Avian Flu: Bush Cronyism and Crimes as Usual
“White House officials will meet with representatives from the U.S. pharmaceutical industry Friday to encourage them to get involved in making flu vaccine amid fears of an avian flu pandemic,” CNN reported yesterday. “Most U.S. drugmakers have stopped making flu vaccines for a variety of reasons, but many public health advocates believe having a reliable supply of the vaccine may be the best way to contain a ‘bird flu’ pandemic in humans,” a speculative pandemic that figured prominently in Bush’s press conference the other day.
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October 7th, 2005
Osama: Back from the Dead
Like Lazarus in the New Testament, Osama bin Laden, dead and buried these last few years, will soon rise from the dead to wreak havoc on the Great Satan, the United States of America. “Osama bin laden is expected to remain in hiding until he stages another attack on the United States, an ex-CIA expert who had tracked the terror mastermind for two decades warned in an interview,” reports AFP. “Bin Laden last surfaced in a video footage aired on the eve of the US presidential elections in November last year. In the tape, declared authentic by the authorities, the Saudi-born radical directly admitted he ordered the September 11 attacks.” But it would appear these nameless “authorities” left their reading glasses at home because the man in the October 29, 2004, tape does not resemble Osama (see this animation).
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