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Title	WATCHING THE NEWS
Release Date	2009-11-06
Time	10:18:00
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By Jon Rappoport NOVEMBER 5, 2009. First of all, I’m trying to follow the Fort Hood mass killings, and that high-IQ idiot, Keith Olbermann, on MSNBC, is interviewing another high-IQ idiot about the Washington DC protests against Obama’s health plan. At the end of the segment, Olbie looks at the protestors walking around in DC and says, “Frightening.” Yeah, Keith, it is, isn’t it? Let me tell you about something that’s a little more frightening, you buffered-off know-nothing. July 26, 2000, Journal of the American Medical Association, Barbara Starfield: The American health care system KILLS 225,000 people every year, which makes it the third leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease and cancer. That’s right. And if health care coverage for all swings into action, the plan will lift those numbers into even greater heights. Research it, Keith. Shut your yap for an hour or so, go to the Journal and read the piece. Starfield was associated with the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health at the time, so she was an insider. Meanwhile, the head dude at Fort Hood, that pressure cooker in Texas where thousands of pent-up soldiers are coming back from Iraq and heading out to Iraq to fight the war that Cheney and Bush and the Boyz trumped up---the head Hood dude is saying that Nidal Hasan, the reported killer, isn’t really dead. He was dead, but now he’s alive and in custody. And no reporters are asking how that mistake could have been made for several hours. I’m mean dead, not dead. It’s a fairly easy distinction to make. Hasan isn’t hanging on by a thread. He’s alive. “We thought he was dead because he wasn’t talking to anyone, but now we see he’s just recalcitrant.” Nice work if you can get it. Anderson Cooper, that well-groomed monkey on CNN, is interviewing a reporter who, six months ago---let’s get breathless about this, folks---was actually IN the room where, today, the shooting took place. Wow. And she’s describing it. It’s a big room and it has stations where people sign a lot of papers and process soldiers in and out. My God. This is exactly what I want to know. A room. Work stations. The crime scene before it was a crime scene. Stunning. I’m still asking. How did they think Hasan was dead for three hours before they realized he was alive. I’m going to take a wild guess here. They said he was dead because they wanted time to arrange some piece of a cover story. Who knows what? They used the worst tactic to do this. They said the guy was dead! Then there was another dude they arrested on a golf course near Hood. He was hiding in a caddyshack or some such. MPs brought him out and surrounded him and searched him and kept him there, on the fairway, until a Crown Vic came along, and guys in suits got out. Then they took him away---but “sources” are now suggesting that Hasan may have acted alone. No other gunmen, despite earlier witness statements to the contrary. What is THIS? It makes a difference. If Hasan acted in concert with others, it’s a whole other scenario. It means something else. FOX gives us statements from a Colonel Terry Lee. (Hey, let’s see his bio, let’s look at who he is. There are, in fact, other Terry Lees in the Army, including a colonel who is now a visiting fellow at the “Washington Institute,” an organization I’ve never heard of and can’t find on Google.) The FOX Terry Lee says he served with Hasan and knows Hasan made strong anti-war statements, including some of that “maybe we need people to strap bombs to themselves and go to Times Square” stuff. Call me nuts, but I think we should know a lot more about FOX Terry Lee and his background, because he is filling in a portrait of Hasan for the right-wing crowd. Don’t worry, though. The grief and the horror will very soon turn to “the healing process” on TV, and the funerals, and this badly screwed up cover story about Hasan will be cut off short of the truth. Let’s get right to the funerals. Let’s mourn right away and swallow up the whole story in ceremony. (ESPN is doing some of their shows from Army locations this week, including a broadcast from Walter Reed, where Hasan worked. I wonder how they’ll play that.) In the meantime, the Swine Flu madness continues. Medical bullshitters at the top of their game are spreading lies like candy to the populace. This mild flu season is being turned into a global con that would make John D Rockefeller blush. Now we get witness statements that Hasan, just before he opened fire, shouted God is great. Allahu Akbar. Hasan is a psychiatrist. He certainly had access to the drug cabinet at Hood. Did he swallow a handful of Prozac to bring him out of his depression, and did the drug---as it can---push him over the edge into homicidal violence? No one knows or is saying where he got two guns. To kill 12 people and wound 31, even in close quarters---that’s highly unusual. The Army claims some of the people might have been killed or wounded by friendly fire, soldiers trying to kill Hasan. A member of Hasan’s family tells FOX Hasan didn’t like guns at all. He even disliked going to the shooting range. But he managed to hit 43 people with two or three clips in his guns. Unusual. While I’m waiting for more news, I find this post on a forum, citing a 2008 AP piece about Fort Hood: AP Wednesday, October 1, 2008 FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — Army officials are investigating how a soldier died in his Fort Hood barracks, the latest in a string of deaths at the Central Texas post the past two months. Cpl. Scott Vickrey, 23, of Fayetteville, Ark., was found unconscious Sunday night by his squad leader and was pronounced dead after medical services personnel arrived, according to Fort Hood officials. His cause of death has not been determined. A U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division official did not immediately return calls to The Associated Press on Wednesday seeking comment about Vickrey's death or several others. At least six deaths have been reported since late July at the sprawling post that's home to about 52,000 troops. Vickrey was a combat engineer with the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division. Vickrey served in Iraq in 2004-05. His awards include two Army Commendation medals, the National Defense Service Medal, Iraqi Campaign Medal and Global War on Terrorism Medal. Another soldier found unresponsive in his barracks, Spc. Jared Arnn, died Saturday at a hospital from internal bleeding from an existing medical condition, Fort Hood officials said. Arnn, 21, of Boonville, Ind., was an avionics repair specialist with the 615th Aviation Support Battalion, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division. Arnn helped in relief flights to the Texas Gulf Coast after Hurricane Ike. He previously served in South Korea and his awards include the Army Achievement Medal, National Defense Medal and the Global War on Terrorism Medal. Army officials previously said they were investigating a Sept. 11 fire in a Fort Hood duplex that killed Spc. Aaron Lynn Allmandinger, 22, of Mulberry, Ind. Also, three soldiers were found dead at Fort Hood in a two-week span, all from different units. Pfc. Travis Edward Dowd, 22, of Tallahassee, Fla., was found dead Aug. 12 in his room after he failed to report to formation. Pvt. Eric Jonathan McSherry, 20, of Webster, was found dead of unknown causes Aug. 4, but Fort Hood officials declined to say exactly where or by whom he was found. The body of Spc. Donald James Scott Jr., 28, from Boyceville, Wis., was found July 29 by a game warden in a training area, although his unit was not doing training exercises at the time, Fort Hood officials said. At a Killeen apartment near Fort Hood on Sept. 8, a lieutenant who had gone to ask about missing military equipment was killed by a soldier, who then committed suicide. Spc. Jody Michael Wirawan, 22, of Eagle River, Ala., who was to be discharged soon, fatally shot 1st Lt. Robert Bartlett Fletcher, 24, of Jensen Beach, Fla. Killeen police who arrived fired shots at Wirawan but he turned the gun on himself, Fort Hood officials said. rry, 20, of Webster, was found dead of unknown causes Aug. 4, but Fort Hood officials declined to say exactly where or by whom he was found. The body of Spc. Donald James Scott Jr., 28, from Boyceville, Wis., was found July 29 by a game warden in a training area, although his unit was not doing training exercises at the time, Fort Hood officials said. At a Killeen apartment near Fort Hood on Sept. 8, a lieutenant who had gone to ask about missing military equipment was killed by a soldier, who then committed suicide. Spc. Jody Michael Wirawan, 22, of Eagle River, Ala., who was to be discharged soon, fatally shot 1st Lt. Robert Bartlett Fletcher, 24, of Jensen Beach, Fla. Killeen police who arrived fired shots at Wirawan but he turned the gun on himself, Fort Hood officials said. End AP clip. Strange doings at Fort Hood. While waiting for more TV news, I’m looking at other chat forums. I come across this, re Walter Reed Army Hospital, where Hasan worked for several years. This is a list of papers concerning medical experimentation at Walter Reed: Sanctioned use of Drugs in Combat, Franklin D. Jones, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Meeting Report, Pharmacological Optimization of Military Performance, Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research The Brave Pill & Minutes of the Psychopharmacology Study Group, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Research paper, Pharmacological Optimization of Military Performance, Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Research paper, Pharmacological Optimization of Performance: Anti-Anxiety Agents, Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Research paper, Pharmacological Optimization of Performance: Memory and Cognition, Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Research paper, Pharmacological Optimization of Military Performance: Strength and Endurance, Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Research paper, Pharmacological Optimization of Military Performance: Sleep and Arousal, Division of Neuropsychiatry, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Sure it’s all speculation to make these connections, but still… Then there is this, from Statesman.com. It concerns the town of Killeen, where Fort Hood is located. Friday, November 06, 2009 Until a gunman at Virginia Tech University (where Hasan went to school) killed 33 people in 2007, Killeen held the macabre distinction of the place of the worst mass murder in U.S. history. The city that is still known for the deaths of 24 people at a Luby's Cafeteria in October 1991 is once again in the national spotlight after the shootings at Fort Hood. But those high-profle slayings have bookended a series of violent incidents involving soldiers in Killeen, Fort Hood and nearby towns in recent years. They include: • In July 2009, Army Sgt. Ryan Schlack of Oshkosh, Wis., died after being shot while trying to break up a fight at Fort Hood. Spc. Armando Ray Baca has been charged with first-degree murder. • In September 2008, Spc. Jody Michael Wirawan of Eagle River, Ala., who was scheduled to soon be discharged, fatally shot 1st Lt. Robert Bartlett Fletcher of Jensen Beach, Fla. When Killeen police arrived, Wirawan killed himself, Fort Hood officials said at the time. • In July 2007, the wife of a Fort Hood soldier was killed as part of a murder-for-hire plot. Hidi Gower was shot to death outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars pool hall in Kempner, 18 miles from Killeen. Army Sgt. 1st Class Donald Dean Gower was sentenced to life in prison without parole in August 2008. • In March 2005, Fort Hood Army Sgt. Jason Cline flew from Texas to California and plotted with Sharonmarie Ball to kill her husband, Navy Petty Officer John Ball, who was stabbed in the chin and right hand but survived, according to news reports on KWTX-TV in Waco. Cline was sentenced to 12 years in prison in February 2006, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. • In April 2005, former Army medic John D. Mayer Jr. of Fort Hood pleaded guilty in federal court in Waco to charges in the death of his 2-year-old stepdaughter. Mayer had been watching the child while the girl's mother was deployed to Iraq, according to news reports on KWTX. • In July 2004, Fort Hood officials identified the bodies of Fort Hood soldiers Sgt. Erin Elizabeth Edwards and her estranged husband, Sgt. William McKinley Edwards. Police investigated the shooting deaths as a murder-suicide, the Texas A&M University student newspaper, The Battalion, reported in 2004. End Statesman clip. Yesterday, there were reports of other shootings in the Fort Hood area, on or near the base: Howze Theater; Clear Creek PX; Liberty Village; Comanche Village. No word now on any of this. Multiple shooters, multiple locations. Then---one shooter, one location. Just before the Iraq invasion under Bush II, I was getting reports about dissident soldiers at Fort Hood. Men who were balking at going to the Gulf. They didn’t believe the war was going to be fought for the reasons Bush gave. My guess is, right now, with about 50,000 people at Hood, soldiers coming back from, and going out to, Iraq and Afghanistan, some on multiple tours, a lot of soldiers are unhappy. Seriously unhappy. Who knows? Maybe somebody is making Hasan the poster boy for dissension. As in: dissension equals terrorism. So keep your yap shut.