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  • Storm Rescuers Overwhelmed by Toxic Waste & A Miraculous Molecular Solution
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rescuers awed by ruin revealed as water recedes By MARJORIE HERNANDEZ Scripps Howard News Service
    NEW ORLEANS - The putrid smell of toxic, mud-caked debris baking in the humid Southern heat wafted almost 200 feet above the ground.
    Trees that were once green and lush are now brown and in pieces, many bending to the awesome power of a Category 4 hurricane that pounced on this city and its surrounding parishes more than two weeks ago. Murky water as black as tar in some places and dull (…)

  • See You in D.C.
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. (MLK, Jr. Aug. 28, 1963, I Have a Dream speech)
    What Bush’s Katrina shows once again is that my son died for nothing. If you listen to Bush - and fewer and fewer are, thank (…)

  • CHAVEZ WARNS BUSH AGAINST INVASION OF VENEZUELA TO SEIZE OIL RESERVES
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CHAVEZ OFFERS GUARANTEED SUPPLY OF OIL FOR 150 YEARS
    FREE FUEL TO US POOR DURING THE KATRINA CRISIS
    CHAVEZ CONTROLS 300 BILLION BARREL RESERVE TO US 20 BILLION BARRELS
    By Darryl Mason
    In an interview with US network ABC, on September 16, Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez claimed he had proof the Bush administration were ready to invade his country in an attempt to seize control of some 300 billion barrels of oil.
    He warned the Bush administration to retreat from such aggression and (…)

  • New Orleans as Potemkin Village One Big Sham
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DAVE LINDORFF
    Three cheers for Maureen Dowd for exposing the sham of President’ Bush’s Jackson Square speech to the nation announcing his "recovery plan" for New Orleans, and a big fat raspberry for the electronic media-and for Dowd’s own New York Times-for failing to mention it in their "hard-news" coverage of the speech.
    For those who missed it, Bush, dressed in a pressed, blue, open-collar dress shirt (not "badly tailored" this time), was backed by a beautifully blue-lit St. Louis (…)

  • Military May Play Bigger Relief Role
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ROBERT BURNS, WASHINGTON
    President Bush’s push to give the military a bigger role in responding to major disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of legal limits on the use of federal troops on U.S. soil.
    Pentagon officials are reviewing that possibility, and some in Congress agree it needs to be considered.
    Bush did not define the wider role he envisions for the military. But in his speech to the nation from New Orleans on Thursday, he alluded to the unmatched (…)

  • FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Miriam 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.
    Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco (…)

  • After Katrina, the country no longer believes in Bush the protector. His presidency is ruined
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Breach of a myth
    By Sidney Blumenthal
    Bush’s America is gone with the wind. It lasted just short of four years, from Sept. 11, 2001, to Aug. 29, 2005. The devastation of New Orleans was the watery equivalent of a dirty bomb, but Hurricane Katrina approached the homeland with advance warnings, scientific anticipation and a personal briefing of the president by the director of the National Hurricane Center, alerting him about a possible breaching of the levees. It was as predictable as (…)

  • Expulsion is Transfer: The Colonial Logic of Bush’s Response to New Orleans
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jonathan Scott
    It’s not so much that the Emperor has no clothes but that his clothes, under the black sky, are shining white, with many thousands gone, enabled deliberately by his white imperial rule. I believe this to be the only honest, rational conclusion to draw from all the evidence on the ground in New Orleans.
    A lot of the shock and awe being expressed in the mainstream media over the Bush administration’s four days of willful indifference toward the suffering of Black people (…)

  • FEMA’s Failures & Political Mire: Bush Regime Set America Up for Destruction (SPECIAL REPORT)
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    SPECIAL REPORT: FEMA’s Failures & Political Mire Bush Regime Set America Up for Destruction
    September 12, 2005 The Smirking Chimp
    By Walter M. Brasch
    EDITOR’S NOTE: We recommend that our readers print out this incisive special report and read it in print. The author is an award-winning syndicated columnist, professor of journalism, and a former emergency management official. This article is an in-depth look at the Bush policies that created the atmosphere not only for an (…)

  • The Militarization of New Orleans
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    We go to Louisiana to speak with Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill who has been in New Orleans this past week. He has been looking into how the city has changed to a militarized zone and what that means for the residents who left. [includes rush transcript] Well the Central Business District and the historic French Quarter were neighborhoods in New Orleans that saw relatively little damage. This weekend the city will start re-opening those areas and a few others for businesses and (…)