The Katrina factor and energy pricesNEW YORK - Energy markets, already strained by robust demand and tight refining capacity in the United States, are now being roiled by a new force: the Katrina factor.
One of the largest hurricanes in US history is already raising energy costs. By midday Tuesday, the wholesale price of gasoline in the futures market was $2.37 a gallon, which would indicate a retail price above $3. A barrel of oil had soared to more than $70, almost $4 more than two days ago. Home heating oil was u... (more)
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California says 'no' to junk-food sales in schoolsLOS ANGELES - California is poised to ban sales of soda and fast foods on public school campuses - including high schools - in a move being closely watched by many other states that are weighing whether to do likewise.
In a bill that public health authorities call "the most impressive gains in school nutrition since school lunch was introduced after World War II," the state Assembly and Senate have approved legislation they feel will help reduce childhood obesity by eliminating ac... (more)
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FEMA Deliberately Sabotaging Hurricane Relief Efforts: Multiple parishes revolt, use armed guards to defend against fedsPaul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones | September 6 2005
Numerous credible sources have come forward with examples of how the Federal Emergency Management Agency is deliberately sabotaging Hurricane Katrina relief efforts in New Orleans. This represents a ruthless attempt on the part of FEMA to impose a federal takeover of the area for their own benefit amid a tragedy that has already claimed anything up to 10,000 lives.
The mainstream media has picked up on this story bu... (more)
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Government Intervention in Stock Market is Detailed by New Report, GATA SaysMANCHESTER, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2005--A major Canadian financial management firm that a year ago published a compilation of evidence of central bank manipulation of the gold price has just done the same in regard to the U.S. stock market and has reached a similar conclusion.
The new report is titled "Move Over, Adam Smith: The Visible Hand of Uncle Sam," and has been published by Sprott Asset Management of Toronto. It was written by the firm's president, John P. Embry... (more)
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Windsor, Ontario residents face $5000 fine if caught holding more than three garage sales per yearGarage sales fans in Leamington, near Windsor, Ont. have been warned.
Three's OK. Four isn't.
Officials in the southwestern Ontario town of 21,000 have introduced a bylaw prohibiting anyone from holding more than three garage sales per year.
Excessive noise and traffic have been blamed.
"We'll shut you down and we'll charge you," said Brian Sweet, Leamington's chief administrative officer. Fines could reach $5,000 for people who try to ... (more)
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FEMA Executive Orders Paved The Way For Emerging Police State Hell: New Orleans is just the first to fallSteve Watson | September 6 2005
In the wake of the unfolding police state crisis in New Orleans and the Federal Coup d'Etat of all Constitutional laws there it begs the question, how could this happen?
The answer lies with the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the multiple executive orders that have gradually and symptomatically eroded away all aspects of the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
It is FEMA that is handling everything and syst... (more)
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Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury on New Orleans: "Americans Are Being Brainwashed": Mentality is "like that of the brown shirts that followed Hitler"Steve Watson/Alex Jones | September 6 2005
Paul Craig Roberts has held a number of academic appointments and has contributed to numerous scholarly publications. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Regan administration.
Roberts followed up his commentary Impeach Bush Now, Before More Die with an interview on The Alex Jones show on Monday 5th September 2005. The ... (more)
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Colonial Pipeline back to 100% capacity: Major pipeline that distributes gasoline to the Eastern United States is running at full capacity.NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A major pipeline supplying refined crude products from the Gulf to the East Coast is now running at full capacity and is delivering into all locations along its system.
The Colonial Pipeline, based in Alpharetta, Ga., returned to full operating conditions late Monday and full commercial electrical power has been restored to the pipeline, the company said in a statement.
Colonial Pipeline was one of two pipelines taken off-line by power outages... (more)
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DMORT: expect up to 40,000 bodies in NOLAA co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there.
"DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.
His partner, Dan Hicks, of Paducah, Ky., was deployed Monday. Buckner, of Dickson, is on... (more)
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Seven killed in Saudi oil city standoffMost of the fighting has been in a busy street where many Western companies have offices after Saudi security forces besieged suspected al-Qaida members holed up in the city's al-Hamra district.
"Three armed men were killed on Monday evening by security forces," a security source said, adding to two other fighters reported killed on Sunday.
Two policemen were also killed, he said.
But managing editor of al-Riyadh newspaper, Salim al-Ghamdi, told Aljaz... (more)
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'Wash Post' Runs A Key Katrina CorrectionNEW YORK In its Sunday edition, the Washington Post quoted a "senior Bush official" who said that "as of Saturday [Louisiana Governor] Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency." This, of course, was meant to make the governor look foolish and spread the blame around for the disastrous response to the disaster, though it was hard to imagine on what grounds the newspaper would quote an unnamed source in this case.
Several hours of blogosphere howling ensued. Later in the d... (more)
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6-year-old becomes a hero to band of toddlers, rescuersBATON ROUGE, LA. - In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of evacuees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader.
They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2 years old, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he said his name was Deamonte Love.
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Hundreds Refuse to EvacuateSearch teams pressing to evacuate the living and find the dead after a full week under the high-water sway of Hurricane Katrina found their efforts complicated Monday by the refusal of hundreds of residents to leave the paralyzed city.
President Bush returned Monday for a second tour of the disaster zone, praising emergency workers in Baton Rouge, La., and stressing the work of religious charities during a visit to a church packed with evacuees. Federal officials said relief opera... (more)
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We can force people to leave city, say policePolice warned for the first time yesterday that they had the powers to force an evacuation of New Orleans if residents refused to leave.
Thousands appeared determined to see out the disaster, many living in squalid conditions in attics with flood water lapping against their homes. Police said there was no justification for staying and the threat of disease made their departure imperative.
"There is absolutely no reason to stay. There are no jobs, there are no homes ... (more)
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50,000 troops now in 'Katrina zone' THE number of US military forces in storm-ravaged Gulf Coast states has swelled to more than 50,000 as ground troops and naval vessels continued to stream into Louisiana and Mississippi, military officials said.
"I think we're going to be there a relatively long time. I see it in months, and not weeks," said Admiral Timothy Keating, commander of the US Northern Command.
Admiral Keating said there were now 13,000 active duty military personnel and 38,000 National Gu... (more)
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Blanco resists Bush takeover of GuardGood news as Associated Press reports that Louisiana Governor Kathleen "Blanco has refused to sign over control of the National Guard to the federal government." This is an excellent development as the federal government, via FEMA, continues its war on the people of Southeast Louisiana.
To wit, from WWLtv.com Katrina blog Sept. 5:
"3:32 P.M. Ben Morris, Slidell mayor:... (more)
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US Troops Treat Hurricane Victims as 'Al-Qaeda' MembersReports coming to WMR report that the greater New Orleans area has been turned into a virtual military zone where troops threaten bewildered and hungry survivors who approach them for help. One resident of the unflooded Algiers section of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River reports that the 65,000 population of the neighborhood has been reduced by forced evacuations to 2000 even though there are relatively undamaged schools, parks, and churches available to house the homeless. ... (more)
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Tech-savvy criminals 'to trump UK ID cards'The Government’s bid to arm every Briton with an identity card has suffered a setback by new research claiming the biometric scheme will fail to stop identity fraud, and potentially lead to an increase in crime.
Researchers at the University of East Anglia say interviews with criminals prove that rather resign from their lifestyle in the face of new technology, fraudsters adopt new ways to use technologies to their advantage.
Emily Finch, the University’... (more)
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Barbara Bush: Things Working Out 'Very Well' for Poor Evacuees from New OrleansNEW YORK Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them."
The former First Lady's remarks were aired this evening on National Public Radio's "Marketplace" program.
She was part of a group in Houston today at the Astrodome that included her husband and former President Bill C... (more)
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Halliburton Subsidiary Taps Contract For RepairsAn Arlington-based Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has been criticized for its reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract to do emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
The subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc., won the competitive bid contract last July to provide debris removal and other emergency work associated with natural disasters.
Jan Davis, a spokeswoman for the Naval... (more)
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Female survivors urged to flash breasts for help: Rescuers told gals on rooftops to 'show us what you've got'Female survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were urged by government rescuers to flash their breasts in order to receive help in the immediate aftermath of the storm.
That according to English tourists who are now just returning to the United Kingdom, relating their horror stories to British media.
Ged Scott, 36, of Liverpool, was on his annual vacation at New Orleans' Ramada Hotel with his wife Sandra, 37, and their 7-year-old son, Ronan.
"I... (more)
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