Charlie Cray is the director of The Center for Corporate Policy in Washington, D.C., and co-author of The People’s Buisness: Controlling Corporations and Restoring Democracy (Berrett-Koehler, 2004).
Some of the same crony contractors who cleaned up in Iraq are beginning to sign big contracts with FEMA. Moreover, the same inexperience and bureaucratic ineptitude that handicapped the agency’s initial response threatens to convert the agency into “an oversized entitlement program,” as (...)
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Watch Who’s Cleaning Up- War Profiteers switch gears to Katrina Catastrophe
14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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Questions raised about whether Red Cross provided adequate relief-directed funds to Katrina victims
14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Top Red Cross official Bush appointee, donor
New information surrounding relief efforts by the American Red Cross in New Orleans raises questions about whether the organization provided adequate relief and whether funds are actually being directed to Katrina victims, RAW STORY has found.
Previous investigations have shown that the Red Cross mishandled its 9/11 fund, attempting to divert more than half into a "war fund" before Congress intervened, and moved $10 million from a fund in (...) -
FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals
14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsMiriam Raftery
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.
Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses.
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Bush’s America
13 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsMore good news tonight from the Treasury Department....minimum credit card payments are going up 100 per cent with the blessing of the US Treasury. The average American card holder, according to MSNBC cable news, has a credit card balance of $9,000 and most pay a minimum of $200 per month...today. When the new minimum goes into effect, that minimum will be $400 per month. Who will be the beneficiary of such drastic action?
The circumstantial evidence is mounting daily, exceeded only (...) -
Tough Decisions Elude President
12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Tough Decisions Elude President Bill Gallagher September 06, 2005 Detroit - "Keep the damn federal government off our backs and out of our lives!" That’s been the battle cry of conservative Southern politicians for generations. The cry was usually code for their opposition to civil rights. In rural areas of the South, the federal government was despised for sending revenue agents to break up their beloved moonshine stills and forcing the locals to buy taxed booze. They hate government, (...)
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Senate committee wants input on NOLA reconstruction
11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
Take the power and money out of the hands of FEMA and Halliburton/Bectel and give the money to the PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS to decide how to rebuild and who will rebuild!!
Urgent! Senate committee wants Katrina input - deadline TODAY 9/11
The Senate H.E.L.P. Committee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) has been requesting input on Katrina reconstruction. The deadline was changed from Friday 9/9 to Monday, 9/12 (but presume 9/11, by the end of today) to allow more input. . It’s a (...) -
Pelosi Supports Anti-Fraud Commission on Katrina
11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentFor Immediate Release Sept. 11, 2005
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced today that she supports forming an anti-fraud commission to oversee government contracts issued in response to Hurricane Katrina:
"Congress is rightly spending billions of dollars to help the people and businesses of the Gulf Coast who have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. To ensure taxpayers’ money goes to those in need, not to fraudulent contractors, we must establish an (...) -
FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions to Fla. Residents Unaffected by ‘04 Hurricane to Help Bush Win Majori
10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentFEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions to Fla. Residents Unaffected by ‘04 Hurricane to Help Bush Win Majority of Votes There
By Jason Leopold
Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection (...) -
Israel to Seek $2.2 Billion From U.S. for Gaza Pullout
8 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsTuesday, July 12, 2005; Page A16
JERUSALEM, July 11— Israel’s government will request $2.2 billion from the Bush administration to help pay for its planned evacuation of the Gaza Strip and four Jewish settlements in the northern West Bank later this summer, Israeli officials said Monday.
The amount, which would be paid over three years, is equal to roughly one year’s worth of U.S. military assistance to Israel. It represents one of the largest one-time aid requests Israel has made to (...) -
Where’s Bob?
6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentNow that we know that every line that left the lips of those at the G8 at Gleneagles was a lie and that the words "Mission accomplished, frankly" uttered by Bob Geldof were nothing short of a disgrace - is it not time for Mr Geldof to come down from his cloud and tell us the truth?
Let’s face it, Saint Bob was quick enough to hijack the long term efforts of a wide range of organisations devoted for years and decades to the cause of the poor. He suddenly crawled from the woodwork on (...)