America Is Bankrupt
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers,

09/12/05 "Lewrockwell" -- -- A recent trip to the United States – after a three-year absence – showed me how far the country and its people have deteriorated in a short period of time. Americans are bankrupt. They are bankrupt at every possible level: spiritually, morally, educationally. The country’s economy has deteriorated to the level of a Philippines or a Thailand (and I mean no disrespect to the Philippines or Thailand – I love those places).
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Cover-up: toxic waters,New Orleans, 10 years
bruce,

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.
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Weapon system can trigger hurricanes, quakes
PeaceFan,

The UN has banned it. It's reported to be in the arsenal of several nations, including the U.S. It's reported to be OPERATIONAL. What are we going to do about this weapon system? And did it play a role in creating Hurricane Katrina or in steering her along her murderous path?

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Venezuela: El Padrino brasilero del carbón
Redacción del periódico El Libertario,

* En este artículo de Rafael Uzcátegui para El Libertario # 44, septiembre-octubre 2005, se aportan datos sobre qué significa la negociación que entrega importantes recursos carboníferos a una transnacional minera con máscara brasilera.
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FILM PREMIERE FUNDRAISER!
Tony Okun,

THE PARK Film premiere benefit with director Tony Okun to support the City of San Diego's Parks & Recreation!


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Motion Denied
freespeechdefense.net,

San Diego activists are currently serving time in prison for refusing to
testify at a secret federal grand jury hearing supposedly investigating a
public lecture held in August of 2003. Danae Kelley is one of the citizens
imprisoned for asserting her First, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment rights.
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A Call For Solidarity
David Agranoff,

David mailed me this statement asking for solidarity and asked that I post it on IndyMedia. There are only a few spelling errors/typos in David's letter because he had to write this in a bit of a hurry, but I will try to make them coherent while keeping as much of David's writing in it's original form as possible. Hopefully I don't add my own typos as I type this out.

- Bob Alba
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The 'real' story of why gasoline is near $3
bruce,

"To point to the environmental laws as the cause simply misses the fact that it was the major oil companies, not the environmental groups, that used the regulatory process to create artificial shortages and limit competition."
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Support Danae Kelley Wednesday 1pm San Diego
freespeechdefense.com,

Wednesday September 7th 2005 Court is in Session

Danae Kelley will once again appear before Judge Gonzalez and reiterate her decision to stand up to the grand jury and refuse to testify dispite the consequence of prolonged imprisonment.
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Protect Our Most Vulnerable Population
Robina Suwol,

Los Angeles, Ca - It's the bill you haven't heard much about this
year. That's because it's about the welfare of kids, and kids have no vote, no war chest, and no lobbyists. AB 405, which bans experimental pesticides from schools where they are often currently used, regardless of their unknown effects on children's bodies, has made it further than anyone thought possible. But it still needs your help.

After months of meetings and Committee hearings, AB 405 passed the
California Assembly and more recently the Senate Environmental Quality
Committee. Its author, Assemblymember Cindy Montanez, will witness the
measure move to the Senate Floor this week for likely passage before heading to the Governor's desk for his signature.

This bill is short in word count but its protective power is enormous. AB 405 would close a loophole that permits experimental pesticides to be used at K-12 public school sites. Experimental pesticides are those whose full health effects are unknown. For example, these products may lack studies showing Metabolic, Mechanistic, Residue, Risk Assessment, Leaching, Dosage, Application, and Resistance information that is significant to the health of children, teachers, and all school employees. This bill allows products, which have been fully registered to continue to be used for their original registered uses, but makes sure that, as happens now, kids no longer can be treated as human experiments.

With children, teachers, and school employees used as guinea pigs
there has been no shortage of strong support. AB 405 is sponsored by
California Safe Schools, Its supporters include: California Medical
Association, California Teachers Association, California School Boards
Association. California State PTA, and the Los Angeles Unified School
District, largest school district in the state and 2nd largest in the
nation, Learning Disabilities Association of California, and the
Environmental Health and Environmental Justice organizations.

"There is no scientific justification for ALLOWING the use in schools for the overwhelming majority of experimental or conditionally registered pesticide products. Children are not lab rats!" said Mitzi Shpak a highly respected Caltech Microbiologist.

Following in the footsteps of numerous studies, CHEERS, the halted EPA study that proposed using babies in Dade County Florida as test subjects for a pesticides effects study, University of San Diego pesticide experiments on college students, and the recent Journal of the American Medical Association report which pointed to the health effects to school children from exposure to pesticides, AB 405 is long overdue legislation.

"Given the unique vulnerability of children, and the high rate of
breast cancer in California teachers, we need to take a safe-not-sorry
approach. There are plenty of fully registered products; we don't need to
take chance with the health of children, school employees or the
environment" said Annie Waterman founder of Action Now, and environmental
activist

The nation's second largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, had the foresight to ban these experiential and conditional use products, but until this bill passes the rest of the K-12 population need to be vigilant. More than six million kids, who face enough hazards in the world we are leaving them, depend on it.

The Senate is already hearing from an army of chemical lobbyists. The only hope for California's children is that they will also hear from you.

Robina Suwol is the Executive Director of California Safe Schools

For further information:

California Safe Schools
818-785-5515
www.calisafe.org

Assemblymember Cindy Montanez
916-319-2039






























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Katrina: If the People Ruled Society ...
RosaRL,

Look at what this capitalist system with its rule of profit in command has done in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. But there is an alternative to such madness: A socialist society, ruled by the working class, in which production meets the needs of the people and serves the revolutionary transformation of society.


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Troops begin COMBAT OPERATIONS in New Orleans
ArmyTimes.com,

“This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”
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Captalism wreaks havoc in New Orleans
Richard Mellor,

The catatstrophe in New Orleans reveals the utter bankruptcy of the capitalist sytem and the capitalist class who Marx said over 150 years ago have become "unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society"
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The Big Disconnect: views on New Orleans
CNN c/o lotu5,

# FEMA Chief Brown: Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans, virtually a city that has been destroyed, things are going relatively well.

# Homeland Security Director Chertoff: Now, of course, a critical element of what we're doing is the process of evacuation and securing New Orleans and other areas that are afflicted. And here the Department of Defense has performed magnificently, as has the National Guard, in bringing enormous resources and capabilities to bear in the areas that are suffering.

# Crowd chanting outside the Convention Center: We want help.

# Mayor Nagin: They don't have a clue what's going on down there.

# Phyllis Petrich, a tourist stranded at the Ritz-Carlton: They are invisible. We have no idea where they are. We hear bits and pieces that the National Guard is around, but where? We have not seen them. We have not seen FEMA officials. We have seen no one.
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radioActive sanDiego indy Katrina Coverage
dj lotus,

Independent news reports from New Orleans Indymedia, NYC Indymedia, US Indymedia, Infoshop.org, Common Dreams.org, lists of useful resources, commentary from an Anarchist perspective.
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Hurricane Katrina: The People Did Not Have to
RosaRL,

There was no way to stop Hurricane Katrina, but the chaos, suffering and death that resulted from this storm WAS preventable. Why didn’t the government organize massive and systematic evacuation? Why weren’t the levees maintained? Why were so many people left to fend for themselves?


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AR activist sentanced
a person,

9.1.05

It's been a long road to get here...

The legal battle is finally over. On August 29th, Peter signed a plea offer from the prosecution. On Friday September 2nd, Peter will plead guilty in Federal Court to two counts of animal enterprise terrorism charges. He is expected to receive the maximum sentence of 2 years. With 4 months in, and 2 months good time, Peter is expected to walk free in just over 18 months (March 2007).
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The Great Lie Meets Katrina.
Lloyd Hart,

The great lie that is the war on terrorism has just taken a very serious blow. A category 5 hurricane named Katrina.
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Indonesia's Human Rights Violations Report
Dez Wildwood, BACK DOOR e-news on East Timor,

LEST WE FORGET How you can go about reading the secret Indonesian government report that investigated gross human rights violations occurring in East Timor during 1999.
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Protest Bush in San Diego
sd indymedia,

Two events are planned for Bush's visit to San Diego:

Candlelight Vigil: President Bush, Our loved ones are dying in an unjust war. WHY?
Monday Evening, August 29, 2005 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
WHERE: On Coronado Island along Ocean Blvd. Near Flora Ave and Rh Dana Place. (Directions: Take Coronado Bridge to Orange Ave. Left on Orange Ave. to Rh Dana Place. Right on Rh Dana Place - becomes Ocean Blvd.. Vigil will be on Ocean Blvd. along the beach.) No parking will be permitted along Ocean Blvd. on Monday and Tuesday. Carpool if you can and park as near the Hotel Del as you can.

Demonstration at NAS NORTH ISLAND MAIN GATE on Alameda. Main Gate on Alameda, Coronado, Tuesday, August 30, 6 a.m. Gates will open at 6:00 a.m. for the 10,000 "invited guests" and the ceremony will take place at 8:00 a.m. True to form, this will be a harbor-side event so protestors can be kept far from this location. However, the road leading to North Island in Coronado would be a good protest location. Since parking in Coronado is scarce and parking laws are enforced, the North County Coalition for Peace and Justice will be using public transportation to get there. Directions from North County are below; San Diego people should check with the bus company to figure out best route for themselves to arrive at demonstration location: NAS NORTH ISLAND MAIN GATE on Alameda.
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ask bush baby about this....
glowingmutie4bush,

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GJ Subpoena Dropped
FreeSpeechDefense,

A subpoena that would have forced the husband of a jailed animal rights activist to testify in front of a federal Grand Jury was withdrawn Thursday, one day after his lawyer filed a motion to quash the binding document.
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American Vegan Prisoner Needs Your Help!
SD-CCWP,

American eco-remand prisoner, Stephen Marshall, is in need of your immediate help. Stephen, who is on remand accused of planning to destroy the equipment of a quarry company, after the company allegedly polluted a stream, follows a vegan diet, but whilst in prison he has been constantly denied a proper vegan meals.
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July 2005 Warmest Month on Record for North
Messenger,

by Michael T. Neuman
Email: mtneuman (at) juno.com (unverified!)
17 Aug 2005
Modified: 08/17 12:03 CDT

Global warming continued in July 2005 with temperatures in the U.S. averaging 1.5 Fahrenheit (F) above the average temperature for July, over the period of record 1895-2004. Nine states had "much above normal" temperature for the month, an additional 33 states had "above average" temperatures, while only 6 states in the contiguous U.S. had near average temperature for the month. Wisconsin had above average temperatures, as did Alaska. No state was cooler than average for July.
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Poseidon Inc. threatens ocean and sovereignty
John Earl,

Poseidon Inc, a multinational water privatization corporation wants to build a 50 million gallon per day desalination plant in Huntington Beach, California. Poseidon would receive state and federal subsidies in order to keep water prices down, but the taxpayers pay either way. The plant would pollute the local ocean and destroy ocean life on a massive scale. Furthermore, the presence of a desal plant owned by a multi-national corporation would (under international treaties) very likely take away the right of local US citizens to enforce pollution regulations or to stop construction of other private plants. Water should be owned by the people, not corporations.
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Environmental group in legal battle over CM
Liz Elliott and Shay Sanchez,

The future of Critical Mass in New York City remains uncertain, as environmental group TIME’S UP! is forced to foot the bill for an impending court battle.

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Activist Refuses to Testify, Faces Jail
m,

UPDATE 8/15: David and Danae in Jail, Danae's husband subpoenaed to the Grand Jury as well.

On August 2, 2005, Nicole Fink, a local animal rights activist invoked her First Amendment right to freedom of association by refusing to testify before a federal grand jury. She is scheduled to appear before a judge on Wednesday, August 17 at 10:00 a.m. to hear the outcome of civil contempt charges, and it is likely that she will be jailed that day.
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Grand Jury resistors under new threat
Earth Warrior,

David Agranoff and Danae Kelley are being threateend with a return to jail for "contempt" fopr refusign to rat on their fellow activsts before a witch-hunting grand jury. THEY ARE HEROES for standing firm and refusing to testify.
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Residents Protest Toxic Termite Tenting
James Schmactenberger,

At the August 1st meeting for the residents on the upper half of the complex (all of Via Morella and the top part of Via Terrassa), George Landt (upper management) and Mike Dewey (Dewey Pest Control) were met with an overwhelming response from the tenants, that they strongly opposed the toxic gassing method of termite eradication and did not want their homes and families to be subjected to the risks involved.

It was quite clear that most residents did not believe the process to be risk free and some said they would rather move out permanently than return to homes and belongings that had been saturated with Vikane. Residents also objected to the huge inconvenience and costs of being out of their homes during tenting (food, hotels, renting storage units and trucks as needed), the costs to them far exceeding the $150 compensation offered by Mission Ridge.

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8/9 Vigil Draws 100, Demands End to Nukes
Mark Gabrish Conlan/Zenger's Newsmagazine,

Over 100 peace activists turned out for an August 9 rally and procession at the U.S.S. Midway site on the Embarcadero to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the atomic-bomb attack on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945 and demand an end to nuclear weapons and the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.
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