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		<title>By: Chris Letizia</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris Letizia</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 17:21:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I just wonder if all this swine flu business is a big todo about nothing. Just like SARS (remember that one) that turned out to be nothing.  The hype in those days was just like now with this &quot;pandemic&quot;.
I wonder what they&#039;re cooking up for us while keeping the average persons mind on swine flu, which is just the latest diversion in my opinion. Boost your imune system? Absolutely. Not, however, just for swine flu.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just wonder if all this swine flu business is a big todo about nothing. Just like SARS (remember that one) that turned out to be nothing.  The hype in those days was just like now with this &#8220;pandemic&#8221;.<br />
I wonder what they&#8217;re cooking up for us while keeping the average persons mind on swine flu, which is just the latest diversion in my opinion. Boost your imune system? Absolutely. Not, however, just for swine flu.</p>
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		<title>By: GlennK</title>
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		<dc:creator>GlennK</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:57:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Those of you that are taking the Swine Flu alerts as a fraud should wake up and realize that the W.H.O and the CDC / Homeland Security don&#039;t issue these warnings lightly or without cause. They are well aware of the possible economic and social costs of these alerts and do not issue them for the sake of just covering their own asses.  Your cynicism is noted, but sooner or later it might just cost you your lives. Personally, I prefer to be a bit more prudent. Keeping a pantry with a few weeks of consumables available is just like savings account or having some gold coins &amp;  a few weapons around just in case. Our ancestors didn&#039;t live like most of us do today, because in their day it would have been foolish and maybe even fatal.  Also, just because, our host here Mr.  Rick, likes to use his over ample literary skills to highlight this rapidly evolving situation is no reason to discount his warnings.

&amp;&amp;&amp;&amp;

Time to bone up on your Camus (&lt;em&gt;The Plague&lt;/em&gt;), Glenn?  &lt;strong&gt;RA&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Those of you that are taking the Swine Flu alerts as a fraud should wake up and realize that the W.H.O and the CDC / Homeland Security don&#8217;t issue these warnings lightly or without cause. They are well aware of the possible economic and social costs of these alerts and do not issue them for the sake of just covering their own asses.  Your cynicism is noted, but sooner or later it might just cost you your lives. Personally, I prefer to be a bit more prudent. Keeping a pantry with a few weeks of consumables available is just like savings account or having some gold coins &amp;  a few weapons around just in case. Our ancestors didn&#8217;t live like most of us do today, because in their day it would have been foolish and maybe even fatal.  Also, just because, our host here Mr.  Rick, likes to use his over ample literary skills to highlight this rapidly evolving situation is no reason to discount his warnings.</p>
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<p>Time to bone up on your Camus (<em>The Plague</em>), Glenn?  <strong>RA</strong></p>
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		<title>By: Chris T.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris T.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:42:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mike, bravo!

I was about to point ot the Mercola article, and can encourage everyone here to read it.

Erich Simon writes that governments could (he implies a meaning of should though):
&quot;creat(e) physical-quarantine transitional spaces&quot;
and then he writes:
&quot;But the United States government has no vested interest in the preservation of its citizens. Quite the opposite. Our government exits onto its own.&quot;

And it is precisely BECAUSE the gov. cares only about itself, and not its ctiziens, that they WILL (and are) create these types of quarantine centers, rather than NOT doing so.

It is entirely irresponible to fall for the pandemic-du-jour fearmongering as citizens, and thereby give government the justification for creating even more civilian prisons.  Perhaps the only thing keeping an even bigger brother at bay, is our inate sense of freedom, which is most easily overcome by MSM and government spread fear (such as pandemics, terrorism, nuclear attacke, etc.).

The easy passage of PATRIOT proves this.  Therefore, I think Erich&#039;s comment entirely misguided for lending support to gov, and also illogical for arrivng at his conlcusion for the purported inaction.  
This is not to say, that there could not be a real pandemic, somthing like that is not impossible, but this flu is not it.
64-100 confirmed victims?  That is not even an epidemic, let alone pandemic, and is most likely due to the state of  the medical care system prevalent in Mexico.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mike, bravo!</p>
<p>I was about to point ot the Mercola article, and can encourage everyone here to read it.</p>
<p>Erich Simon writes that governments could (he implies a meaning of should though):<br />
&#8220;creat(e) physical-quarantine transitional spaces&#8221;<br />
and then he writes:<br />
&#8220;But the United States government has no vested interest in the preservation of its citizens. Quite the opposite. Our government exits onto its own.&#8221;</p>
<p>And it is precisely BECAUSE the gov. cares only about itself, and not its ctiziens, that they WILL (and are) create these types of quarantine centers, rather than NOT doing so.</p>
<p>It is entirely irresponible to fall for the pandemic-du-jour fearmongering as citizens, and thereby give government the justification for creating even more civilian prisons.  Perhaps the only thing keeping an even bigger brother at bay, is our inate sense of freedom, which is most easily overcome by MSM and government spread fear (such as pandemics, terrorism, nuclear attacke, etc.).</p>
<p>The easy passage of PATRIOT proves this.  Therefore, I think Erich&#8217;s comment entirely misguided for lending support to gov, and also illogical for arrivng at his conlcusion for the purported inaction.<br />
This is not to say, that there could not be a real pandemic, somthing like that is not impossible, but this flu is not it.<br />
64-100 confirmed victims?  That is not even an epidemic, let alone pandemic, and is most likely due to the state of  the medical care system prevalent in Mexico.</p>
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		<title>By: Rich</title>
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		<dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>LOL All:
Pandemic pundits puked headlines when AF1 flew over the cuckoo&#039;s nest, GDP dropped another 6+%, worst 3 back to back Qs since 1975 Vietnam and worst economy since 1957 when Ike ordered Marines into Lebanon. 
Most marketeers drive looking in rear view mirrors. Whoops.
Meanwhile AMAD, COMPQ and NYAD made four month highs, with other indices breaking out. Financials refuse to be buried. Does this market look ahead or what?
Flight to total return equities began March 6, leaving majority scratching empty sacks. Read my lips: Can we spell Buying Panic...?
Regards*Rich
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>LOL All:<br />
Pandemic pundits puked headlines when AF1 flew over the cuckoo&#8217;s nest, GDP dropped another 6+%, worst 3 back to back Qs since 1975 Vietnam and worst economy since 1957 when Ike ordered Marines into Lebanon.<br />
Most marketeers drive looking in rear view mirrors. Whoops.<br />
Meanwhile AMAD, COMPQ and NYAD made four month highs, with other indices breaking out. Financials refuse to be buried. Does this market look ahead or what?<br />
Flight to total return equities began March 6, leaving majority scratching empty sacks. Read my lips: Can we spell Buying Panic&#8230;?<br />
Regards*Rich<br />
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:22:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dr.  Mercola weights in on the hoax.  http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Critical-Alert-The-Swine-Flu-Pandemic-Fact-or-Fiction-899 

Mike</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dr.  Mercola weights in on the hoax.  <a href="http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Critical-Alert-The-Swine-Flu-Pandemic-Fact-or-Fiction-899" rel="nofollow">http://www.voteronpaul.com/newsDetail.php?Critical-Alert-The-Swine-Flu-Pandemic-Fact-or-Fiction-899</a> </p>
<p>Mike</p>
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		<title>By: kass</title>
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		<dc:creator>kass</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 13:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bravo, Rick. Keep the literate comments coming. 
It&#039;s people like Denis, wanting everything reduced to a common denominator mediated by the very narrow specs of spellcheck, that have helped the rise of mediocrity in this country, resulting in the great dumbing down that Hunter Thompson so lamented. It&#039;s as if he&#039;s afraid to learn something new, poor guy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bravo, Rick. Keep the literate comments coming.<br />
It&#8217;s people like Denis, wanting everything reduced to a common denominator mediated by the very narrow specs of spellcheck, that have helped the rise of mediocrity in this country, resulting in the great dumbing down that Hunter Thompson so lamented. It&#8217;s as if he&#8217;s afraid to learn something new, poor guy.</p>
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		<title>By: jp</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:46:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don&#039;t worry about Denis, Rick. He&#039;s probably cranky b/c he bought his gold at $970/oz and not $340... :)
BTW, thanks for driving me to the dictionary! Sopoforic dirge! I&#039;m gleaning much more than propitious financial acumen here!

Come on world!
Join hands!
Get on the Love Train... the Love Train!
(the O&#039;Jays)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t worry about Denis, Rick. He&#8217;s probably cranky b/c he bought his gold at $970/oz and not $340&#8230; <img src='http://www.rickackerman.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
BTW, thanks for driving me to the dictionary! Sopoforic dirge! I&#8217;m gleaning much more than propitious financial acumen here!</p>
<p>Come on world!<br />
Join hands!<br />
Get on the Love Train&#8230; the Love Train!<br />
(the O&#8217;Jays)</p>
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		<title>By: Mike</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mike</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:40:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think it is time for a bit of plain language balance on this swine flu hoax...below is a message I got yesterday that fits right in with my thinking:

--------------------------------------------

Swine Flu Hoax 2009 

For many years now the media has continually warned us about non-existent epidemics.

None of these have ever come true ever. Not once. Now we&#039;re being told the swine flu (H1N1) or SVI will not only be an epidemic but an outright pandemic, threatening the entire world. On April 26 a National Emergency was declared for no reason at all and zero fatalities. Saviour Obama has been &quot;fully briefed on the situation.&quot; What situation? This is a prelude to martial law folks. Bull crap. Years ago this newsletter told you bird flu was a total hoax. The media was telling you bird flu was going to decimate the world. Nothing happened of course. Swine flu is a hoax; there will be no epidemic.

Read all at: Swine Flu Hoax 2009   http://preview.tinyurl.com/df44wn 

My buddy Henry comments:  
From: Henry 
Swine flu hoax

Yep...... that&#039;s what I&#039;ve been thinking too........  just another in a long line.....  like the War on Poverty hoax, the War on Drugs hoax, the War on  Terrorism hoax, etc. etc. etc.      The movie &quot;Wag the Dog&quot; was both history and prophesy.   We&#039;ve been &quot;through the looking glass&quot; and into the &quot;Matrix&quot; of a &quot;PR engineered  &#039;reality&#039;&quot; for a long time now.   Wake up folks and smell the coffee.
 
It&#039;s about time we got up on our hind legs and stopped listening to the assholes in Washington.   Their only real power is the power YOU give &#039;em by BELIEVING that they are real ...... just like the  little asshole behind the curtain in Alice and Wonderland.    (I think he meant the wizard of Oz)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think it is time for a bit of plain language balance on this swine flu hoax&#8230;below is a message I got yesterday that fits right in with my thinking:</p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;</p>
<p>Swine Flu Hoax 2009 </p>
<p>For many years now the media has continually warned us about non-existent epidemics.</p>
<p>None of these have ever come true ever. Not once. Now we&#8217;re being told the swine flu (H1N1) or SVI will not only be an epidemic but an outright pandemic, threatening the entire world. On April 26 a National Emergency was declared for no reason at all and zero fatalities. Saviour Obama has been &#8220;fully briefed on the situation.&#8221; What situation? This is a prelude to martial law folks. Bull crap. Years ago this newsletter told you bird flu was a total hoax. The media was telling you bird flu was going to decimate the world. Nothing happened of course. Swine flu is a hoax; there will be no epidemic.</p>
<p>Read all at: Swine Flu Hoax 2009   <a href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/df44wn" rel="nofollow">http://preview.tinyurl.com/df44wn</a> </p>
<p>My buddy Henry comments:<br />
From: Henry<br />
Swine flu hoax</p>
<p>Yep&#8230;&#8230; that&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been thinking too&#8230;&#8230;..  just another in a long line&#8230;..  like the War on Poverty hoax, the War on Drugs hoax, the War on  Terrorism hoax, etc. etc. etc.      The movie &#8220;Wag the Dog&#8221; was both history and prophesy.   We&#8217;ve been &#8220;through the looking glass&#8221; and into the &#8220;Matrix&#8221; of a &#8220;PR engineered  &#8216;reality&#8217;&#8221; for a long time now.   Wake up folks and smell the coffee.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s about time we got up on our hind legs and stopped listening to the assholes in Washington.   Their only real power is the power YOU give &#8216;em by BELIEVING that they are real &#8230;&#8230; just like the  little asshole behind the curtain in Alice and Wonderland.    (I think he meant the wizard of Oz)</p>
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		<title>By: James</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rick,

Your buddy Erich sounds like half a nutcase.  This particular strain of influenza doesn&#039;t appear to be particularly virulent to begin with.  Also, there is a widespread misconception that airborne transmission is the primary and common route of exposure.  While flu can be transmitted by inhalation, that is not common, unless someone coughs in your face or you are performing a medical procedure likely to generate aerosols.  Frequent and thorough handwashing is the best protection against getting influenza.

Regarding grapfruit extract and other immune-system boosting elixers, the early evidence from Mejico suggests that it is the healthy who have suffered mortality, not the typical young and old.  Google &quot;cytokine storms.&quot;  Maybe the best precaution is to stay up late, eat poorly, and start smoking to weaken your immune system.

The reaction from the US and World Health authorities, imo, seems to be Pascal&#039;s Wager being played out.  It&#039;s a big over-reaction, but nobody wants to be accused of not being responsive, and it just might be a real threat.  Big downside if you don&#039;t take it seriously and it&#039;s real, and no real downside for over-reacting and it&#039;s not.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rick,</p>
<p>Your buddy Erich sounds like half a nutcase.  This particular strain of influenza doesn&#8217;t appear to be particularly virulent to begin with.  Also, there is a widespread misconception that airborne transmission is the primary and common route of exposure.  While flu can be transmitted by inhalation, that is not common, unless someone coughs in your face or you are performing a medical procedure likely to generate aerosols.  Frequent and thorough handwashing is the best protection against getting influenza.</p>
<p>Regarding grapfruit extract and other immune-system boosting elixers, the early evidence from Mejico suggests that it is the healthy who have suffered mortality, not the typical young and old.  Google &#8220;cytokine storms.&#8221;  Maybe the best precaution is to stay up late, eat poorly, and start smoking to weaken your immune system.</p>
<p>The reaction from the US and World Health authorities, imo, seems to be Pascal&#8217;s Wager being played out.  It&#8217;s a big over-reaction, but nobody wants to be accused of not being responsive, and it just might be a real threat.  Big downside if you don&#8217;t take it seriously and it&#8217;s real, and no real downside for over-reacting and it&#8217;s not.</p>
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		<title>By: Bill</title>
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		<dc:creator>Bill</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Rick-

Please ignore the dolt who is unhappy with your choice of words.  To me its very refreshing.  If a person has something worthwhile to say who cares how they say it?

You are the best on these little pivot points.  I use them on Scottrade Elite....are they comparable to what you do?   

Two comments.

1. Go and dig out the truth about GDP.  Most just accept the government generated number.  I say its highly inflated so that we can carry more debt!

2.  Go and dig out the truth about the FDIC guarantee....  I think what you will find is that they simply say:  They will pay the losses as soon as possible.  That could be more than an average lifetime.  It doesn&#039;t trouble me that much.  I don&#039;t trust the government or the banks/credit unions and certainly not safety deposit boxes.

My thinking is that all financial institutions may close without notice.  Then what brown cow?


w</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rick-</p>
<p>Please ignore the dolt who is unhappy with your choice of words.  To me its very refreshing.  If a person has something worthwhile to say who cares how they say it?</p>
<p>You are the best on these little pivot points.  I use them on Scottrade Elite&#8230;.are they comparable to what you do?   </p>
<p>Two comments.</p>
<p>1. Go and dig out the truth about GDP.  Most just accept the government generated number.  I say its highly inflated so that we can carry more debt!</p>
<p>2.  Go and dig out the truth about the FDIC guarantee&#8230;.  I think what you will find is that they simply say:  They will pay the losses as soon as possible.  That could be more than an average lifetime.  It doesn&#8217;t trouble me that much.  I don&#8217;t trust the government or the banks/credit unions and certainly not safety deposit boxes.</p>
<p>My thinking is that all financial institutions may close without notice.  Then what brown cow?</p>
<p>w</p>
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