Friday, August 01, 2008

The Republian Agenda of "More of the Same" is failing the USA.




Obama Revises Rescue Plan
By Jonathan Weisman
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Sen. Barack Obama, reacting to the seventh straight month of job decline, announced a new version of his $50 billion economic stimulus plan, which would use a windfall profits tax on oil companies to finance $500 tax rebates and aid to state governments for energy cost assistance, school construction and infrastructure building.
The new plan reallocates funds announced in the $50 billion assistance plan Obama had pledged two months ago, as part of that plan -- an extension of unemployment insurance and a housing refinancing fund -- has been approved by Congress.
Obama aides and advisers were trying to show they can react quickly to an economic landscape that continues to slide downward. The Labor Department announced that employers shed 51,000 jobs in July, the seventh straight month of job losses which now total 463,000. The unemployment rate rose last month from 5.5 percent to 5.7 percent.
Those numbers elicited very different responses from the presidential candidates....

McCain is playing "The Republican Game" of "More of the Same."


The Dangerous Game of More of the Same


This is what the nation's 'gas lines' looked like in 1973 with the OPEC Oil Embargo. Since then the USA's answer under Republican leadership, thirty long years of lack of innovation or change, was to use less energy to achieve the same result. In other words, fuel efficient internal cumbustion engines were perferred in order to 'make the resources last longer.' There was no 'switch' to an electric car rather than continued dependence on oil itself.


What McCain wants to do is no different than what Nixon did in the 1970s. We witnessed the building of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline in response to the the OPEC Oil Embargo. Now, John McCain wants to drill offshore of the USA for marginal amounts of oil that might exist there to attempt to have a 'traditional' Republican answer. It's hideous to continue a strategy already 30 decades old with finite answers.



This is a picture of a stretch of the Trans-Alaskan Pipeline. The 'sliders' noted is to assist the pipleline to be resiliant to Alaskan earthquakes along the Denali Fault. This is an extreme measure that is not an answer to energy or transportation of the USA. It is a 'bandaid' and that is all offshore oil drilling is as well. Noted, the sliders have a limit.

It took this long to figure it out? Its no surprise to me that Bush/Cheney poisoned their own populous.

The anthrax attacks were too sophisticated to believe the Bush/Cheney White House didn't approve. John Ashcroft tried to derail the reality of the suspect by accusing Hatfield. I think this story needs the attention it deserves.

This is EVIDENCE of a government intent on destroying 'the truth' and using an issue of WMD as a lead into an illegal war that compromised American national security. This isn't about politics, it is about the 'degree' of culpability of the Executive Branch in exploiting the murderous activities of its own military.

The American people are at risk. No one in the Executive Branch is innnocent. NO ONE !!! They used the fear from this episode and the trauma of September 11th to wage a war that was unnecessary and contrived in Iraq.


U.S. to pay $2.8 million to settle anthrax lawsuit (click here)
Reuters Published: Friday, August 01, 2008
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday it would pay former Army scientist Steven Hatfill over $2.8 million to settle his lawsuit accusing officials of violating his privacy rights by talking to the media and unfairly implicating him in anthrax attacks in 2001....

John Ashcroft never resumed investigation once it was decided the one to lay blame on was a FORMER biologicial weapons expert. Hatfield's lawsuit was settled leaving open the question, "Who done it?" With Democrats in the majority of the House and Senate the question wasn't going to lay fallow.

Biological Warfare Experts Questioned in Anthrax Probe (click here)
More Than Two Dozen Homes Searched by FBI
By Guy Gugliotta and Dan Eggen, Washington Post Staff Writers
The FBI said yesterday it is focusing on about 30 U.S.-based biological warfare experts in its investigation of last year's anthrax attacks, and has searched the homes of more than two dozen in recent months -- always with the owner's consent.
The FBI said that former Army researcher Steven J. Hatfill, whose Frederick apartment was searched Tuesday, was on the floating short list of "persons of interest," but noted both publicly and in private meetings last week that Hatfill is not a suspect in the case.
Ben Haddad, spokesman for the San Diego-based defense contractor Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), confirmed that Hatfill was a full-time SAIC employee in 1999 when he and collaborator Joseph Soukup commissioned a report investigating the consequences of a hypothetical anthrax attack by mail....


To exploit murderous activities of its own military as a lead up to war is criminal. There is no getting around it. The criminality of this Executive Branch is more evident today with

Anthrax suspect dies in apparent suicide (click here)
By David Willman

Los Angeles Times
Article Launched: 08/01/2008 01:31:11 AM PDT
A top government scientist who helped the FBI analyze samples from the 2001 anthrax attacks has died in Maryland from an apparent suicide, just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him for the attacks, the Los Angeles Times has learned....


Chronicle of Anthrax Attacks, as it appeared in Europe, that occurred immediately after the attacks of September 11, 2001 (click here).

Mail sent to Microsoft tests positive for anthrax
Saturday, 13 October 2001 22:51

A letter sent from Malaysia to a Microsoft office in Nevada has tested positive for traces of anthrax, according to local authorities there. The authorities in Carson City said today that at present there were no reported cases of anthrax infection stemming from the incident.Meanwhile, the US Vice President, Dick Cheney, has said that there could be links between the confirmed four cases of anthrax in America and Osama bin Laden.Mr Cheney said that there was ample evidence that bin Laden's network had been trained in the spread of biological and chemical weapons....


FBI indicates anthrax threat originated in US

Saturday, 10 November 2001 20:50

The FBI has given its closest indication yet that it believes the anthrax outbreak originated at home rather than abroad.The FBI says that the suspect is probably an adult male who may have referred to the US attacks in his messages only as a decoy. Agents believe he is a loner and not given to confrontation....

Also at Wiki (click here).

The anthrax attacks was to introduce the 'concept' of WMD. The evidence pointed to the source as the USA because of the sophisticated nature of the anthrax.

EIGHT days later. Count them, eight very short days later. No American Scientist involved with WMD could act out of some kind of personality disorder within eight days in such a sophisticated attacks alone. We all know the coveted use of the military's PSYOPS.

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Thank you to the LA Times. But, will the real truth behind this man's death ever be known. Nah.

September 19, 2001

A letter addressed to Jennifer Lopez containing a Star of David and a bluish powder arrived in the Sun's mailroom in the American Media headquarters. Several people handled the letter, and Stevens sniffed some of the powder....

Site of Anthrax Attack Reopens (click here)
BOCA RATON, Fla. - The tabloid newspaper building targeted in the fatal anthrax mailings in 2001 reopened with newsrooms still marked by Sun and Globe signs and file drawers bearing labels such as "JFK Jr."
The contents were included when American Media Inc. sold the building in 2003. Developer David Rustine bought it for $40,000 and said he spent millions on decontamination and maintenance.
The headquarters for the National Enquirer, Sun and Globe newspapers was the first known target in the mailings that killed five people starting a month after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Bob Stevens, a photo editor, died Oct. 5, 2001, from inhaling anthrax mailed to the building.