Penn State assistant coach will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of 45 counts of serial paedophilia

Tell John he is dead wrong. My pop is a pharmacist and says you can absolutely get stoned on marinol. He says there is a massive crack down on pain clinics right now. Perhaps marinol is cheaper to synthesize versus pain killers from opiate plants and perhaps will draw less attention from local DEA agents who are trying to bust up the pain clinics in order to make a name for themselves.

Nick R. Brown

With Chancellor Angela Merkel cheering every step of the way, Germany dominated Greece--on the soccer field. The Germans reached the European Championship semifinals for a record seventh time by beating Greece 4-2 yesterday in a match played amid the contentious political backdrop between the countries. Just as in the real world, where Germany has been a major contributor to economic bailouts for Greece, the three-time champions were in control at the Arena Gdansk in Poland. And after the match, Merkel visited the players in the changing room. "(Merkel) congratulated us and said that we played very well," said Germany forward Mesut Oezil. "The rest of what she said will stay among us."

Bank apologises for meltdown after resolving the 'initial problem' Problems are expected to continue into NEXT WEEK as they deal with payment delays Branches will open on Sunday to help in emergencies Customers STILL reporting that salaries are not being paid in and payments are not being made Up to 12MILLION customers are being affected by the problem Customers of Royal Bank of Scotland and Ulster Bank also affected Problem reportedly arose after staff tried to update software

Further Measures To Lift Collateral Availability The European Central Bank on Friday announced further measures to increase collateral availability for counterparties. Following is the text of the ECB's press release:- On 20 June 2012 the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided on additional measures to improve the access of the banking sector to Eurosystem operations in order to further support the provision of credit to households and non-financial corporations. The Governing Council has reduced the rating threshold and amended the eligibility requirements for certain asset-backed securities (ABSs). It has thus broadened the scope of the measures to increase collateral availability which were introduced on 8 December 2011 and which remain applicable. In addition to the ABSs that are already eligible for use as collateral in Eurosystem operations, the Eurosystem will consider the following ABSs as eligible:

Kosovo's justice minister and deputy prime minister Hajredin Kuci resigned on Friday after parliament passed a new penal code comprising two articles the European Union says will undermine the freedom of the press. The disputed articles in the new penal code force journalists to reveal their sources and make defamation a criminal offence.

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has undergone successful surgery to repair a damaged retina but incoming Finance Minister Vassilis Rapanos remains in hospital after fainting on Friday, officials said. Samaras was sworn in on Wednesday at the head of a coalition government following an election at the weekend. "The operation ended successfully. The prime minister will stay at the hospital today and he will exit tomorrow," government spokesman Simos Kedikoglou said on Saturday. The need for surgery was discovered during a routine examination. The incoming finance minister was rushed to hospital on Friday before he could be sworn in. "Mr Rapanos has undergone a scanning test. The results are very satisfactory. His situation is stable and improving. We will continue the drug therapy", Hygeia Hospital said in a news release. No further details were available on Rapanos's illness. Before being rushed to hospital, he had complained of nausea, intense abdominal pains and dizziness, medical authorities said. The government has vowed to renegotiate the painful terms of an international bailout keeping Greece from bankruptcy while preserving its future in the euro. Rapanos will face the difficult task of trying to negotiate with euro zone leaders, led by Germany, who are losing patience with Greece's failure to carry out deep reforms in exchange for two multi-billion euro bailouts since 2010.

"More Europe means that we must give up more powers to Europe," Mrs Merkel says. She said it again after meeting the leaders of Spain, France and Italy in Rome: "The lesson of this crisis is more Europe, not less Europe."

The Future Group

A picture of the German conception of Europe's future is emerging from the utterances of the German foreign minister, Guido Westerwelle, and through the newly published interim report of what is known as the Future Group, which he set up.

The proposals are:

More European power to determine the economic and tax policies of the member states. There should be a "transfer of sovereignty" to the European centre

A strengthening of the EU's "foreign office", with a common European foreign and security policy

A smaller European Commission able to make decisions faster

A bigger role for the European Parliament to make "stronger democratic legitimacy"

A directly elected President of Europe

A European army

ITM!

My name's Joao Alves and I'm from Sintra, Portugal. I've been a listener for a long time and I've donated on 11-11-11 as JC.

I was listening to the last show when I heard John saying that haiku Herman is more entertaing then the President of the European Commission, Durao Barroso. That remark, concerning a contrymen, made me take uppon myself the task of saving the portuguese honour! We too are able to provide great entertainment for all slaves!

That beeing said, I send you this youtube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmTOo6avlZ0

JossŽ Manuel Barroso Maoist days - [VIDEO]

Here, you'll find a young Durao Barroso, at the time leader of a maoist youth movement. The clip has subtitles so that you can follow what he says. The clip is from 1976, when Portugal was living the troubled times that followed the 1974 revolution, wich ended a fascist dictatorchip of over 40 years.

He later switched to a more center-right party and became Prime Minister of Portugal, and then fled to a more interesting gigg with the EU in the middle of his term.

I mean no disrespect to the Baron, but I believe that the portuguese can provide a lot more fun then the belgians.

Please keep up with the great work!

Joao Alves

Sintra, Portugal

Further Measures To Lift Collateral Availability The European Central Bank on Friday announced further measures to increase collateral availability for counterparties. Following is the text of the ECB's press release:- On 20 June 2012 the Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) decided on additional measures to improve the access of the banking sector to Eurosystem operations in order to further support the provision of credit to households and non-financial corporations. The Governing Council has reduced the rating threshold and amended the eligibility requirements for certain asset-backed securities (ABSs). It has thus broadened the scope of the measures to increase collateral availability which were introduced on 8 December 2011 and which remain applicable. In addition to the ABSs that are already eligible for use as collateral in Eurosystem operations, the Eurosystem will consider the following ABSs as eligible:

German parliament's upper house wants financial concessions worth billions of euros to the country's 16 federal states before backing the permanent bailout scheme for the euro zone and the fiscal pact next week, its president said. Bavaria state premier Horst Seehofer, who holds the rotating presidency of the upper house, also told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper: "I am very much in favour of the fiscal pact but we are going to have a difficult situation if they stay stubborn in Berlin", according to an advance released on Saturday.

With Chancellor Angela Merkel cheering every step of the way, Germany dominated Greece--on the soccer field. The Germans reached the European Championship semifinals for a record seventh time by beating Greece 4-2 yesterday in a match played amid the contentious political backdrop between the countries. Just as in the real world, where Germany has been a major contributor to economic bailouts for Greece, the three-time champions were in control at the Arena Gdansk in Poland. And after the match, Merkel visited the players in the changing room. "(Merkel) congratulated us and said that we played very well," said Germany forward Mesut Oezil. "The rest of what she said will stay among us."

On June 12, a leaked copy of the investment chapter for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) was made public. This copy was analyzed by Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch and has been verified as authentic.- This agreement has been negotiated IN SECRET for 2-1/2 years and no information has ever been released until this leak. So why have the details of this negotiation been so secret? This agreement has been framed as a "free trade" agreement and yet out of 26 chapters only two have anything to do with trade. The other 24 chapters grant new corporate privileges and rights, while limiting governments and protective regulations.

On June 26, 2001, by Executive Order 13219, the President declared a national emergency with respect to the Western Balkans, pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701-1706), to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by the actions of persons engaged in, or assisting, sponsoring, or supporting (i) extremist violence in the Republic of Macedonia and elsewhere in the Western Balkans region, or (ii) acts obstructing implementation of the Dayton Accords in Bosnia or United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244 of June 10, 1999, in Kosovo.- The President subsequently amended that order in Executive Order 13304 of May 28, 2003. Because the actions of persons threatening the peace and international stabilization efforts in the Western Balkans continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States, the national emergency declared on June 26, 2001, and the measures adopted on that date and thereafter to deal with that emergency, must continue in effect beyond June 26, 2012.- Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency with respect to the Western Balkans.

In summer 2011, Nuland became the State Department Spokesperson. She was declared a "consummate professional who proved that Foreign Service officers could be trusted to put professionalism over politics."[2] [edit]Personal life Nuland is the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor Sherwin B. Nuland. She graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall in 1979 and has a B.A. from Brown University. Nuland is married to historian Robert Kagan, with whom she has two children. Nuland speaks Russian and French, and some Chinese.

Robert Kagan (born September 26, 1958 in Athens, Greece) is an American historian, author and foreign policy commentator at the Brookings Institution. He is a co-founder of the now-defunct political organization Project for the New American Century.[1][2] More recently, his book The World America Made has been publicly endorsed by US President Barack Obama, and its theme was referenced in his 2012 State of the Union Address.[3]

The Internal Revenue Service has seized bank accounts it says took in more than $870,000 in cumulative deposits in recent months, part of a federal probe into alleged money laundering involving a Sacramento marijuana dispensary. Agents of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the IRS presented search warrants earlier this week on the El Camino Wellness Center, considered the largest medical marijuana provider in Sacramento.

The legislation, which creates a fine of up to $10,000 for cabdrivers who are convicted of abetting or organizing prostitution, had been one of seven bills expected to be signed by the mayor with little fuss at a ceremony on Wednesday.

The law also includes a requirement that all city-licensed cabdrivers and livery drivers attend a training course intended to help them identify the signs of a potential sex-trafficking operation so they can report any suspicions to the authorities.

I can assure you if I'm president, the Iranians will have no question but that I will be willing to take military action if necessary to prevent them from becoming a nuclear threat to the world.I don't believe at this stage, therefore, if I'm president that we need to have a war powers approval or special authorization for military force. The president has that capacity now.-I understand that some in the Senate for instance have written letters to the president indicating you should know that a containment strategy is unacceptable. We cannot survive a course of action which would include a nuclear Iran we must be willing to take any and all actions.

Thousands of Brotherhood supporters burst into cheers on Cairo's Tahrir Square, waving national flags and chanting "Allahu Akbar!" or God is Great, greeting a dramatic victory. Morsi-will be sworn in on July 1, according to the election timetable.

Sudan on the Brink of Revolution: Next Domino to Fall in Arab Spring? [VIDEO] - International Business Times

Dalia Mogahed (born 1974) is an American scholar of Egyptian origin. She is the Executive Director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies,[1] a non-partisan research center that provides data and analysis to reflect the views of Muslims all over the world. She was selected as an advisor by U.S. President Barack Obama on the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.

Government Exhibits & Documents from the Retrial: U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation Between July and September 2007, prosecutors in the case against the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) and its top officials released scores of exhibits that provide unprecedented insight into the dizzying web of connections tying together a handful of alleged Hamas front groups that operated on American soil throughout the 1990s and beyond, serving as a central node in the Muslim Brotherhood's U.S. network. NEFA Senior Analyst Josh Lefkowitz reviewed this treasure trove of documents and highlighted select exhibits. That library of exhibits-from the first HLF trial is available here.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC; Arabic: منظمة التعاون الاسلامي‎; French: Organisation de la Coopération Islamique (OCI))[a 1] is an international organisation consisting of 57 member states. The organisation attempts to be the collective voice of the Muslim world (Ummah) and attempts to safeguard the interests and ensure the progress and well-being of Muslims. The OIC has a permanent delegation to the United Nations, and is the largest international organisation outside of the United Nations.[1] The official languages of the OIC are Arabic, English, and French. It changed its name on 28 June 2011 from the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (Arabic: منظمة المؤتمر الإسلامي‎; French: Organisation de la Conférence Islamique) to its current name.[2]

One might be led to think that if international law enforcement authorities and Western intelligence agencies had discovered a twenty-year old document revealing a top-secret plan developed by the oldest Islamist organization with one of the most extensive terror networks in the world to launch a program of "cultural invasion" and eventual conquest of the West that virtually mirrors the tactics used by Islamists for more than two decades, that such news would scream from headlines published on the front pages and above the fold of the New York Times, Washington Post, London Times, Le Monde, Bild, and La Repubblica. If that's what you might think, you would be wrong. In fact, such a document was recovered in a raid by Swiss authorities in November 2001, two months after the horror of 9/11. Since that time information about this document, known in counterterrorism circles as "The Project", and discussion regarding its content has been limited to the top-secret world of Western intelligence communities. Only through the work of an intrepid Swiss journalist, Sylvain Besson of Le Temps, and his book published in October 2005 in France, La conquête de l'Occident: Le projet secret des Islamistes (The Conquest of the West: The Islamists' Secret Project), has information regarding The Project finally been made public. One Western official cited by Besson has described The Project as "a totalitarian ideology of infiltration which represents, in the end, the greatest danger for European societies."

Thousands of Brotherhood supporters burst into cheers on Cairo's Tahrir Square, waving national flags and chanting "Allahu Akbar!" or God is Great, greeting a dramatic victory. Morsi-will be sworn in on July 1, according to the election timetable.

BBC News - Turkish warplane downed by Syria 'may have crossed border'

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The Syrian army shelled the-eastern city of Deir al-Zor on Saturday, killing at least 28-people, opposition activists said. A source at a hospital in the city said the victims, who-included three women and several children, were mostly civilians-killed by shelling on their houses in the Old Airport district.

A timely article in the Jerusalem Post last month brings to the forefront the unspoken objective of US foreign policy, namely the breaking up of Syria as a sovereign nation state --along ethnic and religious lines-- into several separate and "independent" political entities. The article also confirms the role of Israel in the process of political destabilization of- Syria.- The JP article is titled: "Veteran Kurdish politician calls on Israel to support the break-up of Syria' (by Jonathan Spyer) (The Jerusalem Post (May 16, 2012) The objective of the US sponsored armed insurgency is---with the help of Israel---to "Break Syria into Pieces". The "balkanisation of the Syrian Arab Republic" is to be carried out by fostering sectarian divisions, which will eventually lead to a "civil war" modelled on the former Yugoslavia.-Last month, Syrian "opposition-militants" were dispatched to-Kosovo to organize training sessions using the "terrorist expertise" of the US sponsored Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in fighting the Yugoslav armed forces. - Sherkoh Abbas, President of the US based Kurdistan National Assembly of Syria (KNA)- has "called on Israel- to support the break-up of Syria into a series of federal structures based on the country's various ethnicities." (Ibid) One possible-"break-up scenario" pertaining to Syria, which constitutes a secular multi-ethnic society, would be the formation of separate and- "independent" Sunni, Alawite-Shiite, Kurdish and Druze states:-- "We need to break Syria into pieces," Abbas said. (Quoted in JP, op. cit., emphasis added).

Turkey's military has confirmed further air strikes against Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq. It said nine attacks were carried out by Turkish aircraft on hideouts of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), mostly in the Qandil region. Last Wednesday the military said it had carried out similar strikes, a day after eight Turkish soldiers and 26 PKK rebels were killed in clashes.

The Kurdistan Workers' Party (Kurdish: Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan or پارتی کار که‌رانی کوردستان Parti Karkerani Kurdistan), commonly known as PKK, also known as KGK and formerly known as KADEK (Freedom and Democracy Congress of Kurdistan) or KONGRA-GEL (Kurdistan People's Congress),[6] is a Kurdish terrorist organization which has since 1984 been fighting an armed struggle against the Turkish state for an autonomous Kurdistan and greater cultural and political rights for the Kurds in Turkey.[1] The group was founded on 27 November 1978 in the village of Fis, near Lice and was led by Abdullah Ã--calan.[10] The PKK's ideology was originally a fusion of revolutionary socialism and Kurdish nationalism - although since his imprisonment, Ã--calan has abandoned orthodox Marxism.[11] The PKK is listed as a terrorist organization internationally by a number of states and organizations, including the United States and the European Union.[6][12] Turkey labeled the organization as an ethnic secessionist organization that uses terrorism and the threat of force against both civilian[13][14] and military targets for the purpose of achieving its political goal.

Russia, Japan to ink memorandum for LNG projects in Vladivostok - Natural Gas | Platts News Article & Story

The U.S. embassy in Kenya has warned of an imminent threat of an attack on the Kenyan port city of Mombasa and asked all its government workers to leave the coastal town, which has been hit by a series of attacks. Underscoring the threat, police said they recovered suspected bomb-making material in the capital Nairobi on Saturday, the second such discovery this week in the country. The U.S. embassy said in a statement dated June 22 on its website that it had also suspended travel for its government officials to Mombasa, a tourist destination popular with foreigners, until July 1. Mombasa, the capital Nairobi and other parts of Kenya have suffered a series of grenade attacks since Kenya sent troops into Somalia last year to pursue al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab insurgents it blames for a surge in violence and kidnappings threatening tourism in east Africa's biggest economy. "This is to alert all U.S. citizens in Kenya, or planning to travel to Kenya in the near future, that the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi has received information of an imminent threat of a terrorist attack in Mombasa," the embassy statement said.

BEIJING, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Vice President Xi Jinping said Tuesday that China is satisfied with the fruitful development of China-Kenya relations and is ready to lift the ties to new levels. Xi made the remark as he met with Kenyan Vice President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka in the Great Hall of the People. Musyoka is in Beijing to attend the first Beijing International Fair for Trade in Services. During the meeting, Xi said fast growing trade and economic cooperation make up an important part of China-Kenya relations. Two-way trade reached 2.43 billion U.S. dollars in 2011, increasing 33 percent from the previous year. Chinese companies had invested 250 million U.S. dollars in Kenya by the end of 2011. Cultural and people-to-people exchanges between the two countries also have been developing well. Some 37,000 Chinese citizens visited Kenya in 2011.

In the final draft, the stronger wording "We are committed to ensure the equal access'' was switched to the weaker "We are committed to promote equal access.'' The reference to reproductive rights was deleted altogether, after opposition from the G-77, a negotiating bloc of developing countries at the United Nations, and the Holy See. Odilo Pedro Scherer, special envoy of Pope Benedict XVI, reiterated the Vatican's position that "all human life, from conception until natural death, has the same worth and deserves the same dignity.'' Leaders from other countries, including Norway, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Bolivia, Uruguay, Mexico, Iceland, Switzerland and Israel fought to keep the reference to reproductive rights, as did nongovernmental organizations promoting human rights and women's rights. Removing references to reproductive health from the outcome document was "an unacceptable step backward that erases decades of global commitments,'' said Peggy Clark, the executive vice president for policy Programs at the Aspen Institute. "The ability to choose the number, spacing and timing of children is not a luxury. It is a basic human right, one that has already been affirmed by the world community at the Cairo and Beijing conferences.''

Environmental scientist James Lovelock, renowned for his terrifying predictions of climate change's deadly impact on the planet, has gone back on his previous claims, admitting they were 'alarmist'. The 92-year-old Briton, who also developed the Gaia theory of the Earth as a single organism, has said climate change is still happening - just not as quickly as he once warned. He added that other environmental commentators, such as former vice president Al Gore, are also guilty of exaggerating their arguments. The admission comes as a devastating blow to proponents of climate change who regard Lovelock as a powerful figurehead. Five years ago, he had claimed: 'Before this century is over billions of us will die and the few breeding pairs of people that survive will be in the Arctic where the climate remains tolerable.' But in an interview with msnbc.com, he admitted: 'I made a mistake.' He said: 'The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing,' he told- 'We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books -- mine included -- because it looked clear cut, but it hasn't happened. 'The climate is doing its usual tricks. There's nothing much really happening yet. We were supposed to be halfway toward a frying world. '[The temperature] has stayed almost constant, whereas it should have been rising - carbon dioxide is rising, no question about that.' After two books - Revenge of Gaia: Why the Earth Is Fighting Back and How We Can Still Save Humanity, and The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning: Enjoy It While You Can - he is writing a third.

The Transportation Security Administration already shares intelligence it collects with airports. Now a House bill would expand TSA's intel sharing to local mass transit systems as well. Rep. Jackie Speier (D-Calif.), the bill's sponsor, said the legislation is a "common sense approach" to fighting terrorism. The House passed the bill May 30 and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs is now considering the bill.

This Act may be cited as the `Mass Transit Intelligence Prioritization Act'.

Het federale kernkabinet heeft vrijdag zijn fiat gegeven voor het luik Justitie van de wet diverse bepalingen. Dat behelst onder meer de beloofde strengere straffen tegen mensen in een openbare functie - zoals MIVB-agenten en gevangenispersoneel - en het gebruik van enkelbanden met gps tijdens de voorlopige hechtenis.

Victims' relatives walk out as trial ends with killer demanding to be set free and asking court to reject insanity claim

The trial of Anders Behring Breivik has ended with the confessed mass killer demanding to be set free and vowing that history would exonerate him for a bomb and gun rampage that killed 77 people.

As the self-styled anti-Muslim militant spoke for the last time in the 10-week proceedings, around 30 relatives of his victims walked out of the courtroom as he spoke.

In a rambling statement, Breivik lashed out at everything he perceived to be wrong with the world, from non-ethnic Norwegians representing the country in the Eurovision song contest to the sexually liberated lifestyle of the characters in the American TV show Sex and the City.

He also claimed fellow rightwing extremists were behind a small amount of explosives found outside a Swedish nuclear plant this week. The Swedish police spokesman Tommy Nyman had no comment, adding "especially not if he says it".

While some of Breivik's comments prompted laughter in the Oslo court, gravity returned when he reiterated his motive for bombing a government building in Oslo, killing eight, and hunting down teenagers at the Labour party's youth camp on Ut¿ya island. Sixty-nine people died and dozens more were injured in one of the worst peacetime shooting massacres by a single gunman

In the judge's ruling, the father was described as a "loving" and "intelligent" father who held deep hatred for the Children's Aid Society of Ottawa. The ruling noted that the man had "angry outbursts" at CAS workers and threatened to go on a hunger strike if he lost custody of his sons. The ruling also noted that the father didn't know his own strength, with child-welfare workers re-porting that they felt pain from his handshake alone. Continue Reading Under the ruling it has been said that there was no signs of physical abuse, or neglect. That his home was suitable for the children (with conjecture about the possibility of having to take in housemates to pay the rent in the future). Superior Court Justice M. James said in his ruling: "(The father) also has achieved stability in his personal life. He has lost a substantial amount of weight through daily intensive exercise and dieting. (The father's) weight loss regime is itself a full-time job. So is parenting two high-needs children. One will inevitably have to give ground to the other." The judge noted child-welfare workers' concerns, saying: "His weight loss depends on an intensive daily exercise program. Parenting responsibilities will likely make it much more difficult for him to maintain his exercise schedule. He would be a single parent to two high-needs children in circumstances where a skilled, two-parent family would be challenged to cope."

After quietly testing Predator drones over the Bahamas for more than 18 months, the Department of Homeland Security plans to expand the unmanned surveillance flights into the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico to fight drug smuggling, according to U.S. officials. The move would dramatically increase U.S. drone flights in the Western Hemisphere, more than doubling the number of square miles now covered by the department's fleet of nine surveillance drones, which are used primarily on the northern and southwestern U.S. borders.

Fresh from performing at Science Gallery in Dublin last night during the opening of Hack the City, an English group of urbanists, technologists and architects who created GPS-enabled quadcopter drones, were held at London Southend Airport on suspicion of terrorism and recorded under the UK's Terrorism Act. The group, known as Tomorrows Thoughts Today, had been performing their Electronic Countermeasures robotic ballet in the sky show at Science Gallery for the opening of the three-month Hack the City exhibition in Dublin City.

Oink! Oink! Oink!- No, I've not lost my marbles but, perhaps, some veterinary medicine folks may have.- Pigs now are in line for a new veterinary vaccine with two applications.- The first dose is the primer; the second stimulates the response.- The vaccine is Improvest¨ developed by Pfizer Animal Health.- I guess since vaccines are so profitable in humans, why not go after the money pot hiding within veterinary medicine. It seems some market-dressed pig meat, a.k.a. pork, gives off an unpleasant aroma, boar taint, which farmers and U.S. veterinarians want to control.- Question: Aren't pigs supposed to be pigs and smell?

This research, published in the journal Science, is the second of two controversial studies to finally be released that examines how the H5N1 bird flu virus can be genetically altered and transmitted in mammals. Publication of both studies had been delayed many months due to fears that the research could be misused and become a bio-security threat.

This research, published in the journal Science, is the second of two controversial studies to finally be released that examines how the H5N1 bird flu virus can be genetically altered and transmitted in mammals. Publication of both studies had been delayed many months due to fears that the research could be misused and become a bio-security threat.