Wednesday, August 31, 2005

Chemtrails Coming Out Of The Closet?

Study: No Link Between Cell Phones, Tumors

BREITBART.COM - Just The News

Compare the first paragraph: "Mobile phone users can dial without concern after another study found no evidence of a link between the ubiquitous devices and brain tumors" with the last two: "'However, scientists have said it may not be a good idea for children to use the phones for long periods because their brains are still developing. Also, it is too early to tell what the effects of long- term use will be on adults. 'The results of our study suggest that there is no substantial risk in the first decade after starting use," said lead investigator Anthony Swerdlow. "Whether there are longer-term risks remains unknown, reflecting the fact that this is a relatively recent technology.'"

FDA approves GlaxoSmithKline flu vaccine

New Law slated to install Police State in Canada

Strategizing a Christian Coup d'Etat

"Transformation" and the Beginning of Global Resistance

Information Clearing House

"...the military is being converted into a taxpayer subsidized security apparatus for multinational corporations that will seize foreign resources through force of arms and then crush the indigenous elements that resist US aggression. On the home front, the changes are equally dramatic. "Transformation" is a conspicuous attempt to weaken traditional defenses provided by the National Guard so that the Pentagon can insert itself into domestic affairs and establish an ongoing military presence within the United States."

Republicans accused of witch-hunt against climate change scientists

Bush: U.S. Must Protect Iraq From Terror

phillyBurbs.com

where you gonna get the troops, George?

Tuesday, August 30, 2005

Katrina Should be A Lesson To US on Global Warming

Rising floodwaters bring huge humanitarian crisis to New Orleans

Yahoo! News
Local television reported that as conditions worsened, martial law was imposed in two areas, Jefferson Parish and Plaquemines Parish, a day after murderous Hurricane Katrina slammed into the city.

Storms Vary With Cycles, Experts Say

Sunday, August 28, 2005

Computer expert testifies elections in Florida were fixed

The 911 North Tower Demolition Explained

Formal Announcement Of Bird Flu In Europe Expected

H5N1 Confirmed In Finland - Pandemic Looms Larger

H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Map

H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Now In Balkans?

US heading for house price crash, Greenspan tells buyers

Britain's elite get pills to survive bird flu

Friday, August 26, 2005

Katrina Could Be Cat. 4 At Second Fla. Strike

Europe battles extreme summer

Bird flu knocks on Europe?s door

Spread of bird flu virus is a 'national emergency'

Thursday, August 25, 2005

Chirac Vows to Protect Against Bird Flu

Bird flu bound for Britain: top vet

Bird flu bound for Britain: top vet - Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
Note the difference of opinion with the next article about likelihood of migratory bird spreading flu to Europe.

EU Concerned About Spread of Bird Flu

Russia steps up measures to contain bird flu

Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Bird Flu Again Detected in Japan Poultry

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Antarctic ozone hole grows from last year

Monday, August 22, 2005

Warming hits 'tipping point'

Guardian Unlimited
"Siberia feels the heat It's a frozen peat bog the size of France and Germany combined, contains billions of tonnes of greenhouse gas and, for the first time since the ice age, it is melting"

New Scientist Special Report on Bird Flu

ADEA releases study on Bird Flu and its implication on UAE

WAM

EU nations split on response to threat of bird flu

European farmers act to halt spread of bird flu

Army Planning for 4 More Years in Iraq

Sceptics forced into climate climb-down

Iran blames US for Iraq bombings

Saturday, August 20, 2005

Global warming: Will you listen now, America?

H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Confirmed in Kalmykiya Near Caspian Sea

Friday, August 19, 2005

The Crisis of Bird Flu

US warns Castro and oil-rich ally

Bird flu confirmed in 40 Russian settlements, suspected in 78

Bird Flu Spreads From Western Siberia To South Urals

Avian influenza: Assessing the pandemic threat

"All Roads Lead to Rove" Vanity Fair blames the media

The Xoff Files

Vanity Fair blames the media

I have to take time out from all the exciting developments on the pandemic front to comment on this "affair" which I refer to affectionately as the Plame Game.

When I first heard of it, over a year ago, Mike Ruppert of FTW was crowing that it would be the straw that at last brought down the Bush camel. They were caught red handed; it was clear who was behind it; they had fupped up this time. This was not the first time Ruppert had pronounced Bush doom, so I wasn't very excited, but there were things about the whole "affaire" that troubled me.

In the early days of the war in Afghanistan, a video was made claiming that the US had observed, if not participated in, on of the worst war crimes in recent memory at Kali i-Janghi (sp?) prison near Mazar i-Sharif (?), a summary execution of over 800 prisoners by the warlord Dostum. The methods were barbaric (and have since been repeated elsewhere: jamming survivors of a massacre of prisoners into container trucks, shooting them full of holes "for air," and leaving them parked in the desert heat until dead), and the film was shown to several sitting Parliaments around Europe. It was an early example of the astounding control of the US media by the Bush faction that neither the film nor whisper of its conclusions ever saw the light of American day.

Because of this early attrocity and the subsequently attrocious response to it, all subsequent allegations of war crimes that were at last surely to "bring down the Bush administration" could only elicit from me: "but what about Mazar i-Sharif?" I.e., if the brutal massacre of 800 rebel fighters, potential rebel fighters, and peasants caught in the wrong place at the wrong time didn't do it, how can eg. scaring prisoners with unmuzzled police dogs "bring down the Bush administration?" On the contrary, every new revelation seemed merely a way of implying that, whilethe Pirates of Pentagon were legally guilty of "war crimes," these were sometimes shocking, but relatively mild matters of understandably aggressive interrogation methods, in order to counter any rumors of worser offenses drifting over from Europe.

This was my reaction when I first heard about the Plame Game: "if the massacre at Mazar-i-Sharif didn't do it, how could the mere threat to the life of a single CIA spook, one of their own spooks, 'bring down the Bush administration?'" I nevertheless agreed to keep hope alive; after all, they finally got Al Capone on tax evasion. Then other things began to happen that ate away at my confidence. First, none of the cream of American journalism ever (or have ever) noticed that Karl Rove publicly lost his job with the Bush's over the same plot (I mean like in a play) in the 1980's, with the same characters. As we now can see, this was not the personal tragedy it was hyped up to be when we were shown how the swift hand of correction still moved among the American power elite. A natural born privy counsellor, Rove inevitably got an even better job with Jr. Either history is more repetitive than the writing staff of the Rambo series, or the Bush buccaneers were getting away in the press (not just ethically, but professionally interested in the case) with mere rewrites of tried and true political theater.

Second, according to the new version, Mr Ambassador Wilson, characterized as a critic and opponent of the Bush administration, had been sent to Africa to look into this nuclear shopping spree of Sadam Hussein by Dick Cheney. This plot then presumes that: Cheney ever thought that the lies he himself made up for causi belli would be supported by evidence to be found by a professional ambassador in Nigeria; for this he chose a political opponent (rather than a loyal-to-the-death Halliburton contractor) who might include the overwhelming evidence of Sadam's utter innocence of his trumped up charges in his debriefing report; this career ambassador/criminal investigator was himself shocked to find that Mr Vice President, Dick "Apartheid forever" Cheney might be looking for causi belli rather than actual threats to US security (if the failure to launch an imperialist oil grab is not itself understood as a threat to US security); it is unusual for a sitting administration to tailor CIA intelligence for public consumption as causi belli, which is why so many books have been written lately by dissillusioned retired spooks; it is somehow shameful and damaging to future income prospects to be married to a spook; if they were disposed to retaliate against political opponents, the Bushaneers could come up with no better tactic than to blow the cover and current operations of their own spook; the multitude of attrocities laid to their charge do not amount to the enormity of perhaps (but not in the event, we can only thank God) endangering the life of a spook during a war. Only this last presumption suggests a motive: when the smoke has cleared, whether Karl Rove or some underling must suffer the merciless hand of justice and leave his post a year early to take up a paying job, no publicly acknowledged violation of national and international law presents a better prospect for bitter opponents of the Bush administration to recover the costs of two stolen elections; reporters eagerly look to expose the secret identity of spooks and undercover law enforcement agents because Americans love to read the latest on which Clinton era ambassador's wife was expelled from her country club last week for being a spook trained in hand-to-hand homicide with items commonly found in a purse.

Third, Judith Miller, The New York Times, the US Supreme Court, never had anything to do with the Plame Game. The Times, least of all Miller, doesn't stoop to that kind of "outing the undercover" tabloidism so popular in the nation's check out lines. Unsuccessfully defending the right of the press to protect the identity of whistle-blowers from their powerful accussees is more their speed. By the time the game left the Supreme Court, the administration leaker's identity was nobly protected, and the right to blow the whistle on the administration was dismantled: pretty impressive Karl Rove or whoever.

Judith Miller is in prison, or so claims The New York Times, and even if Justice Scalia was in the same duck blind with Cheney that time, rather than a couple of duck blinds down, it doesn't mean that if you're not with Dick you're with the ducks.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

Mystery over Chinese denial of wildfowl flu deaths

Bird flu may soon land in Europe and Australia

Deadly bird flu found across Asia

H5N1 Moves Closer To Europe By The Day

H5N1 Wild Bird Flu Reaches Caspian Sea?

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Russia says dangerous bird flu outbreak spreads

Tuesday, August 16, 2005

World: Bird Flu Threatens Globe, But Might Never Spread

RADIO FREE EUROPE/ RADIO LIBERTY
"Prague, 10 August 2005 (RFE/RL) -- The UN's World Health Organization (WHO) wants to scare you.

But not too much. "

Bird flu death toll reaches 61

News 24 South Africa

Hanoi, Vietnam - Bird flu has killed one more person in Vietnam as the country began a mass vaccination of poultry to try to slow the spread of the virus, health officials said on Tuesday.

Kazakhstan confirms bird flu outbreak

Novosibirsk Russia And Qinghai Lake China H5N1s Similar

Bird Flu Spreads to Mongolia

Journalist Hospitalized With Bird Flu Symptoms in Novosibirsk

Recombinomics Commentary

I recall that the first victim of the 2001 Ft Detrick brand weaponized anthrax was also a "reporter." Steven Hatfill, whose whereabouts were reported without explanation years ago as eastern Afghanistan is back in the US suing the NY Times for slander after the whole world has forgotten his name.

Bird flu reaches Russia's Urals

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Alaskan people tell of climate change

U.S. Stocking Up On Avian Vaccine

Mongolia Says 80 Migratory Birds Died From Avian Flu

H5N1 Bird Flu Expands Host Range In Western Asia

Not enough U.S. troops to fight insurgents: senator

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Flu pandemic: lethal yet preventable

9/11 in Historical Perspective: Flawed Assumptions

China villagers ignorant of pig disease

Pig disease may have mutated, Canadian suspects

Poison feast of salmon contaminates B.C. grizzlies

Up to half of ocean species lost to overfishing

Independent UK registration needed for whole article

Mobile phones can trigger eye damage, fear scientists

Bird flu spreads in Russia, may be in Kazakhstan

Friday, August 05, 2005

Flu could infect half world's people in year

Thursday, August 04, 2005

Ice shelf collapse was biggest for 10,000 years

Chinese Government's Answer to Containing H5N1: "Make Villages Disappear!"

Migrating birds could spread 'bird flu' to Europe

Monday, August 01, 2005

Russia plans bird flu slaughter