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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.”

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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.

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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.

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