http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/09/D8CGSKD02.html
U.S. Censoring Katrina Coverage, Groups Say - "When U.S. officials asked the news media not to take pictures of those killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, they were censoring a key part of the disaster story, free- speech watchdogs said yesterday. The move by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in line with the Bush administration's ban on images of flag-draped U.S. military coffins returning from the Iraq war, media monitors charged in separate telephone interviews. ... "By and large, American television is the most sanitized television in the world," he said. "They are less likely to show bodies, they are less likely to show graphic images of the dead than any television in the world.""
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702126.html
Hiding Bodies Won't Hide the Truth - "When a lot of people see a lot of dead bodies, politicians begin thinking of damage control."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090800354.html
Have You No Shame? - "As Republicans desperately cry out of one corner of their mouths to stop the blame game, they have been blaming everyone but themselves since this catastrophe. Let's look at their ever-evolving buck-passing strategies."
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut?pid=20206
Is FEMA Ready For Bay Area Earthquake? - ""We've never been able to get that message through to the Department of Homeland Security. The funding has systematically gone into terrorism and away from natural disasters," she said. In fact, she says in the West Coast region -- covering the Bay Area -- the number of federal specialists dealing with earthquakes is a simple number: just one."
http://cbs5.com/specialreports/local_story_249213006.html
A Very, Very Good Idea - "Ben Marble, a Gulfport resident who says he’s a doctor, had the guts to wade into Vice President Dick Cheney’s carefully-staged photo op Thursday and say what many residents of the Gulf Coast wanted to say to the politicians who sat on their butts while the people of Mississippi and Louisiana lay dead and dying. “Go fuck yourself Mr. Cheney,” Marble screamed just off camera as the event played out live on CNN. “Go fuck yourself you asshole!” ... Even right-wing Republican firebrand Newt Gingrich, the former Speaker of the House who masterminded the GOP takeover of Congress, recognizes this in memos he recently sent to fellow party members. “For the last week the federal government and its state and local counterparts have consistently been behind the curve,” Gingrich said in a tartly-worded missive to Republicans. "The American people overwhelmingly know that the current situation is totally unacceptable. It is a mistake to get trapped into defending the systems and processes which clearly failed.” Gingrich suggests it is time to stop the useless argument about “values” in government and politics and realize that those elected to serve the people are in the business of delivering services to the people."
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7357.shtml
Time to Reward the Wealthiest, Again - "The Republicans seek to repeal the estate tax paid by the wealthiest two percent, if they succeed then we will pay the resulting $43 billon tax deficit."
http://www.interventionmag.com/cms/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=1155&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
UN hits back at US in report saying parts of America are as poor as Third World - "Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World, according to a shocking United Nations report on global inequality. Claims that the New Orleans floods have laid bare a growing racial and economic divide in the US have, until now, been rejected by the American political establishment as emotional rhetoric. But yesterday's UN report provides statistical proof that for many - well beyond those affected by the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina - the great American Dream is an ongoing nightmare."
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article311066.ece
Laura Bush Says Criticism of Husband 'Disgusting' - ""I think all of those remarks are disgusting, to be perfectly frank, because of course President Bush cares about everyone in our country," the first lady said Thursday in an interview with American Urban Radio Networks. "And I know that. I mean, I'm the person who lives with him," she said. "I know what he's like and I know what he thinks and I know how he cares about people."" -- Shut up Laura. You don't care about people if you intentionally mislead them in order to send them off to kill, and be killed by, other people. Hypocrite. All the wealthy see us common folk as cannon fodder and worker bees to help make the rich get richer.
http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20050908225809990003&ncid=NWS00010000000001
New Orleans Begins Confiscating Firearms as Water Recedes - "Waters were receding across this flood-beaten city today as police officers began confiscating weapons, including legally registered firearms, from civilians in preparation for a mass forced evacuation of the residents still living here. No civilians in New Orleans will be allowed to carry pistols, shotguns or other firearms, said P. Edwin Compass III, the superintendent of police. "Only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons," he said."
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/080905confiscatingfirearms.htm
Bush allows contractors to pay lower wages - "US President George W Bush issued an executive order on Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage. ... "The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities," Miller said."
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3405350a12,00.html
Iraq rebuilding under threat as US runs out of money - "Key rebuilding projects in Iraq are grinding to a halt because American money is running out and security has diverted funds intended for electricity, water and sanitation, according to US officials. Plans to overhaul the country's infrastructure have been downsized, postponed or abandoned because the $24bn (£13bn) budget approved by Congress has been dwarfed by the scale of the task."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1566176,00.html
New plan aims to improve U.S. image - "Karen Hughes, the Bush administration's top public diplomacy official, yesterday rolled out a "strategic framework" to improve the U.S. image abroad, urging American ambassadors to step up their engagement with foreign audiences." -- How bad must it be if this country essentially needs a PR firm? Has this country needed such a thing before? Apparently, the rest of the world sees the duck for what it is.
http://www.washtimes.com/world/20050908-111058-6700r.htm
Crude oil supplies overwhelm refineries - "The US and Europe are releasing more emergency crude oil than refineries in the Gulf of Mexico can handle, reinforcing suspicions that governments are using the crisis triggered by Hurricane Katrina to cap record oil prices." -- And don't forget these memos.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/3a9a2dfe-209e-11da-81ef-00000e2511c8.html
Refund Please... - "Dear Refund Department: We want our money back! This Administration thingamajig sucks. The previous model, the blue one, was a much better product. This damned red one, although a little slower than the last model, seemed to work okay when we first got it, but then, when we started relying on it, it started messing up everything. Now it doesn't do a goddamn thing we were told it would do before investing in it. Oddly enough, it generally does the exact opposite of what it's supposed to do. It seems to have zero regard for its owners. If you asked me, I'd say the damned thing is posessed by an evil spirit, much like that notorious 1933 version from Germany."
http://spaces.msn.com/members/tipofthespear/
Scientists win right to create human embryo with three genetic parents - "But mitochondria contain 37 genes, so the embryo will have been created with a genetic contribution from three individuals — the father, the mother who provided the nucleus, and the donor who provided the mitochondria. If the embryo grows into an adult woman, she would pass on the donated mitochondria to any children of her own, raising concerns about germ-line genetic manipulation."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1772135,00.html
100-square-mile bulge keeps getting bigger - "A recent survey of a bulge that covers about 100 square miles near the South Sister indicates the area is still growing, suggesting it could be another volcano in the making or a major shift of molten rock under the center of the Cascade Range."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9227930/
Daily stress may stop breast cancer: study - "Women with high levels of stress in their everyday lives are at less risk than others of developing breast cancer for the first time, according to research in the British Medical Journal published on Friday."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050909/hl_nm/breast_dc;_ylt=A9FJqY9R1CFDP0QAcwKs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3ODdxdHBhBHNlYwM5NjQ
Genes Show Signs Brain Still Evolving - "The human brain may still be evolving. So suggests new research that tracked changes in two genes thought to help regulate brain growth, changes that appeared well after the rise of modern humans 200,000 years ago."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050908/ap_on_sc/brain_evolution_2
Dinosaur big as a plane ruled sky - "THE largest animal ever to fly - a giant reptile called a pterosaur - was much bigger and more fearsome than previously realised, new fossil evidence has revealed. Scientists knew from fossils that the pterosaur, which roamed land and seas all over the world for hundreds of millions of years, had a wingspan of up to ten metres. Now analysis of fossilised footprints and bone fragments has confirmed some specimens were almost twice as big, with wingspans of 18 metres, making them as big as a medium-sized commercial aircraft."
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1911852005
ABC to Offer Primetime Shows in Spanish - "ABC viewers will get "Lost" in translation as part of a plan to make all the network's primetime entertainment available in Spanish starting this season. The move is an acknowledgment of the expanding U.S. Hispanic population and its potential as a source of viewers."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050909/ap_en_tv/tv_abc_spanish;_ylt=A9FJqY9R1CFDP0QAyQOs0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3YXYwNDRrBHNlYwM3NjI
Quote of the Day
"We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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