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| September 17, 2003. The High Life Even the Clouds are Alive
Scientists in America believe that clouds have a dark secret: they're
created by viruses and bacteria as a means of global transport. This is an interesting discovery, especially when it is combined with the
theories of Fred Hoyle and
Chandra Wickramasinghe and their proposition that some new diseases come
from space and may
be delivered by comets to our upper atmosphere, as well as the theory of
Gaia and how microbial life shapes our planet, and Margulis' theory on
genome symbiosis. Now we learn that these little bugs
can make clouds... Do bugs control our weather? Can viruses travel thousands of miles on the winds? Is there a whole ecosystem up in the clouds that we have not discovered? The answer to all three questions could be yes, according to scientists who are exploring the microbial metropolises in the skies. There is, they say, growing evidence that bacteria, fungal spores and viruses may spend large amounts of time - even their entire lives - in the air, riding clouds across the planet. And they don't just inhabit the clouds - they may also be creating them. Certainly, many of the clouds' newly discovered inhabitants are exquisitely designed to create the maximum number of ice crystals, the basic building-blocks of clouds. Some Darwinian biologists even argue that the bugs may have evolved for that very job. "The ecology of the atmosphere is one of the last great frontiers of biological exploration on Earth," says Bruce Moffett of the University of East London. Within the next year, he hopes to conduct the first systematic bug-hunt in the clouds above Britain. Until recently, nobody believed that bacteria and viruses spent much more time in the air than it takes to sneeze on your neighbour. Scientists assumed that if the material got caught up in the winds, it would quickly be killed by ultraviolet radiation from the sun. But Gene Shinn of the US Geological Survey in St Petersburg, Florida, who has examined their airborne lifestyle in detail, says that the bacteria seem to protect themselves from harmful rays by becoming attached to dust particles. In dust clouds, the amount of UV radiation will be lower than in "normal" situations. And one of Shinn's USGS colleagues, Dale Griffin, suggests that bacteria might survive even longer if they get into cracks in the particles. They can survive travelling long distances, and spread disease on arrival. Shinn has discovered that bacteria and fungi carried aloft on dust storms coming out of the Sahel region of West Africa can journey across the Atlantic in large numbers. So far, he has isolated more than 130 species of African bacteria and fungal spores over the Caribbean. Not only that, he says that they are probably responsible for a series of dramatic epidemics among Caribbean coral reefs in recent years. One example is an African soil fungus called Aspergillus sydowii. It was first spotted in the Caribbean in 1983. That was a year of intense African drought. Huge clouds of dust billowed into the upper atmosphere and travelled west on the trade winds, forming a dense haze over the waters of the Caribbean. Since those clouds brought A. sydowii, says Shinn, the fungus has killed more than 90 percent of the region's sea fans - a form of soft coral. "Much of the decline in coral reefs in the Caribbean in recent years seems to be a result of pathogens transported in dust from Africa," says Shinn. Last year, Griffin dramatically raised the stakes when he suggested that the epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease in Britain in 2001 may have arrived on winds from Africa. He noticed that the first case of the disease was reported in February 2001, just a week after satellite pictures had shown a huge dust storm carrying sand from the Sahara to Britain. Saharan cattle are known to carry the same strain of the virus as turned up on British farms. The evidence is purely circumstantial. But it is not impossible, virologists admit. A previous outbreak of foot-and-mouth in Britain was traced to the virus blowing across the English Channel from France. So why not a longer journey? Some researchers believe that bugs do more than hitch a ride in clouds. They may make the clouds, too. It turns out that many cloud-inhabiting bacteria are brilliantly designed for cloud-seeding: that is, for triggering the formation of ice crystals around which water vapour coalesces to create water droplets. They do this by producing a protein that mimics the shape of an ice crystal's surface, which could help growth to get started. Many bacteria seem to be able to form ice crystals, but the best equipped appears to be Pseudomonas syringae, which commonly grows on plant matter, aiding the decomposition process. A single gram containing a million bacteria could theoretically produce up to a million ice crystals. It can trigger the formation of ice at temperatures of 13C, higher than other "ice nucleators". This ability is so well known that the bacteria are sometimes added to the water put into snow-making machines at Alpine ski resorts. In the atmosphere, the bacteria create clouds. All this raises some questions, which Moffett hopes to answer. "We want to discover if it is true that microbes play an active role in forming clouds and making rain," he says. "In other words, whether there is an active, self-sustaining ecosystem up there." One intriguing piece of evidence - barely noticed by scientists at the time - came in research done 20 years ago by Russell Schnell of the University of Colorado. Trying to find out why western Kenya had so many hailstorms, he stumbled on the fact that most of the hailstones there contained at their heart a scrap of P. syringae. How do the bugs get into the atmosphere in the first place? On land, one major route is in smoke from forest and bush fires. Another is dust storms. Schnell reckoned the bacteria in his hail stones were stirred up by the feet of pickers in the region's tea plantations. On the oceans, tiny bacteria and plankton on the water's surface may gain lift-off after getting caught in the air bubbles of whitecaps. And why would bacteria have developed ice-making skills? Or, to put it more correctly, what is the selective advantage in Darwinist terms for bacteria to carry genes that trigger ice-making? This is the million-dollar Darwinian question. Most researchers believe that the skill first developed on the ground, to make frost that decomposes leaf litter - thus providing the bacteria with food. But why would bacteria living in the tropics retain ice-creating skills when temperatures are generally too high for frost formation? The answer could be in the clouds, where temperatures are cold enough for ice formation. What evolutionary benefit might the bacteria gain from this? One argument is that the resulting rain helps plants grow, and makes more leaves for bacteria down below to eat. But there may be another Darwinian purpose, says Tim Linton of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Edinburgh. Clouds are an efficient transportation system for the bacteria to spread themselves across the planet. Linton and the late William Hamilton, one of the world's leading evolutionary theorists, have suggested that cloud formation allows the bacteria to travel farther and to be "rained out" back on to the ground. Much of this is pretty speculative. But whatever the possible motives for bacteria to make clouds, one practical spin-off of their skills is that scientists might develop more efficient "organic" methods of seeding clouds, using bacteria instead of chemicals. That is one reason why agriculturalists and military strategists may be taking notice when, probably later this year, Moffett takes a device rather like a vacuum cleaner into the skies to capture and investigate the unknown ecology in the clouds over England. Hopefully, this experiment will answer many of the questions raised by the intriguing notion of ice-generating genes and bacteria. Bill Hamilton |
| September 16, 2003. Disease--You Got to Hand It To "Em
Want to Get Sick? Just Shake on It. In a study published by American Society For Microbiology, it was found that 30% of Air passangers don't wash their hands after using the toilet. Even the threat of an outbreak of a frightening, potentially fatal infectious disease like severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) or a gastrointestinal illness is not enough to get people to follow Mom's advice to "wash your hands after using the bathroom." Urine on your hands? Feces in your fingertips? No problem! Results of a new survey announced today at the 43rd Annual Interscience Conference of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) show that many people still aren't washing their hands in public places, exposing others to the risk of infection, despite recent outbreaks of infectious diseases. Although illnesses as deadly as SARS and as troublesome as the common cold or gastric distress can be spread hand-to-hand, the survey sponsored by the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) found that many people passing through major US airports don't wash their hands after using the public facilities. More than 30 percent of people using restrooms in New York airports, 19 percent of those in Miami's airport, and 27 percent of air travelers in Chicago aren't stopping to wash their hands. The survey, conducted by Wirthlin Worldwide in August 2003, observed 7,541 people in public washrooms in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami, and Toronto. Filthy bathroom hygiene appears to be a characteristic of American traverlers. By contrast, the vast majority of travelers using the airport restrooms in Toronto, Canada, washed almost every time after using the toilet. Of course, if you ask an American, they, like their politians, lie lie lie. For example, in a telephone survey of 1,000 Americans, 95 percent said that they wash their hands in public restrooms. However, even when asked point black, only 58 percent of people say they wash their hands after sneezing or coughing--which means that most people sneeze and cough on their hands--and then they want to touch you! Maybe even shake your hand. YUCK! In fact, only 77 percent say they wash their hands after changing a diaper. But Baby shit is good for you, isn't it? What this means is that the hands and fingers of most Americans are crawling with viruses and bacteria, and are awash with urine and covered with fecal fragments--which is why I almost never shake hands, though I wash my own constantly. According to Dr. Judy Daly, ASM Secretary. "The same people that fail to wash after using restrooms go on to pick up children, handle food, greet family and use the other public facilities. Hand washing can be instrumental in controlling the spread of common and more serious infections," says Daly, Director of the Microbiology Laboratories, Primary Children's Medical Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Dr. Donald Low, Chief of the Department of Microbiology at the University of Toronto and Toronto's Mt. Sinai Hospital, one of the lead investigators of the Toronto SARS outbreak, said he wasn't surprised by either the almost universal hand washing at Toronto's airport, or the low levels in American cities. Americans are, on average, quite stupid--how else to explain why a majority of Americans believe the lies of George Bush, or think that Iraq had something to do with 9-11. As to "weapons of mass destruction," the majority of Americans carry weapons of mass destruction on their fingertips, i.e. disease, backeria, viruses, urine, feces.... Unfortunately, according to Dr. low, "washing your hands is such a simple, basic important tool to prevent disease transmission. Yet people ignore this step again and again. It's even been shown that health care workers don't wash their hands between patients." Hey folks, its not just health care workers, but waitresses, the guy preparing your food in a restaurant....mmmm mmmmm. Dr. Daly also warns "It's possible that the situation might be worse than our survey indicates. Some people may have washed only because 'someone was watching.' In the absence of monitoring, numbers may have been dramatically different." What this means is that the vast majority of Americans do not wash their hands after using the toilet or wiping their ass---and you wonder why I don't want to shake hands? |
| September 15, 2003. The Neurology of Childhood Amnesia & Traumatic Amnesia
In a new study to appear in the scientific journal, Cognition and Emotion, it was determined that among the general population childhood amnesia (CA) has its offset at
around age 3.5 with females forming their first recallable memories earlier than males. In general
first memories tend to be visual and positive rather than verbal or negative, and the period for CA
is greater for verbal vs visual memories and for negative vs positive memories. In this study it was also reported that negative,
and repetitive stressful experiences disrupt memory and can injure memory centers such as the
hippocampus and amygdala. Snce adults who were traumatized or abused (TA) during
childhood reportedly suffer memory disturbances, it was hypothesized that those with a history of
repetitive instances of early trauma, might suffer from a lengthier period of childhood amnesia and
form their first recallable memories at a later age as compared to the general population (GP).
Because the non-motor regions of the right hemisphere begins to mature earlier than the language dominant
left hemisphere, and is dominant for visual and emotional memory, as well as the stress response,
and as stress can injure the brain and disrupt memory, it was hypothesized that the traumatized
group would demonstrate memory and intellectual disturbances associated with right hemisphere
injury as based on WAIS-R, Wechsler Memory Scale and facial-memory testing. All hypotheses
were supported. Positive and visual memories are formed before negative and verbal memories. TA
CA offset, on average, is at age 6.1 versus 3.5 for GPs, with TA females forming their first
recallable memories at a later age than TA males. Thus the sex differences in CA is reversed. TA
PIQ, short-term visual memory, and facial memory were significantly reduced. The results indicate,
therefore, that childhood amnesia has its offset at around age 3.5 for the general population and 6.1
for those with a history of early trauma, and that repetitive instances of traumatic episodes
significantly disrupt memory and neurological functioning such that individuals who were
repeatedly traumatized experience a period of childhood amnesia which is almost twice that of the
general population. However, why are "normal" adults unable to remember anything before age 3.5? According to the authors, the major axonal pathway (the corpus callosum), which links the right and left hemisphere, does not begin to significantly mature until after age 3.5. In consequence, early, non-verbal, and visual, pictorial and emotional memories, are selectively stored in the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere not only does not process this information efficiently, but because of corpus callosal immaturity, it can't get access to these memories, even after the axonal pathway matures. Early memories, therefore, remain well kept secrets of the right hemisphere. |
| September 4, 2003. Migraine Headaches and Behavioral Disorders in Children.
Can a headache cause behavioral problems? Well, duh, of course. Headaches make one irritable and unpleasant. However, a new study reported by scientists and doctors at Columbus Children's Hospital, report that Migraines are common in children as are behavioral disorders such as attention deficit disorder (ADD), conduct disorder (CD) and oppositional defiant disorder (ODD). However, these researchers have also found a relationship between pediatric migraines and the behavioral disorder, ODD (as in "odd behavior disorder") - one of the most common of the disruptive behavioral disorders occurring in children. "Until now, there was no evidence to support co-morbidities (co-existence) of behavioral disorders in children with migraines," said Ann Pakalnis, M.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Neurology at Columbus Children1s Hospital. "Parental reports of disruptive behavior are common in pediatric migraineurs. Children with migraines miss more school and often lose sleep, which can contribute to the types of behavioral symptoms often associated with ADD, CD and ODD, but this is the first study to demonstrate that there could be a direct link between migraines and behavioral disorders. "Our new data suggests a significant increase of ODD in children with migraines," added Dr. Pakalnis. 3Children with ODD have difficulty accepting parental rules or discipline, are often argumentative and, at times, have difficulty relating to siblings or peers. Understanding this relationship between behavioral disorders and migraines will help develop better treatment options and enable healthcare providers to better counsel the parents of the migraine sufferers." While more research is to come, a three-month follow-up survey indicated children with a co-morbid behavior disorder fared no worse with their headaches than children who didn1t have any behavioral problems. To assess the frequency of behavioral disorders (e.g., ADD, CD and ODD), researchers at the clinic studied patients from six-17 years of age diagnosed with migraine and age matched controls. A questionnaire, called the Child Symptom Inventory (CSI), followed by a psychological interview was used for diagnosis. Dr. Pakalnis suggests parents track the frequency of headaches to see if behavioral problems relate to the headache episodes. If the headaches occur more than three times a month, they should be treated aggressively. "In the future, we hope to examine the correlation between chronic daily headaches and behavioral issues," said Dr. Pakalnis. "We1d also like to determine if depression and anxiety are higher in children with migraines. We already know this to be true with adults." So, there you have it folks. Your tax dollars at work. Scientists discover that children who have headaches and those with chronic headaches, also act cranky and in an irritable unpleasant fashion. Who would have guessed? |
| September 1, 2003. Food Acts on Gene Selection
According to a theory first proposed by Dr. Rhawn Joseph, "silent" genes contain the genetic instructions for traits that have not yet been expressed--and thus do not yet exist--on this planet. Over the course of evolution, the environment acts on gene selection, by activating silent genes and/or silencing active genes, which in turn has given rise to the evolutionary progression which has resulted in the metamorphosis of woman and man. Joseph calls his theory, "Evolutionary Metamorphosis" and has marshalled a treasurehouse of information and scientific studies to support his view. Now, new research has emerged which demonstrates that certain foods and common nutrients can also act on silent genes and gene expression, and that the foods eaten by a pregnant mother can influence gene expression in her offspring. According to scientists at the Duke's Cancer Center the color of baby mice can be altered by feeding their mothers four common nutritional supplements before and during pregnancy and lactation. In a study published in the journal, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Randy Jirtle, Ph.D., professor of radiation oncology at Duke, reportsthat "we have long known that maternal nutrition profoundly impacts disease susceptibility in their offspring, but we never understood the cause-and-effect link. For the first time ever, we have shown precisely how nutritional supplementation to the mother can permanently alter gene expression in her offspring without altering the genes themselves." That is, the gene was not altered, rather, active genes were silence, and silent genes were activated such that in consequence, its dormant traits were expressed. Specifically, the found that the extra nutrients reduced the expression of a specific gene, called Agouti, which caused the coat color change. "Our study demonstrates how early environmental factors can alter gene expression without mutating the gene itself," said Rob Waterland, Ph.D., lead author of the study. "The implications for humans are huge because methylation is a common event in the human genome, and it is clearly a malleable effect that is subject to subtle changes in utero." Specifically, DNA methylation, involves a quartet of atoms which attach to specific genes and alters its function by acting on its protein protective overcoat or by acting on the gene itself so as to silence and deactivate the gene. In this way, certain traits disapear and "new" traits are expressed in their place. In this study, the Agouti gene became methylated and was silenced while the fetus was still developing--a function of the nutrients acting on gene expression. "Our data suggest these changes occur early in embryonic development, before one would even be aware of the pregnancy," said Jirtle. "Any environmental condition that impacts these windows in early development can result in developmental changes that are life-long, some of them beneficial and others detrimental." If such epigenetic alterations occur in the developing sperm or eggs, they could even be passed on to the next generation, potentially becoming a permanent change in the family line, which in turn could contribute to the evolution, or rather, the metamorphosis of new species. Not just foods, however, but genes themselves can act to silence of activate other genes, and this too may be accomplished through methylation. This is a mechanism used by "transposons" which can insert themselves in or near a functional or silent gene which is then methylated, thereby reducing or inducing its expression. Methylating a single gene can also have multiple effects. For example, the Agouti gene regulates not just coat color but body weight and food intake--a function of it acting on receptors in the hypothalamus which controls eating. "Diet, nutritional supplements and other seemingly innocuous compounds can alter the development in utero to such an extent that it changes the offspring's characteristics for life, and potentially that of future generations," said Waterland. "Nutritional epigenetics could, for example, explain the differences between genetically identical twins, or the disparities in the incidence of stroke between the South and the North. The possibilities are endless." |
| August 15, 2003. Introns: The DNA of Evolutionary Metamorphosis
by Bill Hamilton, SkyWatch International
It is looking more and more like evolution owes more to merging genomes,
horizontal insertions,
and introns than random mutations. Hence, Dr. Rhawn Joseph in his book on Astrobiology that came out in 2001 was
prescient in stating
that introns played a role in evolution. Introns can cause new stretches of DNA to be precisely inserted into genomes. While hints of this capability were already known, introns seem even more remarkable now, according to a review in Science. "Introns serve as templates for making other proteins. Among these are spectacular enzymes that inject new stretches of DNA into precisely defined spots in a genome." Tools like this one would be necessary for the integration of new genetic programs, as in cosmic ancestry. The article is also informative about inteins [see figure], which are similar to introns by being sequences that are ulimately removed. But inteins are edited out of amino acid sequences after translation, whereas introns are edited out of RNA sequences before translation. According to Ingrid Wickelgren, writing for the journal of MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: "Spinning Junk Into Gold" Scientists are finding surprising uses for DNA that interrupts genes. Some stretches encode enzymes that ferry genes into precise locations; other "junk" seamlessly edits proteins Genomes are typically littered with "junk": stretches of DNA with no obvious function that are scattered among genes. But scientists are now finding that some of this junk, at least that from lower organisms, can be astoundingly useful to people, if apparently not to the organisms that carry it. This surprisingly handy DNA is located within genes and not in the no man's land between one gene and the next. It comes in two types. So-called introns are clipped out of a gene's RNA before a protein is made. By contrast, the less well known inteins are translated into protein but then immediately removed. In simple creatures such as yeast, algae, and bacteria, some introns aren't just tossed out like so much cellular garbage. Instead, the introns serve as templates for making other proteins. Among these are spectacular enzymes that inject new stretches of DNA into precisely defined spots in a genome. Scientists are tailoring these enzymes to shoot genes into new locations. The technique may yield edible vaccines, hardier cheese cultures, and better-controlled gene therapy for diseases. "I see enormous possibilities for the use of introns and their enzymes in biotechnology and medicine," says Marlene Belfort, a geneticist at the Wadsworth Center of the New York Department of Health in Albany. Scientists are mining inteins, which occur primarily in yeast, algae, viruses, bacteria, and archaea, for a different skill: the ability to seamlessly extract themselves from a protein and tie the loose ends back together. In the past few years, researchers have parlayed this talent into methods for purifying proteins that otherwise can't be made in bacteria. Inteins have also endowed crops with new genetic traits that are unlikely to cross over to nearby plants. "Not only have inteins fundamentally changed how we view gene expression, they've also been harnessed as workhorses that have revolutionized protein chemistry," says molecular biologist Francine Perler of New England Biolabs in Beverly, Massachusetts, who discovered much of the basic biology of inteins. "For something most people have never heard of," adds chemical engineer David Wood of Princeton University, "this is a hot area." Bill Hamilton Executive Director Skywatch International, Inc. |
| August 1, 2003. George Bush & His Adminstration
A Psychological Study of a Corporate-Nazi Mentality. "The Bush family were crucial players in setting up the industrial power behind the Third Reich." -Robert Lederman, Philadelphia City Paper (1/18/01). "The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich" --John Loftus (1), former prosecutor in the U.S. Justice Depts. Nazi Crimes Unit. Our nation's government has been seized by gangsters, crooks, murderers, cowards, terrorists, pathological liars, and Nazis. The "N" in "NeoCons" stands for "Nazis," and like the Nazis of Hitler's Germany who sought to conquer the world, the "Neo-Cons" in the Bush Nazi regime are advocating that the U.S. must conquer the world, in order "to make America safe." No One Will be Safe. There are over 700 suspected terrorists in this country, waiting for orders to strike, and, like the attack of 9-11, the Bush administration will allow it to happen so as to terrorize and frighten U.S. citizens into giving up more of their rights, and to justify "pre-emptive" "Blitzkrieg" attacks against innocent and helpless countries. The Bush administration is directly linked to the bin ladens and the Saudis who funded the 9-11 attack (2,3,4), they met with Saudi and Pakistani agents who were linked to the 9-11 hijackers (5), they spirited the bin Laden family and at least one of these Saudi agents out of the country so they couldn't be questioned (6), and they have engaged in a massive coverup of the 9-11 crimes in order to protect the Saudis and their own involvement. The Bush administration, and their Nazi supporters, are willing to kill you, your family, your friends, your mother, father, sister, brother, husband, wife, and children, in order to make a buck and to satisfy their lust for power. Almost every day another American soldier dies, and with every death, the Bush family and the Neo-cons, make another buck. They like to call it: "Privatization." Private firms, directly linked to the Bush administration, such as the Halliburton subsidiary, Brown & Root, have been "hired" to perform tasks traditionally under the control of the military, such as providing supplies and water. According to the Newhouse News Service: "U.S. troops in Iraq suffered through months of unncessarily poor living conditions because some civilian contractors hired by the Army for support, failed to show up" thus putting the lives of our toops in even greater danger. Yet, although they "failed to show up" these same Bush-connected companies were paid tens of millions and in some cases, hundreds of millions of dollars. And then there are the Bush-connected defense contractors who are making billions! Consider, again, Dick Cheney's company, Halliburton, which gave Cheney 37 million dollars as a going away present when he became Vice President. Halliburton has so far been awarded 1.7 billion dollars in "Operation Iraqi Freedom" contracts and will be awarded hundreds of millions of dollars more in "no-bid" contracts, to perform "services" for the U.S. Army in Iraq. This does not include the 705 million dollars awarded for "initial" work involving "oil field rehabilitation." This is our money! These crooks went to war in order to steal our money! The Bush-Nazis are such brazen money-grubbing gangsters that they (the Pentagon) set up an on-line betting parlor where participants can make big bucks by betting on terrorism (e.g. "policyanalysismarket.org"). Another terrorist attack is coming--and like the assault on the morning of 9-11-2001, the Bush administration, the Bush family, and Bush business partners, will have their finger prints all over it--finger prints which will be wiped away by the FBI, CIA, and Bush-team as they cover up and then round up and arrest innocent Americans and attack and destroy the men, women, and children of other nations. No One is Safe! The Bush Administration is the Axis of Evil!
TERRORISM: "Bush wants to divert attention... Its a classic tactic. It's one that Hitler used." --Herta Daubler-Gamelin, Germany's Justice Minister.
The true terrorists are the members of the Bush administration who are directly linked with the Saudis who funded the 9-11 attack. Three
generations of the Bush family have been in business with men and governments who kill
Americans, including the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler (1,7). On the morning of 9-11-2001, the
Bush family was in business and doing business with the family of Osama bin laden and
several other Saudi nationals who helped finance the 9-11 attack (2,8). The Bush family
prospered financially from the 9-11 attack, as did Bush administration associates. High
ranking officials in the CIA, FBI, and the Bush administration, in fact, made the 9-11 attack
possible by ignoring the avalanche of warnings given by foreign governments and
foreign intelligence agencies, and by interfering with the efforts of lower ranking FBI agents
who threatened to uncover the plot (8,9,10).
"Key FBI Headquarters personnel had to be spies or moles ... who were actually working for Osama Bin Laden....Key FBI HQ personnel...
continued to, almost inexplicably, throw up roadblocks and undermine Minneapolis' desperate efforts... to stop terrorists...." who planned
"to take control of a plane and fly it into the World Trade Center." --FBI supervisor, and Coleen M. Rowley, FBI Special Agent & Chief
Division Counsel.
"I don't believe any longer that it's a matter of connecting dots. I think they had a veritable blueprint, and
we want to know why they didn't act on it." -Senator Arlen Specter
"They don't have any excuse because the information was in their lap, and they didn't do anything to
prevent it." -Senator Richard Shelby.
The Bush administration not only knew in advance, they
welcomed the attack as they intended to use it as a political tool to increase their power and to
justify the illegal war on Iraq.
"We expect to get votes in the fall because of the War on
Terrorism." - Ari Fleischer, Bush White House Spokesman
"Bush Adviser Suggests War as Campaign Theme," -New York Times, 1/19/02
"President Bush's top political adviser said today that Republicans will make the president's handling of the war on terrorism the centerpiece of their strategy to win back the Senate and keep control of the House in this year1s midterm elections." -Washington Post, 1/19/02
I believe that the U.S. will again be attacked, in 2004, and that the Saudis and Bush administration will have their finger printers all over it. New York City, Washington D.C., Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles will be the primary targets and the Bush administration is at this moment interfering with security measures designed to protect this country.
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Ms. Rice, Webster of the FBI,
Mr. Tenet of the CIA, and other top officials pose an incredible danger to public safety and
the security of this nation, and in 2004, they are likely to allow yet another terrorist attack to
occur so as to frighten the American electorate into voting for them and as justification for more war and
taking away more civil rights. Click here For further details about Bush and 9-11.
IRAQ: Fifteen of the hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. The financing of the attack came from Bush business partners in Saudi Arabia. Osama bin laden and the Saudi royal family wanted the U.S. to invade Iraq and take out Saddam Hussein. So where is Osama bin Laden? Saudi Arabia? Who did we attack? Iraq.
The war against Iraq was and illegal and served only to enrich the Bush family (e.g., the Carlyle Group), those associated with the Bush
administration, as well as the the Bush-Cheney Republican-linked "defense industry"--remember: when you write out that check, "Halliburton" is spelled with two "ll's." Every
time an American soldier is killed, the Bush family and the "Defense Industry" makes another dollar.
These people have repeatedly undermined
this nation's security and standing in the world, in order to make money.
"The victor will not be asked whether he told the truth. In starting and waging war it is not right that matters, but victory." --Adolf Hitler
"The broad masses... more readily falls victim to the big lie than to the small lie." --Adolf Hitler
Consider
the following: President Bush and his administration falsely claimed that Iraq had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction and was seeking to
develop nuclear weapons and had sought uranium from the African nation of Niger. These were all lies.
Mr. Bush, and the notorious pathological liar, Ms. Condoleezza Rice, also falsely claimed that
some intercepted aluminum tubes were "for nuclear weapons programs." Secretary Colin
Powell, yet another pathological liar, falsely claimed before the UN Security Council in
February 5, 2003, that, "Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical
weapons agent. That is enough agent to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets." Mr. Bush's Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, created a secret intelligence
unit at the Pentagon whose purpose was to fake and/or exaggerate questionable intelligence to
justify the invasion of Iraq and the mass murder of its leaders and people (11). President Bush and Rumsfeld also falsely claimed an al-Qaeda connection to Iraq (12) and
knew the statements were false . Rumsfeld also
falsely claimed, on 3/30/02, that Iraq had a large stockpile of weapons of mass destruction, and
that "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west,
south and north somewhat" (13).
Vice-President Dick Cheney also lied by claiming to have "irrefutable evidence" that Iraq had
reconstituted its nuclear weapons program, and Cheney personally bullied intelligence analysts
in a successful attempt to force them to issue bogus intelligence reports. In fact, senior officials
in the Bush administration retaliated against Ambassador Joseph Wilson by illegally disclosing
that his wife is an undercover CIA officer (14). As to the argument that the people of Iraq are now free--this is a lie. Iraq is in a state of chaos. The Bush administration ordered the destruction of water supplies, power plants, schools and hospitals--which is also what Bush Sr. and Reagan did to Nicaragua--which is why Iraq now needs to be "rebuilt." Freedom? The dictatorship of Hussein has been replaced by the dictatorship of George Bush and the NeoCon Nazis.
Bill Clinton was impeached for lying about oral sex. The George Bush lied in order invade a helpless country. Over 1240 American soldiers have been killed, over 10,000 seriously wounded (nearly ten a day), tens of thousands of Iraqis have been maimed or killed, and tens of billions of dollars have been wasted because of Bush administration lies.
I advocate the impeachment and arrest of George Bush and his entire administration, and an end to the war against the people of Iraq. Let's support our troops and bring our men and women home.
BUSH-NAZIS: "A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there's no question about it. So long as I'm the dictator!" -George W. Bush. Three generations of the Bush clan became members of a German secret society: the Yale chapter of the "Order of Skull and Bones" (15). In
Germany, the Order of Skull of Bones --also known as "The Brotherhood of Death"-- gave rise to Hitler and the dreaded SS. Prescot Bush,
through his shipping company, became a special "Friend" of Himmler's SS (16)--the same SS which, in conjunction with IG Farbin, ran the
concentration and slave labor camps.
The Bush clan and Rockefeller's standard Oil, were in business with IG Farben, as well as with the Saudis who had also partnered with
Hitler.
The Nazi-link to the Bush family, was first alleged in 1934 by the U.S. Congress which believed that Hamburg-America Line and Union bank, which were directed by Prescot Bush, were subsidizing the Nazi movement in Germany and the United States (1,17,18). Corporations associated or directed by Bush and his cronies, had been working with and financing the Nazis and their supporters, since 1924 (1,7,8).
"The Bush family were crucial players in setting up the industrial power behind the Third Reich." -Robert Lederman, Philadelphia City Paper.
"The Bush family fortune came from the Third Reich" --John Loftus, former prosecutor in the U.S. Justice Depts. Nazi Crimes Unit.
In 1942, the Bush family was still in business with the Nazis, despite the declaration of war by Hitler against the United States (1,8,17,18). In consequence, three Bush companies were seized by the U.S. government, for violation of the Trading with the Enemies Act (17).
Doing business with those who kill Americans is a Bush business tradition. In October of 1942, however, the government of the United States tried to put the Bush family out of business.
US Government Vesting Order No. 248, issued in 1942, resulted in the seizure of Union Banking's assets as they were being used to support the Nazi war effort and were serving as a Nazi front. Two other Vesting Orders were issued that year (nos. 259 and 261) and two more Nazi-front companies directed by the Bush bank and his associates were seized: Holland American Trading Corporation and Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation (17).
As detailed by Christopher Simpson, BBC News, UPI, and others (19), and as recently revealed in papers released by the National Archives, after WWII, Nazis were recruited, brought to the United States, and then subsidized by the CIA to build a power base for the Republican right wing. Several Nazis became top Bush campaign aids (18,20). Thousands of high ranking Nazis and SS agents were also recruited, by Bush-Rockefeller
lawyer, Allen Dulles, into what would later become the CIA (7,19). Allen Dulles, and later, George Bush, would become directors of the CIA.
...Three generations of the Bush clan have been in business with governments and people who kill Americans, and on the morning of
9-11-2001, Bush Sr. was in business with the bin Ladens and other Saudis who had helped fund Osama bin Laden and the attack of
9-11-2001.
The attack of 9-11, would transform an inept, incompetent president into a war time leader who would attack not Saudi Arabia but
Iraq and then steal its oil...as well as attack American Civil Liberties and the U.S. constitution. The Nazis never really lost WWII, for those who share in the Nazi philosophy, including the Nazi-concept of "pre-emptive war" now occupy the White House and control the United States government. Click here For further details about Bush Nazis.
GEORGE W. BUSH: TRAITOR, COWARD, PATHOLOGICAL LIAR: In 1972, during the height of the Vietnam war, Bush deserted his Houston Air National Guard unit. He was AWOL (Absent Without Leave) for a period of between 11 to 18 months.
As reported in the well researched book, "Fortunate Son" (21) and as detailed in the Boston Globe, 22): "In his final 18 months of military service in 1972 and 1973, Bush was all but unaccounted for: For a full year, there is no record that he showed up for the periodic drills required of part-time guardsmen. William Turnipseed, the retired general who commanded the unit, said that Bush never appeared for duty. His two superior officers at Ellington Air Force Base could not perform his annual evaluation covering the year from May 1, 1972 to April 30, 1973 because, they wrote, '"'Lt. Bush has not been observed at this unit during the period of this report.'"
Desertion is a crime. But Bush had an "excuse." In 1972 he had been arrested for cocaine possession. George W. had a very serious drug problem. In an interview published in the Greenwich Village Gazette (23), President G. H. W. Bush's Chief of Staff Michael C. Dannenhauer admitted that George W. had been "out of control since college. There was cocaine use, but the drinking was the worst." George's past drug use was inadvertently confirmed by George W. himself, when he blurted out at a press conference that he hadn't taken drugs "since 1974."
Should we be surprised that a rich man with a low IQ (24), and a history of alcoholism, drug addiction, and desertion, who has never in his life been held accountable for his actions, would also run away on the morning of 9/11? I ran for my life because "I was trying to get out of harm's way." --George W. Bush. On the morning of 9-11-2001, President George Bush was sitting in a Florida classroom when he was told of the Twin Towers tragedy. And what did he do? He sat there, in that classroom, and smirked. But then the unexpected, Dick Cheney and then George Bush were informed that there was a third hijacked plane. Bush and Cheney panicked. While brave men and women were rushing up those tower stairs to save the lives of those who could not save themselves, Bush and Cheney thought only of saving their own skins. They deserted their posts, failed to inform any other other public agency such as the Pentagon of the threat, and ran for their lives--Cheney hiding out in the White House basement, and Bush in an atomic-bomb proof shelter. Bush and Cheney behaved like cowards. Click here For further details about Bush, Cheney, and 9-11.
NORTH KOREA: North Korea is suspected of having anywhere from 6 to 12 nuclear bombs and is known to possess the technology to lob nuclear-armed missiles at California and the West Coast. Who made Korea's nuclear arm's program possible? Bill Clinton and, Bush secretary of Defense, Rumsfeld whose company sold Korea the necessary equipment for manunfacturing nuclear arms. Who else? Saudi Arabian proxy and Bush-administration buddy: Pakistan. Instead of dealing with Korea's nuclear threat, the Bush administration has taunted and repeatedly insulted North Korea's leader, saying in effect: "Bring it on!" In a July 31, speech, Bush envoy, John Bolton, again insulted North Korea's leader, by name, 41 times in a 20 minute speech. The Bush administration is also planning to begin naval exercises whose purpose is to train for intercepting, boarding and interdicting shipping to and from the North Korea. Supposedly this proposed interdiction is prevent North Korea from receiving or shipping missiles and nuclear material. But this is a lie. In December of 2002,Spanish warships stopped a North Korean ship carrying Scud missiles to Yemen--one of the many homes of al-Qaeda. However, the Bush administration intervened, and the ship and its deadly cargo was allowed to continue on.
What is the logic of insulting and taunting a mercurial nuclear-armed dictator who has a cult-like, god-like status among the North Korean military? What is the logic of provoking North Korea by threatening to interfere with its shipping?
Answer: To provoke a nuclear reaction, to trigger a nuclear conflict, with California in the North Korean bull's eye. And why would the Bush team do that? To enrich the Bush-linked military-industrial complex which, naturally, would need hundreds of billions of dollars--your dollars-to respond to this attack. So what if millions of people are killed! Its all about money and power, that and reelecting the "War time leader" Mr. Bush, and taking away more of your rights. However, in truth, the next Bush-administration-family sponsored attack on America may be blamed on Iran.
IRAN: More Non-Existant Weapons of Mass Destruction. Beginning next year, the Bush administration, along with the corporate controlled mass media, including the liars at PBS/NRP, will likely begin trying to drum up mass hysteria about Iran's "weapons of mass destruction." The next Bush-sponsored terrorist attack on the U.S. may also be blamed on Iraq so that the Bush family and Bush-linked defense industry can earn hundreds of billions more of American tax dollars. Of course, the motivation for the next attack will be just to steal from American taxpayers, but to maintain and increase their power and to pass Patriot Acts II, III, IV.... Those who learn from the past are likely to repeat it: "We expect to get votes in the fall because of the War" - Ari Fleischer, Bush White House Spokesman
"Bush Adviser Suggests War as Campaign Theme," -New York Times, 1/19/02
"President Bush's top political adviser said today that Republicans will make the president's handling of the war the centerpiece of their strategy to win... and keep control..." -Washington Post, 1/19/02
THE NATION IS AT RISK: President George W.
Bush and his entire administration, are little more than cowards, gangsters, crooks, parasites, and
pathological liars, who will say anything, and do anything to make a buck, even if it includes
putting this nation at risk, and even if it means the death of your father, your mother, sister,
brother, wife, husband, or children. Over 4 billion dollars a month goes to pay for the war in Iraq--and much of that money flows into the bank accounts of arms merchants and defense contractors directly linked to the Bush administration and the Bush family. Billions of dollars in tax cuts have been provided to the wealthiest families in this nation. Billions more have been paid out to Bush-administration linked companies to help fight the war on terrorism--terrorism that was paid for by Bush business associates. In less than one year, George Bush was able to erase our nation's surplus and has replaced it with a record $480 billion dollar deficit, which in turn requires massive long term borrowing at high interest rates. And from whom will the U.S. government borrow these staggering sums of cash? From banks directly linked to the Bush family and members of the Bush administration and high ranking Republican and Democratic officials.
The Bush gang, with the help of Senators Barabara Boxer and Diane Feinstein, and the leadership of the Democratic and Republican party, are stealing from our future, and the future of our children, so as to enrich themselves and their associates. They have put their financial interests ahead of the national interests and have engaged in treason.
So long as George W. Bush sits in the White House, and so long as his Nazi-like policies are supported by the corporate controlled media and the leadership of the Democratic and Republican parties, the nation and the very concept of democracy, will remain at risk.
It is time for a regime change. It is time for these people to go! Reference Notes
2). Wall Street Journal, 9/27/2001; Daniel Golden et al. "Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending Due to Ties to U.S. Bank," Wall Street Journal, 9/27/2001. 3). Wall Street Journal, "Vetting the Frontrunners: From Oil to Baseball to the Governor1s Mansion," 9/28/1999; Jonathan Beaty & S.C. Gwynne, "The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI," Random House, 1993 4) The Times of India, 10/9/2001; Agence France Press, 10/10/2001. 5). Reuters, 9/13/2001. 6). Bryon York, "The bin Ladens' Great Escape. how the U.S. helped Osama's family leave the country after 9/11" National Review, 9/11/2002. London Telegraph, "My brother Osama," (12/16/2001). the plane was chartered by the Saudi government and the excuse for the great escape was that bin Laden family members were afraid they might suffer retribution. With the help of the FBI, a chartered aircraft picked up bin Laden family members in LA, Florida, Boston, and WDC. 7).Russ Bellant "Old Nazis, The New Right And The Republican Party." South End Press. Boston, 1991. Charles Higham, "Trading with the Enemy: An Expose of the Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949," Delecorte Press, New York, 1983; Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography," The Executive Intelligence Review. As detailed by Robert Lederman in the Philadelphia City Paper (1/18/01) "banks and shipping companies operated by the Bush family" invested millions of dollars into IG Farben. It is IG Farben, which produced the poison gas, Zyklon B which was used to murder Jews, Gypsies, Russians and so on. IG Farben built and operated, in conjunction with Himmler's SS, more than 40 concentration and slave camps, including Auschwitz. 8). "American Betrayed: Bush, bin Laden, 9/11, AIDs, Anthrax, Iraq..." R. Joseph, University Press. 9). Coleen M. Rowley, 13 page memo to FBI director Mueller. 10). "I will now present to you ... the case that the U.S. government had complete foreknowledge of the attacks of September 11th and deliberately allowed them to happen." -Michael C. Ruppert, The Truth and Lies of 9/11: Six Month Update! Toronto, June 14, 2002. "The Bush administration did indeed receive advance warning of the attacks, but refused to act in the interests of the general public by pursuing measures to prevent the attacks ... the Œintelligence failure1 was in fact not a failure at all, but a directive - or rather, the inevitable culmination of carefully imposed high-level directives and blocks that restrained agencies from acting on the very clear intelligence received ... unless a full-blown independent inquiry into this process is mountes soon, there is little doubt that more innocent Americans will pay with their lives again." Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The War on Freedom: How and Why America Was Attacked, September 11, 2001. As summed up by John A. McCurdy, former editor of the Hamilton Public Inquiry Into Sept. 11, "The only way such an attack could be executed, or made to appear the sole work of terrorist authorship, would be if a powerful state like the U.S. looked the other way - facilitating that attack or actually took part in organizing it." 11) New Yorker 5/12/03 12). New York Times 9/28/2002, 7/15/2003. 13). The Guardian, 5/30/2003 14). The Nation, 7/16/2003 15). Anthony Sutton, "America's Secret Establishment: An introduction to The Order of Skull & Bones" Liberty House, New York. 1986; Ron Rosenbaum, "The Last Secrets of Skull and Bones," Esquire Magazine, September, 1977; Peggy Alder-Robohm, "Skull and Bones -- Bush's Boy's Club," Covert Action Quarterly No. 33, 1990; John Schrag, "Skeleton in His Closet," Willamette Week, September 19-25, 1991; David W. Dunlap, "Yale Society Resists Peeks Into Its Crypt," New York Times, 11/4/88 16). Heinz Hohne. The Order of the Death's Head." Ballantine, New York. 1967. 17). Prescott Bush was president of Union Banking and one of the directors of the Hamburg-Amerika line. Hamburg-Amerika Line, was a Nazi front-company whose partners included I.G. Farben. On Oct. 20, 1942, Under the Trading with the Enemy Act, the U.S. government ordered the seizure of Nazi German banking operations in New York City which were being directed by Prescott Bush, including the Union Banking Corporation, in which Bush was a director. The U.S. Alien Property Custodian seized Union Banking Corp.'s stock shares, all of which were owned by Prescott Bush, E. Roland, Bunny Harriman, and three Nazis, and two other Bush associates (see Office of Alien Property Custodian Vesting Order No. 248, Vesting Order No. 259, Vesting Order No. 261, Vesting Order No. 370). Vesting Order No. 248 noted that the Union Banking Corporation was run as a front for the "Thyssen family" of "Germany" and designated "Thyssen" as "nationals ... of a designated enemy country." See also testimony of Capt. Frederick C. Mensing, John Schroeder, Paul von Lilienfeld-Toal, "Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities," Public Hearings before A Subcommittee of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities, United States House of Representatives, Seventy Third Congress, New York City, July 9-12, 1934--Hearings No. 73-NY-7, Washington: U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1934. 18). Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography," The Executive Intelligence Review. 19). BBC News, 9/17/2001"CIA Recruits Nazis;" UPI 9/20/2000, "CIA says Nazi general was intelligence source;" Christopher Simpson, "Blowback," 1988; As detailed by Simpson, BBC News, and UPI, after WWII, Nazis were recruited, brought to the United States, and then subsidized by the CIA to build a power base for the Republican right wing. Some were brought here as individuals others as well organized groups. The U.S. State Department and the CIA put high-ranking Nazis on the intelligence payroll in order to use "their expertise in propaganda and psychological warfare." Reinhold Gehlen, Hitler's most senior eastern front military intelligence officer, was employed by the U.S. to fight an intelligence war and to employ propaganda against the American people. 20). Washington Jewish Week, 9/8/1988. David Lee Preston, Philadelphia Inquirer, "Fired Bush backer one of several with possible Nazi links" (9/10/1988). 21). James H. Hatfield, "Fortunate Son," St. Martin's Press. New York. 22). Boston Globe, 5/23/2000. "One-year gap in Bush's National Guard Duty. No Record From 1972-73, by Walter V. Robinson. See also, The New Republic, 10/16/2000, 11/13/2000. 23). The Greenwich Village Gazette, 9/13/1999. 24). Bush scored at the 25% rank on an Air Force IQ test. A ranking of 25% means that on this dumbed down test, 75% of military recruits score higher than George W. Bush. This score places him in the "Low Average Range" of intellectual functioning, which means that Mr. Bush, has a Low Average IQ of around 85.
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