Real Current Events

In a 2008 annual report to it’s shareholders and investors, Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., LTD, predicted that sales of Tamiflu would increase by 531% in 2009.  As you most likely already know, the media has been promoting Tamiflu as the number one medicine to combat the so-called Swine Flu.

According to Chugai Pharmaceutical’s annual report, found here, the reason for this spike in sales would be due to “expected resumption of government stockpiling … and the ongoing recovery of the prescription rate for seasonal influenza.” 

Chugai Pharmaceutical is a major Japanese drug manufacturer, with 51.5% of it’s shares owned by Hoffman-La Roche. 

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John Farmer, the Senior Counsel to the 9/11 commission, says in a new book that the government agreed not to tell the truth about 9/11.  Farmer is a former New Jersey attorney general and served as Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (officially the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon The United States).

The new book about Farmer’s experiences working with the commission is titled The Ground Truth: The Story Behind America’s Defense on 9/11.  The book reveals how “the public had been seriously misled about what occurred during the morning of the attacks,” and also that “at some level of the government, at some point in time… there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened.”

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is the publisher of the book.  According to Harcourt, “Farmer builds the inescapably convincing case that the official version not only is almost entirely untrue but serves to create a false impression of order and security.”

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The Czech Republic government has been ousted for the first time in the country’s history.  The Czech government fell Tuesday after losing a parliamentary no-confidence vote brought on by their handling of the economic crisis.

There was a 101-96 vote in the lower house of Parliament to declare no confidence in the three party coalition government.  Four lawmakers crossed party lines to vote with the opposition and three members were absent.

This is the first time the Czech government has been ousted from power by parliament since the country came into existence after the 1993 split of Czechoslovakia.  Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said that he will resign on Wednesday after a trip and also stated, “I take the vote into account and will act according to the Constitution.”

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HR 1207, also known as The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, now has 39 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives and an identical companion bill, S604, has been introduced in the Senate.

HR 1207 was introduced by congressman Paul on February 26th, 2009, and represents the first attempt at a true audit of The Federal Reserve since its inception in 1913.

In regards to The Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, Congressman Paul announced, “The first step is to pass legislation I will soon introduce requiring an audit of the Federal Reserve so we can at least get an accurate picture of what is happening with our money.  If this audit reveals what I suspect, and Congress has finally had enough, they can also pass my legislation to abolish the Federal Reserve and put control of the economy’s lifeblood, the currency, back where it Constitutionally belongs.  If Congress refuses to do these two things, the very least they could do is repeal legal tender laws and allow people to choose a different currency in which to operate.  If the Fed refuses to open its books to an audit, and Congress refuses to demand this, the people should not be subject to the whims of this secretive and incompetent organization.”

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Texas state officials announced Tuesday that plans for the controversial Trans-Texas Corridor have been canceled. 

The superhighway would have been a mile wide toll-road, with profits going to a private company in Spain. 

“The days of the Trans-Texas Corridor are over, it’s finished up,” said Texas Governor Rick Perry, who promoted the highway which has been associated by some with alleged plans for a North American Union.

The corridor will not take shape as originally envisioned, but instead has been redesigned into a scaled-down version.  According to the Texas Department of Transportation, larger corridor projects will consist of smaller segments that are about 600 feet wide.

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New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced Sunday that he will be withdrawing his nomination to be Commerce Secretary under President-elect Barack Obama due to a grand jury investigation regarding how some of his political donors received a profitable state contract.

The withdrawal was the first major disruption of Obama’s Cabinet selection process, and the second “pay to play” investigation associated with the President-elect. 

A California company named CDR Financial Products, Inc. contributed to Richardson’s political activities and received a New Mexico transportation contract worth more than $1 million.  In a statement released by the Obama transition office Richardson said that the investigation could take weeks or months, but expressed confidence that it will conclude that he and his administration acted properly.

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Michael Connell was killed on December 19th when his Piper Saratoga airplane crashed near his northern Ohio home. Connell was flying home alone from an airport in College Park, Maryland.

Michael Connell was a high-level Republican IT consultant who was subpoenaed in a case regarding alleged tampering with the 2004 U.S. Presidential election. Ohio attorney Cliff Arnebeck alleged that Connell was threatened by Karl Rove, unless he would “take the fall” for the election fraud. Arnebeck also asked Attorney General Michael Mukasey for Michael Connell to be protected.

Connell’s unnatural and suspicious death is now raising questions around the country about the validity of this plane crash and whether or not there was any foul play involved.

The United Nations said on Tuesday that it has “convincing evidence” that an American-led operation killed 90 civilians.  The U.S. military stands by it’s story that 25 militants and 5 civilians were killed.

The U.N. sent a team to investigate an operation that took place last Friday in the province of Herat.  The investigators relied only on villagers’ testimonies in alleging that Friday’s attacks led to the deaths of 60 children, 15 women and 15 men.  The U.N. has not yet been able to provide evidence of actual graves, but said that “residents were able to confirm the number of casualties, including names, age and gender of the victims.”

According to Dan McNorton who is a spokesman for the U.N. in Kabul, the investigation is ongoing.  An investigation has also been ordered by the top U.S. coalition commander.

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Only three nights before Barack Obama will be giving his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, news is surfacing that four people are now under arrest in connection with a plot to assassinate the presidential hopeful. 

CBS4 of Denver is reporting that one of the suspects told authorities that they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a rifle sighted at 750 yards.”  Law enforcement sources told CBS4 that one of the suspects “was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama.  He responded in the affirmative.”

The story began Sunday morning when Aurora police pulled over 28 year-old Tharin Gartrell for driving in an erratic manner.  Police found two high-powered, scoped rifles in the car along with walkie-talkies, camouflage clothing, a spotting scope, a bulletproof vest, fake I.D.’s, and methamphetamine.  One of the rifles was listed as stolen from Kansas.

Authorities then went to the Cherry Creek Hotel to contact one of Gartrell’s associates.  The man was wanted on numerous warrants and jumped from the sixth floor of the hotel.  Sources say the man broke an ankle in the fall and was captured moments after.  Sources also say the man was wearing a swastika ring and is thought to have connections to white supremacist organizations.

The FBI, Secret Service, ATF, and the joint terrorism task force are all investigating the plot, and a news conference will be held tomorrow in Denver.

The recent earthquake in the Sichuan Province caused a chain reaction of explosions in the Sichuan Mountains, according to a high-level Chinese military source.  Destroyed in these explosions were the Chinese army’s largest armory, new weapons testing bases, and parts of nuclear facilities including actual nuclear warheads.

Chinese authorities ignored the disaster victims’ initial calls for help for up to 72 hours after the earthquake.  The authorities then allowed international aid to be delivered to the region.  Military analysts attribute this delay to the importance of Chinese military nuclear industries and it’s largest armory being located in Mianyang City of Sichuan Province.  The Chinese did not want to risk having possible spies from the outside world snooping around a sensitive military area during a time when there may have been a nuclear accident.

Apparently a nuclear accident did happen.  On June 27th, the Chinese military disclosed that 2,700 chemical cleanup workers had been sent to earthquake disaster areas for nuclear chemical emergency rescue.  Military experts in southeast Asia have confirmed that a non-geological shock had occurred at the earthquake epicenter.  The energy released was equivalent to an underground nuclear explosion.  China News Service also reported that some Chinese experts had made a seismic analysis and suggested that a nuclear explosion might have occurred at the epicenter. 

Many villagers were working in their fields at the time of the earthquake on May 12th.  They reported a thunderous sound that came from the mountain, as well as a huge hole that emerged at the top.  The villagers said many things were pushed out of the mountain like toothpaste being squeezed out.  One witness thought maybe it was erupting magma, but another man said he could see concrete blocks exiting the mountaintop.  He said the eruption lasted for about three minutes.

An expert reported that earthquakes may sometimes result in a volcanic eruption, but that no eruption of concrete has ever been recorded.  Based on a China News Service report, several experts suggested that the eruption could have been caused by an explosion beneath the mountain, which shattered the concrete cover of the underground installations and pushed them to the surface.  The thickness of the concrete blocks seemed to match the cover layer of China’s underground military bases.