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  • 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 (…)

  • Great Apes Doomed to Extinction for Want of Budgetary Scraps from West
    15 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Treaty offers world’s last chance to save great apes Michael McCarthy, Environment Editor UK Independent
    The agreement sets targets for slowing the loss of great apes and their forest habitats by 2010, and for securing their future in the wild by 2015
    They are man’s closest cousins and they are staring into the abyss. But in one of the most important environmental treaties, hope has been offered to stop the headlong slide towards extinction of humankind’s nearest relatives, the great (…)

  • Hurricane Katrina and the war in Iraq- It is time for a debate on our Nation’s priorities
    14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Senator Byrd on Tuesday called for a national debate on America’s priorities. "I call upon the leaders of this country to come together and to work together to repair our storm- ravaged Gulf Coast and help salvage the lives of its victims, but more than that. I call upon the Congress to inventory our homeland with an eye to the future," Byrd told his colleagues. His prepared remarks are below.
    Chapter 3, Verses 1-8 of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible begins, “To everything there is a (…)

  • Over 100 trucks await orders from FEMA to bring water to NOLA“They’ve got their thumbs up their ass"
    14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Food Not Bombs volunteers from Prescott and Tucson serve their first meals to a group of FEMA-contracted truckers and refugees at the Baton Rouge convention center.
    After receiving word that over 100 truckers were sitting in a Target parking lot in east Baton Rouge, the AZ Food Not Bombs mobile kitchen showed up with several pots of beans, chili and rice.
    We spent a couple hours talking with the semi drivers, who were operating under FEMA to bring water and food into New Orleans - but, (…)

  • As bodies recovered, reporters are told ’no photos, no stories’
    14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Orleans — A long caravan of white vans led by an Army humvee rolled Monday through New Orleans’ Bywater district, a poor, mostly black neighborhood, northeast of the French Quarter.
    Recovery team members wearing white protective suits and black boots stopped at houses with spray painted markings on the doors designating there were dead bodies inside.
    Outside one house on Kentucky Street, a member of the Army 82nd Airborne Division summoned a reporter and photographer standing nearby (…)

  • Out of the Deadly Waters of New Orleans a New Awareness Rises
    13 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? By ANNE RICE La Jolla, Calif.
    WHAT do people really know about New Orleans?
    Do they take away with them an awareness that it has always been not only a great white metropolis but also a great black city, a city where African-Americans have come together again and again to form the strongest African-American culture in the land?
    The first literary magazine ever published in Louisiana was the work of black men, French-speaking poets and (…)

  • Hurricane Katrina should invalidate the right of George Bush to appoint Supreme Court Justices
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is impossible for me, as it is for most Americans, to watch the horror and suffering from Hurricane Katrina and not feel physically sore, pained, bereft, empty, heartbroken. And angry.
    The Katrina tragedy should become a watershed in American politics. This was when the usually invisible people suddenly appeared in all the anguish of their lives — the impoverished, the old, the infirm, the kids and the low-wage workers with no cars, TVs or credit cards. They showed up on America’s (…)

  • It’s time for the Democrats to rise up and stop doing business as usual
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Incompetence, cronyism, accountability, corruption, leveling with the American people, honesty and integrity are all words that we expect get a "hot button" response in political focus groups. In fact, these were words used by Bush in the disputed 2000 race that got him within 540,000 votes of beating Al Gore.
    So why then are the Democrats always so timid about using them in relation to Bush? Because he is incompetent; engages in rampant cronyism and corporate campaign contributor (…)

  • Cynthia McKinney censored in congressional record- Is someone afraid of the word IMPEACHMENT?
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Rep McKinney Special Order Censored??? By Rep Cynthia McKinney
    I mentioned the word impeachment on the House Floor Thursday late afternoon, but I don’t see it in the official Congressional Record transcript. I was chided by the Speaker that it was out of order to question the President’s motives. I didn’t question motives, I questioned actions: from lack of actions on Katrina to cutting the budget of safety net programs, to rewarding the rich to the detriment of all the rest of us. This (…)