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  • 75,000 Body Bags Purchased For New Orleans
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Lynn Landes
    Questions mount over Hurricane Katrina’s death count. Estimates are now well below 10,000 with the death toll currently standing at 648 for Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida. So, why did the Bush Administration order 75,000 body bags?
    Along that line, other things don’t add up. For instance, why did FEMA contact a crematorium in the local area; how could people identify their loved ones if only ashes remain? Why did FEMA rebuff efforts of volunteer morticians? Why did (…)

  • 9-11 LIES UNDER FIRE-TRUTH FINALLY EMERGING FROM DISASTER
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Former 9-11 commissioner Timothy Roemer avoided answering questions, running like a scared rabbit when confronted by William Rodriguez, the WTC custodian who wanted to know why his dissenting testimony was omitted in the final report, during a rally marking the fourth anniversary of the terrorist attacks.
    “The 9-11 truth will be told. Bush and Cheney will be indicted for treason and murder. And immediately . . .the killing and illegal war in Iraq [will be stopped].”
    These were the strong (…)

  • ANTIWAR MOVEMENT : A reawakening begins in Crawford
    21 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    CINDY SHEEHAN’S decision to camp outside Bush’s ranch until he agrees to meet with her has brought new energy and focus to what had been a fairly invisible antiwar movement. As the Washington Post reported, “Sheehan’s case has echoed as her grievances merged with what polls show is growing dissatisfaction with the war.”
    The timing of her vigil couldn’t have been better chosen.
    As the resistance continues unchecked in Iraq, and we approach another false turning point-this time, a new (…)

  • Former White House Official Arrested
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By MARK SHERMAN
    WASHINGTON (AP) - A former Bush administration official was arrested Monday on charges he made false statements and obstructed a federal investigation into his dealings with lobbyist Jack Abramoff, according to court documents and government officials.
    David Safavian, then-chief of staff of the General Services Administration and a former Abramoff lobbying associate, concealed from federal investigators that Abramoff was seeking to do business with GSA when Safavian (…)

  • Bush Official Arrested in Corruption Probe
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By R. Jeffrey Smith and Susan Schmidt
    The Bush administration’s top federal procurement official resigned Friday and was arrested yesterday, accused of lying and obstructing a criminal investigation into Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff’s dealings with the federal government. It was the first criminal complaint filed against a government official in the ongoing corruption probe related to Abramoff’s activities in Washington.
    The complaint, filed by the FBI, alleges that David H. (…)

  • New Venezuelan Parliament Focuses on Socialist Project
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Caracas, Sep 19 (Prensa Latina) The governing Bloque de Cambio (Bloc of Change) formalized the socialist nature of the National Assembly as polls closed for Venezuelan parliamentary elections on Monday.
    President Hugo Chavez referred to the strategic importance of the legislature to start strengthening the process "toward socialism" by 2006.
    Chavez fully trusts in the overwhelming support of most Venezuelans supporting the social policy effective since 1999 to improve the distribution of (…)

  • Fidel Castro Affirms that Cuba Will Even Better Her Health Statistics
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Havana, Sep 19 (PL) President Fidel Castro affirmed Monday that Cuba is on the way to reduce infant mortality here to less than four per thousand births and to increase the life expectancy of her people.
    We are going to be the first Latin American country to reach this figure, even better than that of Canada, the statesman pointed out during the graduation ceremony for more than 1,903 physicians from the country’s medical schools.
    In addition, he said, this will take place in half the (…)

  • Senate’s Kabuki Dance With Roberts
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By William Fisher After three days of hearings on the confirmation of Judge John G. Roberts to be the seventeenth Chief Justice of the United States, what the public has learned is that the nominee appears to be as much Talmudic scholar as jurist. In the relatively few questions he did not duck altogether by saying they related to issues likely to come before the Court, or by claiming the views he wrote were those of the administrations he has worked for in the past, Roberts responded (…)

  • Division of Funeral Corp. Charged With Desecrating Corpses Hired to Collect Deceased Victims of Hurricane Katrina
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    A funeral services company which recently learned that one of its subsidiaries is negotiating a lucrative contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove dead bodies in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, paid $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit several years ago alleging the company desecrated thousands of corpses, and dumped bodies into mass graves.
    Moreover, the company paid $200,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that sought to expose (…)

  • If Corporations Could Laugh
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ralph Nader If only corporations could laugh. If only corporations could laugh during the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on Judge John Roberts’ nomination for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, they would head for the nearest champagne closet in their executive suites.
    What a triumph for the most dominant powers in and around our nation. Judge Roberts got away without having important questions asked regarding the interface between corporations, the Constitution, the election (…)