Impeach Bush NowThe raison d’être of the Bush administration is war in the Middle East in order to protect America from terrorism and to insure America’s oil supply. On both counts the Bush administration has failed catastrophically.
Bush’s single-minded focus on the "war against terrorism" has compounded a natural disaster and turned it into the greatest calamity in American history. The US has lost its largest and most strategic port, thousands of lives, and 80% of one o... (more)
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Putin meets angry Beslan mothersRussia's president has faced a delegation of mothers whose children died a year ago during the Beslan school siege.
Vladimir Putin told the group that no country could completely shield its citizens from terror.
But he said this did not justify the negligence of any officials and pledged a full investigation into the siege.
A year ago pro-Chechen gunmen seized a North Ossetian school. The three-day siege left more than 330 people dead.
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FEMA Director Offers New Spin On Broken LeveesYesterday, Bush said “I don’t think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees.” Today, FEMA director Mike Brown was asked about that comment on ABC’s Good Morning America:
GIBSON: Mike, with all due respect to you and with all due respect to the president, I was amazed to hear him say to Diane yesterday, We didn’t know the levees were going to break. We didn’t know the dams wouldn’t hold.
We all were talking about ... (more)
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Off the charts: Across U.S., shrinking paychecksThe American middle class is making less than it used to. But then again, so is almost everyone else. Even the highest-income U.S. households made less money in 2004 than they did five years earlier.
That is one conclusion available from data released this week by the U.S. Census Bureau in its annual report on income and poverty in the United States.
The charts to the right look at the real income, adjusted for inflation, of three groups of American households. Th... (more)
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New Orleans mayor lashes out at fedsAs his city skidded deeper into chaos, New Orleans' embattled mayor accused federal officials of dragging their feet while people are dying in deplorable conditions.
Mayor Ray Nagin's voice cracked with anger and anguish Thursday night in an interview with New Orleans radio station WWL-AM. (... (more)
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FEMA Dir. Mike Brown fired from prior job at Horse Assoc."An unmitigated, total fucking disaster." That's not a quote from Mike Brown, but rather, a quote describing him. And most disturbingly, it's not even a reference to his dismal performance as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). This blunt critique was emailed to me from a regular reader who was apparently attracted to HorsesAss.org by her passion for politics and her love of Arabian horses.
I think I've told you that I'm into Arab horses. Well, for ... (more)
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Halliburton hired for storm cleanupThe Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so.
KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved ... (more)
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Nagin: 'No more goddam press conferences'5:30am CDT -- CNN is rebroadcasting a radio interview with New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. He is demanding help, urging the nation to flood Washington with phone calls telling the CUT THE BULL and "get of your asses." Where are the promised 40,000 Guard troops? Where are the 500 buses?
Audio here
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Radio host: No doubt 'End Times' hereA national talk-radio host believes the severity of Hurricane Katrina is clear evidence that civilization is now in the "End Times" described in the Bible.
"I don't think there's any doubt," George Noory said this morning on his "Coast to Coast AM" program. "I think we're in it. I really do."
While Noory explained he did not mean an imminent end to all life on Earth, he referred to the book of Revelation in the New Testament, saying current events are "the beginning... (more)
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Trapped in an Arena of SufferingA 2-year-old girl slept in a pool of urine. Crack vials littered a restroom. Blood stained the walls next to vending machines smashed by teenagers.
The Louisiana Superdome, once a mighty testament to architecture and ingenuity, became the biggest storm shelter in New Orleans the day before Katrina's arrival Monday. About 16,000 people eventually settled in.
By Wednesday, it had degenerated into horror. A few hundred people were evacuated from the arena Wednesday, an... (more)
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U.S. Border Patrol Moved to Katrina Area, Border VulnerableU.S. Border Patrol officers are being shifted away from their posts guarding the U.S.-Mexico border to aid in the Katrina Hurricane disaster, leaving the country vulnerable to illegals and terrorists attempting to enter the U.S., NewsMax has learned.
The Bush administration ordered the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the federal agency charged with securing the border, to provide manpower, assets, and humanitarian support to Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts, which has ... (more)
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Guantanamo hunger strike stagedScores of detainees at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have begun a hunger strike, human rights lawyers have said.
The prisoners, many of whom have been held for more than three years without charge, are believed to be demanding an immediate trial or release.
Lawyers for the detainees say about 200 are refusing all food. Military officials put the number at 76.
A hunger strike in July ended when the Pentagon agreed to talk to inmates.
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Federal government wasn't ready for Katrina, disaster experts sayThe federal government so far has bungled the job of quickly helping the multitudes of hungry, thirsty and desperate victims of Hurricane Katrina, former top federal, state and local disaster chiefs said Wednesday.
The experts, including a former Bush administration disaster response manager, told Knight Ridder that the government wasn't prepared, scrimped on storm spending and shifted its attention from dealing with natural disasters to fighting the global war on terrorism.
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Relief workers confront 'urban warfare'Violence disrupted relief efforts Thursday in New Orleans as authorities rescued desperate residents still trapped in the flooded city and tried to evacuate thousands of others living among corpses and human waste.
Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown said his agency was attempting to work "under conditions of urban warfare."
Police snipers were stationed on the roof of their precinct, trying to protect it from armed miscreants roaming seemingl... (more)
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Poll: Government Not Helping Hurricane VictimsA new Survey USA tracking poll finds that 59% of Americans say the federal government "is not doing enough to help the victims of Hurricane Katrina," up from 50% just 24 hours ago.
Other findings:
75% of Americans today say that local officials are unprepared to meet the challenge that is before them. This is up 14 points, from 61%, in the past 24 hours.
34% of Americans today say the government’s response to the hurricane has been surprisingly disorgan... (more)
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Feds bar US' local govts from aiding New Orleans?!Total411.info monitors LibertyForum fairly regulary and finds this has the ring of truth. Everyone around the country should confirm with any local officials you know personally and then call the White House and tell them to STOP BLOCKING AID TO KATRINA VICTIMS. 202-456-1414.
via LibertyForum :
"I just got this e-mail from a friend. I've cut the last names out, but I know this guy well enough to know this isn't bull".
Hi Everyone,
I wanted to s... (more)
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Omigod: DICK CHENEY Has Been On Vacation! Dan Froomkin of The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Dick Cheney has spent part of August at his home outside Jackson Wyoming. A Cheney spokesperson insisted it wasn't a vacation because he'd had some briefings.
As of Wednesday -- two days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf States -- Cheney was STILL VACATIONING IN JACKSON WYOMING. And when was Cheney headed back to Washington?
"He will certainly be coming back. I'm not able to tell you th... (more)
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Plan for security cameras on holdBig Brother won't be watching students when they set foot on high school campuses Tuesday, their first day of school.
Corona-Norco school district officials had hoped to install security cameras for the start of school. But proper setup of the equipment takes some planning, said Ted Rozzi, assistant superintendent of facilities.
"It's a big job," Rozzi said.
Centennial High School will be the first campus to be fitted with the cameras by the end of 20... (more)
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Spying on the ProtestersIn the 1970s Senate and House investigations established what many antiwar protesters and campus activists had believed for several years: that they were being watched and sometimes targeted by the government, including the National Guard and the FBI. Scattered evidence accumulating around the country suggests that the domestic surveillance that occurred during the Vietnam War may be returning, involving a more coordinated federal effort through the National Guard as well as the Joint Terrorism ... (more)
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Net rumour sparks petrol crisisIF IT were not enough that Hurricane Katrina should cause problems for US Southern States, online sickos have managed to create a petrol scare for authorities to worry about.
Spam emails have been warning South Florida residents that because of the hurricane gas stations would close at midnight and remained closed two to three days.
Anyone who has stayed in Florida for more than ten minutes will know that there is no way to get about other than the car and so the em... (more)
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Mysterious Temple Mount artifact evokes 'Da Vinci Code'When Israeli archaeologist Gabriel Barkai and his assistant Tzachi Zweig began the painstaking task of sifting through mounds of Temple Mount rubble, they hoped to find artifacts dating from the period of the First or Second Temple.
They never dreamed of finding a mysterious artifact that looks like something straight out of the world of controversial theories propounded by "The Da Vinci Code."
Dan Brown's blockbuster novel from 2003, which has sold more than 36 mil... (more)
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Gallup Refuses To Run Poll Asking Americans If Bush Should Be ImpeachedBehind the scenes, independent Democrats who are not “bought and paid off ” by the neo-cons have been pushing the Gallup Poll organization to conduct a nationwide inquiry, asking Americans if they support the impeachment of President George Bush.
But Gallup officials this week categorically refused to poll Americans, telling Bob Fertik, Democrats for Unity president until impeachment was discussed by congressional leaders or news commentators in the media, it was their... (more)
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Sonic 'Lasers' Head to Flood Zone Air-raid sirens, Frank Sinatra songs and Muhammad Ali trash talk blared over the Southern California desert in a demonstration of new acoustic technology for crowd control and disaster communications.
In mid-90's morning heat at Edwards Air Force Base, HPV Technologies and American Technology demonstrated prototypes of non-lethal sonic devices for a group of military and law enforcement guests, including representatives of the U.K. Home Office.
Representatives of bo... (more)
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