Drug Erases Fingerprints, Causing Immigration Drama

A drug that removes your fingerprints?

Capecitabine is not the work of a criminal mastermind with a PhD in chemistry. Rather, it is a common cancer drug, routinely given to patients with head, neck and kidney cancers.The drug’s fingerprint-obliterating side effects were discovered when a cancer patient, 62, from Singapore, travelled to the US last year. Immigration officials found he had no fingerprints because capecitabine had caused so much redness and peeling.

Some 2010 World Cup Games Already Sold

Hey, if you are planning to head down to South Africa to watch the opening match and haven’t brought a ticket yet, you are out of luck.

Football’s governing body FIFA says tickets are sold out for the opening and final matches of the 2010 World Cup, as well as for all games involving England, Brazil, Argentina, Australia, Ireland and the Netherlands. FIFA said in a statement on Thursday that, with just over a year before play begins, the semi-finals and all the matches in Cape Town, Nelspruit and Pretoria are also sold out. The first match is on June 11, 2010 in Johannesburg.

Source: www.fifa.com

Barbados Prime Minister David Thompson Second Budget Speech – More Questions Than Answers

Open letter to Prime Minister David Thompson 

Dear Sir,

Everyone who was remotely interested in what you had to say in your budget speech yesterday in Parliament was eagerly looking forward to you addressing the issue of the high cost of living affecting the working class, middle class and quite possible the upper middle class. Atlas that was not to be. Not only does the monopolistic, interlocking directorship distributive sector have this country in a stranglehold, the union also have this country in a somewhat lockdown. Whilst the man in the street is somewhat ‘bewildered’ as to why Government’s hand are tied in addressing the high food prices, a list of comparative prices at various supermarkets published in last Friday’s WEEKEND NATION did not have the full impact as it should simply because they was no previous prices to compare with. Yet again the consumer is shortchanged because of inefficiency on the Government’s part.

US Swine Flu Cases Rise

The US now has 2,532 confirmed cases of swine flu, after a jump in figures in recent days, officials say.

The cases – up around 600 since Friday – mean the US has now surpassed Mexico as the most affected nation.

But the total of three confirmed deaths is far lower than in Mexico where 48 people are known to have died.

In Mexico, people worked over the weekend to clean and disinfect primary schools which are due to resume classes after a two-week break.

Allen Stanford Was ‘US Government Informer’

   A (BBC) Panorama investigation has suggested that Sir Allen was shielded from an earlier inquiry into his activities because he co-operated with a US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) attempt to track money laundering by Latin American drug cartels.

US officials closed down his banking activities in February, alleging a vast fraud centred on his Antigua-based offshore bank. Sir Allen, 59, previously most famous as the sponsor of the Twenty20 cricket tournament, has vowed to clear his name.

No criminal charges have yet been filed but the US Securities and Exchange Commission described his activities as a “massive Ponzi scheme”.

A former law enforcement official said in February that the FBI and other agencies started looking into Sir Allen’s possible involvement in money-laundering in the 1990s but could not find sufficient evidence to charge him.

Opium Poppy Crop Set To Break Records This Year

   Iranian police officials say drug production in Afghanistan has had a 40-fold increase since the US led invasion of the country in 2001.

Afghanistan’s opium poppy crop is set to break all records this year, as grim reports by Iranian sources showed that drug production has reached a new height in the land-locked country.

Instability in the wake of the US invasion is widely believed to be the main reason behind Afghanistan’s booming market for drug production and opium trade.

UN’s Ban Ki Moon Comes To The Defence Of Israel

   A United Nations inquiry concluded that Israel’s military forces carried out direct and intentional strikes on its premises during the assault on Gaza earlier this year. Israel was therefore responsible for the deaths and injuries of UN personnel and civilians, as well as extensive damage to its property.

The inquiry, led by Ian Martin, a former secretary general of Amnesty International, found that the Israel Defence Force (IDF) was “involved in varying degrees of negligence or recklessness with regard to United Nations premises and to the safety of United Nations staff and other civilians within those premises, with consequent deaths, injuries, and extensive physical damage and loss of property.”

This included:

• The deaths of three young men killed by a single IDF missile strike at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Asma school in Gaza City.

Bilderberg Group Plans Economic Depression?

Depression 1929 soup kichen. Source:www.historytimes.com

On the eve of the 2009 Bilderberg Group conference, which is due to be held May 14-17 at the 5 star Nafsika Astir Palace Hotel in Vouliagmeni, Greece, investigative reporter Daniel Estulin has uncovered shocking details of what the elitists plan to do with the economy over the course of the next year.

The Bilderberg Group meeting is an annual confab of around 150 of the world’s most influential powerbrokers in government, industry, banking, media, academia and the military-industrial complex. The secretive group operates under “Chatham House rules,” meaning that no details of what is discussed can ever be leaked to the media, despite editors of the world’s biggest newspapers, the Washington Post, the New York Times and the Financial Times, being present at the meeting.

According to Estulin’s sources, which have been proven highly accurate in the past, Bilderberg is divided on whether to put into motion, “Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty … or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”

Only 7 Swine Flu Deaths Not 152 – WHO

A member of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has dismissed claims that more than 150 people have died from swine flu, saying it has officially recorded only seven deaths around the world.
Vivienne Allan, from WHO’s patient safety program, said the body had confirmed that worldwide there had been just seven deaths – all in Mexico – and 79 confirmed cases of the disease.

Unfortunately that [150-plus deaths] is incorrect information and it does happen, but that’s not information that’s come from the World Health Organisation,” Ms Allan told ABC Radio today.