ANTHRAX AND HEROIN : SPOOKY! (Florida)

Member Name: Aang

Product:	Florida
Date:	27/11/01 (270 review reads)
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In the USA a woman gets raped every 3 seconds. The crime rate in San Jose is 5,364 per 100,00 of the population. For New York the figure is 9,236. Compare that with Miami's staggeringly high 18,394. I got out of Miami fast and flew to Tampa, which is half way down the left hand side of Florida.

On the plane, someone called Catherine got talking to me about Florida's governor, Jeb Bush.

"Jeb denies having an affair with the head of Florida's department of management services, a lady who was once a Playboy bunny," said Catherine, who looked pretty enough to have been a bunny. "But not everyone trusts Jeb. Jeb worked for Miguel Recarey who is wanted by the FBI over allegations of massive fraud..."

Tampa has a fine baroque restaurant called Bern's Steak House, where Catherine and I enjoyed some Chateau Lafite and sixty ounce steaks. Well actually, to be honest, Catherine vanished at the airport and I dined in a Pizza Hut, and the pizza was not great. However, I did get talking to the waitress about Tampa's most famous citizen, a man called Santo.

According to my informant, "Santo Trafficante ran casinos in Havana. Castro threw him out, which was why he was allegedly involved in CIA plots to kill Castro. Santo Trafficante allegedly ran all the gambling operations on the Gulf Coast and allegedly set up narcotic networks in Latin America and South East Asia. He never went to jail. When he passed away, his place was allegedly taken by a gentleman called LoScalzo"

So, what more do you need to know about Tampa. It's a big city full of concrete.

TAMPA!

Remember the cargo ship that was stopped and searched in the English Channel because it was allegedly carrying terrorist materials to London. That ship started its journey in Tampa.

Tampa is home to the McDill Airforce Base where the US military's Central Command serves as the nerve centre for the wa
r in Afghanistan.

Tampa is home to an Islamic studies think tank, whose head became boss of Islamic Jihad. (Some commentators believe that most Islamic militant organisations are controlled by certain intelligence agencies).

Remember the Anthrax that struck Florida. According to the Washington Post, DNA testing has shown that the origin of all the anthrax that hit America was America's own germ war lab at Fort Detrick.



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I headed on quickly to St Petersburg, across the bay from Tampa. There I visited the Dali Museum which has the biggest collection of that artists works in the world. Brilliant!

I took a look at the Sunken Gardens (on Fourth St): a tropical paradise of exotic trees, plants and birds. A good place to eat a ghastly McDonald's burger. Well, you can feed bits of it to birds.

Overnight I stayed, of course, at the gorgeous pink, vaguely Islamic-styled, Don Cesar Resort Hotel at St Petersburg Beach. They do nice big breakfasts.

Filled full of waffles, I headed a little South to Sarasota. The highlight around here is the 68 acre estate of circus man John Ringling. Ringling's C'ad'zan is huge. That's the name of the place, by the way. I loved the banyan trees, the Florentine villa, the Venetian-style mansion full of tapestries, the Renaissance-style statues and the exciting circus museum.

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I could have gone 20 miles South to the tiny town of Venice, with its wide streets and parks. But I didn't then know it was famous.

Venice is famous for three reasons.

First it is where the Ringling and Barnum and Bailey Circuses do their training.

Secondly, it has the building that was the national HQ of billionaire Jackson Stephens's Beverley Enterprises. According to www.madcowprod.com , "Jackson Stephens was a roommate of President
Carter at the US Naval Academy. Stephen's name has come up in a number of spooky cases: in the BCCI criminal bank scandal, in the case of the death of Vince Foster, in the stolen Promis software scandal, in the 1996 finance scandal involving allegations of Red Chinese money, in the gun-running and cocaine smuggling at Mena Arkansas that was behind Iran Contra and Whitewater. Stephens was the chief domestic campaign contributor to Bush senior and to Clinton. And Venice Airport was named during the questioning of Oliver North during Iran Contra."

Thirdly, Venice was the teeny little place where Mohammed Atta and his fellow 'hijackers' chose to learn to fly.

Some people think that Atta was working for a group within a certain intelligence agency.

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I headed to North West Florida, to Panama City Beach. The Sheraton Miracle Mile or the cheaper Stingray Motel are possible places to stay. If you like computer video arcades, country music saloons, wax museums, water slides, and amusement parks, then this is the place! This is more authentic than Disney World. It's down market and tacky and lovely, in a Coney Island sort of way.

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I had to visit the East Coast, and where better to go than Palm beach! This is quite a bit North of Miami.

In Palm Beach the place to stay is The Breakers, a vast five star palace with twin towers, Venetian arches, Persian carpets and vast chandeliers. Alternatively there is the Heart of Palm Beach Motor Inn, which is cheaper.

If you have money, and it's an election year (when you have a choice between one millionaire who supports the military industrial complex or another millionaire who supports the military industrial complex), you can attend Palm Beach political cocktail parties, listen to millionaire politicians pretending to be friends of Blacks and Hispanics, and
pay several thousand dollars for the privilege.

Palm Beach has money. It's a place to stroll around, or better, drive around. South Ocean Boulevard has a home with 117 rooms and a golf course. Number 702 is where John Lennon once lived. On N Ocean Boulevard is one of many palatial homes belonging to the Kennedys.

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A LITTLE ABOUT WALT DISNEY, space craft, INDIANS, and so on.

The Florida INDIANS were not all nice. Sometimes their firstborn were sacrificed to their chiefs by being clubbed to death during a ritual dance. When the white men arrived, many Indians were hunted like dogs or killed off by measles.

The BLACKS, until the Civil Rights Act of 1964, were forced to sit in separate parts of buses, or forced to use separate washrooms. Hotels, schools and public buildings were all segregated. Blacks were not allowed to go swimming at Palm Beach.

The RAILWAYS were the key to the development of Florida. By 1894 there was a rail link to Palm Beach, which became a holiday resort for people like the Rockefellers.

Gambling began to play a big part in Florida's economy in the 1930's. Al Capone moved into a fortified estate in Palm Beach.
Florida MAFIA boss Santos Trafficante, who featured in the film "Donnie Brasco", sought the protection of the Fifth Amendment clause when asked by the House Select Committee on Assassinations whether he had ever discussed plans to kill President Kennedy.

An explosion inside the US battleship Maine in 1984 in Havanna Harbour had nothing to do with Spain or the Spanish. But the US blamed Spain and used the sinking of the Maine as an excuse to free CUBA of Spanish control, and make Cuba a 'colony' of America. Under the evil Cuban dictator and US friend Batista, Havanna became the place for US mafia brothels and casinos. And America's elite owned most of Cuba.

When Castro kicked out the
Americans, the Pentagon Chiefs of Staff, in 1962, considered a plan called Operation NORTHWOOD. The idea behind Northwood was that US secret agents would carry out deadly terrorist attacks in the US which could be blamed on the Cubans, and thus justify a US invasion of Cuba. Operation Northwood was to include various bomb explosions in buildings in Miami and elsewhere, the bringing down of an aircraft, and the sinking of a ship. (See www.whatreallyhappened.com )

According to www.onlinejournal.com "around 1960-61, George BUSH and fellow CIA operative Felix Rodriguez organised Cuban exiles in Florida for an invasion of Cuba. The Cubans did not rise up in revolt against Castro when the Bay of Pigs invasion took place. President Kennedy was blamed by some of the elite for the failure of the US led invasion.

"In 1963 JFK was assassinated. the involvement of Cubans, CIA operatives in Florida (Felix Rodriguez) and the questionable activities of Bush and others, is detailed in numerous books." (Bush has denied being in the CIA in the early 60's)

In 1969 Neil Armstrong is supposed to have journeyed from CAPE CANAVERAL to the Moon. Some experts now consider that the film of the moon landing was faked.

1971 saw the opening of WALT DISNEY WORLD.

According to www.onlinejournal.com "in 1973 the Watergate break-in was conducted by anti-Castro Cubans and CIA agents tied to the Bay of Pigs, including Rodriguez.

"In 1976 CIA Director George Bush stonewalled Congress regarding the attacks on a Cubana Airline jet. Anti Castro Cubans were arrested, including Luis Carriles, whose boss was Felix Rodriguez.

"From 1982-6 Vice president Bush, CIA Director Casey, Felix Rodriguez and Oliver North were allegedly involved in the Iran Contra affair (whereby arms were sold illegally to Iran and support given to the terrorist Contras who were trying to bring down the democratic government of Nicaragua
). In Senate testimony, Rodriguez alleged that he passed ten million dollars to the Contras from the Colombian Medellin cocaine cartel.

"In Florida JEB BUSH allegedly operated as the link with the Cubans and the Contras...Florida based drug-running fronts funneled US government funds as humanitarian aid to the Contras. Senator John Kerry investigated Miami-based Ocean Hunter, one of many Florida-based drug-running fronts, and discovered $200,000 channeled South..."

On 11 September 2001, the ATTACKS ON AMERICA took place. Three days after the WTC disaster, Newsweek and the Washington Post reported claims that 5 of the 'hijackers' received training at secure US military bases during the 1990's. The reports also claimed that 3 of the 'terrorists' had listed their addresses as the Naval Air Station at Pensacola, Florida. A Defense Department spokesman admitted that the names of the 'hijackers' were the same as the names of people who had trained at secure US bases.

SPOOKY!!!

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