ST. BERNARD PARISH, La. - "All Our Visitors Bring Happiness," reads the wrought iron sign on the front column of Albert Cousin’s 102-year-old Victorian house.
Not Wednesday.
Sheriff’s deputies in body armor and holding rifles came to try to force Cousin and other residents of St. Bernard Parish to get out of town.
For the past few days, residents have found comfort in food and water brought by units of the Georgia National Guard, who arrived Labor Day weekend. The roughly 160 members (…)
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Police force citizens from their homes, shoots their dogs
11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Police Trapped Thousands in New Orleans
11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsAs the situation grew steadily worse in New Orleans last week, you might have wondered why people didn’t just leave on foot. The Louisiana Superdome is less than two miles from a bridge that leads over the Mississippi River out of the city.
The answer: Any crowd that tried to do so was met by suburban police, some of whom fired guns to disperse the group and seized their water.
Around 500 people stuck in downtown New Orleans after the storm banded together for self-preservation, making (…) -
Overkill: Feared Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans
11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsNEW ORLEANS — Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they have been "deputized" by the Louisiana governor; indeed some are wearing gold Louisiana state law enforcement badges on their chests and Blackwater photo identification cards on their arms. They say they are on contract with the Department of Homeland Security and have been given the (…)
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SAN FRANCISCO : 61 arrests at protest over hotel labor talks
9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Union called action; contract end date key
by Glen Martin
Most Bay Area residents may have celebrated Labor Day with prodigious quantities of beer and barbecue, but some marked it the old-fashioned way — by getting arrested.
Sixty-one union members and sympathizers staged a sit-down at the Grand Hyatt Hotel at Union Square in San Francisco to call attention to a yearlong dispute with 14 hotels over new labor contracts.
They were arrested, charged with misdemeanors for interfering (…) -
New Orleans has been taken over by the United States Government
6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsThe entire city of New Orleans is under evacuation orders. I just spoke to my friend Daniel in the Bywater (9th ward). He reports that unmarked police vehicles (cadillacs) are driving through the neighborhood with SWAT team police armed with ’big black machine guns’ telling people through bullhorns they are under orders to evacuate and must leave the city now.
People in that neighborhood are being told to go to the big pool on the corner of Lesseps and St. Claude (this is one block from my (…) -
Big oil’s bigtime looting
3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsBy Derrick Z. Jackson
PRESIDENT BUSH yesterday told ABC-TV, ’’there ought to be zero tolerance of people breaking the law during an emergency such as this, whether it be looting or price-gouging at the gasoline pump or taking advantage of charitable giving or insurance fraud."
Zero tolerance is meaningless when the White House lets the biggest looters of Hurricane Katrina walk off with billions of dollars.
We are not referring to the people you currently see in endless footage, (…) -
US Military ordered to kill people desperate for Water & Food in New Orleans
3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Send a message to the soldiers and convince them they are on the wrong side in USA - as well as in Cuba where oppositional workers and intellectuals are sent to rotten in jails for 20-30 years.
by Nemo Etomer
In the aftermath of the hurricane Katrina has the political authorities in New Orleans called in military units with the right to shoot and kill desperate people who are trying to find fresh water and food to survive. The authorieties justify the shoot-to- kill order to stop (…) -
Sydney : protesters stopped from bringing down the house
3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
By Les Kennedy, Samantha Selinger-Morris and Matt Wade
Four protesters railing against a gathering of international business leaders were arrested last night after they breached the security barrier outside the entrance to the Opera House forecourt.
Police quickly secured the gap as about 500 people converged on the Opera House protesting against the Forbes Global CEO Conference.
Protest organisers had hoped to marshall thousands of supporters to disrupt the conference attended by the (…) -
More Evidence of the FBI’s Lie About Nick Berg
23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsMichael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
I have recently reported an enormous lie by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, they denied ever having had an "investigatory interest" in Nick Berg. Go here for details and a scan of their letter:
There is more evidence about the agency’s deep interest in Berg. When the laptop computer of Zacarias Moussaoui was searched on 9/11, the FBI recovered the University of (…) -
Military used on US soil! to shut down Utah Rave- attack innocent civilians, photographers, kids
23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
24 commentsby Sean Liddell
The Military is used to shut down a rave. The military is used on US soil. Anyone else have a problem with that? This is crossing the line into full on fascism- hired thugs that will go anywhere, brutalize anyone, even teenagers, no questions asked. Demand the mainstream media show this footage.
These are first-hand accounts as posted at
I was standing behind the second stage watching a friend of mine play records. Everyone on the dance floor was talking or dancing to (…)