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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 |
Mirror: "Hundreds of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned.
US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees.
Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by British troops in Iraq, has been condemned as unfit for human consumption."
It is clear that nothing is wrong with the food; the Bush administration doesn't want people to get free food from abroad, they want firms like Halliburton to provide the hurricane victims with food, so that American corporations - being paid for all deliveries by the taxpayer- can profit from it.
CSMonitor: "President Bush suggested a larger disaster relief role for the armed forces in his national address last week, and Congress has indicated it will take up the issue this autumn. Though the topic has emerged at other troubled times - most recently 9/11 - Congress has always avoided amending Posse Comitatus, the law that has kept active-duty soldiers out of civilian law-enforcement affairs since Reconstruction."
The Bush cabal is afraid of rebellion, so now they consider committing the military during national 'emergencies'. Serving the people has been replaced by serving the neocon corporations in the Bush ideology. Help can only be help to corporations, not to people.
1:01:22 PM 
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CommonDreams: "A hunger strike started in June by terror suspects imprisoned by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba (Gitmo) - and reportedly settled - has been restarted and is growing, with 15 detainees hospitalised and 13 being fed through tubes."
ICH: "While morality and ethics are abstract ideas, justice is more concrete, hence why there are laws. Guantanamo and the actions that have been taken by our government against the detainees violate the Geneva Convention, the Bill of Rights, and our Constitution. Justice is not merely a conditional idea."
12:46:35 PM
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BBC: "Two British soldiers have been arrested in the southern Iraq city of Basra, sparking clashes outside a police station where they are being held."
Independent: "Two British servicemen, dressed in civilian clothes, were held at Basra's main police station after the incident. Outside, rioting began as the city threatened to descend into anarchy.
Last night, British forces used up to 10 tanks - supported by helicopters - to smash through the walls of the jail and free the two British servicemen. John Reid, the Defence Secretary, later confirmed they were back with UK forces."
Of course it was crucial to get those special branch men in civilian clothes out of jail as soon as possible. They might reveal some dirty secret, for instance that the British are shooting at Iraqi police. Why? Maybe to make certain the chaos remains so that Britain will have a reason to keep its forces there. So there goes the illusion of Britain as the sensible alternative in Iraq.
Guardian: "A victim of his own interpretation of the 'special relationship', Blair is all too likely to be judged by history as a leader who was braver in defending Bush's agenda in Iraq than he was in standing up for his own, and Britain's, strategic objectives in Europe."
12:36:18 PM
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