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October 31, 2005

America Terrorized: Bird Flu is coming, expect quarantines

Filed under: misc, US Govt, headline news, bird flu, Vaccines — ben @ 12:56 am

Remember last month when Bush said we might need to impose martial law with the military enforcing quarantines… Tuesday he’s going to give a big speech outlining the details, here’s ABC News with the latest terror report- be very afraid:

The Bush administration’s long-awaited plan on how to fight the next super-flu will likely include beefed-up attempts to spot human infections early, both here and abroad.

Expect recommendations on how to isolate the sick.

ie- Quarantine with military, claim all dissenters are sick with bird flu, then accuse them of threatening lives if they don’t take the gov’t sponsored ‘vaccination’ - even though nobody knows what’s in these vaccinations, just last week 1000 Exxon employees were accidentally vaccinated with a ‘fake flu vaccine‘.

Governors and mayors are on notice to figure out who will actually inject stockpiled vaccines into the arms of panicked people.

People fearing the bird flu or the goon squad with ‘vaccines’?

How to provide food supplies, everyday medical care for people who don’t have the super-flu, basic utilities and even security must be part of the plan, Osterholm and others have counseled the Bush administration.

“In this day and age of a global economy, with just-in-time delivery and no surge capacity and international supply chains those things are very difficult to do for a week, let alone for 12 to 18 months of what will be a very tough time.”

While it is impossible to say when the next super-flu will strike, there have been three pandemics in the last century and influenza experts say the world is overdue.

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October 30, 2005

Speaker Hastert on Oil Companies Price Gouging

Filed under: Iraq, US Govt, Class Warfare, headline news, Peace MP3s — ben @ 12:27 am

The Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert in his very first blog entry:

“while Americans paying were record prices at the pump, energy companies were making record profits.

This is America. And Republicans don’t believe in punishing success. “

Who is Hastert working for, the American People or Oil Company Executives?

pig at the trough

The price of everyday goods is way up, gas is nearly triple what it was before the war, millions of Americans, especially truckers can’t make ends meet, while Exxon earns record profits?! It’s *$#%ing sick!

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October 28, 2005

Oil Companies report record profits, Bush calls for more sacrifice

Filed under: Iraq, US Govt, Class Warfare, headline news — ben @ 8:36 pm

Oil Companies report record profits, 2000 Troops Dead, Bush calls for more sacrifice

Are these stories related?

gas prices flyerBack in April Bush held hands with the Saudi Prince and said, “I wish I could simply wave a magic wand and lower gas prices tomorrow.”

Every year the oil companies have produced even higher record profits, and now it’s almost $10 Billion profit in just 3 months for Exxon. Is this why Bush called for more sacrifice?

the Guardian UK’s Steve Bell painted this classic

All new mp3s can be had via this podcast

Filed under: misc, Peace MP3s — ben @ 8:32 am

For anyone out there that’s downloaded all of the songs on the Peace MP3 page just sign up to this Peace Now Podcast for all future songs I run across, songs to save the world- where it’s not about the money but the message. Like Col Bowman’s audios, spread them far and wide.

… anyone else burn cds and give them away- leave ‘em at gas stations and coffee shops and subway trains… ? I just wish I had more money so I could burn hundreds… maybe someone out there with cash can do it for me- it’s fun… Jay Mankita’s, They Lied is a favorite in the limited feedback I’ve gotten- thanks Jay!

and two more songs to give the podcast a little headstart (- ;
K-Otix: George Bush doesn’t care about black people

October 27, 2005

Retired Air Force Col: They lied to us about the war and about 9/11 itself

Filed under: Iraq, US Govt, headline news, Peace MP3s — ben @ 8:41 pm

A few weeks ago I posted the audio and video from Part 1 of Retired Air Force Col. Robert Bowman’s Speech to Patriotic Americans, here’s Part 2.

To Download, rt-click –> save as [the video] and/or 6.6mb Audio mp3 with cool backing music… here’s the transcript (but you really _must_ listen, he’s that good ;-)

Col. Bowman is running for Congress!
Bowman2006.com

Col. Bowman’s Speech:

As other speakers have said, they knew the American people wouldn’t stand for it, and they said so in their documents, and they said, unless there’s that new Pearl Harbor. Well 9/11 did supply that. And we’ve been lied to not only about the war, but about 9/11 itself.

The Bush administration was warned. They were warned by the Clinton Administration during the transition period, they were warned by the intelligence agencies of eleven other nations, they were specifically warned by one FBI agent that Moussawi was planning on flying a hijacked airliner, “into the World Trade Center.”

They ignored the warnings, more than that, we have mounting evidence that _at least_, they made it impossible for those planes to be intercepted.

If our government had merely done nothing - and I say that as an old interceptor pilot and I know the drill, I know what it takes, I know how long it takes, I know what the procedures are, I know what they were and I know what they changed them to - if our government had merely done nothing and allowed normal procedures to happen on that morning of 9/11, the twin towers would still be standing and thousands of Americans would still be alive. My sisters and brothers, that is treason!

As a combat veteran, I will not stand idly by watch our security destroyed by a President who went AWOL rather than serve in Vietnam. As one who has devoted his life to the security of this country. I will not stand by and watch an appointed President send our sons and daughters around the world to kill Arabs for the oil companies.

Patriotism demands that I speak out and call it by it’s name. It is treason.

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October 25, 2005

Mainstream media covers Britney, ignores leaked poll that Exposes the Big Lie about Iraq

Filed under: Iraq, media silenced, headline news — ben @ 12:15 am

The Big Lie is that Iraqis want our troops to stay and finish the ‘liberation’. The leaked UK poll shows a whopping 82% of Iraqis are opposed to the occupation, and “less than one per cent of the population believes coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in security.” This story is HUGE. It should be the top story in America until all US troops have returned home….

Browsing thru Google News I found dozens of stories about this leaked UK poll, but they were all from Britain, Scotland, China, South Africa, India, Malaysia… not one US network or even local tv station picked up the story that the majority of Iraqis want our troops to leave.

But on the same day Google News had the Washington Post, MSNBC, ABCNews, USAToday, LA Times, and a few dozen local tv stations covered Britney Spears stolen baby photos. (Not one of these same outlets covered the real news about the secret UK poll)

[each image links to a full page pdf with said stories]

What should be done with media outlets (broadcasting on OUR Public Airwaves) that refuse to cover major stories like the fact that most Iraqis want us to leave, while pushing garbage like Britney’s baby photos as ‘news’. I suggest these ‘news’ outlets are complicit in the coverup of The Truth about Iraq, they should have their assets seized and their broadcast license revoked.

October 24, 2005

Democratic Congressman Locates Cajones! Calls for investigation of Bush/Cheney role in Lies that led to war

Filed under: Iraq, US Govt, headline news — ben @ 11:16 pm

Finally a Dem in DC speaking the truth (that has been apparent to millions for quite some time now), Rep Nadler:

“The CIA leak issue is only the tip of the iceberg. This is looking increasingly like a White House conspiracy aimed at misleading our country into war - in part by manufacturing now-refuted evidence in support of its rationale, in part by smearing and silencing critics, and in part by manipulating media complicity. There is mounting evidence that there may have been a well-orchestrated effort by the President, the Vice President, and other top White House officials to lie to Congress in order to get its support for the Iraq War.”

“We are no longer just talking about a Republican culture of corruption and cronyism, we now have reason to believe that high crimes may have been committed at the highest level, wrongdoing that may have led us to war and imperiled our national security.”

This is a very important statement, will the mainstream media cover it? If not, why? Doesn’t that make them complicit in the coverup of these high crimes?

Kucinich: Demand Documents from White House Group that sold The War

Filed under: Iraq, US Govt, headline news — ben @ 10:45 am

Kucinich Uses Resolution Of Inquiry To Demand Documents From White House Group That Developed Strategy To “Sell” War To The Public And Press

“For two-and-a-half years Congress has sat on the sidelines neglecting its oversight responsibility when it has come to Iraq. We owe it to the American people to hold this Administration accountable and to find out the truth.”

It is now public knowledge that these individuals deliberately lied to start a war, of course we must investigate further. Every single Congressperson should be interested in finding out the truth, yet we know they aren’t. It seems that far too many are perfectly willing to disregard their duty and vote to protect their buddies, rather than uncover the truth.

This was sent to committee, where like Barbara Lee’s Res. of Inq on the DSM, this will probably be buried and voted down quietly in a few weeks… unless we raise hell and put a lot of pressure on the 20 or so committee members to vote yes on this and send it to the House for full consideration.

Problem is- I haven’t found which committee they sent it to yet… but the vote must be within 14 legislative days from the day it was introduced, Oct 20th. So, first we find the committee…

October 23, 2005

82 percent of Iraqis “strongly opposed” to the presence of coalition troops

Filed under: Iraq, headline news — ben @ 9:16 pm

from the UK Sunday Telegraph via CommonDreams:

• 82 per cent are “strongly opposed” to the presence of coalition troops;

• less than one per cent of the population believes coalition forces are responsible for any improvement in security;

• 67 per cent of Iraqis feel less secure because of the occupation;

• 43 per cent of Iraqis believe conditions for peace and stability have worsened;

• 72 per cent do not have confidence in the multi-national forces.

The opinion poll, carried out in August, also debunks claims by both the US and British governments that the general well-being of the average Iraqi is improving in post-Saddam Iraq.

Doesn’t this say it all:

82 per cent are “strongly opposed” to the presence of coalition troops

The Iraqi people do not want our troops there, period.

… and unless someone prints this out and takes it to every single member of Congress, they’ll probably never hear about it. Another thing that was revealed by Galloway’s testimony (see here) is that Congress is shielded from important news, several Senators said they had not heard about the missing $9 billion (revealed Jan ‘05) until Galloway mentioned it in his testimony (May ‘05).

October 21, 2005

The #1 Most Buried Story: Halliburton pumping the oil that’s not even metered

Filed under: misc, Iraq, US Govt, media silenced, headline news — ben @ 8:39 pm

No it’s not the Downing Street Memo, or the $9 Billion lost in Iraq, or the 52 warnings before 9/11 (info that was suppressed before the election, which should nullify the election)…

The #1 buried story is the fact that Halliburton has been pumping the oil in Iraq since 2003, and it hasn’t been metered. This was revealed by the Inspector General’s report on the missing $9 billion, and highlighted by Galloway’s awesome testimony before the Senate this May

Have a look at the oil that you didn’t even meter, that you were shipping out of the country and selling, the proceeds of which went who knows where?

Gee, and oil prices have been at all time highs… coincidence?

October 15, 2005

Human Rights Investigator: Troops Starving Iraqis a violation of International Law

Filed under: Iraq, US Govt, headline news — ben @ 9:24 pm

from the BBC

“A drama is taking place in total silence in Iraq, where the coalition’s occupying forces are using hunger and deprivation of water as a weapon of war against the civilian population,” Mr Ziegler told a press conference in Geneva.

He said coalition forces were using “starvation of civilians as a method of warfare.”

“This is a flagrant violation of international law.”

And if you don’t want to believe him, you don’t have to.

A US military spokesman in Baghdad denied the allegations.

October 14, 2005

Iraq’s Civil War- Who benefits?

Filed under: misc, Iraq, headline news — Lula @ 10:40 pm

It has become apparent as the US continues to push the idea that Iraq will fall into civil war without our military occupation, that we are the ones provoking, not preventing it. Take, for instance, the Iraqi consitution that is about to be voted on…
Washington Post

“I’m going to be very sad on the day of the referendum,” said Awad Mudhir, a 35-year-old resident of Thuluyah. “I will consider it the first day of Iraq’s partition.” He shook his head. “My sense is that there’s no hope after that.”

The objection most often voiced by Sunnis is that the constitution’s promise of federalism will split Iraq into a Kurdish north, a Shiite south and a center populated by Sunnis and bereft of the country’s oil.”

Why does it seem like the US puppet government is setting up a US puppet constitution designed to put the oil in the hands of people they can control and set the Iraqi people up for future division?

And then, after the story about the two British troops dressed as Arabs caught attempting to detonate a car bomb last month, Quds Press reports that two American troops have just been caught doing the same thing…

A number of Iraqis apprehended two Americans disguised in Arab dress as they tried to blow up a booby-trapped car in the middle of a residential area in western Baghdad on Tuesday.

Residents of western Baghdad’s al-Ghazaliyah district told Quds Press that the people had apprehended the Americans as they left their Caprice car near a residential neighborhood in al-Ghazaliyah on Tuesday afternoon (11 October 2005). Local people found they looked suspicious so they detained the men before they could get away. That was when they discovered that they were Americans and called the Iraqi puppet police.

Five minutes after the arrival of the Iraqi puppet police on the scene a large force of US troops showed up and surrounded the area. They put the two Americans in one of their Humvees and drove away at high speed to the astonishment of the residents of the area.

Quds Press spoke by telephone with a member of the al-Ghazaliyah puppet police who confirmed the incident.

Why would American and British troops attempt to further violence and provoke civil war in Iraq? Because the people who sent them there based on a pack of lies, want to stay as long as possible. As long as there is violence and ‘civil war’, the occupation can be justified to ‘protect’ the Iraqi people. The longer the occupation goes on, the more money is stolen from the American people and the Iraqis by Halliburton, Bectel and all the war profiteers who coincidentally have close connections with the Bush Administration.

Let’s just hope that justice is finally served through the current investigations,and this entire corrupt regime collapses under the weight of their own greed…

“It looks like a perfect storm,” said Joseph E. diGenova, a Republican and former independent counsel, who noted that so many investigations can weigh on an administration. “People have no idea what happens when an investigation gets underway. It’s debilitating. It’s not just distracting. It’s debilitating. It’s like getting punched in the stomach.”

Now they know how the rest of us feel.

October 13, 2005

It’s Now or Never-The Republican Culture of Corruption must be stopped

Filed under: misc, Katrina, US Govt, headline news, bird flu, Republicans — Lula @ 10:03 pm

Republican Congressman Ron Paul spoke to Alex Jones and as a Washington insider seems to have information that the incredibly corrupt Republican House of Cards is coming down.
interview with Alex Jones

“I think there’s a lot more excitement coming and it’s not going to be good for the Republicans,” stated Paul.

“The things that I hear have to do with Karl Rove and Abramoff and that’s much much worse than anybody would believe and it involves DeLay as well.”

“And that type of an indictment will be much more serious than the indictment of shifting campaign funds around…..there’s some political infighting which could make that really interesting.”

And then there is this damning information about Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist…

“The Associated Press reported on Tuesday that Frist earned tens of thousands of dollars from HCA stock in a partnership controlled by his brother, outside of the blind trusts he created to avoid a conflict of interest.

“It seems that for years, Frist may have misled his constituents and the American people about his health care industry stock holdings and the conflict of interest they created as he drafted our nation’s health care policy,” …

“Within days of Frist’s July stock sale, HCA warned investors about weaker-than-expected financial performance, which sent the stock price spiraling downward by 9 percent in one day.”

Washington Post

Exposing the Republican culture of corruption in Washington, D.C. couldn’t come at a better time, as Bush is asking congress to abolish Posse Comitatus and allow him to set up Martial Law to quarantine US citizens.

Congressman Ron Paul

“To me it’s so strange that the President can make these proposals and it’s even plausible. When he talks about martial law dealing with some epidemic that might come later on and having forced quarantines, doing away with Posse Comitatus in order to deal with natural disasters, and hardly anybody says anything. People must be scared to death.”

Paul, himself a medical doctor, agreed that the bird flu threat was empty fearmongering….”My first reaction going from my political and medical background is that it’s way overly hyped and to think that they have gone this far with it, without a single case in the whole country and they’re willing to change the law and turn it into a military state?”

It seems they are already using New Orleans to try out their military state, setting up Guantanamo at a bus station, forcing people to sleep on concrete and do slave labor…all for being arrested for violating curfew…

Anthony Jack, former detainee, explains

“I was in my yard, and a young white guy came by the gate and I was talking to him and the police came and arrested both of us,” he recounted. “He was outside breaking curfew; I was inside… behind the gate. The police broke my gate down with a pick-ax. They broke it completely off the fence.”

They were then told they could either plead guilty and they would be sentenced to about 40 hours of “community service.” or if they wished the maintain their innocence they would be sent to Hunts Correctional Facility where they could wait as long as 21 days to be processed.

In the end, given the choice between unpaid work and continued incarceration, nearly all chose to plead guilty.

“The police are basically arresting people for curfew violations and public intoxication and just using it as a way to get free labor to clean up the prisons and court houses and the police stations. They’re just using it as a way to get people to do their dirty work for free.”

Brandon Toussaint said he was arrested going from the downstairs of is apartment complex to another apartment upstairs.Toussaint said he had already done a few days of work for the police, cleaning up and painting their facilities.
“If they needed someone to clean up their city, they could have just asked,” he said.

This abuse of power and disregard for the US consitution must be stopped immediately if we are to save what is left of our democracy. Otherwise, Guantanamo might be coming to a town near you.

As Ron Paul suggests…the government is on a delusional power trip that threatens the country.

“These guys are ready to start a war with Iran, Syria, North Korea or China. They can’t possibly do that, it’s so insane, we don’t have the money, we don’t have the troops, we probably don’t even have the ammunition.”

“But, if they are truly delusional they just might do something that’s totally irrational.”

October 12, 2005

Iraq is a Disaster, not a Democracy. 50% of Americans Want Impeachment.

Filed under: misc, Iraq, headline news, Impeach — Lula @ 9:20 pm

It is becoming increasingly clear that democracy will never be a possibility with the US occupation controlling the Iraqi people and their elections. It seems that the new US puppet government is setting up Iraq for a civil war with their unfair treatment of the Sunnis…

Washington Post

“We don’t participate, support or call for any political process as long as the U.S. occupation exists,” Fayadh Muhammed, an association member, said by telephone. “The Sunnis are free to say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ or not to go to the balloting centers at all.”

The draft charter would designate the Kurdish north as a separate federal region with its own government, formalizing the autonomy enjoyed by Kurds there since the Persian Gulf War. It would give the oil-rich, heavily Shiite south the same option.

Many Sunnis strongly oppose that provision, saying it would divide Iraq– creating a Shiite sub-state in the south that would be dominated by neighboring Shiite Iran, and leaving Sunnis stranded in the west and center without political power or natural resources.

There are no easy solutions for the situation in Iraq, but it is clear that our presence is only making things worse, not better. The Iraqi people are not stupid. They know that the US puppet government is not a democracy. In fact, the US does not even appear to be a democracy. 50% of the American people want the Impeachment of George W Bush and Dick Cheney for lying to the American people to start a war of aggression on Iraq.

By a margin of 50% to 44%, Americans say that President Bush should be impeached if he lied about the war in Iraq, according to a new poll commissioned by AfterDowningStreet.org, a grassroots coalition that supports a Congressional investigation of President Bush’s decision to invade Iraq in 2003.

The poll was conducted by Ipsos Public Affairs, the highly-regarded non-partisan polling company. The poll interviewed 1,001 U.S. adults on October 8-9.”

And yet, not one member of congress will call for Impeachment? How can we call this a democracy?commandercuckoobananas
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October 11, 2005

General Asks: What’s Wrong With Cutting And Running?

Filed under: misc, Iraq, headline news — Lula @ 9:07 pm

Gen. (ret.) William E. Odom asks some tough questions of our indefinite occupation of Iraq…
antiwar.com

If I were a journalist, I would list all the arguments that you hear against pulling U.S. troops out of Iraq, the horrible things that people say would happen, and then ask: Aren’t they happening already? Would a pullout really make things worse? Maybe it would make things better.

On civil war. Iraqis are already fighting Iraqis. We created the civil war when we invaded; we can’t prevent a civil war by staying.

The evidence to support his claims grow each and every day as the situation gets worse in Iraq. How many more deaths are we willing to accept, both US and Iraqis before we say enough is enough?

“In the deadliest attack in nearly two weeks, a suicide car bomb exploded at about 11 a.m. in a crowded open market in the northwestern town of Tal Afar, killing 30 Iraqis and wounding 45″

Washington Post

The truth is, we have made NO progress. Bush states that ‘when the Iraqis stand up, we’ll stand down’. The Iraqis that are standing up are the insurgents who are demanding that we end the occupation of their country. After 2 and a half years, there are only 750 trained Iraqi police ’standing up’. At this rate we’ll be in Iraq another three hundred years.

From United Press International

U.S. politicians and policymakers’ perceptions towards the Iraq war have reached another tipping point:

There is now a widespread recognition shared among senior uniformed U.S. military officers and Washington foreign policy analysts that plans to rapidly build up the Iraqi army as a new, independent effective fighting force have failed disastrously.

The Senate heard testimony last week from some of America’s top generals that the war in Iraq is going worse than ever and that only 1 out of 119 Iraqi army and security battalions can operate by itself in combat situations without U.S. military backup.

The Iraqi army consists of 119 battalions.

But the generals’ testimony meant that after two and a half years of U.S. efforts, only 750 men out of 200,000 can be relied upon to operate and obey orders independently in combat situations.

Again Gen. William E. Odom points us in the direction in which all good Americans must turn. With a war based on such obvious lies, polls showing a clear majority wanting to begin withdrawing the troops from Iraq, where is our opposition party? Who is speaking for the will of the American people? How can we pretend to give democracy to Iraq, when we do not appear to have one in the US?

We face a strange situation today where few if any voices among Democrats in Congress will mention early withdrawal from Iraq, and even the one or two who do will not make a comprehensive case for withdrawal now.

Look at John Kerry’s utterly absurd position during the presidential campaign. He said, “It’s the wrong war, in the wrong place, at the wrong time,” but then went on to explain how he expected to win it anyway. Even the voter with no interest in foreign affairs was able to recognize it as an absurdity. If it was the wrong war at the wrong place and time, then it was never in our interests to fight. If that is true, what has changed to make it in our interests? Nothing, absolutely nothing.

The wisest course for journalists might be to begin sustained investigations of why leading Democrats have failed so miserably to challenge the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

October 7, 2005

Cheney warns of ‘decades of war’

Filed under: misc, Iraq, US Govt — ben @ 8:26 pm

cheney decadesAccording to Dick Cheney, the ‘war on terror’ is going to last decades…. because the terrorists only hope for power is the continued spread of violence.

Unbelievable! Who is threatening the world with ‘pre-emptive nuke attacks’, who launched this unnecessary war in Iraq- Dick and Bush- they are the ones that need the continued spread of violence to remain in power.

related mp3- Dubya vs Robert Fisk
(in his inaugural address- bush says he made the commitment to liberate the middle east from tyranny, and it will take generations- he didn’t put it like that during the election campaign- isn’t that false advertising?)

Bird flu used as an excuse to scrap Posse Comitatus and impose martial law? Cui bono? Who benefits?

Filed under: misc, US Govt, headline news, bird flu, Vaccines — Lula @ 12:09 am

Cui Bono is the question we should all be asking. If Bush were interested in protecting the American people, he would be looking into who spread Tularemia in DC during the protest. Isn’t that why the Homeland Security department was created? Isn’t that why they were checking the air filters in the first place? They found a biological weapon, but are doing nothing about it? Instead he’s looking into a way to impose martial law. It sure does seem like he wants an outbreak, perhaps tried to create one with Tularemia? It is hard not to be suspicious.

“This would be a heck of alot easier if this were a dictatorship, so long as I am the dictator” George W Bush

Tularemia (Rabbit fever) bacteria detected on Washington Mall during recent anti-war protest

George W. Bush responded to a question about the danger of a bird flu pandemic by stating he wants the authority to use the military to enforce mandatory quarantine zones in areas infected by the virus. Bush wants Congress to overturn the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, originally enacted to limit the military’s role in domestic law enforcement in the post-Civil War South.

White House answer to bird flu outbreak: send in the military and declare martial law. Welcome to the Fourth Reich.

Essentially, instead of addressing the need to stockpile vaccines like Tamiflu and coordinate the activities of the Centers for Disease Control, National Institutes of Health, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and the U.S. Public Health Service, Bush wants to declare martial law and suspend the Constitution in the event of a bird flu outbreak.

Bush’s amazing grasp of the subject of the potential pandemic: “The reporting needs to be not only on the birds that have fallen ill, but also on tracing the capacity of the virus to go from bird to person, to person. That’s when it gets dangerous, when it goes bird-person-person.”

An anthrax attack on Congress during Patriot Act passage, tularemia found during anti-war demonstrations, bird flu being used as an excuse to scrap Posse Comitatus and impose martial law? Cui bono? Who benefits?

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October 6, 2005

A Flood of Fraud- Corruption gone wild

Filed under: misc, Katrina, US Govt, headline news — Lula @ 11:17 am

3,000 city employees are fired in New Orleans, meanwhile government cronies are stealing the money set aside for aid and reconstruction. How much will the American people take before we say enough is enough?

FEMA has contracted with Carnival Cruise Lines, to the tune of $192 million, to house hurricane evacuees on three cruise ships.

The result, according to the senators: “Taxpayers are paying, per evacuee, four times the amount a vacation cruise passenger would have to pay. Three Carnival ships are only half full and mostly occupied by relief workers. Carnival’s overhead costs in the FEMA operation are far lower than during normal cruises. The Carnival ships are docked. No fuel is being used and no entertainment is being provided to the relief workers. Yet, taxpayers are paying $2,550 per guest per week, which is four times the cost of a $599 per person ‘7 Day Western Caribbean’ Cruise from Galveston, Texas.”

common dreams

Did Bush administration attack peace movement with military grade biological bacteria?

Filed under: misc, US Govt, headline news — Lula @ 11:06 am

Is the government protecting us or what? Homeland security needs to immediately test this strain of tularemia to find out whether it is natural or military grade. It is hard to imagine how wild bunnies managed to spread germs to 6+ air filters around DC on one day, coincidentally the day 300,000 anti-war protesters were in town.

What do we make of the Saturday, October 1 Washington Post headline “Poison Found in Air During Anti-War Protest”?

Washington D.C. Public Health Director Greg A. Pane posed the right question in the Post article, “Why that day? That’s what is not explained.” Pane pointed that it was “just this 24-hour period and none since.”

The Post noted that Pane found “. . . it was puzzling that the finding was from a day when the mall was packed with people.”

Puzzling? Indeed. Biohazard sensors detected tularemia bacteria at the mall on Saturday, September 24.

Tularemia is one of six major bacterial bioterrorism agents, according to the Sherlock Bioterrorism Library serving the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Ft. Detrick, Maryland.

The BBC notes that tularemia is “one of the most infectious germs known to science,” and that it “takes just 10 microbes to bring on disease in humans.”

Unfortunately, tularemia has been long used as a military biological weapon. We should consider the presence of tularemia a shot across the bow to the peace movement from an administration willing to cheat, steal, torture, lie and kill to further its political agenda. Karl Rove, the president’s brain, brags of his worship of Machiavelli and will do anything to keep his Texas prince in power.

This history of tularemia suggests it is a long-standing weapon used by fascists, militarists and authoritarians.

cheneylauging

freepress

New Avian Flu Coordinator Grossly Overstates Possible Death Toll First Day In Office

Filed under: misc, headline news, bird flu — Lula @ 10:55 am

His first day in office the new guy begins fear mongering at a press conference. The US spreads the scare far and wide, the senate asks for 4 billion, and now Bush is using it to demand an end to Posse Comitatus and impose martial law. Who hired this guy?

Dr. David Nabarro, named on Thursday as the UN coordinator for global readiness against an outbreak, had said that the world response would determine whether a flu virus ends up killing 5 million or as many as 150 million.

“There is obvious confusion, and I think that has to be straightened out. I don’t think you will hear Dr. Nabarro say the same sort of thing again,” WHO influenza spokesman Dick Thompson told a news briefing.

But he(Dick Thompson) also said the WHO believes the estimate of 2 million to 7.4 million deaths, based on a study by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “is the most reasoned position,” according to a Reuters report.

As quoted by AFP, Thompson also told reporters, “We can’t be dragged into further scare-mongering.”

Is it possible that someone is using the Avian bird flu for their own purposes? Bush wants to use it to get rid of Posse Comitatus, and it appears that congress is using it to give a gift to the pharmaceutical companies. While congress is allocating 3.1 billion to treat 20 million people, Finland is paying 25 million to treat 5 million.

bellaciao

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