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November 29, 2005

The Growing Connection Between Crime and Terrorism

by Dan Darling at November 29, 2005 8:30 AM

For those looking for some excellent if not-so-light reading, be sure to check out this outstanding primer in US News and World Report on the connections between terrorism and organized crime. This is one of the best articles I've seen on the subject in the US press, which has traditionally ignored the role that people like Dawood Ibrahim play in the terror network.

Read the whole thing.

UPDATE: Winds' 4HA: Crime, Organized topic archive has more on this subject. See esp. the "Terror, Inc." series.


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Comments
#1 from M. Simon at 10:31 am on Nov 29, 2005

Criminals have always been the backbone of insurgencies.

I'm still wondering when we will end government price supports for criminals AKA The War On Drugs.

#2 from J Aguilar at 12:21 pm on Nov 29, 2005

And the connection to corrupted politicians, Dan? Isn't it the most dangerous part of the issue?

#3 from mary at 2:26 pm on Nov 29, 2005

It's a good article, except for this:

Bin Laden continues to come up with funds raised from sympathetic mosques and other supporters, but the money no longer flows so easily. Pakistan and Saudi Arabia have banned unregulated fundraising at mosques, and western spy agencies now watch closely how the money flows from big Islamic charities.

It would be really nice if this were true, because we're a lot more competent at dealing with crime than terrorism. Unfortunately, it's not true at all.

Stuart Levey, Under Secretary Office of Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, of the U.S. Department of the Treasury recently said:
The US government has suggested wealthy Saudi individuals remain 'a significant source' of funds for Islamic terrorists around the world, despite widely-publicized efforts by the desert kingdom to shut down these channels.

The statement by Treasury Undersecretary Stuart Levey before the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, contrasts with earlier upbeat assessments by US officials that Saudi Arabia was making good progress in stemming the flow of private money to terrorist groups.

Levey said challenges posed by terrorist financing from within Saudi Arabia are 'among the most daunting' his agency has had to face, as it tries to persuade Islamic nations to strengthen controls over their banks and charitable organizations.

The genocidal Saudi charity al Haramain has been active in the "Jihadi corridor" of Bangladesh, Myanmar and Thailand. Thai buddhists are currently suffering attacks from Islamist 'insurgents' that are second in violence only to Iraq.

Al Haramain is also active in Bosnia, where they've whited out their old name and reopened under the name "Vazir". The new organization was registered as an "association for sport, culture and education."

Account 98 is the bank account used by the Saudi government to collect donations for the support of terrorism. It was supposed to have been closed. It wasn't..

This was a fund that collected $15,822,977,301 Saudi Riyals for the "Popular Committee for Assisting the Mujahideen"

I don't think dealing hash and reselling bootleg t-shirts generates this kind of cash. Saudis tell us that these offices have been closed. They lie and we pretend to believe them. We've been doing this for years. We'll probably keep doing it until they run out of oil. Which is a shame, becaue Saudi Wahhabis are about as brutal and totalitarian as the Nazis were. This time around, we're their allies.

#4 from J Aguilar at 4:05 pm on Nov 29, 2005

Bin Laden is indeed a posh jihadist. Mary points out clearly the problem of including all Muslim extremist groups into the same definition.

What is true, is that terrorist groups usually evolve into criminal organizations with some kind of political agenda, when pressure exerted by the Securtity Corps hinders the use of the traditional financial sources.

#5 from Dan Darling at 6:16 pm on Nov 29, 2005

mary:

Agreed on the Saudi stuff, but I don't think you can minimize the other aspects of this either, such as the role of people like Dawood Ibrahim. The Afghan heroin trade alone is enough to bankroll the Taliban and Hekmatyar's expenditures in perpetuity, for instance.

#6 from M. Simon at 6:33 pm on Nov 29, 2005

I like the joke about the DEA going after Taliban drug smugglers.

The DEA is the reason a pile of vegetables is worth its weight in gold.

#7 from mary at 7:30 pm on Nov 29, 2005

Dan - You're right, but I also agree with M. Simon - we could solve the problem by changing our drug laws.

Another thing our government (Republicans and Democrats) won't do..

#8 from Mark Buehner at 7:34 pm on Nov 29, 2005

Of course we could simply legalize heroin, turn the poppy farmers into productive members of Afghan society, and save ourselves the cost of the entire GWOT every year just by abandoning our drug fighting crusade alone. But of course that wont happen, because the vast majority of American people would surely go nuts and decide heroin must be a great idea if its not illegal. Especially the kids man, especially the kids. I know when i was ten the idea of jamming a needle full of strange fluids in my arm was so tantalizing only my fear and respect for the law kept me from the dream life of a junkie.

#9 from J Aguilar at 8:39 pm on Nov 29, 2005

I agree with Mary and Simon. There would be no problem if a pound of heroin (pure) costed 3$ (its real production cost + profits).

Mark, you may still have administrative penalties on consumption, if you want. Heroin and Cocaine can be easily traced many months after its use.

The situation is especially shameful in Europe regarding hash, which is cultivated in Morocco. Its use is allowed in Holland and Switzerland with no terrible consequences observed yet, but the rest of European countries prosecute hash traffickers yielding millions in profits to Muslim mafias and Moroccan officials.

Of course, how do countries that cannot even fix their economies focus in building a coherent drug policy? It is simply impossible.

#10 from kat-missouri at 9:59 pm on Nov 29, 2005

You know what I find interesting is that people apparently have no idea that legal alcohol, drugs and cigarettes are still a major source of income for criminal organizations. yes, they have to compete with legal sources, but, where ever there is cost, such as taxes, on these products, avoiding the tax and improving profits by reducing over head is still a big deal in the underworld.

Shipments are stolen and resold, tax stamp in place. Legal drugs, of course, are sold on the black market to avoid prescription processes and even drugs like penicillin because its cheap and people can avoid the costs of going to a doctor.

Where ever there is a buearocratic process and costs beyond production, there will always be criminal activity. Legalizing heroin or cocaine will not make criminal activities or money made go away, it will just be made in a different manner, whether avoiding taxation or supplying it outside of buearocratic processes, which would surely be imposed.

I just thought I'd remind all those who are talking about the legalization of drugs as some sort of cure all for criminal enterprise.

As for that matter, what happened to those nifty commercials that talked about people buying drugs supporting terrorists?

Oh, I remember, people were screaming that it demonized drug users who are really victims. You want to see victims? Go to an inner city nicu and look at the crack babies. Try going to the local juvenile facility where 10 year old kids are there because they don't have any place to put them while they wait for foster care because mommy is a crack addict.

Do you really think that legalizing drugs is going to change that or make it better?

How about this concept:

1) Name the enemy
2) Tell people how the enemy gets money
3) Publicize this in PAs
4) Next time somebody complains about some PC garbage like "demonizing victims of drug addictioin" tell them to take a flying leap off the WTC. Oh, yeah, that doesn't exist anymore.

#11 from Mark Buehner at 10:10 pm on Nov 29, 2005

"1) Name the enemy"
Al Qaeda and its ilk

"2) Tell people how the enemy gets money"
Donated from rich Saudi oil barons

"3) Publicize this in PAs"
Great. Lets make Ford and GM pay for them too.

"4) Next time somebody complains about some PC garbage like "demonizing victims of drug addictioin" tell them to take a flying leap off the WTC. Oh, yeah, that doesn't exist anymore."

And next time we drive our big ol gas guzzling cars remember we are no better than a scumbag junkie.

#12 from avedis at 11:23 pm on Nov 29, 2005

Drug smuggling and gun running have been the backbone financial instrument of covert ops and revolutions for a long long time. The US is no exception to participation in this modus operendi.

These operations are incredibly lucrative and there's always a market.

Furthermore, involvement is unavoidable. If you want to operate in third world countries, sooner or later - usually sooner - you're going to run up against the drug lords. The drug lords have the power because they have the money and because they are ruthless. Better yet, from an operational perspective, they tend to not hold any real beliefs or values other than their own personal enrichment. So they will cooperate with who ever promises them the best deal.

What these guys want most is personal enhancement and the security to enjoy it. To gain security they need guns and they need access to markets for their dope.

Who ever can best meet their needs is their new best friend.

Sometimes this is the US. Sometimes it is someone else.

This is where things get real dirty and fast.

These people, drug lords, etc, are a permanent ficture in the third world. They will never go away.

We can cooperate with them and win them to our side (as in Laos and Cambodia during the VN war) or we can allow them to gain cooperation from our enemies.

I suspect strongly that we have made certain arrangements with key Afghan poppy growers. It is the way things have always been done. It is the right thing to do at this time. It is the price we pay for involvement in the third world.

#13 from M. Simon at 11:25 pm on Nov 29, 2005

kat,

Agreed with your point. Up to a point.

Lowering the excess costs you mention will lower criminal profits.

And we could go to a Mexican type of pharma regulation: most drugs sold over the counter without a Drs. prescriptioin.

My research shows that people take illegal drugs for the same reason doctors prescribe drugs. To solve problems:

A well known secret

#14 from M. Simon at 11:33 pm on Nov 29, 2005

avedis,

One thing to consider is the collateral damage of the drug war. Could the $20 bn (probably more) spent on the drug war be better spent bribing criminals rather than financing them?

And then we have the racist enforcement. Did you know that Nixon cranked up the Drug War to go after the blacks who he considered political opponents? Haldeman said so in the Nixon tapes.

In effect we are making war on citizens in pain (see above link comment #13) in order to promote covert operations.

The moral calculus sucks.

#15 from kat-missouri at 1:54 am on Nov 30, 2005

Well, Mark, I don't know about you, but I don't drive a big gas guzzling car and I work from home, so, whom were you referring to?

And, yes, I'd like to start a program that would have people divesting from products and investments to terrorist supporting states. I believe there is an organization that actually shows which businesses and funds are invested in which countries. Something along the lines of divesting of South American stocks, products, etc during the aparthied.

Brilliant idea. Accept for the part where if we don't buy the oil, China, Japan and Europe does and we've lost all leverage within these states (economically and as a security apparatus) accept for the "use of military power against them" leverage which I believe is what many already object to.

However, that does not mean that we should not have a broad effort to reduce their funds however and where ever we can. The fact that we don't bothers me quite a bit, that includes advertising the fact that buying drugs actually provides funds for a whole host of unsavory activities. If we are ready to completely disengage and actually threaten military power against them for suborning terrorism, I'm ready.

M. Simon,

And, frankly, while profits would be reduced by legalization, I believe that what we are overlooking here is that those that grow and distribute would simply become legitimate business men in other countries where we would not control where and how their money was used. Which would, undoubtedly, still be used in illegitimate methods because criminals are criminals because that's what they know to be.

A point in fact, legalization of alcohol did not make the mafia go away, it simply changed tactics and products it was peddling like drugs, prostitution, influence, control of unions, protection racketeering, cigarettes and other contraband, etc. The same would occur within these organizations. What would occur would be racketeering controlling workers, shipments, security, etc. At the same time, we would be introducing an addictive and destructive product into legal consumption which, while possibly humorous to someone above, would actually result in increased use in sectors that might normally have avoided it.

Costs associated with this including healthcare, child care, psychological care, lost productivity, etc have not been, to my satisfaction, compared to the alleged revenue the state or federal government would take in through taxes. So, yes you might reduce profits of the criminal ring, but you certainly may also engender a cost on to society and the government that is beyond the current costs.

#16 from Wong Online PoKér Hu at 5:43 am on Nov 30, 2005

I think this is self explanatory. Terrorism is a crime in its grandest proportion. Spreading terror paralizes living and it is the worst thing you canb ever do here on earth.

#17 from William H. Depperman at 6:12 am on Nov 30, 2005

Capitalism Poses A Direct and Immediate Danger to All Life on Earth!
The Runaway Greenhouse Effect Has Already Begun!

Prior to the analysis of Social Security and other issues and in order to put the threat to Social Security in context as part of the economic war directed by the capitalist dictatorship against the masses, it is imperative that we briefly document an even greater threat. The Runaway Greenhouse Effect has already begun. This is no joke and is not something which might occur in the distant future. It is no longer simply Global Warming that we have to contend with but the beginning of the Runaway Greenhouse Effect. Professional climatologists risk losing their jobs if they reveal the rapidly approaching reality. The vast majority of them must lie to keep their jobs! Nevertheless, according to the latest published results in the British Guardian, which were just blipped in the media, for the last 3 years the CO2 level for the first time has begun to rise in an accelerated fashion indicating that a Runaway Greenhouse Effect has already begun. Ethical and Honest (bucking the trend!) scientists, at Hawaii’s Mauna Loa Observatory reported that average CO2 levels increased by 2.08 ppm in 2002, to 373.1 ppm, and by 2.54 ppm in 2003, to an average of 375.64 ppm. This is the first recorded example of the average CO2 level jumping more than 2 ppm in two consecutive years. See: British Guardian, Oct 11, 2004. It became three consecutive years in 2005 when the Associated Press reported on March 20th that scientists at Mauna Loa Observatory had recorded the atmospheric CO2 level peaked at a record of 379 ppm! The apparent significance of this newly observed increase in atmospheric CO2 levels is that the CO2 reservoirs, namely the rain forests and oceans, are now exhausted and from this point on the atmospheric CO2 level will start to increase in an exponential fashion.

U.S.-led world capitalism-imperialism is controlled by the oil industry and the military industrial complex and cannot reform itself. Real reform would include: 1.) Beginning to introduce alternative energy sources like Tidal Power and certain large hydroelectric sources such as the world’s largest waterfalls and on a large scale to the degree where fossil fuels no longer supply the majority of the power for residential and business needs and the world’s dependency on fossil fuels actually ends and 2.) Ending completely the deforestation and destruction of the rainforests which trap much of the Earth’s CO2 in vegetation and planting new forests. China, a Workers’ State, based on human need not private profit, has led the world and reversed Asia’s net loss of 3000 square miles a year of forests from the 1990’2 to a net gain of 4000 square miles since 2000. But the capitalists can do nothing to reverse the situation. This is because of the internal dynamic of capitalism, which is independent of the wills of the individual capitalists and politicians which make it up. They are powerless. The system controls the capitalists; the capitalists do not control the system. Capitalism generates the scum and the scoundrels such as Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, the Clintons, Bloomberg, Ferrer, etc. Capitalism cannot be reformed through elections or in any other way. In fact today the word “reform” is simply a nebulous sounding codeword, like Gorbachev’s “Perestroika,” generally used by the capitalists with the understood meaning an attack on the Working Class, middle-income earners and the Poor. So-called “Social Security Reform” is just one example. It is absolutely vital that we establish a new economic-political-social system based on human need not private profit. That system is Socialism and it cannot be “elected” under capitalism. That can only come about through Socialist Revolution. Today the main topic of conversation among progressive people must be the strategy, tactics and technical means of achieving a Socialist Revolution in the United States. See below.

Capitalism Cannot Reverse Fossil Fuels Global Warming nor
The Runaway Greenhouse Effect Which Has Now Begun!

The most important potential alternative power is tidal power from the oceans and hydroelectric power from huge waterfalls such as the Kaiture Falls in Guyana with a total drop of 822 feet (5 times the drop of Niagara Falls) and Victoria Falls in Africa the largest waterfalls in the world. The Niagara Falls Region is the largest producer of hydroelectric power in the world. Half of the flow of the St. Lawrence River is diverted by Canada and the U.S. for hydroelectric power, to complaints from those who might prefer to see nuclear power plants (!) or no plants at all—the reactionary anti-technology movement. While there has been some hydroelectric power development of Victoria Falls by Zambia the oil industry has suppressed hydroelectric power development of Kaieture Falls. Instead of development of such alternative sources of energy the capitalists are calling for more fossil fuel development and pushing nuclear power once again which permanently pollutes the environment. The so-called “environmental groups” such as the Greens and Greenpeace, etc., which are part of the group of government-controlled fake “opposition” single-issue groups, are also suppressing this information. Nevertheless, a few tidal power plants already exist in England, France, the former USSR and China. More must be built rapidly in all countries in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres which have tides.

The Kaieture Falls alone has been estimated to be able to produce enough energy to supply all industrial and residential needs of North America and South America combined! And Victoria Falls in Africa is the largest waterfalls in the world! Both are completely ignored by the capitalists because of the threat to the oil industry. The Runaway Greenhouse Effect has already occurred on Venus where all the CO2 is found in the 932 degree Fahrenheit (500 degrees Centigrade) atmosphere. The water in the oceans of Venus all evaporated because of the heat generated by 30% more sunlight Venus receives than on Earth. Once in the upper atmosphere ultraviolet radiation broke the H20 apart into hydrogen, which disappeared into space and oxygen, which reacted with minerals on the surface and disappeared from the atmosphere. But Venus, which lost all the water from its oceans, which were nearly the size of the oceans on Earth, and where life did not evolve with the consequence that there was no plant life, was unable to absorb the gradual build-up of CO2 from volcanos, which eventually formed the thick CO2 atmosphere which exists on Venus. On Earth the source of the CO2 is obviously the fossil fuels. Without a Socialist Revolution here in the United States that is the future of the Earth.

Runaway Greenhouse Effect means just what it says! Feedbacks have already begun to kick in which constantly accelerate it. For example, because the Polar Ice Cap has virtually all melted there is a lot less white ice which used to reflect the sun’s rays back into space.The ocean water which has taken the place of the polar ice is much darker and absorbs much more heat from the sun, according to recent front page reports in the New York Times. French TV News recently reported scientists’ observation that the droughts, which have occurred during the summer months for the last several years have substantially decreased the amount of vegetation in France and Europe. Vegetation binds CO2 and removes it from the atmosphere. But the capitalists simply lie about the extent of the disaster or deny it and pretend to go through the motions of dealing with it, because capitalism simply cannot deal with it. Articles are written expressly to disavow the truth and to keep the masses confused, because a confused person cannot act. For example, an article in the New York Times, Nov 2, 2005 entitled: “Climate Study Warns of Warming and Losses of Arctic Tundra,” cites an article in the co-called “The Journal of Climate.” The authors, from the Carnegie Institution and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the leading center for the development of the crazed First-Strike Star Wars weapons systems under Reagan, and now Bush, hide the actual atmospheric CO2 levels and present a deliberately false admittedly “simulated study” where “the CO2 level rises about 0.45 a year through 2300,” then the authors falsely acknowledge (!?) that value is “slightly less than the current rate, about 0.5 (!).” Which is another Big Lie! As if the above-reported values in the British Guardian, which documents that for the last 3 years the CO2 in the atmospheric has no longer been increasing additively but is now beginning to increase exponentially, simply do not exist! The article concludes with the deliberately disingenuous Earth shaking observation: “The question is no longer whether we will need to address this problem, but when we will have to address the problem.” (Gosh, do you think so, really?) This fraudulent (cover-up) “finding” supports the policy of the capitalists’ regime to do nothing, and once again represents the destructive driving force of the dynamic of the capitalist system itself.

The recent hurricanes such as Katrina, Rita and Wilma are just the beginning. The situation will arise in the not too distant future where the southern coast of the United States becomes basically uninhabitable. One quarter of U.S. imports and exports pass through the Gulf States and one quarter of oil refining has also taken place in the Gulf States, to say nothing of the drilling for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The capitalists’ response to the renewed focus on “Global Warming” after these hurricanes has been front page articles in the New York Times which point to the loss of ice cover in the Arctic and Greenland and bizarrely shout: “Hurray, the silver lining of the Global Warming is that it makes it possible to begin drilling for oil full scale in the Arctic!” Isn’t that great? In addition, the capitalists have used these recent hurricane disasters as the pretext to cut social programs and escalate the economic war against their own domestic population under the fraudulent slogans of “shared sacrifice,” “tough love” and “tough choices!” The capitalists’ objective as described below in more detail is to reduce the world’s population overall by bringing people to an earlier death by any means necessary. This Fascist policy, known as Social Darwinism, is being implemented worldwide as the capitalists’ answer to what they consider the population explosion, and includes primarily economic warfare and biological warfare.

The U.S. Government is Preparing to Unleash a
Worldwide Bio-Warfare Influenza Pandemic!

AIDS, SARS and H5N1 Avian Flu are all U.S. Bio-Warfare
Weapons being used for Population Reduction!

U.S.-led world Capitalism-Imperialism is fundamentally based on war and mass murder to steal new resources and new markets. The U.S. government is controlled and run by the military industrial complex and the oil industry and naturally approaches all problems from this perspective. AIDS is documented to be Bio-warfare by the U.S. government, and other cooperating governments, directed primarily against People of Color, Gays and those with blood clotting disorders deemed to be genetic liabilities for the human species. (See 1986 AIDS Poster and 1987 AIDS newspaper and other documentation published by the United Front Against Racism and Capitalism-Imperialism.) The AIDS virus is actually the Icelandic Sheep virus, known as the Visna-Maedi Lentivirus, which has been adapted to the human T4 helper lymphocyte through standard cell culture techniques. The AIDS virus should never be referred to as “HIV” because AIDS is not a human virus! AIDS is a Bioweapon designed by the United States government with assistance from the French during the 1970’s. From its origin in sheep and goats it was then passed through bovine species before finally adapting it to humans in the 1970’s. This is documented by comparing the genomes of the 3 viruses. Lentiviruses are found only in ungulates (hoofed animals) and are found in no primate species normally in nature, which can easily be confirmed by books on viral taxonomy published before 1980, after which they were all rewritten by the Bio-Warfare criminals. The number one Bio-Warfare criminal of the United States, Anthony Fauci, has even been installed as the Editor of Harrison’s Textbook of Internal Medicine(!), the multi-authored bible of Internal Medicine, in order to censor anything which might conflict with the U.S. Government’s concocted Big Lies about AIDS and assorted garden variety lies of commission and omission involving diagnosis and treatment in many other areas of medicine. The U.S. government has prevented development of an AIDS vaccine because it permits work to be carried out on vaccines which use the AIDS envelope lipoprotein and refuse any funding of an AIDS vaccine which utilizes the viral RNA itself, under the pretext that the vaccine might infect people. This is despite the fact that deleting the SOR gene makes it impossible for the virus to replicate and would permit use of all of the AIDS RNA in the vaccine minus the SOR gene. This would make an extremely effective recombinant vaccine but BioWarfare Criminal Anthony Fauci, et al. does not permit that to occur. SARS is also a Bio-warfare agent but the capitalists stopped with SARS because the Peoples’ Republic of China, one of the capitalists’ main targets, demonstrated that it could be completely neutralized through quarantine.

China’s announcement in the New York Times, November 16, 2005, that it will begin vaccinating all 5.2 billion, chicken, ducks, geese and turkeys against the H5N1 Bird Flu may seriously complicate the United States plans to release their human-to-human H5N1 genetically engineered reassortment virus in China (See below!), where the U.S. has been frustrated in its previous attempt with its SARS Bioweapon to reduce China’s population! If Chinese poultry is all vaccinated there will be no credibility whatsoever to any U.S. claim the H5N1 Bird Flu has “jumped species in China” if then a human-to-human strain suddenly “breaks out” of nowhere! There would be no sick birds for the human-to-human strain to have “jumped species” from. Many people will smell a rat! Not a bird! Not only that—if China demonstrates that it can vaccinate 5.2 billion birds it is obvious that they can easily vaccinate all of their 1.4 billion citizens with the vaccine they are now developing for a human-to-human strain! And it would also be in China’s interest to offer both their bird and human vaccines and their manufacturing technology to neighboring countries or any other country which requested it once their own population was vaccinated or even simultaneously while vaccinating their own birds and citizens. Don’t expect the U.S. Govt to avail itself of any offers of assistance from China because it wants to reduce its own population here as well.

According to the above New York Times report in 2004 there were 50 outbreaks of H5N1 Bird Flu in birds in 16 Chinese provinces, with 11 more outbreaks peaking this autumn, concentrated in and around Liaoning Province. The unusual cluster of cases in birds in Liaoning Province the Chinese have attributed to “fake flu vaccine which (was contaminated) with active virus.” It sounds very much like the batches of bird flu vaccine used at that location were indeed deliberately contaminated by our old friends from Fort Detrick and Co. According to the Times report Chinese flu vaccine is normally nearly 100% effective in birds, so deliberate sabotage sounds most likely. The Americans have the only motive. Why? Up until the 2 to possible 3 human cases of Bird Flu just reported in the November 16th Times there have been no cases of Bird Flu in humans reported in China. Most of the outbreaks in Asia of H5N1 Bird Flu in humans have been in Vietnam, 92 out of the 128 cases reported last year with 42 fatalities. Without any reported human cases of Bird Flu it would have required an act of faith to believe that a human-to-human strain could suddenly emerge in China. It should also be remembered that the “Special Services” have penetrated the so-called World Health Organization (WHO) for decades and would be able to accomplish contamination of a batch of vaccine with no problem—in any operation that is where the WHO and NGOs are involved! After all the Agency For International Development (AID), a front group for the CIA, the WHO and NGOs were also evidently instrumental in spreading the AIDS epidemic in Africa through “preventive vaccination” of an unsuspecting and totally vulnerable population virtually begging to be vaccinated, where it is understood that if you have not received an injection then you have not been to a doctor. (See Editorial, New York Times, Nov. 26, 2005.) The U.S. “intelligence community” apparently also spread AIDS in the Chinese countryside, which was later blamed on the practice of poor farmers selling their blood to make ends meet, a practice which certainly exists and which has become well known. But the AIDS virus didn’t just come from nowhere! It came from the so-called U.S. “intelligence community,” which closely monitors domestic living conditions and everything else in China, and realized what was an ideal means to spread their AIDS Bioweapon in rural China, even if it required trekking into the Chinese countryside to do it!

The New York Times article which appeared on November 17, 2005, the very next day after China announced it was going to vaccinate all 5.2 billion plus chickens, tried to make a case that since 2 human cases of Bird Flu were reported to be a brother and a sister, where the sister died, there was supposedly a greater likelihood that one of them was a case of human-to-human transmission.(?) Huh?? But that is highly unlikely and more like totally ridiculous and the writer and his masters in U.S. biowarfare “intelligence” know that very well. The reason for the incidence of 2 or more cases in the same family is much more likely to be that they had a greater familial susceptibility, a genetic susceptibility to developing the symptoms, because millions of Chinese already have antibodies to the H5N1 Bird Flu virus but have never gone on to develop any sort of symptoms!! (See Palese et al.) That is the reason the capitalists are working around the clock at the CDC to develop the most maximally virulent human-to-human H5N1 Bird Flu Reassortment Virus through a form of genetic engineering (See below), and that is the reason that the U.S. Government has reconstructed the 1918 Spanish Flu Virus, either of which or both they will need in order to set a World Pandemic in motion.

We will be able anticipate it just before the capitalists unleash it because they will start to announce that they have proof of human-to-human transmission, or that the newly reconstructed 1918 Pandemic Virus has “escaped.” If they really do have proof then it could only be their genetically engineered Reassortment Strain being presently developed at the CDC or the deliberately released 1918 Pandemic Virus. When the Pandemic Virus is later sequenced and if it is found to have the same sequence as the U.S. H5N1 Reassortment Virus now being developed, the U.S. government and their stooges will falsely attribute that to natural “inevitable mutation” in the H5N1 from bird-to-human transmission to human-to-human transmission. Such mutation is not “inevitable” naturally. Not all Bird Flu viruses go on to cause Global Pandemics in humans with the mortality rates as high as the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic, or the mortality of that tiny percentage of humans who have developed symptoms from the H5N1 Bird Flu virus! The fact that China has started to vaccinate their poultry against H5N1 Bird Flu may tip the U.S. government’s hand to move fast to release their Global Pandemic very soon before China vaccinates their birds and the pretext for a Global Pandemic disappears because there are no more infected birds, who would be the putative source of such a mutation! Alternatively the capitalists may decide to release it in Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, or Cambodia. But they definitely intend to release it! Capitalism is running amuck and cannot ever go backward. See below.

The United States Government is Openly Preparing a
Worldwide Bio-Warfare Influenza Pandemic in order to Help
Reduce the Population Through a Program of Covert Mass Murder
And Has Announced They Have a Vaccine to Protect Themselves!

The capitalists are presently in the process of creating and unleashing either or both of the following Bird Flu Virus Bioweapons: 1.) The more recently publicized H5N1 Avian Flu, or 2.) The recently Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Flu as a World Pandemic, by first falsely conditioning the entire world to believe that a bird flu pandemic which would kill hundreds of millions of people is inevitable naturally! This is a Big Lie! See below. A World Flu Pandemic is inevitable but only because U.S.-led world capitalism-imperialism has decided to unleash one! The1918 influenza pandemic killed 50 million people worldwide including an estimated 675,000 in the United States. This mortality rate is not nearly as lethal as the H5N1 Avian Flu which normally kills 52% (or nearly 70% depending on the report) of those who develop symptoms after being infected by birds. (This is a very important distinction which is discussed.)

Despite all the preparation for the H5N1 Avian Flu virus the United States government’s Bio-Warfare Department has nevertheless also decided to prepare to utilize the 1918 flu virus as a Bio-Warfare weapon against its own people and the entire world because of its unusually high death rate in 1918 among healthy adults aged 15 to 34 years, which consequently lowered the average life expectancy in the United States at that time by more than 10 years! Is this an almost made to order bioweapon or what? What’s not to like??? A similarly high death rate has not occurred in this age group in influenza A pandemics or epidemics prior to or subsequent to the 1918 Pandemic according to America’s Forgotten Pandemic by Alfred W. Crosby, Cambridge University Press 1989. Since the average life span in 1918 was not nearly as high as today the U.S.-led Bio-Warfare criminals clearly aspire to achieve a far higher kill quotient today with greatly increased dispersal of the virus by travel both nationally and internationally. With that objective in mind the United States Department of Bio-Warfare has already dug up and completely sequenced, published and reconstructed the 1918 Spanish Flu virus! This is an act of war against the entire world!

Because of the recently announced Chinese preparations, which include: 1.) Vaccinating all of their 5.2 billion poultry and also 2.) Developing a Bird Flu Vaccine for humans, a Pandemic which utilizes the H5N1 Bioweapon will be largely stymied in China. In that case the Americans may choose to go with their Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Flu virus Bioweapon instead, or simply as a follow-up after giving it the old college try with the H5N1. The Reconstructed 1918 virus is extremely virulent! In a detailed paper in Science, Vol. 310, October 7, 2005, characterizing their little creation BioWarfare criminals Terrence M. Tumpey et al., describe how they used their reconstructed strain to infect mice and human lung cells. After 4 days the virus had generated 39,000 times more virus particles in the animals’ lungs than were generated by infection with a modern influenza strain called the Texas virus. When Tumpey et al. infected human lung cells with the 1918 virus 50 times more virus particles were released after one day as were released after exposure to the Texas virus. Thirteen percent of mouse body weight was lost 2 days after infection with the 1918 virus, while weight loss was only transient in mice infected with the Texas virus. All the mice died within 6 days of infection with the 1918 virus. None died from the Texas virus!

These results were simultaneously reported and commented on in the British magazine Nature, in 2 articles Vol.437/6 October 2005 pp.794-5 and pp.889-93. The first article states that the purpose of reconstructing the 1918 virus was to “pinpoint exactly which genetic mutations allowed the virus to jump to humans” which “will enable scientists to recognize other bird viruses that could trigger a pandemic.” Sure! It is all made to sound so benign, so beneficent! The virulence of the 1918 virus is traced to the haemagglutinin gene which helps the virus enter the cell and the 3 polymerase genes which allow the virus to replicate. This work carried out by Bio-Warfare Criminal Tumpey et al. is designed both to help their biowarfare criminal colleagues also working at the CDC, who are admittedly working to create the maximally lethal H5N1 Bird Flu Reassortment Virus (See Below.), and represents an off-the-shelf Bioweapon ready for use. See below. But Tumpey et al. are not satisfied—they intend to carry out further testing to fine tune and even soup up their Reconstructed 1918 Virus Bioweapon by “testing reconstructed viruses with and without certain mutations, to see which are the most important for virulence.” The purpose of the second Nature article by Jeffrey K. Taubenberger er al. was to build a case that the 1918 Spanish Flu: 1.) had an avian-like source “with an evolutionary distance from known avian strains,” (meaning they cannot pin it on any known species of birds and know they would be challenged if they did) and 2.) that is “not a reassortment virus,” which they claim the 1957 and 1968 less virulent flu pandemic viruses were. Lots of luck!

The Capitalists Carry Out Bio-Warfare Completely
Openly Under the False Cover of “Biodefense!”

The U.S. Bio-Warfare Department, which officially does not even exist (!), but which actually has its main center at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland and the National Institutes of Health and Infectious Disease, is now spread out around the world with its work carried out for the most part completely openly with such false pretexts as “investigative research” and “biodefense activities,”(!?) with the bizarre claim that “(developing Bioweapons!) is important for public health(!) and is conducted safely”(!) and is being carried out “where the benefits clearly outweigh the risks.”(!) Benefits? Risks!? Hah! A credulous, gullible, brainwashed, deliberately divided and deliberately misled public, through no fault of its own, is easily lied to and can still be led to think merely in terms of risks unfortunately and cannot conceive that they themselves are in the crosshairs of a government which is not theirs and cannot ever be theirs because it is a capitalist dictatorship not a workers’ dictatorship, the first stage of a Socialist Revolution, which will abolish class society and set the stage finally for a genuine democracy. Capitalism is a dictatorship based on the fact that the capitalists own the means of production, the factories, the land, the banks, the military, the media (a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community”), the educational system where they brainwash the youth to fight for capitalists’ interests only—never their own) and the entire political process with 2 parties which represent only capitalist interests. Sheepish naiveté in this period of increasing reaction allows the bulk of today’s Bio-Warfare research to be carried out without the requirement which exists at the upper levels of the U.S. Government’s Bio-Warfare program: that all personnel who knowingly work on Bio-Warfare projects must know the actual general and sometimes specific objectives of their research and are thus required to be brought into confidence and agree with the actual objectives of research—how to develop the most effective Bio-Warfare agents which will kill the most people, or target primarily People of Color, e.g. such as AIDS. In addition to the Fort Detrick Bio-Warfare Center, 2 key U.S. Bio-Warfare sites are located within the National Institutes of Infectious Disease run by Anthony Fauci and the Centers For Disease Control run by Julie Gerberding, but bio-warfare operations are carried out in many other government and university research centers. In Europe the Pasteur Institute has been the premier Bio-Warfare center.

By carrying out the actual design of biological weapons openly the capitalists are able to 1.) Completely deny that they even engage in biological warfare (!) and 2.) Enlist the services of a much greater number of differently motivated researchers at multiple research centers. Today’s Bio-warfare crimes are so incredibly destructive and heinous and dangerous to all life on Earth that most top scientists will simply not go along with them. But if they are led to believe that they are working on something else then they are much easier to manipulate and control and are not that great a threat to the “national security” of the U.S. capitalist dictatorship, which is what that phrase actually means. Several score well-known and not so well-known microbiologists and other weapons-connected scientists have been assassinated from the 1980’s to the present, undoubtedly because they knew too much or they were politically opposed to the government and had a history of speaking out. (See http://rense.com/general62/list.htm and http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/deadbiologists.html. (Websites such as these actually cover up the material presented here and its significance because they are run by the anti-Communist fake “opposition,” and while they do contain a certain amount of straw man disinformation (easily disproved claims which are deliberately attached to central information which is true in order to discredit the true information and its significance) these sites do provide important factual material which can be very useful. Dialectical and Historical Materialist analysis plus experience enable one to recognize the disinformation.)

The Capitalist Openly Admit to Genetically Engineering
the Most Virulent Avian Flu Virus Possible!

The capitalist Bio-Warfare criminals at the Orwellian Newspeak-named Center For Disease Control (?!) in Atlanta openly admit in an extremely detailed report in the Wall Street Journal, March 23, 2005, Page B1, entitled “CDC Aims to Create Experimental Pandemic Bird-Flu Virus,” that they are using a form of genetically engineering to create an Avian Flu virus which will spread from human to human as easily as from bird to bird! Using the H5N1 Avian Flu virus as their prototype the U.S. government reports that they have begun to design what is known as a reassortant virus by systematically:

“swapping genes of an H5N1 avian virus with the genes of an H3N2 virus, the strain behind the most recent flu outbreaks…Over the next six months, CDC scientists plan to substitute the eight genes of each virus one by one with the eight genes from the other virus in order to see which of more than 250 possible combinations create viable viruses. They will then incubate the viruses in canine tissue cells to see how well they grow. Eventually, the viruses which thrive in tissue culture will be tested in animals. Similar experiments are planned for later this year at Erasmus University, another major influenza-research center in Rotterdam in the Netherlands.”

The Bio-Warfare Criminal directly in charge of what is actually a bioengineering operation at the CDC, Nancy Cox, says she is searching “to find some gene combinations (which) work well together” and “We’re really hoping that by switching genes out one by one we’ll see which genes or gene combinations confer lethality.”(!) These are her exact words! (We can’t wait!) Cox who fully understands that her objective is to create the virus which will be used in the Global Pandemic, falsely justifies this open quest to design the most lethal H5N1 Avian Flu strain possible in the shortest amount of time by the method described above with the disingenuous clumsy lie: “This will help us assess the pandemic risk.”(!) Oh, yes, yes! This is an example of a Big Lie which is carefully calculated to result in the mass murder of hundreds of millions of people.

The reason that the Bio-Warfare Criminals at the CDC are carrying out these experiments to create a maximally lethal H5N1 reassortment virus is because studies of serum collected in 1992 in China, carried out by Peter Palese of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, document that millions of people in China already have antibodies to the H5N1 strain of bird flu, meaning they have been infected and have recovered without incident, according to the article in the New York Times, November 5, 2005. This means that the H5N1 Avian Flu Virus regularly infects humans in addition to birds but does not cause disease in humans normally except in a tiny number of cases where the death rate is very high due to genetic susceptibility! In other words the capitalist Bio-Warfare Criminals cannot depend on the H5N1 Avian Flu Virus to evolve on its own into a lethally efficient bioweapon for humans! The capitalists make the false claim that the H5N1 Bird Flu Virus will supposedly evolve to human-to-human transmission by simultaneously infecting humans at the same time that humans are infected with another conventional influenza virus. That does not and can not occur naturally under any circumstances! (This does not mean that influenza viruses do not evolve!) Every physician and microbiologist knows that a person or an animal cannot be infected with 2 different cold viruses or 2 different influenza viruses simultaneously!

The reason that capitalists’ explanation is deliberately false, concocted and completely impossible is that the first virus causes the body’s cells to produce interferon which prevents infection by a second virus! Proof of this beyond a shadow of a doubt is the indisputable fact that millions of people in China have antibodies to the H5N1 Avian Flu Virus which has been around China for a long time even before it appeared again in Hong Kong in 1997! (See Palese, et al above.) It is inconceivable that during that time that the H5N1 Avian Flu Virus would not have infected hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who were already infected with a conventional influenza virus, or vice versa, if either were possible—which they are not! The “result” of such a high number of such putative simultaneous infections would surely have led to evolution of a highly lethal reassortment strain of the H5N1 Avian Flu Virus which would have then gone on to kill millions of people in China and worldwide! Nothing of the kind has happened! Nor will it naturally! What has happened is that the so-called World Health Organization has pressured countries in the Far East to mass murder (“cull”) millions of birds in order to foment world hysteria and to condition the masses to expect a World Bird Flu Pandemic as Inevitable! The H5N1 Avian Flu Virus does not even kill most birds it infects! But the mass murder of the birds (culling) has also given the false impression that H5N1 kills most birds it infects, which it does not! But it is killed by cooking! Meanwhile the capitalists are cooking up a maximally lethal H5N1 Avian Flu Reassortment Virus in the laboratory at the CDC precisely as they themselves describe above in order to create a World Pandemic, thereby reducing the world’s population through Covert Mass Murder! And they also have the highly virulent Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Flu virus ready to go right now!

Please note: the capitalists’ economic warfare directed against the U.S. masses which includes: 1.) Plans to abolish the function of Social Security and eliminate the other social programs in the U.S. and 2.) Even to take the necessary steps to begin to eliminate public education for the masses starting with the A.) The No Child Left Behind, which deliberately sets impossibly high standards for schools in order to receive federal money, and B.) Eliminating affordable tuition even for state universities, has the very same objective as their biological warfare—to bring an increasing number of Working Class, middle income earners and the Poor to an earlier death. This is the way the capitalists solve the so-called “demographic problem of overpopulation.” A correct approach to overpopulation which does not involve mass murder will be discussed below or in a subsequent post.

The capitalists’ objective of bringing an ever increasing number of people to an earlier death includes the Codex Alimentarius, a United Nations protocol adopted by many countries including the United States, which abolishes and severely restricts the right of people to take herbs and dietary supplements, especially megadoses of antioxidants, which have shown to be beneficial in cancer, heart disease and to extend lifespan of experimental animals up to 40%. One nutrient, Coenzyme Q10, is documented to double the mean life expectancy of experimental animals. Coenzyme Q10 is found in all cells of the body; low amounts are associated with aging and disease states of bioenergetics from congestive heart failure (CHF) to cancer, both of which are reversed with megadoses of CoQ10. The so-called World Health Organization (WHO) has adopted the Codex Alimentarius and this year abolished virtually all dietary supplements in the Europe Union through the European Food Supplement Directive, although it is still being fought in the courts of those countries. WHO regulations specify that no member country can have a law which is in conflict with a WHO regulation, and on that basis the United States government intends to overthrow the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act of 1994, approved by Congress under unanimous popular demand, and to ban virtually all dietary supplements in the United States in 2006-2007! This is despite the fact that there is a virtual zero mortality rate for dietary supplement versus prescription drugs which kill over 100,000 in the U.S. alone every year due to known side effects. But the Codex Alimentarius is not being implemented merely for drug company profits or control, but to bring an increasing number of the population to an earlier death by depriving the masses of dietary supplements which keep them healthy and extend their life. The capitalists have left no stone unturned in this war on their domestic populations as well as the entire world as their system enters the final stage of Permanent War, like in Iraq! A continuing media campaign has been set in place to attack both Dietary Supplements and Alternative Medicine. (Remember the media is simply a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community.”) All arguments against the Codex Alimentarius, the WHO and the U.S. government on this issue must contain both the political argument as well as the economic argument regarding the pharmaceutical companies otherwise it is deliberately fighting with one hand tied behind your back like what is going on in the European courts right now.

The Capitalist Bio-Warfare Criminals Have Already Designed a Vaccine
to Protect Themselves From Their Planned World Pandemic!

While working to develop their Pandemic Virus the capitalists simultaneously have indeed developed an “Avian Flu Vaccine Called Effective in Human Testing,” as reported in The New York Times, August 7, 2005. That Times article, written by Lawrence K. Altman, M.D., one of the media hack professional liars who had previously covered up the AIDS BioWarfare since the 1980’s and later the SARS BioWarfare, reported the breakthrough which had been reached and promised “Months Until It’s Offered to Public—Caution on Meeting Demand.” This was to put to rest the concerns of the select few who will receive it: primarily the capitalists themselves and those who directly serve them, and made it clear that it was not for the masses, a high percentage of which are to be exterminated.

Then on November 16, 2005 an article in the New York Times claimed the exact opposite: “There is no human vaccine against bird flu because it is impossible to predict the form the virus will take it develops the capacity for human to human transmission.” This was to keep people confused, demoralized and to lower their expectation that they might receive a vaccine to protect them from the inevitable Bird Flu Pandemic. Instead the government and its media are making a big deal of getting vaccinated against regular flu. This is done to make people falsely think that a regular flu vaccine might provide a measure of protection against either the H5N1 Bird Flu or the Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Flu, which is a Big Lie, when actually they are being set up as targets in the U.S. government’s threatened World Bird Flu Pandemic.

In the background is also the matter of Vaccinosis. Vaccinosis is a syndrome which results from multiple vaccination and is expressed in 2 ways: 1.) Cancer, where the immune system is weakened, and 2.) Autoimmune Disease, where the immune system is damaged in a way that causes the body to attack itself. An example of the latter includes autism in children. Autism in children is indeed due to the increased vaccination of children for childhood diseases, which heretofore always provided immunity for life in an era when there was virtually no autism! Autism may be aggravated by the mercury preservatives in vaccines but it is definitely not the cause. It is the vaccination itself. Especially multiple vaccinations! This is very easy to see in cats and dogs incidentally which have a history of yearly combination vaccinations for distemper (panleukopenia), rhinotracheitis and calicivirus, etc., the majority begin to develop either cancer or autoimmune disease like clockwork when they are about 11 to 12 years old or even before. And the overwhelming majority of Veterinarians many of whom know about it, go along with because 1.) yearly combination vaccinations bring in customers, 2) they get paid for treating the diseases caused by vaccinosis (!) and 3.) they are simply unethical and take their lead from the capitalist system itself which is doing the same thing to humans where the result is also the objective! A good reference to learn about Vaccinosis is www.drpitcairn.com/talks/looking_at_vaccines.html. Pitcairn is the well-known Veterinarian/author who has worked in research and private practice for years. Also check vaccinosis on your search engine.

These crimes of Biowarfare, which are exposed in detail below, which include the most likely scenario for the actual release of the Bird Flu Virus Bioweapon, continue to demonstrate that capitalism is fundamentally based on war and mass murder, and drive home the fact that the survival of civilization and life on this planet depends on carrying out a Socialist Revolution here in the United States. That must become everybody’s focus today. Not continuing to “elect” some capitalist candidate such as Hillary Clinton, for example, in one more staged sham election, where the outcome has been decided upon in advance and all candidates represent only the interests of the capitalist class, and where the only issues discussed all reduce to how best to continue the escalating crimes of the capitalist dictatorship. In the next sham presidential election the capitalists plan to run Condoleeza (Kindasleezy) Rice against Hillary Clinton in order to simultaneously eliminate the sexist vote and hand the racist vote to Hillary. They are sooo clever! The decision has obviously already been made at “the top.” This is what’s behind the illusion of a Bush takedown, where all basic policies remain intact. The Hillary-Kindasleezy lineup is such an accepted fact that it is already being built up and heralded everywhere including on Larry King Live as “the ultimate catfight” and a “dream race” by Maureen Dowd, a media-hyped, opinion-molding New York Times columnist who’s role is normally to run interference for the Fascist Bush Regime and other capitalist politicians by 1.) Limited muckraking for which only totally impossible reformist solutions which lead nowhere but to defeat are ever offered, while the World’s situation grows graver by the day (sharing this task with the fake “opposition” Paul Krugmans and the Bob Herberts, etc.) and 2.) Inappropriately, and irresponsibly trying to engender cynicism in those life and death issues where her Ha-Ha—keep laughing—joking comes off sounding increasingly bizarre and creepy as a supposed “alternative” to the Right (the Fascist Regime and its supporters), especially as one’s class consciousness increases and with it the awareness that the media is nothing but a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s so-called “intelligence community.” (Cynicism is a philosophy of capitalism, a philosophy carefully calculated to engender resignation, submission, acquiescence, despair and defeat and is used to try to undermine organized practical progressive opposition to capitalism, and above all to keep it anti-Communist. The “human nature” argument is also grounded in the phony philosophy of cynicism. How human nature is expressed is determined by the political-economic-social system and does not exist or develop independent of the political-economic-social system. Under capitalism, which is fundamentally based on crime, the exploitation of man-by-man, class-by-class and nation-by-nation, that outlook on life is supported and “human nature” is heavily influenced, but not entirely influenced, by a criminal view of the world. But in a system based on human need not private profit the outlook that supports human need is rewarded with a real future with full employment, no homelessness, free education to the highest level, free lifelong medical and dental treatment, a world economy planned on human need not private profit and energy policies which remove and eliminate all threats to the environment.

But the close relationship of the Bushes and Clinton is real! For example, both the Clinton and Bush regimes have worked in sequence to abolish the function of the Social Security Act. As the 2008 presidential election approaches however expect a false disassociation between the 2 families. The fake “left’s” new slogan is “The World Can’t Wait” (for Hillary!). Deesgusto! The objective of electing Hillary is: 1.) To try to perpetuate the illusion of “democracy” in what is actually a constantly hardening capitalist dictatorship (“the first woman president”—see doesn’t that show that “democracy” works!), and 2.) To more easily push through the oppressive economic warfare measures targeting the U.S. masses. Many of Hillary Clinton’s core constituents, naively see her as a counterweight to the Bush Regime, support her with an almost religious fervor and can be counted on to help implement virtually anything she agrees to as she moves the country even further to the right, just like her husband did! Any opposition to her continuation of the presently implemented Bush police state and Fascist policies and her continuation of the deliberate fomenting of hysteria through more and more brazen provocations, which are obviously orchestrated and manipulated by the U.S. government, will predictably be falsely labeled “sexist” and rationalized in every conceivable way! Yech! Her Fascist-minded husband who bombed Iraq on a daily basis almost from the moment he took office has already abolished the function of the first part of the Social Security Act—Welfare. When Clinton signed the so-called “Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996” on August 22, 1996 ending Welfare, Time magazine and Newsweek had a big picture of Clinton on the cover and 2 words: “Republican” and “Democrat” with a big superimposed question mark. To keep the masses confused the media talked about Clinton’s “triangulation strategy” with the Republicans! Hillary Clinton has moved further to the right than the Fascist Margaret Thatcher, former PM of the UK during the Reagan Era! Democracy under capitalism is nothing but a euphemism for capitalist dictatorship and enslavement. We need a Socialist Revolution in the United States!

Even if she wanted to, which she most certainly does not, Hillary Clinton could not evacuate the U.S military from Iraq and reverse the Permanent War stage of capitalism. Only a Mutiny in the U.S. armed forces as in Vietnam (the real reason the Vietnam War ended!) can accomplish that. Mutiny is the Pre-Condition for Socialist Revolution in the United States and must be called for now! Remember that all wars are won and lost on morale and every movement starts with the call. Hillary has also already agreed along with the Democratic Party leadership to switch from wage-based indexing to price-based aka inflation-based indexing in calculating Social Security Benefits which will abolish the function of Social Security just as effectively as would “private accounts,” which is largely a Red-Herring meant to distract attention from the switch on Social Security Indexing already agreed to by all Democratic Party leaders, including Hillary, and to distract attention from the constantly escalating economic warfare being waged against the U.S. masses on every conceivable level in order to “solve the overpopulation problem” by helping to bring an increasing number of people to an earlier death (applied Social Darwinism). Once again, this is because capitalism has a dynamic of its own which is independent of the individual capitalists and politicians which make it up. The system is in control—not the politicians and not even the capitalists themselves! The system generates the scum and the scoundrel politicians who in turn are rewarded to the degree that they express and further the internal dynamic of capitalism. This is the Dialectical and Historical Materialist analysis.

The Hanta Virus Episode

All of the material which appears here should be widely reproduced and even translated into as many languages as possible and distributed by every possible means in order to expose the capitalists’ planned Bio-Warfare operation before they unleash it. Other sections on other topics will follow shortly. This will help in organizing the masses to carry out a Socialist Revolution worldwide! Capitalism is a failure. Capitalism offers no future for you or your children. In 1993 the United Front Against Racism and Capitalism-Imperialism exposed the planned Hanta Virus epidemic which the capitalists were just about to unleash. The Hanta Virus, a rare virus supposedly spread by aerosolized mouse droppings and urine (!) has a mortality rate of over 50% with long-term morbidity for the survivors. The media systematically conditioned the masses for a mass epidemic. It was to have originated in the “Four Corners” (an area shared by New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Utah) and appeared because the El Nino had caused more rain resulting in a 4 to 5 fold increase in the Dear Mouse population. Horrors! What a stretch! The Biowarfare criminals were running wild! (They are back at it right now and big time with Bird Flu!) In the Spring of 1993 Dan Rather of CBS reported with a straight face that “the CDC expects nearly simultaneous outbreaks of Hanta virus within a year in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami and New York.” (!) The listener could picture in his mind the “Mickeys” packing their bags and discussing their itineraries and preposterously heading off their separate ways from their home in the Four Corners Area: “Hey dude, where you goin’?” “Oh, me? I’m going to San Francisco.” “I’m goin’ to Miami!” “Yeah, well go on, cause I’m goin’ to Chicago!” “Can I come?” It was totally ridiculous. But they sounded very serious. It was a full court press in the media! Such an organism sounded so ideal for extermination of those who lived in Ghettoes, namely People of Color. (On the other hand aerosolized bioweapons are hard to use!) Racist stereotyping was used to argue that the Mickeys would go to where there were supposedly more vermin, ghettoes supposedly having a worse vermin problem than more well-to-do areas. Someone hurry run tell David Rockefeller at 811 Fifth Avenue! Somebody’s “brainstorm” at the so-called Centers For Disease Control! We exposed it from the beginning. That may have helped influence either the “brainstormers” or their masters to cancel it. Today however the capitalists have much bigger fish to fry so it will take the work of the masses to expose this little Bird Flu number they are about to jump off with. It is an obligation of all those who read this material and agree with the analysis to distribute it.

The Most Likely Scenario for a World Pandemic
Created by the the United States Government:

The capitalists may choose to release the H5N1 Avian Flu virus first, if they choose to release both, because H5N1 has demonstrated an extremely high fatality rate in those humans who have developed symptoms, and also because the media has conditioned the entire world to expect that virus to cause the human pandemic and to expect it within the next year or so, and maybe sooner. If the U.S. decides on the H5N1 Avian Flu virus they will probably first release it in China, Vietnam or somewhere in the Far East, where they want to kill the most people, so it will look like it originated there just as they did with the SARS virus.

For their Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Flu virus the capitalists have 2 release options: 1.) They can falsely claim: “It escaped from the lab” or 2.) They can claim that “bio-terrorists” (Other than them? Not likely!), or a “disgruntled employee” used the published viral genome and independently reconstructed the virus. The preparation for the first option has been very straightforward in seemingly irresponsibly, but actually very deliberately, carrying out all work in a lower level Bio-Safety Level-3 Laboratory (B-3 Lab), when it is an absolute no-brainer for any competent microbiologist or physician that a Bio-Safety Level-4 Laboratory (B-4 Lab), which has the strictest bio-safety conditions, is an absolute requirement for work on such a dangerous virus. Published complaints about the choice of the B-3 Lab with its lower level bio-safety requirements have appeared in Nature magazine, October 6, 2005. Contrasted with this choice of a B-3 bio-safety level for the Reconstructed 1918 virus, the work on the H5N1 Bird Flu Virus is all being carried out in a B-4 top security lab at the CDC. Cox’s fellow Bio-Warfare Criminal colleague Jeffrey K. Taubenberger at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, who sequenced and published the genome of the Reconstructed 1918 Spanish Flu virus, and Terrence M. Tumpey, who led the team which actually reconstructed the 1918 pandemic virus, who also works at the CDC with Nancy Cox are both working in B-3 Laboratories! That contradiction has only one purpose: creating a pretext for release of the Reconstructed 1918 virus!

A B-4 Lab requires full body suits, multiple air locks, showers and negative pressure ventilation systems which prevent any air from escaping into the environment. By using a B-3 Lab the capitalists can claim: “It escaped. You were right. Gee, if we had only listened! We made a costly human error and we are so very sorry! We will be more careful next time!” You can already hear it! Richard Ebright, of Rutgers University, who serves on biosecurity panels, stated in the Nature article: 1.) “Tumpey et al. have constructed a virus that represents perhaps the most effective bioweapon agent now known,” 2.) “The risk that the recreated strain might escape is so high, it is almost a certainty” and 3.) “Publication of the full gene sequence gives any rogue nation or bioterrorist group all the information they need to make their own version of the virus. One minor problem is that only a tiny percentage of people read Nature and Science and Ebright is only willing to go so far as to say that what Tumpey et al. are doing is dangerous and a mistake! But make no mistake, it’s not a “mistake!”

Ebright knows that and he covers it up, but he is just one more controlled “opposition” figure who has been placed in front of an issue in order to control that issue and to make it less likely that others in the field would go further than his statements and expose what actually is happening and why. In the Nature article Ebright restates the obvious that there is a significant risk “verging on inevitability” of accidental release of the virus into the human population and points out that “in 2003 a SARS virus escaped from a B-3 Lab in Singapore and in 2004 two further escapes occurred from a B-3 Lab in Beijing.” (Tell us something we don’t know already or couldn’t figure out, please!) Ebright also mentions the capitalists’ second option, i.e. making the (false) claim that a bio-terrorist or a “disgruntled, disturbed or extremist employee has launched the epidemic” as if that hysteria-fomenting pretext had any credibility at all, which it most certainly does not, especially in this era of background checks that would make an average person cringe. The only rogue nation which has the motive to create a World Bird Flu Pandemic is the United States. An example of this last option was when the U.S. government falsely accused the very innocent Steven J. Hatfill, ridiculously labeling him a “person of interest” in the 2001 Anthrax Bio-Terrorism Provocation. See below for the full explanation of the 2001 Anthrax Bio-Terrorism Provocation which follows the section on the U.S. government’s Planned World Flu Pandemic.

None of this is rocket science but it is all being covered up, hiding in plain sight, and the U.S. government’s propaganda lies for the most part are simply repeated in the capitalists’ media (a privatized arm of the U.S. government’s “intelligence community”) without being totally refuted and thoroughly exposed in every detail in order to educate the masses. In addition, this material and much more is covered up also by the leadership of all of the fake “left” groups. See below: The Capitalists Rule Through a Combination of Force and Deception. Instead the limited and partial exposure of a few of the capitalists crimes which does appear never involves these topics and is never carried out in logically precise irrefutable detail and almost never in advance as done here. The only groups in the spectrum of government-controlled and operated fake “opposition” groups which handle these topics usually are right-wing Conspiracy Theory groups and anti-Communist single issue groups, whose versions of events invariably contain multiple pieces of straw man disinformation in order to discredit the central claims. Conspiracy Theory is handled primarily by the John Birch Society Fascists and some Anarchists. As far as the fake “left” is concerned the capitalists would never carry out an assassination of their own president, e.g. in 1963 where Nixon is documented with photo-overlay evidence to have organized the assassination of JFK using the so-called “Watergate Burglars” disguised as the so-called “Dealey Plaza Tramps.” And they would never carry out the assassination of political opposition leaders domestic and foreign; and the capitalists would never be so dastardly as to design the AIDS virus which targets primarily Blacks and Gays, or deliberately create a World Bird Flu Pandemic. Heavens to Betsy, No!

The fake “left” also prefers to cover up the central issue, crucial to building and organizing support for a new system based on human need not private profit, namely that there was no “collapse of the Soviet Union,” but a rather surrender to the threat of a nuclear war! (See future Post) The fake “left” lies, through lies of commission and omission, on virtually every topic because the primary purpose of the fake “left” is to impersonate opposition to the capitalist dictatorship by talking tough and saying nothing just like any capitalist demagogue and to present a barrier to genuine Communist leadership while they lead the masses to defeat, generally behind unreal pacifist and idealistic slogans carefully designed to encourage the false belief that capitalism can be reformed and made peaceful. See below. So far the capitalists have succeeded in their deception and misleadership. This is because of the present Correlation of Class Forces. Once again it is vital to remember that all wars are won and lost on moral and every movement begins with the call! Let’s not permit the capitalists to keep us demoralized and divided. Organization is what counts and we must begin to organize everywhere.

The purpose of Conspiracy Theory groups, such as the Far-Right (Fascist!) John Birch Society which is run by anti-Communist crazies, is to try to intimidate and demoralize the Working Class and everyone else! Conspiracy theorists do not to focus on the class struggle, which is the exact opposite of the fake “left” which permits no mention of actual capitalist statecraft as mentioned above, but instead focus on supposedly all-powerful elite secret capitalist societies and their closed meetings such as the Bilderberg Conference, etc. They seek to relegate their members and adherents to a state of worship and fear of these elitist capitalist societies with the implication that they are much too powerful to be successfully opposed or overthrown, which has already happened with the 1917 Russian Revolution and in China and Cuba. The reality is that these elitist groups and meetings do exist, but the conspiracy theorists cover up the fact that the capitalist system, which all of these groups either actively or passively support in practice (because they do not call for its overthrow and also call for a Socialist Revolution) is fundamentally based on war, mass murder, exploitation and super-exploitation.

Capitalism is in its Final Stage of Permanent War, Which is Potentially
The Most Ideal Pre-Revolutionary Situation Possible Under capitalism!

The negatives of capitalism far outweigh the positives and have for a long time! The choice we have is to remain passive passengers on this Titanic, which is going only one way—down with us on it, or we can organize a Socialist Revolution which will provide the solution to the entire complex of problems created by capitalism-imperialism, and which now directly threatens all life on Earth. The fake “opposition” covers up the key fact: U.S. world capitalism-imperialism has reached its final stage of Permanent War, which is potentially the most ideal Pre-Revolutionary situation possible under capitalism!!! Even those among the fake “left” who claim that they are “for Socialism” deliberately cover up the fact that The Pre-Condition for Socialist Revolution in the United States and any developed country is Mutiny in the armed forces. That is why we must begin by supporting the only position with successful historical precedent and call for Mutiny in Iraq as in Vietnam—the Real Reason the Vietnam War ended in 1975! There is no “third way” or alternative to capitalism-imperialism, which can not be reformed through any form of capitalist elections or by any other means. The strategy, tactics and techniques of achieving a Socialist Revolution in the United States are discussed below.

Operation Anthrax—The Explanation of the
2001 Anthrax Bio-Terrorism Provocation
By the United States Government:

Watch out you guys working at the CDC or NIH, or elsewhere for the U.S. Biowarfare Department. Especially if you have a high expendability rating, for example, having lied on your resume, as did the totally innocent Steven J. Hatfill, you might wind up as a so-called “person of interest” when he was sacrificed in the 2001 Anthrax Terrorism attacks. He was singled out in order to distract from the facts and actual evidence, which actually convict the United States government beyond a shadow of a doubt of carrying out the 2001 Bio-Terrorist Provocation, which is what it was. Circumstantial evidence is more than enough to convict in capital cases! The capitalists openly admitted that the powdered highly purified weaponized Ames strain of anthrax used in the anthrax letters came from the U.S. Bio-Warfare Department. The U.S. Government calls it part of their “Biodefense”(!) program! It sounds so absurd. So Ridiculously Orwellian! It’s another example of a Big Lie. Precisely the same as the so-called “Defense Department,” which was always called the War Department up until August 10, 1949 when they changed the name to try to hide the fact that capitalism is fundamentally dependent on war and mass murder to steal new resources and new markets. In George Orwell’s book “1984,” (the original title was 1948 but the publishers demanded the change to the future) the 3 slogans inscribed on the pyramid were: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength! It is clear that capitalism has indeed incorporated this approach which is more evident than ever before in history.

Details and Motive for the U.S. Government’s Anthrax Provocation:

Regarding the 2001 Anthrax Provocation—U.S. g

#18 from William H. Depperman at 6:14 am on Nov 30, 2005

Details and Motive for the U.S. Government’s Anthrax Provocation:

Regarding the 2001 Anthrax Provocation—U.S. government “experts first falsely claimed that it “would have been easy for a scientist working with anthrax to remove a small amount of the weaponized Ames strain from the lab (!?)” and also falsely claimed that “security has been lax”(!), a Big Lie which was immediately refuted by many microbiologists. Then the U.S. government “experts” falsely claimed precisely the opposite: that “it would be extremely difficult to steal 10g of weaponized anthrax from a government lab so “the perpetrator’(!) very likely grew and weaponized the letter anthrax himself.”(!) Totally ridiculous! That long and extremely complicated process would without any question require a B-4 Lab with its advanced instrumentation, facilities, personnel and security! And the act of transferring the powdered anthrax bioweapon into envelopes also could only be carried out in a B-4 Lab because there must be no motion of air during the procedure. The transfer has to be carried out in an air-sealed transparent box (hood), which is entered only through holes fitted with special gloves, using hands which are also gloved. Then the letters must be placed in a sealed container(s) a process which is also carried out in the airtight box in the same fashion, and then the anthrax letters must be transported and deposited very carefully in the targeted U.S. Post Office mailboxes late at night while the approaches to the mailbox are monitored from many directions on the sidewalk and in the street by a sufficient number of people in order to prevent discovery! Those who actually carried out Operation Anthrax left none of their DNA or any other clues indicating that they had forensic training and experience. They would also have to have been vaccinated against Anthrax to guarantee they would not become infected. The vaccine was in short supply and not generally accessible except by the U.S. Biowarfare criminals who carried out Operation Anthrax.

The anthrax letters were sent mainly to the media and Democratic Party leaders and were mailed from multiple sites and from multiple states in too short a time to have been carried out by one person “a lone male terrorist” as the FBI deliberately falsely alleged. This fact is covered up. It sounds just as ridiculous as the Warren Report conclusion that John Kennedy was killed by “a lone assassin,” a bizarre claim that was rejected by 80% of the American public! In addition, the Anthrax Attacks were carried out according to a classified protocol written by Bill Patrick dated 1999 describing what a terrorist could achieve with letters mailed containing anthrax. Therefore the perpetrator-the U.S. government-undoubtedly had high security clearance and access to Patrick’s 1999 protocol. Hatfill had no such security clearance and no motive whatsoever nor could he have possibly have carried out the attacks alone. He did not even have unrestricted access to the weaponized Anthrax bioweapon in the first place, despite the fact that it had been available in 15 laboratories! The U.S. government is the only entity which did have a motive and the means to carry out the entire operation! The first anthrax letter was mailed on September 18, 2001, which indicates that Operation Anthrax had been planned and organized well before September 11, 2001 and that it had been precisely coordinated with the 911 Attack, which was a well-planned and orchestrated U.S. government-facilitated provocation. See below for full explanation. The fact that the first Anthrax letter was mailed on September 18th also means that both attacks were orchestrated by the same people! The motive in carrying out the Anthrax terrorism was to help foment hysteria domestically in order to help manipulate public opinion and to provide another false pretext to ram through the unconstitutional Fascist USA Patriot Act, to justify more money for “biodefense”(!!) and to provide yet another false provocation to justify capitalism’s own internal dynamic (natural development sequence) and entry into its final stage: Permanent War which is directed against the entire world, including its own domestic population on all levels, under the pretext of the hypocritically-titled so-called “War on Terrorism.”

The Declaration of Independence:

Some people think that a Socialist Revolution in the United States is some sort of foreign idea which would not work in the United States. That is absolute nonsense! In fact, the author of the Declaration of Independence provided for today’s situation in this founding document of the United States. Please read the underlined sections carefully and understand that today Thomas Jefferson would fully support a Socialist Revolution in the United States and he would be declared a Communist. And that would be correct! He was the most intelligent and far-sighted of all of the Founding Fathers of the United States. And also remember that the capitalist system is enshrined in NO founding document of the United States! All that is necessary in the last sentence of the Declaration is to substitute the words—the capitalist system—in place of the King of Great Britain and everything fits very nicely. The central text of the Declaration of Independence, which appears below is followed by a long list of crimes by Great Britain. Check the Internet for the complete text listing the crimes. The crimes of the capitalist system can be listed going back to the turn of this century and beyond. Remember to use their own document whenever you call for a Socialist Revolution in the United States and remind them that this is not rocket science that “it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security…” “New guards” in the context of today’s situation means to begin to help organize a Socialist Revolution in the United States:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. --Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present
King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world…”

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#19 from kat-missouri at 6:50 am on Nov 30, 2005

um...I thought these comments were monitored.

#20 from avedis at 12:22 pm on Nov 30, 2005

M. Simmon,

I wrote a white paper for a governor's office on all of this when I was in grad school some time ago. I am very familiar with the topic.

I am in favor of legalization of cannibis products and psychedelics. These are non-adictive and non-toxic. Overdose is not a real health threat; excepting temporary (usually) psychological reactions to O.D. Most of the stories one hears about psychedelics induced psychosis are myths. Most such reactions involve people who were already experiencing psychiatric disturbances that would have manifested as full blown clinical illness regardless of psychedelic use. Approx. 1 of the population suffers from some form of psychosis (this group of illness includes schizophrenia, but also other, somewhat milder, forms of perceptual and thought disorders). The rate of occurrence in the sub-population using cannibis and/or psychedelics is not significantly different.

LSD using criminal maniacs like Charles Manson helped spawn some of the myths. No one stops to think that plenty of equally bizarre and grotesque behavior has been committed by individuals and groups that never touched any sort of drugs.

Cocaine maybe.

Opiates (including heroine)? Here there is a lot of risk for addiction and O.D. death.

As far as sticking a needle in ones arm being a deterent to entry.....with high grade material the preferred rout of ingestion is smoking or snorting.

Opiates are dangerous. They can kill an inexperienced user. They will kill - eventually - the experienced user. It is very easy to get caught up in opiate addiction. It could happen to anyone. Look at Rush Limbaugh, good christian and republican that he is.

Because opiate use feels good one time use can lead to a second pass and so on and so forth. Not that use cannot be controlled. It is just that many people will not control it. Young people would be especially vulnerable because of their mind set and life styles.

#21 from Mark Buehner at 2:30 pm on Nov 30, 2005

"Opiates are dangerous. They can kill an inexperienced user."

So is paint thinner. Dont even need an ID to buy that. There are more kids huffing than using heroin, i can assure of that.

#22 from J Aguilar at 7:28 pm on Nov 30, 2005

Opiates are dangerous. They can kill an inexperienced user. They will kill - eventually - the experienced user.

So are motorbikes, or cars.

Because opiate use feels good one time use can lead to a second pass and so on and so forth. Not that use cannot be controlled. It is just that many people will not control it. Young people would be especially vulnerable because of their mind set and life styles.

This is the best part for drug traffickers, a compulsive addiction. You only have to lure new consumers a couple of times.

My opinion is that things in this world exist because someone makes a profit of them, thus tackle the profit.

I want to point out too that drug traffickers are a destabilizing force in third world democracies, corrupting everything and avoiding the formation of a truly independent judiciary. This is a problem we, developed nations, export.

#23 from avedis at 11:11 pm on Nov 30, 2005

I think a pivotal factor in the debate over legalization of opiates is whether or not opiate use would increase substantially under legalization.

I'm of the mind that it would. As it is, opiates - other than legal prescription products obtained for other than prescribed purposes - are generally purchased in shadowy and often dangerous urban situations.

This hazard discourages use by many; particularly white middle class and upper middle class individuals, inhabitants of rural areas and risk adverse individuals generally.

Another hazard discouraging use is the question of the purity of street product. People fear the negative effects of adultrants in the product.

I believe that the removal of these risks would draw more consumers into the market.

I am not sure that the benefits gained visa vis criminal gang dissolution, third world governance, etc, etc. are sufficient to offset the losses here at home.

If you can show otherwise, I, for one, would be interested to hear it.

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