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  • Venezuela sends cargo of 300,000 barrels of gasoline direct to Louisiana
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias has confirmed that a cargo of 300,000 barrels of gasoline is on its way to the USA to help Southern States affected by Hurricane Katrina.
    The President as confirmed that before traveling to New York to attend the UN summit, Louisiana State Governor Kathleen Blanco phoned the Venezuelan President accepting his offer of help.
    Chavez Frias broke the news on arrival in the USA and has reminded reporters that the Venezuelan government had offered 8 (…)

  • Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating dying hurricane victims
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn’t registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
    "I begged him to let me continue," said Perlmutter, who left his home and practice as an orthopedic surgeon in Pennsylvania to come to Louisiana and volunteer to care for hurricane victims. "People were dying, and I was the only doctor on the (…)

  • Bush: Katrina Failure = gimme more power
    17 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by benfrank
    Bush says he may need more power in disasters
    He wants Congress to look into whether presidential authority should be expanded in times of catastrophes like Katrina.
    Props to SpeakSpeak
    Bush wants the power to order the military to arrest people in the US. Currently, the military is barred by the Posse Comitatus Act from arresting people in the US.
    Protests can be declared “emergencies” for soldiers to arrest protestors.
    Taken in the context of 100,000 dead in Iraq on (…)

  • Hotels near New Orleans Convention Center could have saved lives
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    REPORTING FROM NEW ORLEANS by Rosa Clemente September 13, 2005
    Listen to this incredible account of New Orleans from Hip Hop activist Rosa Clemente.. www.odeo.com/audio/229956/view
    DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS
    After a twenty one hour drive, we, Brad a videography and King, arrived in New Orleans, as we crossed the border of Mississippi we spoke to folks displaced, white middle class folks who have not seen a FEMA or RED CROSS vehicle since the hurricane hit, many Mexican and Honduran (…)

  • FL, MN, CA Winners In First Katrina Contracts
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    George Bush stood before the nation tonight and in an attempt to repair his tarnished image, unveiled the most massive reconstruction program since - maybe the reconstruction. At the same time, the US Army Corps of Engineers in conjunction with FEMA announced 4 contracts worth $500 million each, with the option of an additional $500 million. While Bush touted local jobs and local small business incentives, the debris removal contracts have been awarded to 2 corporations in Florida, 1 in (…)

  • Witneeses Heard Levee Explosion
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "We thought we’d be fine this time" Gary Mason, Globe & Mail, Sep 5, 2005
    HOUSTON - Keith Anderson is different than most of the victims of hurricane Katrina now spending their nights in a cramped Astrodome, convention hall or some church or homeless shelter here. When asked if his government failed him and his fellow residents of New Orleans, whether more could have been done to get people out before panic set in, he doesn’t give you the answer you expect. "I had lots of time to get (…)

  • A Sausage - Looted or Not - Lands Elderly Church Leader in Prison
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Sausage - Looted or Not - Lands Elderly Church Leader in Prison
    By Kevin Mcgill and John Solomon Associated Press Writers Published: Sep 15, 2005
    KENNER, La. (AP) - Merlene Maten undoubtedly stands out in the prison where she has been held since Hurricane Katrina. The 73-year-old church deaconess, never before in trouble with the law, now sleeps among hardened criminals. Her bail is a stiff $50,000.
    Her offense?
    Police say the grandmother from New Orleans took $63.50 in goods from (…)

  • The Danziger Bridge incidents
    16 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Here’s the full text (also available here and here and here) of the Associated Press article on something that happened at Danziger Bridge in New Orleans on September 4:
    "Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.
    Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six.
    Fourteen contractors were traveling across (…)

  • Locals, Officials Suggest Levees were Intentionally Blown
    15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Could the levees in New Orleans have been INTENTIONALLY blown out in order to provide the justification for total FEMA federal takeover?
    The locals certainly seem to think so, yet, as usual, the mainstream media is barely picking up on this wave of opinion, so it is left to us once again to bring the issue into the open.
    This website distances itself from claims that the levees were blown to target the lower class areas and save the richer areas. The (…)

  • FEMA workers must be arrested!They did not ’Fail’, they intentionally withheld lifesaving supplies!
    15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "To me, it was like being in hell," said Carl Warner, the chief engineer for Methodist Hospital in the hard-hit eastern part of New Orleans. "There were bodies floating in the water outside the building, and our staffers had to swim through that water to get fuel for the generator."
    The patients and staff at Methodist could have been evacuated before Hurricane Katrina hit. But instead they were condemned to several days of fear and agony by bad decision-making in Louisiana and the chaotic (…)