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Support for Bush Continues to Drop, Poll Shows
A summer of bad news from Iraq , high gasoline prices, economic unease and now the devastation of Hurricane Katrina has left President Bush with overall approval ratings for his job performance and handling of Iraq, foreign policy and the economy at or near the lowest levels of his presidency, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

Bush's hacks
The Senate confirmation hearings of John Roberts are in the eye of a perfect storm of American hypocrisy. It is largely assumed that Roberts will be confirmed despite his animus for affirmative action for people of color. In 1981 as a special assistant to Attorney General William French Smith, he wrote that affirmative action "required the recruiting of inadequately prepared candidates."

North Korea Says U.S. Is Undermining Nuclear Talks
North Korea said the U.S. refusal to its demand for internationally funded light-water nuclear reactors is undermining talks in Beijing aimed at dismantling the communist nation's nuclear weapons program.

End of the Binge
Among the strange delusions and hallucinations gripping the body politic these days is the idea that the so-called global economy is a permanent fixture of the human condition. The seemingly unanimous embrace of this idea in the power circles of America is a marvelous illustration of the madness of crowds, for nothing could be farther from the truth.

Bacteria, Lead Taint Water in New Orleans
New government tests show dangerous amounts of sewage-related bacteria and lead from unknown sources in the floodwaters in New Orleans, and high levels of chemicals such as hexavalent chromium, used in industrial plating, and arsenic, used in treating wood.

The Navy turns a blind eye to a victory for commercialism
They say Britannia rules the waves, but the old girl has just been well and truly knocked off her perch by the harsh commercial realities of modern life. Tomorrow, the Royal Navy will take part in a re-enactment of Lord Nelson's funeral on the Thames at Greenwich, as part of events to mark this year's 200th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar.

Zinn Sin
'I'm sure the Zinn Meister would welcome what I have to say, encourage having the controversial blah blah that follows on the table.'

"FEMA RED-BLUE LIST" Marked For Termination
'While I have no doubt that the NWO-cravers at the CIA have their OWN list of people to round up and terminate (don't you, boys?) the actual proper agency behind the now-infamous "RED/BLUE LISTS" is none other than "FREDDY FEMA AND HIS BLACK OPS." '

The United Nations May Govern Internet
The WSIS, the first phase of which took place in Geneva in December 2003, revolves around the challenges posed by the information society with respect to the future of the Internet, especially the gap between rich and poor countries in the use of computer and telecommunications technologies.

Top 500 questions about 9/11
Why were the Black Boxes never recovered? Why was security meeting scheduled for 9/11cancelled by WTC management on 9/10? What did Kissinger mean that an "outside threat from beyond", a "world government" and "individual rights" that are "willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted", what mentioned in 1991 on a Bilderberg Conference?

Galloway wows Boston
We who live in the United States or Britain, only have to answer one question, do we stand with the occupier, or with those who are resisting colonial occupation.

9-11: Tragedy & Treason, Blows the Lid Off the Government Story
Treis' commentary and evidence serve us all in that we can see the truth about what really happened on 9-11. It is only by such cutting edge journalism we can hope to awaken people of the problems in America and possible solutions.

Of Course Bush Is Responsible. Now, How About Some Action?
The biggest non-news story this week involves Bush saying that he takes "responsibility" for failures in dealing with Hurricane Katrina. There's only one problem. Bush is supposed to be president of the United States.

Annan Seeks to Restore U.N. Credibility
After a year of mounting criticism, Secretary-General Kofi Annan defended the United Nations on Wednesday and urged global leaders to restore the organization's credibility by adopting broad reforms needed for the world to act together to tackle poverty, terrorism and conflict.

14 -Sep-05 Headlines :

End of the Bush Era
Recent months, and especially the past two weeks, have brought home to a steadily growing majority of Americans the truth that President Bush's government doesn't work. His policies are failing, his approach to leadership is detached and self-indulgent, his way of politics has produced a divided, angry and dysfunctional public square. We dare not go on like this.

Restroing States rights
The history of tyranny of the British Crown was a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny. So has it been repeated by the abuses and usurpations by the United States in the mid 1800s and then in reconstruction as well as economic and military occupation over these Southern States, and for that matter, even over the Northern States with the goal of subjecting them all to slavery under an even greater and more sinister tyranny, The New World Order , an Evil Empire controlled by the elite billionaire families of the world for their own benefit.

Globalization And Its Discontents
In a world where "globalization" means spreading the culture of corporate brand names, Rogue States are those which refuse to embrace this order.

Post-Katrina New Orleans: American police state is here
Corroborating and adding to mounting evidence of the militarization of New Orleans , investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill noted the following in a September 12 KPFA radio interview .

'Bin Laden is trying to obtain medical attention'
Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is in poor health and is seeking medical attention, the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat said on Wednesday, quoting a U.S. officer in Afghanistan.

Lawsuit Targets Wal-Mart Work Conditions
A lawsuit filed Tuesday accuses Wal-Mart Stores Inc. of failing to monitor labor conditions at overseas factories that allegedly maintained sweatshop conditions.

Scores killed in Baghdad attacks
More than 130 people have been killed in a deadly series of bomb attacks and shootings across Iraq. In the worst incident, at least 108 people were killed and 160 injured when a car bomb exploded in Baghdad's mainly Shia district of Kadhimiya.

Publish and be banned
Bloggers in Iran fear the authorities may be about to crack down further on those they say are insulting the country's leaders.

Blowing Away the Illusion
What do 9/11, the London bombings and Hurricane Katrina have in common? They all demonstrate the failure of the state to do what it claims is its two primary responsibilities - the preservation of domestic law and order and defence against foreign aggression.

Potential terrorists being watched
The government is closely monitoring hundreds of possible terrorism suspects as it tries to thwart future attacks after July's deadly London bombings, Home Secretary Charles Clarke said on Tuesday.

Bush Lied When Asked About Brown's Resignation
President George W. Bush lied outright to reporters in Mississippi Monday when he claimed he did not know embattled Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown resigned.

Military Take-Over Of New Orleans A Harbinger Of The Future?
The blame game has been in full swing ever since Hurricane Katrina crashed into the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast. Democrats want to use the disaster as a means to criticize the Bush administration. Republicans blame the Mayor of New Orleans and the Governor of Louisiana, both Democrats. However, one theme seems constant: the call for more involvement by the federal government.

13 -Sep-05 Headlines :

UNTANGLING THE BALL OF BUSH LIES
Bush says that when he has killed all the “insurgents” and made life secure for ordinary Iraqis, he will then pack up his troops and leave Iraq. He says he has given the Iraqis back their sovereignty, which he took from them, and has given them FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY, LIBERTY and all other good Bush speech words. Now all they have to do is make a constitution and he will leave them alone.

Pilger on Australia's new anti-terrorism laws
"What you will get in Australia is the almost blanket surveillance that there is in Britain. Now, you know, this has been useful for telling the police after the event that the suicide bombers had been on their way to do their job. But it hasn't - like the Prevention of Terrorism Act itself, and all the draconian measures that that brought in, it hasn't actually prevented anything. They are the beginning of a kind of democratic police state. That may sound dramatic, but, you know. the most basic freedoms always go in a very quiet and insidious way."

Biometrics roadshow kicks off ID cards charm offensive
The public are being invited to try out the technology behind the national ID card scheme at the UK Passport Service's (UKPS) "biometrics roadshow". The Home Office-backed roadshow is part of the government's latest attempt to convince an increasingly sceptical public that ID cards will safeguard their identities by raising awareness of biometric technology.

War on terror to continue "for 30 years"
On the fourth anniversary of September 11 the coordinator of Switzerland's security services tells swissinfo the war on terror could take three decades. Jacques Pitteloud also says more needs to be done to monitor and if necessary expel individuals suspected of links to terrorism.

Police chief faces Menezes family
London's police chief apologised as he came face-to-face for the first time with relatives of the Brazilian man shot dead during the terror man hunt. Cousins of electrician Jean Charles de Menezes watched Sir Ian Blair being questioned by MPs. Despite his apology, the commissioner argued that the policy of shooting suspected suicide bombers was "the least worst option".

Bush Finally Admits Responsibility For Poor Response to Katrina
It took a little more than two weeks but President Bush has finally accepted responsibility for the poor response by the federal government to Hurricane Katrina.

New FEMA Boss: The 'Duct Tape' Guy
If President George W. Bush thought appointment of new Federal Emergency Management Agency director David Paulison would end criticism of the agency's questionable leadership he could find that thought buried under a mountain of duct tape.

Oversight of FEMA aid draws concern
Fraud, waste, scams - and just plain shady deals. As rescue and recovery turns to rebuilding and reconstruction along the Gulf Coast devastated by Hurricane Katrina, the likelihood of abuse escalates with the rapid infusion of federal funds, already exceeding $62 billion.

Giant Solar Flare Hits U.S., Canada
A rowdy sunspot cluster hurled a record-breaking flare into space on Wednesday, blacking out all high- and low-frequency radio communications on both American continents, causing power surges, blinding satellites and lighting up aurorae, and more trouble is likely on the way, say experts.

11 children found locked in cages
Sheriff's deputies in Ohio have found 11 children locked in cages less than three-and-a-half feet high inside a home, but a couple have denied they had abused or neglected the children.

Outage affects millions, pointing to grid's vulnerability
A mistake on a single power line Monday cascaded into a major blackout in and around Los Angeles, inconveniencing millions of people and renewing questions about the vulnerability of the region's power system.

The Next Internet Gold Rush?
When online auction giant eBay said on Monday that it was purchasing Internet telephone provider Skype Technologies for $2.6 billion, reactions fell largely into two camps: Those who saw the deal as recognition of the money-making potential and transformative power of Internet telephony; and those who questioned the wisdom of paying billions for a company whose sales hover in the tens of millions.

LONDON BOMB SUSPECT TO BE EXTRADITED AFTER LOSING APPEAL
Italy's highest court of appeal - the Court of Cassation - on Tuesday threw out an appeal by Hamdi Issac - one of the suspected bombers in the botched 21 July attacks on London's transport system- against his extradition to Britain. The court ruled that Italian and British police would carry out Issac's extradition within ten days.

12-Sep-05 Headlines :

Was Big Brother Watching?
Ever since September 11, civil liberties groups have expressed fear that law enforcement agencies would use the fight against terror groups as an excuse to monitor the activities of non-violent campus groups that oppose administration policies.

Bush didn't know the Hurricane damage was bad until THURSDAY AFTER IT STRUCK
Newsweek has just published a horrifying story entitled "How Bush Blew It." This is must-read for everyone, and this story must be shared widely. Bush should resign, now. He is the worst president in modern history. This is criminal what he did.

Michael Moore considers Katrina film
The filmmaker and author, like many people in the USA and beyond, feels that the natural disaster's devastation has been exacerbated by the government's actions and inaction and says that he is considering stating his case on film.

UN reform negotiations break down
Crisis talks on human rights and UN management reform ahead of the world summit have fallen apart, a spokesman for the US mission to the UN says.

Bush Leaves A Trail Of Corruption, Criminality, Lies And Incompetence In His Wake
The US Presidential election in 2000 took place on the 7th of November. The two main challengers were, of course George W. Bush, and Al Gore. During the campaign, Bush stated "I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation-building." Rather interesting when you consider what followed.

New Orleans mayor faces unclear fate
The political winds generated by Hurricane Katrina have taken some bizarre twists for New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, putting him down in a place where no big-city American mayor has been in modern times.

“Unacceptable”: The Federal Response to Katrina
By the end of the week, almost 30,000 New Orleans residents, almost all of them poor and Black, had crowded into the Louisiana Superdome or the Convention Center. Within a day, there was no electricity, water, food, or working toilets; feces and urine poured onto the floors and the walls. The people were sweaty, tired, dehydrated, and hungry.

Australian government unveils legal framework for police state
In the lead-up to his September 27 “counter-terrorism summit” with the eight Australian state and territory leaders, Prime Minister John Howard last week unveiled a package of legislation that goes well beyond the already deep inroads made into essential civil liberties under the fraudulent banner of the “war on terrorism”.

Tax avoidance 'keeps developing world poor'
Multinational companies operating in the world's poorest countries are "dodging" around £270bn a year in tax, anti-poverty campaigners claimed today.

A Deadly Virus Spreads in India, Despite Vaccines Within Reach
Kiran Kumari had been sick for more than a week. Now, lying on her back in a sweltering, overcrowded hospital ward, the skinny 11-year-old with the copper-streaked hair had lapsed into unconsciousness and could no longer breathe on her own. So her father was breathing for her.

Video Warns of Terrorist Attacks in Los Angeles and Australia
A videotape televised Sunday and said to be from a member of Al Qaeda who was born in the United States threatened terrorist attacks on Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia.

The Dream Factory
'If you could make anything you wanted, what would it be? For me, that's not a rhetorical question, because right now I'm staring at my own personal fabricator. It's eMachineShop, an application that produces a physical 3-D copy of almost anything I draw. "You know the machine on Star Trek ? The replicator? That's what I was aiming for," says Jim Lewis, the guy who created this tool.'

11-Sep-05 Headlines :

US develops strategy for first use of nuclear weapons against WMD
The Pentagon has drawn up a new strategy, built on the 2002 "Bush doctrine" of pre-emptive military strikes, that would allow the United States to make first use of nuclear weapons to thwart an attack using weapons of mass destruction against the country.

We had to kill our patients
Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Former GMB boss 'used private detectives to spy on colleagues'
One of the most prominent figures in the British labour movement over the past decade has been accused of employing private detectives to "spy" on his senior colleagues. The executive of the GMB union ordered its auditors to investigate claims that John Edmonds, the organisation's former general secretary, spent more than £120,000 of members' money on the covert surveillance of some of the union's staff.

Prof: TV Shows May Tune Our Beliefs in Supernatural
Americans' interest in the supernatural is only natural, but a Purdue University mass media expert says television programs - including some in this fall's lineup - may influence what people believe about the paranormal.

FBI opens secret files to check evacuees
The FBI is taking the unprecedented step of allowing its closely guarded national criminal history database and finger-printing catalog to be used to screen Hurricane Katrina evacuees seeking shelter in private homes as well as the people offering to house them.

Hurricane Ophelia threatens southeastern coast of United States
The Governor of North Carolina declared a state of emergency and issued a mandatory evacuation order for the low-lying vacation island of Ocracoke on the North Carolina Outer Banks as Hurricane Ophelia hovered off the coast of southeastern United States Sunday.

Afghanistan Offensive Kills 30 Suspected Militants
Senior Afghan officials say they have killed or arrested dozens of suspected militants in the latest operation against insurgents they fear could disturb next week's elections.  Officials also now say an incident they earlier had described as an assassination attempt against the defense minister was not aimed at him.

Cover-up: toxic waters 'will make New Orleans unsafe for a decade'
Toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade, a US government official has told The Independent on Sunday . And, he added, the Bush administration is covering up the danger.

Human Ray Guns, Subway Surveillance, and Darpa's Energy-Savers
Is the Defense Deparment about to test their new pain ray on humans? Will New York's MTA system go the London route? And will electricity soon be the big replacement for oil?

The Mail On Sunday says doctors working in hurricane ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leave them to die as they evacuated hospitals. More on this as I receive it.

They also highlight this rare instance when Sky News gets it right:

Army lied about death of son for over a year
For 15 months, Karen Meredith thought she knew the truth about her soldier son: Army 1st Lt. Kenneth Ballard was killed by enemy gunfire during a battle in Iraq. Over the weekend, the Mountain View mother learned the real truth: that her son died in the accidental discharge of a military tank machine gun.

Fuel protesters plan M4 blockade
Fuel protesters in Wales say they will stage a blockade on the M4 next Friday in the wake of rising petrol prices. The South Wales Hauliers' Association made the vow after a meeting of 60 hauliers and taxi and coach operators.

10-Sep-05 Headlines :

FEMA director says media made him a scapegoat
A beleaguered Michael Brown said Friday that he didn't know why he was removed from his on-site command of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, but he did know the first thing he would do upon returning to Washington.

President's Approval Rating Dips Below 40
President Bush's job approval has dipped below 40 percent for the first time in the AP-Ipsos poll, reflecting widespread doubts about his handling of gasoline prices and the response to Hurricane Katrina. Nearly four years after Bush's job approval soared into the 80s after the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, Bush was at 39 percent job approval in an AP-Ipsos poll taken this week. That's the lowest since the the poll was started in December 2003.

Baghdad airport closed by 'unpaid' UK security firm
The Iraqi government ordered its troops to reopen Baghdad airport yesterday after a British security company charged with protecting it, closed it, claiming it had not been paid for seven months. Iraqi government officials reacted furiously to the action by the Global Strategies Group, saying it was an attack on Iraq's sovereignty.

How the US Supplied Iran with Nuclear Know-How
A doctor friend expressed concern over the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Sixty years ago, some 250,000 people died when US atomic bombs fell over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. You needn't become a scientist to understand that radioactivity from nuclear bombs or malfunctioning power plants, like those at Chernobyl (Ukraine, 1986) and Three Mile Island (Pennsylvania, 1979), can contaminate the environment for a very long time.

World summit on UN's future heads for chaos
The British government is mounting a huge diplomatic effort this weekend to prevent the biggest-ever summit of world leaders, designed to tackle poverty and overhaul the United Nations, ending in chaos.

FEMA Document Contradicts Administration
One million evacuees, and up to 350,000 left homeless: that would be the results of a hurricane hitting New Orleans, according to a year-old document from the US Federal Emergency Management Agency made public.

German aid plane denied entry into U.S. -govt says
A German air force plane loaded with 15 tonnes worth of ready-to-eat meals earmarked for flood victims in New Orleans was refused entry into the United States last week, a government spokesman said on Saturday.

Physician who told Cheney to go F*ck Himself Lost his Home in Katrina, Detained, Cuffed by Cheney's M-16-carrying Goons
Dr. Ben Marble, a young emergency room physician who plays in alternative rock bands and does art on the side, needs our help. Since he was the one who told Dick Cheney to "go fuck yourself" on Sept. 8, that's the least we can do.

Firms with Bush ties snag Katrina deals
Companies with ties to the Bush White House and the former head of FEMA are clinching some of the administration's first disaster relief and reconstruction contracts in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The Anti-9/11
It was inevitable that the ravages provoked by Katrina on New Orleans should evoke the horrors Bin Laden inflicted on New York. American vulnerability in the face of natural forces has been compared to its vulnerability to the terrorists.

U.S. can continue to detain citizen without charging him with a crime
The Bush administration can continue to imprison a U.S. citizen arrested in Chicago three years ago in a terrorism investigation without charging him with any crime, a federal appeals court ruled Friday in an opinion written by a judge under consideration for the Supreme Court.

New Orleans: the specter of military dictatorship
The appalling incompetence and negligence that characterized the government's response at the outset of the human tragedy unleashed by Hurricane Katrina have now given way to ruthlessly efficient methods of military occupation and repression in the ravaged city of New Orleans.

FEMA director pulled from hurricane relief
Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown was pulled off relief operations in the area on Friday.

Sun Unleashes 5 Major Flares, Earth May Soon Get Pounded
An ongoing series of major solar flares, including one late Friday, could disrupt communications on Earth and generate colorful sky shows for people at high northern latitudes over the weekend.

MI5 head warns on civil liberties
Civil liberties may have to be "eroded" to protect Britons from terrorism, the head of security service MI5 has said.

Britain now faces its own blowback
The videotape of the suicide bomber Mohammad Sidique Khan has switched the focus of the London bombings away from the establishment view of brainwashed, murderous individuals and highlighted a starker political reality.

09-Sep-05 Headlines :

Man indicted for plotting to assasinate Bush
A man accused of being a terrorist mastermind has been indicted for plotting to assassinate US President George W Bush.

Flashback: Witnesses link missile to small military jet parts found at Pentagon on 9/11
Two civilian defense contractor employees--told to remain silent--say other workers quietly retro-fitted missile and remote control systems onto A-3 jets at Colorado public airport prior to September 11 when similar A-3 parts much smaller than a Boeing 757 were found at Pentagon.

British media fears political consequences of Hurricane Katrina
The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina has shocked even the most seasoned of British reporters.

Apparent Hunter S. Thompson suicide note published
Renegade author Hunter S. Thompson lamented the onset of old age and his physical limits, then concluded, "Relax -- This won't hurt," in an apparent suicide note published on Thursday by Rolling Stone magazine, his literary springboard.

Eight Big Lies About Katrina
In the past week, Bush administration officials and conservative commentators have repeatedly used the national media to spread misinformation about the federal government's widely criticized response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.

Who really bombed Paris?
Ever since the 1995 bombing of the Paris metro by the Algerian Armed Islamic Group (GIA) made France the first western European country to suffer so-called radical Islamist terrorism, its politicians and "terror experts" have consistently warned Britain to the dangers of welcoming Islamist political dissidents and radical preachers to her shores.

Brain May Still Be Evolving, Studies Hint
Two genes involved in determining the size of the human brain have undergone substantial evolution in the last 60,000 years, researchers say, leading to the surprising suggestion that the brain is still undergoing rapid evolution.

Scale of the flood - before & after
Here is a Google map image of the flood, the scale is shocking. You must see these before and after images.

"Go F*ck Yourself, Mr. Cheney"
As Cheney turned a disaster into a publicity opportunity, some people clearly refused to make him feel welcome. And rightly so. Watch the video .

Schizophrenia' may not exist
Schizophrenia has been attributed to everything from genetic predisposition, brain chemistry, sufferers' home environment and even cat-borne viruses, but no consistent causal pattern has ever been identified. As a result, treatment outcomes for today's patients are not very different from those of patients treated 100 years ago.

08-Sep-05 Headlines :

Senators press Bush on hurricane relief
Two Republican senators pressed U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday to appoint a top official to lead the long-term recovery from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. A White House spokesman said Bush still was not satisfied with the relief effort and leading Democrats called for an independent investigation of the slow response, saying a planned congressional inquiry would amount to a whitewash that would protect the Bush administration.

FEMA censors photos of the dead
When US officials asked the 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.

CIA leak probe may be nearing end
New York Times reporter Judith Miller, locked up for refusing to reveal who told her a covert CIA operative's name in a probe that may be nearing a conclusion, works part time at the jail laundry helping clean fellow inmates' green jumpsuits and dirty linens.

Ukraine President Dismisses Government
President Viktor Yushchenko fired his 7-month-old government Thursday, dismissing his dynamic prime minister - the heroine of the Orange Revolution that swept him to power - and accepting the resignation of one of the movement's top financial backers.

Division 4 team names Clintons, Bush 41, 43 in JFK Jr. assassination
“I know I'm risking my life in allowing you to interview me; but I'm aware there is an operational grand jury and indictments regarding the White House, so now is the time. I‘m tired of knowing all the details and perpetrators of the murder of an innocent and good man without seeing justice."

Katrina and the Politics of Disaster
In the wake of hurricane Katrina, many within the government are ducking for cover as the blame game begins. One individual who has been targeted is Michael Brown, the director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

US 'approved' oil smuggling
The largest oil consignment smuggled out of Iraq took place with US approval just weeks before the April 2003 invasion, according to a United Nations report.

Cash payoffs, bonds and murder linked to White House 911 finance
According to leaked documents from an intelligence file obtained through a military source in the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), on or about September 12, 1991 non-performing and unauthorized gold-backed debt instruments were used to purchase ten-year "Brady" bonds.

Scientists able to move an object without touching
SCIENTISTS at Edinburgh University have developed a way of moving an object without touching it, in breakthrough research which could be as revolutionary as the discovery of electricity.

CIA Publishes Its Own "Assassin's Manual"
If there are any lingering doubts about whether the U.S. government acts like a bunch of mafia hit men, the following documents, classified for years, should clear things up. And as the “CIA's Killer's Instruction Manual” points out remember that possibly the only thing separating the mafia from the U.S. government is that the thugs in the underworld are much, much smarter.

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.

U.S. Offers Katrina Families $2,000 Each
Dispossessed families of Hurricane Katrina will receive debit cards good for $2,000 to spend on clothing and other immediate needs, the Bush administration announced Wednesday, working to recast a relief effort drawing scant praise from Republicans and scathing criticism from top congressional Democrats.

The Dark Party & The New Orleans Jazz Funeral
"A party that in every real and figurative sense refuses to shelter the poor in a hurricane is unlikely to mobilize the moral passion necessary to overthrow George Bush, the most hated man on earth." -- Mike Davis

Disease claims first victims
Disease brewed by Hurricane Katrina claimed its first victims, as political polemics sharpened over the federal response to the United States' worst natural disaster.

07-Sep-05 Headlines :

Expect 40,000 Dead
A co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there. "DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.

Will the New National ID Track Your Movements?
By the end of September virtually unaccountable bureaucrats inside the Department of Homeland Security will likely have decided whether the new de facto national ID card will broadcast your sensitive identification information wherever you go— Minority Report style.

White & Black Alike, Unite Against The Bush Criminal Regime
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.

US economy takes big hit
As devastating storms go, hurricane Katrina has packed an unusually big punch to the United States economy.

Bush launches inquiry and puts himself in charge of it
President George Bush's political agenda - indeed his very standing as his country's leader - was on the line as Congress returned yesterday with anger and embarrassment at the botched response to Hurricane Katrina stretching across normal party divides on Capitol Hill.

Hey George - They've been "anticipating" a levee breach since 1832
For the length of one hundred and twenty miles, from the Balize to New Orleans, and one hundred miles above the town, the land is defended from the encroachments of the river by a high embankment which is called the Levee; without which the dwellings would speedily disappear, as the river is evidently higher than the banks would be without it. 

U.S. agency blocks photos of New Orleans dead
The U.S. government agency leading the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from the flooded New Orleans area.

UK urges new phone record rules
EU states should keep mobile phone and e-mail records for longer to help fight terrorism and crime, Home Secretary Charles Clarke has told MEPs.

Offers of Aid Immediate, but U.S. Approval Delayed for Days
Offers of foreign aid worth tens of millions of dollars -- including a Swedish water purification system, a German cellular telephone network and two Canadian rescue ships -- have been delayed for days awaiting review by backlogged federal agencies, according to European diplomats and information collected by the State Department.

EU security commissioner warns of more Qaeda attacks
The EU's security commissioner said on Saturday he believed suicide bombings in London in July were likely to have been the work of groups linked to al Qaeda and warned more attacks in Europe were to be expected.

Yahoo! 'gave e-mail details that helped jail Chinese writer'
Information supplied by the internet giant Yahoo! to Chinese intelligence has resulted in the conviction of a journalist for "divulging state secrets abroad", a respected international press organisation said.

UN chief''s son received cash from companies in probe
Kojo Annan, son of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, received more than 750,000 dollars from several oil trading companies now under investigation for their role in the UN's oil-for-food programme (OFFP) for Iraq, it was revealed here Wednesday.

In war, some facts less factual
When George H. W. Bush ordered American forces to the Persian Gulf – to reverse Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait – part of the administration case was that an Iraqi juggernaut was also threatening to roll into Saudi Arabia.

Why does the US need our money?
The Red Cross is appealing for people overseas to contribute money to its Hurricane Katrina Appeal. But why does the world's richest nation need handouts? The world's only superpower has been forced to turn to aid agencies to speed up the humanitarian effort in the wake of Katrina.

Corruption among UN senior staff, says inquiry
THE Volcker inquiry into the Oil-for-Food scandal called for a significant overhaul of the UN yesterday as it prepared to reveal details of “serious instances of illicit, unethical and corrupt behaviour” at the world body.

Activism on the increase should go hand in hand with understanding
Activism related to the Iraq War, 9/11 and other world events appears to be on the rise. In cities around the United States meetings exposing the truth of 9/11 and street demonstrations related to the Iraq war are resurfacing as public awareness grows on these subjects.

Able Danger adds twist to 9/11
Four years after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the US, the revelation of a top secret Pentagon operation adds a new twist to a story about which we still know very little.

Americans to Bush -- Withdraw Troops from Iraq
Two separate Gallup polls, detailed today in the organization's weekly report, show that Americans favor withdrawing some or all U.S. troops from Iraq.

Ketamine replaces ecstasy as the drug of choice
Use of the mind-altering drug ketamine is soaring in Britain, a new report has found. The tranquilliser, which is legally available, has gone from being a rarity confined to gay clubs in London to a widely used drug of choice, more popular than ecstasy in some areas.

White House shifts blame for Katrina response
Tens of thousands of people spent a fifth day awaiting evacuation from this ruined city, as Bush administration officials blamed state and local authorities for what leaders at all levels have called a failure of the country's emergency management.

NO2ID: Charles Clarke, ‘ID cards are about controlling society'
The Home Secretary has admitted that the purpose of ID cards scheme is to control society. In comments made to the Eastern Daily Press this weekend, the Home Secretary claimed that we already live in 'Big Brother society' and that it is his job to control it, branding civil liberties concerns "ridiculous" and independent costings of the scheme “absurd”. This, despite the fact that the Home Office response to the LSE report has be shown to contain fabricated figures.

Martian dunes hide water secret
Scientists have found evidence that large amounts of water-ice hide within massive sand dunes on Mars. One of the dunes, called Kaiser Dune, which spans 6.5km and rises 475m above the Martian surface, is among the largest in the Solar System.

Orleans' Saint Louis Cemetery II: Landmark Lesion Lesson
Prior to Katrina the juxtaposition of life and death in New Orleans was nowhere more apparent than in the contrast between Saint Louis Cemetery II and the Claiborne Avenue Overpass. The graveyard's dead silence was constantly interrupted by the hum, rumble and screech of 21st century traffic. Now something else has been interrupted.

Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead
Neither the death of the chief justice nor the frantic efforts of panicked White House political advisers can conceal the magnitude of the president's failure of leadership last week. The catastrophe in New Orleans billowed up like the howling winds of hell and was carried live and in color on television screens across the U.S. and around the world.

Putting the psi into science
ESP experiments may be unusual, but the method is rigorous even if the results are varied, says Oli Usher.

Revealed: MI6 plan to infiltrate extremists
British intelligence officers planned a 'black propaganda' campaign against Islamic extremists, infiltrating their groups through the internet, documents leaked to The Observer reveal.

Warnings went ignored as Bush slashed flood defence budget to pay for wars
Vital measures to protect New Orleans from "catastrophic" hurricane damage were scrapped by the Bush administration to pay for its wars on terror and in Iraq, despite official warnings of impending disaster.

"George Bush Doesn't Care About Black People"
"I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family and they say we are looting, you see a white family and they say they are looking for food. And, you know, its been five days because most of the people ARE black ... We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way. And now they've given them permission to go down and shoot us. George Bush doesn't care about black people."

- Kanye West, speaking to a nationally televised audience on NBC

At least 147 dead in Indonesian plane crash
An Indonesian passenger jet crashed into a residential area today shortly after takeoff, killing at least 147 people including dozens of people on the ground. Most of the plane's 116 passengers and crew perished but up to 16, including an 18-month-old boy and his mother, were reported to have survived. One official was quoted as saying 47 people on the ground were among the dead.

Bacteriologist and Government Insider Claims Oklahoma City and 9/11 Both 'Inside Jobs'
Despite threats on his life, Dr. Bill Deagle went public after being told by credible sources U.S. government brought about Oklahoma City bombing and 9/11 tragedy.

Brotherhood of the Bell: Black Arts & Black Sciences
The majority of people worldwide do not know what the terms Black Operations and Black Sciences mean or how they are used. Black Operations were developed after World War I; but, really flourished after World War II during the Cold War. Congress allocated money to the Pentagon, the CIA and other Defense Department sectors to make the United States military as strong as possible, but certain projects became more secret than others did.

Bush is now appealing for help from the EU, yet he spends billions of dollars on warfare.

'Five shot dead' in New Orleans
At least five people have reportedly been shot dead by police in the US city of New Orleans, where a massive effort is underway to aid hurricane survivors.

Is the Red Cross another Illuminati "charity" front group?
The Red Cross has a well documented history of fraud. Another catastrophe is always another chance to cheat the good hearted citizens of the USA.

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.

Halliburton hired for storm cleanup
The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co. to restore electric power, repair roofs and remove debris at three naval facilities in Mississippi damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so. KBR was assigned the work under a "construction capabilities" contract awarded in 2004 after a competitive bidding process. The company is not involved in the Army Corps of Engineers' effort to repair New Orleans' levees.

Homeland Security won't let Red Cross deliver food
As the National Guard delivered food to the New Orleans convention center yesterday, American Red Cross officials said that federal emergency management authorities would not allow them to do the same.

Al-Qaeda may have more film of London bombers
AL-QAEDA is reported to have more home-made film from the July 7 bombers. The additional footage is believed to include the gang's leader, Mohammad Siddique Khan, directly confessing to the attacks on London which killed 56 people

Charles Clarke: 'Big brother's here now'
Home Secretary Charles Clarke last night tried to breathe new life into his bid to introduce national identity cards and declared: "Big Brother society is already here and my job is to control it."

Friends claim Khan's statement was faked
Five young men sit in their cars on Maud Avenue in the early evening sunshine. Opposite, in Cross Flats park, another group of teenagers kicks a ball around a purpose-built football pitch designed to keep the young people of the deprived Leeds suburb of Beeston off the streets.

Criticism of Bush mounts as more than 10,000 feared dead
George Bush arrived last night in the ravaged Gulf coast region amid mounting criticism of his handling of the crisis and a prediction by one senator that the death toll in Louisiana alone could top 10,000 people.

Two months on from the bombings, government promises look hollow
In the wake of the London bombings, Tony Blair and Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, pledged swift and tough action against foreign-born terrorist sympathisers and Muslim clerics who preach hate. Two months on, these promises are looking at best increasingly rash and at worst doomed to fail in the face of opposition from human rights groups and costly legal battles with alleged extremists.

How Does Bush Sleep At Night? Delusions Under Siege
What is it that enables George Bush to sleep at night when his avarice and iniquity as a ruler exceed that of Marie Antoinette? Could it be that he slept through his history lectures about the French Revolution while he was at Yale? Perhaps his capacity to sleep soundly stems from having the most powerful military in the history of humanity at his disposal.

Editor: Why doesn't Bush understand that people are dying in New Orleans right now ? Talking of restoring lives back to normal in the long term is useless while thousands of people are struggling to survive. His short term solution is to shoot dead those who do try. People need aid and water, like yesterday. The media and Bush himself have arrived there, why has little aid been delivered from the wealthiest country in the world? At the very least, this isn't a great example of patriotism from Bush.

New Orleans mayor blasts Bush
A day before President George W. Bush headed to the hurricane-ravaged South, Mayor Ray Nagin lashed out at federal officials, telling a local radio station "they don't have a clue what's going on down here."

Troops deployed in anarchic New Orleans with shoot to kill orders
New Orleans was primed for all-out combat, as Iraq-tested troops with shoot-to-kill orders moved into the hurricane-devasted city to quell rioters and looters.

US braced for The Power of Nightmares
Acclaimed BBC2 documentary series The Power of Nightmares is heading for a big screen release in the US. Adam Curtis's award-winning documentary examined the history behind the September 11 terrorist attacks and argued that the al-Qaida threat had been exaggerated by Tony Blair and George Bush for political ends.

Bush shapes CIA in his own image
Before Pray-sident Bush was re-elected by a landslide of overwhelming popular support (thus giving him a mandate to continue robbing us of our civil liberties, transferring our tax dollars to his rich sponsors, and acting as chief recruiter for Osama bin Laden), he selected Porter Goss, a former Republican Congressman from Florida, to head the CIA.

“Transformation”: How Rumsfeld Smashed the National Guard
The changes that are taking place in the military under the deceptive name of “transformation” have nothing to do with national defense. Rather, the military is being converted into a taxpayer-subsidized security apparatus for multinational corporations.

UK Gov must meet biometric standards on ID cards
Any national identity card introduced in the UK will have to meet new international standards for biometrics.

Al Qaeda Deputy Says Britain's Policies to Blame for Bombings
Al Qaeda's second in command said on a tape broadcast Thursday that the July 7 bombings in London were a direct response to Britain's foreign policies and its rejection of a truce that the terrorist network offered Europe in April 2004.

Cyberspace Defined
In cyberspace, people pretend they are someone they are not all the time. A big part of the cybergame is figuring out what the difference is between who they say they are and who they actually are. Just like in real life.

London bomber video aired on TV
One of the four suicide bombers behind the 7 July London Tube attacks which killed 52 people has appeared in a tape obtained by an Arab TV station.

Iraq begins to bury stampede dead
The first funerals are taking place in Iraq of the victims of Wednesday's stampede during a Shia religious procession in the capital, Baghdad. More than 960 people died in the stampede, apparently triggered by rumours of an imminent suicide attack.

Thousands Feared Drowned in New Orleans
With thousands feared drowned in what could be America's deadliest natural disaster in a century, New Orleans' leaders all but surrendered the streets to floodwaters Wednesday and began turning out the lights on the ruined city — perhaps for months.

FBI, Michigan Police Tag Peace, Affirmative Actions Groups as 'Terrorists'
An FBI document, released on August 29 by the ACLU, shows extensive monitoring of a whole bunch of organizations. The document, dated January 29, 2002, is a summary of a domestic terrorism symposium that was held six days previously.

Who Opened the New Orleans Floodgates?
As the federal government takeover of New Orleans continues and the helpless masses beg the state for refuge and assurance, the media is ignoring the key fact that it was the federal government itself that lowered the guard in cutting off key funding to protect Louisiana from natural disasters.

Digital Readers Developed for London Underground
The terrorist attacks on the London Underground recently has tested the capabilities of CCTV systems that are commonplace in the underground stations but which are in limited use on the trains.

Hallmark of Bush presidency: control over information flow
Disagreements with President Johnson over the Vietnam War drove Congress to circumscribe the powers of the presidency so much that when Johnson left the White House in 1969, it was said it would take until the end of the century to restore those lost powers. Thanks to a succession of weak presidents, the end of the century arrived without much having been done in this respect.

America's Corrupt Legal System
The tragic reality of the world's biggest corrupt legal system - America's rigged courts, bribed judges, fake and phony trials, extortion by lawyers, and over 2 million prisoners in the USA gulag.

Blair's vision of a new world order is critically tainted
It is a measure of the government's concern about its inability to shake off the controversy over Iraq that the prime minister felt it necessary to alter his schedule to deliver a lengthy philosophical defence of his actions in Sedgefield last Friday. He wants us to move on from the fine detail of disputed intelligence claims and the nitpicking over the attorney general's legal advice and start focusing on the bigger picture: the threat of a terrorist inspired "Armageddon" and policies needed to pre-empt it.

Halliburton Contracts Illegal - But Bush Busts The Whistleblower
In October, 2004, Bunnatine Greenhouse, a top military official responsible for making sure the Army Corps of Engineers complies with contracting rules, came forward and revealed that top Pentagon officials showed improper favoritism to Halliburton when awarding military contracts.