Posted on 04/29/2009 10:07:29 PM PDT by penelopesire
MEXICO CITY/GENEVA, April 30 (Reuters) - Mexico's president told citizens to stay home from Friday for a five-day partial shutdown of the economy, after the World Health Organisation raised its alert level and said a swine flu pandemic was imminent.
In his first televised address since the crisis erupted last week, President Felipe Calderon told Mexicans to stay home with their families. The country will suspend non-essential work and services, including some government ministries, from May 1-5.
"There is no safer place than your own home to avoid being infected with the flu virus," Calderon said.
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BTTT
BLESSINGS to you and hubby and family.
Heading back to bed.
LUBB
I think Door #3 is probably the closest, but like all chumps who believe the prattle that they’re gonna have a galaxy full of fawning gods and godesses cleaning out their toes with olive oil, they get found in a sani can when they use up their minutes.
Mexican don’t really celebrate Cinco de Mayo so you have to think something’s up. (escape Mexico)
You’re behind, get more coffee....
This past Saturday early morning my wife came downstairs for her cup of coffee as we had planned to go to our boat for the day just the night before....
I told her a change of plans was in the works and we were heading to Sam’s Club to stock up an a month’s supply of food, water, medicine and toiletries......
You now can’t find N95 rated masks anywhere in my area, got mine this past Saturday for every member of my family.
We have plenty of Pedialite and Gatorade for the family and most drugs to treat symptoms.
This is a measured rational response to a possible threat. I will not be a “Katrina” victim dependant on the government for my family’s survival. The provisions we picked up were no different to what we would normally buy just in much larger quantity.
The old Boy Scout motto “Be Prepared”......
That’s actually really good news to hear. I’m glad the rest of the world is waking up to who Obama really is...
You know, 3 of my daughters have expressed a wish to move to Japan for a few years now due to their desire to work in the Anime industry as artists/colorists (or WHATEVER as they say...). As a Mom, I naturally worried about them wanting to move so far away. Maybe it’s not such a bad idea after all... LOL
It really does seem like Japan has far more wisdom on the whole than people here... Correct me if I’m wrong, but it seems like there are less “sheep” over there, vs. here in America.
And, I echo the sentiments in Quix’s post to you. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. I have MUCH more respect for Japan’s media than I have for our own, and if there’s one thing that may save the U.S. from Obama’s fascist plans (if it’s possible) it will be news from OUTSIDE the U.S. giving us bits and pieces of truth vs. the propaganda that’s ALREADY such a big part of Obama’s administration & our media.
Last night Obama said in the press conference that he would take on Iraq and Afganistan and the flu....he was joking about it all...too much on his tale aleady with that and he ddn’t need to head the auto industry.
We are so screwed...
They will eventually close the border but by then it will be too late.
That infant in Houston crossed the border from Mexico in Brownsville and wound up at Texas Children's Hospital in Houston .. it has died but the virus was not contracted here
It looks like the single US death is really a Mexican death.
What can you say?
This thing is worldwide--I feel for the people back there in the USA.
The Japanese will fight a valiant battle.
I personally think it is only a matter of time before some are infected here, too, in Japan, but even if that happens, they will be under excellent medical supervision with the highest technology standards available, and I think Japan would redouble its efforts to keep any more cases out of their country to the best extent possible.
swine flu ping
“I still think he may be set-up . . . for a very devastating fall . . . toward fomenting more chaos, class war, civil war, etc.”
That’s the BEST description I’ve heard for what I think about Obama. He’s just the perfect kind of narcissist to BE set-up by others for various reasons. And he’s too full of himself to even see it, frankly... However, so many of us on the “outside” see right through him — including world leaders and THEIR people more and more now...
If you look at how he acted at that G20 conference in comparison, and even when he was WITH some of the other leaders (esp. Putin & Medvedev, and his bowing to the Saudi King, etc...). He looked like he was on a ‘high’, and even though he may have been saying things like, “The US recognizes our impact on the world economy’s problems” and things like that I think he’s playing a HUGE game here. Then he makes that “wheeling and dealing” comment when he was in Austria that he was glad it “happens here too”. Well, frankly, I wouldn’t trust Obama to be “wheeling and dealing” with people like the Saudi King, and Putin — these men are LEAGUES above Obama in anything like this... For gosh sakes Putin was trained and very high up in the KGB and I believe Obama thinks he can Outwit that Communist when he’s been groomed for it by the “masters”???
It’s actually hard to know whose side he’s on (the Muslims who think he’s one of them, the Communists and other dictators or what). To be perfectly honest, I think he’s trying to pull the wool over ALL of their eyes (much like he did to his supporters here in the U.S.). It wouldn’t surprise me if he was trying to use THEM — he’s got that messianic self-image and the other character traits as well... Perhaps he really believes that HE will emerge as THE “World Leader” - he has already made steps in that direction “citizen of the world” and all that.
If all the NWO stuff is true (and I do believe there is an effort to form a world government) then I really don’t see Obama as being part of the ‘equation’ of those who have been working on this for decades now... Unless, as some others have suggested that Obama was ‘groomed’ for this, too. Again though — groomed in what way?
One thing I have to mention here — something that in explaining this to my Brother-in-law who I’m pretty sure voted for Obama made him step back for a moment, and get very quiet - not like I was nuts, but his eyes got wide like he was thinking “she might have something here”, and a month ago when he visited and I mentioned all the birth certificate/eligibility lawsuits he did NOT respond the same way — like no way there are that many cases against him, there’s been nothing in the media!
(Could be he actually researched what I was telling him and found out it was the truth, too... We usually don’t get into political conversations, but this last visit EVERYONE (Gma, Gpa, and B-I-L) were talking about Obama and what he was doing — it was kinda weird. Found out Grandpa didn’t like Palin - blames her for McCain losing, but I set him straight a little on her supposed “stupidity” he said — she doesn’t even know how many states there are in the U.S., and when I told him, NO, THAT was Obama’s mistake it’s like his countenance changed completely - like shock and recognition. Then he said, well then the media lies! (Praise God, I’ve been trying to tell them this for YEARS, and finally they are beginning to see...)
Anyway, this is what I said to him... If you were to take Obama’s WORST ‘gaffes’, and line them up it’s almost like a ‘code’ of sorts. A few: 57 states in America (no, but there are 57 islamic states), his bowing to the Saudi King (the closest thing Islam would have to a papal figure as he is the controller of the holy places like Mecca), his “5 Pillars of Education” - just a coincidence that there are “5 Pillars of Islam”?, his “mis-speak” in that interview where he said, “My Muslim Religion”. etc... etc... Heck, there is some mention that the flyover in NYC matches up with some painting they found in Iraq during the war or something (not the 9-11 pic, but a different one featuring the Statue of Liberty). For someone who is supposedly trying his hardest to convince people he’s a Christian he sure isn’t doing a good job, and in fact his actions and these “gaffes” I’ve listed support the Conservative ‘conspiracy’ that he is a full Muslim STILL to this day. If he really were a Christian, and KNEW about Islam like he does why would he KNOWINGLY put something up on WhiteHouse.org like his “5 pillars of education plan”.
[Has anyone heard what happened regarding that “truce” with Al Qaeda and/or the Taliban that was supposed to last 4 months? I think that would’ve ended about 9 days ago..]
Heck, Obama may even have been “set-up” by Ayers and Dohrn to be a martyr in their grand revolution plans (I really don’t believe they’ve given up their ‘dream’ and indeed they were quite pleased on election night...).
Anyway, there are so many things I’d love to spend time to really research and cite to flesh out further, but honestly, I don’t know what I should spend that time on right now! Figuring out Obama, Figuring out this New Virus, Helping expose his ineligibility and those issues, trying to fight against some of these bills in Congress, etc... So, besides posting these things here lately, I’ve found that spending time re-reading the Bible is probably my “best bet” — that and of course spending time with my family...
Then again, I’m still on a few meds from my bronchitis and such so maybe that’s why it’s hard to focus at times, and make a decision on these things! LOL
ANyway, I’m on a really bad schedule for sleeping again (years of my husband working 2nd shift w/overtime is a hard habit to break as far as schedule)... I’m still on the “old schedule” even though he’s been off work for a few weeks now... I’m going to go TRY to go to sleep now! LOL So I guess I’ll try to respond to anything else “tomorrow” (later this afternoon).
My best friend got a call last night from her friend who works at CDC. Said we are intentionally not being told the true numbers. Said it is much worse than we are hearing from media or from CDC itself. In addition to the lag time you mentioned, this disinformation is intentional to try to control panic. Also, so they can “manage” things in the early stages (make preps for flooded emergency rooms, free up funding, prep for quarantine, you name it).
My friend lives in Wash DC... People riding the Metro (train) stop near a large Govt complex were wearing masks.
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“The Mexicans will F L O O D over the border now.”
Thats what Obama will get out of this “crisis”, then immigration reform and 30 million new liberal voters. Socialism will be here to stay.
Myth Busted: N95 Masks Are Useless at Protecting Wearers from Swine Flu by Mike Adams the Health Ranger Address:http://www.naturalnews.com/026160.html
“What this means is that within a couple of weeks, regional hospitals will likely become overwhelmed.”
Napolitano is purposefully IGNORING, NON-COMMENTING on THIS very reason for closing our borders and she needs to be confronted with it.
Once Mexicans decide America is the better place to be for (free) medical care, they will storm our borders.
We need CLOSE THE BORDER Tea Parties, NOW.
Uh-oh. There have been several people at work, my boss among them, who have been very sick and came back to work with a very hoarse voice.
Come to think of it, my department's process engineer could barely speak at yesterday's morning meeting.
The “Dormant Commerce Clause” - no, I wouldn’t think the
States could close down Federal border crossings. However, there’s nothing saying they can’t station LE and state guards 50 feet on this side of the crossings to turn every vehicle back. Of course that does nothing for the thousands of miles of vast countryside that illegals cross over every day.
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