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END THE MEDIA BLACKOUT Demand the Truth of 9/11 Sunday September 11th, 2005 - March and Rally in NYC From Times Square to the United Nations
1 pm @ NEW YORK TIMES 229 W 43rd St between 7/8th Aves (near Times Square)
MARCH TO THE UNITED NATIONS With stops at FOX, CNN, NBC and CBS
4 pm RALLY & CONCERT Dag Hammerskjold Plaza (E 47th St and 1st Ave.) Petition the International Criminal Court to investigate 9/11
7 pm BENEFIT & SPEAKOUT At St. Mark’s Church, 10th Street & (…)

Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
Maureen Dowd is a columnist for the illustrious New York Times, a newspaper which is thought to be a fountain of wisdom. About 9/11 she really doesn’t have a clue.
Dowd writes about the New Orleans catastrophe in her column of September 3, 2005. She correctly denounces Bush for his lame response. Then she turns to 9/11. She writes:
"Who on earth could have known that Osama bin Laden wanted to attack us by flying planes (…)

By Gabrielle Chwallek
Washington - "For God’s sake, are you blind?," a woman shouts at the head of the federal emergency management agency (FEMA), Michael Brown.
"You’re patting each other on the back, while people here are dying."
The woman is not a victim of Hurricane Katrina. She is a reporter with US television network MSNBC who is so affected by the misery she has witnessed she can hold back no longer.
"Katrinagate" is the term being used by the media to describe the biggest (…)

By MAUREEN DOWD Published: September 7, 2005
WASHINGTON
It took a while, but the president finally figured out a response to the destruction of New Orleans.
Later this week (no point rushing things) W. is dispatching Dick Cheney to the rancid lake that was a romantic city. The vice president has at long last lumbered back from a Wyoming vacation, and, reportedly, from shopping for a $2.9 million waterfront estate in St. Michael’s, a retreat in the Chesapeake Bay where Rummy has a (…)

by Juan Gonzalez
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has done it again.
Already under fire for its woeful response to Hurricane Katrina, the federal disaster agency appears to have turned hurricane relief donations into a political payoff - until it was challenged.
All last week, FEMA bureaucrats gave prominent placement on the agency’s Web site to Operation Blessing, the Virginia-based charity run by controversial right-wing evangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat (…)

Press conference: Tuesday, September 6, 2005 4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee
New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors
Press conference to announce plan to save lives and demand role in rebuilding effort
HOUSTON - A national alliance of black community leaders will announce the formation of a New Orleans People’s Committee to demand a decision-making role in the short-term care of hurricane survivors and (…)

ST. MICHAELS, Md. — They’ve grown used to having a secretary of defense in their midst — the way his weekend estate is tucked behind a bend in the road, how he takes casual walks tailed by dark SUVs. Now, residents of this Eastern Shore retreat are preparing for someone even bigger to buy a house down the road: the vice president.
"I’d heard it was going to close either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week," Carroll Hurley, a funeral home owner, said Saturday, seated with his breakfast gang (…)

MALIK RAHIM is a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, a housing rights activist and recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council. He lives in the Algiers neighborhood, the only part of New Orleans that isn’t flooded. They have no power, but the water is still good, and the phones work. Their neighborhood could be sheltering and feeding at least 40,000 refugees, he says, but they are allowed to help no one.
This report from New Orleans was published by the San (…)

We have been spoon fed a pack of lies from day one - this apparent willful campaign to mislead the public is very deep, so far reaching, and if not understood by the general public, could ultimately lead to full martial law being declared across the United States.
Regardless of our race, color, or religious beliefs, we must all come to understand the crimes that our evil "leaders", their military personnel and a corrupt media have brought upon this country and its people. We are now (…)

The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) today exposed internal oil company memos that show how the industry intentionally reduced domestic refining capacity to drive up profits, RAW STORY has learned.
The three internal memos from Mobil, Chevron and Texaco illustrate how the oil juggernauts reduced refining capacity and drove independent refiners out of business in an effort to increase prices. The highly confidential memos reveal a nationwide effort by American Petroleum (…)