Bird flu man in charge (Germ boys and yes men)

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Meet Stewart Simonson. He's the official charged by Bush with "the protection of the civilian population from acts of bioterrorism and other public health emergencies"--a well-connected, ideological, ambitious Republican with zero public health management or medical expertise, whose previous job was as a corporate lawyer for Amtrak.


"People just laughed when he was appointed to Amtrak, but when the word came out that he was in charge of bioterrorism, it turned to alarm. When you realize that people's lives are at stake, it's frightening. It's just one of those moments when you say, Oh, my God."

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051128/scahill

Bush really could kill us all. Fascinating article..was dicussed on Democracy NOW! this morning..also info about what a germ freak Libby is..the neo-cons in general love GERMS!

And then there's bioshield. I haven't even heard of this. But look at what bioshield two legislation proposes:

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Now a powerful group of Republican lawmakers is pushing "Bioshield 2" through Congress. The legislation would strip people injured by vaccines of their right to sue manufacturers and would virtually eliminate pharmaceutical corporate accountability. The legislation would also make the newly created Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Agency the only federal agency exempt from the Freedom of Information Act.

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1. Katrina taught them nothing. nt

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2. I thought that was interesting today... "Germ Boy" (Democracy Now)

(and them getting rid of another competent person who disagreed with their nutso policy)


JEREMY SCAHILL: Well, Scooter Libby, in particular. Scooter Libby, who is the now-indicted former Chief of Staff for Dick Cheney, his nickname in the administration was “Germ Boy,” because of his obsession with universal smallpox vaccinations. This was something that went back to his years at the Department of Defense with Dick Cheney, where Scooter Libby worked as the deputy to Paul Wolfowitz. And Scooter Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, Zalmay Khalilzad (the current U.S. ambassador to Iraq), and Dick Cheney were all together during the Gulf War. They were all obsessed with this idea of a smallpox attack on the part of Iraq. And so – and they wrote it into the Project for a New American Century statement. I mean, this is incredible. And Scooter Libby, of course, was a signer of this statement. They talked about a world where they would transform U.S. conventional forces, defending the empire by, quote, "long-range stealthy unmanned craft," saying, “Advanced forms of biological warfare that can target specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.” These, the words of the signers to the Project for a New American Century. <more>


http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/10/1527211

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3. kick...