Chinese And German Researchers Identify Sequence Of Deadly E. Coli

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First Act Of Bioterrorism In Germany: Ehec Identified As Biological Terrorist Attack, HUSEC 41 Confirms Bioterrorism-Thesis


Chinese, German researchers identify sequence of deadly E. coli (Xinhua, June 3, 2011):

BERLIN, June 2 (Xinhua) — The recent outbreak of deadly E. coli in Europe was caused by an entirely new super-toxic strain, Chinese and German researchers said Thursday, after finishing sequencing its genome.

By now, 17 Germans and one Swede have been killed after the outbreak, while more than 2,000 people across Europe were sickened. The number of people suffering from serious hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) due to the infection has reached 470 in Germany.

In its latest report, the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen (BGI-Shenzhen), China’s flagship genome center, said it “has just completed the sequence and carried out a preliminary analysis that shows the current infection is caused by an entirely new super-toxic E. coli strain.”

BGI-Shenzhen was collaborating closely with the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany by using their genomic technology.

The Chinese laboratory said it had finished sequencing the genome of the bacterium upon receiving the bacterial DNA samples, with the help of the third-generation sequencing platform — Ion Torrent.

“Bioinformatics analysis revealed that this E. coli is a new strain of bacteria that is highly infectious and toxic,” BGI-Shenzhen said in the report, adding that the bacterium is an EHEC serotype O104 E. coli strain, which has never been involved in any E. coli outbreaks before.

Read moreChinese And German Researchers Identify Sequence Of Deadly E. Coli

Adolf Hitler ‘Gave Go-Ahead To Rudolf Hess Mission To Secure Peace With Winston Churchill’ (Daily Mail)

For your information…



Adolf Hitler gives a Nazi salute with his deputy Rudolf Hess by his side

Hitler ‘gave go-ahead to Rudolf Hess mission to secure peace with Winston Churchill’ (Daily Mail, 29th May, 2011):

Rudolf Hess’s flight to Britain during World War Two in a bizarre attempt to secure peace was backed by Adolf Hitler, fresh documents claim.

History has long recorded that the Nazi number three was acting alone when he piloted a Messerschmitt to Scotland in May 1941.

Read moreAdolf Hitler ‘Gave Go-Ahead To Rudolf Hess Mission To Secure Peace With Winston Churchill’ (Daily Mail)

First Act Of Bioterrorism In Germany: Ehec Identified As Biological Terrorist Attack, HUSEC 41 Confirms Bioterrorism-Thesis

Google translation of all articles from LifeGen.de below:

1. Ehec-Anschläge bedrohen die EU
1.Ehec attacks threaten the EU

2. (2011-05-27) Ehec: HUSEC 41 bestätigt Bioterror-These
2. Ehec: HUSEC 41 confirmed bioterrorism-thesis

3. (2011-05-26) Ehec als biologischer Terroranschlag ausgemacht
3. Ehec identified as a biological terrorist attack

4. (2011-05-25) Ehec-Infektion kann Bioterror-Anschlag sein
4. Ehec: wave of infections can be bioterrorism attack

5. (2011-05-25) Ehec: Drohender Versorgungskollaps alarmiert Nierenfachärzte
5. Ehec: Threatened supply collapse alarmed nephrologists

1.Ehec attacks threaten the EU:

Still, it speaks no one officially, you can read it for us set after an analysis of recent facts: The contamination with EHEC pathogens in Germany, UK, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands may be no accident – but the well-designed shape of the first bioterrorist attack on the EU. A look at the epidemiological evidence Statsitiken since 2000: although EHEC Erkrankunegn 1,200 per year are normal, die in Germany, only between zero and three people from the consequences of the infection. Now that within a week, six people lost their lives, these sources lack of hygienic conditions in the factories explain. Spain would be stamped as the cause distraction from the real dangers.

Read moreFirst Act Of Bioterrorism In Germany: Ehec Identified As Biological Terrorist Attack, HUSEC 41 Confirms Bioterrorism-Thesis

FKN NEWZ: War is Peace – Freedom is Slavery – Ignorance is strength


Added: 13.05.2011

More FKN Newz:

FKN NEWZ: Osama Is Dead – Long Live Obama (05/06/2011)

FKN NEWZ: Royal Wedding Pre Crime Special – UK Fascism (04/30/2011)

FKN NEWZ: No End In Libyan, Iraq, Afghanistan etc.

FKN Newz: Party on Dude

FKN Newz: Fascists Love Ineffective Protest (01/04/2011)

FKN Newz: Earth Hour – The Least We Can Do (03/25/2011)

FKN Newz: Radioactive Bullshit Fallout – 03/19/2011

FKN Newz: NO LIE ZONE OVER LIBYA – 03/04/2011

FKN Newz: Hypocrisy Sweeps Middle East – 02/26/2011

FKN Newz: Happy Revolution Baby! – 02/18/2011

Greece Considers Exit from Euro Zone: Athens Mulls Plans for New Currency

To the people of Greece:

If I were you I would buy physical gold and silver NOW to protect my assets.

This is a great investment opportunity:

Mike Krieger of KAM LP on Gold And Silver, Exposes ‘The Big Lie’

Here are the ‘dire’ consequences of leaving the euro and the EU:

Why is Greenland so rich these days? It said goodbye to the EU!

Here are the ‘dire’ consequences of refusing to bail out the banksters:

Iceland: Economy Exits Recession

Whereas Greece and Ireland have been totally bankrupted by the elitists, who control the governments, the banksters and the central banks.



A protest against austerity measures in Athens. Greece is considering leaving the euro zone, according to sources in the German government.

The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government’s actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering withdrawing from the euro zone. The common currency area’s finance ministers and representatives of the European Commission are holding a secret crisis meeting in Luxembourg on Friday night.

Greece’s economic problems are massive, with protests against the government being held almost daily. Now Prime Minister George Papandreou apparently feels he has no other option: SPIEGEL ONLINE has obtained information from German government sources knowledgeable of the situation in Athens indicating that Papandreou’s government is considering abandoning the euro and reintroducing its own currency.

Read moreGreece Considers Exit from Euro Zone: Athens Mulls Plans for New Currency

Germany Keeps Radiation Measurements Secret Since Japan Nuclear Disaster

I’ve been informed by two credible sources that this has also been reported on TV (N24 News Channel) in Germany and in another local newspaper.

Messwerte sind jetzt Geheimsache

Strahlenmesswerte in Deutschland dürfen nicht mehr bekannt gemacht werden!

Deutsche Wetterstationen dürfen Strahlendaten nicht mehr veröffentlichen

German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich Insists Islam ‘Does Not Belong In Germany’

“To say that Islam belongs in Germany is not a fact supported by history”, Mr Friedrich said.

Let’s make up some other dumb statements:

That women should have equal rights is not supported by history and religion either!

That Christianity belongs in Europe has been certainly not a fact supported by history in 33 A.D.!



Hans-Peter Friedrich: insisted that immigrants ought to be aware of their host country’s “Western Christian origins” and learn German “first and foremost”.

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s newly appointed Interior Minister has reignited an already-heated immigration debate by insisting that Islam “does not belong” in Germany – a country with a resident population of four million Muslims.

Hans-Peter Friedrich took office only last week in a cabinet reshuffle, but his outspoken views have provoked instant condemnation from opposition MPs and a vitriolic response from Islamic groups which have branded them a “slap in the face for all Muslims”.

“To say that Islam belongs in Germany is not a fact supported by history”, Mr Friedrich said. At the weekend, he underlined his position, insisting that immigrants ought to be aware of their host country’s “Western Christian origins” and learn German “first and foremost”.

Read moreGerman Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich Insists Islam ‘Does Not Belong In Germany’

Marc Faber: ‘I Think We Are All Doomed’


Added: 24.02.2011

(Complete PDF transcript)

All who enjoy hearing a meaty Marc Faber fire and brimstone sermon, that cuts through the bullshit, will be happy to know that the Gloom, Boom and Doom author conducted a 40 minute interview with the McAlvany Financial Group, which covers all the usual suspects: gold, silver, precious and industrial metals, the “crack up boom”, the future of the Ponzi and capital markets in general and much more. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Faber interview without the requisite soundbite: “I think we are all doomed. I think what will happen is that we are in the midst of a kind of a crack-up boom that is not sustainable, that eventually the economy will deteriorate, that there will be more money-printing, and then you have inflation, and a poor economy, an extreme form of stagflation, and, eventually, in that situation, countries go to war, and, as a whole, derivatives, the market, and everything will collapse, and like a computer when it crashes, you will have to reboot it.” Of course, on a long enough timeline…

Key extract from the Faber speech:

Read moreMarc Faber: ‘I Think We Are All Doomed’

Germany Sends Three Warships To Libya

As we pointed out yesterday, while the US navy is seriously starting to amass in the Persian Gulf region, it has left the Mediterranean and more importantly, the Libyan coastline unguarded.

With concerns that Gaddafi will follow through with what we speculated on Monday was a Saddam-like “after me the flood” act and burn his oil facilities, this may not be the most prudent thing.

Luckily, here comes Germany. According to Spiegel, Germany has sent three warships to Libya which may possibly get involved in a “military engagement.”

From MSN.de:

The German Navy has sent three ships of the operations and training association in 2011 in the maritime area between Malta and the Libyan coast.

This reports Spiegel Online aktuell. The three ships are the supplier “Berlin” and the frigate ‘Brandenburg and Rheinland-Pfalz. “Overall, the ships will have about 600 soldiers on board.

As Spiegel Online report on the EU takes in an emergency, a military engagement in Libya considered. The news magazine refers back to an unnamed diplomats.

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 02/24/2011 09:09 -0500

Source: ZeroHedge

ECB’s Axel Weber: Bailouts Have Damaged Basis Of Euro Zone

The bailouts have damaged the basis of Europe’s currency union?

Yes, but look who’s talking:

Bundesbank President Axel Weber has dished out €338 billion!!!

Bankrupting Germany: German Bundesbank Financed ECB and National Central Banks With €338 Billion, ifo-Institute President Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn Stunned

The bankster bailouts bankrupted several countries, that already needed bailouts themselves to survive, other countries will need them later on.

Spain is already too big to bail out. Then the next stage is a currency crisis and a currency reform.

You have just witnessed the biggest bank robbery and the biggest looting of entire nations (incl. the US) in history, perfectly planned by the elitists.


DUESSELDORF, Germany (Dow Jones)–The financial rescues of Greece and Ireland have damaged the foundations of Europe’s currency union, Deutsche Bundesbank President Axel Weber said Monday.

In a speech to an audience of academics and business representatives, Weber said it was essential not to let the deals that have been made to keep financial stability in the euro zone become the norm.

“We have to strengthen the foundations again,” he said. He highlighted the risk that highly indebted countries in the euro zone might try to put pressure on the European Central Bank not to raise interest rates, as this would raise the cost of their debt servicing to unsustainable levels. Weber has indicated he has no desire to be subjected to that kind of pressure and has said he will step down from the Bundesbank at the end of April, instead of allowing himself to be put forward as successor to Jean-Claude Trichet, whose term at the head of the ECB ends in October.

Read moreECB’s Axel Weber: Bailouts Have Damaged Basis Of Euro Zone

Bankrupting Germany: German Bundesbank Financed ECB and National Central Banks With €338 Billion, ifo-Institute President Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn Stunned

If those countries, whose national banks got €326 billion from the German Bundesbank, default on their debt, then the German taxpayer has to pay for it all.

We know it is difficult to bankrupt Germany, but the elitists get there, sooner rather than later.



Axel Weber

Original article (Terrible Google translation below):

Ifo-Chef Sinn: Kritik an Krisenhilfe der Deutschen Bundesbank (Wirtschaftswoche):

Die Bundesbank finanziert den Rest der Euro-Zone stillschweigend mit einer dreistelligen Milliardensumme – und täglich wird es mehr Geld.

Maximal 250 Milliarden Euro kann der Euro-Rettungsfonds an Staaten in der Euro-Zone verteilen, um ihnen bei ausufernden Staatsschulden zu helfen. So schrieben es die EU-Mitglieder am 9. Mai 2010 fest. Bewilligt wurden davon bisher nur 17,5 Milliarden Euro für Irland. Doch wie sich jetzt herausstellt, hat die Deutsche Bundesbank zuletzt stillschweigend in einem Volumen Finanzhilfen gewährt, die alle europäischen Rettungsmaßnahmen in den Schatten stellen.

Die brisante Zahl versteckt sich unter dem Posten „Forderungen innerhalb des Euro-Systems (netto)“ in den Monatsberichten der Bundesbank. Danach sind die Schulden, welche die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB) und nationale Notenbanken im Euro-Raum gegenüber der Bundesbank angehäuft haben, bis Ende 2010 auf 338 Milliarden Euro gestiegen. Allein die Forderungen an nationale Notenbanken in Euro-Ländern belaufen sich auf 326 Milliarden Euro. 2006, also vor Ausbruch der Finanz- und folgender Euro-Schuldenkrise, lagen die Forderungen insgesamt bei nur 18 Milliarden Euro.

Dieser ungebremste Anstieg der Schulden des Euro-Raums gegenüber der Bundesbank „macht Fachleute fassungslos“, sagt ifo-Präsident Hans-Werner Sinn. „Wenn Länder, deren Banken die Kredite gegeben wurden, zahlungsunfähig werden, haftet Deutschland.“ Diese Haftung wurde aber weder demokratisch legitimiert – etwa durch den Bundestag – noch von der Bundesregierung beschlossen.

Read moreBankrupting Germany: German Bundesbank Financed ECB and National Central Banks With €338 Billion, ifo-Institute President Prof. Hans-Werner Sinn Stunned

Moody’s Downgrades German Bank Subordinated Debt


Josef Ackermann Bilderberg 2010 in Sitges (Click on image to enlarge.)

18 Feb. (Bloomberg) — German banks’ subordinated debt securities valued at 24 billion euros ($33 billion) were downgraded by Moody’s Investors Service on the prospect that new legislation will increase the risk of losses among debt holders.

Moody’s cut the ratings of lower Tier 2 notes, a layer of debt that’s subordinated by coming behind senior bonds in the queue for repayment after a bank collapses. Like other governments seeking to ensure creditors pay up before taxpayers have to contribute, German law now removes the protection Tier 2 bonds enjoyed from the authorities’ preference for saving lenders before they fail.

“The new legislation materially reduces the likelihood of government support for LT2 securities and therefore took out the state support uplift,” BNP Paribas SA analysts Olivia Frieser and Ivan Zubo wrote in a note to clients today. “The downgrades are as harsh as we had expected, which may weigh on sentiment.”

The cost of insuring German bank debt rose, according to CMA prices for credit-default swaps. Contracts on the subordinated debt of Deutsche Bank AG jumped 12 basis points to 160, the highest in five weeks. Swaps linked to Commerzbank AG’s junior debt climbed 25 basis points to 450 and senior contracts rose 10 to 190.
Toughening Rules

Read moreMoody’s Downgrades German Bank Subordinated Debt

Long Before German Deal, NYSE Was Mostly Symbolic

The Germans will regret this deal very soon.

German Börse In Talks To Buy The New York Stock Exchange


German company will acquire Big Board, but exchange is already mostly symbolic

NEW YORK (AP) — Why would anyone want to sell a centerpiece of capitalism like the New York Stock Exchange? Because despite its fame and its fabled floor, it’s a lousy way to make money.

A German company will acquire the Big Board in a deal that creates the world’s largest exchange operator but does not stop the decades-long evolution of stock trading from shouting floor brokers to the cold, quiet hum of computers.

The deal announced Tuesday values the New York exchange’s old parent company, NYSE Euronext, at $10 billion. The NYSE and Euronext, which owns exchanges in several European capitals, merged in 2007.

Read moreLong Before German Deal, NYSE Was Mostly Symbolic

German Börse In Talks To Buy The New York Stock Exchange

See also:

Global Stock Exchanges Are Headed for Major Consolidation (CNBC)



Traders at the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in Germany, whose owner is negotiating to purchase the New York Stock Exchange.Marius Becker/DPA, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

The New York Stock Exchange, a symbol of American capitalism for more than two centuries, may soon have new owners — in Europe.

The exchange, facing pressure from electronic upstarts that have taken business away from it, said on Wednesday that it was in advanced talks on a merger with the operator of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange. A deal would create the world’s largest financial market, with a presence in 14 European countries as well as the United States.

A merger would potentially let customers trade stocks in New York, options tied to those shares in Paris and derivatives linked to them in Frankfurt.

A combination, after the mergers of other exchanges, would be another illustration of how globalization and technology have changed marketplaces. The New York Stock Exchange is a giant among exchanges, yet in a world of around-the-clock trading and rapid-fire algorithmic programs, its significance to investors has diminished. Once known for chief executives who were prominent cheerleaders for the stock market, the exchange now has a more muted public presence.

Read moreGerman Börse In Talks To Buy The New York Stock Exchange

The German State of Hesse Bans The Burka, Risks Muslim Anger

A German state yesterday became the first region in the country to ban Muslim women from wearing burkas.

The country has been gripped for several months by an angry debate on multiculturalism with many Germans voicing their concerns over immigration.

Hesse, a state run by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats, has now became the first German region to ban Muslim face veils for public sector workers.

Hesse Interior Minister Boris Rheinsaid it was ‘not acceptable’ for a teacher in Frankfurt to wear a face veil because ‘public sector workers are obligated to have neutral religious and political views’.

The decision was prompted by a local teacher who had told her school she wanted to wear a burka in the classroom after returning from maternity leave. She had not previously worn one.

Debates about outlawing burkas have spread across Europe after France banned the Muslim face veils.

Read moreThe German State of Hesse Bans The Burka, Risks Muslim Anger

Germany Promised US in 1967 Not to Convert Dollars to Gold

Thanks to GATA consultant Dimitri Speck and U.S. economist James K. Galbraith, a copy of the so-called Blessing letter, written on March 30, 1967, can be published for the first time on the Internet. The letter’s text refutes the widespread assumption among German gold bugs that the letter promised the U.S. government that the German central bank, the Bundesbank, would never relocate the German gold reserve from New York to Germany as long as U.S. troops were stationed in Germany. The letter has nothing to do with the location of the German gold reserve.

Instead, the letter, written by the Bundesbank’s president at the time, Karl Blessing, and sent to the then-chairman of Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System, William McChesney Martin Jr., made this important promise on behalf of the Bundesbank:

“By refraining from dollar conversions into gold from the United States Treasury, the Bundesbank has intended to contribute to international monetary cooperation and to avoid any disturbing effects on the foreign exchange and gold markets. You may be assured that also in the future the Bundesbank intends to continue this policy and to play its full part in contributing to international monetary cooperation.”

Speck, author of the German-language book “Geheime Goldpolitik” (“Secret Gold Politics,” about which more information is available at http://www.gata.org/node/9349), puts the Blessing letter in context:

“In 1967 the Americans and British threatened to reduce their troops in West Germany on account of the cost. Because of the Cold War, West Germany wanted to avoid a reduction in military forces but didn’t want to pay more for those forces. Part of the resolution of the issue was the Blessing letter, which confirmed Germany’s waiver of conversion of dollars into gold. Thus Germany, like other countries, bought security by accumulating dollar claims as foreign-exchange reserve.

“The right of governments to convert dollars into gold from the U.S. Treasury was canceled by the U.S. government in 1971. But four years earlier the Blessing letter affirmed the formal renunciation of the largest dollar holder, Germany, of conversions of dollars into gold. The letter was thus an essential step toward the global dollar standard, which was recognized already by the U.S. government and communicated in internal documents.”

The Blessing letter is archived at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas. Because of his research, Speck gave the decisive encouragement for its publication here. Galbraith, a professor at the University of Texas in Austin and author of “The Predator State,” gave the decisive help in obtaining a copy of the letter.

The Blessing letter can be viewed at GATA’s Internet site here:

http://www.gata.org/files/BundesbankLetter-03-30-1967.pdf

Read moreGermany Promised US in 1967 Not to Convert Dollars to Gold

Germany Suspends Payments to Corrupt Global Health Fund

BERLIN (AP) — Germany says it is suspending payments to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria until it gets answers about corruption allegations raised in articles by The Associated Press.

Development Minister Dirk Niebel said in a statement late Tuesday the serious questions raised about the $21.7 billion development fund’s work require a thorough investigation.

The ministry added Wednesday that this year’s pledge to the Geneva-based fund of €200 million ($270 million) will be withheld pending a full investigation.

Germany is the fund’s third largest government donor behind the U.S. and France, having pledged €600 million for 2011-13.

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BullionVault.com Runs Out Of Silver In Germany


With the US Mint selling silver at an unprecedented pace, it was only a matter of time before the silver shortage would be spotted across the Atlantic, where distributors ran out of both gold and silver on a daily basis during the first time Europe became insolvent some time in early May 2010.

Sure enough, BullionVault.com has announced that it has run out of silver in Germany “due to high demand.” In the meantime, the CFTC’s actions have succeeded in allowing the JPM’s suppression of precious metals markets to continue indefinitely, yet all its actions have really done is to provide a short-lived lower cost basis for the precious metals as there is no indication demand is subsiding.

At some point the margin calls will come. Then not even Gary Gensler will be able to bail out JPM (we wish we could say the same about Ben Bernanke to whom JPM’s role as head of the tri-party repo clearing market is irreplaceable in maintaining an orderly shadow liquidity market).

(Click on image to enlarge.)

Translation:

Due to high demand our own silver stocks are exhausted right now.

As BullionVault is only dealing with physical bars which are already in our possession, we are currently unable to offer, silver on our own market. Of course, our market is still open to all our clients act with each other and set their own prices. This situation could lead to buyers and sellers at higher prices. Buyers are asked to check the price again before they confirm their order.

On Tuesday, 18 January 2011, we expect the next delivery for silver.

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France and Germany Veto Increase in EU Rescue Fund

From the article:  “… a well-covered auction of €1.25bn of Portuguese debt…”

Italy: Youth Unemployment Hits Record 28.9 Percent

That said, with fundamentals no longer relevant, the only catalysts the market is concerned about for the next several days will be the plethora of bond auctions with Portugal coming to market tomorrow, followed promptly by Spain. Both are expected to price their issues at or near all time wide levels, which explains why the ECB has been in the market all day today, buying up every piece of paper available in an attempt to stabilize the market ahead of tomorrow.



Germany and France have rejected calls by Brussels for a rapid increase in the size and powers of the EU’s rescue machinery, once again exposing serious differences at the heart of monetary union.


France’s President Sarkozy with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.  Photo: REUTERS

Jose Barroso, head of the European Commission, called on EU leaders to boost the firepower of the EU’s €440bn (£366bn) bail-out fund and beef up its role, allowing it to intervene with pre-emptive bond purchases to help states under threat.

“It is important for the markets to know that Eurozone leaders are committed to do whatever is necessary,” he said, hoping for action as soon as early February.

He also proposed a “new phase of European integration” with far-reaching oversight of the budgets, pensions, labour markets, and trade flows of EU states to prevent a recurrence of the imbalances that led to the EMU debt crisis.

Mr Barroso said the fund boost was a “precautionary” move, not directed at any one country. The gambit is risky since it may be taken by investors as a sign that Brussels fears imminent contagion to Spain, deemed too big for the current fund.

Read moreFrance and Germany Veto Increase in EU Rescue Fund

Foodwatch: German Dioxin Contaminated Sample Was 164 Times Over The Legally Tolerated Dioxin Level, Dioxin Came From Pesticide Use

Commentary:

In 2007 the criminal German government did this:

Bundesregierung erhöht Gift-Grenzwerte in Obst und Gemüse (Greenpeace):

Neue Greenpeace-Untersuchung belegt Aufweichen des Verbraucherschutzes

Hunderte Grenzwerte für Pestizide in Obst und Gemüse hat das Bundesministerium für Ernährung, Landwirtschaft und Verbraucherschutz (BMELV) zwischen den Jahren 2004 und 2006 angehoben. Das bedeutet für Obst und Gemüse, dass ganz legal mehr Gift auf den Teller kommt. Nach einer neuen Untersuchung im Auftrag von Greenpeace sind die Steigerungen erheblich – im Schnitt haben die Beamten die Grenzwerte um das 33fache erhöht. Gerade bei bekannten Pestizid-Spitzenreitern mit den meisten Überschreitungen, wie Tafeltrauben, Salaten, Kräuter oder Beeren, hob das Ministerium die Grenzwerte am stärksten an, jeweils um über das 500fache.

“Es ist unglaublich. Die Verbraucherschützer aus dem Ministerium machen konsequent das Gegenteil von dem, was notwendig wäre, um die Gesundheit der Verbraucher und die Umwelt zu schützen”, sagt Manfred Krautter, Chemie-Experte von Greenpeace. “Minister Seehofer muss diese Praxis sofort stoppen. Wir brauchen keine Legalisierung von immer mehr Gift im Essen, sondern wirksame Kontrollen, damit belastete Lebensmittel vom Markt verschwinden.”

Here is the terrible ‘Google Translate’ translation:

– Federal government increases poison limits on fruit and vegetables (Greenpeace):

New Greenpeace research shows softening of consumer protection

Hundreds limits for pesticides in fruit and vegetables has increased, the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (BMELV) between 2004 and 2006. That means fruit and vegetables that is quite legal, more poison on your plate. According to a new study commissioned by Greenpeace, the increases are substantial – on average, the officers, the limits increased by 33 times. Especially with known pesticide-runners with the most violations, such as table grapes, salads, herbs and berries, the Ministry raised the limits on the most, each by more than 500 times.

“It ‘s unbelievable. The consumer protection from the Ministry consistently the opposite of what would be necessary to protect the health of consumers and the environment, ” said Manfred Krautter, chemistry expert at Greenpeace. “Minister Seehofer must stop this practice immediately. We do not need to legalize more and more poison in the food, but effective controls to ensure that contaminated food from the market.”

And the German government couldn’t care less (from the article below):

“Consumer protection pressure group Foodwatch said Monday its own tests of a contaminated sample was 164 times over the legally tolerated dioxin level.

The group concluded the dioxin came from pesticide use on crops that were later used to produce the fat and urged the government to force livestock feed producers to probe all their ingredients for excessive dioxin levels.

Agriculture Minister Aigner declined to comment on Foodwatch’s report.”

She did not even say a word that they will look into Foodwatch’s report.

All governments know the studies that show that pesticides are a cause of Alzheimer’s, MS, cancer etc. They know this.

They know that Aspartame causes cancer and that MSG is the best fertilizer for cancer and that both destroy the brain.

They know that fluoride destroys health like nothing else.  They know that they are killing their citizens.

And people call us fanatics, because we are only eating organic food.

See also: German Dioxin Scare Spreads to Meat


Germany lifts dioxin-related bans on 3,050 farms


Germany has said that the number of farms banned from selling due to fears of dioxin poisoning would fall sharply in the coming days, as the government looked to ensure no repeat of the scare.(AFP//DPA/File/Bodo Marks)

BERLIN – Livestock feed producers must face stricter controls and Germany and other EU nations must have better, more centralized dioxin monitoring, German officials proposed Monday after high dioxin levels prompted the closure of thousands of farms.

Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said officials were working nonstop to find out who and what had contaminated the feed sent to thousands of farms and vowed tough legal action against those responsible.

“The damage that has been done is immense,” she told reporters after a meeting with feed producers. “There must and will be consequences in this case.”

Read moreFoodwatch: German Dioxin Contaminated Sample Was 164 Times Over The Legally Tolerated Dioxin Level, Dioxin Came From Pesticide Use

Germany: Melting Snow Floods Rivers

See also:

Water Levels Stabilize along Rhine, Mosel Rivers (Spiegel Online)

German cities flooded after thaw (BBC News)

Winter thaw swells German rivers after weekend deaths (Deutsche Welle)



The area around the statue of German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm is flooded where the rivers Rhine and Mosel meet at the “Deutsche Eck” in Koblenz, Germany, Monday, Jan.10,2010. Melting snow and rain cause floodings along various rivers all over Germany. (AP Photo/Michael Probst) (Michael Probst – AP)

BERLIN — Mild temperatures melted record December snowfalls across Germany, causing rivers from the Rhine in the west to the Oder in the east to burst their banks, flooding fields and towns, turning streets into waterways, and leaving one person feared dead.

Officials were watching flood levels on the Rhine river in the city of Koblenz on Monday that were expected to peak at 25 feet, 4 inches (7 meters, 70 centimeters), and some low-lying parts of the city were under water.

Read moreGermany: Melting Snow Floods Rivers

BND Files: Germany And US Knew Where Adolf Eichmann – The Logistical Mastermind of The Nazi Holocaust – Was Hiding

Related info:

Declassified Files Reveal How The CIA Protected Nazi Murderers

Swedish Royal Family Hit By New Scandal Exposing The Hidden Nazi Past Of The Queen’s Father

Prof. Antony Sutton: Wall Street & The Rise of Hitler

How Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, helped Hitler’s rise to power


American and German intelligences services knew where Adolf Eichmann – the logistical mastermind of the Nazi Holocaust – was hiding almost a decade before he was kidnapped and brought to trial, documents being released in Munich show.


Adolph Eichmann during his trial in 1961


Critics believe the inaction on the part of both countries was to protect both German officials and pro-Nazi clergy in the Vatican who helped him escape.

The newspaper Bild reported on Saturday that it had gained access to some of the files of the BND intelligence service showing it knew where Eichmann was hiding under an alias in Argentina as early as 1952.

It was not until 1960 that an Israeli Mossad commando squad kidnapped him and flew him to Israel to stand trial for his war crimes. Eichmann was hanged in Israel in 1962.

“SS Colonel Eichmann is not to be found in Egypt but is residing in Argentina under the fake name Clemens. E’s address is known to the editor of the German newspaper Der Weg in Argentina,” it says on an index card dated 1952 and reproduced in Bild. The BND also told America about Eichmann’s whereabouts in 1958.

Bild said it had forced the release of the documents following a recent court case in which the BND was ordered to release some information.

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German Dioxin Scare Spreads to Meat

Germany’s poisoned eggs scare has spread to chickens, with investigators now reporting increased levels of cancer-causing dioxin in meat.


The meat scare follows on from last week’s admission that tainted eggs from chickens that ate feed contaminated with dioxins had entered the UK food chain Photo: GETTY

Three chickens – out of 15 samples of chicken, turkey and pork sent to the EU Commission – showed a dioxin concentration twice as high as the legal level, it was admitted on Sunday.

The spokesman said the chicken meat had not been sold and that eating it “would not have been harmful in the short term since the contamination levels were so low”.

The meat scare follows on from last week’s admission that tainted eggs from chickens that ate feed contaminated with dioxins had entered the UK food chain.

Close to 5,000 farms have been shut across Germany and thousands of chickens culled after feed from a chemical company near Hamburg was tainted.

Read moreGerman Dioxin Scare Spreads to Meat

Germany: Egg-Dioxin Scandal Closes 4700 Farms

See also:

Charges filed as farm quarantines grow in German tainted egg scandal (CNN)

Number of farms closed by dioxin scare quadruples (Deutsche Welle)

German eggs sent to UK and the Netherlands (BBC News)


Regional authorities in Germany have ordered the closure of 4709 farms across the country following a scare over dioxin contamination, the agriculture ministry says.

Most of the farms involved were in Lower Saxony, northwest Germany, and most of them were ones raising pigs, the ministry said in a statement.

Until the farms had been checked and found to be clear of contamination, they would not be allowed to make any deliveries.

It was in Lower Saxony that 2500 out of the 3000 tonnes of contaminated fatty acids at the centre of the alert were delivered in November and December, where they were used as animal fodder.

The firm Harles und Jentzsch in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein is alleged to have supplied up to 3000 tonnes of contaminated fatty acids meant only for industrial usage to about 25 animal feed makers.

Nine samples out of the 20 that were analysed showed dioxin levels higher, or much higher than legal, the Schleswig-Holstein ministry said.

The fat was therefore not allowed for consumption, it added.

The German government said earlier that up to 150,000 tonnes of feed were feared to have been contaminated.

The dioxin scare has resulted in a halt in production at about 1200 chicken, turkey and pig farms, most of them in northern Germany.

There are about 375,000 farms in Germany.

A dioxin level that exceeded legal levels in eggs was found in late December.

While the scare started in two German states, 11 are affected now including Hesse, the region around Germany’s financial capital Frankfurt, and southwestern Rhineland-Palatinate which borders on France.

German authorities on Wednesday informed the EU’s executive commission and business partners that 136,000 eggs from contaminated German farms were exported to the Netherlands.

The European Commission said on Thursday the hunt for potentially dioxin-tainted eggs had also turned to Britain.

Dioxin, a by-product of burning rubbish and industrial activities, can cause miscarriages and other health problems in humans, including cancer.

January 7, 2011 – 11:44AM
AFP

Source: The Sydney Morning Herald