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  • Republicans G.A.S. Act Exploits Katrina For Gas & Oil Industry
    7 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Numerous environmental and public service groups have issued warnings on the upcoming G.A.S. Act, HR 3893, scheduled for a vote in the House on Friday. Donald J. Borut, executive director of the National League of Cities has bluntly said that "the goal of this draft legislation seems to be to pass every provision that didn’t make it into the recently-enacted energy bill."
    The National Environmental Trust has said that the bill “channels taxpayer dollars to oil companies, virtually ignores (…)

  • FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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.
    Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco subsequently inked (…)

  • The Discrepancy Between Missing People and Confirmed Fatalities in Mississippi
    5 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Dr. Ben "Go Fu*k Yourself Cheney" Marble
    opednews
    There has been a considerable discrepancy between the 1172 individuals reported as ’missing’ in Harrison County, MS. and the 96 confirmed fatalities.
    This, of course, has led many people to wonder where those people might be located? My own personal theory was that as the 30+ feet storm surge receded many of the people were likely swept out to sea into the Mississippi Sound. For example, I had heard of one report of an Asian woman (…)

  • NOLA: 800 bodies in the morgue - so what if you lose a body or two
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Loss of bodies adds to grief of many families. Authorities have few answers
    By DAVID ZUCCHINO and NICHOLAS RICCARDI
    BATON ROUGE, La. - When he finally could leave his post guarding a nuclear power plant after Hurricane Katrina struck, Richard George Reysack III sped to the flooded home of his 80-year-old father east of New Orleans. Slogging through the muck, he found his father’s corpse face-down in the hallway.
    As devastating as that discovery was, at least Reysack had his father’s (…)

  • Reporter finks on Fox
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    "With the change of administration in Washington, I wanted to do the same kind of reporting, holding the (Bush) administration accountable, and that was not something that Fox was interested in doing"
    by Mike Leonard
    David Shuster has spent most of the past month covering hurricanes Katrina and Rita. And the Bloomington native and television correspondent admits he’s really not that fond of catastrophe reporting.
    "I’d rather get slugged by an angry politician than hit over the head (…)

  • Fiasco uncovers Bush administration as fool’s paradise
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Posted on Sun, Oct. 02, 2005
    MICHAEL BROWN
    Fiasco uncovers Bush administration as fool’s paradise
    It is said that if someone thinks you’re a fool, better to keep your mouth shut than open it and remove all doubt. Speaking of Michael Brown...
    The ex-FEMA chief testified on Capitol Hill last week about what went wrong with the government’s response to Hurricane Katrina. Even House Republicans shook their heads in disbelief.
    GOP Rep. Christopher Shays of Connecticut was beside himself (…)

  • Video: The debacle of the federal governemts response to the Katrina hurricane
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Video: The debacle of the federal governemts response to the Katrina hurricane
    WINDOWS
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  • FEMA, Capitalism, and Karl Marx’s Crystal Ball
    4 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Mike Whitney
    October 3, 2005
    The Bush administration began the dismantling FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) as one of the first orders of business when they reorganized the government under the Homeland Security Bill. What masquerades now as FEMA is a public relations smokescreen which disguises the fact that the government will no longer assist in major natural catastrophes. The "free market" approach to disaster requires that FEMA chieftains use their power and influence (…)

  • Occupied New Orleans and Homegrown Resistance
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mike Whitney
    The appearance of fully-armed mercenaries on the streets of New Orleans tells us that the city is currently under occupation. Whenever foreign troops are deployed within an urban area it can only mean one thing; the loss of sovereignty. It’s no different here. Blackwater mercenaries are part of a privately owned army that has seized control of the streets from their rightful owners, the people of New Orleans. They are an integral part of a much broader plan to militarize (…)

  • Homeland Security Chief Chertoff, Not Brown, Was Responsible....
    2 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Homeland Security Chief Chertoff, Not Brown, Was Responsible For Federal Response To Huricane Katrina We speak Knight Ridder reporter Alison Young about the Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff’s responsibilities and the shift of blame to former FEMA head Michael Brown. [includes rush transcript]
    Alison Young, Reporter with Knight Ridder who co-wrote a recent article called “Chertoff Delayed Federal Response, Memo Shows” about how Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff actually (…)