Monthly Archives: August 2007

U.K. Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease a Terror Attack?

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From Times Online:

The deliberate release of viral material, possibly in an act of sabotage, may have caused the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, officials said last night.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) said in a report ordered by the Prime Minister that “release by human movement [of the FMD virus] must be considered a real possibility”.

Inspectors all but discounted theories that the virus escaped by air or water from the laboratory complex close to where the outbreak started, although they are continuing to investigate the possibility of equipment failure or a security breach.

The HSE concluded in the report — which was sent to Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, last night — that there was “a strong probability” that the virus came from the research centre three miles from the first outbreak in a herd of cattle in Surrey.

Mr Benn said that sabotage could not be ruled out. “The truth is we do not know. That is why further investigations need to take place.”

The finding strengthens suspicions raised at the weekend when it was discovered that the strain of virus was one found only in laboratories. Investigators were unable, however, to decide whether the foot-and-mouth contamination escaped from the Institute of Animal Health, the government-funded body that first identified the virus, or Merial, a private company that shares the same site at Pirbright.

Further genetic analysis of the virus is being carried out to determine from which of the laboratory units the virus originated.

Any security breach could have been either deliberate or accidental and it was confirmed last night that government scientists have been inspecting allotments close to the first outbreak which are used by Pirbright workers to grow vegetables.

The report was released yesterday evening more than six hours after the 48-hour deadline requested by Mr Benn. The reasons for the delay were unclear, despite suggestions that “political and presentational” concerns were a factor.

There are reports of what The Telegraph describes as “shocking security lapses” which allowed the disease to spread. “Sabotage” not being ruled is code for the British government being unable to explain away this outbreak as an accident, but clearly unwilling to go so far as to describe it as terrorism.

18 Doughty Street has some thoughts on how this latest disaster will effect the Brown administration.

China Threatens to Crash U.S. Dollar!

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Angry at the temerity of the U.S. demanding China stop artificially rigging the value of the Yuan to give themselves an advantage in trade, China’s Communist party is threatening to use it’s vast holdings of U.S. treasury notes to collapse the dollar’s value and destroy our economy. From the Telegraph:

Two officials at leading Communist Party bodies have given interviews in recent days warning – for the first time – that Beijing may use its $1.33 trillion (£658bn) of foreign reserves as a political weapon to counter pressure from the US Congress.

Shifts in Chinese policy are often announced through key think tanks and academies.

Described as China’s “nuclear option” in the state media, such action could trigger a dollar crash at a time when the US currency is already breaking down through historic support levels.

It would also cause a spike in US bond yields, hammering the US housing market and perhaps tipping the economy into recession. It is estimated that China holds over $900bn in a mix of US bonds.

Xia Bin, finance chief at the Development Research Centre (which has cabinet rank), kicked off what now appears to be government policy with a comment last week that Beijing’s foreign reserves should be used as a “bargaining chip” in talks with the US.

“Of course, China doesn’t want any undesirable phenomenon in the global financial order,” he added.

He Fan, an official at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, went even further today, letting it be known that Beijing had the power to set off a dollar collapse if it choose to do so.

“China has accumulated a large sum of US dollars. Such a big sum, of which a considerable portion is in US treasury bonds, contributes a great deal to maintaining the position of the dollar as a reserve currency. Russia, Switzerland, and several other countries have reduced the their dollar holdings.

“China is unlikely to follow suit as long as the yuan’s exchange rate is stable against the dollar. The Chinese central bank will be forced to sell dollars once the yuan appreciated dramatically, which might lead to a mass depreciation of the dollar,” he told China Daily.

The threats play into the presidential electoral campaign of Hillary Clinton, who has called for restrictive legislation to prevent America being “held hostage to economic decicions being made in Beijing, Shanghai, or Tokyo”.

An odd statement from Hillary, whose husband has his own debt to pay to the Chinese. But she is right in theory, though Japan as a strong ally should be allowed to invest in our booming economy, allowing China to buy dollars was never a good idea.

The Telegraph blog has more on this, including an excellent comments section. Synopsis: The dollar won’t collapse but we’re in for a bumpy ride.

More Forced Conversions in Gaza

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The savages in Hamas are continuing their pogrom against the minority Christians of the Gaza strip. From Free Copts:

Hamas-linked militants kidnapped and forcibly converted to Islam a female Christian professor in the Gaza Strip, according to the professor’s family and officials from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah organization.

Hamas members denied the accusations, accusing rival Fatah of spreading lies even though the professor, Sana al-Sayegh of Gaza City’s Palestine International University, has indicated she was converted against her will.

Sayegh, head of the university’s Science and Technology Department, disappeared June 24, failing to show up at work where she serves as the Gaza Strip’s only female doctorate in her field.

After several days, co-workers and Sayegh’s parents informed Gaza security officials of the professor’s disappearance.

According to sources close to her family, about five days after she disappeared Sayegh caller her parents to say she was being held against her will in order to marry a Muslim man, who was also a professor at the university.

Sayegh’s family declined to speak to WND directly, explaining interviews about the matter could endanger the professor.

“Sayegh said she couldn’t talk,” said a source. “It was very clear she had been abducted and was made to do things she didn’t want to do.”

A few days later, the family said it received a copy of a conversion document certifying Sayegh had become a Muslim. The document was signed by two witnesses, as required. One witness was Zaher Khail, president of the Palestine International University, who, according to Palestinian security officials is an Islamist close with Gaza-based terror groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

Fatah officials say Khail assisted in kidnapping Sayegh, whose family stated she would “never” convert willingly to Islam. Fatah officials also accused Hamas leaders directly of overseeing Sayegh’s “forced” conversion.

Sayegh’s family and Gaza-based Christian leaders attempted to meet with former Hamas-led PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, but the Hamas leader declined a personal meeting. Instead, according to sources close to Sayegh’s family, a delegation of Hamas militants was sent to the Sayegh household to inform them the professor had converted “willingly” and that Sayegh no longer wanted to associate with her family unless they all converted to Islam.

Sayegh yesterday showed up to work at the university but has not been in touch with her parents. Sources close to her family and Fatah officials speculate she was threatened against contacting her family again. Calls by her family to Sayegh’s new husband and his family were not returned.

The filth that engages in such atrocities don’t understand why people who believe in freedom of religion as a fundamental human right would be offended:

In response to the accusations Hamas may impose hard-line Islamic rules, Hamas chief in Gaza and former foreign minister Mahmoud al-Zahar told WND in a recent interview: “I hardly understand the point of view of the West concerning these issues. The West brought all this freedom to its people but it is that freedom that has brought about the death of morality in the West. It’s what led to phenomena like homosexuality, homelessness and AIDS.”

Asked if Hamas is seeking to impose Islamic law on the Palestinians, al-Zahar responded, “The Palestinian people are Muslim people, and we do not need to impose anything on our people because they are already committed to their faith and religion. People are free to choose their way of life, their way of dress and behavior.”

Al-Zahar said his terror group, which demands strict dress codes for females, respects women’s rights.

“It is wrong to think that in our Islamic society there is a lack of rights for women. Women enjoy their rights. What we have, unlike the West, is that young women cannot be with men and have relations outside marriage. Sometimes with tens of men. This causes the destruction of the family institution and the fact that many kids come to the world without knowing who are their fathers or who are their mothers. This is not a modern and progressed society,” al-Zahar explained.

The terror chieftain told WND the West can learn from his group’s Islamic values.

The lesson here is on fascism and barbarity, and people like al-Zahar wants to spread this evil around the world. What have the leftist apologists for Hamas said about this brutal regimes trampling on the rights of minorities?

They’re far too busy demonizing Jews to care about a little thing like forced conversions. It’s almost as if Hamas supporters do so out of a shared trait…

Surprise! DailyKos is All White (and Full of Racists)

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Not a shock for anyone who has had to wade through the saltine flavored angst of a Kos diarist. I’ve posted a few times before about the racism, anti-semitism and cheering on of Arab Imperialism (especially when directed at Africans) that is the meat of DailyKos’ netroot sandwich.

In other words, the only people who couldn’t figure out DailyKos was an Internet Klan rally held by “liberal” White guys who hate Jews, Republicans and Blacks (just like the real Klan) were other “liberal’ White guys who didn’t know what “uncle Tom” or “New York money men” meant when coming out of the craw of some White guy.

WaPo has finally pulled the Kos race card. Go figure, it has a White Pride logo on it. Hot Air and Ace of Spades are all over this and Pandagon to their credit does mention the Wapo article, though Marcotte whitewashes it later (pun intended).

Let’s not forget that Kos once banned a Black man after he was called a monkey by some of the “liberal” diarists there. If that incident, months old at this point, didn’t prove conclusively to everyone what kind of hate site DailyKos is, then Wapo’s sniping is to no avail.

All White “liberals” are racists. The new liberalism, based on Marxism and identity politics, creates a political environment where Whites can maintain their base racist assumptions of the inferiority of others and the need for a superior class (themselves) to lead the benighted brown peoples to a “common good.” Unlike the classical liberal who valued individuality the new “liberal” sees different groups of people as part of a class to either be protected, subjugated or eliminated.

The new left is the home of the new klan, which is why as a man of African descent I vote Republican. After all, there are two parties in this country run by rich White men, and one keeps my taxes low and will allow me to shoot the mob who comes on my lawn to burn a cross.

I.E.D.’s Found in Canada?

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Terror attack?

The big question about two live landmines found in a countryside culvert running under Inadale Drive between Strathroy and Mt. Brydges, Ontario yesterday is who put them there?

Appearing to be attached to timers, the landmines were likely of the type used to blow up tanks, according to Strathroy-Caradoc police.

Police yesterday swarmed a country creek where children cool off in heat waves like the one this week as Canadian Forces explosives experts detonated the landmines.

The creek would be a huge draw for children in the weatherman’s extreme heat alert on Ontario’s Simcoe Day long weekend.

“One mine was discovered by two teenaged girls Friday. They called police, and a second mine was found yesterday morning, only one metre away from the first.” (London Free Press, (London, Ontario) and Sun Media, August 5, 2007).

The Strathroy and Mt. Bridges communities are 20 kilometres west of London, Ont. and 30 kilometres from the former Military Camp Ipperwash (also Camp Ipperwash, a former Canadian Armed Forces training facility, now held by Stoney Point First Nation natives.

The only other military base in the area was CFB Clinton, about 40 kilometres away, shut down some 36 years ago, and CFB London, about 20 kilometres away and downsized some 15 years ago

Worried about the possibility of more mines hidden nearby, Strathroy police asked the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) to conduct a sweep, which was completed by dusk yesterday.

Since the creek is a popular family gathering place, police suspect the mines were put there to deliberately maim and kill.

Plenty of suspects I suppose, from the “First Nations” radicals to jihadists some of whom are members in good standing of the Canadian armed forces and of the mind that killing Black women by running them over with a car is “self defense.” But it’s a story that should give us all pause, especially with the news from South Carolina (where Mrs. Red-Alerts and I just bid on a house. Talk about bad timing!) of Egyptians nationals arrested for carrying pipe bombs and maybe homemade rockets around in a car heading toward a military base.

The question is: With America’s left pulling hard for a withdrawal from Iraq, are the Jihadists preparing to follow up their victory there with attacks in the Americas?

h/t The Saloon