THE ENVIRONMENT AS A WEAPON

General Zinni, 'the Godfather'.

Does the US military use the environment as a weapon?

Could the US military damage the environments of Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen or parts of Afghanistan?

General Anthony Zinni is a former chief of U.S. Central Command.

He has been talking to top people in Washington about how the degradation of the environment and declining natural resources affect security. (Environment key to U.S. security: Congress briefing)

According to Zini:

"We can't just send in the Army and the Marines and the Air Force and the Navy to resolve these problems, and they can't all be security problems...

"Whether it is climate change, whether it is disruption of the environment in other ways ... we're going to see more failed and incapable states."

Zinni referred to:

Depletion of fish stocks off Somalia,

The drop in water and oil resources in Yemen,

Droughts in Afghanistan

And scarce and polluted water in Pakistan.

Could some of these problems be man-made? (WEATHER WEAPONS - PAKISTAN, INDIA, VENEZUELA, RUSS...)

Lieutenant Colonel Shannon Beebe, an Africa analyst, compared the traditional threats to security with those posed by environmental and natural resource problems.

Beebe is quoted as saying: "You think we're going to continue to face state-based threats?

"Might I remind you of the two greatest attacks on the United States at the beginning of the 21st century, and neither of those was from a state-based threat: 911 and Hurricane Katrina... (Did Bush government break the levees?)

"When you talk to Africans ... ministers and chiefs of defense, they will talk to you in terms of security as food, as environmental degradation, natural disasters, environmental shocks."

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Remember Katrina?

Did the Bush government break the levees?

GDN01 writes that a good friend with much family in New Orleans said "I'll tell you the worst thing I've heard and I heard it from my mother."

She said she heard several blasts - big booms - right before the levees broke.

"Several blasts and then all the water came pouring in."

Several people have said this same thing.

This is the story going round from the people who were there.

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aangirfan: HAITI EARTHQUAKE CAUSED BY US MILITARY?

OBAMA'S KATRINA

Haiti

Obama has got George W Bush and Bill Clinton to lead a private fundraising effort to 'help' Haiti. (Bush deflects Katrina questions)

Bush was selected because of his handling of Hurricane Katrina.

And because both he and his father were involved in coups against Haiti's popular, anti-drug president, Aristide.

Clinton was chosen because of his record in 'trying to starve' the people of Haiti. (Bush, Clinton and the crimes of US imperialism in Haiti )

Both Bush and Clinton, allegedly, know quite a lot about the activities of the drugs mafias.

Haiti by Rémi Kaupp © Rémi Kaupp

On 17 January 2010, at arthurzbygniew.blogspot.com/ we read an article by Wayne Madsen entitled "Haiti: US troops to prevent return of Aristide"

Among the points made:

1. Cuban and Venezuelan field hospitals were quick to arrive in Haiti.

Icelandic search-and-rescue people were quick to arrive in Haiti.

Russia, Spain, Mexico, Chile, and Guatemala were quick to send in food and water.

Meanwhile, Obama and his generals were planning to send in weapons of war.

2. When eventually the US military arrived, US weapons and war supplies crowded the airport, leaving little room for planes carrying food, water, and medical supplies.

When U.S. Special Operations forces arived at Port-au-Prince airport they pointed their guns at the starving Haitians.

3. Aristide, in exile in South Africa, wants to return to Haiti to help his people.

4. Haiti's President Rene Preval is a CIA stooge placed in power by the USA.

Preval has supported 'free trade' deals which have hurt Haiti's farmers.

This has caused Haiti's farm population to stream into Port-au-Prince to work in the American sweat shops, heralded as 'progress' by the likes of George Soros.

The sweat shop workers are forced to live in poorly constructed slums.

The death count from the earthquake will be much higher as the result of collapsed slums.

Haiti by Rémi Kaupp © Rémi Kaupp

5. US Defence Secretary Robert Gates will prevent Aristide from returning to Haiti.

Gates helped plan the coup that ousted Aristide in 1991. Gates was then Bush's deputy national security adviser.

6. Haiti was forced by Clinton to agree to "free trade" deals that saw Haiti's workers produce clothing for retailers like Disney.

Clinton imposed economic sanctions against Aristide to try to force him to agree to the policies of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.

Clinton ensured that Haiti went from being an exporter of nutritious rice to being "an importer of expensive bleached and genetically-modified 'junk rice' primarily from Arkansas."

After Aristide raised the minimum wage to two dollars a day, Bush toppled Aristide.

7. UN "peacekeeping" forces in Haiti have ensured that Aristide and his Lavalas Party does not regain power.

Reportedly, one of the methods the UN uses is "periodically raiding pro-Aristide slums and killing Lavalas activists in their homes."

8. When Honduran President Manuel Zelaya also raised the minimum wage in his country, the CIA arranged for a military coup to remove him.

9. Involved in the humanitarian relief in Haiti will be USAID, said to be front for the CIA.

USAID is headed by Rajiv Singh, a one-time political hack for Pennsylvania's "corrupt" Democratic Governor Ed Rendell.

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US troops and civil unrest

According to Bill Van Auken, at WSWS (Army deploys combat unit in US for possible civil unrest), 25 September 2008:

"For the first time ever, the US military is deploying an active duty regular Army combat unit (The 'Raiders') for full-time use inside the United States to deal with emergencies, including potential civil unrest."

From 1 October 2008, the 'Raiders' (the First Brigade Combat Team of the Third Division) will be under the command of NorthCom, which was set up after 9 11 to defend the US “homeland”.

The “Raiders” led the assault on Baghdad in 2003 and carried out house-to-house combat in Ramadi.

Active-duty soldiers were used temporarily in New Orleans, 'which was effectively placed under martial law' after Hurricane Katrina.

According to a September 2008 article in the Army Times ('Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1'):

Troops "may be called upon to help with civil unrest and crowd control."

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