Computerworld | A Level 6 alert means that company officials will be asked by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to undertake a number of efforts to fight any pandemic — including the appointment of a workplace pandemic coordinator or team.

Eco Waste Solutions | Eco Waste Solutions has announced the presentation of a $4.5 million global contract with NATOto design and build four containerized mobile incinerator packages for delivery over the next nine months.

Washington’s Blog | The theory seems to be that a downbeat social mood leads to both a bear market and susceptibility to disease.

ACLU | The document characterized the “diversity” surrounding a Virginia military base and the state’s “historically black” colleges as possible recruiting grounds for terrorists.

KTUU | Over the past two weeks, 11 schools have participated in an exercise to distribute the chicken pox vaccine to students.

Reuters | The World Health Organization is expected to move quickly to designate a full pandemic — at level 6 of its 6-point scale — within days to reflect the continuing spread of swine flu among people who have not been to Mexico, including in Europe.

BBC | Russia has confirmed Nato has expelled two of its diplomats from Brussels, reportedly in retaliation for a spy scandal involving an Estonian official.

Rady Ananda | How serious should we take mainstream media’s hysteria about 0.00000189 of Mexico’s total population contracting swine flu?

JB Williams | No imagination is required to think up a whole laundry list of evil that could be done with a nationwide GPS grid of coordinate’s markers painted on every private home across the country.

Paul Joseph Watson | Legal analyst says Americans would be willing to give up rights.

LA Times | Genetic data indicate this outbreak won’t be as deadly as that of 1918, or even the average winter.

Glenn Greenwald | “And the banks — hard to believe in a time when we’re facing a banking crisis that many of the banks created — are still the most powerful lobby on Capitol Hill. And they frankly own the place.”

12.160Mhz | Many scientists say Tamaflu is ineffective against this current designer virus.

USA Today | The World Health Organization raised its global alert level to phase 5, just one level below 6, or “global pandemic.”

New York Times | A growing number of big-city police departments and other law enforcement agencies across the country are embracing a new system to report suspicious activities.

Bloomberg | The U.S. economy plunged again in the first quarter, making this the worst recession in at least half a century.

WRAL | Sixteen-year-old Ashton Lundeby’s bedroom in his mother’s Granville County home is nothing, if not patriotic. Images of American flags are everywhere – on the bed, on the floor, on the wall.

UPI | Dutch TV station ntv said two people were killed and 14 injured, but officials have not yet released figures.

MSNBC | Biden said today he would tell his family members not to use subways in the U.S. and implied schools should be shuttered.

Paul Joseph Watson | Up to 25 times more victims than official figure, hospitals overwhelmed, virus already at level 6 pandemic phase.

Russia TV | Investigative journalist from Washington Wayne Madsen says the outbreak of the swine flu virus is raising suspicions that it is manufactured.

Kurt Nimmo | Earlier this evening, Alex Jones’ flagship website, Infowars.com, came under a concerted denial of service (DoS) attack.

MSNBC | The World Health Organization raised its pandemic alert for swine flu to the second highest level Wednesday, meaning that it believes a global outbreak of the disease is imminent.

Sky News | The World Health Organisation will reportedly raise the swine flu alert level to five, the second highest level.

The Truth Will Set You Free | Wall Street must be drooling over the amount of money this is going to generate.

Press TV | Influential Israeli lobby group in the US, AIPAC is to push for a newly crafted resolution designed to choke off Iranian gas imports.

F. William Engdahl | It remains to be seen if the Obama Administration will exploit the scare around so-called Swine Flu.

| FBI agents claimed in an e-mail that Bush signed an executive order approving the use of military dogs, sleep deprivation and other harsh tactics to intimidate Iraqi detainees.

Office of Gov. Perry | The disaster declaration allows the state to implement emergency protective measures in response to this public health threat.

CanWest News Service | American officials confirmed Wednesday the first swine flu death in the U.S.

Michael Cooney | DARPA awarded Lockheed Martin Aeronautics a $400 million contract to design, build, test and flight-demonstration of the 1/3-scale airship.

Australian | Britain appears to be evolving into the first modern soft totalitarian state.

Infowars | S18 gives the Governor the power to authorize martial law.

Kurt Nimmo | Obama was out of the loop and forced to engage in damage control.

Paul Joseph Watson | BATF and FBI to forcibly detain Americans despite only 7 confirmed swine flu deaths in Mexico.

Russia Today | Alex comments on Obama’s first 100 days in office.

Russia Today | Reviewing his policy, the election honeymoon was not that sweet to begin with and many in the US seem disappointed. Prominent economist Paul Craig Roberts is among those.

Infowars | A cartoon from an issue of the Chicago Tribune, circa 1934, during the Great Depression.

Florida Times-Union | During the past week, the troops — Marines from the U.S. and six countries including Canada — worked together at Camp Blanding, fast-roping out of helicopters, firing weapons and sharing tactics.

Russia Today | Five years ago Professor Dmitry Lvov gave a detailed description of how a deadly pandemic flu virus was on the horizon.

L.A. Times | Los Angeles County coroner’s office is investigating two recent deaths that officials say could be related to the recent global swine flu outbreak.

Fox News | One page has parents taking the colors away. It’s an illustration of the World Trade Center Towers in New York.

Infowars | Emergency management and their counterparts in Guadalupe County, Texas, prepared for a mass vaccination program in the event of a pandemic.

Steve Watson | State refuses to divulge details of cases.

Aaron Dykes | It would be comedic– if it weren’t so serious. Al Gore & co. are trying to push through a very serious, burdensome carbon tax and yet the chairman of the subcommittee, Rep. Ed Markey cuts off every single member who attempts to raise questions or challenge Gore’s claims in any way, shape or form.

Reuters | A container of flu virus samples packed in dry ice exploded on a Swiss train, injuring one person but posing no other risks to humans.

Jurriaan Maessen | The great myth of Anthropogenic Global Warming was created and covered with the subtle sauce of science to give the whole thing an air of credibility.

Wall Street Journal | Mexico ordered schools and universities closed across the country, affecting some 33 million people.

Infowars | “A system of limitless individual choices, with respect to communications, is not necessarily in the interest of citizenship and self-government,” writes Obama’s nominee for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.

Kurt Nimmo | History is replete with examples of government using biological and chemical agents for political purpose.