Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating hurricane victimsIn the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn't registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"I begged him to let me continue," said Perlmutter, who left his home and practice as an orthopedic surgeon in Pennsylvania to come to Louisiana and volunteer to care for hurricane victims. "People were dying, and I was the only doctor on the... (more)
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Power crews diverted - Restoring pipeline came firstShortly after Hurricane Katrina roared through South Mississippi knocking out electricity and communication systems, the White House ordered power restored to a pipeline that sends fuel to the Northeast.
That order - to restart two power substations in Collins that serve Colonial Pipeline Co. - delayed efforts by at least 24 hours to restore power to two rural hospitals and a number of water systems in the Pine Belt.
At the time, gasoline was in short supply across the coun... (more)
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U.K.: Detention Plan Amounts to Punishment Without TrialThe British government's proposal to extend the period that terrorism suspects can be detained without charge will undermine the rule of law and human rights, Human Rights Watch said today.
The proposal is one of several problematic measures contained in draft counterterrorism legislation published yesterday by the Home Office.
"The Law Lords last year rightly ruled that detention without trial is illegal and unacceptable," said Holly Cartner, Europe and Central Asi... (more)
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Blair defends anti-terror plansPrime Minister Tony Blair has defended plans to toughen up the UK's anti-terrorism laws.
He was speaking after draft laws were published, including new offences of "glorifying" terrorism.
Civil liberties groups have attacked plans to extend the time terror suspects can be held without trial and to deport more people.
Mr Blair said such fears had been "exaggerated" and rights had to come with responsibilities.
He told BBC Radio 4's Today... (more)
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Sharon fears arrest if he visits LondonBRITAIN is desperate to avoid a diplomatic row with Israel after Ariel Sharon apparently snubbed an invitation from Tony Blair to visit London, claiming that he feared arrest.
The Israeli Prime Minister is understood to have cited the case of a senior general who narrowly escaped detention at Heathrow on war crimes charges last week. Doran Almog remained on an El Al Boeing 747 rather than risk falling into the hands of Scotland Yard after a human rights group lodged charges that c... (more)
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Is 'Peak Oil' a put on?September 17, 2005—It seems so easy to believe this idea. Oil contributes greatly to polluting the environment. The industrial age has intensified its use greatly. The more we use, the more we lose fresh air, even the ozone. And therefore it seems almost divine justice that we are about to exhaust this so-called "fossil fuel" within several decades and two hundred years, this cursed blessed hydrocarbon which took millions of years to produce.
And, therefore, it almost seems ... (more)
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Author Asks, Will Big Brother Track Your Every Move?Hundreds of thousands of people went missing in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Weeks later, government officials, family members, friends, and a shocked and grief-stricken world still have not counted the dead or located the displaced and scattered survivors, whoever and wherever they are. Is there a better way to keep track?
Lawmakers and technology researchers have been gearing up for years with high-tech devices to enable us to keep track of our citizens under al... (more)
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Katrina Corpses Get ‘Chipped’: Verichip implanting RFID tags in corpses in MississippiA company that makes ID chips for humans said Friday it has started “chipping” corpses in the Katrina-ravaged region of Mississippi to help expedite the identification process.
Florida-based VeriChip said it has already implanted radio frequency identification (RFID) tags into 100 corpses in the state for the Mississippi State Department of Health.
The company, which is a subsidiary of publicly traded Applied Digital Solutions, said it is also in talks w... (more)
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RFID Verichips used to track dead after KatrinaDisaster relief crews are adopting radio frequency tags to help them identify victims of Hurricane Katrina.
The U.S. Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team (DMORT) and health officials in Mississippi's Harrison County are implanting human cadavers with RFID chips from VeriChip in an effort to speed up the process of identifying victims and providing information to families, VeriChip said Friday. In addition, the County Medical Examiner's office in Lafayette County, Miss., sai... (more)
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Why You Should Resist the National ID CardPrison Planet | September 16 2005
This piece focuses on the introduction of the British national ID card but the same principles can be applied in any country.
1) A government engaging in escalating criminal actions and becoming more and more secretive should not be watching and tracking us as if we're all criminals. The same goes for CCTV ... (more)
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Patriot Act compliance seminar set for Rhode Island SEPTEMBER 16, 2005 - New York -- Jewelers Vigilance Committee (JVC) and the Jewelers Board of Trade (JBT) will present the seminar "How to Comply with Anti-Money Laundering Regulations" on Sept. 22 at JBT's Warwick, R.I., headquarters. The seminar is free, but space is limited.
Topics will include what types of businesses must comply, how to develop effective anti-money laundering programs (AML) and the range of products and services created by JVC and JBT to assist jewelers in cr... (more)
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New Orleans: A New World Order Showcase: Foreign troops, gun confiscation, jackbooted privatized fascismPaul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | September 15 2005
The media curtain has begun to fall on New Orleans but the questions continue. In hindsight we can see the whole fiasco for what it really was, a showcase for the suffering that some would like every American city to undergo.
The bottom line on Katrina is that whether you believe it was all incompetence or part incompetence and part malevolence, the lasting prete... (more)
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Power Back On For Bush Speech, Back Off An Hour Later"No more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans. It's enough to make some of the folks here who witnessed it ... jump to certain conclusions."
That grim yet hardly surprising report comes from NBC anchorman Brian Williams, writing here at MSNBC.
I am duty-bound to report the talk of the New Orleans w... (more)
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Former Intelligence Officer Behind Probe of 1999 Bombings to Remain Behind BarsFormer FSB officer, Mikhail Trepashkin, is to remain in prison after a Russian court overruled a lower court’s decision to release him on parole. Trepashkin won the support of human rights activists for probing alleged government complicity in the country’s 1999 apartment bombings that claimed over 200 lives.
The former FSB officer, sentenced earlier to four years in prison for possessing an unregistered weapon and disclosing state secrets, remains in custody, his lawy... (more)
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Laboratory did not reveal absence of ricin in plot cited by BlairVital evidence in a terror case that was used by Tony Blair to justify the war with Iraq was withheld by Britain's top chemical weapons laboratory.
Tests demonstrating that no ricin was found at a flat linked to a gang suspected of planning a poison attack on the London Underground in January 2003 were not disclosed to police and ministers by officials at Porton Down.
The case, in which the suspects were later cleared, was cited by the Prime Minister and Colin Powel... (more)
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Patriot Act Can Be Used In Hand Held Laser Pointer CaseNEWARK, N.J. Federal prosecutors can use the Patriot Act against a Parsippany man accused of shining a hand-held laser at two aircraft.
David Banach's lawyers said the post nine-eleven law was not intended to be used against someone who is not a terrorist.
However, a federal judge says nothing appears to prohibit its use against anyone. The judge also said the act outlaws willfully interfering with anyone operating a mass transportation vehicle.
Autho... (more)
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City passes resolution against 'Gestapo' tacticsThe Alpine City Council passed a resolution this week that disallows members of the Alpine Police Department to attend meetings unless they are called to the scene if "anyone at a council meeting is physically abusive or rowdy."
The resolution was written by Councilman Bob Brewer.
It also states that only the police chief can remain at the meeting if an officer is requested to do so after an altercation, or if an officer is requested in advance, because it is the on... (more)
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Border Patrol Goes Tactical in New OrleansNewsMax first reported assets of the U.S. Border Patrol being used for disaster relief in New Orleans.
At a time when border-state governors are pleading with the feds to beef up patrols along the open southern borders, the busy agency launched the largest tactical operation in its history - in support of local law enforcement in the flooded city.
Beginning on Sept 5, Blackhawk helicopters filled with elite agents roared into the city to secure a perimeter for 24 ho... (more)
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Reuters Says Bush Photo Not 'Malicious,' Reports Wide Interest at Home and AbroadNEW YORK With confirmation that an accidental photo of President Bush at the United Nations on Wednesday, writing a note to Secretary of State Condeezza Rice about a “bathroom break,” was indeed real, newspapers around the U.S. and abroad are now planning to run it widely. But many, it seems, will treat it as something more than a joke.
A source at the Washington Post tells E&P that the paper is considering it for prominent play, in the context that, at least in some m... (more)
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Doctor: FEMA officials gave hospital staffers mops as people died(CNN) -- As violence, death and misery gripped New Orleans and the surrounding parishes in the days after Hurricane Katrina, a leadership vacuum, bureaucratic red tape and a defensive culture paralyzed volunteers' attempts to help.
Doctors eager to help sick and injured evacuees were handed mops by federal officials who expressed concern about legal liability. Even as violence and looting slowed rescues, police from other states were turned back while officials squabbled over who ... (more)
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Bush vows 'biggest relief effort'President George W Bush has promised the US government will do and spend whatever it takes to rebuild the hurricane-hit Gulf Coast.
Speaking from New Orleans, Mr Bush said billions of dollars would be spent on the reconstruction - "an unprecedented response to an unprecedented crisis".
New Orleans' Mayor Ray Nagin said three districts would re-open next week, and the French Quarter a week later.
Meanwhile, the confirmed death toll from Hurricane Katri... (more)
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U.S. leads the world in sale of military goodsAs insecurity mounts from Najaf to New Orleans, more weapons and high-tech military equipment are flowing into some of the globe's most vulnerable and war-torn regions.
The Congressional Research Service recently found that global arms sales rose to $37 billion in 2004 -- the highest level since 2000.
U.S. companies such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing rang up $12.4 billion in weapons contracts -- more than one-third of the total and more than twice what Russia -- the... (more)
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