Louise Voller & Kristian Villesen

Kinesiske mødre med deres børn på en hospital i Hefei i Kina, hvor de bliver behandlet
for svineinfluenza. De kinesiske myndigheder er for tiden i færd med at vaccinere en stor
del af befolkningen i kampen mod svineinfluenzaen. Foto: AFP/Scanpix

Flere af WHO's influenzarådgivere er betalt af medicinalindustrien. Dermed var industrien med til at påvirke beslutningen om, at influenza A er en pandemi - og at vaccine er nødvendig. Siden har de samme virksomheder fået vaccineordrer for op mod 55 milliarder kroner.

Den 11. juni 2009 erklærede WHO’s generaldirektør, Margaret Chan, svineinfluenza for en pandemi. Det betød en kæmpe økonomisk gevinst for medicinalindustrien. Mange medlemslande - herunder Danmark - har nemlig kontrakter med de store medicinalvirksomheder og er derfor forpligtet til at købe vacciner i tilfælde af en pandemi.

Investeringsbanken JP Morgan vurderer, at medicinalindustrien i år vil modtage vaccineordrer for op imod 55 milliarder kroner. En stor del af den omsætning skyldes WHO’s beslutning. Mange af de tilsyneladende uvildige forskere, som WHO benytter sig af, er imidlertid betalt af de firmaer, der producerer vaccinerne.

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Brenda Aplin

Marc Wisecarver was raised in Wounded Knee District on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, in the country about 9 miles north of Manderson, SD. Marc attended Rockyford School, Red Cloud School, and graduated from Little Wound High School in 1988. He is 39 years old, was in the Marine Corps, attended college, and is a logger, firefighter, ranch hand, mechanic and single dad. He raised his daughter, Robin, since she was one-year-old. He doesn't drink, do drugs, and is recognized as a good man in the community.

Marc has had a number of trespassers on his place over the years and always called the police. Last April, 2008, a pickup truck zoomed past his house where he was outside working on his vehicle. There are No Trespass signs at the two entrances and on the fences to his place. He tried to wave down the truck as it proceeded into the bottom field and began chasing his horses. He got his rifle and fired a shot into the air. This got the drivers attention but the driver turned his vehicle at Marc as if to run him over. Following a verbal confrontation, the driver gunned his engine again with his hand on the gear shift as if to hit Marc.

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Henry Makow

The girl at the McDonald's drive thru took one look at me and asked if I wanted a half-price "Senior's Coffee."

"Sure," I said. "I turned 60 last week."

If life's purpose is to leap nimbly from the Student Discount to the Senior Discount, I have succeeded.

I turned 60 on November 12. Getting old is baffling for a boomer like me, who was immature until age 50. I suffered from the arrested development social engineered in our "culture," i.e. feminism, multiple marriages and divorces. Now, I have cast myself as the voice of experience, a role I am unprepared for, unless we mean "bad experience."

My biggest mistake was trusting my elders --media , professors --"looking up" to them or anyone. Our society is as bankrupt culturally as it is fiscally. My writing is a memo to my 20-year-old self, containing the information I wish I had then.

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Stæren (Sturnus vulgaris) er en korthalet fugl, som er ca. 22 cm lang. I yngletiden er stærens fjerdragt sort med små lyse pletter på rygsiden. Fjerene er tydeligt metalskinnende. Om efteråret bliver stæren mere spættet af lyse pletter på fjerspidserne. De unge stære er mere ensfarvede og brune, og samles i løbet af sommeren i større flokke. Stæren har en kraftig krop, og et langt gult næb. Hannen har nogle særligt lange fjer på struben, de er specielt tydelige, når han synger. I juni-september skifter stæren den metalskinnende yngledragt ud med en vinterdragt, den er ikke nær så metalglinsende og har mange hvide fjerspidser. Samtidig skifter næbbet farve fra gult til sort. De unge stære er ret ensfarvet gråbrune. Hannen synger fra marts til ind i maj måned. Han synger fra en tydelig sangpost i nærheden af det redested, han har fundet. Sangen er meget varieret, og stæren efterligner ofte andre fugles stemmer i sin sang. Den indeholder dog altid nogle fløjt og knitrende og knebrende lyde. [WikiPedia: Stær] English, Deutsch, Français + Español →

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