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Some Ominous Developments In Europe
For now, these are isolated incidents. But in Europe events of this kind have an unpleasant tendency of recurring just when it is darkest...
In Greece:
A 70-year-old man has been arrested after opening fire with a shotgun inside an Athens tax office.
Shortly after 11am, the man arrived at the entrance of Agia Paraskevi tax office and started shooting, causing only material damage. He then entered the building but did not threaten any of the officials.
Police rushed to the scene and succeeded in arresting the man, about an hour later, after encouraging him to drop his weapon.
The perpetrator is now being held in a police station, where police are carrying out a preliminary investigation. (Athens News)
And in France:
A man on a scooter opened fire outside a Jewish school in Toulouse in southwestern France on Monday, killing two children and one adult, a police source said.
Five people were injured in the attack, which occurred as students were arriving for morning classes at the Ozar Hatorah school, a city official said.
The attack comes after three soldiers were killed in two separate shootings in the same region by a man who escaped from the scene on a scooter.
French Interior Minister Claude Gueant broke off a visit in northeastern France to head for Toulouse, the police source said. French media reported that security was being tightened at all Jewish schools in the country.
Then, even odder, there is this:
Tuberculosis is often seen in the wealthy West as a disease of bygone eras - evoking impoverished 18th or 19th century women and children dying slowly of a disease then commonly known as "consumption" or the "white plague". But rapidly rising rates of drug-resistant TB in some of the wealthiest cities in the world, as well as across Africa and Asia, are again making history.
London has been dubbed the "tuberculosis capital of Europe", and a startling recent study documenting new cases of so-called "totally drug resistant" TB in India suggests the modern-day tale of this disease could get a lot worse.
"We can't afford this genie to get out of the bag. Because once it has, I don't know how we'll control TB," said Ruth McNerney, an expert on tuberculosis at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
TB is a bacterial infection that destroys patients' lung tissue, making them cough and sneeze, and spread germs through the air. Anyone with active TB can easily infect another 10 to 15 people a year.
In 2010, 8.8 million people had TB, and the Geneva-based World Health Organization (WHO) has predicted that more than 2 million people will contract multi-drug resistant TB by 2015. The worldwide TB death rate currently runs at between two and three people a minute.
Little surprise, then, that the apparently totally untreatable cases in India have raised international alarm.
The WHO has convened a special meeting on Wednesday to discuss whether the emergence of TB strains that seem to be resistant to all known medicines merits a new class definition of "totally drug-resistant TB", or TDR-TB. If so, it would add a new level to an evolution over the years from normal TB, which is curable with six months of antibiotic treatment, to the emergence of MDR-TB, then extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB).
What's so frustrating about that progression, says Lucica Ditiu of the WHO's Stop TB Partnership, is that all drug-resistant TB "is a totally man-made disease".
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"What's so frustrating about that progression, says Lucica Ditiu of the WHO's Stop TB Partnership, is that all drug-resistant TB "is a totally man-made disease".
Created by man? Would that be a "Company"-man? Is that lab located next to the Anthrax lab?
OR MAYBE IT'S THE NATURAL EVOLUTION OF A BACTERIA UNDER HEAVY SELECTIVE PRESSURE. OVER PRESCRIPTION OF ANTIBIOTICSIS THE CHIEF CAUSE.
Try learning something about biology instead of conspiracy.
Where there is high-on-the-food-chain biology, there is often conspiracy.
its evolution in action. the anti biotics kill almost all the bacteria, and patient gets better so stops taking the drugs. the bacteria left are the most resistant to the drugs. thats why they are still alive and all the other bugs are dead.
now the " weak " bugs have died, the one more resistant to the drugs expand and make the patient sick again. the next batch of anti biotics have less an effect as the 1st batch.
soon multo resistant strains roaming the planet
It's not just in patients who don't finish their drugs. Our water supply is now contaminated with a low concentration of antibiotics giving the microrganisms a push in their evolution. Most of that is from the massive amounts of antibiotics that are carpet bombed on the meat industry. Much of the livestock in the mainstream market eats a steady profilactic daily dose of antibiotics.
THIS.
pharma by proxy, be it beef or water or? aerosoled, sweat activated "vaccines"?
depopulation is deflationary
So is sustainability. That's why The Bernank hates them both.
This kind of choas and anarchy is coming to America soon, too! The organizers of the OWS movement have declared that they are bringing it to the United States this summer. They want revolution -- the French kind!
The natural order can only be sustained in anarchy. No rulers does not mean no rules, it means that individuals are free to apply natural law to situations which arise in their own lives. Expecting the wise men who dwell on some distant mountain top to tell all the little people what to do brings chaos. Just look around.
Life is an unfunded mandate.
My mom stepped on a crack .....back never broken
I liked the poetry that started this thread. Kind of a thoughtful moment BEFORE THE CALAMITY. .
For the Englishmen without access to handguns (that would be law abiding people, as the criminals are all already tooled up), here is a viable alternative, albeit a German one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrd_QXxOEWQ&feature=related
Enjoy ...
Englishmen don't need guns - because unlike our American cousins we are stronger and more resourceful and are not foolish enough to place our faith in a false hope of 'freedom by the gun'.
We already demonstrated to our police who is really in charge - we did it unarmed and in numbers - meanwhile America seems to rely on the 'lone gunman' theory to provide salvation.
It's been tried before and failed.
I'm Irish-American. You are not my cousin. My relatives fled Ireland in 1849 because your relatives stole their food and hunted them down like dogs.
Here's a tip: keep your thieving English paws off my garden. We don't take kindly to varmints around here.
Stole their food?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29
This country did a lot of bad things - but don't blame us for the potato famine.
Facts changes again have they?
John Mitchel, one of the leading political writers of Young Ireland, as early as 1844, in The Nation raised the issue of the "Potato Disease" in Ireland noting how powerful an agent hunger had been in certain revolutions.[46] On February 14, 1846, he put forward his views on "the wretched way in which the famine was being trifled with", and asked, had not the Government even yet any conception that there might be soon "millions of human beings in Ireland having nothing to eat."[47]
On February 28, writing on the Coercion Bill which was then going through the House of Lords, he noted that this was the only kind of legislation that was sure to meet with no obstruction in the British House of Commons. His view was that however the government may differ about feeding the Irish people, "they agree most cordially in the policy of taxing, prosecuting and ruining them."[48] (As it happened, the bill was subsequently defeated, and Peel's government fell.)
In an article on "English Rule" on March 7, Mitchel wrote that the Irish People were "expecting famine day by day" and they attributed it collectively, not to "the rule of heaven as to the greedy and cruel policy of England." He continued in the same article to write that the people "believe that the season as they roll are but ministers of England's rapacity; that their starving children cannot sit down to their scanty meal but they see the harpy claw of England in their dish." The people, Mitchel wrote, watched as their "food melting in rottenness off the face of the earth," all the while watching "heavy-laden ships, freighted with the yellow corn their own hands have sown and reaped, spreading all sail for England."[48]
Mitchel later wrote one of the first widely circulated tracts on the famine, The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps) in 1861. It established the widespread view that the treatment of the famine by the British was a deliberate murder of the Irish, and contained the famous phrase:
Mitchel was charged with sedition because of his writings, but this charge was dropped and he was convicted by a packed jury under the newly enacted Treason Felony Act and sentenced to 14 years transportation to Bermuda.[50]
Oh I am disappointed - so you were expecting the English to 'bail you out'?
Why doesn't that surprise me.
Surely the Irish Lords should have not sold all their corn to England - in light of the people needing it.
You see once again you fall for the same trick - it was never baout the English and the Irish - it was (and will always be) about CLASS.
...and the same shit is happening all over again - but you think owning a gun will help?
You can't eat bullets.
It was British landlords who took the food from Irish farmers and sent it off to England. Read a book, fer crissake.
While you ramble on about class like a good socialist you always seem to make an effort to support aggressors rather than victims. So far in this thread you have espoused policies which would defend the right of criminals to attack law abiding citizens, the right of absentee British landlords to take the food from the hands of famine victims and the right of rabid foxes to attack septuagenarians.
Typical statist flunkey.
Your blaming of the English and ignoring the barons of Ireland (who played as much a part in the episode as the British) - shows you are prepared to protect the ruling class in the hope you will curry favour with them.
I have not defended the right of criminals to attack law abiding citizens.
However you ARE defending criminals at the top whilst demanding self protection from criminals at the bottom. I make no class difference between criminals - clearly you do.
Tell me - if the right to bear arms maintains your freedom - then why have you just been screwed by the banks and not a single shot was fired?
The game has changed and you're a relic from the past. You may think you can protect your meagre posessions from small time criminals - but the greatest robbery ever just took place- taking huge amounts of wealth from the citizens of America - and your guns were helpless to stop it!
Like I said before - false hope.
Also, you might like to note this thread started when someone (from the gun lobby) tried to suggest that this shooting occurred because people were not armed (as they are in America) - so we won't be seeing any more Colombines then?
You accuse me of Statism while you stand at the feet of Fascist America - your guns are worthless.
Maybe if the disparity of wealth in the US wasn't so extreme - then you wouldn't have as many burgulars and therefore no need to protect yourself.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality#Economic_neoliberalism
Once again you attack the symptom and allow the cause to fester....
I mean do you think it's a coincidence that in the UK we have high welfare levels and a lot less crime (and fear of crime) - despite our criminals owning guns too?
You have so much to learn.
...and so little time to learn it....
http://www.businessinsider.com/fox-is-the-only-news-channel-not-covering...
Maybe this is why YOU don't realise the problem with guns in America - because some people are simply not covering it!
Now just imagine if the watchman was unarmed - then this boy would be alive.
I presume you think this boys LIFE is worth less than the FREEDOM you hope your gun will bring?
...or are you just going to blame the shooter - I mean after all, it's probably his fault - you would make such a mistake would you?
Most Irish did NOT go to the USA but to Liverpool and Bradford and Glasgow and London
Belgium is nearby and Ireland too - supplies aplenty
That bloke's a nutter!
Got to love sligshot cannon versus Citroen AX (I used to have one, got it free. A better target than it is a car!).
Tell that to the 100 or so who are dying every hour.
Anyone can tell you which postcodes in which cities have the highest levels of TB. The Ruling Elites stopped TB testing of incomers once they had open the gates fully to unrestricted immigration from Africa and the Subcontinent. Now they are offering free HIV/AIDS treatment to anyone who can make it to London.
Wasn't it about this time last year birds started falling from the skies because they were "disoriented by fireworks" and fish mass deaths as well?
Colloidal Silver bitchez!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/18/occupy-wall-street-six-month...
Zzzz....more doom and gloom dribble.
Is this the week Greece is supposed to default (officially, unofficially, whatever)?
March 23 - 24 I heard.
That happened last week didn't it? Perhaps the Parade is this week.
Ruth McNerney must have missed the class on mixed metaphors at the London School of Hygene. "Genie out of the bag"? WTF? Caught between a rock and the deep blue sea I guess.
All that means is that you have never bagged a Genie before.
I've let the cat out of the bottle.
As a kid I certainly had some vivid dreams that included Barbara Eden, but I think I was more partial to Yvonne Craig as Batgirl.
I think you're being naive if you're not spending as much trigger time as you can get, honing your skills (in my case, hunting and general outdoorsmanship), stockpiling irreplaceable resources.
Are you kidding me... These are the Zerohedge deep insights into the state of europe? Does anyone read the US news? The articles here are becoming worthless and pursely agenda driven.... Does anyone else agree with me on this...?
All this shit comes from India. India is a filthy filthy place... put a quarantine on India.
It's abundantly clear that the 'logic' behind Gun ownership in the US is in line with the same logic which says...
God created the earth in 7 days 3000 years ago - science is bullshit
Zero tax is beneficial for society (note I say tax, not how it's spent )
The T-party has anything to do with freedom from oppression (i'ts just promoting a different type of oppression)
Free market (unregulated) capitalism works
"I made it all on my own without any help from Government"
Funny how the same 'reason' is being used by the same people to justify the same bullshit.
The split in the word will be between 'reason' and belief - as opposed to 'my belief over your belief' - which is the usual background for world wars.
writingsonthewall
Great progressive Nazi keep rambling.Show your TRUE Identity.
I'm Nazi because I use reason and not belief?
Did anyone mention Hitler was a devout Chrisitian when you were told what a great religion it is?
Did anyone mention that Nazi attacks on the Jews were driven by some ideology of revenge for the persecution of Christians by Hitler?
So it seems wanting to avoid as much bloodshed as possible is 'Nazi' - but the BELIEF that you can ensure freedom through a barrel of a gun is not?
My, my, what a wierd world you live in - no wonder some Americans love their guns - it's the only think that they can make sense of (point - click - shoot)
For the simple folk.
Hitler was a Chrustian?
www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1699/was-hitler-a-christian
If guns are so useless in the hands of citizens governments sure spend a lot of time and legislation unarming their populace. Granted, not as effective now as when the weaponry was on even ground but there is still value in gun ownership. Statists like yourself don't like them because it makes it that much easier to slam your agenda down the throats of the population.
As far as examples of self defense, I've seen several examples. But one could also go the other direction and search violent crimes and ask what could be different if the victim was armed.
"Statists like yourself "
rather a large assumption there - lets look at the link between 'tyranny' and 'gun ownership.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_of_guns_per_capita_by_country
Look at all the 'freedom' that gun ownership has brought!
What would you consider yourself then?
You attack Cristians through Hitler then via science. (I believe quite the opposite, that science proves the existence of God but that is another discussion)
You then stereotype the entire Tea Party.
As far as gun ownership, being a Brit you should be familiar with the Revolutionary War and the role of an armed populace. Or are you still pissed about that? Yes, the US is growing more tyranical by the day, do you think if we all handed in our guns the trend would reverse?
"As far as gun ownership, being a Brit you should be familiar with the Revolutionary War "
Yes - I am also aware of the expulsion of British rule from India by an unarmed and peaceful Ghandi.
"You then stereotype the entire Tea Party."
They stereotype themselves
"Yes, the US is growing more tyranical by the day, do you think if we all handed in our guns the trend would reverse?"
no...but do you think arming yourselves is going to lead to a peacfeul outcome? - or will it simply be the American civil war all over again?
...a war between the 'armed populace' of the North and the South. Americans kiling Americans - just how the puppet masters like it.
America died the day one American felt he could no longer trust another.
I find it difficult to envision the Green Mountain Boys trooping around in diapers.
The tea Party stereotypes itself? Where do you come up with this stuff? I suppose the same could be said of Americans, Brits, Mexicans.... well you get the picture.
As far as America, we may be down but we certainly aren't out. There are still those around that becieve in the founders and The Constitution and feel that freedom is worth fighting for. With God's assitance we will prevail.
Writing is toying with us.
Not at all - I believe every word of it.
Be careful not to be confused by the onslaught of irrationality at the mere mention of gun controls. It's to be expected as people who believe more guns brings more peace and more safety are clearly not rational.
the fact is that not having gun control is not a path to avoiding tyranny - mainly because someone will always be able to out-gun you - in the same way they can out-invest you (banks) and out-politicise you (politicians)
The only thing they cannot out-do is your brain - but you don't need a gun to activate your brain do you?
Ghandi defeated an entire (fully armed) superpower without any arms or bloodshed.
Clearly the average gun owner thinks differently (or not at all probably)
I will take up arms when I need to - but I will not advocate personal ownership of weapons in a nation which is effectively 'at peace'
There is a good reason why all the criminals in America are armed with machine guns.
Last person who tried to mug me - ended up with a black eye - but nobody died as a result.
"Where do you come up with this stuff? I suppose the same could be said of Americans, Brits, Mexicans.... well you get the picture."
The 'Americans' and 'the Brits' don't all gather around a few concepts (tax, guns, private healthcare) - so no you can't.
"With God's assitance we will prevail."
You can forget that - I've seen fossils and rock forwhich we around before 'God created the earth' - so clearly you will understand if I take your other opinions with a pinch of salt as it appears rationality is not your strong point.
If I'm wrong - then may God strike me down (although I'd rather he struck down some of the evil tyrants around the world first)
I especially love all the mutations in the fossil record that prove how we evolved.
Hey - under your belief God is in the 'heavens' - so I presume you don't think America landed on the moon then?
That's the difference between science and religion. A scientific theory is
"A scientific theory is a set of principles that explain and predict phenomena.[1] Scientists create scientific theories with the scientific method, when they are originally proposed as hypotheses and tested for accuracy through observations and experiments.[2] Once a hypothesis is verified, it becomes a theory"
...whereas a religion is just a story with NO evidence, observations or experiements.
You realise your dismissal of the fossil mutations means you believe that the fossils were dated correctly - therefore ending the biblical claim of the Earth being 'created' about 6000 years ago - regardless of mutations or not.
I wonder how much of science you need to dismiss to accomodate religion - do you throw out your TV as being 'not believable' as the same scientific method used for evolution also provides electrons to produce a picture!
Belief over reason is probably why you need a gun - nobody is going to accept your inane beliefs unless you can persuade them with threats.
You realise your dismissal of the fossil mutations means you believe that the fossils were dated correctly -
Not at all, it simply means that if evolution occured there should we should find mutations.
we'e obviously at polar opposites, we'll just have to wait to see who is correct.
Don`t feed the trolls they say, but let them have a go,
bingo , you've nailed an agent provocateur .
There is nothing to worry about, move along....
The single biggest (wrong) assumption that preppers make is that they are somehow going to be left alone to create a perimeter of personal safety behind which they and their families will be secure from all but "acts of God." This post serves as a timely corrective to that mistake - insofar as it brings the same kind of attention onto our lungs as has been provided recently here for that other major point of intersection with the increasingly dangerous world outside - our guts.
Though you can, to some degree, control the substances entering your body through the alimentary canal, the scope for unmitigable mischief coming through our windpipes is truly frightening. The air we breathe, unless we choose to live hooked up to a tank, is a common element to the larger social space, whether we are in a bunker on a 1000 acre spread in Idaho, a cave in the highest of Himalayan ranges, or a tricked out yacht in the South Seas with 5 years of survival rations stowed aboard.
Unfortunately, as bad as the news of rapidly spreading 'new' or old infectious pulmonary diseases is, the truth is that the threat to our lungs is even more severe: the pyschopaths who, employed by pharmaceutical conglomerates, but funded by your tax $ for decades now, long ago realized the fundamental weakness of mammalian defences is in the respiratory system..., far from having therefore focussed upon helping amelioriate this weakness, have in their R&D been heavily weighted upon developing practical applications to exploiting it.
A comments section such as this is not the place to go into the specifics of this genocidal programme lurking in background of all the other insane developments we are witness to daily now that the Clinton\Bush\Obama triumvirate of terror has almost completed it's mission. But be assured that science in the service of fascist eugenics has been long established in places with the most innoccuous sounding names throughout Norte Amerika for almost a 100 years now...Port Hope, Punta Gorda, Plum Island, hotbeds all of a hellish miasma of governmental experiments in advanced human misery.
This is not meant to be a downer...i-dog is totally right, that there are simple, economical solutions to the biggest and baddest of the health threats out there...but we are not allowed to know about them... rather. a heads up, to those who intend to go the distance and be amongst those of us who survive the coming storm. Learn to know your enemies, and the devices they seek to use against you. Think of your lungs as the single most important point of contact you have with them...and plan accordingly.
you are absolutely correct, and all one need do is acknowledge that amrka, other nationstates, globally, are regularly sprayed to "test" new offensive diseases. . .
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/germs.htm
here's ONE example. search engine your own research, there are many more - also include "downwinders" and realise that "atomic" testing for effects on populations was / is ongoing. . .
but yeah, biowarfare - this has been on the menu for decades now, and is coming to your house sooner than you think.
food grade 3% H2O2 - part of the prepping list, you'll be glad you put it with your stash. . .
Did anyone mention that providing copious antibiotics to people with severely impaired immune systems is, more-or-less, the optimal way of creating drug-resistant bacteria?
And that for years we have been providing antibiotics to extend the life of AIDS sufferers with impaired immune systems?
And that many antibiotics are bacteriostatic rather than bacteriocidal (i.e. that prevent the reproduction of bacteria rather than kill then) and rely on the immune system to wipte them out?
No, I thought not.
Actions have consequences - as in finance, so in medicine.
the wise prescribers, oh white robed guardian High Priests of medicine, we thank you for your service.
ah-men.
Epidemics and economic collapse go hand in hand.
When you have economic collapse (imperial montarism), you get epidemics.
Anyone heard of the Bubonic Plauge aka as Black Death? Does anyone remember what happened to kick it off? Oh yeah, economic collapse.
The world ignores healthcare at its own peril. Because obviously real epidemics should be lower on the totem pole than the survival of monetarism. If not, then how come that is always the case?
Because monetarists make sure their fraud is perpetuated above all else. Above medical care, sanitation, drug research, etc.
Glass-Steagall
American Credit System
Man, this is some scary shit. This freak chased down kids and blew their brains out. Seven year-old kids.
What does that prove? What does that change?
Somebody got murdered, and it left me with a touch.