We Have Been Abandoned By Our Own Country
You have to watch this video to fully understand, how little regard our government has for the welfare of its own citizens.
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10121.htm
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Bodies Are Strewn 'Like Roadkill'
By Scott Gold and Alan Zarembo
Teams searching for survivors in attics and on rooftops have been given instructions to tie bodies that they encounter to street poles so they can be collected later.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10122.htm
Failing at War, Peace and Dignity
By Dan La Botz
Hurricane Katrina blew off the façade of American society. It pulled back the curtain to reveal the millions who live in poverty, mostly African American in New Orleans, but in other cities Latino, Native American, and white. The most apparent failure of the state has been in emergency response, but far greater has been the failure to create a stable existence, a decent society for millions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10095.htm
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The Two Americas
By Marjorie Cohn
Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10112.htm
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An open letter to the little boy in the red shirt
By Thomas M. Braun
You are in the middle of hell. However, you are loved, I have no doubt in my mind about that. Your family has cared for you, and god bless them for that. But the rich and powerful in your city, your state and in this country, care nothing about you and all the others who live next to you and who struggle to make it through each and every day. They could care less.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10098.htm
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Eyewitness: My friend was shot and killed for his car:
"These murders are not being reported to avoid panic"
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10097.htm
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A Death In New Orleans:
Neighbors buried Vera Smith on top of the concrete sidewalk at the edge of the Garden District on Saturday in a crude grave they made of soil and bricks they had unearthed from a little park nearby.
http://snipurl.com/hfnc
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Guardsmen 'played cards' amid New Orleans chaos: police official :
A top New Orleans police officer said that National Guard troops sat around playing cards while people died in the stricken city after Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10105.htm
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New Orleans crisis shames Americans :
The only difference between the chaos of New Orleans and a Third World disaster operation, he said, was that a foreign dictator would have responded better.
http://snipurl.com/hfob
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Met by Despair, Not Violence:
As they plunged into the dark water engulfing the business district of New Orleans, their wake pushed the body of a woman onto the steps of the Superdome. The floodwater had ripped her pants down to her knees. She was facedown in the muck, a red ribbon still tied neatly around her graying hair.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10114.htm
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Bush visit halts food delivery:
Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President Bush’s visit to New Orleans, officials said.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10119.htm
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Bush Visit Grounded Helicopter Rescue:
For the entire time Bush was in the state, the congressman said, a ban on helicopter flights further stalled the delivery of food and supplies.
http://snipurl.com/hfod
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New Orleans Police, Overwhelmed, Are Quitting the Force:
At least 200 New Orleans police officers have walked away from their jobs and two have committed suicide
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10116.htm
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Video: Police looters in walmart
http://snipurl.com/hfoe
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Delusions Under Siege :
As more people become acquainted with the reality behind the veneer of lies, the Bush administration, large corporations, the wealthy elite, and powerful lobbying groups are slowly losing their grip on power as the tide of public opinion rises against them, here and abroad.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10099.htm
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Warnings went ignored as Bush slashed flood defence budget to pay for wars :
Funding for flood prevention was slashed by 80 per cent, work on strengthening levees to protect the city was stopped for the first time in 37 years, and planning for housing stranded citizens and evacuating refugees from the Superdome were crippled.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10117.htm
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Navy ship nearby underused:
The Bataan's hospital facilities, including six operating rooms and beds for 600 patients, are empty.
http://snipurl.com/hfof
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Cindy Sheehan : Dangerous Incompetence :
Innocent people are dying daily in this world. In the crush of the hurricane story, the fact that 950 people (mostly women and children) were trampled to death in Iraq was buried in the back sections. Those are 950 people who would still be alive if George Bush were not president.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10113.htm
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Amanda Lang: Left Behind:
We are afraid of each other. Isolating ourselves to our own class or perceived kind behind ‘gated’ neighborhoods and communities, we drive with blinders in SUVs towering above the fray at lightning, gas-guzzling speeds looking over, through, and/or around our fellow citizens trying to do anything but see them.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10111.htm
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New Orleans is a bad place to be poor.
New Orleans officials issued an almost cynical evacuation order in a city where they know full well that thousands have no car, no money for airfare or an interstate bus, no credit cards for hotels, and therefore no way to leave town before the deadly storm and flood arrived.
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/343324p-292991c.html
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How the Free Market Killed New Orleans :
Everyone was expected to devise their own way out of the disaster area by private means, just as the free market dictates, just like people do when disaster hits free-market Third World countries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10118.htm
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Brown pushed from last job: FEMA chief had to be `asked to resign':
The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10115.htm
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Ex-officials say weakened FEMA botched response:
Government disaster officials had an action plan if a major hurricane hit New Orleans. They simply didn't execute it when Hurricane Katrina struck.
http://snipurl.com/hfoh
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Tell Bush & Congress:Accept Cuba's offer to send doctors to the hurricane victims!:
Specifically, Cuba is offering to send 1,100 medical doctors with 26.4 tons of medications and diagnosis kits at no expense to the U.S. (they will even bring their own food and water).
http://snipurl.com/hfoi
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Drenched in profits : Drenched in blood:
The economy of the United States has matured to the point of nascent fascism at home and imperialist empire abroad. As events in New Orleans and Iraq dramatically illustrate, the earth is daily being made more toxic for human beings by the American Reich.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10106.htm
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Daniel Patrick Welch: Only in America:
The near total incompetence and callousness of the Bush administration has thankfully floated to the top of New Orleans' rank floodwaters like so much rotting waste; and no amount of blame-the-victim spin and war-over-people rhetoric can put the genie back in the bottle.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10107.htm
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Paul Craig Roberts: Impeach Bush Now, Before More Die:
Bush's single-minded focus on the "war against terrorism" has compounded a natural disaster and turned it into the greatest calamity in American history.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10108.htm
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Insurers face $40bn claims after Katrina :
BRITISH and American insurance industries face claims topping $40 billion following the devastation in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
http://snipurl.com/hfoj
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Stratfor Repor: New Orleans: A Geopolitical Prize :
A simple way to think about the New Orleans port complex is that it is where the bulk commodities of agriculture go out to the world and the bulk commodities of industrialism come in.
http://snipurl.com/hfol
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We came, we saw, we ruined Iraq – to stay will wound it more:
Two great cities, New Orleans and Baghdad, were last week plunged in horror. They both cried out for sympathy. One will get it, the other will not.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10120.htm
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19 Iraq officers killed in clashes:
Rebels killed 19 Iraqi security forces Saturday in clashes around Baqouba
http://snipurl.com/hfon
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Six dead in attacks on Iraq security:
Five Iraqi soldiers and one police officer have been killed in two rebel attacks, security officials said.
http://snipurl.com/hfoo
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Al-Sadr vows revenge on Sunnis over stampede deaths:
al-Sadr claimed in a message from his mosque in al-Kufa, near Najaf, that civil war was already underway.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10096.htm
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As Iraq unravels, Bush cant hold it together:
WHO lost Iraq? Someday, as a fragmented Iraq spirals further into religious madness, terrorism and civil war, there will be a bipartisan inquiry into this blundering intrusion into another peoples history.
http://www.insidebayarea.com/sanmateocountytimes/oped/ci_3000678
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What the right says, and what Cindy says:
Flash prestation
http://www.bushflash.com/vigil.html
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The war at home:
They fought for their country in Iraq. Now veterans are struggling to find a decent job in the United States
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05247/563961.stm
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Rebecca Romani : Troubled Waters :
Bush flies over New Orleans much as he flew over Baghdad. He claps his FEMA director on the shoulder, chuckles, and says good job, much the way he hung out with his generals in the Green Zone for Thanksgiving.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10110.htm
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Eight Afghan policemen killed in Taliban attacks
http://snipurl.com/hfoq
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Iran rejects EU threats:
Iran has said that it will not stop uranium reprocessing work, rejecting a European threat that Tehran had less than two weeks to freeze uranium conversion or face referral to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions.
http://snipurl.com/hfor
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Saboteurs hit Iranian oil pipelines:
Saboteurs using three home-made bombs halted crude transfers from five onshore wells in Iran's restive southwestern province of Khuzestan, the student news agency ISNA reported Saturday.
http://snipurl.com/hfot
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Iran furious after US denies visa to top MP :
Iran's Foreign Ministry called Saturday for the United Nations to move its headquarters out of the United States after the speaker of the Iranian parliament was apparently denied a US entry visa.
http://www.iranmania.com/News/ArticleView/Default.asp?NewsCode=35123&NewsKind=Current%20Affairs
http://snipurl.com/hfou
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Killing Americans By Health Care Policy :
Lack of health insurance kills Americans. More Americans die from political decisions concerning health care policy on a weekly or monthly basis than died in the 9-11 terrorist attacks.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10109.htm
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Report: Gov't Secrecy Grows, Costs More :
Overall, the government spent $7.2 billion in 2004 stamping 15.6 million documents ``top secret,'' ``secret'' or ``confidential.''
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5254148,00.html
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Peace & Joy
Tom Feeley
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Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams
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