by Michael Kane

December 30th, 2003

Judith Miller broke the story of a secret cabinet level experiment named “Scarlet Cloud”, in the NY Times on Dec. 28th. Miller writes that officials stated the exercise “…showed that antibiotics in some cities could not be distributed and administered quickly enough and that a widespread attack could kill thousands” – she referred to anthrax.

So what is the solution? Judith doesn’t go into this in her piece, but if you read her epic book “Germs” and pay close attention, you clearly see what the “solution” is in the minds of DARPA.

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War: Church of England attacks Invasion of Iraq

Blair acted like a 'white vigilante' by invading Iraq, says bishop

Guardian -Tuesday December 30, 2003

Tony Blair came under attack from two of the Church of England's most senior figures yesterday for acting "like a white vigilante" and for lacking humility in forging ahead with the war on Iraq.

In the most outspoken outburst, the Bishop of Durham, Tom Wright, accused religious conservatives surrounding the US president, George Bush, of espousing "a very strange distortion of Christianity" - particularly since, through Iraq's reconstruction, many would gain financially.

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9/11: NYPD warned 9:10 AM after 1st attack: "A criminal act"

This is BEFORE Bush left the school where he was reading to the kiddies about goats

Transcript Updates (12/30)

Newsday -December 29

NEW YORK -- Minutes after hijackers slammed into the World Trade Center, police alerted airport control towers that they considered it "a criminal act," according to newly released Port Authority transcripts.

The agency on Monday released the final set of transcripts from emergency communications during the Sept. 11 terror attack. The disclosure comes four months after the Port Authority released 2,000 pages of documents detailing what was said in thousands of other emergency calls that day.

In the newly disclosed transcripts, a caller from the Port Authority police desk tells Chris McCary, a La Guardia Airport control tower employee, that "they are considering it a criminal act."

"We believe that, and we are holding all aircraft on the ground," McCary answers. The exchange, reported at 9:10 a.m., came seven minutes after the second plane struck the twin towers.

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911: Top Ten 9/11 Truth Movement Activist Kit for 2004

Top Ten 9/11 Truth Movement Activist Kit for 2004

Serendipity (Mirror 1)

1. Support the US and worldwide "Stop the 9/11 Cover-up" protest march

   On Saturday, February 7th, 2004, New York will open with a protest march against the 9/11 Cover-up. To support this march and any other protests on that weekend, please sign in at 9/11 Meetup, find four other supporters and team up with local activists in your area for that event. We need also other Meetups in Amsterdam (Dutch intelligence was monitoring Hamburg Cell suspects) and Berlin (to support the German 9/11 authors who filed lawsuits against German TV shows) and Sydney (to protest against Australian Prime Minister John Howard)

   2. Educate "newbie"-9/11 skeptics with a 9/11 media kit

   Check out CommunityCurrency and Nancho.Net for 9/11 books and movies and DeceptionDollar.com, 911Review, Paul Thompson's Timeline and GFP 9/11 Archive for other researchers and original sources. Organize 9/11 investigative film screenings and look out for new 9/11 skeptic movies.

   3. Become the media

   Currently GlobalFreePress supports two weekly shows, SGTV and INN World Report. SGTV is an ongoing 9/11 documentary which will be screened at the Sundance Film Festival and the MoveOn.org contest. SGTV is constantly looking for new spots on Public Access Channels and FreeSpeech TV. Please vote and watch out for our videos (30 sec to 30 min) and Thursday TV Shows.

   Alert: The public vote for the Bushin30Seconds-Movies will end on New Years Eve.

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Vidal, Meacher and vBulow: "Air defenses might have deliberately stood down"

Conspiracy theories abound in 9/11 probe

Update: "Theories"? -St. Petersburgh readers demand an immediate and thorough investigation into 9/11

Photo: Gore Vidal

NJ.com -Monday, December 29, 2003
Kansas City Star -December 30, 2003

BY ROBERT COHEN

WASHINGTON -- One theory contends that the Bush administration was warned about the 9/11 attacks but did nothing to stop them. Another says an American missile fired by the U.S. military struck the Pentagon, not a hijacked jetliner. Yet another hypothesis says the Israelis orchestrated the attacks to force the United States into a war against the Arabs.

More than two years after terrorists hijacked four airliners and killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, conspiracy theories abound about what happened on Sept. 11, 2001.

A 9/11 widow recently filed a lawsuit accusing President Bush of allowing the attacks to gather support for the war on terrorism.

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Atomic Agency: "There wasn't any weaponization" in Libya

Libya Used 'Network' for Nuke Technology

AP/ABC -December 29

Libya received its nuclear technology from a "sophisticated network" of individual foreigners but not necessarily with the knowledge of any government, the U.N. nuclear chief said after touring four atomic sites in the North African nation.

Mohamed ElBaradei also said Libya's technology was of a "familiar design" meaning its origins would not be hard to trace and that its nuclear program was not advanced. "What we have seen is a program in the very initial stages of development," he said.

"We haven't seen any enriched uranium," he added, referring to the essential material for a nuclear bomb. "We haven't seen any industrial-scale facility to produce highly enriched uranium."

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Scarlet Cloud: Classified BioTerror Drill in November

Since 2000, biodefense specialist Jerome Hauer and many other government related persons, supported U.S. BioDrills like Topoff 1 (May 2000), Dark Winter (June 2001), Silent Vector (October 2002), Topoff2 (May 2003) or Determined Promise (August 2003).

Anthrax drill shows weaknesses, officials say

CNN -Sunday, December 28, 2003

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A drill testing U.S. agencies' ability to distribute and administer antibiotics in the event of an anthrax attack found the federal government unable to respond quickly enough to prevent large numbers of deaths, officials said Sunday.

The simulation -- held in mid-November and dubbed Scarlet Cloud -- demonstrated that perhaps thousands of fatalities might have occurred had such a widespread attack been real, according to a Department of Homeland Security official.

"It's an exercise to find our weaknesses, our vulnerabilities," the official said. "We did. It showed us how to determine where to apply our different efforts and energies.

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Rumsfeld: New documents about Iraq Overture '84

Rumsfeld backed Saddam even after chemical attacks

Rumsfeld Made Iraq Overture in '84 Despite Chemical Raids

Update: NATIONAL ARCHIVE: The Saddam Hussein Sourcebook
Declassified Secrets from the U.S.-Iraq Relationship

Update: Rumsfeld deflects questions about his relationship with Saddam Hussein
(Dod Press Conference 12/24)

Independent UK - NY Times Fresh controversy about Donald Rumsfeld's personal dealings with Saddam Hussein was provoked yesterday by new documents that reveal he went to Iraq to show America's support for the regime despite its use of chemical weapons.

The formerly secret documents reveal the Defence Secretary travelled to Baghdad 20 years ago to assure Iraq that America's condemnation of its use of chemical weapons was made "strictly" in principle.

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NY Paper about 9/11 Activists: Bush knew

Update: 9/11 widow fights, won’t settle
"Ellen Mariani wants answers" :
"Lawsuit against President Bush and others" (Portsmouth Herald 12/24)
AP (12/24)

Update: Ellen Mariani's lawsuit and DC Press Conference Footage now also linked at Pravda Forum (12/23)

Update: Another lawsuit: Firefighter families "want to get to the truth" (12/24)

Update: Families sue U.S., reject 9/11 `bribe' (Toronto Star, Mariani's case not mentioned 12/23)

Update: Exclusive Footage of Mariani/Berg DC-Press Conference now up at INN World Report
Rackateering lawsuit over 9-11 coverup (12/23)
Ellen Mariani's lawsuit against Bush Admin now mentioned in NY paper

Democratic presidential candidates take up the cry from 9/11 activists

White House stonewalling August, 2001 briefing fuels suspicions

NY Staten Island Advance -Sunday, December 21, 2003

Bush knew?

Former Vermont Gov. and current presidential candidate Howard Dean is just the latest Democratic critic of President Bush to suggest that he had foreknowledge of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Off and on for over the last two years, Democrats have flirting with the allegation ever since then Rep. Cynthia McKinney of North Carolina blurted it out during an April 2002 interview on a Berkely, Calif., radio station.

"We know there were numerous warnings of the events to come on Sept. 11," declared the fiery Ms. McKinney, who was subsequently defeated for re-election by a Democratic primary opponent. "What did this administration know and and when did they know it?...Who else knew and why did they not warn the innocent people of New York who were needlessly murdered?"

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