Barbados Migrant Farm Workers Cheated Again

More than 130 migrant agriculture workers from Mexico and the Caribbean have gone home cheated of thousands of dollars after the Ontario farm operation they worked at filed an intention to obtain creditor protection.

Stranded Cruise Line Passengers Rescued With Spam And Pop-Tarts

The U.S. Navy thinks Pop-Tarts are “emergency food supplies.”

WHO: H1N1 Pandemic Is Over

The World Health Organisation has confirmed the H1N1 outbreak is now in the post-pandemic period, effectively declaring the alert over. 

Charges Files Against WHO & UN For Bioterrorism And Intent To Commit Mass Murder

 

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As the anticipated July release date for Baxter’s A/H1N1 flu pandemic vaccine approaches, an Austrian investigative journalist is warning the world that the greatest crime in the history of humanity is underway.

Jane Burgermeister has recently filed criminal charges with the FBI against the World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations (UN), and several of the highest ranking government and corporate officials concerning bioterrorism and attempts to commit mass murder. She has also prepared an injunction against forced vaccination which is being filed in America. These actions follow her charges filed in April against Baxter AG and Avir Green Hills Biotechnology of Austria for producing contaminated bird flu vaccine, alleging this was a deliberate act to cause and profit from a pandemic.

Summary of claims and allegations filed with FBI in Austria on June 10, 2009

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.

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.

Baxter Working On Swine Flu Vaccine

Deerfield-based medical product giant Baxter International Inc. is working with the World Health Organization on a potential vaccine to curb the spread of the swine flu outbreak in Mexico, the company confirmed today.

Baxter, which has a growing vaccine business, has worked with foreign countries in the past to develop vaccines for the H5N1 virus commonly known as bird flu. Baxter has a cell-based technology that allows the company to more rapidly produce vaccines in the event of a pandemic than a decades-old method that uses eggs to process vaccines and can take weeks or even months longer.

“Upon learning about the swine flu outbreak in Mexico yesterday, Baxter requested a virus sample from WHO to do laboratory testing for potentially developing an experimental vaccine,” company spokesman Christopher Bona told the Tribune this afternoon. “Baxter has research and development and manufacturing pandemic planning expertise to rapidly develop candidate vaccines against potentially emerging influenza viruses.”

Oink Oink Swine Flu Label Here To Stay – WHO

The influenza strain linked to 152 deaths in Mexico should be called “swine flu,” the World Health Organization said, rejecting calls from pork producers and an animal-health group to rename the virus.

The flu strain that has sickened people in Mexico, the U.S., Canada, Spain, New Zealand and Scotland hasn’t been observed in pigs and appears to advance through human-to-human transmission, Bernard Vallat, the head of the World Organization for Animal Health, said in an interview yesterday.

The nominal link to pigs has prompted Russia and China to ban pork imports from Mexico and parts of the U.S., while Indonesia plans to destroy imported pork and other swine products. Thailand has told officials to call the strain “Mexican flu.” At the World Health Organization, the malady is called “swine flu” because the virus is of the type that affects pigs, said Keiji Fukuda, the WHO’s assistant director general for health security and environment.

Barbados On Swine Flu Alert!

Health authorities announced the implementation of a national action plan to mitigate the deadly virus that has claimed several lives in Mexico and spread to other countries including two of Barbados’ key tourist markets – the United States and Canada.

Officials were also monitoring the situation with two local sports teams – football and polo – who are set to return from Mexico “in the near future”, indicating they would have to report to port health officials on their arrival back home.

The island’s heightened state of action was announced by Minister of Health, Donville Inniss, and Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr. Joy St. John, following an emergency meeting of all major public sector agencies and some private bodies at the Pan-American Health Organisation’s Dayrell’s Road, Christ Church headquarters.

Key provisions of the national plan, influenced by the World Health Organisation’s decision to deem the current swine flu outbreak “a public health emergency of international concern” included:

Rihanna Covers Mexican GQ

 

Rihanna graces the cover of the February issue of Mexican GQ. A monthly men’s magazine focusing on fashion, style and culture for men.

In the meanwhile

Two sources on the web reports that Rihanna is eyeing upscale properties in London. The  reason? The Barbadian singer is looking for a UK base close to her music label HQ.

Rihanna Eyes London Home

Rihanna is planning to buy a home in London. The Umbrella hitmaker – who is currently dating fellow singer Chris Brown – is said to be eying up properties in the UK capital’s ultra-expensive district Kensington and Chelsea.

A source says, “Rihanna’s looking for a UK base close to her record label HQ.”

Rihanna, 20, recently revealed she was keen to make the move into the movie industry – and start her own business.

She said, “I’d love to star in some movies, that’s my next goal. I love my music but I want to get into movies.”I want to start some businesses of my own. I like clothes, I love make-up, so maybe I could have a hand in some of those things.

Source: showbizspy.com

Rihanna Wants To Buy Home In Britain So She Can Use Her Umbrella

Rihanna is the latest American pop singer to buy property in the UK.

I can reveal the R&B star has already sent out underlings from her record company Sony to view pads in London’s most expensive district – Kensington and Chelsea.  My music industry mole told me: “Rihanna’s looking for a UK base close to her record label HQ.”

Source: gotaaccesssecrets.com

Activists: Homosexuality Must Be Legal To Beat Caribbean AIDS

Sex between men, which is prevalent in the Caribbean region, must be decriminalized or AIDS will never be beaten there, experts at an AIDS conference in Mexico City said Thursday.

 Participants at the six-day International AIDS Conference, gathering more than 22,000 people, said it was very complicated for men to access AIDS tests and potential treatment in the region with the second highest figure of HIV/AIDS cases worldwide at one percent of the population.The figure represents more than a quarter of a million people and is second only to Sub-saharan Africa. 

Half of Caribbean men have had multiple sexual contacts with a member of the same sex, and between 80 and 90 percent have had sexual relations with another man at least once, according to figures from psychologists in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.

“It will not be possible to have effective HIV/AIDS prevention in the Caribbean if we don’t decriminalize (sexual) relations between men,” said Michael Kleinmoedig, a West Indian journalist and social activist.

Stigma and discrimination, a problem worldwide for people with HIV/AIDS, were particularly bad in the region.”Human rights are limited for those who have (sexual) relations with men. They are not recognized as a valid group by law and many countries silence them and deny them their rights,” Kleinmoedig said.

Many of them are married and have children.

Moreover, some 20 percent of those with HIV in the region, mainly women, contracted the virus through their partner, said Peter Figueroa, director of epidemiology and AIDS for the Jamaican government.

On a rare positive note for the region, he highlighted universal access to AIDS treatment in Cuba.

 

Source – Carib Net News

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Mexico’s Coke Zero Drops Deadly Sweetner

CocaCola has reformulated the Mexico version of CocaCola Zero removing an artifical sweetner that is banned in the US and which caused an outcry from consumer advocates.

The sweetner – sodium cyclamate – banned in the States 39 years ago by the Food and Drug Administration, was found to be link to cancer based on lab findings.

Coco Cola made the change because of ”significant advances in food technology that we did not have when we launched the formula in Mexico” {February 2007}, the company spokeman Rafael Fernandez said.

Sodium Cyclamate - still legal in more than 50 countries - was replaced with a combination of two other artifical eweetners, aspartame and acesulfamek.

{Adapted from International Press Reports}