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PARIS/BRUSSELS, April 27 (Reuters)

The virus spreading around the world should not be called "swine flu" as it contains avian and human components and no pig has so far been found ill with the disease, the world animal health body said on Monday. It would be more logical to call the virus "North American influenza", a name based on its geographic origin like the Spanish influenza, a human flu pandemic with animal origin that killed more than 50 million people in 1918-1919.

"The virus has not been isolated in animals to date. Therefore it is not justified to name this disease swine influenza," the Paris-based World Organisation for Animal Health, also known as the OIE, said in a statement. The European Commission said that the virus was not linked with pork. Robert Madelin, director-general of the Commission's health and food safety department, said in Brussels that no European Union trade restrictions on imports were planned since swine flu had nothing to do with the food chain.

The EU only imports insignificant numbers of live pigs and pigmeat products are not seen as a disease threat. The World Health Organization has ruled out any risk of infection from consuming pork, saying swine flu has not been shown to be transmissible to people through eating properly handled and prepared pork, or other products derived from pigs. Fears of a global flu pandemic grew after 103 people were killed in Mexico and new infections were found in the United States and Canada and possible cases as far afield as Europe, Israel and New Zealand.

The OIE, an intergovernmental organisation, warned that if the virus was shown to cause disease in animals, this could worsen the regional and global public health situation. Denmark, a major pork producer that exported nearly 2 million tonnes of pigmeat in 2008, said on Monday it was not putting any extra controls in place on pigs or introducing extra measures relating to pork production as a result of the flu threat.

The Danish food and agriculture ministry also said it had not received any information from the industry suggesting pork demand had been hit by concerns arising from the virus. It said it would monitor the situation closely in coming days.

Fears there could be a global flu pandemic which would hurt fragile world economies led to a broad-based decline in stocks, oil and other commodity markets on Monday. Grain and oilseed markets fells sharply on concern that the outbreak could reduce feed demand for pigs.

(Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide in Paris, additional reporting by Jeremy Smith in Brussels and Anna Ringstrom in Copenhagen, editing by Anthony Barker)

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The credit crisis has been given many excuses, ranging from too many people spending beyond there means, to investments gone wrong and even failed trade agreements.

Put simply, it's the banks who loaned the credit (not money) and allowed it to that which could be given the exmaple of a drug addict to credit, to tick-up credit with the dodgy dealing bank, to get there next fix so someone could get a plasma, mortgage and car etc which the bank knows most of there applicants could not afford to pay back.

I mean an example is that most university students who make about $150 a week in N.Z from student allowance living costs, getting the bank saying here's a credit card for $5000, then another bank doing the same, then a finance company allowing around $2000 loaned, possibly more, so a total of $12,000 debt from one student. Did the bank assess this thinking the student would become a doctor or lawyer who could repay this? No, because most would take a part time job afterwards in some dodgy fast food place or call centre close to minimum wage in order to survive, and in turn these places hire and fire quicker than they over sales most of the time. They may end up at a WINZ office, and WINZ will push them onto anything other than unemployment to keep the unemployment benefit numbers down, so someone could then be falsifying a mental illness and be drugged up on med's to get by on direction from the government. I have interviewed many people like this or they pass uni and go oversea's only to come back not long after in a worse case and paying back IRD so much money and still the banks on the amount of thin air credit loaned and then interest to kill there wages.

This is the banks faults, its the big companies making a killing literally in some cases like weapons manufacturers, fast food outlets, oil companies and so on who market more and more there products and services which are made by P.R to look essential and con people into debt by credit.

Banks work from other deposits normal people make in good faith thinking 'we trust our bank', banks should be an optional service, not compulsory for your wages to be done as a commercial transaction, they (the banks) gain interest on the money in balance in there banks and loan out credit which is not based of there own books, but these deposits as some do know this harsh truth.

It's much the same with the reserve bank it has no real money but now will based on bonds, credit issued in the form of paper bills printed to the crown then passed to us. The national debt as its called.

To make the elite crash happen quicker everyone could withdraw all there money, buy a safe and store there own money and invest in gold, but remember last time people did this, the U.S government issued prohibition on gold, they did much the same on alcohol and tobacco. The N.Z government would likely follow, hence the guaranteed deposit scheme hoo-haa that most banker controlled states and nations of the western world are doing and have done.

Kiwibank currently is running somewhat anti-aussie-bank ad's, well Kiwibank is in debt if you look at logically, its government owned, which i would support nationalization as opposed to privatization of capitialist foreign powers,but anyway the crown owes the national debt, the citizens and persons who are registered with stock certificates as a security interest (birth certificates) vest debt based on liability to pay such things like compulsory taxes and fee's, foreign examples include insurances.

This in turn gives people less wealth and more wealth in the hands of the banks and governments as these are processed in N.Z prior to clearance, i mean tax is deducted before you can withdraw your pay, as is the case via PAYE, student loans, kiwisaver, ACC levies, other taxes, child support, court fines and possibly more examples. So the individual has alot less than what starts off, it puts wealth again to clarify out of the hands of the worker. Then to note this worker pays his or her bills and is expected to live, at this point they could be able to afford other things but if not a life on credit is led by a large flock of sheep in example. No one ever believed someone cried wolf, oops i mean banks.

So the N.Z elections are over, John Key smiles in victory that the National obtained most of the party vote.

I said prior to Helen Clark's step down speech she would step down, just take a look back at Brash, Shipley etc, they normally will do on a loss.

I don't like either Helen or John, and yes i'm glad Winston 'dodgy dealing' Peters is gone.

I hope this serves as a reminder that John Key used to be in the financial sector, so the banks have it in there best interest to have a face like him at forefront of N.Z.

Also to remember, lets see if tax cuts come, faster broadband with fibre-optic to the home ever happens and that I.T guru Maurice Williamson was once sympathetic to Telecom being regulated into LLU.

Ultimately let's see if privatization occurs, because in third world countries whenever they have privatized there energy, telecomm's if they exist, water and so on, the foreign corporations who bid for it, say the usual crap of more competition is better for business, bearing in mind better for there business profits, not a care given to the people they should serve, as they have nothing in common with that people and it's not there homeland either, which is why as such foreign police are often recruited. Less a conscious to get what work is ordered done to the oversight of upper management, in the case of John one could say the banks and co.

Let us learn from the mistakes of others marked in history whether published or forgotten, as in the next four years, things are going to get worse.

The decision to lay new charges against five of the Urewera activists has been described as "ludicrous" by supporters of the defendants.

Global Peace and Justice spokesman John Minto said authorities had "failed to brand" the activists as terrorists so the charges were nothing more than an attempt to "brand them as criminals".

Tame Iti, Emily Bailey, Urs Signer, Tuhoi Lambert and Whiri Kemara are all expected to be charged within the next few weeks with participating in a criminal gang.

The charge, which carries a maximum penalty of five years' imprisonment, will be added to firearm charges the individuals are already facing.

Those charges were laid more than a year ago against 17 people who were alleged to have participated in weapons-training camps around the country.

Police had originally wanted to charge the group under the Terrorism Suppression Act but that was not allowed by the Solicitor-General, who said the legislation was flawed.

Yesterday, politicians were reluctant to comment on the new charges. Prime Minister Helen Clark and National leader John Key had no comment to make, while Police Minister Annette King said the first she knew about it was when she read the story in the Herald yesterday morning.

Iti said he had been told not to talk to the media about the latest charges and referred all queries to his lawyer, Annette Sykes. Ms Sykes did not return the Weekend Herald's calls.

"Why lay these charges more than a year after the arrests?" asked Mr Minto। "It seems the police will leave no stone unturned in trying to make the case look more serious than it is and in the process to salvage some credibility from the hopeless mess they have got themselves into."

- NZ Herald

Fresh charges are to be laid against some of those seized in the Urewera police raids - more than a year after they were arrested.

Five of the 18 people arrested during the nationwide operation last October are to face new allegations of participating in a criminal gang.

One of the five is Maori activist Tame Iti.

The charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and has angered supporters of the accused, who claim the Government is trying to save face after failing in an attempt to bring charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act.

Seventeen of the 18 defendants charged with firearms offences were committed to trial last month.

They were alleged to have participated in weapons-training camps at various locations around the country.

But the Crown has added new charges of participating in a criminal gang in a draft indictment sent to lawyers of five of the accused.

The new charge would be laid under section 98A of the Crimes Act and is expected to be added to the list of charges the five already face.

Because it is more serious than the firearms charges, it will have to be heard in the High Court.

A group called Justice Now Collective, which is supporting the accused and their families, last night reacted angrily to the new charges saying they were "a desperate attempt by the Government to save face after the Solicitor-General found insufficient evidence to bring charges under the Terrorism Suppression Act".

Police originally wanted to charge all of the accused with offences under the Terrorism Suppression Act but that was not allowed by Solicitor-General David Collins, QC, who said the legislation was flawed.

Instead police laid firearms-related charges under the Arms Act.

All but one of the 18 who were originally charged were committed to trial on those charges at a depositions hearing in the Auckland District Court last month.

More than 300 charges were heard at that hearing.

Some charges, relating to three of the alleged camps, were dismissed by Judge Mark Perkins, who found there was insufficient evidence to support them.

But Crown Prosecutor Ross Burns said last night the crown would be re-laying those charges in the same indictment with the new charges.

Justice Now Collective spokeswoman Sally Darity criticised that decision.

"This is part of a systematic attack on Maori communities," she said.

"The Government's support of the war on terrorism in the passage of a raft of anti-terrorism laws and expanded police and Security Intelligence Service budgets confirm their agenda to control the population through surveillance and brutal repression of any genuine dissent."

The Crown is entitled to reinstate charges if it believes there is sufficient evidence to support them, as not all available evidence is presented at a depositions hearing.

The other four defendants facing the new charge are Emily Bailey, Urs Signer, Tuhoi Lambert and Whiri Kemara.

A YEAR ON
* October 15, 2007: Police raid several properties including suspected weapons-training camps. Several people are arrested on firearms charges, with the possibility of more serious charges being laid under anti-terrorism laws.
* November 8, 2007: Solicitor General David Collins, QC, rules against the police's application to charge the accused under the Terrorism Suppression Act.
* October 17, 2008: Charges are dropped against one of the accused, Rongomai Pero Bailey. The remaining 17 are on bail awaiting trial.
* October 28: After a month of depositions hearings, the Crown issues an indictment charging five of the accused with participation in a criminal gang under the Crimes Act.

- NZ Herald