And now, a word from General Electric…

Kneel before Zod!

My fellow Americans…

We here at GE feel it important to take a moment, pause from your Gulf Coast coverage to remind everyone out there why we here at General Electric love America.

Simply, because all you people out there, our trusty employees, our consumers and our NBC viewers, you people will read what follows in the coming paragraphs, maybe get upset about it for a minute or two, but then go about your business soon enough.

We here at GE are counting on you…

By now, you may have heard the story about how General Electric, the largest corporation in America made profits of over $13 billion dollars without paying a dime in taxes; we actually received a rebate of $3.2 billion dollars from your very own government.

It’s true…amazing, but true.

Our tax guys are really good…how much in taxes did you pay last year?

I know, I know…frustrating isn’t it, especially considering how the Dems and GOP are getting together these days to talk about how broke the country is, demanding all those cuts in services to you people, cutting away all those programs that help the least fortunate in this, our great country…stuff like Energy Assistance, Medicaid, Planned Parenthood, (Social Security…shhhh) and don’t forget the unions. Remember everybody, it’s the unions that are bankrupting this great land, with their demands for livable wages or health insurance that actually covers health care, maybe even something to retire on.

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General Wesley Clark: : America will take out 7 countries in 5 years

According to Former NATO supreme allied , former presidential candidate and 4 stars US general Wesley Clark that they received a memo years ago telling them that American is going to take out 7 countries in the middle east in 5 years starting with Iraq Syria Lebanon Libya Sudan and Somalia , seeing what's going on today in Libya but also in Syria where violent protest just errupted , it is

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The Clown US Surgeon General And Her Tinfoil Hat

Do you remember Regina Benjamin? You know, the US Surgeon General who, in December, declared from a position of certainty that just one wisp of smoke from someone else's cigarette could kill you? Well, it would seem that her love of quite ludicrous health scares has landed her in another spot of bother.

While the media froth at the mouth in hopeful anticipation of a nuclear disaster, many have been pointing out that there has been something of an over-reaction going on.

So the jury is definitely out as to whether Japanese people local to the Fukushima plant might suffer some radiation problem but, some 12,000km away in San Francisco, poor Regina - aww, bless - has come under fire for describing panic buying of radiation pills by west coast Americans as not extreme and downright stupid, but "a precaution, yeah".

Hmm, well kinda. Except that there is nothing much to be precautionary about.

The interim director of the California Department of Public Health, Dr. Howard Backer, and the acting secretary of the California Emergency Management Agency, Mike Dayton, issued a joint statement about the pills:

We urge Californians to not take potassium iodide as a precautionary measure. It is not necessary given the current circumstances in Japan, it can present a danger to people with allergies to iodine, shellfish or who have thyroid problems, and taken inappropriately it can have serious side effects including abnormal heart rhythms, nausea, vomiting, electrolyte abnormalities and bleeding.

So it would appear that Regina's tinfoil hattery has had the opposite effect ... she may be risking the public's health by being such a panic-stricken loon.

Perhaps prompted by the guffaws at Regina's woeful incompetence, her office has issued a 'clarification' of her comments.

"She commented that it is always important to be prepared however she wouldn’t recommend that anyone go out and purchase KI for themselves at this time. She further commented that it’s important for residents who have concerns to listen to state and local health authorities"

Which bears no resemblance to what she said as she was bumbling her inept way through the televised interview.
Seeing as it's Comic Relief tomorrow, perhaps Lenny Henry could pop a big squidgy red nose in the post to Regina so she can be more easily recognisable as she goes about her daily duties.

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Ops Center Open, “Response Teams on Standby” in CA, says Surgeon General

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Responding to a question regarding the appropriateness of the opening of the California Joint Emergency Operations Center in response to the radiation leak in Japan, U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin said today in San Francisco, “We have to be prepared”. She went on to say, “…but if we don’t need them, then that’s OK”.

Regina Benjamin’s statements sounded as though she may be a ‘prepper’ herself, statements that reflected a rational, logical, and preparedness minded set of priorities.

Further quotes from the surgeon general included,

“The more you prepare, the better you can be, the more lives we save.”

“Whatever we can do to try to plan, we just need to be as proactive as we can to try to save lives and keep people healthier.”

“Also, to educate people how to be prepared themselves.”

Regarding the current situation of possible airborne radiation making it’s way to the west coast U.S. from Fukushima Japan, she said, “We need to wait and see, but I do think that we can’t be over-prepared”.

When asked if buying iodine pills was an overreaction, she said we should all be prepared.

(I think I like this Surgeon General)

The U.S. government is obviously preparing for a just-in-case scenario here in California, while at the same time most main-stream-media outlets continue to insist that there is hardly a chance for any negative effects. The later part of the interview reveals the statement about ‘response teams’.

The street side interview of U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin can be viewed here.

U.S. Surgeon General Says, Be Prepared

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