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Monday, August 18, 2008 12:00 AM

Doubts over the anthrax case intensify -- except among much of the media

While most independent observers express increasing skepticism over the FBI's case against Bruce Ivins, the establishment media uncritically amplifies those claims

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Tuesday, August 19, 2008 08:50 AM

The "immaculate conviction", The "Battelle conspiracy" and circling black helicopters, Oh My

In the Ivins case, we introduce the new concept of conviction without evidence, or immaculate conviction . Welcome to the world of Bush. Remember Bush? He's that guy that during the anthrax case closing, the breakout of war in Georgia was busy watching womens beach wedgieball in China, comfortable in the fact that no one is going to dredge up and repeat the role of Bush family's financial interests in the anthrax vaccine business.

Lets keep in mind that the FBI claimed that Ivins had financial interest in the BioPort vaccine, which when put under close scruteny, he did not. He was working on a next generation vaccine, and his personal health interest was probably greater than his financial interest. He had previously reported to Meryl Nass that he himself was probably suffering from the BioPort vaccine as an occupational hazard of his work. It was, of all people, George Bush who had financial interest in BioPort's vaccine. In this day of immaculate conviction, that is enough to prove guild.

Much of the material being dreged by CargoCult is has already been covered. A good analysis has been done by Jeff Rense here :

http://www.rense.com/general24/ere.htm

Read this whole thing carefully ( the link ) because you CargoCult may soon have black helicopters circling around your house; Here is an excerpt related to Battelle's role in the "New" private anthrax "defense" industry.

Battelle Exposed In Anthrax Biochemical Conspiracy

By Bob Fitrakis FreePress.org January 14, 2002

Mainstream news accounts have finally fingered Battelle Memorial Institute, the spooky Dr. Strangelove Institute in Columbus, as ground zero in our domestic military-industrial anthrax scare. With five people dead and eighteen ill, Battelle's role in directing the Defense Departmentís ìjoint vaccine acquisition programî is now coming under heavy scrutiny.

Battelle, in partnership with Michigan-based Bioport, has a virtual monopoly on military anthrax vaccine production in the U.S.. British and U.S. news accounts describe Bioportís owner as a top secret British biowarfare consortium, Porton Down. Perhaps not ironically, the Chairman and CEO of the Porton Down company is Fuad El-Habri, a bin Laden family associate. Laura Rozenís interesting article for the website Salon is must reading on the subject.

Admiral William J. Crowe, Jr., a former Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, is one of the four-person Board of Directors of Bioport and holds a 13% interest in the company. Some investigators link the multinational investment firm and defense contractor, the Carlyle Management Group -- that was involved in managing the bin Laden family fortune prior to Sept. 11 to Bioport. Former CIA Director Frank Carlucci, -(Rumsfeld's College buddy and wrestling partner - Pat) - Bush the Elder's Chief of Staff James Baker III and the former President himself are all associated with the Carlyle Group.

As I reported in the Columbus Alive immediately after the anthrax scare began, Battelle is involved in developing a new and stronger strain of anthrax at its West Jefferson, Ohio labs. Don't be deceived by the fake farmland facades of the W. Jefferson complex. It's the center of a top secret defense project going under the name 'Project Jefferson,' according to the New York Times. The actual lab is BL-3 Anthrax Lab. The Times also confirmed that the CIA is also involved with its own top secret anthrax project called code name 'Clear Vision.'

As I noted in the Alive, the former No. 2 man in the Soviet biochemical warfare operation, Kanatjan Alibekov (now going by the alias Ken Alibek) is a classified consultant with both the CIA and Battelle. A 1998 New Yorker article pointed out the work between William C. Patrick III and Alibeck on the anthrax project.

Battelle emerged during WWII as a top secret facility because of its work on the Manhattan Project. Battelle was responsible for innovations in uranium ore that was actually milled in Columbus. Battelle and Bioport stood to get massively rich off an anthrax scare and, more than any other organization, Battelle controlled access to the Ames strain of anthrax used in the top secret military tests.

The Baltimore Sun reported that the Ames strain was also being produced at the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah, but more importantly, Battelle directs that program as well. The FBI investigation has led them in the direction of Patrick and Alibeck. But whether they have the will, or the authority, to investigate spook central headquarters in Columbus is another question. The New York Times on Nov. 9 already reported that the FBI made an error in the ìanthrax probeî by allowing the 'destruction of university' samples that 'may have caused clues to be lost.'

Alibek, who arrived in the U.S. in 1992, needs to be looked at very closely since news reports suggest that he had possible financial stakes in a biochemical scare. On Oct. 29, the Washington Post reported that Alibek ìhas hooked up with an Alexandria, VA company, and, supported by federal grants, opened a laboratory of 35 people. The article notes that he's 'learning to be a capitalist.'

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 09:00 AM

Bush, the Neocons and a Pattern of Frame-ups and False Flag Ops

Known frame-ups:

1. frame-up of Muslims and Arabs for 9/11 anthrax attacks

2. frame-up of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda for 9/11 anthrax attacks

3. frame-up of Saddam Hussein and Iraq for 9/11

4. frame-up of Saddam Hussein and Iraq for 9/11 anthrax attacks

5. frame-up of Saddam Hussein and Iraq for WMDs

6. frame-up of Steven Hatfill for 9/11 anthrax attacks

Highly probable frame-up:

1. frame-up of Bruce Ivins for 9/11 anthrax attacks?

Possible frame-ups:

1. frame-up of Muslims and Arabs for 9/11?

2. frame-up of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda for 9/11?

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 09:08 AM

Since BioPort is again involved in a scandal ...

we should look back and see how this could have happened. Laura Rozen's landmark article in Salon is here. We could have seen this all coming a few weeks after the actual attack.

http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/10/14/anthrax_vaccine/index.html

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 09:57 AM

Mad Villain

Ivins' first sample would have been scientifically valid but difficult to use as evidence in court because it was gathered in a different manner than the other samples in the library, said an FBI scientist who refused to identify himself at the briefing.

http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?storyID=78992

Refused to identify himself? Refused to identify himself?

Was he wearing a mask?

http://www.stonesthrow.com/uploads/images/product/detail/madvillainy.jpg

PROTIP for reporters: Your cell phone has a camera. That's right, the same device that tethers families, and brings coke and hookers to all the good boys and girls, also allows us to enjoy your daughter drunkenly testing the "Best" in BFF. The next time a government official refuses to identify themselves--Take their picture...and publish it! You might just get a story this time.

Can you please pass the cocktail sauce? You might as well know, hell is hot as hell boss.

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