Friday, September 30, 2005

Afghanistan urged to fast-track legalisation of opium crop

Thursday, September 29, 2005

Wildfire Only 5 Percent Contained: Flames Continue To Threaten Homes, Force Evacuations

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Martial Law: Police State America - We're So Close Now

Bush eyes bigger military role in disasters

CNN.com

Or for peak oil crisis?

Rita causes record damage to oil rigs

FT.com / In depth / Hurricane impact

Earth's auto-immune system

'Caveman' Conditions in Texas Follow Rita

BREITBART.COM - Just The News

Bush hints at peak oil crisis.

Human cases of bird flu reach 42 in Indonesia

Forecasts warn major hurricane likely in October

Oil reserves are double previous estimates, says Saudi

China sets blueprint for fighting flu pandemic

Tuesday, September 27, 2005

Haroon Aswat?FBI agent threatens former USDA federal agent.

New Criminologist "Haroon Aswat ? the man British Police believe was behind the London bombings ? was working for MI6, it has been confirmed by leading U.S. and French intelligence asset/agents."

NYPD says MSGI Security trial halted after one day

CNN

Monday, September 26, 2005

Breton: Greenspan says U.S. 'lost control' of budget deficit

CNN

Armed and dangerous - Flipper the firing dolphin let loose by Katrina

Sunday, September 25, 2005

Weather Modification a Long-Established, Though Secretive, Reality

911 Flight 93 Passengers 'Lost'

H5N1 influenza strain raises concern about a pandemic

Infectious Disease News

If the virus mutates and can efficiently transmit from person to person, it could cause a deadly pandemic.
by Marie Rosenthal
Editor in Chief



September 2005

WASHINGTON ? The human avian H5N1 influenza cases occurring in Asia bring the threat of an influenza pandemic ever closer to our shores, said Benjamin Schwartz, MD, at a press conference sponsored here by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.

So far, there has been no confirmed person-to-person transmission, but if the strain mutates and develops that transmission capability, it could cause a deadly pandemic.

The Trust for America?s Health (TFAH) released state-by-state projections that found more than 500,000 Americans could die and more than 2.3 million could be hospitalized if a moderately severe strain of a pandemic influenza virus hit this country. Based on its estimates, 67 million Americans are at risk of contracting the pandemic influenza strain. A pandemic with the H5N1 strain could be worse though, according to Schwartz. The mortality rate so far is higher than 50%.
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A possible pandemic

One would be hard pressed to find a public health official or infectious disease specialist who does not believe a pandemic is possible and probable, and that this H5N1 strain increases the likelihood of it being sooner rather than later. ?I think [H5N1] has all of us not only fascinated, but anxious. I did not think that it would spread that quickly,? William Schaffner, MD, told Infectious Disease News.

?Influenza pandemics occur when a new influenza strain to which most or all of the population is susceptible spreads among people. This new strain can develop by the sharing of genetic material between avian and human influenza virus strains, either in a coinfected animal such as a pig or in humans, or possibly by mutation of an avian influenza strain,? explained Schwartz, who is senior service advisor, National Vaccine Program Office at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and who is working on the national pandemic plan.

The chance of a recombination depends on the viral strain and how widespread it is among humans and animals. This is why the current H5N1 strain in Asia represents a major pandemic threat. Its scope is unprecedented, Schwartz said. H5N1, which can be asymptomatic, infects domestic poultry and wild waterfowl. Infected migrating birds can carry the virus long distances as well.

People with H5N1 infection generally have severe disease, Schwartz said. ?Unlike the flu that occurs in the United States each year, which most often causes mild disease, reported H5N1 cases usually progress to pneumonia, frequently progress to respiratory failure and accompanying multiorgan system failure and, in more than half of all cases, death occurs.?

A normal flu season tends to kill the most vulnerable populations: the elderly, infants and those with chronic conditions. Most of the H5N1 deaths have occurred in young and previously healthy individuals, Schwartz added.

The ongoing disease in domestic and wild poultry and the evolution of the H5N1 virus, which appears to be adapting to spread among mammals, point to a growing threat. ?However, it is unclear whether this strain of H5N1 will ever acquire the ability for efficient and sustained transmission among people,? he said.

So, public health officials prepare for a pandemic with an eye on H5N1, but a realization that the threat could be lurking somewhere else. The influenza pandemic of 1918 probably started in the middle of the United States, although it is difficult to pinpoint exactly where.

Many steps must be taken to prepare for a pandemic. Surveillance must be enhanced. The production capacity of influenza vaccines and antiviral drugs must be increased, and the capabilities of the health care systems to respond must be improved to reduce death and severe illness among those who contract the disease.

?Early detection of influenza among animals and people is critical,? Schwartz said, but many countries affected by avian influenza lack good surveillance systems, as well as the necessary laboratory, epidemiologic and veterinarian staff.

The NIH and WHO have provided money and manpower to improve the surveillance infrastructure of Asian countries, to strengthen detection and response capabilities, and to improve data management and information sharing.
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From detection to protection

Vaccination will be the primary prevention strategy in a pandemic. ?However, we face substantial challenges in developing and producing pandemic vaccine. Developing a vaccine to a new influenza strain may take up to six months,? Schwartz said, which makes early detection even more critical.

Even if there is a vaccine, the need will exceed production capacity. ?Unlike annual influenza, where we focus our efforts on only part of the population, in a pandemic, everyone will be susceptible and vaccination most likely will be recommended universally,? he said. ?And because every country, not just the United States, will be experiencing the pandemic, we assume that only vaccine manufactured within the United States will be available for our population, despite preexisting contractual agreements.?

There are only two companies with U.S. influenza vaccine manufacturing plants, Sanofi and MedImmune. Each season, Sanofi makes about 60 million doses of the inactivated trivalent vaccine, Fluzone. During a pandemic, the company said it might be able to deliver 4 million doses per week. MedImmune also said it would ramp up production of its intranasal vaccine if a pandemic occurred, but this vaccine is not indicated as broadly as the inactivated vaccine.

?Our current flu vaccine is grown in embryonated eggs and to guard against disruption of this critical raw material, we have entered into a contract that assures the year-round ability to produce influenza vaccine and to guard against shortages,? he said.

The NIH is exploring ways to make vaccine using cell culture instead, which would double the ability to manufacture U.S. influenza vaccine, and it is trying to develop dose-stretching strategies that enhance the immune response but use less antigen in each dose. This would increase the supply by several fold, he said.

The New York Times recently reported that studies using an experimental H5N1 vaccine were efficacious. There is a small stockpile of H5N1 vaccine, and the United States plans to stockpile 20 million doses of this vaccine. However, the Census Bureau says there are 294 million people in the United States, so only a small portion of the population would be vaccinated.

?The country remains vulnerable, especially in the beginning, and HHS will have to define priorities for vaccination in the first wave of a pandemic,? Schwartz said.

Regardless of ramped up production, it is clear that many people would not be vaccinated immediately. Priority groups will need to be defined. This is going to be difficult. The 1918 pandemic strain attacked young and previously healthy people, as the H5N1 strain seems to be doing, but the 1957 and 1968 pandemic strains went after the typical influenza victims: the elderly and infants.

Vaccine recommendations might target the same people who are at risk during a normal influenza season or they might target those who are critical to pandemic response and societal function, such as health care, police, fire and corrections workers, as well as those who maintain critical infrastructure like utility, sanitation and transportation workers.

It might be a good idea to use the first batch of H5N1 vaccine to prime the immune system of the targeted audience because two doses might be needed for complete protection against a new virus, explained Schaffner, professor and chairman of the department of preventive medicine and professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tenn. However, there are no data to support that approach, and some experts think it could be an unnecessary exposure to a vaccine, he added.

?If it is necessary to give two doses, if you start from ground zero, you have a longer distance to run to get people protected,? he said, but you can get a ?running start? if you give some doses to the priority groups. ?A lot depends on how much can be manufactured, how much we are comfortable having in the stockpile and whether we can make some more and already start immunizing with the first dose if two are necessary,? Schaffner added.

There is also the problem of confusing the public, which may not be able to distinguish the H5N1 vaccine from the annual influenza vaccine, according to Schaffner.

Although the United States will try to prevent disease with vaccination, people will still develop influenza, so antiviral drugs will be a primary treatment strategy because they reduce flu severity and decrease complications and hospitalizations. ?Because the global production capacity of effective drugs is limited, antivirals maintained in the strategic national stockpile will comprise our main supply,? Schwartz said, adding that the stockpile has 2.3 million treatment courses of oseltamivir (Tamiflu, Roche), but the government plans to purchase enough to increase it to 20 million courses.

More than 2 million Americans may need hospitalization during a moderately severe pandemic, but there are only about 965,000 staff hospital beds, according to the TFAH report.
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Preparing for a pandemic

The CDC and HRSA have provided $1.35 billion toward helping states become prepared for national and bioterrorist health threats, Schwartz said. The money is being used to complete the states? preparedness plans, to conduct preparedness exercises, to improve collaboration between public and private sectors and to increase the surge capacity by increasing the number of staff and hospital beds by 15% to 20%, according to Schwartz.

Schaffner said Schwartz?s comments about increasing capacity sound as though more staff and beds will be available. ?I wonder if that is the case. At least in our neck of the woods, that money has gone to better prepare ourselves for trying with existing resources to take care of a larger percentage of patients,? he explained. Vanderbilt put those preparedness plans to the test two years ago when influenza hit the area hard and early. ?We put phase 1 of our plan into effect, and what that means is that you review every patient in the hospital and decide whether they can be discharged a half a day or a day sooner than previously planned,? he said, so that the bed can be made available to the influenza patient.

Phase 2 would curtail elective admission, and phase 3 of the Vanderbilt plan would designate entire wards as influenza wards, changing certain step-down units into acute care units.

?Notice, we didn?t build any more beds; notice, we didn?t hire any more nurses. We would anticipate when this sort of outbreak hits that just about every hospital in town is full and all the agency nurses are working somewhere,? Schaffner said.

Schwartz said all states have drafted preparedness plans and submitted them to the CDC for review. In addition, 90% have conducted emergency response drills, 90% have surge capacity plans and 60% have reported they already have reached surge capacity objectives. At the hospital level, 97% participate in regional planning groups and 95% report having plans to extend their staffing in the event of an emergency. This leaves 10% to 40% of states in each category unprepared.

?Substantial human and financial resources have been devoted to the pandemic preparedness, and substantial progress has been made in surveillance, vaccine and antiviral and health care system preparedness,? Schwartz said. Still he admitted, ?we will always be able to be more prepared.?

Schaffner agreed. He said public health services and experts like Schwartz are doing a ?heck of a job? trying to prepare for a global pandemic. ?Pandemic planning is coping. It can?t prevent pandemics. We will never have enough vaccine. We won?t have enough antiviral agents, we won?t have enough hospital beds, we won?t have enough doctors, we won?t have enough nurses and we won?t have enough pharmacists. You name it, we won?t have enough of them,? Schaffner said. ?All of this planning hopes to modulate and moderate the impact of a brand new, possibly highly virulent influenza strain on our society and on the global society.?

If the pandemic hits in November, Schwartz explained, ?we will respond with all of the capabilities and capacities we have available. If the pandemic hits the following influenza season, we will have more capacities and capabilities and will probably respond better.?

Jackson schools' week cut to 4 days

Friday, September 23, 2005

Rita Causes New Flooding in New Orlean

Mayfield to Congress: Expect More Hurricanes

First Coast News | Florida State News

But not, mind you, owing to greenhouse gas emissions insanity.

Pocatello Idaho State Journal: Forecaster leaves job to pursue weather theories

blames the Japanese Mafia for Hurricane Katrina

Maybe a rogue element of environmental extremists have infiltrated the EPA, and, together with Wen Ho Lee and Janet Reno, they're planning to invade the US with the Red Chinese in black helicopters once they've blown Washington, DC and Crawford, Texas into the ocean.

MSGI starts NYC subway security program

CNN

Economic signs were bad before Katrina

Economic index expects bump in road ahead

Not hurricanes, oil prices, or terrorists, but the normal capitalist cycle that always leads into world war.

SEC probes HCA stock sales by Frist ahead of warning

CNN

Four more SEC probes and he'll be ready for Bush's job.

This is global warming, says environmental chief

Independent Online Edition > Americas : app1 "As Hurricane Rita threatens devastation, scientist blames climate change"

Thursday, September 22, 2005

Senators Accuse Pentagon of Obstructing Inquiry on Sept. 11 Plot

New York Times

Since you're busted, you're better off taking over the investigation yourself so you can sweep it under the rug in the end.

Hi-tech weapons which Iraqi police said were confiscated from the two undercover British soldiers after their arrest in Basra yesterday.

Nine H5N1 Admissions Today Including Four Ragunan Zoo Visitors

Seventh H5N1 Fatality in Jakarta Denied Treatment

H5N1 In Indonesia Evolving Via Recombination

WHO Cautious Over Deadly Indonesian Bird Flu Outbreak

'Superbug' Germ Kills 3 in Chicago

N. Korea Accuses U.S. of Plotting Attack

Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Pet Owners Warned About New Flu

More than 1,000 missing after South Asian storm

Pentagon Nixes 9/11 Hearing Testimony

Hurricane Rita

Northrop wins U.S. missile deal worth up to $2.5 billion

CNN

British troops in pitched battle in Basra

WSWS

"On Monday, September 19, two British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers were arrested in the southern city of Basra. The SAS is the British Army?s covert special operations and dirty tricks unit. Dressed to look like Arabs, the two soldiers were driving a white car, allegedly packed with weapons and explosives, when Iraqi police challenged them at a security checkpoint."

Forces Get Fizz-ical Over Rations

Ananova

Super Gatorade for the troops from GlaxoSmithKline

Airline To Trial In-Flight Mobile Calls

Ananova

Given the danger of interfering with a plane's navigation system, and the supernatural navigation that they needed, it's surprising that the 9/11 hijackers paid no attention to passengers' cell phones.

Insurgents 'infiltrate Iraq police'

Ananova

It seems it's hard to tell the difference now between British troops, Iraqi police, and 'insurgents.' Insurgents who kill Iraqi police are British 'undercover' troops. Insurgents who capture 'undercover' British troops are Iraqi police. Insurgents who attack Iraqi police to free insurgents are British troops attacking insurgents to free hostages. Now Iraqi police are insurgents. What's next? British troops infiltrate insurgents who infiltrate Iraqi police? Undercover British troops battle undercover Americans in sting operation gone wrong?

Indonesia says bird flu outbreak an epidemic

Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Mayor Suspends Reopening of New Orleans

Lab Accidents May Lead to SARS Outbreaks

World has slim chance to stop flu pandemic

H5N1 Pandemic In Jakarta, Approaches Pandemic Phase 6

Monday, September 19, 2005

Megastorm

Tropical Storm Rita gaining muscle

Friday, September 16, 2005

Indonesia Reports 4th Human Bird Flu Death

Thursday, September 15, 2005

Delta and Northwest airlines both file for bankruptcy

Ophelia hammers North Carolina coast

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

DeLay declares 'victory' in war on budget fat

Virgin plans oil refinery

Delta, Northwest Face Possible Bankruptcy

Security gridlock as New York prepares for UN World Summit

Monday, September 12, 2005

Access denied

The Observer | Review

"This is the golden age of the internet, a time of glorious anarchy where information is free and anyone, rich or poor, can blog their views to the world. But government and big business are moving in - the clampdown has started."

Sunday, September 11, 2005

Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans

Bush lifts wage rules for Katrina

Info Clearing House

Instead of price controls or works programs funded by the federal government.

Saturday, September 10, 2005

New Orleans: the specter of military dictatorship

EU states downplay risk as bird flu spreads toward Western Europe

Colin Powell on Iraq, Race, and Hurricane Relief



Colin Powell confesses to war crimes and announces his bid for the presidency.

"Sep. 9, 2005 - In 35 years of service as a soldier, Colin Powell earned a reputation as the quintessential disciplined warrior. As secretary of state in President Bush's first term, Powell was widely seen as a disciplined, moderate -- and loyal -- voice for the administration. Now out of government service, Powell is airing openly his disappointments and frustration on everything from the invasion of Iraq to the federal response to Hurricane Katrina."

Attempting to salvage his political career, Powell distances himself from the Bush administration.

"Powell, 68, who recently visited storm survivors at Reunion Arena in Dallas, said he was "deeply moved" by the families displaced by the devastating storm and was critical of the preparations for Hurricane Katrina. "I think there have been a lot of failures at a lot of levels -- local, state and federal. There was more than enough warning over time about the dangers to New Orleans. Not enough was done. I don't think advantage was taken of the time that was available to us, and I just don't know why," Powell told ABC News' Barbara Walters in an exclusive interview airing Friday night at 10 p.m. on "20/20.""

It's actually quite clear why. At least it's clear that appropriations for public works to prevent foreseeable disasters at the expense of tax welfare for Republican financiers is contrary to the corporate capitalist agenda that now controls all federal policy. It's not clear why FEMA engaged in so much active denial of access to aid relief attempts.

"Powell doesn't think race was a factor in the slow delivery of relief to the hurricane victims as some have suggested. "I don't think it's racism, I think it's economic," he told Walters.

"When you look at those who weren't able to get out, it should have been a blinding flash of the obvious to everybody that when you order a mandatory evacuation, you can't expect everybody to evacuate on their own. These are people who don't have credit cards; only one in 10 families at that economic level in New Orleans have a car. So it wasn't a racial thing -- but poverty disproportionately affects African-Americans in this country. And it happened because they were poor," he said."

He declined to suggest a means of ameliorating this apparent injustice, however, beyond the implication that you'd better get rich quick, whatever your race.

"Making False Case for War Still 'Painful'

When Powell left the Bush administration in January 2005, he was widely seen as having been at odds with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney over foreign policy choices.

It was Powell who told the United Nations and the world that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and posed an imminent threat. He told Walters that he feels "terrible" about the claims he made in that now-infamous address -- assertions that later proved to be false."

There are, of course, different ways of feeling terrible and different ways of finding things painful; just ask the Abu Ghraib prisoners. One can regret making an error, or missing a target; one can regret being duped into committing a crime; or one can feel guilty about consciously committing a crime. One can also feel terrible about the threat to his political prospects of publicly acknowledged war crimes. One can feel terrible about the bombs falling on one's head, or one can feel terrible about dropping bombs on other people's heads. Which is it?

"When asked if he feels it has tarnished his reputation, he said, "Of course it will. It's a blot. I'm the one who presented it on behalf of the United States to the world, and [it] will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It's painful now."

He doesn't blame former CIA Director George Tenet for the misleading information he says he pored over for days before delivering his speech; he faults the intelligence system.

"George Tenet did not sit there for five days with me misleading me. He believed what he was giving to me was accurate. ? The intelligence system did not work well," he said."

I gather from this circuitous self-flagellation that Powell's tale is that Tenet, misled intentionally by unnamed underlings, presented him false causi belli thinking them all true. Powell was therefore fooled because of Tenet's credible authority. He claims, therefore, that he believed what he told the UN, and his terrible painful feelings about it are not those of a guilty criminal.

"Nonetheless, Powell said, some lower-level personnel in the intelligence community failed him and the country. "There were some people in the intelligence community who knew at that time that some of these sources were not good, and shouldn't be relied upon, and they didn't speak up. That devastated me," he said."

"That" apparently refers to the discovery that Tenet had been deceived by a shadowy motiveless conspiracy in the intelligence community. "Devastated" apparently refers to an emotional episode of some kind.

"While Powell ultimately supported the president's decision to invade Iraq, he acknowledges that he was hesitant about waging war. "I'm always a reluctant warrior. And I don't resent the term, I admire the term, but when the president decided that it was not tolerable for this regime to remain in violation of all these U.N. resolutions, I'm right there with him with the use of force," he said."

That's only considered honorable when the war is not an illegal genocide for plunder based upon lies which one has himself legitimized, sorry.

"Powell told Walters he is unfazed by criticism that he put loyalty to the president over leadership. "Loyalty is a trait that I value, and yes, I am loyal. And there are some who say, 'Well, you shouldn't have supported it. You should have resigned.' But I'm glad that Saddam Hussein is gone. I'm glad that that regime is gone," he said."

And I don't care how many and how many more people have to have their lives destroyed because of it. Sieg heil!

"When Walters pressed Powell about that support, given the "mess" that the invasion has yielded, Powell said, "Who knew what the whole mess was going to be like?""

I did.

"While he said he is glad that Saddam's regime was toppled, Powell acknowledged that he has seen no evidence of a link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 terrorist attack. "I have never seen a connection. ... I can't think otherwise because I'd never seen evidence to suggest there was one," he told Walters.

Despite his differences with the administration, Powell said he never considered resigning in protest. "I'm not a quitter. And it wasn't a moral issue, or an act of a failure of an active leadership. It was knowing what we were heading into, and when the going got rough, you don't walk out," he told Walters."

Or not knowing as per the previous "Who knew?" whichever serves. As president, how will you separate the launching of military invasions from "moral issues?" and what precisely is "an act of a failure of an active leadership?"

"Stay the Course in Iraq

When asked what steps he would take in Iraq, Powell said, "I think there is little choice but to keep investing in the Iraqi armed forces, and to do everything we can to increase their size and their capability and their strength," he said."

A good start would be to stop paying people to bomb them, but I see we're not going to get to such issues here. That "there is little choice" is certain, now that, somehow, by some publicly pronounced lies or other, the crypto-fascist coup d'etat occupying the White House and Pentagon can not be stopped.

"Still, he questions some of the administration's post-invasion planning. "What we didn't do in the immediate aftermath of the war was to impose our will on the whole country, with enough troops of our own, with enough troops from coalition forces, or, by re-creating the Iraqi forces, armed forces, more quickly than we are doing now. [or knocking them off more slowly. ed.] And it may not have turned out to be such a mess if we had done some things differently. But it is now a difficult situation, but difficult situations are there to be worked on and solved, not walked away from, not cutting and running from."

There's also prosecuting the criminals who created them as severely as possible so as to avoid similar difficult situations in the future.

"Powell said he is sensitive to Cindy Sheehan and other mothers and family members whose loved ones have been wounded or killed in Iraq, but stressed that soldiers are risking their lives for a worthy purpose. When asked what he would say to Sheehan, who has grabbed media attention with her daily anti-war protests near Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, he told Walters he'd tell her what he'd tell any mother who suffered such a loss: "We regret the loss, but your loved one died in service to the nation and in service to the cause.""

What kind of sadist would force upon a grieving mother the knowledge that her child was only cannon fodder to enrich a minority of the richest and most powerful and to preserve the lives of privilege and luxury that they enjoy from the consequences of their own runaway greed? Nevertheless, Powell has already admitted that he told the whole world on television (after having a copy of Picasso's Guernica at the UN covered for the occassion) a stinking big pile of lies intentionally concocted by active duty US spooks about "the cause" and has now left us only with his satisfaction that Sadam Hussein is gone to fill the empty signifier. That's fine for a retiree, but how will a president induce participation in an all-volunteer military force with such thin gruel? What will he do about all those Farenheit 911 audiences who seem convinced that oil has at least some little thing to do with "the cause."

"He acknowledged that the pain of losing a loved one would be heightened if a family feels the war is unjust. "If they don't feel the war is just, then they'll always feel that it is a deep personal loss and I sympathize with Ms. Sheehan. But this is not over. This conflict is not over, and the alternative to what I just described is essentially saying, 'Nevermind, we're leaving.' And I don't think that is an option for the United States.""

That leaving is not an option must somehow not redound upon the dishonor and criminality of those who intentionally deprived us of it.

"Powell's wife of 43 years, Alma, also joined Walters for the exclusive interview. The couple share their thoughts on public service, their current life in the private sector, and whether a White House bid is in their future.

Copyright © 2005 ABC News Internet Ventures""

US Preparing Massive Assault On Tal Afar

Reuters

"If indeed decisive military operations are required, we want to ensure that the attacks take place to kill the insurgents without collateral damage in killing innocent civilians."

That's why I'm proud to be an American.

Hunger strikers pledge to die in Guantánamo

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports

You may have missed the article about Harry Potter being the most popular item on the bookmobile.

Friday, September 09, 2005

FEMA's Blocking Relief Efforts - An Amazing List

Memos Show Oil Companies Closed Refineries To Hike Profits

Some Urge Greater Use of Troops in Major Disasters

Thursday, September 08, 2005

Global warming causes soil to release carbon -study

At least 30 found dead in nursing home

Tropical tumult sees no letup

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Senator proposes act to protect against gas price gouging

CNN

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Deputy chief says New Orleans 'completely destroyed'

Thousands flee from typhoon Nabi

Thursday, September 01, 2005

Troops, Police Deployed to Stop Looting in New Orleans

Second category five approaches China

Tornado strikes Wyoming town

Portugal plea for aid on wildfires

Romania floods toll rises to 18

Typhoon Talim batters Taiwan

How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power