Today the World Health Organization announced that the Swine Flu Pandemic that was going to kill zillions of unsuspecting, non- vaccinated people around the world – had fizzled out! But don’t be too complacent they are still going to vaccinate you against it! Like it or not!

http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/08/seasonal-oink-flu-pandemic-is-over.html

This woman is a real looney! Obviously she has a secret money printing organsaition, hidden from public view. Whatever happened to her party line about getting us out of debt ASAP? while all she is doing is proposing to spend spend spend!!!! She is offering all kinds of incentives to get the vote!

Whatever happened to her parties clear the debt ASAP…. all she is proposing to do is spend spend spend……. Aussies don’t want to or need to go down the same political nightmare path that the USA is traversing, so why try and imitate Obamma Mamma Julia?

Arghhhh she of all people should know – after all she advertises her hard working family background, that there are people in Australia who just cannot afford new cars, and struggle to keep what they have roadworthy and registered.

We are pensioners, we are single parents, we are family people just making ends meet from pay to pay…. her ‘bright’ (NOT) scheme is out of the reach of ordinary people. Politicians on the other hand can afford it!!!!

Get real Julia…. there is a Santa Claus, but it ain’t YOU! and there is no AGW !

The movies can be watched online, for free.

When a Warrior Dies – a documentary on the aftermath of the bombing and the efforts by Greenpeace and sculptor Chris Booth to create a remembrance monument.

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/when-a-warrior-dies-1991

Fallout – excerpts from award-winning Tom Scott and Greg McGee-scripted mini series dramatising events leading to NZ’s 80s ‘No Nukes’ stand

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/fallout-1994/series

Mururoa 1973 – a landmark Alister Barry doco about protest flotilla who risked their lives travelling to French nuclear testing zone at Mururoa.

http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/mururoa-1973

A Nuclear Free Pasific – documentary on the long struggle for a treaty to declare the South Pacific free of nuclear arms.
http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/a-nuclear-free-pacific–niuklia-fri-pasifik-1988

So will the President Kick Ass and get the permissions needed expediated?

http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/07/just-who-makes-decisions.html

It’s the FIRST well of a multi well campaign drilling for three companies in several areas.

We don’t even have all the results in.
It was press speculation by the Sunday Times that forced a hurried and incomplete RNS out of the company yesterday.

There will be another – completed one – very shortly.
Probably this week.

I think we need to wait for much more information before announcing a failed campaign -
or even a failed well.

We will change the title to reflect that it is a complaint, thanks for pointing that out.

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In a radio interview, Bachelet said she resented the allegations against the government, The New York Times reported Wednesday.

“Everyone claims to be a general after the war,” she said.

The military’s emergency response system failed to give timely warning a tsunami might strike, critics say, and they charge the government with being slow to utilize its relief resources, the Times reported.

Such accusations, Bachelet said, were inflaming public anxiety — which she called “collective psychosis” — threatening to create countrywide instability.

“I understand people’s pain and fear,” she said, “but in this period of emergency, unfounded rumors only add to the unease and fear.”

The death toll had exceeded 800 by Wednesday, and overall damage estimates have been as high as $30 billion, the Times reported.

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The first bones of the new species — part of a newly recognized group known as silesaurs — came from the Triassic Period in Africa and were found in 2007, scientists said.

The team — including included Randall Irmis, curator of paleontology at the Utah Museum of Nature History — said Asilisaurus falls just outside of the dinosaur family tree. The species lived approximately 10 million years earlier than the oldest known dinosaurs.

Fossil bones of at least 14 individuals were recovered from a single bone bed in southern Tanzania. The researchers said the species stood about 1.5 to 3 feet tall at the hips, were 3 to 10 feet long and weighed about 22 to 66 pounds. They walked on four legs and most likely ate plants or a combination of plants and meat.

“The crazy thing about this new dinosaur discovery is that it is so very different from what we all were expecting, especially the fact that it is herbivorous and walked on four legs, Irmis said.

The discovery that involved scientists from the University of Texas at Austin, the Burke Museum and the University of Washington in Seattle, the Field Museum in Chicago, the Iziko South African Museum and Germany’s Humboldt University appears in the journal Nature.

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Stonington police Capt. Jerry Desmond said the attacks date back to the summer and the latest incident involved the bird of prey cutting the side of a woman’s head with its talons, The Day, New London, Conn., reported Thursday.

“We’re concerned because the bird seems to be becoming more and more territorial,” Desmond said.

Kathy Baker, the woman attacked by the hawk Tuesday, said she was released from the hospital after the cut to the left side of her head was cleaned and she was given a tetanus shot.

“I know the people it’s happened to so I thought it might happen to me sooner or later,” Baker said. “I just hope they can do something to get rid of it.”

Superintendent of Schools Leanne Masterjoseph said children will be kept inside during recess until the situation is resolved.

Animal Control Officer Rae-Jean Davis said officials have no plans to kill the bird, but they may move its nest to an area further away from humans.

“It’s in a bad area,” she said.

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