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Big Oil Spill Spotted Near Tanks on Miss. - "A huge oil spill was spotted near two storage tanks on the Mississippi River downstream from New Orleans, state officials said Friday. ... "Two tanks with the capacity of holding 2 million barrels appear to be leaking," the department said in a statement."
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1091188
In America - "The city's poor, left behind in a state that called for a mandatory evacuation, but had no plans for their evacuation -- those without cars or SUVs or money for plane fare. We're watching an American Somalia -- children, including infants, pregnant women, old people and young people huddled together in a filthy, anarchic hell for five days without food or water -- the sick and the exhausted, mothers and fathers, thrown together with the criminal elements of a city where 7 in ten are Black, and of those, three in ten were poor even before the storm. In our American Somalia, women have much to fear when darkness falls -- in the pitch black they must fear robbery and rape. There are no receiving stations inside that convention center in New Orleans. There are no triage areas, no police guards, no National Guardsmen handing out MREs, water and ice. There is just the teeming masses of the uncared for -- the good and the bad, the sick and the well, forced to face the darkness together, and alone. This is New Orleans, in America."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0902-24.htm
Nasty, Brutish -- Society's Net Snaps - "At one point yesterday, as a helicopter-mounted camera showed a teeming swell of furious, gun-toting Louisiana residents mobbing a busload of supplies, a stunned British TV anchor spoke his mind on the air: "I'm having trouble believing that we're watching the continental United States of America. I mean, it looks like Rwanda." A complete societal breakdown: Nobody expected that from hurricane Katrina, but that is what seems to have engulfed the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico. The threads that hold society together have unraveled, leaving destruction, looting, violence and desperation."
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0902-34.htm
George W. Bush abandons Americans - "How is it possible that in a country which is always blowing its horn about how advanced it is, that people are starving to death? Is this Somalia? No, it is George Bush's United States of America. How is it possible that young children are dying of thirst. Is this Mali? No, it is George Bush's United States of America. How is it possible that people are having to scavenge for food. Is this Burkina Faso? No, it is George Bush's United States of America. So, this is how President George Bush treats the people who put their trust in him. After siphoning off 200 billion USD of their hard-earned cash to finance his illegal act of butchery overseas, he turns his back on them, leaves them to wallow in the sewage, to lie rotting in the streets and to starve to death."
http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/101/399/16096_Bush.html
They Knew What to Expect - "Virtually everything that has happened in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina struck was predicted by experts and in computer models, so emergency management specialists wonder why authorities were so unprepared."
http://www.wired.com/news/planet/0,2782,68738,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7
Ending the Impunity of the Bush White House - "“They can go into Iraq and do this and do that,” Martha Madden, former secretary of the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, said on Sept. 1, “but they can’t drop some food on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana, right now? It’s just mind-boggling.” The policies are matters of priorities. And the priorities of the Bush White House are clear. For killing in Iraq, they spare no expense. For protecting and sustaining life, the cupboards go bare. The problem is not incompetence. It’s inhumanity, cruelty and greed."
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=1&ItemID=8638
Second Navy Hospital Ship Will Head to Gulf Coast - "The Mercy, which is based ini San Diego, will be ready to depart Wednesday. It will take about two weeks to complete the trip." -- Two weeks? That city needs help now.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGB2YSBK4DE.html
Forget Prayer: God Ain't Listening - "God, in my opinion, is not living up to his advertising. In a year that has witnessed the aftermath of the south Asian tsunami (approximately 225,000 deaths), Katrina (118 confirmed dead and rising), and Wednesday's Baghdad bridge stampede (some 953 Shiite religious pilgrims dead), it has become impossible to reconcile current events with the notion of an omnipotent, omniscient, magnanimous deity. "The Almighty" appears to be either an unaware, powerless, and/or misanthropic absentee landlord -- or no one whatsoever."
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7321.shtml
Katrina-themed malware attack hits the net - "Hurricane Katrina is bringing out the worst in people on the net as well as on the streets of New Orleans. Spam emails purporting to offer links to news about Katrina are been used to tempt potential victims onto a site hosting Trojan malware."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/02/katrina_trojan_attack/
Judge hesitant to release pictures and videotapes of detainee abuse at Iraq's Abu Ghraib. - "The judge questioned whether he could disregard arguments by Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who has warned that releasing the photos would aid al-Qaeda recruitment, weaken the Afghan and Iraqi governments and incite riots against U.S. troops."
http://www.guerrillanews.com/headlines/4623/Judge_Release_of_Abu_Ghraib_Pictures_Too_Dangerous
Gay Rights Advocates Cheer Historic Vote - "California's Senate has voted to allow gay marriage, making it the first legislative body in the nation to back the idea and setting off a frantic scramble for votes in the Assembly. ...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's office had no comment Thursday on how the governor would respond if the bill reached his desk, spokeswoman Margita Thompson said. Several senators equated the struggle for gay marriage to the civil rights movements. They said arguments against the bill were similar to arguments in supporting slavery and opposing interracial marriage."
http://apnews.excite.com/article/20050902/D8CC6FDG2.html
Anti-rape condom aims to stop attacks - ""Nothing has ever been done to help a woman so that she does not get raped and I thought it was high time," Sonette Ehlers, 57, said of the "rapex," a device worn like a tampon that has sparked controversy in a country used to daily reports of violent crime."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050901/od_nm/safrica_rape_dc
Day-After Pill Exposes FDA Rift - "Assistant Commissioner Susan Wood charged that FDA's leader overruled his own scientists' determination that the morning-after pill could safely be sold without a prescription, and stunned his employees last week by instead postponing indefinitely a decision on whether to let that happen."
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68726,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_9
Home DNA Tests Just a Click Away - "And then there are privacy concerns, despite the fact that we leave behind our DNA -- in, say, saliva or our hair -- all over the place, every day. "It's just unsettling to have our DNA in a highly unsecured environment like the public mails," said Gene Fowler, an associate clinical professor at Oregon Health & Science University and executive director of the Geneforum think tank. "Once a person's genetic blueprint is available, a map of physical traits is fairly easy to extrapolate," including details about susceptibility to disease."
http://www.wired.com/news/medtech/0,1286,68692,00.html
One reason to say yes to lap dancing.. - "An angry San Diego topless dancer pulled out a knife and stabbed a customer after he refused a lap dance, police said on Thursday."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050902/od_nm/crime_stripper_dc
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