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  • Kucinich hammers administration"It is time for America to come home and take care of its own people"
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) gave the following speech today on the House floor during a special session to provide relief money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina: “This amount of money is only a fraction of what is needed and everyone here knows it. Let it go forward quickly with heart-felt thanks to those who are helping to save lives with necessary food, water, shelter, medical care and security. Congress must also demand accountability with the appropriations. (…)

  • Another News Report About the CIA and Tenet Disappears
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com Yesterday, using the Google news search, I entered the name George Tenet, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, who resigned from that position in 2004. A link came up with the phrase "Tenet won’t take the rap for 9/11." This was a United Press International story. After clicking on the link, I learned that the story had already been taken down. I was greeted with the phrase "Not Found," and the additional (…)

  • Bolton Voices Opposition to U.N. Proposals White House Fears Effort Would Inhibit U.S. Authority
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Colum Lynch
    John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has voiced firm opposition to U.N. reorganization measures that the Bush administration fears would inhibit U.S. authority to use force and place new legal obligations on countries to intervene where genocide, ethnic cleansing or war crimes were being committed.
    Bolton outlined his positions in a series of letters to U.N. delegates participating in negotiations to draft a 39-page statement to be read by world (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • Katrina: Bush’s criminal negligence
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Statement from the International Action Center
    With every hour that passes, we see and hear new stories of the horror and devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. What makes these images more shocking is the realization that much of the death and destruction could have been prevented.
    Almost all of the death and destruction arising from the hurricane is the direct result of criminal neglect by the Bush Administration. This crisis was predicted in numerous reports and news (…)

  • KATRINA’S TRANS-ATLANTIC WAVES : German Minister Stands Behind Criticism of Bush
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    German Environmental Minister Jürgen Trittin remains stolid in his assertion that Hurricane Katrina is linked to global warming and America’s refusal to reduce emissions. He may be right, but the timing of his tirade is way off.
    Germany’s Minister of the Environment, Jürgen Trittin of the Green Party, on Tuesday unleashed a firestorm of criticism in the United States over comments he made in a newspaper column directly linking the natural catastrophe in the American South to global (…)

  • Katrina calamity in America?
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dwarika Nath Rath from India
    We, in the third world countries has an cinematic impression about the sensitivity of the US citizens towards it’s citizens.There is an impression that it can go to any extent and spend billions in the rescue operation of it’s citizens.
    The US Govt.s deliberate silence sending warnings to the countries on Tsunami is a well known chapter. And again reaching with aids with heavy military to Srilanka and other S.E. Asia countries is an open truth. The post (…)

  • Breaking: Condi Rice Spends Salary on Shoes
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    According to Drudge, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has recently enjoyed a little Broadway entertainment.
    And Page Six reports that she’s also working on her backhand with Monica Seles.
    So the Gulf Coast has gone all Mad Max, women are being raped in the Superdome, and Rice is enjoying a brief vacation in New York. We wish we were surprised.
    What does surprise us: Just moments ago at the Ferragamo on 5th Avenue, Condoleeza Rice was seen spending several thousands of dollars on (…)

  • CASTRO REITERATES MEDICAL CARE OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    PRESIDENT FIDEL CASTRO REITERATES MEDICAL CARE OFFER TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IN HIS REMARKS DURING THE TV ROUND TABLE.
    Our country is ready to send, in the small hours of morning, 100 clinicians and specialists in Comprehensive General Medicine, who at dawn tomorrow, Saturday, could be in Houston International Airport, Texas, the closest to the region struck by the tragedy, in order to be transferred by air, sea or river to the isolated shelters, facilities and neighborhoods in the (…)