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External Editorials
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Wednesday, 11 January 2006 |
Who Really Died In That
New Orleans Katrina Shootout?
Were US Government Levee Saboteurs Involved
In A Fatal Shootout With New Orleans Police
Officers On Sept. 4 At The Danziger Bridge?
By Greg Szymanski
1-10-6
The Sept. 4 gun battle, first killing five and now two on the Danziger Bridge between what was first reported as New Orleans police and U.S. military agents, has turned into a hodge-podge of conflicting reports, misstatements or outright official lies.
An initial report by the Associated Press (AP) claimed five Department of Defense (DOD) personnel were killed by officers at the bridge located on the 5800 block of Chef Menteur Highway near Downman Rd.
The original AP report, however, has since been sanitized with the only copies of the original story kept for posterity at a United Kingdom paper at http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlate and a foreign internet service, La Voz de Aztlan, at http://www.aztlan.net/police_kill_f .
But a quick check of both sites reveals The Guardian link has been deleted and Lo Voz had to provide through email today the original AP story after their link was also inaccessible.
The original AP story since taken down reads in part:
"NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police shot eight people carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or six, a deputy chief said. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said the victims were contractors on their way to repair a canal.
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External Editorials
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Wednesday, 11 January 2006 |
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New Orleans - What The Media Is NOT Reporting - By Wayne Madsen
1-11-6
- New Orleans: What the media is not reporting and what
Congress and the Bush administration are ignoring. Yesterday, two New Orleans
journalists, Jason Berry, who writes for New Orleans magazine, and Lolis
Eric Elie, columnist for the New Orleans Times-Picayune, spoke at the National
Press Club in Washington about the real nature of the situation in New
Orleans and surrounding parishes.
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- The picture they painted of the city is sobering. Only
some 100,000 people, out of a total population of 467,000, have returned
to New Orleans, just a month and a half before the famous Mardi Gras celebrations.
However, the national media and their corporate friends in the urban development
business, will paint New Orleans during the next Mardi Gras celebration
on February 28 as a city coming back from disaster. Nothing could be further
from the truth.
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National Indigenous Issues
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Tuesday, 10 January 2006 |
Teens sent to prison for lynchingJudge: 'You are an embarrassment to the community'By Ann O'Neill
CNN
(CNN)
-- Moments before their trial was to begin, five white South Carolina
youths admitted their roles in a mob attack on a black teen and
received prison sentences from a judge who called their actions
"despicable" and "cowardly." The teens, ages 17 and 18,
tearfully stood before Judge Doyet Early with heads bowed as the judge
gave them sentences ranging from 2 1/2 to six years in state prison. Their victim, Isaiah Clyburn, 17, said through his lawyer that he forgave them. "He holds no hatred in his heart for what they did," attorney Trey Gowdy said. Teens plead guiltyBefore
lawyers could begin opening statements Tuesday, the teens pleaded
guilty to charges of aggravated assault and battery and second degree
lynching. South Carolina legally defines lynching as a mob attack against an individual where the victim survives. Prosecutors
said the five, riding to a nearby drag strip in three pickup trucks,
accosted Clyburn on July 7 as he walked along a rural road in Cherokee
County, South Carolina.(Watch a case that recalls a dark era -- 3:09) One
of the defendants shouted a racial slur. Another, identified as
Christopher Scott Cates, challenged Clyburn to a fight, and the others
surrounded Clyburn, beating and kicking him, prosecutors said. Clyburn,
who did not know any of his assailants, tried to run to a friend's
house, but couldn't scale a barbed wire fence. The beating continued
across the road and into a ditch, according to prosecutors.
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Health and Enviornment
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Tuesday, 10 January 2006 |
Statistics prove prescription drugs are 16,400% more deadly than terrorists
America was rudely awakened to a new kind
of danger on September 11, 2001: Terrorism. The attacks that day left
2,996 people dead, including the passengers on the four commercial
airliners that were used as weapons. Many feel it was the most tragic
day in U.S. history.
Four commercial jets crashed that day.
But what if six jumbo jets crashed every day in the United States,
claiming the lives of 783,936 people every year? That would certainly
qualify as a massive tragedy, wouldn't it?
Well, forget "what if." The tragedy is happening right now. Over 750,000 people actually do die in the United States
every year, although not from plane crashes. They die from something
far more common and rarely perceived by the public as dangerous: modern medicine.
According to the groundbreaking 2003 medical report Death by Medicine,
by Drs. Gary Null, Carolyn Dean, Martin Feldman, Debora Rasio and
Dorothy Smith, 783,936 people in the United States die every year from conventional medicine
mistakes. That's the equivalent of six jumbo jet crashes a day for an
entire year. But where is the media attention for this tragedy? Where
is the government support for stopping these medical mistakes before
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