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  • The questions a shocked America is asking its President
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Rupert Cornwell
    Why has it taken George Bush five days to get to New Orleans?
    President Bush was on holiday in Texas when Katrina struck. He then spent Monday on a pre-arranged political fundraising tour of California and Arizona, which he did not cancel or curtail. On Tuesday he surveyed the hurricane damage - but only from the flight deck of Air Force One, prompting criticism that he was too detached from the suffering on the ground. He didn’t give a speech until Tuesday afternoon - (…)

  • Vacation is Over... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Dear Mr. Bush:
    Any idea where all our helicopters are? It’s Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
    Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping (…)

  • New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes
    2 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By ALLEN G. BREED
    New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday, as corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out and storm survivors battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away from the chaos. The tired and hungry seethed, saying they had been forsaken.
    "I’m not sure I’m going to get out of here alive," said Canadian tourist Larry Mitzel, who handed a reporter his business card in case he goes missing. "I’m scared of riots. I’m scared of the locals. We (…)

  • Global Warming and Widespread Blackouts Are Just as Deadly as Terrorism
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Two years ago this month, a Blackout plunged 50 million people in Northeastern U.S. and the Canadian province of Ontario into total darkness for more than a day, wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy. Now, it’s the devastation in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi wrought by Hurricane Katrina that has killed hundreds, perhaps thousands of people.
    The common thread in both disasters is that energy and environmental experts sounded early alarms about the potential for (…)

  • A Walt Handlesman Cartoon
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen!
    To My Fellow Americans,
    It is especially important in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to remind the American people that while this absentee government approved of the war in Iraq and spent billions doing so, these funds could have been better used to clean up after such catastrophes.
    As corporations who run our government made out like bandits where our government gave them billions and with the tax breaks to those who do not need it, this is our time to fight (…)

  • Waiting for a Leader
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolation and wisdom. In what seems to be a ritual in this administration, the president appeared a day later than he was needed. He then read an address of a quality more appropriate for an Arbor Day celebration: a long laundry list of pounds of ice, generators and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf Coast. He advised the public that anybody (…)

  • Super-Sized Apocalypse vs. American Excess
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Super-Size Your Apocalypse with Bacon & Cheese Why Excessive Lifestyles will Lead to Even Greater Devastation
    BZ. Bywydd (GNN)
    We have finally reached a crisis of "climate change" in America which most of the world has already suffered— environmental devastation on a scale which lays bare our vulnerable existence on an unforgiving ocean planet.
    At the same time researchers are identifying the worst of all global warming gases: cow farts. Not just flatulence, but the outgassing of (…)

  • The National Guard Belongs in New Orleans and Biloxi. Not Baghdad.
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Norman Solomon The men and women of the National Guard shouldn’t be killing in Iraq.
    They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi.
    The catastrophic hurricane was an act of God. But the U.S. war effort in Iraq is a continuing act of the president. And now, that effort is hampering the capacity of the National Guard to save lives at home.
    Before the flooding of New Orleans drastically escalated on Tuesday, the White House tried to disarm questions that could be politically (…)

  • Police chief- Lockerbie evidence was faked
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by MARCELLO MEGA
    A FORMER Scottish police chief has given lawyers a signed statement claiming that key evidence in the Lockerbie bombing trial was fabricated.
    The retired officer - of assistant chief constable rank or higher - has testified that the CIA planted the tiny fragment of circuit board crucial in convicting a Libyan for the 1989 mass murder of 270 people.
    The police chief, whose identity has not yet been revealed, gave the statement to lawyers representing Abdelbaset Ali (…)

  • What Eating Cindy Sheehan?
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Cindy Sheehan has been subjected to an unwarranted backlash by right-wing pundits because of her antiwar protests and some explosive statements she made about President Bush. Perhaps Sheehan, while mourning the death of her son, Casey, a U.S. soldier who died in the Iraq war, lashed out at the president, and decided to take her antiwar message to Crawford, Texas, after doing some fact checking on her emotional state. If so, these are likely some of the circumstances that (…)