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BLACKWATER AND THE RED CROSS
By Naomi Archer

Yesterday I drove to the Algiers Red Cross distribution point which is
located in the southern section of the Algiers neighborhood near the
middle-class white section of town. As soon as I walked in, I noticed a
frowning young man in a khaki shirt and black hat with a sidearm and
corporate logo prominently displayed. Blackwater Security is now providing
security to the Red Cross! That's right, you heard correctly. Armed
mecenaries are providing security to a (supposedly) humanitarian relief
organization. I spoke with three Red Cross volunteers about what was going
on with their distribution and pointed out that Blackwater is a group of
armed mercenaries - corporate contractors who have a very bad reputation. I
offerred the question - who are they accountable to?" A well meaning
volunteer from Vermont said that the Blackwater guys were very nice and they
offered protection. I asked, "Who do you need protection from?" The
conversation ended. So if you donated money to the Red Cross, you are
supporting extra-legal armed mercenaries who were observed shooting people
out of French Quarter windows following Katrina. Hurricane relief at
gunpoint. Aren't you proud?

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Other articles of interest

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/27/1433256
After the Hurricane: Where Have All the Prisoners Gone? More Than 500 From
New Orleans Jail Still Unaccounted For
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now

A month after Hurricane Katrina, serious questions remain about the fate of
hundreds of prisoners in New Orleans. Human Rights Watch says there are 517
unaccounted for, while prisoners and their lawyers say many were abandoned
in the flooding jails.

http://spinach7.com/signature/sig-stories.php?id=505
Dr Doom?
Adam Fenderson, Signature

It might be said, that by most conventional standards, we are simply fucked.
One of the first websites devoted to Peak Oil was Jay Hanson's DieOff.org
and as the name suggests, it anticipates the collapse of industrial
civilisation - taking much of the human population with it. Accepting the
Peak Oil thesis can produce a kind of survivalist mindset, or a bleak
acceptance. Colin Campbell, in his gentle and genial way, stresses that this
isn't necessarily a doomsday scenario, but even he takes for granted that
the world's population will likely drop dramatically. So how then, can one
explain a conference devoted to Peak Oil, where the mood was positive, and
offered a sense of opportunity?

http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/24/flash-mobs-history.html
The Short Life of Flash Mobs
Francis Heaney, Stay Free!

Who'd have thought a single email designed to mock New York scenesters would
have turned into an international craze? The founder of flash mobs talks to
Stay Free! about his experiment in social networking.

http://villagevoice.com/people/0539,bussel,68184,24.html
Panel sex: Telling stories of boredom, ecstasy, impotence, and onanism
Rachel Kramer Bussel, Village Voice

These artists probe the erotic, frustrating, sad, or simply odd places sex
takes us. If you're looking only for 38DD breasts, nonstop orgasms, and XXX
action, True Porn is not the comic book for you. Why? Because that's not
what real-life sex consists of, at least not all (or probably even most) of
the time.

http://kurtnimmo.com/?p=40
Shooting Palestinians Like Fish in a Barrel
Kurt Nimmo, Another Day in the Empire

Best write this while I can, because the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes
Prevention Act of 2005 has passed in the House (thus eliminating once and
for all the First Amendment), and I will not be allowed to criticize the
criminal state of Israel (or for that matter America) much longer.

http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0506c.asp
Afghan Absurdities
James Bovard, FFF

Americans have heard many news reports about Bush administration falsehoods
on Iraq. However, the scams of Afghanistan have not gotten as much attention
as they deserve. Following are some examples of how the Bush administration
has misled the American people regarding Afghanistan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10428.htm
Absurdities & Atrocities
John S. Hatch, ICH

Absurdities and atrocities have come to largely define America in the new
millennium. Who would have thought that the United States of America would
embrace the practice of torture as a matter of policy? Torture, with all its
grim, sadistic, soul destroying, screaming implications. The President
endorses torture. The Attorney General made it possible. President Karimov
of Uzbekistan boils enemies alive. 'Blowtorch Bob' D'Aubisson of El Salvador
loved to burn people. Ronnie Reagan had nuns raped. It was called 'fighting
for freedom'. George is a freedom fighter right up there with the best of
them. The shah was a freedom fighter. General Noriega, to a point. Pinochet.
Enemies of the US hate it for its 'freedom'. Damn right. Freedom from the
rule of law. America recently advanced 'freedom' by sodomizing young boys at
Abu Grahaib, where they torture children to manipulate their parents.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2005/092905.html
'Frog-Marching' Bush to the Hague
Robert Parry, Consortium News

In a healthy democracy, the debate might be less about imprisoning England
and other "grunts" than whether Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other
war architects should be "frog-marched" to the Hague for prosecution as war
criminals.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0928-02.htm
Global Warming: Death in the Deep-Freeze
Kate Ravilious, The Independent (UK)

As global warming melts the world's ice sheets, rising sea levels are not
the only danger. Viruses hidden for thousands of years may thaw and escape -
and we will have no resistance to them.

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NewsWire

http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2677
Disappearing Antiwar Protests: Media shrug off mass movement against war

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4209.shtml
American propaganda outlet illegally takes over Palestinian radio station

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/26064/
NBC Propaganda Mouthpiece Tim Russert Gets Tough -- on victims

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L28327739.htm
Reuters says U.S. troops obstruct reporting of Iraq

http://beta.news.com.com/2100-7352_3-5883032.html
Broadband & Internet phone services have until spring 2007 to follow rules
designed to make it easier for police to seek wiretaps

http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7445.shtml
Depressed and demoralized White House: "We're the dance band on the Titanic"

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/092805R.shtml
More good news: "The President's Policies in Iraq Are Breaking the United
States Army"

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N28310515.htm
Move along, nothing to see here: Army quickly ends probe on porn site photos
of Iraq corpses

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/09/22/usdom11773.htm
Prisoners Abandoned to Floodwaters: Officers Deserted a Jail Building,
Leaving Inmates Locked in Cells

http://www.rense.com/general67/mil.htm
The actual first responders: Military Recruiters Showed Up Before FEMA, Red
Cross

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-2-1798944-2,00.html
Study: Religion unnecessary for healthy society, may actually contribute to
social problems

http://newstandardnews.net/content/index.cfm/items/2405
St. Patrick's Four Found Not Guilty on Major Charges

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/9DF7068A-04EF-4882-98D0-391F05FB0D0B.htm
Iraqis furious over sentence handed down to Lynndie England

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Atta known to Pentagon before 9/11

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=J5UIOSKYKEZUFQFIQMFSM5WAVCBQ0JVC?xml=/news/2005/09/29/nlab29.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/29/ixportaltop.html
82-year old activist who called Straw a liar is held under terrorist law<

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Arctic ice 'disappearing quickly'

http://news.yahoo.com/s/oneworld/45361195801127935317
Fossil Fuels Set to Become Relics

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/yhoo/story.asp?source=blq/yhoo&siteid=yhoo&dist=yhoo&guid=%7B93D34362%2D4AF0%2D49CD%2DBD4E%2D8A6424290FE3%7D
Natural gas hits all-time high, oil supplies fall for 5th straight week,
gasoline price spikes upward

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=alOJoz3HoV2o&refer=us
Signs U.S. Energy Supplies Will Plunge

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/034a384e-2f8a-11da-8b51-00000e2511c8.html
Hurricane Rita caused more damage to oil rigs than any other storm in
history

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British industry facing blackouts and thousands of job losses this winter
because of gas shortages

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Iraqi Oil Output Forecast is Bleak

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0927-08.htm
Baghdad in the Dark as Power Cuts Continue to Blight the City

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