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From: Subject: The Free Press -- Independent News Media - National Issues Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:58:20 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/related; type="text/html"; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0064_01C9A96C.4F3D2860" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0064_01C9A96C.4F3D2860 Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Location: http://www.freepress.org/departments.php/display/20/2003/320 The Free Press -- Independent News Media - National = Issues <= /TD>

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Power Failure; Bush Disaster
by = Rob=20 Kall
August 15, 2003

Power disaster hits = North=20 America CBC News, Canada

Maybe it's terrorism, maybe it's a problem in the power = grid=20 caused by a local Niagara Falls power generation plant.

Either way you look at it, this disaster, affecting over = 20=20 million people, is a screaming example of the failure of the = Bush=20 administration to protect the people and resources of the=20 US.

Assume the Bush Admin will deny any terrorist = connection,=20 since this would show total failure of the Homeland Defense = Program.=20 Of course , if it's not terrorism then it is due to = massively=20 incompetent energy system design and Planning-- also Bush's=20 Fault.

Even if this massive power outage was totally=20 innocent, due to a power grid problem that started at a = local power=20 plant, it is clear that the design and management of the = nation's=20 power distribution structure is seriously flawed. And this = problem=20 has to fall at the feet of the most incompetent, most poorly = advised=20 president in the history of the nation.

Even if this = power=20 outage was innocent of terrorist connections, it shows how = amazingly=20 vulnerable we are to terrorist assault. It is clear that a = terrorist=20 attack on a node like the power plant that purportedly set = off the=20 power grid collapse could have easily been=20 accomplished.

There's been talk of building a = protective web=20 of cameras to guard our nuclear power plants. Now we know = what a=20 terrorist attack on the power grid can do to us-- shut down=20 airports, wall street, cell phones, subways, work places, = Wall=20 Street...

Even if they turn the lights on in a few = hours, we=20 now know that almost two years after the horrible 9-11 = attacks, the=20 Bush administration has proven that it has left us = frighteningly=20 vulnerable to further attacks.

It appears that the = official=20 explanation will be a lightning bolt. You would think that = lightning=20 was a new phenomenon, that they were unable to prepare for a = lightning bolt. Why not just say, as a number recent movie = scripts=20 have done, that "It was a miracle." Or why not say mice = chewed on=20 the wires and shorted them. It is astounding that such a = common=20 occurrence of nature could be the cause. The fact = remains.... Either=20 it was terrorism or massive incompetence.

If you = think that=20 the Bush administration would admit that there was any = connection to=20 terrorism, you have to be kidding yourself. They will cover = this up=20 and brush it off with vague references to power grid = problems. We=20 will never know, unless a whistle blower comes forward to = reveal the=20 truth. I fear for potential whistle blowers' = lives.

And look=20 at how the mainstream media obsequiously just passes along = the=20 reports from the government. No questions, nobody asking how = such a=20 massive screw-up could occur.

Of course, with the = congress=20 run by republicans who are dancing in lock-step to the Bush=20 neocon-run cabal of trotskyites, it is unlikely that there = will be=20 the kind of in-depth investigation that should be done to = understand=20 what happened. Just as the Bush administration has impeded = and=20 blocked release of the 9-11 investigation, you can rest = assured=20 there will be a similar effort to prevent the truth on this=20 management failure from surfacing.

Rob Kall = rob@opednews.com=20 is publisher of progressive news and opinion website=20 www.opednews.com and organizer of cutting edge meetings that = bring=20 together world leaders, such as the Winter Brain Meeting and = the=20 StoryCon Summit Meeting on the Art, Science and Application = of=20 Story. This article is copyright by Rob Kall, but permission = is=20 granted for reprint in print, email, blog, or web media so = long as=20 this credit is = attached.

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October 21, 2003

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October 20, 2003

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October 13, 2003

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"Ge= orge=20 Bush, the Democrats, and Revisionist = History"
October=20 12, 2003

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October 8, 2003

"Co= ngressman=20 John Conyers asks Karl Rove to resign"
October = 8,=20 2003

"Si= ege=20 Heil: the Nazi Nexus*"
October 6, 2003

"Lo= yal=20 Opposition, Disloyal Regent "
October 1, = 2003

"Ti= me=20 to act"
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September 22, 2003

"Re= publicans=20 Seem to Want to Keep Computerized Voting Easily Corruptible=20 "
September 10, 2003

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September 10, 2003

"We= =20 Can Win the War in Vietnam and other chestnuts from a = not-so-bygone=20 era"
September 5, 2003

"Lo= otocracy"
September=20 2, 2003

"Th= e=20 Business of E-Voting and How it Can Put the Wrong Candidate in=20 Officee"
September 1, 2003

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August 29, 2003

"Th= e=20 Ill-Begotten: Reflections of Unconstitutional Precedence=20 "
August 24, 2003

"St= orm=20 and Strife "
August 24, 2003

"A = New=20 Psychiatric Diagnostic Category; Politician Syndrome; DSM-IV = 333.333=20 "
August 23, 2003

"Fo= unding=20 Father of Neocon Philosophy Leo Strauss and Jefferson's = Impending=20 Death"
August 21, 2003

"Fa= ith-based=20 drug wars: Bush recruits religious youth groups as ground=20 troops"
August 21, 2003

"Vo= ting=20 Machine Fiasco"
August 20, 2003

"Bl= ackouts=20 Happen-California Power Crisis Should Have Been A Warning Sign To = U.S.=20 "
August 20, 2003

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August 15, 2003

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August 15, 2003

"Ou= r=20 President is a Criminal"
July 28, 2003

"Yo= =20 Democrats! Wake Up!"
June 2, 2003

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