-------------------------------------------------------- http://www.wanttoknow.info/051013coverupnewssummary Homeland Security to be lead in flu crisis October 11, 2005, MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9654456/ If the nightmare of an avian flu pandemic emerges from the dark chapters of doomsday scenarios, it will fall to the Department of the Homeland Security, not the medical establishment, to manage the crisis, according to federal documents and interviews with government officials. Under the National Response Plan, which also plans for actions in case of pandemics, DHS assumes top authority when an "incident of national significance" is declared. The first such "incident of national significance" was declared in August after Hurricane Katrina hit; however, federal coordination among agencies and state and local governments broke down on so many levels that even President Bush was forced to acknowledge that the plan was flawed. Federal officials have been role playing different flu outbreak scenarios for the past several months. Last year's plan called for closing of schools, restricting travel and...lock-down quarantine measures. Those extreme measures jumped into the spotlight...when President Bush suggested that federal military troops - not just the National Guard - may have to be called in to enforce a quarantine. Note: Isn't it interesting how the government seems to be predicting that the avian flu, which has killed less than 100 people worldwide, is going to mutate and cause massive deaths? How do they know this? Could this be another way of pushing us into fear and giving up our civil liberties? --- Bush wants right to use military if bird flu hits October 4, 2005, ABC/Reuters http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1183192 President George W. Bush asked Congress on Tuesday to consider giving him powers to use the military to enforce quarantines in case of an avian influenza epidemic. "If we had an outbreak somewhere in the United States, do we not then quarantine that part of the country? And how do you, then, enforce a quarantine?" Bush asked at a news conference. The active duty military is currently forbidden from undertaking law enforcement duties by the federal Posse Comitatus Act. --- Health Officials Vigilant for Illness After Sensors Detect Bacteria on Mall October 2, 2005, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/01/AR2005100101209.html Federal health officials are still testing the samples from air sensors on the Mall and in downtown Washington that collected a small amount of the tularemia agent. Health officials in the Washington area were notified Friday that the filters on biohazard sensors that make up the BioWatch network detected the bacteria Sept. 24, when tens of thousands of people were on the Mall for antiwar demonstrations. The naturally-occurring biological agent -- which is on the "A list" of the Department of Homeland Security's biohazards, along with anthrax, plague and smallpox -- was detected in small amounts. Detection of the bacteria turned into an incident with nationwide implications, because thousands of protesters had come from throughout the country. Police said that more than 100,000 people attended the rally; organizers put the figure at 300,000. Note: Isn't it interesting that this very rare occurrence coincided perfectly with a huge antiwar demonstration? --- Possible police role in 2002 Bali attack October 12, 2005, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia's leading newspaper) http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Possible-police-role-in-2002-Bali-attack/2005/10/12/1128796591857.html Indonesian police or military officers may have played a role in the 2002 Bali bombing, the country's former president, Abdurrahman Wahid says. In an interview with SBS's Dateline program, on the third anniversary of the bombing that killed 202 people, Mr Wahid says he has grave concerns about links between Indonesian authorities and terrorist groups. While he believed terrorists were involved in planting one of the Kuta night club bombs, the second, which destroyed Bali's Sari Club, had been organised by authorities. Asked who he thought planted the second bomb, Mr Wahid said: "The orders...came from within our armed forces not from the fundamentalist people." Timsar Zubil, who set off three bombs in Sumatra in 1978, told the program intelligence agents had given his group a provocative name - Komando Jihad - and encouraged members to commit illegal acts. "We may have deliberately been allowed to grow," he said. Another terrorism expert, George Aditjondro, said a bombing in May this year that killed 23 people...had been organised by senior military and police officers. Note: This information strengthens my own whistleblower testimony in a Jakarta terror trial last January reported in the international press. For more: http://www.WantToKnow.info/powerofnightmares --- 25 questions about murder of the Big Easy October 2, 2005, San Francisco Chronicle http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/10/02/INGSHEVHR31.DTL The most toxic debris in New Orleans isn't the sinister gray sludge that coats the streets..., but all the unanswered questions that have accumulated in the wake of so much official betrayal and hypocrisy. Where outsiders see simple "incompetence" or "failure of leadership," locals are more inclined to discern deliberate design and planned neglect -- the murder, not the accidental death, of a great city. Here are 25 of the urgent questions that deeply trouble the local people we spoke with on a trip to New Orleans and South Louisiana. Until a grand jury or congressional committee begins to uncover the answers, the moral (as opposed to simply physical) reconstruction of the New Orleans region will remain impossible. 20. Who is responsible for the suspicious fires that have swept the city? Why have so many fires occurred in blue-collar areas that have long been targets of proposed gentrification? 23. Why isn't FEMA scrambling to create a central registry of everyone evacuated from the greater New Orleans region? Will evacuees receive absentee ballots and be allowed to vote in the crucial February municipal elections that will partly decide the fate of the city? --- Blackwater Down September 22, 2005, CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/22/opinion/main878822.shtml The men from Blackwater USA arrived in New Orleans right after Katrina hit. The company known for its private security work guarding senior U.S. diplomats in Iraq beat the federal government and most aid organizations to the scene. About 150 heavily armed Blackwater troops dressed in full battle gear spread out into the chaos of New Orleans. When asked what authority they were operating under, one guy said, "We're on contract with the Department of Homeland Security." Then, pointing to one of his comrades, he said, "He was even deputized by the governor of the state of Louisiana. We can make arrests and use lethal force if we deem it necessary." Says Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, "These private security forces have behaved brutally, with impunity, in Iraq. To have them now on the streets of New Orleans is frightening and possibly illegal." Blackwater is operating under a federal contract...[that] was announced just days after Homeland Security Department spokesperson Russ Knocke told the Washington Post he knew of no federal plans to hire Blackwater. With President Bush using the Katrina disaster to try to repeal Posse Comitatus (the ban on using U.S. troops in domestic law enforcement)...the war is coming home in yet another ominous way. As one Blackwater mercenary said, "This is a trend. You're going to see a lot more guys like us in these situations." --- UCLA Engineers Pioneer Affordable Alternative Energy Resource October 10, 2005, UCLA News http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=6518 Solar Energy Cells Made of Everyday Plastic. In research published today in Nature Materials magazine, [several researchers] showcase their work on an innovative new plastic (or polymer) solar cell they hope eventually can be produced at a mere 10 percent to 20 percent of the current cost of traditional cells, making the technology more widely available. The price for quality traditional solar modules typically is around three to four times more expensive than fossil fuel. Independent tests on the UCLA solar cell already have received high marks. The nation's only authoritative certification organization for solar technology, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), located in Golden, Colo., has helped the UCLA team ensure the accuracy of their efficiency numbers. The plastic solar cell is still a few years away from being available to consumers, but the UCLA team is working diligently to get it to market. Note: Why is it that ABC was the only one of the mainstream media to pick up this important article, and even ABC's report appears to belittle the development as much as it gives an optimistic outlook. --- Ex-FBI Chief On Clinton's Scandals October 6, 2005, CBS http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/06/60minutes/main923095.shtml When President Bill Clinton appointed Louis Freeh director of the FBI, he called Freeh "a law enforcement legend." But it also turns out that no FBI director had a more strained relationship with the president who had appointed him. Now he's written a book, My FBI, and speaks out for the first time about his years as director, and his toxic relationship with Bill Clinton. Here's how he wrote about the former president: "The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals...never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out." Former Chief of Staff John Podesta says Clinton always referred to the FBI director as ‘Effing' Freeh...[After] the 1996 Khobar Towers terrorist attack in Saudi Arabia, where 19 U.S. servicemen died and more than 370 were wounded, President Clinton had sent the FBI to investigate and promised Americans that those responsible would pay. But Freeh says the President failed to keep his promise. The FBI wanted access to the suspects the Saudis had arrested. Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar said the only way to get access to prisoners would be if the president personally asked the crown prince for access. [Freeh] writes...: "Bill Clinton raised the subject only to tell the crown prince that he understood the Saudi's reluctance to cooperate, and then he hit Abdullah up for a contribution to the Clinton Presidential Library." --- Countdown with Keith Olbermann October 6, 2005, MSNBC http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9619419/ Let's call in Craig Crawford, MSNBC analyst and author of "Attack the Messenger." Good evening, Craig. CRAWFORD: Hi, there. You're sounding a bit skeptical tonight. OLBERMANN: Yes, and I'm going to raise this question as skeptically and bluntly as I can. It's not a question that doubts the existence of terror, nor the threat of terrorism. But we've cobbled together in the last couple of hours a list of at least 13 occasions...on which-whenever there has been news that significantly impacted the White House negatively, there has been some sudden credible terror threat somewhere in this country. How could the coincidence be so consistent? CRAWFORD: It is a pattern. One of the most memorable was just after the Democratic Convention in the 2004 election, when they talked about the threat to New York and even the...World Bank, and it turned out that was based on intelligence that was three years old. Note: For more on the suspicious timing of terror alerts on the CBS website: http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2005/10/07/publiceye/entry924555.shtml --- Sources: NYC Subway Threat Info Not Substantiated October 11, 2005, Fox News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171917,00.html The claims of a terrorist plot to blow up New York subways made public last week were not substantiated, administration and federal law enforcement sources confirmed to FOX News on Tuesday. The administration official told FOX News on Tuesday that "there was a lot of doubt" about the informant who led the U.S. military to the three suspects in Iraq. The informant who had been credible in the past and was known to the Defense Intelligence Agency appears to have pulled some of the names and information "out of nowhere," sources told FOX News. The federal law enforcement source even suggested that the informant's motivation may have been financial, since he had been paid in the past for information. Note: For more excellent information on the fabrication of fear reported by BBC: http://www.WantToKnow.info/powerofnightmares --- Britain now faces its own blowback September 10, 2005, The Guardian (One of the UK's leading newspapers) http://politics.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9115,1566919,00.html Omar Sheikh...at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI [Pakistan's secret service], wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York attacks, as confirmed by Dennis Lormel, director of FBI's financial crimes unit. Yet neither Ahmed nor Omar appears to have been sought for questioning by the US about 9/11. Indeed, the official 9/11 Commission Report of July 2004 sought to downplay the role of Pakistan with the comment: "To date, the US government has not been able to determine the origin of the money used for the 9/11 attacks. Ultimately the question is of little practical significance" - a statement of breathtaking disingenuousness. All this highlights the resistance to getting at the truth about the 9/11 attacks and to an effective crackdown on the forces fomenting terrorist bombings in the west. --- The President's 'Pit Bull' October 4, 2005, Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-profile4oct04,0,7005879.story After they left Texas for Washington following the 2000 presidential election, Miers assumed such an insider role that in 2001 it was she who handed Bush the crucial "presidential daily briefing" hinting at terrorist plots against America just a month before the Sept. 11 attacks. Note: No other major media reported this significant fact on the topic of U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers. The respected Editor and Publisher had this to say: "On its front page Tuesday, The New York Times published a photo of new U.S. Supreme Court nominee Harriet Miers going over a briefing paper with President George W. Bush at his Crawford ranch "in August 2001," the caption reads. USA Today and the Boston Globe carried the photo labeled simply "2001," but many other newspapers ran the picture in print or on the Web with a more precise date: Aug. 6, 2001. The PDB [Presidential Daily Briefing] was headed 'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.,' and notes, among other things, FBI information indicating 'patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings or other types of attacks.' " For the entire article, see: http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001221205 --- Kennedy Assassination Revelations September 25, 2005, Google Video/Alex Jones Productions http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4315024059102108031&q=bush Note: This intriguing 90-minute video produced by controversial conservative talk-show host Alex Jones is filled with fascinating facts and details. I normally don't recommend controversial sources, but this video, available for free viewing, repeatedly gives solid sources for their information with plenty of original video and photos of original documents related to the JFK assassination. Though rather hard-hitting and accusatory in tone, the revealing footage includes excellent clips from Oliver Stone's movie JFK, which opened many people's eyes to the possibility that there is much more to the Kennedy assassination than most people know. Many thanks to Google for making this video available on their website! 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