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  • Eight Big Lies About Katrina
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Big Media has given ample space for administration officials and conservatives to spread falsehoods about relief efforts.
    Eight Big Lies About Katrina
    In the past week, Bush administration officials and conservative commentators have repeatedly used the national media to spread misinformation about the federal government’s widely criticized response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina.
    1. Bush: "I don’t think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees"
    On the Sept. 1 (…)

  • How accurate is YOUR resume? Ummm... Mr. Brown?
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1103003,00.html
    This link will spell out just how to fabricate the things needed to get a high level federal job like Mr. Brown has with FEMA. Now if a private sector applicant or federal civil servant applicant will notice, most of their applications state they will be "dismissed" (fired?) for "lying" (misrepresentation) on their application. There must be some part of this Mr. Rove aka Mr. Bush does not understand....... Hmmmm...... (…)

  • CAMELOT SPAMALOT
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    CAMELOT, SPAMALOT
    By Peter Fredson
    September 9, 2005
    I realize that most blogs this week are concerned with Hurricane Katrina, and rightfully so. But today I received an e-mail that was so outrageous, so ignorant, and exhibited such atrocious spelling errors that I must remark on it.
    The e-mail purports to be from some enterprise that loans people money, a very serious matter, which surely requires some kind of accounting course and some knowledge of spelling and grammar to be (…)

  • Bush : ’Don’t show dead bodies’ --- Bellaciao : please send us images...
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Washington - Official United States admonitions against broadcasting images of cadavers in New Orleans floodwaters have prompted charges that America’s media helped cover up the slow United States response to Hurricane Katrina.
    The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which has taken much of the heat for the lack of organisation, asked news organisations not to show pictures of dead bodies.
    US newspapers have published photographs of bodies floating in the city, devastated by flooding (…)

  • Republicans block efforts to amend relief bill, hold vote without providing copy of bill
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by John Byrne
    In the wake of what the Wall Street Journal projected may be the most expensive natural disaster in American history, the Republican Leadership in the House of Representatives limited floor consideration of the $52 billion Katrina relief bill proposed by President Bush and voted to reject any Democratic efforts to amend the bill to include a wider array of relief measures, RAW STORY has learned.
    Democrats said no one had even seen a copy of the legislation.
    Voting along (…)

  • Pat Robertson’s Katrina Cash
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Max Blumenthal
    Every cloud has a silver lining. Hurricane Katrina has devastated New Orleans, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless, and plunging the entire city into chaos. In the hurricane’s wake, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its director, Michael Brown, forced out of his former job at the International Arabian Horse Association, with no credentials in disaster relief, have become targets of withering criticism. Yet FEMA’s relief efforts have (…)

  • Berlin, Meet William Timken
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Charles Hawley in Berlin
    America’s new ambassador to Germany, William R. Timken Jr., introduced himself to Berlin’s press corps on Tuesday. While many in Germany have been critical of Timken’s big business past, Hurricane Katrina was talking point number one.
    In September 2001, one of newly appointed German Ambassador Daniel Coats’s first official duties was to accept German aid and solidarity offered in the wake of the devastating terror attacks in New York and Washington.
    Fast (…)

  • Bush administration snubs Cuban hurricane relief offer
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bill Van Auken
    Among the many offers of aid for New Orleans and Gulf Coast disaster victims that the Bush administration has either blocked, squandered or delayed is that of a substantial emergency medical brigade from Cuba.
    The Cuban government of President Fidel Castro offered in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation to send over 1,000 doctors and 36 tons of medicine and equipment to the disaster zone. After 10 days, the Bush administration has yet to even (…)

  • US Navy Pilots Who Rescued Hurricane Victims Are Reprimanded
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID S. CLOUD
    PENSACOLA, Fla. - Two Navy helicopter pilots and their crews returned from New Orleans on Aug. 30 expecting to be greeted as lifesavers after ferrying more than 100 hurricane victims to safety. Instead, their superiors chided the pilots, Lt. David Shand and Lt. Matt Udkow, at a meeting the next morning for rescuing civilians when their assignment that day had been to deliver food and water to military installations along the Gulf Coast.
    "I felt it was a great day (…)

  • The city where the dead are left lying on the streets
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a makeshift grave on the streets of New Orleans lies the body of Vera Smith. She was an ordinary woman who, like thousands of her neighbours, died because she was poor. Abandoned to her fate as the waters rose around her, Vera’s tragedy symbolises the great divide in America today
    by Andrew Buncombe in New Orleans However Vera Smith may have lived her life, one thing was certain. In death, she had no dignity. Killed in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, her body lay under a (…)