pandemic was overplayed, the response by the British Government was proportionate given what was known at the time.

They described it as a ‘dry run’ for a more serious pandemic and said valuable lessons will be learned about communicating risk to the public and how to track cases in the general population.

Prof Ferguson said the number of people who died from swine flu was probably underestimated in England because of the way the data was collected.

In the year since the outbreak 474 deaths have been attributed to swine flu in the UK.

Prof Ferguson said reasonable worst case scenarios for the NHS to plan for suggested early on that there could be 65,000 deaths and he said this was not unreasonable. However this was communicated as a prediction of what would happen when in actual fact is was a worst case to plan for when in reality far fewer deaths were expected.

Prof Openshaw added that even though the assumption is that H1N1 is a mild disease, the majority of deaths were in younger age groups than normal and 40 per cent of them had been fit and well previously.

“This was still an exceptional outbreak of flu”, he said.

It is still not known why the disease struck people with asthma, pregnant women and those with diabetes.

He said it was hard to predict if H1N1 would behave more like normal seasonal flu when it returns or if it will retain some of these pandemic traits.