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Max Keiser: “You have to look at a country like Iceland that were sold a bunch of bogus bonds by Wall Street and the city of London. The Kroner collapsed, the people are revolting in Iceland, the people are starving in Iceland — this is what’s going to happen in Korea, in China and even to America. Effectively the speculators, the borrowers have taken the system hostage…the banks in America have taken the US economy hostage and they have a gun to the head of the American economy.

AFP.COM
Nearly 230 people were arrested early on Sunday as thousands of hardcore South Korean protesters rallying against moves to resume US beef imports fought running battles with police. Riot police carrying shields used water canon and scuffled with angry demonstrators as they broke up an attempt to march on the presidential office overnight, detaining 228. The clashes followed mass protests late on Saturday when some 20,000 people joined a candlelit vigil against the government’s decision to import US beef again after an initial ban in 2003 over mad cow fears. More

Protest in S. Korea over president Lee Myung-Bak’s deal with U.S. to import Specified Risk Material (SRM) from old cattles, which are known to pose significant risk of vCJD (mad cow disease) to humans.

english.chosun.com
Researchers have found that strains of bird flu found in Korea and Japan this year are almost genetically the same. The National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service said Wednesday that the genetic makeup of a strain of bird flu sampled from chickens in Gimje, South Jeolla Province was 99.7 percent identical to a sample from swans found in Japan’s Akita prefecture. The finding gives grounds to analysis that the latest outbreak of avian influenza may have originated from migratory birds.

Kim Jae-hong, a professor of veterinary medicine at Seoul National University, said that viruses over 99 percent genetically the same are considered the same strain. This substantiates assumptions that migratory birds spread the virus on their way north in March and April after spending the winter in Southeast Asia. Read more