Police force citizens from their homes, shoots their dogs
By : Marlon Manuel - Sunday September 11, 2005 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 (...)
read more, comments... Police Trapped Thousands in New Orleans
By : Rogers Cadenhead - Sunday September 11, 2005 As 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, (...)
read more, comments... Overkill: Feared Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans
By : Jeremy Scahill and Daniela Crespo - Sunday September 11, 2005 NEW 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 (...)
read more, comments... SAN FRANCISCO : 61 arrests at protest over hotel labor talks
By : Glen Martin - Friday September 9, 2005 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 (...)
read more, comments... New Orleans has been taken over by the United States Government
By : Andrea Garland - Tuesday September 6, 2005 The 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 (...)
read more, comments... Big oil’s bigtime looting
By : Derrick Z. Jackson - Saturday September 3, 2005 By 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 (...)
read more, comments... US Military ordered to kill people desperate for Water & Food in New Orleans
By : Nemo Etomer - Saturday September 3, 2005 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 criminal (...)
read more, comments... Sydney : protesters stopped from bringing down the house
By : Sydney - Saturday September 3, 2005 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 (...)
read more, comments... More Evidence of the FBI’s Lie About Nick Berg
By : Michael P. Wright - Tuesday August 23, 2005 Michael 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 (...)
read more, comments... Military used on US soil! to shut down Utah Rave- attack innocent civilians, photographers, kids
By : Eyewitnesses in Utah - Tuesday August 23, 2005 by 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 my (...)
read more, comments... Pittsburgh Police Arrest Five Anti-War Protesters, Two Injured, in March
By : PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania - Monday August 22, 2005 by Joe Mandak PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania - Police charged four people protesting the war in Iraq, two of whom suffered minor injuries from the police response, when 60 people disrupted traffic by marching the wrong way down a busy one-way street toward an Army recruiting station. The Pittsburgh Organizing Group planned the Saturday morning demonstration. A spokesman for that group, David Meieran, accused police of responding with "inappropriate and excessive force." Meieran claimed some (...)
read more, comments... G8 arrests - call out for info & witnesses
By : London - Monday August 22, 2005 Hi, the following has been received from the G8 Legal Support group, who provided legal observers and legal info at the recent G8 protests from 2 to 9 July. If you were detained/arrested, witnessed a detention, or can help in any way, please read on... G8 & SUPPORTING THOSE ARRESTED At the recent G8 protests in Scotland there were some 700 people detained by the police. These are different from arrests, as the police in Scotland have the powers to “detain” for a set (...)
read more, comments... The Guardian and the de Menezes killing
By : Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland - Monday August 22, 2005 By Chris Marsden and Julie Hyland New leaks from official sources in Britain have added to the evidence already brought to light, proving that the official story of how Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes was gunned down was a pack of lies. In response, the liberal daily newspaper the Guardian has rushed to the defence of Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair, justifying the use of death squads and excusing a cover-up aimed at concealing how the police murdered an innocent man. De (...)
read more, comments... An Open Letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair
By : Flávio Américo dos Reis - Saturday August 20, 2005 Dear Prime Minister: Not since the Christie Affair * (1862-1865) have relations between our two countries been this bad; I mean Brazil and England. Quite apart from the lies of the war which, in our cups, I’m sure we all agree, were fantastic fibs (great with the rabble, though, I must admit: they sold like hot cakes here in the US where I live), I think you would better do right by the De Menezes dossier and not try to "fix the facts around the policy" on this matter. Brazil (...)
read more, comments... De Menezes: Another Corpse on the Road to Globalist Fascism
By : Kurt Nimmo - Friday August 19, 2005 by Kurt Nimmo The blogger Aangirfan draws a parallel between the execution of the seemingly hapless Jean Charles de Menezes on 22 July in the London subway and Operation Gladio. As Aangirfan points out, de Menezes “behaved normally” when he entered Stockwell Tube station, did not run from police (or rather a “Special Reconnaissance Regiment, modeled on an undercover unit that operated in Northern Ireland,” according to the Guardian), did not jump a tollgate and used (...)
read more, comments... Chile Completes Its Transition To Democracy
By : Brian Mcafee - Friday August 19, 2005 by Brian McAfee In two key decisions Chile has restored her democracy lost on September 11, 1973 when Gen. Augusto Pinochet overthrew democratically elected president Salvador Allende in a bloody Coupe supported by the United States. On July 6, a Chilean court ruled 11 to 10 to remove Picnochet’s immunity he had granted himself when he became dictator in 1973. This opens the door to the families of those murdered and tortured by his regime to pursue legal action against him. (...)
read more, comments... Met Chief Must Resign Or Be Sacked
By : Brian Richards - Friday August 19, 2005 Sir Ian tried to stop shooting inquiry by Brian Richards LONDON, ENGLAND — (OfficialWire) — 08/19/05 — On July 22-the same day that UK police shot and killed Jean Charles de Menezes, the 27-year-old Brazilian electrician-Scotland Yard’s commissioner, Sir Ian Blair (shown here), attempted to stop an independent external investigation into the shooting of the young Brazilian man mistaken for a suicide bomber. According to a report in the UK’s Guardian (...)
read more, comments... FBI Tells Enormous Lie About Nick Berg
By : Michael P. Wright - Friday August 19, 2005 Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com In a letter sent to me in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) tells an enormous lie. They don’t admit to having ever investigated Nick Berg. Strictly speaking, they say that their "central record" files located no records at "headquarters" to indicate that Berg has ever been of "investigatory interest to the FBI." Then they invite me to check with their various (...)
read more, comments... 77 year old harassed by police for calling Bush a Liar on Radio
By : Ohio - Thursday August 18, 2005 Law Abiding Ohio Resident And Korean War Veteran Has Authorities Illegally Swarm On His Property Just Hours After He Called President Bush A Liar On A Local AM Radio Station by Greg Szymanski Although Doug Stout, 77, won’t pin illegal entry on his property to his harsh comments about Bush, but says one thing for sure "I don’t smoke pot and everybody in town knows it." After hovering over his property with a helicopter, officers then swarmed on his land, looked at some (...)
read more, comments... Leaked report lists ’blunders’ as police shot bomb suspect
By : Daniel McGrory and Stewart Tendler - Thursday August 18, 2005 By Daniel McGrory and Stewart Tendler SCOTLAND YARD made “a series of catastrophic errors” that led to armed officers hunting the July 21 bombers shooting dead an innocent Brazilian, it was claimed last night. Leaked witness statements from officers who took part in the botched operation reveal that Jean Charles de Menezes was restrained by one of Scotland Yard’s surveillance team before being shot eight times as he sat on a Tube train. Documents and photographs from (...)
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