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  • Bush Katrina Ratings Fall After Speech
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bush Katrina Ratings Fall After Speech Survey of 1,000 Adults
    September 16-17, 2005
    President Bush Response to
    Hurricane Katrina Excellent 17% Good 18% Fair 23% Poor 41% RasmussenReports.com Favor Federal Funding for $200 Billion New Orleans Reconstruction? Favor 50% Oppos 27% RasmussenReports.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    September 18, 2005—Thirty-five percent (35%) of Americans now say that President Bush (…)

  • Storm Rescuers Overwhelmed by Toxic Waste & A Miraculous Molecular Solution
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Rescuers awed by ruin revealed as water recedes By MARJORIE HERNANDEZ Scripps Howard News Service
    NEW ORLEANS - The putrid smell of toxic, mud-caked debris baking in the humid Southern heat wafted almost 200 feet above the ground.
    Trees that were once green and lush are now brown and in pieces, many bending to the awesome power of a Category 4 hurricane that pounced on this city and its surrounding parishes more than two weeks ago. Murky water as black as tar in some places and dull (…)

  • See You in D.C.
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    So we have come to cash this check — a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice. We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. (MLK, Jr. Aug. 28, 1963, I Have a Dream speech)
    What Bush’s Katrina shows once again is that my son died for nothing. If you listen to Bush - and fewer and fewer are, thank (…)

  • Access Denied!
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    People often marvel at the Bolivarian revolution that put President Hugo Chavez Frias into power where he did so based upon the philosophies of Simon Bolivar. They marvel that ordinary people but people of great strength can take their country back from the elite. Then-candidate Gov. Howard Dean’s message was take back your country and those primary voters could have by making him our candidate in this past election.
    I want to remind the American people that they too (…)

  • Downing Street Memos Verify Death of Journalism Ethics
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Carmen Yarrusso
    The preamble to the Code of Ethics for the Society of Professional Journalists eloquently declares: “...journalists believe that public enlightenment is the forerunner of justice and the foundation of democracy. The duty of the journalist is to further those ends by seeking truth and providing a fair and comprehensive account of events and issues...”
    Yeah, right!
    Mainstream media’s dismal failure to enlighten the public to the dire implications of the Downing Street (…)

  • Too Much of a Mystery
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The New York Times | Editorial
    John Roberts failed to live up to the worst fears of his critics in his confirmation hearings last week. But in many important areas where senators wanted to be reassured that he would be a careful guardian of Americans’ rights, he refused to give any solid indication of his legal approach. That makes it difficult to decide whether he should be confirmed. Weighing the pluses and minuses and the many, many unanswered questions, and considering some of the (…)

  • New Orleans as Potemkin Village One Big Sham
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By DAVE LINDORFF
    Three cheers for Maureen Dowd for exposing the sham of President’ Bush’s Jackson Square speech to the nation announcing his "recovery plan" for New Orleans, and a big fat raspberry for the electronic media-and for Dowd’s own New York Times-for failing to mention it in their "hard-news" coverage of the speech.
    For those who missed it, Bush, dressed in a pressed, blue, open-collar dress shirt (not "badly tailored" this time), was backed by a beautifully blue-lit St. Louis (…)

  • Police Fortify Numbers for War Protests. Demonstration Will Be the First Since the District Passed Arrest Law
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Del Quentin Wilber
    D.C. police have canceled days off and are planning to deploy several hundred officers during an antiwar demonstration next weekend that will include a march near the White House, but officials said they expect no trouble.
    Saturday’s rally, part of a weekend of protests and counter-protests, will be the first demonstration allowed to surround the White House in more than a decade. It is the first major rally to occur since a D.C. law that requires police to give (…)

  • Military May Play Bigger Relief Role
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ROBERT BURNS, WASHINGTON
    President Bush’s push to give the military a bigger role in responding to major disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of legal limits on the use of federal troops on U.S. soil.
    Pentagon officials are reviewing that possibility, and some in Congress agree it needs to be considered.
    Bush did not define the wider role he envisions for the military. But in his speech to the nation from New Orleans on Thursday, he alluded to the unmatched (…)

  • FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Miriam Raftery
    The Federal Emergency Management Agency has hired Kenyon International to set up a mobile morgue for handling bodies in Baton Rouge, Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.
    Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family. Recently, SCI subsidiaries have been implicated in illegally discarding and desecrating corpses.
    Louisiana governor Katherine Blanco (…)