As the aftermath of hurricane Katrina continues to wreak mayhem and havoc amid reports of mass looting, shooting at rescue helicopters, rapes and murders, establishment media organs are promoting the Red Cross as a worthy organization to give donations to.

The biggest website in the world, Yahoo.com, displays a Red Cross donation link prominently on its front page.

Every time there is a major catastrophe the Red Cross and similar organizations like United Way are given all the media attention while other charities are left in the shadows. This is not to say that the vast majority of Red Cross workers are not decent people who simply want to help those in need.

But what the media fails consistently to remember in their promotion of the organization is that the Red Cross have been caught time and time again withholding money in the wake of horrible disasters that require immediate release of funds.

The Red Cross, under the Liberty Fund, collected $564 million in donations after 9/11. Months after the event, the Red Cross had distributed only $154 million. The Red Cross' explanation for keeping the majority of the money was that it would be used to help 'fight the war on terror'. To the victims, this meant that the money was going towards bombing broken backed third world countries like Afghanistan and setting up surveillance cameras and expanding the police state in US cities, and not towards helping them rebuild their lives.

Then Red Cross President Dr. Bernadine Healy arrogantly responded when questioned about the withholding of funds by stating, "The Liberty Fund is a war fund. It has evolved into a war fund."

Despite the family members of victims of 9/11 complaining bitterly to a House Energy and Commerce Committee's oversight panel, the issue seemed to be brushed under the carpet and the mud didn't stick.

The Red Cross' scandalous activities reach back far before 9/11.

After the devastating San Francisco earthquake in 1989, the Red Cross passed on only $10 million of the $50 million that had been raised, and banked the rest.

Similar donations after the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995 and the Red River flooding in 1997 were also greedily withheld.

Smaller charities that were involved with the 2004 Tsunami relief project went public to say that large charities like Red Cross and United Way were engaged in secret backroom negotiations with each other that meant a large portion of the donation money was purposefully restricted from reaching the most needy areas affected by the disaster.

The history is clear, the Red Cross and other large so-called charities are in actual fact front group collection agencies for the military industrial complex.

Many informed historians have even alleged that the Red Cross was used as a Skull and Bones cover to overthrow The Russian Czar and pave the way for the rise of the Bolsheviks.

Do not give any money to the Red Cross unless you support the expansion of empire abroad and police state at home. Find a smaller trustworthy organization in the local area of New Orleans and make your donation to them.

"In addition to the history contained in the above story [this story], the Red Cross has some additional interesting history. During the times of the Crusades, the Knights Templar's brother and parallel Roman Catholic military order, the Knights Hospitaller also ran recuperative facilities which became known as hospitals, as a cover. The Templar's cover was to protect the religious pilgrim's to Jerusalem, however the entire original handful of members kept themselves cooped up full time on the site of the Temple Mount for something like a decade during the early 1100s.

During the Vatican's fake (see below) Templar suppression in 1307, the Templars that didn't escape to Scotland and elsewhere simply became transferred into the Knights Hospitaller along with the vast Templar property holdings. The Knights Hospitaller have since evolved into the Knight's of Malta and claim to be strictly a humanitarian service organization today. Indeed, I personally saw on television Knights of Malta aid workers performing duties in Afghanistan only days after the American invasion. Interestingly, all of the aid workers were American Vietnam veterans. Of course, I'm positive that the fact that Afghanistan has large fields of opium poppies has no similarities with the Vietnam situation. Impossible." Read more