Dec 14 commentary

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well. The great state of calif, in your name, executed tookie Williams. Do you feel safer, now that the voice of the only guy the street gangs would listen to has been silenced? Are you righteously proud of our justice system? Gov arnie had a chance to put politics aside and chose the higher path. Of course he blew it. My thinking on this one is simple. I really don’t care if tookie were guilty or innocent. The simple fact is that he had become an asset to society. He was in the unique position to influence street gangs. Could gov arnie, with all his money and Hollywood fame influence street gangs? No way. Could you or I reach them? Nope. But tookie could and did. He was one of the few that at risk youth would listen to. He had cred like no one else. He served all the functions and values we pretend to espouse. He had rehabilitated himself, changed his life around, and was serving society. His reward? Kill him. Sure encourages other prisoners to work to rehabilitate themselves doesn’t it?

Just one more proof that we live on a planet of the insane.

Hey, whatever happened to the bird flu scare? I guess Donnie rumsfeld made enuff money off of that scam so we move on to other scary stuff. and of course there is so much other manufactured news to scare us with. The following is off on dr mercola’s web site. www.mercola,com

This week's British Medical Journal has an editorial on the bird flu in which they state the following:

While they do go on to say the virus could mutate with the influenza A virus and has the potential to acquire the means for rapid human to human transmission, it does NOT have this ability now. All the preparation and fear being created in the media is about a theoretical speculation.

this is all about creating fear and panic to benefit the drug companies. Now, I am still not opposed to being prepared for this potential bird flu pandemic. It is POSSIBLE it might materialize. But if it did there is no way that the flu vaccine or Tamiflu will mitigate its damage. No way.

Finally, the pieces of the puzzle start to add up. Not long ago, President Bush sought to instill panic in this country by telling us a minimum of 200,000 people will die from the avian flu pandemic, but it could be as bad as 2 million deaths in this country alone.

This hoax is then used to justify the immediate purchase of 80 million doses of Tamiflu, a worthless drug that in no way shape or form treats the avian flu, but only decreases the amount of days one is sick and can actually contribute to the virus evolving into more lethal mutations.

So the U.S. placed an order for 20 million doses of this worthless drug at a price of $100 per dose. That comes to a staggering $2 billion.

We are being told that Roche manufactures Tamiflu and, in a recent New York Times article, roche was battling whether or not they would allow generic drug companies to help increase their production.

But if you dig further you will find that the drug was actually developed by a company called Gilead that 10 years ago gave Roche the exclusive rights to market and sell Tamiflu.

If you read the link below from Gilead, you'll discover Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was made the chairman of Gilead i n 1997. Since Rumsfeld still holds major portions of stock in Gilead, just think how much he will profit from the scare tactics of his government that is being used to justify the purchase of $2 billion of Tamiflu. My comment: don’t you just love it? Capitalism, American style.

Hey, recall the Katrina hurricane that devastated new Orleans? Recall when I read those inflammatory conjectures about the govt blowing up levees to flood poor areas of new Orleans in order to save other areas? Wild stories eh wat? Outlandish. Chamba has lost it, finally gone too far. Maybe, maybe not. The gist of this story comes from www.dailykos.com Seems there was a hearing held in wash dc a few weeks back. The hearing, requested by Rep. Cynthia mckinney of ga. was held by a special House committee, chaired by Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., and was investigating the government's preparations and response to Katrina. Evidently a witness named mama d was quite explicit in her testimony The hearing was broadcast on cspan and some web poster wrote the following comments: . "This was the most amazing hearing.  If you didn't see it yesterday [on cspan] look for it to repeat.  The Congressmen tried to get Mama D to not go overtime and she scolded them, saying she came up from N'awlins with a list of complaints from fellow victims and she is going to read ALL of them.

Then she accused rep Chris Shays republican of Connecticut, of accusing the victims of lying about police pointing M-16s at 5 year olds, spoke of perfectly fine housing projects in areas that were never flooded, that Bush had steel-plated and closed, and then spoke of a LEVEE BOMB (and she went "BA-BOOOOOM! right in the hearing room). the panel later said that

there are numerous witnesses to the explosion sound and divers have found a 30-foot crater at the bottom of the 17th St. Levee that flooded the 9th Ward,. My comment: if any listeners have more info on any craters at bottom of any new Orleans levee, or any other stories concerning possible bombing of levees, send em in. this is a wild story, but I find it interesting that it wont go away. back to the article. In addition, the panel said historically, towns have blown levees upstream to prevent their own town from flooding, so blowing up levees was nothing new for Louisiana. They cited the following example: When the rains broke records in April 1927, the Gulf of Mexico was full and worked as a stopper to the Mississippi. The Mississippi was full, too, pushing its own waters up tributaries, breaking levees and causing flooding as far as Ohio and Texas. All that water had to go somewhere. It couldn't go to New Orleans, panicky city fathers told the Army Corps of Engineers; as it would devastate the regional economy. To save New Orleans, the leaders proposed a radical plan. South of the city, the population was mostly rural and poor. The leaders appealed to the federal government to essentially sacrifice those parishes by blowing up an earthen levee and diverting the water to marshland. They promised restitution to people who would lose their homes. Government officials, including Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover, signed off. On April 29, the levee at Caernarvon, 13 miles south of New Orleans, succumbed to 39 tons of dynamite. The river rushed through at 250,000 cubic feet per second. New Orleans was saved, but the misery of the flooded parishes had only started. The city fathers took years to make good on their promises, and very few residents ever saw any compensation at all. The water, which had started rising on Good Friday, would not recede until July. Many victims would never return to their homes. Hoover, who won support for leading relief efforts, went on to win the presidential election. And the Corps of Engineers, who had said the levees would hold, was humbled. Final note; last week, amy goodmans democracy now featured this very hearing and played several segments of witness testimony incl mama d. did amy play mama d stating emphatically that many people heard the explosion ba boom? Or did amy omit this provocative accusation? I didn’t hear the entire show, but what I did hear, incl testimony by mama d, did not include her speaking about the explosion. If it was omitted, one has to wonder why. Again: if anyone comes up with more info on the levees being encouraged to fail with explosives provided by sources unknown, please send em to chamba@kvmr.org

And while you're at it, please send a copy to webmaster@rabblerousing.org so I can post it here.