Digging up bones from the past-9/11, Carlyle Group and deaths at LifeCare during Katrina/Rumsfeld says flight 93 shot down

Rumsfeld said flight 93 shot down
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0v0_HDwg84

http://911falseflagarchive.blogspot.com/2011/03/secretary-of-defense-donald-rumsfeld.html
Excerpt:
Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filed with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center. The only way to deal with this problem is by taking the battle to the terrorists, wherever they are, and dealing with them.

http://www.notafreemason.com/Missile-Not-Flight-77.html
Excerpt:
"It is a truth that a terrorist can attack any time, any place, using any technique and it's physically impossible to defend at every time and every place against every conceivable technique. Here we're talking about plastic knives and using an American Airlines flight filled with our citizens, and the missile to damage this building and similar (inaudible) that damaged the World Trade Center. The only way to deal with this problem is by taking the battle to the terrorists, wherever they are, and dealing with them."
"Missile"? What missile would that be? Did he let something slip? Or was this just a gaffe? A bad choice of words? A transcription error? Until we know for sure, it deserves scrutiny.
The article based on this interesting interview was "We Have to Defend Our Way of Life" by Lyric Wallwork Winik in Parade, 18 Nov 2001. The only part of the above exchange to be included is this:
To Rumsfeld, the Sept. 11 attacks did not come as a complete surprise. "There were lots of warnings," he says bluntly.


http://katysexposure.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/bob-kerreys-unusual-corporate-connections-tenet-healthcare/
Excerpt:
Bob was in a position of responsibility when Katrina struck. Tenet Healthcare owned Memorial Hospital, the facility with 34 total patient deaths. Twenty four deaths came from LifeCare Hospital’s long term acute care unit. LifeCare rented a floor from Memorial.
Unfortunately, the White House did not perform a really good investigation of Katrina. Frances Townsend’s Lessons Learned report made no mention of Tenet’s Memorial Hospital. It also omitted LifeCare, the hospital with the highest death toll in the storm.
The Carlyle Group purchased LifeCare Hospitals just weeks before Katrina’s landfall. The two corporations divied up liability in a secret settlement. Their attorneys blamed rogue clinicians. When that failed before a grand jury, they targeted the federal government. LifeCare claims patients became wards of the government when FEMA evacuation teams set up in New Orleans.
Tenet sold Memorial Hospital and Carlyle closed their LifeCare unit. Both firms stayed out of the limelight, thanks in part to White House silence in their February 2006 report.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenet_Healthcare
Excerpt:
To improve its reputation, Tenet retained former Florida governor Jeb Bush to its board of directors in 2007.^[7] Detailed financial reports on Tenet's patient mix, collection rates and accounts receivables that are required by the company as a condition of the 5-year corporate integrity agreement with the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services^[8][9] have improved the company's transparency. As of 2009, the company has begun to turn around, with an operating revenue and net profit of $9 billion and $181 million, respectively. In 2009, Tenet stock became the number 2 performer on the S&P 500 after decreasing earlier in the year because of higher than average debt.^[10] The company's largest hospital is Brookwood Medical Center located in Birmingham, Alabama with almost 600 beds.

Controversy
On October 12, 2005, CNN reported that the Louisiana attorney general is
investigating the possibility that mercy killings of critically ill patients by
staff medical professionals at Memorial Medical Center, New Orleans occurred in
the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. On September 13, Tenet issued a statement:
"No patients drowned nor did any die as a result of lack of food or drinking
water."[6]

24 of the patients were part of a Hospice unit run by LifeCare, a company that
was renting the seventh floor at Memorial Hospital. The staff of LifeCare
abandoned their stations leaving Tenet to care for the Hospice patients. During
this period, as expected, 24 of the hospice patients died. Tenet workers placed
these corpses (numbering in the 20-30 range) in the chapel (since the morgue was
now full) along with all their records for subsequent pickup once things started
to return to normal in New Orleans.

http://www.carlyle.com/Media%20Room/News%20Archive/2007/item9885.html


EXCERPT:

August 20, 2007
#2007-109pc (issued by portfolio company)
Earl Reed Steps Down as LifeCare CEO; William Hamburg Named Interim CEO

Plano, TX - LifeCare Holdings, Inc. today announced that W. Earl Reed, III has
resigned as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and will be succeeded in an
interim capacity by William Hamburg.  Mr. Reed will be rejoining The Allegro
Group, Inc., a Louisville, KY based healthcare advisory firm.

LifeCare is owned by global private equity firm The Carlyle Group. Karen
Bechtel, Managing Director and head of Carlyle’s healthcare team, said, “We
thank Earl for his years of service to LifeCare and are pleased to welcome Bill,
who brings significant operational and senior management experience in the
healthcare sector. The past two years have been challenging for LifeCare and the
long term acute care hospital industry, but we are excited about the future and
are focused on increasing profitability and growing the business.”


This is the article I was speaking about last night.  Read it and ask yourself
WHAT THE HELL?  This article was written the year before Katrina.

Why was Katrina so devastating?   Why oh why was so much lost and so many
people displaced and killed?Â

Did you know doctors and nurses were accused of murder when they unplugged
patients that they couldn't get out of the hospitals?  Did you know that Bush
owned some of the places where these people died?

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12800

US: Some Tenet holders call for Katrina probe

November 17th, 2005

A dissident shareholder group on Thursday called for a complete investigation
into the deaths that occurred in Tenet Healthcare Corp.'s New Orleans hospitals
after Hurricane Katrina.

The group, which holds about 30,000 shares and is led by persistent Tenet gadfly
Dr. M. Lee Pearce, said it believes the future of the hospital operator "remains
bleak."

Louisiana prosecutors, probing allegations of patient neglect and mercy killing
after Hurricane Katrina, last month issued subpoenas for employees of one of
Tenet's New Orleans hospitals, where 34 patients died during the hurricane.

Tenet, the struggling No. 2 hospital operator, has said it was cooperating with
authorities.

The shareholder group called for a thorough investigation into what happened in
New Orleans.

A Tenet spokesman dismissed the comments as the latest salvo in the Miami
physician's long-standing feud with Tenet.

"Dr. Pearce is a chairman of a committee of one. He represents no financial
interest other than his own. And for the last five years he has been campaigning
against the best interests of shareholders," Tenet spokesman Steven Campanini
said.

Tenet has charged that Pearce has tried to coerce the company into making a real
estate deal.

Pearce, who founded North Ridge Medical Center, later sold it to a Tenet
predecessor company, campaigned to replace Tenet directors in 2000 and started a
campaign against Tenet once the chain's regulatory problems flared up in 2002.

Tenet's problems have included investigations about whether it overcharged
Medicare, allegations of unnecessary heart surgeries at a Northern California
hospital and an indictment against a Tenet hospital for violating rules
involving physician recruitment.

Tom Potts, a spokesman for the shareholder group, said settlements have not
changed the behavior of Tenet and that management needs to be held accountable.

"Since 1994, there have been eight or nine scandals and investigations. They
never solve the problems. The scandals seem to continue and they're settling
using shareholder money," he said.

Tenet shares, down about 42 percent since late August, were up 7 cents to $7.45
on the New York Stock Exchange around midday.


http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/index.html  (this article a year before Katrinam be sure and read all 4 pages)  ...cal
Excerpt:

Photograph by Tyrone Turner    

By Joel K. Bourne, Jr. Photographs by Robert Caputo and Tyrone Turner The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble—with dire consequences for residents, the nearby city of New Orleans, and seafood lovers everywhere.  It was a broiling August afternoon in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Big Easy, the City That Care Forgot. Those who ventured outside moved as if they were swimming in tupelo honey. Those inside paid silent homage to the man who invented air-conditioning as they watched TV "storm teams" warn of a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Nothing surprising there: Hurricanes in August are as much a part of life in this town as hangovers on Ash Wednesday. But the next day the storm gathered steam and drew a bead on the city. As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, however—the car-less, the homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for any excuse to throw a party. The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea level—more than eight feet below in places—so the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it. Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States. When did this calamity happen? It hasn't—yet. But the doomsday scenario is not far-fetched. The Federal Emergency Management Agency lists a hurricane strike on New Orleans as one of the most dire threats to the nation, up there with a large earthquake in California or a terrorist attack on New York City. Even the Red Cross no longer opens hurricane shelters in the city, claiming the risk to its workers is too great. "The killer for Louisiana is a Category Three storm at 72 hours before landfall that becomes a Category Four at 48 hours and a Category Five at 24 hours—coming from the worst direction," says Joe Suhayda, a retired coastal engineer at Louisiana State University who has spent 30 years studying the coast. Suhayda is sitting in a lakefront restaurant on an actual August afternoon sipping lemonade and talking about the chinks in the city's hurricane armor. "I don't think people realize how precarious we are," Suhayda says, watching sailboats glide by. "Our technology is great when it works. But when it fails, it's going to make things much worse." (1 of 4)   Next >>

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER
N. American students
trained for 'merger'
10 universities participate in 'model Parliament'
in Mexico to simulate 'integration' of 3 nations
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Posted: September 25, 2006
1:00 am Eastern
American University Professor Robert Pastor
WASHINGTON – In another example of the way the three nations of North America are being drawn into a federation, or "merger," students from 10 universities in the U.S., Mexico and Canada are participating annually in a simulated "model Parliament."
Under the sponsorship of the Canadian based North American Forum on Integration, students met in the Mexican Senate for five days in May in an event dubbed "Triumvirate," with organizers declaring "A North American Parliament is born."
A similar event took place in the Canadian Senate in 2005.
The intentions of organizers are clear.
"The creation of a North American parliament, such as the one being simulated by these young people, should be considered," explained Raymond Chretien, the president of the Triumvirate and the former Canadian ambassador to both Mexico and the U.S.
Participants discuss draft bills on trade corridors, immigration, provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement and produce a daily newspaper called "The TrilatHerald."
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The 10 universities taking part include Harvard, American University, Carlton University, Simon Fraser, Universite de Montreal, Ecole nationale d'administration publique, Monterrey TEC, CIDE, Monterrey University and Instituto Mexicano de la Juventud.
Officials taking part have included James Williams, the former U.S. ambassador to Canada. The North American Forum on Integration says the annual event enjoys the support of the U.S. Embassy in Canada, the Canadian Embassy in Mexico and the North American Development Bank. It also has been supported by at least one U.S. news organization – the Houston Chronicle.
NAFI says it is "a non-profit organization devoted to developing North American dialogue and networks and at publicizing issues raised by North American integration."
The board of directors of NAFI include Robert A. Pastor, professor and director of the Center for North American Studies at American University and vice chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on North America. He has testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on the idea of merging the United States, Mexico and Canada in a North American union stretching from Prudhoe Bay to Guatemala.
"What we need to do," Pastor instructed, "is forge a new North American Community. ... Instead of stopping North Americans on the borders, we ought to provide them with a secure, biometric border pass that would ease transit across the border like an E-Z pass permits our cars to speed through tolls."
Pastor is the author of "Toward a North American Community," a book promoting the development of a North American union as a regional government and the adoption of the amero as a common monetary currency to replace the dollar and the peso.
As vice chairman of the May 2005 CFR task force, he is an architect of the Building a North American Community" plan that presents itself as a blueprint for using bureaucratic action within the executive branches of Mexico, the U.S. and Canada to transform the current trilateral Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America into a North American union regional government.
The CFR report is a five-year plan for the "establishment by 2010 of a North American economic and security community" with a common "outer security perimeter." Some see it as the blueprint for merger of the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It calls for "a common economic space ... for all people in the region, a space in which trade, capital and people flow freely."
The CFR's strategy calls specifically for "a more open border for the movement of goods and people." It calls for laying "the groundwork for the freer flow of people within North America." It calls for efforts to "harmonize visa and asylum regulations." It calls for efforts to "harmonize entry screening."
In "Building a North American Community," the report states that Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin "committed their governments" to this goal March 23, 2005, at that meeting in Waco, Texas.
Pastor believes the U.S. and Canadian government should divert significant new taxpayer funding to solving the problems of the poor in Mexico.
"If Canada and the United States contributed just 10 percent of what the European Union spends on aid for its poorest member, and if Mexico invested it wisely in infrastructure and education, then Mexico could begin to grow at twice the rate of its northern neighbors, and North America would have found the magic formula to lift developing countries to the level of the industrialized world," he said in 2002.
The next Triumvirate model parliament conference will be in the United States – in either New York or Washington, according to a spokeswoman for the North American Forum.
It's not just the mock "parliament" sessions involving students of the three countries that raises concerns among those suspicious about political and social "inertia" moving the U.S. into a European Union-style merger with its northern and southern neighbors.
Earlier this month, a high-level, top-secret meeting of the North American Forum took place in Banff, Canada – with topics ranging from "A Vision for North America," "Opportunities for Security Cooperation" and "Demographic and Social Dimensions of North American Integration."
Pastor was listed as a confirmed participant in that meeting, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of State George Shultz, former Central Intelligence Agency Director R. James Woolsey, former Immigration and Naturalization Services Director Doris Meissner, former Defense Secretary William Perry, former Energy Secretary and Defense Secretary James Schlesinger and top officials of both Mexico and Canada.
Opposition is mounting to such meetings, policy papers and presidential directives leading to what some critics characterize as "NAFTA on steroids." The concerns began in earnest March 31, 2005, when the elected leaders of the U.S., Mexico and Canada agreed to advance the agenda of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America.
Perhaps the most blistering criticism came earlier this summer from Lou Dobbs of CNN – a frequent critic of President Bush's immigration policies.
"A regional prosperity and security program?" he asked rhetorically in a recent cablecast. "This is absolute ignorance. And the fact that we are – we reported this, we should point out, when it was signed. But, as we watch this thing progress, these working groups are continuing. They're intensifying. What in the world are these people thinking about? You know, I was asked the other day about whether or not I really thought the American people had the stomach to stand up and stop this nonsense, this direction from a group of elites, an absolute contravention of our law, of our Constitution, every national value. And I hope, I pray that I'm right when I said yes. But this is – I mean, this is beyond belief."
No one seems quite certain what that agenda is because of the vagueness of the official declarations. But among the things the leaders of the three countries agreed to work toward were borders that would allow for easier and faster moving of goods and people between the countries.
Coming as the announcement did in the midst of a raging national debate in the U.S. over borders seen as far too open already, more than a few jaws dropped.
Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo. and the chairman of the House Immigration Reform Caucus as well as author of the new book, "In Mortal Danger," may be the only elected official to challenge openly the plans for the new superstate.
Responding to a WND report, Tancredo is demanding the Bush administration fully disclose the activities of the government office implementing the trilateral agreement that has no authorization from Congress.
Tancredo wants to know the membership of the Security and Prosperity Partnership groups along with their various trilateral memoranda of understanding and other agreements reached with counterparts in Mexico and Canada.
Why the secrecy?
Geri Word, who heads the SPP office, told WND the work had not been disclosed because, "We did not want to get the contact people of the working groups distracted by calls from the public."
The concerns about the direction such powerful men could lead Americans without their knowledge is only heightened when interlocking networks are discovered. For instance, one of the components envisioned for this future "North American Union" is a superhighway running from Mexico, through the U.S. and into Canada. It is being promoted by the North American SuperCorridor Coalition, or NASCO, a non-profit group "dedicated to developing the world’s first international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life in North America."
The president of NASCO is George Blackwood, who earlier launched the North American International Trade Corridor Partnership. In fact, NAITCP later morphed into NASCO. A NAITCP summit meeting in 2004, attended by senior Mexican government officials, heard from American University's Pastor.

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