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  • In 4-Year Anthrax Hunt, F.B.I. Finds Itself Stymied, and Sued
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By SCOTT SHANE
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 - Richard L. Lambert, the F.B.I. inspector in charge of the investigation of the deadly anthrax letters of 2001, testified under oath for five hours last month about the case.
    But Mr. Lambert was not testifying in a criminal trial. He and his teams of F.B.I. agents and postal inspectors have not found the culprit. Instead, he and six other F.B.I. and Justice Department officials have been forced to give depositions in a suit over news media leaks filed (…)

  • How Long Can The Pentagon Lie About Depleted Uranium?
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Christopher Bollyn
    The Pentagon’s duplicity about the dangers of depleted uranium has been exposed by a government-funded study confirming that radiation causes cancer. LIVERMORE, California - The U.S. government’s duplicity about the harmful effects of depleted uranium appears to have no limits. While the Pentagon tells U.S. military personnel that the health risks from inhaling depleted uranium are low, a study - sponsored by the Dept. of Defense - confirms that even low-level (…)

  • Police Fortify Numbers for War Protests. Demonstration Will Be the First Since the District Passed Arrest Law
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Del Quentin Wilber
    D.C. police have canceled days off and are planning to deploy several hundred officers during an antiwar demonstration next weekend that will include a march near the White House, but officials said they expect no trouble.
    Saturday’s rally, part of a weekend of protests and counter-protests, will be the first demonstration allowed to surround the White House in more than a decade. It is the first major rally to occur since a D.C. law that requires police to give (…)

  • Military May Play Bigger Relief Role
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ROBERT BURNS, WASHINGTON
    President Bush’s push to give the military a bigger role in responding to major disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of legal limits on the use of federal troops on U.S. soil.
    Pentagon officials are reviewing that possibility, and some in Congress agree it needs to be considered.
    Bush did not define the wider role he envisions for the military. But in his speech to the nation from New Orleans on Thursday, he alluded to the unmatched (…)

  • FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Miriam Raftery
    The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.
    Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses.
    Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco (…)

  • After Katrina, the country no longer believes in Bush the protector. His presidency is ruined
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Breach of a myth
    By Sidney Blumenthal
    Bush’s America is gone with the wind. It lasted just short of four years, from Sept. 11, 2001, to Aug. 29, 2005. The devastation of New Orleans was the watery equivalent of a dirty bomb, but Hurricane Katrina approached the homeland with advance warnings, scientific anticipation and a personal briefing of the president by the director of the National Hurricane Center, alerting him about a possible breaching of the levees. It was as predictable as (…)

  • US Corps of Engineers(USACE) & Halliburton clean up !?!?!?!?
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This Congressional Hearing shows just how much oversight USACE really needs. Seems like they have had a long standing love affair with Halliburton..............
    Halliburton threatens Army officials who point out contract abuse 16 Sept. 2005 WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (HalliburtonWatch.org) — A former contracting officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) told a congressional committee today that Halliburton regularly threatens government officials who complain about contracting (…)

  • Expulsion is Transfer: The Colonial Logic of Bush’s Response to New Orleans
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jonathan Scott
    It’s not so much that the Emperor has no clothes but that his clothes, under the black sky, are shining white, with many thousands gone, enabled deliberately by his white imperial rule. I believe this to be the only honest, rational conclusion to draw from all the evidence on the ground in New Orleans.
    A lot of the shock and awe being expressed in the mainstream media over the Bush administration’s four days of willful indifference toward the suffering of Black people (…)

  • The U.S. People have a major responsibility in the world. I think that we’re going to save the world
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    AMY GOODMAN: Mr. President Hugo Chavez, your assessment of president Bush, of the invasion and occupation of Iraq? And do you think if it weren’t Iraq, it would have been Venezuela?
    HUGO CHAVEZ: The imperialist government of Mr. Bush planned. What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They’re looking for oil. This is part of the crisis that is looming in the horizon. You should know that the U.S., I already said this, 5% of the world population lives in (…)

  • Pre-emptive Nuke attack part of new US plan
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    WASHINGTON — The Pentagon has drafted a revised doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons that envisions commanders requesting presidential approval to pre-empt an attack by a nation or terror group using weapons of mass destruction. The draft also includes the option of using nuclear arms to destroy known enemy stockpiles of nuclear, biological or chemical weapons.
    The document, written by the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs staff but not yet approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, would (…)