Somma dis, somma dat ...

With the help of contributions from readers we have a mix of things to read today.

First, we (still) have to deal with the Pig Flu thing because it's really getting crazy.

You be the judge, but it seems the testing ground of military rule is in the Ukraine, with the pretext being that the H1N1 virus has mutated into something more virulent than the relatively mild Swine Flu and the people must be ... er, protected.

Ukrainian President Yveschenko Yushchenko has officially turned his country's health care over to the national defence. In his address to the nation, translated into English and published on his own website, he concludes:

National Security and Defense Council should become the center of decision-making. Failure to comply with its orders will immediately result in application to the law enforcement authorities. I remind all the responsible persons and draw attention to all of my orders, made in Lviv four days ago. In three days the deadline for compliance with these orders expires. With my decree I put Minister of Health and Chief Sanitary Inspector of Ukraine into the Council for National Security and Defense.

He says the virus "will be stopped" by these actions - and he declares all doctors as "heroes" and recommends they get a pay raise. So, of course, the good doctors will go along with the resulting repression.

Thanks to Margaret, some related video discussions:

Ukraine Mutated Swine Flu is a Bioweapon

Horowitz discusses the H1N1 and depopulation theory.

Margaret comments:

There are some reports that the [Ukrainian] government has arrested a pandemic blogger and that there are threats to arrest anyone in opposition to vaccination. There is indication that the areas most heavily-affected by the flus will be quarantined and the other regions vaccinated beginning with the chronically ill, the immuno-compromised and pregnant women.

YYC: Hard to know if the Mossad Agent Joseph Moshe - mentioned in the first video above and reportedly arrested for making threats against the White House - is intent on warning the public of White House involvement in bioweaponry aimed at depopulation, or on merely helping to further spread the panic that will drive people to the flu shot clinics, and cause them to willingly accept tighter restrictions on their freedoms.

There is a discussion of Moshe here. It's indeed "fishy" if the reports are true that he did not react to the tear gas being sprayed in his direction as he sat in his car - suggesting his arrest was a staged event. He did, however, correctly predict that the mutation scare would begin in the Ukraine.

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(2) Afghanistan and the CIA

Thanks to John - from Uruknet:

Have Canadians been killing and dying for Kandahar's Al Capone?

YYC: It's a rhetorical question. Excerpt:

Last week, the New York Times reported on its front page that Ahmed Wali Karzai -- the President’s younger brother and the most powerful man in Kandahar Province -- has in recent years regularly received payments from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Are we surprised? Here's the American perspective from Yahoo News:

... the revelations that Wali Karzai is a major drug trafficker who has been protected not just by his brother, but also by CIA operatives establish a chain of causality between the efforts of U.S. intelligence to obtain information and influence and drug monies that pay for an insurgency that has taken 53 American lives this month - the highest death toll ever for Americans in Afghanistan.

It's refreshing to learn that Italy has tried and convicted a group of CIA agents for their part in kidnapping and torturing a prominent Muslim. It's all pretty much moot, however, since Italy has yet to actually arrest the culprits.

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(3) Taser Justice?

Thanks to Ted - From the National Post:

The Mountie who repeatedly deployed his Taser on Robert Dziekanski at the Vancouver International Airport two years ago has filed a libel lawsuit against the CBC

... coverage of the incident since Nov. 4, 2007, has caused him to suffer "serious embarrassment and distress" and has subjected him to "public ridicule." ... The former Richmond Mountie deployed his Taser on the Polish immigrant five times -- the last two in "push stun mode"

Ted Comments:

All I can say is some people have a hell of a lot of GALL.This RCMP officer tasers a poor guy to death and he's suing the CBC because he claims they seriously injured HIS reputation. Far as I'm concerned he should be quite content he's not in prison for manslaughter.

YYC: Not exactly the best way to go about clearing his name; drawing attention all over again to his brutal assault on an upset air traveller.

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(4) Gore's convenient backtrack?

Thanks to Mareta - two links:

Gore's Spiritual argument on climate (if all else fails Gore the guru will make us all into earth-worshippers)

Gore clears CO2 of most blame (Read the comments on this one..)

Mareta adds:

Gore-baby is not gonna make as much moola with his carbon offsets empire but he'll make up for it in livestock tax.