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  • Reps. Kucinich and Tubbs Jones Call On Bush To Hire Local Residents,Pay Living Wage to Rebuild NOLA
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Publisher’s note to congressional members....
    I am sure you mean well but do you really think Bush will read your letter and/or give a damn? The definition of Insanity is to continue doing the same thing expecting different results.
    You NEED to take this to the AMERICAN PEOPLE, who will then support you and demand justice for the people of New Orleans.
    What are you all thinking giving more money to FEMA? It is not about money, they turned away much needed resources because they are (…)

  • 75,000 Body Bags Ordered for Katrina Aftermath
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Modesto company to deliver more body bags to New Orleans The government’s order for another 50,000 will be filled by about eight firms
    By PATRICK GIBLIN BEE STAFF WRITER Last Updated: September 9, 2005, 04:24:14 AM PDT
    The federal government is trying to purchase an additional 50,000 body bags for use in the Hurricane Katrina cleanup and in Iraq, according to an official for a Modesto manufacturer.
    Previously, the Federal Emergency Management Administration purchased 25,000 body bags (…)

  • New Katrina Contracts Awarded; Include Fluor, Bechtel, Halliburton
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Once again, the same massive corporations that have screwed up the Iraq reconstruction, screwed up numerous US projects, and been fined for overcharges and wage and safety violations, have been rewarded by the Bush Administration.
    FEMA reports today that 5 of the nation’s major corporations have been contracted to “speed emergency housing relief” to the Gulf Coast. “Fluor Corp. of Aliso Viejo, Calif. heads up operations for the Housing Area Command. An engineering and construction firm, it (…)

  • Spinning Katrina
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friday, September 02, 2005 Spinning Katrina I am listening right now to Bill O’Reilly, again defending the Bush Administration on what is being done about the victims of Hurricane Katrina. This guy should be fired and I am ashamed that he is a fellow American. This is a crisis of bibicial proportions, and O’Reilly, smug and cocky as ever, shows me that he is a friggin’’ racist in the worst way. He does not care to mention that the Bush administration cut their budget for flooding in June. (…)

  • Tell CNN’s Anderson Cooper to Keep Reporting the Truth
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I believe that Anderson Cooper (CNN Reporter) was one of the first to actually be honest and actually report what is happening in New Orleans. We have a chance of persuading him and CNN to continue to report the truth! This is the proper function of the media.
    It is imperative that the MSM continue to tell the truth and report what really is happening! (…)

  • 10,000 holdouts remain in New Orleans
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) - More stragglers seemed willing to flee the filthy water and stench of death Thursday as increasingly insistent rescuers made what may be their last peaceful pass through swamped New Orleans before using force.
    "Some are finally saying, `I’ve had enough," said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Michael Keegan. "They’re getting dehydrated. They are running out of food. There are human remains in different houses. The smells mess with your psyche."
    Across (…)

  • RICH HARVEST FOR REPUBLICANS COMING
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HARVEST TIME FOR REPUBLICANS
    By Peter Fredson
    September 9, 2005
    People reap what they have sown. Well, the Republicans have sown disaster and will now reap profit handsomely by the tragedy on the Gulf from Hurricane Katrina. All the poor people have been chased out of their homes and houses in Astrodomes, trailer parks, church basements and similar places well away from taking care of any property in New Orleans.
    Now is the right time for Urban Development, for the real estaters, (…)

  • BUSH — THE MAN WITH A SNAFU PLAN
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sheila Samples
    "A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the populace, that government is finished." Michael Rivero, What Really Happened
    It’s a good thing President George Bush doesn’t read newspapers or watch TV. If he did, even he could see that people from one end of this nation to the other are rapidly reaching zero tolerance with his bumbling ineptitude each time he is faced with a (…)

  • Chertoff must resign.
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Just heard NPR’s Robert Siegel interviewing Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff. Chertoff suggested that the report by NPR’s John Burnett that 2,000 people without food or water, "living like animals" at the Convention Center in New Orleans, was just "rumours". Chertoff was content to robotically spout talking points about how food and water are getting to their "staging points" — wherever the hell they are.
    Siegel, to his great credit, did not let Chertoff off the hook. "These aren’t (…)

  • GI SPECIAL: Pilots Get Shit On For Rescuing Hurricane Victims: Pissed Sailors Cut Off Their Patches
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    THIS IS HOW BUSH BRINGS THE TROOPS HOME; BRING THEM ALL HOME NOW
    Army Chaplain Capt. Daoud Agbere, right, a Muslim cleric, prays for an American soldier after he was pronounced dead upon arrival at a military hospital in Baghdad, on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, despite the efforts of Army Nurse supervisor Patrick McAndrew, left, to revive him. The soldier was fatally wounded in a Baghdad firefight with insurgents.
    Click here for embedded links and photos: (…)