| By now many of you have probably heard the | | | | down Brown's Ferry number 2 nuclear power |
| news about the new 'superbug,' designated as | | | | plant due to inadequate steamflow. What else is |
| MRSA infection. A staph infection, this virus is | | | | not making the headlines? What is happening to |
| claiming over 18,000 lives each year which is | | | | agriculture in all of those states and how are |
| more than AIDS, heart disease and auto | | | | major cities going to deal with dried up water |
| accidents combined. Some 90,000 new cases are | | | | supplies. What is FEMA doing about this? If the |
| reported each year. For all practical purposes, the | | | | new book, RAPING LOUISIANA: A DIARY OF |
| bug is immune to most antibiotics. What is even | | | | DECEIT is any indication, we may all be headed |
| more disturbing is that these numbers and | | | | for deep trouble. This is not be doom and gloom |
| reported deaths have been around since at least | | | | but rather to get someone to wake up and start |
| 2005. Why are we just now hearing about this | | | | doing some serious planning as to how we are |
| new pandemic? According to the New York | | | | going to cope with problems. |
| Times (10/17/07), the CDC reported 19,000 | | | | Take a look at the housing crisis. Why have three |
| deaths from this disease in 2005. The article goes | | | | major banks agreed to pool their resources to |
| on to say that the infection is cropping up in | | | | create a safety net to deal with the housing |
| schools nationwide. Outbreaks of the infection of | | | | mortgage crisis? To hear the government tell it, |
| occurred in Virginia, Maryland, Ohio, Illinois, North | | | | the economic system will self-correct. If this is so |
| Carolina and Florida. | | | | then why did Treasury Secretary Paulson say, |
| This general lack of information concerning the | | | | "Let me be clear, despite strong economic |
| state of our nation makes on wonder if there isn't | | | | fundamentals, the housing decline is still unfolding, |
| a covert conspiracy to keep the truth from the | | | | and I view it as the most significant current risk |
| American public. When deaths begin to occur, the | | | | to our economy. The longer housing prices remain |
| information starts to see the light of day but it is | | | | stagnant or fall, the greater the penalty to our |
| almost as if there is a 'disinformation' on the part | | | | future economic growth," (AP). What is happening |
| of the government to play down key news that | | | | to the economy that has Paulson sounding the |
| affects us all. Another example is the worsening | | | | alarm? What is being kept from the American |
| droughts in Florida, Georgia, North and South | | | | public? |
| Carolina., Tennessee and Kentucky. According to a | | | | Obviously, these events have made the news |
| recent news story, this is the worst drought on | | | | and are not being kept a big secret. Although, one |
| record since the 1800's. Pictures on the news | | | | cannot help but be skeptical as to whether we |
| have shown major reservoirs looking like mud | | | | are being given all of the information. There is no |
| flats. According to an AP report (10/16/07), The | | | | overt conspiracy to hide this information, but it |
| Weather Service says that 26% of the southeast | | | | does have the appearance of a covert conspiracy |
| is experiencing an 'exceptional' drought, the worst | | | | to downplay some of the serious issues facing |
| Weather Service category. Another report issued | | | | our nation. Do they think that the public will panic? |
| by the National Climate Data Center says that | | | | Perhaps they will but I, for one, would like to |
| 43% of the contiguous U.S. is experiencing | | | | know if I am in the road with a tractor trailer |
| moderate to severe drought. The TVA has shut | | | | bearing down on me. Give me the choice. |