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  • SURVEY: SUPPORT FOR WAR AT ALL-TIME LOW; 52 PERCENT CALL FOR IMMEDIATE PULLOUT
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON - With Hurricane Katrina already costing the federal government tens of billions of dollars, more than eight in 10 Americans are very or somewhat concerned that the $5 billion being spent each month on the war in Iraq is draining away money that could be used in the United States, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
    The poll also showed that nearly half of Americans say the war is distracting President Bush from addressing problems at home, though an equal (…)

  • We Must Take America Back
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
    Speech delivered at the Sierra Summit 2005 San Francisco, California
    I want to tell you how proud I am to accept the William O. Douglas Award.
    Two of my most poignant memories as a child involved Justice Douglas. One of them was when I was 11 years old I did a 20 mile hike with my little brother David and with Justice Douglas and my father, which was a bird watching hike on the C & O Canal which he played a critical role in protecting. We started at (…)

  • A Bright Spot in Bush World
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Amid the Miserable Failures on the Same Planet
    by Cindy Sheehan
    It has been one month and one week since I sat in a ditch in Crawford, Tx. I can hardly believe it when I think of it myself. So much has happened in that time, and really, so little.
    I got to Camp Casey III in Covington, La today, after getting up at 3am to head for the airport. Now it is 3am the next day and we are driving in a car to try and find a hotel to sleep anywhere around Jackson, Miss. I was prepared to be (…)

  • It’s not so much that the government is not responding in NOLA, they are obsructing the response
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Naomi Archer
    It’s not so much that the government is not responding [with storm relief], they are obstructing the response. They are telling us we can’t bring people the basic necessities of life because that would give them hope. It is a question of oppression vs. mutual aid. That is the revolution. - Jesse, an organizer with MayDay DC volunteering in the Common Ground Wellness Center, Algiers, NOLA
    A MODEL FOR GETTING IT TOGETHER
    The locally-led, mutually based community relief (…)

  • Michael Moore helps provide real relief for the people of New Orleans
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Michael Moore
    Friends,
    Last week I closed my New York production office and sent my staff down to New Orleans to set up our own relief effort. I asked all of you to help me by sending food, materials and cash to the emergency relief center we helped set up on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain with the Veterans for Peace. We did this when the government was doing nothing and the Red Cross was still trying to get it together. Every day, every minute was critical. People were dying, poor (…)

  • HECK OF A JOB GEORGE
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Peter Fredson
    We are so glad that you recognized that race and poverty are part of your enduring legacy. You certainly deserve a lot of the credit for accelerating them. For a while we were not sure that you recognized that the U.S. actually had homeless people.
    We had the impression that you thought they lived above hot-air grates and around dumpsters by choice. We realize that you may not actually LIKE blacks and bums, but now we know that you are at least aware that they exist and (…)

  • Criminally Negligent: Homeland Security & Chertoff
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Criminally Negligent: Homeland Security & Chertoff (continued) by CHRISTOPHER BOLLYN (AMERICAN FREE PRESS)
    The son of an Israeli Mossad agent, Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, not Michael Brown, was in charge of managing the national response to Hurricane Katrina. Did Chertoff say, Hey, it’s just schwartzes. Whaddaya want from me?)
    Because Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff delayed federal assistance to the victims of Hurricane Katrina. he is (…)

  • Venezuela sends cargo of 300,000 barrels of gasoline direct to Louisiana
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has confirmed that a cargo of 300,000 barrels of gasoline is on its way to the USA to help Southern States affected by Hurricane Katrina.
    The President as confirmed that before traveling to New York to attend the UN summit, Louisiana State Governor Kathleen Blanco phoned the Venezuelan President accepting his offer of help.
    Chavez Frias broke the news on arrival in the USA and has reminded reporters that the Venezuelan government had offered 8 (…)

  • Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating dying hurricane victims
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn’t registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
    "I begged him to let me continue," said Perlmutter, who left his home and practice as an orthopedic surgeon in Pennsylvania to come to Louisiana and volunteer to care for hurricane victims. "People were dying, and I was the only doctor on the (…)

  • Congressional Coalition Calls For Expansion Of Plame Investigation to Bush’s Uranium Lies
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hinchey Leads Broad Congressional Coalition Calling For Expansion Of Plame Name Leak Investigation
    Forty-One Members Of Congress Ask Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald To Examine Bush Administration’s False Uranium Claims That Led To Disclosure Of CIA Operative’s Identity To Determine If Additional Federal Laws Were Broken Washington, D.C. - Troubled by what they see as violations of federal law that prohibit making false and fraudulent statements to Congress, Congressman Maurice Hinchey (…)