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How the Free Market Killed New Orleans

04-09-2005 17:22

The free market played a crucial role in the destruction of New Orleans and the death of thousands of its residents. Armed with advanced warning that a momentous (force 5) hurricane was going to hit that city and surrounding areas, what did officials do? They played the free market.

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New Orleans: Billions in Overseas Aid to US Refused by US Government

03-09-2005 18:35

The United States Government and its People Respectfully Decline your offer of assistance...

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Judgement - Video

03-09-2005 17:23

Video
This Poem filmed outside the social centre in Manchester is called Judgement by Carol Batton, a psychiatric system survivor.

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American Meltdown - Get Ready For Next Un-Natural Disaster

03-09-2005 16:57

The Bush Administration is taking clear steps to make the American people defenseless against their own government. Meanwhile, plans to attack Iran have been made. All citizens around the world should prepare for the worst.

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Hurricane Katrina's aftermath: From national disaster to national humiliation

03-09-2005 15:25

The central lesson of New Orleans is that the elementary requirements of mass society are incompatible with a system that subordinates everything to the enrichment of a financial oligarchy.

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Notes from Inside New Orleans

03-09-2005 11:29

The following is a short report and background piece about the situation in New Orleans from the perspective of a radical union organiser who is based there.

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School to make evolution optional

03-09-2005 05:58

Unintelligent debate over intelligent design
It may be less heavy-handed, but the actions of the Kansas board are just as political -- and no more based in science -- than the tactics of the Dover school board. With all due respect to our elected officials, including the president, decisions about what counts as good science in public schools must be made by scientists, not politicians.

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New Old Orleans

03-09-2005 04:18

The inadequate response to the recent crisis in New Orleans is not surprising in view of the ideology of American conservatism, specifically its social Darwinist aspects. Social welfare rates extremely low on the conservative scale of priorities; egocentric endeavours and an individual focus outweighs concern for the group; if the people complain then “let them eat cake”, but in New Orleans, let them eat air!

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While Bush prevaricates, Venezuela offers help to US poor

02-09-2005 18:54

Venezuela was the first country to offer help to the United States in dealing with the effects of Hurricane Katrina.

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cap reform

02-09-2005 17:02

this is from the list.. it may be of relevance to you.. if so best wishes. et all.
its a difficult issue that really gets annoying.. please email me if you have any better info or ideas
 lifestation2004@yahoo.co.uk

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Another Victory for Tony Blair in Iraq

02-09-2005 14:49

In case the treatment of the Katrina victims by Imperator Bush made you miss it .

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Saudis warned British, U.S. about threat against London

02-09-2005 13:24

Months before the deadly July 7 suicide bombings in London, Saudi Arabia told the British and U.S. governments that it had arrested a young Saudi man who confessed to raising money in the Gulf region for a terrorist attack in crowded areas of the British capital this summer, officials said.

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Terror: European Union & US neocons against Iran

02-09-2005 12:21

Tomorrow the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will - concerning Iran - report the figures below. The question of course is: with Iran under daily control, who are the criminals within the European Union advocating more war, and who profits* from it?

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In Iraq, a man-made disaster

01-09-2005 23:44

Martyrdom has always been a foundation of the Shia Muslim faith. But yesterday's tragedy gave it new meaning: possibly as many as 1,000 men, women and children were killed when they fell from a bridge over the Tigris river in Baghdad, apparently fearful that a suicide bomber had been let loose among them.

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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/2/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

01-09-2005 23:28

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.

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Anarchy in New Orleans?

01-09-2005 23:28

“Anarchy Disrupts US Storm Relief”claims the BBC. “Scenes of Anarchy in Super dome” declares CNN. “Anarchy in the streets”. But what's really going on in New Orleans? Whether or not the hurricane itself is the result of human actions is questionable, but what is clear is that the chaos and death in the Big Easy are anything but the result of anarchy.

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Indymedia based around bioregion

01-09-2005 15:01

It makes sense to me for Indymedia to move out of the state constructs of 'state' and 'region' by redefining ourselves as part of a bio-region we reconnect ourselves to the ecology on which we depend.

I found a map of bio regions which i attach

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A simplified version of TASER's Accounts

01-09-2005 06:41

TASER INTERNATIONAL Inc has published its Accounts for the year 2003. This is a simple version of that report. The company is developing a stun gun that can be used from a helicopter. They also have a smaller version that fits on a polioce officer's belt, making it easy to carry around. They are now selling directly to consumers, with all the product liability that that entails. They have at least one law suit to face , a claim of unspecified monetary damages.etc, etc.

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Art of War : Hostage of the "Christian Right"

01-09-2005 02:40

War Prisoner
Hostage of the "Christian Right"

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Words Apart

31-08-2005 18:15

How the language of the war on terror divides us.
First published in Big Issue Cymru, Aug 2005