During the early Bush presidency, the anthrax attacks were used as one of Bush administration's scare tactics to bring the congress and the news media stations to their knees.
It worked.
Two Democratic Senators - Tom Daschle of South Dakota and Patrick Leahy of Vermont - were the targets of the anthrax letters and later the infamous Patriot Act (stripping civil liberties) was passed without any real discussion or dissension. NBC, ABC, CBS, and New York Post obviously toed the line of Bush administration policies after the anthrax threats.
Coincidences abound as to the access, motives and targets of the deadly weapon as revealed in Bio-terrorism -- anthrax attacks following September 11.
More importantly, the anthrax attacks which killed 5 postal workers and infected 17 others were never solved.
The biggest coincidence of them all, when Bush was to leave office, Dr. Bruce E. Ivins, a bio-weapons researcher who was working on solving the anthrax case died on Tuesday, July 29, 2008, reportedly by suicide just as the Department of Justice was about to charge him with the 2001 anthrax attacks.
In conclusion, the anthrax case has too many coincidences to say the least.
Sunday, 23 January 2011
Thursday, 13 January 2011
Haiti's unspent billions on earthquake victims
After a year of the deadly earthquake on January 12, 2010 that hit Haiti, killing more than 230,000 people, frustrated Haitians are wondering what has happened to billions of dollars of foreign money pledged by governments around the world and charities for the reconstruction of Haiti.
Al Jazeera News gives us a pretty good idea how your donated money has not ended up helping the ones in dire needs but has fallen into the hands of bureaucracy, red tape, and just plain mismanagement.
One year on, 4 billion dollars pledged by countries in the world have yet to be materialized. Shamefully, some governments haven't put up one cent. The world body of governments promised 4 billion dollars but less than 30% has been spent.
The American charities collected 1.84 billion dollars but only $530 million dollars, around 38%, has been spent.
Watch the video and you'll see the excuses and evasions for the government/charity spokesmen not to take the blame for their slow actions and irresponsibility, leaving the Haitians again not just as victims of the natural disaster but also the so-called "humanitarian" efforts of the "responsible" governments and "caring" fund raising organizations.
Al Jazeera News gives us a pretty good idea how your donated money has not ended up helping the ones in dire needs but has fallen into the hands of bureaucracy, red tape, and just plain mismanagement.
One year on, 4 billion dollars pledged by countries in the world have yet to be materialized. Shamefully, some governments haven't put up one cent. The world body of governments promised 4 billion dollars but less than 30% has been spent.
The American charities collected 1.84 billion dollars but only $530 million dollars, around 38%, has been spent.
Watch the video and you'll see the excuses and evasions for the government/charity spokesmen not to take the blame for their slow actions and irresponsibility, leaving the Haitians again not just as victims of the natural disaster but also the so-called "humanitarian" efforts of the "responsible" governments and "caring" fund raising organizations.
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