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Strategic and Economic Analysis: Afghanistan & A Global Economic Forecast
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 This Special Report was originally prepared for two of Mr. Hulet's corporate business clients; their particular sections have been removed so as to make this paper available to the general public. The paper's first section covers the "Afghan Arab Diaspora" (the dispersal of thousands of guerrilla fighters into many nation's urban centers). These fighters will certainly continue their fight against Empire globally and against American interests in particular. The second section covers the effects this global guerrilla war will have on the global economic outlook and here domestically in America. The full text is here available for $10.00. Offered in Microsoft Works and Microsoft Word.
Gulf War Illnesses
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 Too many Gulf War veterans returned home to another kind of war; they're becoming ill; many are crippled; many have now died. The Pentagon refused to even realistically look into the matter. You may have read press reports: the press lied. You may have heard Pentagon officials speak to the issue: they lied. And whatever crazy conspiracy theories you have read on the Web?-- are wrong-headed. But what Mr. Hulet personally discovered while with Congressman Metcalf's office as Special Assistant, you have yet to read about anywhere. The most important information about why what may have happened, and who is then really responsible, never made it into the Metcalf Report. You will understand why when you read this Special Report. The full text is here available for $10.00Offered in Microsoft Works and Microsoft Word.
Gulf War Illness - The Metcalf Report
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 Here is provided the reader a summary of the lengthy Metcalf Report that was submitted to Congress by Congressman Jack Metcalf and his Special Assistant Norma Smith. To Metcalf's credit he alone pursued the question of whether an illegal (non-approved) adjuvant squalene was introduced in the Anthrax Vaccines troops received in-theatre during the Gulf War hostilities. Metcalf had drawn into the enquiry the Government Accounting Office (GAO) to investigate; and they did their job admirably. This summary of the overall report is made available to readers along with the above report by Mr. Hulet as an aid to understanding the first. The full text is here available for $10.00 Offered in Microsoft Works and Microsoft Word.
Project Badger 1990 and the Illusive Colonel Alving
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 One of the key figures in the GAO enquiry was one Col. Carl Alving M.D. and the Pentagon's expert on biological warfare vaccines and adjuvants; yet Col. Alving repeatedly lied, contradicted himself and refused to cooperate with the investigators. The story about squalene being added to the anthrax vaccine may not be the end of this sordid tale, but surely it begins somewhere, with someone. The mysterious Dr. Alving is a case history of how a Green Suit responds under pressure. The full text is here available for $10.00 Offered in Microsoft Works and Microsoft Word.
 

 

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Globalization’s consequences; one set of cases


Craig B Hulet?

Globalization is not the same as globalism; the one is a process, which has been going on for centuries, especially since industrialization, which was a part of the process too, the other is an ism. This particular ism is today the glue holding another ism together Corporatism. The last is the ideological foundation for the newest form of empire.

One of the consequences to the globalization process driven by the giant monopoly multinational corporations is a loosening of the geographic borders. The open border problem has its obvious consequences which this office has written about for years: i.e. immigration, terrorism, international criminal syndicates, piracy and international urban guerrilla warfare, the newest manifestation of resistance to this American-led process. 9/11 was our first great experience with the latter resistance. America will continue to be that target as the empire is based upon it being American-led though not American proper as the progressive Left tends to believe.

But there are other threats emanating from the periphery of empire and coming home to the metropolis of empire, or its central hub...America itself. For instance SARS, the respiratory epidemic, is thought to have come from civet cats bred as exotic meat in Chinese markets where bats, snakes, badgers and other animals live in side-by-side cages until they become someone's dinners. Japan recently banned the importation of prairie dogs because they can carry plague. The rodents had been wildly popular as pets in that country. China, now a full member in good standing in the World Trade Organization (WTO) will press for a Free Trade Agreement with the United States to open borders even more. Cheap labor, and very cheap at that, is not the only threat from China to American workers and their standard of living.

In a recent article in the Washington Post this was reported about another potentially dangerous epidemic, monkeypox:

- The monkeypox outbreak illustrates a growing problem: Exotic animals give exotic diseases to people who get too close, a trend that some medical specialists call a serious public health threat. Such diseases can become a threat not just to the people who buy and sell exotic pets, but to the general public if they spread to native animals and become established in the United States. Federal health officials are working frantically to ensure doesn't happen with monkeypox.
“This is a harbinger of things to come,” warns Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, who advises the government on infectious disease - and has long warned that there’s too little oversight of the health threats of imported animals. “There are some of us who feel like lone voices in the night” in calling for better scrutiny, adds Peter Jahrling, a scientist at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute. “Perhaps incidents like this might bring some much-needed re-examinations.” (Source: Growing number of diseases jump from exotic animals to humans: Lauran Neergaard, Monday, June 09, 2003 WASHINGTON, AP)

Monkeypox, a relative of smallpox usually found in tropical African forests, apparently jumped from an imported Gambian giant rat into prairie dogs when both species were being housed together by an exotic pet distributor in Illinois. Health officials are investigating nearly three dozen possible cases of monkeypox in people who bought or cared for the prairie dogs, in Wisconsin, Indiana and Illinois. The outbreak marks the first time monkeypox has been detected in the Western Hemisphere. Nor is it the only threat, and fear of a growing trend is growing.

What is interesting was the locations of monkeypox and the centers where some of the worst cases of West Nile virus have taken lives. The three states above recorded some of the most alarming numbers during 2002 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Wisconsin had 52 cases and three deaths; Indiana had 291 cases, 11 deaths; Illinois, 873 and 60 deaths. And bordering or very nearly bordering these three states we find Michigan 554/50; Ohio 444/31; Missouri 168/7; Iowa 54/2; Minnesota 48/0. And then we find Texas 199/11; Nebraska 152/8; Louisiana 330/24 and Mississippi 186/11 and Alabama 49/3 are the next closest in overall numbers with several bordering each other again. The totals are 4,071 cases and 274 deaths for America during 2003. West Nile virus has been found in 41 of the lower 48 continental United States.

West Nile virus is spread predominately by mosquitoes but like the AIDS virus (whatever it is) other transmission routes have been detected as well. The one certain thing is that wherever it turns up it tends to stay, according to Dr. Lyle Petersen, CDC. He also has stated in interviews that the West Nile virus is “unbelievably complex.”

Not as great a threat as the two above, last summer, a group of prairie dogs caught in South Dakota was discovered to have tularemia, a dangerous infection, typically spread by the bites of infected ticks, deerflies and such or through ingesting contaminated material. The disease was detected only after the animals were shipped to 10 other states and five other countries. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention never recorded any human illnesses, it advised adults who handled the ill rodents to take precautionary antibiotics.

Then there’s salmonella, which iguanas and other reptiles, as well as birds, routinely shed in their feces. The CDC counts a stunning 90,000 people a year believed to have caught salmonella from some form of contact with a reptile, either touching it or touching a surface where the reptile had tracked the bacteria. (Ibid., Neergaard)

Americans are a bored lot and are highly susceptible to new fads, trends and anything exotic which might make them stand out among their narrow peers. How many animals considered exotic are imported into the United States is anybody’s guess. There are no good counts of how many exotic animals are sold, but they’re immensely popular, according to Richard Farinato, director of the Humane Society of America’s captive wildlife program. Some 800,000 iguanas alone are imported for the pet trade....There is almost no federal or state scrutiny of most imported animals for potential human health risk, and rules on owning and selling exotic animals vary by state and city. “We have a policy that says don’t buy these kinds of animals as pets. This (monkeypox) is one example of why,” Farinato said.

This is just one set of consequences the process of globalization has brought to the shores of America. Not as intimidating as 9/11, not as fearsome as Weapons of Mass Destruction may portend. But the deaths are mounting and may likely make 9/11 something one looks back on with less the patriotic fervor it has so far engendered. And nothing can stop the process of globalization. The fact that it is driven by greed and power embedded in its own peculiar ideology of Corporatism makes that assured. Globalism is an ideological fixation now with the White House and the Oligarchy that rules this nation. Given American’s penchant for the odd and unusual so as to elevate themselves in their own eyes (add to that the envy that alone brings out in others) and make themselves seem less mundane than they actually are, these are trends we can count on. We can, as well, count on a mounting toll of deaths and illnesses, rare and not so rare, nationwide.

Date: June 15, 2003

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