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  • Katrina Cuts to the Heart of America: French Quarter News
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    French Quarter Holdouts Create ’Tribes’
    By ALLEN G. BREED Sep 4 2005
    (AP) Mat James caries his dog Baby Pearl as he marches in the Southern Decadence parade in the French...
    NEW ORLEANS (AP) - In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor.
    As some went down to the river to do the wash, others remained behind to protect property. In a (…)

  • New Orleans has been taken over by the United States Government
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The entire city of New Orleans is under evacuation orders. I just spoke to my friend Daniel in the Bywater (9th ward). He reports that unmarked police vehicles (cadillacs) are driving through the neighborhood with SWAT team police armed with ’big black machine guns’ telling people through bullhorns they are under orders to evacuate and must leave the city now.
    People in that neighborhood are being told to go to the big pool on the corner of Lesseps and St. Claude (this is one block from my (…)

  • Critical Information for all Katrina victims, refugees, survivors
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israeli citizens that made their homes in the illegal (under international law) settlements in Gaza, are to receive between $200,000 - $300,000 each to relocate- paid for by US taxpayer dollars.
    "Settlers, who were encouraged by the Israeli government to move to settlements, are entitled to compensation," says Sarit Michaeli, spokesman for B’Tselem, the independent Israeli information centre for human rights in the occupied territories.
    Israel has negotiated a $2.2 billion dollar gift (…)

  • A Failure of Leadership : "Bush to New Orleans: Drop Dead"
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by BOB HERBERT
    Neither the death of the chief justice nor the frantic efforts of panicked White House political advisers can conceal the magnitude of the president’s failure of leadership last week. The catastrophe in New Orleans billowed up like the howling winds of hell and was carried live and in color on television screens across the U.S. and around the world.
    The Big Easy had turned into the Big Hurt, and the colossal failure of George W. Bush to intervene powerfully and immediately (…)

  • At the very peril of the United States, Bush appropriated $ billions for War!
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    Never in my wildest nightmares did I ever think that I would hear the word refugee used in relation to the citizens of the United States of America. But, thanks to Hurricane Katrina, our worst nightmare has come true.
    Some may say "I cannot believe this is happening to us" and my reply to them is similar situations have happened across the globe for a very long time and it stands to reason and given the stupidity of this government, our time would come.
    My heart (…)

  • Pattern Emerges in Katrina Lack of Response Stories
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Beyond Incompetence Reading the news after the Katrina Hurricane
    and the lack-of-response disaster,
    a pattern began to emerge.
    links to full articles all located on this page, with links to the source for two reasons: 1. easy to email 2. archived because some sources delete articles
    Airboaters stalled by FEMA 500 Florida airboat pilots have volunteered to rescue Hurricane Katrina victims, transport relief workers and ferry supplies. But they aren’t (…)

  • While Bush fiddles, New Orleans dies
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is a review of the performance of George W. Bush in tight times in this nation. It might explain the single solitary most catastrophic collapse of American government in all of our times. Mark ye well. This was the week when we turned a major American city into Haiti, and racism put its hand out and started to choke a nation, and it may not let go.
    With the water coming from the sky and the bottom of the sea, driving with such ferocity that a major American city, New Orleans, followed (…)

  • FROM THE IRAQI FRONT
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    Iraq “is failing, or perhaps already failed”, says an American contactor who continues to carry out economic development work there as the country descends into “expanded gang warfare” and “the saddest story since Vietnam”.
    The contractor, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described some of the missteps of U.S. and Iraqi authorities and of the daily power struggles among and between factions.
    “The problem is the government and the country, which is failing, or (…)

  • The President’s Priorities: State of Marriage Took Precedence over State of Louisiana
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Why is President Bush more concerned with the state of marriage than the state of Louisiana?
    That’s what the New Orleans City Business paper asked in early February, a couple of weeks after Bush’s State of the Union address, in which the president called for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages, upon learning that Bush’s budget proposal recommended slashing $34 million from the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, leaving the city (…)

  • QUEEN OF HEARTS : The Nnabagereka Charms all with visit to Boston school
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Daniel Patrick Welch
    SALEM, U.S.A. ­ Four-year old Brandon Marrero awoke early and opened his eyes wide. “Is today Queen’s Day?” he asked his mom?
    The preschooler at the Greenhouse School in Salem, Massachusetts (north of Boston) had been excited for weeks, and the day had finally arrived. He and his schoolmates at the small alternative school on Boston’s north shore were going to see a real, live Queen. The Nnabagereka, Her Highness the Queen of Buganda, was to visit the school. (…)