A Day in the Life: 4/29/9
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April 29, 2009
Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens for Legitimate Government
28 Apr 2009
http://www.legitgov.org/
All links are here:
http://www.legitgov.org/#breaking_news
Involuntary quarantine an option if swine flu explodes into epidemic
28 Apr 2009 Quarantine may seem the stuff of mediocre melodramas, but
if the swine flu explodes into an epidemic, involuntary isolation
could become a reality for more than a few unlucky Americans... The
federal government can declare a state of emergency. But the power to
isolate or quarantine citizens, rests in the hands of the states, or
in some cases, local governments. In a health emergency, people can
be forced into isolation or quarantine without the government getting
a court order first. [See CLG items: DoD to carry out 'military
missions' during pandemic, WMD attack 08 Mar 2009 and DoD to 'augment
civilian law' during pandemic or bioterror attack 11 May 2007.]
California declares a state of emergency over swine flu --Governor,
L.A. County declare state of emergency 28 Apr 2009 Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger (R) today proclaimed a state of emergency over the
spread of swine flu, expediting state agency responses to the
outbreak. The proclamation orders all state agencies to use staff and
equipment to help the Department of Public Health under coordination
of the California Emergency Management Agency. The order suspends
rules requiring competitive bids for services, material, personnel
and equipment needed to respond to this [US generated] outbreak and
waives some certification requirements for public health laboratories
to help in the statebs expansion of testing capabilities. [Heads up!
US pharma-terrorists are poised to make an even bigger killing than
those who benefited from the 9/11 terror attacks (Rudy Giuliani,
Lucky Larry), the Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan oil/gas/opium pipelines
(Bush, Cheney Halliburton, etc.), and the Wall Street bailout.]
KBR awarded Homeland Security contract worth up to $385M 24 Jan 2006
KBR said Tuesday it has been awarded a contingency contract from the
Department of Homeland Security to supports its Immigration and
Customs Enforcement facilities in the event of an emergency. The
maximum total value of the contract is $385 million and consists of a
1-year base period with four 1-year options. The contract provides
forestablishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to
expand existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program
facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the
U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs, KBR said.
The contract may also provide migrant detention support to other
government organizations in the event of an immigration emergency, as
well as thedevelopment of a plan to react to a national emergency,
such as a natural disaster, the company said.
Obama seeks $1.5 billion for swine flu 28 Apr 2009 President Barack
Obama asked Congress on Tuesday for an additional $1.5 billion to
fight swine flu as the confirmed caseload jumped to 65 people across
six states in what doctors fear may become a pandemic. Lawmakers
convened an emergency hearing on Capitol Hill to assess the
government's preparedness for a more severe outbreak.
Scientists in global race to turn swine flu virus into a vaccine --
Pharmaceutical companies prepare for WHO call to start producing
prevention treatment for swine flu 28 Apr 2009 A global race to
prepare a vaccine 'against' swine flu was under way yesterday as
health officials confirmed that the disease had spread to at least
seven countries. The World Health Organisation has contacted vaccine
manufacturers, who are on standby to produce the vaccine should the
virus continue to spread. A WHO spokesman said it had not yet advised
pharmaceutical companies to begin producing a vaccine, but he
confirmed that work had already begun at collaborating laboratories
in the US.
CDC to mix avian, human flu viruses in pandemic study 14 Jan 2004 One
of the worst fears of infectious disease experts is that the H5N1
avian influenza virus now circulating in parts of Asia will combine
with a human-adapted flu virus to create a deadly new flu virus that
could spread around the world. The Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) will soon launch experiments designed to combine the
H5N1 virus and human flu viruses and then see how the resulting
hybrids affect animals. The goal is to assess the chances that such a
"reassortant" virus will emerge and how dangerous it might be.
Army Investigating Disappearance of Lethal Pathogen at Fort Detrick
23 Apr 2009 The U.S. Army is finishing an investigation into the
disappearance of three vials of a potentially lethal pathogen from
the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at
Fort Detrick, Md., the Washington Post reported today. The inquiry
begun in 2008 by the service's Criminal Investigation Command. The
Venezuelan equine encephalitis virus is considered a possible tool of
bioterrorism, but poses a significantly smaller threat than anthrax
and other disease agents handled at the institute.
U.S. officials want "swine" out of flu name 28 Apr 2009 U.S. pork
producers are finding that the name of the virus spreading from
Mexico is affecting their business, prompting U.S. officials to argue
for changing the name from swine flu. At a news briefing, Homeland
Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Agriculture Secretary Tom
Vilsack took pains to repeatedly refer to the flu as the "H1N1
virus." Israel has already rejected the name swine flu, and opted to
call it "Mexico flu." Jewish dietary laws forbid eating pork. [Right,
it should be called 'Baxter's flu,' or 'Fort Detrick flu,' depending
on which bioterrorists created it.--LRP]
'The swine flu helps illustrate the threat of bioweapons.' Israel
Updates Biodefense Program to Counter Terror Threat 27 Apr 2009
Israel has updated its biological defense efforts to counter threats
from terrorists and regional rivals such as Iran, the Jerusalem Post
reported yesterday. Responding last year to warnings about the danger
posed by weaponized disease agents, the Israeli Defense Ministry
launched a new biological defense research effort at the Ramle-based
headquarters of its Home Front Command. "Israel has the best solution
to this threat in the world," Giora Eiland, former head of the
Israeli national security council, said yesterday. "I can say with
certainty that Israel has prepared a series of steps designed to deal
with biological warfare." ['Weaponized disease agents.' Who would do
that?]
CDC: 'Fully expect we will see deaths' 28 Apr 2009 U.S. health
official said at least five people are hospitalized with swine flu in
the United States and deaths are likely. "I fully expect we will see
deaths from this infection," as swine flu cases are investigated,
said Richard Besser, acting director of the federal Centers for
Disease Control.
Swine flu 'unstoppable,' WHO warns --World Health Organisation says
crisis is at 'turning period' and urges governments to plan for mass
outbreaks 28 Apr 2009 The World Health Organisation warned today that
swine flu can no longer be contained, as the virus spread to Asia and
the Middle East, with the first cases confirmed in New Zealand and
Israel. The virus, an apparently new strain of the H1N1 flu, has now
been confirmed in seven countries, and suspected outbreaks are being
investigated in other places including Ireland, Germany, Italy,
Sweden and Denmark.
WHO raises its pandemic alert level on swine flu 28 Apr 2009 The
World Health Organization raised its global alert level Monday,
signaling the swine flu virus was spreading from human to human in
community outbreaks, but it stopped short of declaring a full-blown
pandemic. Mexico health department spokesman Carlos Olmos confirmed
the move by the WHO to raise the alert level from Phase 3 to Phase 4.
Putting an alert at Phases 4 or 5 signals that the swine flu virus is
becoming increasingly adept at spreading among humans.
Cases of swine flu confirmed in Marin County 28 Apr 2009 (CA) A 60-
year-old Marin County woman and her 20-month-old granddaughter have
been diagnosed with the Bay Area's first confirmed cases of swine
flu, local health officials said Wednesday afternoon.
Swine flu fear for hundreds of NY children --US has more than 60
reported cases of swine flu, mostly in New York City 28 Apr 2009
'Many hundreds' of New York children are sick with suspected swine
flu, it was reported tonight. The news was revealed by city's Health
Commissioner Thomas Frieden. The city's mayor Michael Bloomberg said
the children were separate from those in a suspected outbreak at a
private school in Queens. Mr Bloomberg said that two people were
being treated in hospital with suspected swine flu - a child in the
Bronx and an adult in Brooklyn.
NJ identifies 5 probable swine flu cases 27 Apr 2009 New Jersey
health officials say they've identified five probable cases of swine
flu in people who recently traveled to Mexico and California. The New
Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services said Monday that all
have mild forms of the flu and none has been hospitalized. The
department says it's arranging for confirmatory testing at the
federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
CDC Testing for Possible Cases of Swine Flu in Conn. 28 Apr 2009
Connecticut has two probable swine flu cases that have been sent to
the CDC for testing, Gov. M. Jodi Rell (R) said Tuesday. One is from
an adult in Stratford and the other is an adult in Southbury, both of
whom recently traveled to Mexico. Concerns about swine flu also
closed East Haddam schools after two students who recently returned
from a family trip became ill.
Texas teen recovering from swine flu 28 Apr 2009 High school senior
Hayden Henshaw went to his doctor late last week suffering the
classic achy, sniffly feverishness of a flu bug... The 18-year-old
was among the first confirmed cases of a new flu that combines bird,
swine and human viruses. He and two other classmates at Steele High
School were the earliest confirmed cases in Texas, which now has six
confirmed statewide, and among the first reported cases in the United
States.
UK on alert after suspected swine flu hits Manchester 27 Apr 2009
Health authorities in Manchester are carrying out urgent tests on a
suspected case of swine flu as governments around the world move to
contain the deadly virus. Officials said tests were being carried out
on a Canadian woman who displayed flu-like symptoms while on a visit
to Sale in Greater Manchester.
Sebelius Confirmed, Completing Obama's Cabinet With Flu Leader 28 Apr
2009 Kathleen Sebelius, the Kansas governor who sees her mission as
overhauling U.S. health care, was confirmed today as secretary of
Health and Human Services, the agency directing U.S. efforts against
swine flu. The Senate voted 65-31 to confirm Sebelius, a two-term
Democratic governor.
Satire: Outbreak of Swine Flu in US Traced to Rush Limbaugh By R J
Shulman 28 Apr 2009 The World Health Organization has called it a
"public health emergency of international concern. The swine flu
virus has already infected millions in the United States, sparking
worldwide alarm. The Center for Disease Control in Atlanta announced
on Tuesday that they have traced the origin of the flu to talk show
host Rush Limbaugh. "This is extremely troubling," said Sarah
Tinsdale of the CDC, "as Limbaugh has contact with millions of
Americans every day." (Satire!)
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From: "JP Liggett" <J...@JPLiggett.com>
Date: April 28, 2009 2:54:26 PM GMT-05:00
To: 911Trut...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [SPAM] [911TruthAction] Fw: *****Techniques for Handling
Forced Vaccinations
Special thanks to G. Perry for passing along the information below!
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Some have proposed the possibility that viral outbreaks could be used
as a scam to force vaccinations upon people against their will.
Freedom of choice is fundamental for the dignity and personal rights
of the individual.
The forwarded message below describes how to avoidforced (potentially
toxic) vaccinations.
-------- Original Message --------
Hello, everyone.
Do you recall in 1976 the swine flu vaccine killed 2,300 people in 2
weeks after the federal bureaucrats paid billions for the "free"-to-
public vaccine? The vaccine was pulled and is still in the vaults.
When federal agencies enlarged the AIDS epidemic by contaminating
Hepatitis B Vaccines and, in Africa the Smallpox Vaccines, they
brought AZT out of the vaults and claimed it was good to treat AIDS.
They treated AIDS patients with it and it killed many of them, but the
pharmaceutical companies providing AZT made a great deal of money.
Research the work of Dr. Leonard Horowitz and read the book Bio-
Attack Alert.
With the swine flu, an imaginary "pandemic" is being fostered and
viola, people will flock to take the swine flu vaccine. However,
according t o the Articles of the Geneva Convention, they cannot
force vaccines on anyone, but they may be able to quarantine people
for a few days.
Remember that no vaccine has proved to be truly effective, including
polio. Many such diseases have cycles and polio was down to less than
1% the year before the polio vaccine was issued in 1958. All vaccines
are issue afterthe diseases have diminished and large pharmaceutical
corporations take false credit for cleaning the planet of the
diseases. If polio were a problem, why isn't it an epidemic amongst
third world people who cannot afford and do not take polio vaccines?
Why is polio non-existent in Amish and Mennonite communities where
they don't tak e vaccines?
To help you avoid any forced vaccine here or in any other country, I
have provided 2 pages below to be kept and taken with you. The first
is the letter that the person requiring you to take a vaccine must
sign before you take it. The second page is instructions on how to
handle the situation.
Listed below are links to some of the side effects experienced by
those who have been injected with certain "vaccines".
page 1
ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY
I, the undersigned, having assumed decision-making power
independently, or having been appointed to such, by a government
bureaucracy or corporation controlled by such, do require the
following individual(s): < br>
____________________________________________
to receive the following vaccination(s):
____________________________________________
contrary to laws of this state that provide religious and
philosophical exemptions.
I further agree that the stated individual(s) are in excellent to
perfect health prior to the administration of such immunization(s).
Consistent with this demand, is my personal acceptance of full
responsibility for any and all damages resulting from such
immunizations. As a result, I agree to provide compensation amounting
to $1,000,000 to the family(s) of the persons you are requiring to
receive the aforementioned vaccinations for each resulting vaccine
related injury(s) and/or disease(s) as follows:
Death: http://www.909shot.com/Kids/richie.htm
Sudden infant death syndrome: http://www.909shot.com/Kids/nicky.htm
Shaken baby syndrome: http://www.vaclib.org/basic/sbsindex.htm
Cerebral bleeding: http://www.vaclib.org/basic/sbsrebut.htm
Cancer: http://www.sv40cancer.com/
Tumors: http://www.gulfwarvets.com/virus.htm
Asthma: http://vaccines.net/Asthma/allergie.htm
Auto-immune disease(s): http://healthresearchtoday.com/lupus/
whatislupus.htm
Polio: http://www.909shot.com/Diseases/rotavirus.htm
Bowel blockage: http://www.909shot.com/rotaviru.htm
Autism: http://www.909shot.com/Diseases/Autism.htm
Brain damage: http://www.vacli b .org/news/2006/pentacel.htm
Mental retardation: http://www.vaclib.org/news/2006/pentacel.htm
Crippling arthritis: http://www.vaclib.org/intro/hepbinfo.htm<http://
www.vaclib.org/intro/hepbinfo.htm>
Paralysis: http://www. 9 09shot.com/Kids/terry.htm
Mercury poisoning: http://www.gulfwarvets.com/kids.htm
Diabetes: http://vaccines.net/diabetes.htm
Blindness: http://www.vaclib.org/email/lymefda.htm
Loss of IQ: http://www.vaclib.org/email/autismviera.htm
Pain: http://www.909shot.com/Diseases/hepbcasereports.htm
Seizures: http://www.vaclib.org/email/seizures.htm
Chronic fatigue syndrome: http://healthresearchtoday.com/fibromyalgia/
book_104.htm
Note that many of the above conditions/diseases are incurable by
modern medicine, but easily prevented by abstinence!
Name (print):_______________________________ <
wbr>____Position:__________________
Signature:___________________________________________Date:__________
page 2
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE ACCEPTANCE OF RESPONSIBILITY DOCUMENT
When you receive your passport, it would be wise to request a copy of
Foreign Rules and Regulations, Part 71, Title 42, on immunizations.
The World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva grants American
visitors the right to refuse vaccinations when traveling
internationally.
Remember the basic rule:
No one may vaccinate against an individual's will unless, by so
doing, the enforcer assumes full responsibility for consequences,
both legal and medical.
When traveling abroad, you may secure exemptions from vaccines by
using Clause 83 of the International Sanitary Code, issued by the WHO
and adopted by all its members. It states, in effect, that only when
coming from an infected area are vaccinations necessary or the
traveler could bequarantined for up to 14 days from the time he left
the infected area if the health department deems it necessary. If you
come from an area where there has been an epidemic, you will probably
be put under surveillance (close watch). This simply means that
together with the local health officer you must keep a close watch
for any suspicious signs or symptoms. You will probably be required
to report periodically to your local health officer for a period of <
i> up to 14 days from the time of departure from the infected area.
If you notice an outbreak or symptom, you must immediately turn
yourself in and submit to quarantine or isolation.
In actual practice, not only is this possibility very remote, but if
it should occur, the vaccinated person may be required to submit to
the same surveillance as the vaccinated! Remember, every year,
thousands of 'un-immunized' tourists travel in and out of the United
States with little or no inconvenience or embarrassment.
It is quite obvious that no individual in his right mind will sign
this document. The intention is not to get an individual to accept
responsibility in this way, but to: Realize that there is a
considerable risk. Realize that they themselve s could care less that
someone else is injured. Realize that they will accept no
responsibility for vaccine related injuries. Become acquainted with
the risks and to accept responsibility by not forcing compliance to
some bogus rule, standard or guideline that is not the law at all. It
is intended to put the official on the defensive that is a
substantially weakened posture. Furthermore, it is a response to the
intimidation that is often encountered.
If an individual refuses to sign on, ask the following question: "Why
not? Am I supposed to accept all of the responsibility and my child
to accept all of the health risks?"
Then offer to negotiate the potential settlement, and ask: "How does
one establish the monetary value of suffering?" "Is it worth nothing
to you?" "What is the law and what does it state?" "Who benefits
financially from this program?"< / font>
--- Example: The school district gets federal money if there is 100%
compliance. "How does this present a risk to others?"
He or she should begin to get the message.
Additionally, should the vaccination "enforcer" refuse to sign the
above, you can print the individual's name in the space provided and
on the signature line print: "REFUSED TO SIGN". Then, have all family
members present sign the bottom of the page as witnesses, and date
the document.
It is important to inform the vaccination "enforcer" that he/she has
been personally notified that he/she ispersonally responsible (both
medically and legally) for her/his actions.
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NOTE: Thanks to Peter Myers for this. -- kl, pp
US Using White
Phosphorus in Afghanistan
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/afgh-a22.shtml
What the New York Times unwittingly reveals about the war in Afghanistan
By Alex Lantier
22 April 2009
Over last two weeks, the New York Times has published a series of
articles on conditions facing US soldiers fighting in Afghanistan.
In describing soldiersb lives and calling attention to the hellish
conditions in Afghanistan, the Times articles reveal considerably
more than what one suspects their authors set out to explain. For
anyone reading them with a degree of historical consciousness, they
depict a colonial war waged against an entire population, by US
troops who see little purpose behind the violence they are unleashing
on the Afghan population.
On April 20, the Times carried an article titled bPinned Down, a
Sprint to Escape Taliban Zone.b Beginning with a description of a US
platoon ducking for cover amid a Taliban ambush that claimed the life
of one of its members, it states, bAnother pitched firefight in a
ravine in eastern Afghanistan had begun, shaped by factors that have
made the war against the Taliban seem unending: grueling terrain that
favors ambushes and prevents American soldiers from massing; villages
in thorough collaboration with insurgents; and experienced
adversaries each fighting in concert with its [sic] abilities and
advantages.b
The response of the trapped American troops is to call in air and
artillery support, raining down bombs and mortar shells on Afghan
positions above the riverbed where US troops are trapped. The targets
apparently include not only barren mountainsides where insurgents are
taking cover, but villages as well. The Times adds, bsoldiers with
heavier machine guns and automatic grenade launchers focused on
Afghan buildings in three villagesbDonga, Laneyal, and Darbartb
from where the trapped platoon was taking fire.b
Halfway through the article, the Times explains that the local
population is hostile because the US-backed Afghan government threw
them all out of work by banning logging in the area. It notes that
the bTaliban pay the best wages in the valley now,b adding that
the US forces have taken over a sawmill as their base in the region.
The reader later learns that US forces are using ammunition
containing white phosphorusba chemical weapon that burns human flesh
down to the boneband that a Times photographer is with the troops in
the fighting. The article does not say whether the Times has agreed
to censor itself in exchange for obtaining permission for its staff
to accompany the troops into battle.
After several Afghans are killed and the Afghans withdraw, the
soldiers search for and ultimately find the body of one of their
number, who has gone missing. The company commander says, bThere is
nothing I can say or anybody else can say that will bring Dewater
back. But the best thing we can do for him is to continue to do the
type of stuff that you guys did the other day.b
The commander is apparently referring to an incident described in a
previous Times article. The April 17 piece, bTurning Tables, US
Troops Ambush Taliban With Swift and Lethal Results,b explained,
bThe ambush, on Good Friday, has become an emotional rallying point
for soldiers in Kunar Province, who have seen it as both a validation
of their equipment and training and a welcome bit of score-settling
in an area that in recent years has claimed more American lives than
any other.b
The bulk of the April 17 article consists of a detailed account of
how US soldiers bkilled at least 13 insurgents, and perhaps many
more, with rifles, machine guns, Claymore mines, hand grenades, and a
knife.b
In the April 20 article, the Times explains that village elders
later barrived at the outpost to say that the Americans had shot up
a search party of local men who were looking for a lost girl.b The
US commander simply dismissed the eldersb claim as bone of the
most ridiculous lies he had ever heard.b
The Times repeatedly notes the populationbs hostility to the US
occupation. In another article in this series, the April 13th bIn
Afghanistan, Soldiers Bridge 2 Stages of War,b reports, bVillagers
have bluntly told the American military that its presence is not
wanted.... In one village, the soldiers found an old woman carrying
an assault rifle under her shawl; in another, they found a 12-year-
old boy with a rocket-propelled grenade.b
What emerges from the Times' accounts, whatever its intentions, is a
description of an imperialist occupation. The Times takes for granted
that local population's hostility to the US occupation should be
repressed, that its livelihood can be taken away at will, and that
local inhabitants can be killed without trial. As for American
soldiers, their grief at the death of their comrades is apparently
handled with recommendations to get on with killing Afghans.
The Times' coverage comes shortly after President Barack Obamabwhose
election was in part motivated by popular opposition to war, due to
his initial statements against the Iraq war and the Bush
administrationbannounced plans to escalate US fighting in
Afghanistan and Pakistan. On March 27 he announced plans to send at
least 21,000 more US troops to Afghanistan and to intensify US
attacks inside Pakistan.
The April 13 article makes clear that Obamabs policy will entail
stepping up the fighting detailed in his later articles. The Times
writes, bNew construction is visible on a string of small American
bases between Kabul and the Pakistani border. The officers said the
infrastructure will house many of the 21,000 additional American
soldiers due to arrive later this year and will serve as an on-ramp
for fresh combat forces to flow into the field and fill many current
gaps.b
US forces will present Afghans with an ultimatum: join a US-sponsored
militia or face US attack. In an April 15 article titled bIn
Recruiting an Afghan Militia, US Faces a Test,b the Times notes,
bThe military is borrowing a page from a similar program that helped
bring about the recent calm to Iraq, where the Americans signed up
more than 100,000 Iraqis, most of them Sunnis and many of them
insurgents, to keep the peace.b
In Afghanistan, US forces are bringing Afghan village elders to
meetings and telling them that btime is running outb to decide
whether they will join a US-sponsored militia. Those who fail to join
the US will be treated as targets. An Afghan working for the
Americans told reticent village elders, bIf you don't take it, we
are just going to associate you with the Taliban.b
The Times is well aware that this fighting along the Afghan-Pakistani
border regions will also spill over into Pakistan, with disastrous
consequences for that country. It writes, bTaliban militants are
teaming up with local militant groups to make inroads in the Punjab,
the province that is home to more than half of Pakistanis,
reinvigorating an alliance that Pakistani and American authorities
say poses a serious risk to the stability of the country.... As
American drone attacks disrupt strongholds of the Taliban and al-
Qaeda in the tribal [border] areas, the insurgents are striking
deeper into Pakistanbboth in retaliation and in search of new
havens.b
The Taliban also obtain support by appealing to peasantsb hostility
to big landowners, who make up a substantial section of the Pakistani
ruling class. The Taliban have forced unpopular landlords to leave,
taking over the rents paid by the peasantry and control of local
mines. They strike, the Times noted, bat any competing point of
power: landlords and elected leadersbwho were usually the same
peopleband an underpaid and unmotivated police force.b
In an unusual piece of class analysis that seemed out of place in its
pages, the Times added, bafter independence in 1947, Pakistan
maintained a narrow landed upper class that kept its vast holdings
while its workers remained subservient, the officials and analysts
said. Pakistani governments have since failed to provide land reform
and even the most basic forms of education and health care. Avenues
to advancement for vast majority of rural poor do not exist.b ...
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No More Make-believe in the Middle East
By Norman H. Olsen
Bibi's policies may be misguided, but at least he doesn't pretend to
be a peacemaker. Such intellectual honesty could prove salutary.
Continue
Why the US still hates Cuba
By Federico Fuentes
bDefeating the U.S. Bay of Pigs invasion [in 1961] while remaining
fiercely independent in a region dominated by U.S. corporations and
past government interventions has made Cuba an inspiration to
millions of Latin Americans. This profound break from U.S. dominance
b in its bown backyardb no less b is not so easily forgiven.
Continue
In Case You Missed It
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Video By John Pilger
"The film tells a universal story," says Pilger, "analysing and
revealing, through vivid testimony, the story of great power behind
its venerable myths. It allows us to understand the true nature of
the so-called war on terror". Continue
Slim Majority Wants Bush-Era Interrogations Investigated
By Jeffrey M. Jones
Majority says use of harsh techniques on terrorism suspects was
justified. Continue
We Are All Torturers in America
By Naomi Wolf
Not only do Congressional Democrats have blood on their hands - but
so do we, the American people. And CIA agents may be about to be
sacrificed to assuage their - and our - actual and associative guilt.
Continue
In Case You Missed It
"War Crimes Will Be Prosecuted" Bush
30 Second Video
"It Will Be No Defense To Say, I Was Just Following Orders" Says
Bush. Continue
As Long As We're Talking About Socialism
By Mark Harris
Ask yourself how democratic it is for the richest 1 percent of
Americans to own 43 percent of all stock? Or for this same 1 percent
to account for 33 percent of total household wealth, according to the
Federal Reserve Bulletin? Is it far-fetched to suggest that class
inequality and economic insecurity are permanent hallmarks of life
under capitalism? Continue
The Last Great Swine Flu Epidemic
By Patrick Di Justo
"This virus will kill 1 million Americans," declared the U.S. in
1976. The panic then has a lot to teach us today. Continue
Putting Swine Flu in Perspective
4 Minute Video
Congressman Ron Paul gives his thoughts on the swine flu issue. Continue
April 27, 2009
Act Of War
Iran "Arms Ship" Bound for Gaza Downed Near Sudan
By Haaretz Service
An Iranian vessel laden with weapons bound for the Gaza Strip was
torpedoed off the coast of Sudan last week, allegedly by Israeli or
American forces operating in the area, the Egyptian newspaper El-
Aosboa reported on Sunday. Continue
American Exceptionalism
Torture Whitewash from The Dark Side
By Pepe Escobar
Without accepting full responsibility for torture - and illegal, pre-
emptive wars - and without accountability, there can be no catharsis
in America. Obama is enough of a smart operator to know that if his
"going forward" is perceived like "look the other way", this whole
thing will come back to haunt and even destroy his presidency. And if
it walks and talks like a whitewash, that's because it must be ... a
whitewash. Continue
From Bunker Hill to Baghdad
Pinter's Dispatch to Obama
By Mike Whitney
"The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant,
vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about
them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite
clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a
force for universal good. It's a brilliant, even witty, highly
successful act of hypnosis...It's a scintillating stratagem." Continue
Nicaragua - A Nations Right To Survive
Video - A Documentary Film By John Pilger
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right to survive investigates the corruption in Central America.
Pilger describes the achievements of the Sandinistas and their
"threat of a good example". Continue
Obama Has Missed His Moment
By Chris Hedges
Barack Obama has squandered his presidency. He had a fleeting moment
to challenge the casino capitalism and financial recklessness of our
economic and political elite. He could have orchestrated a state
socialism that would have provided a safety net for tens of millions
of Americans faced with dislocation and misery. Continue
World Bank, IMF: Crisis Becoming 'Human Calamity'
By Veronica Smith Veronica Smith
At the end of spring meetings in Washington, the two Bretton Woods
institutions on Sunday told their 185 member countries that the worst
global slump in generations had already driven more than 50 million
people into extreme poverty. Continue
Some Might Call It Treason
By Philip Giraldi
Until the transcripts of Rep. Jane Harmanbs telephone conversations
are made public, if they ever are, her transgression can only be
assessed secondhand. It appears to have consisted of talking with
someone who may be an Israeli citizen regarding influencing the
outcome of the ongoing trial of ex-American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC) officials Steve Rosen and Keith Weissman. Continue
Janebs Harman Us
By Becky Akers
Few sights are as delicious as a tyrant swinging high overhead, hoist
by her own petard. The one currently dangling aloft is Rep. Jane
Harman (D-CA). Shebs worth half a billion dollars, making her the
wealthiest thief in the den of bem we call Congress, with a mansion
that can host "over 120" guests for dinner. Continue
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Republicans for Sale?
- by Justin O'Connell - 2009-04-29
VIDEO: Humanitarian Intervention Challenged
Exposing the Truth on NATO-US Agression against Yugoslavia
- by Diana Johnstone - 2009-04-28
Casino Capitalism and Financial Recklessness: Obama Has Missed His
Moment
- by Chris Hedges - 2009-04-28
Profits mask coming storm
- by W Joseph Stroupe - 2009-04-28
A Little Red Light
On Israeli Fascism
- by Uri Avnery - 2009-04-28
The Swine Flu: Industrial Hog Farming Is Just Like Wall Street
- 2009-04-28
World Bank president warns economic crisis poses bhuman calamityb
- by Andre Damon - 2009-04-28
Contours of Crisis II: Fiction and Reality
Part II
- by Prof. Shimshon Bichler, Prof. Jonathan Nitzan - 2009-04-28
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Swine Flu Scare: Stock Market Bonanza for "Politically Connected"
BioTech Companies
- by Michel Chossudovsky - 2009-04-28
The Mixed Economic Report Card on Obama's First 100 Days
- by Rodrigue Tremblay - 2009-04-28
Swine Flu: Bringing Home the Bacon
- by James Ridgeway - 2009-04-28
Balkanising the Balkans: Is Serbia on the Chopping Block Again?
- by Mike Celik - 2009-04-28
Ecuador at the crossroads
- by Eric Toussaint - 2009-04-28
Latin America: Summit reveals a changing continent
- by Federico Fuentes - 2009-04-28
Torture at Abu Ghraib: "The Man Behind the Hood"
Full Transcript of Ali Shalal's Testimony
- by Prof. Ali Shalal - 2009-04-27
The Myth of Sectarianism in the "New Middle East"
- by Ali Jawad - 2009-04-27
A Tapestry of Lies
Harold Pinter to Obama. The US has supported every right wing
military dictatorship in the World since World War II
- by Mike Whitney - 2009-04-27
Is Swine Flu A Biological Weapon?
- by Paul Joseph Watson - 2009-04-27
VIDEO: Too Hard to Swallow. Restricting the Freedoms of Canadians
What Bill C-6 Means for Canada
- by Shawn Buckley - 2009-04-27
Why Monetary Reform?
bPinky and The Brainb
- by Richard C. Cook - 2009-04-27
Obama, Democrats move to block torture investigation
- by Tom Eley - 2009-04-27
Israeli Use of Palestinians As Human Shields
- by Stephen Lendman - 2009-04-27
Torture Is Foreplay for War
- by David Swanson - 2009-04-27
The Impacts of the Recession on African Americans
- 2009-04-28
Obama's Sins of Omission
- by Andrew J. Bacevich - 2009-04-27
United Kingdom: Wake up and smell the pepper spray. These 3,609 new
laws are to control us, not protect us
- by Lauren Booth - 2009-04-27
Canada: Cops can now 'take all your stuff'
- by Mindelle Jacobs - 2009-04-27
US military called in to fight swine flu
- 2009-04-27
Mexico Peso Falls on Concern Swine Flu to Deepen Economic Slump
- 2009-04-27
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John Stauber:
Beyond MoveOn: Using the Internet for Real Change
Mike Davis:
Swine Flu Crisis Lays Bare the Meat Industry's Monstrous Power
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From: Matthew Naus <nau...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Recent NYC Flyover Wasn't Photo Op It Was A Warning To Obama
Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2009, 10:06 AM
Hello Truthseekers & Truthtellers,
This flyover in NYC for a photo shoot is all BS. They can use Photo
Shop to get the pictures they want. Obama recently came out with the
torture memos and pissed off some higher ups from the last
administration and probably some top military and CIA officials. I
believe this was done to warn Obama and to embarrass him because of
his release of the torture memos. It also takes the media to another
place so they get off the torture memos. They don't make these kind
of stupid mistakes. There are some battles going on inside this
government.
Take Care Matt
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NOTE: There's a rather good chance here that Smithfield is being set
up to distract from the fact that the virus actually was developed in
this or that sinister lab. This would be easy to do since
Smithfield's swine facilities usually are deplorably unsanitary.
-- kl, pp
Swine Flu Outbreak Could Be Linked to Smithfield Factory Farms
http://www.truthout.org/042809K
Tom Philpott, Grist: "One flu east, one flu west. The outbreak of a
new flu strain - a nasty mash-up of swine, avian, and human viruses -
has infected 1,000 people in Mexico and the US, killing 68. The World
Health Organization warned Saturday that the outbreak could reach
global pandemic levels. Is Smithfield Foods, the worldbs largest
pork packer and hog producer, linked to the outbreak? Smithfield
operates massive hog-raising operations Perote, Mexico, in the state
of Vera Cruz, where the outbreak originated. The operations, grouped
under a Smithfield subsidiary called Granjas Carroll, raise 950,000
hogs per year, according to the company Web site."
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From: rodney robinson <rod...@yolo.com>
Date: April 28, 2009 12:08:21 PM GMT-05:00
To: prez pine <pr...@usa-exile.org>
Subject: flu
you might want to pass this on...
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/609.html
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From: Michelle Sura <michel...@verizon.net>
Date: April 28, 2009 7:57:39 PM GMT-05:00
To: prez President <pr...@usa-exile.org>
Subject: SWINE FLU PROPAGANDA 1976
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASibLqwVbsk
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From: Kevin Barrett <kbar...@merr.com>
Date: April 27, 2009 10:09:41 PM GMT-05:00
To: Kevin Barrett <truth...@gmail.com>
Subject: The Radio Show That Will Drive Richard Dawkins Crazy
Get a load of these shows!
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Tuesday, April 21st 9-10 a.m. Pacific (noon-1 pm Eastern) on http://
NoLiesRadio.org: Sofia Smallstorm, director, 9/11 Mysteries, http://
www.911weknow.com. Many consider 9/11 Mysteries the best -- or at
least tied for the best -- of the long list of excellent 9/11 truth
films. It's scientifically sound, rhetorically persuasive, and
artistically successful. Always on the cusp of forbidden knowledge,
Sofia is now researching the chemtrail phenomenon. Charismatic and
iconoclastic, Sofia is one of my favorite regular guests. Find out
why -- listen live, or catch the archive later at http://
noliesradio.org/archives/category/fb.
COMING UP: THE RADIO SHOW THAT WILL DRIVE RICHARD DAWKINS CRAZY!
Saturday, April 18th, 5-7 pm Central (6-8 p.m. Eastern), on American
Freedom Radio: First hour: Bestselling Turkish author Harun Yahya
(Adnan Oktar). The world's best-known Islamic creationist, Harun
Yahya is a controversial, accomplished activist who argues for peace
and interfaith dialogue while standing firm by the tenets of Islam as
he sees them. (I wonder what he'll have to say about 9/11...)
Second hour: Dorion Sagan, who is not just the son of two scientific
superstars (Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis) but a significant thinker
and prose stylist who combines scientific knowledge, creative
speculation, and philosophical critique. Dorion's mother, Lynn
Margulis -- another favorite radio guest, pictured below with Dorion
-- may be the most significant scientific critic of neo-Darwinian
theory of the past century, and Dorion carries Lynn's revision of the
life sciences into even more visionary territory. His upcoming books
include one on the final secret of the meaning of life in light of
entropy, and another on sex and death.
Richard Dawkins, if you can stop spluttering, please call in to the
show! 512-879-3805
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http://flyingsnail.com/index2.html
Denialist Reconstruction
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Please Ask Your Doctor How To Stop Taking Corporate Drugs!
They Were Intended For Short Term Use While Undergoing Therapy!
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From: Rick Davis <rda...@yin.or.jp>
Date: April 28, 2009 6:42:15 PM GMT-05:00
Subject: News links, April 29, 2009
GhostNet hacks into US-UK fighter project
Pak intelligence believes Osama is dead: Zardari
Simmons: Energy industry facing enormous challenges
ESPO pipeline goes to China first
UK: Brits may pay higher phone bills to finance Big Brother database
to spy on them
Professor warns of global food riots
'Thousands escape' Pakistan clashes
It'll Cost More Than $5 Billion To Save Pakistan
Pakistani jets pound militants close to capital
Daimler Has Second Consecutive Quarterly Loss
North American air travel down 9%
Asian shipowners see bleak outlook for dry bulk shipping
BP profit drops 64% as oil prices fall
While we moan, the Chinese get on with it
US Treasury Sees Apr-Jun Quarter Borrowing Needs Of $361 Billion
US offshores 22,000 green jobs to India
U.S. urges BofA, Citi to increase capital: report
EPA To Withdraw Permit for New Mexico Coal-fired Power Plant
Gulfstream, Cessna in 2-Year Slide as CEOs Shun Jets
CDC: 'Fully expect we will see deaths'
GM to force more than 1,000 dealers to close
Bank of America May Need $70 Billion, FBR Says
AIG: Doomed to fail?
Russia to finalize plans for new aircraft carrier by 2012
Russia Bans U.S. Meat Amid Swine Flu Outbreak
Mexico outbreak traced to 'manure lagoons' at pig farm
China Faces a Grad Glut After Boom at Colleges
More Brazilian Ethanol Whoppers
World Bank boosts aid for infrastructure to $45B
Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to fight UFOs
Comment: Beam me up! Elites talk realistically about an alien
invasion, but are still in denial about peak oil.
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From: Rick Davis <rda...@yin.or.jp>
Date: April 27, 2009 7:11:51 PM GMT-05:00
Subject: News links, April 28, 2009
World steel demand set to fall most since WW2
National Australia Bank profit slips on bad debt
Death knell sounds for Europe's beekeepers
Japan to deploy maritime patrol aircraft to Horn of Africa
Japan's New Pie-in-the-Sky Bank
UK: Mortgage lending slides in March
UAE denies mass exodus of foreign workers
Swine flu: Mexico City is 'like a ghost town'
Mexico flu may have begun earlier than thought
Swine Flu Outbreak -- Nature Biting Back at Industrial Animal
Production?
U.S. Stocks Fall as Swine Flu Drags Down Travel, Hotel Shares
Military officials monitor swine flu
GM: The Vultures Circle
U.S. Steel takes drastic moves to boost liquidity
Cash Vanishes from Merchants' Accounts
"Citing the increased risk of bankruptcy, credit-card processors are
increasingly demandingbor simply seizingbcash reserves from
entrepreneurs."
Why Are Americans Turning Back to Home Gardening
Crafty Americans Are Strip Mining Their Homes Before Foreclosures
Las Vegas Sands mulling sale of Macau casino
Consumers Shun Plastic as Credit Industry Losses Mount
FDIC admits no bank is too big to fail
The missing sunspots: Is this the big chill?
India's Infrastructure Funds Fall
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