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  • After Katrina, the country no longer believes in Bush the protector. His presidency is ruined
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Breach of a myth
    By Sidney Blumenthal
    Bush’s America is gone with the wind. It lasted just short of four years, from Sept. 11, 2001, to Aug. 29, 2005. The devastation of New Orleans was the watery equivalent of a dirty bomb, but Hurricane Katrina approached the homeland with advance warnings, scientific anticipation and a personal briefing of the president by the director of the National Hurricane Center, alerting him about a possible breaching of the levees. It was as predictable as (…)

  • US Corps of Engineers(USACE) & Halliburton clean up !?!?!?!?
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    This Congressional Hearing shows just how much oversight USACE really needs. Seems like they have had a long standing love affair with Halliburton..............
    Halliburton threatens Army officials who point out contract abuse 16 Sept. 2005 WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 (HalliburtonWatch.org) — A former contracting officer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) told a congressional committee today that Halliburton regularly threatens government officials who complain about contracting (…)

  • Expulsion is Transfer: The Colonial Logic of Bush’s Response to New Orleans
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jonathan Scott
    It’s not so much that the Emperor has no clothes but that his clothes, under the black sky, are shining white, with many thousands gone, enabled deliberately by his white imperial rule. I believe this to be the only honest, rational conclusion to draw from all the evidence on the ground in New Orleans.
    A lot of the shock and awe being expressed in the mainstream media over the Bush administration’s four days of willful indifference toward the suffering of Black people (…)

  • The U.S. People have a major responsibility in the world. I think that we’re going to save the world
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    AMY GOODMAN: Mr. President Hugo Chavez, your assessment of president Bush, of the invasion and occupation of Iraq? And do you think if it weren’t Iraq, it would have been Venezuela?
    HUGO CHAVEZ: The imperialist government of Mr. Bush planned. What is the U.S. government looking for? And the elite governing this country? They’re looking for oil. This is part of the crisis that is looming in the horizon. You should know that the U.S., I already said this, 5% of the world population lives in (…)

  • Fewer Americans Trust Bush on Iraq
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    September 19, 2005
    (Angus Reid Global Scan) - Many adults in the United States are losing confidence in their president’s aptitude to make decisions connected with the coalition effort, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News. 63 per cent of respondents are uneasy about George W. Bush’s approach to the war in Iraq.
    The survey shows a 17-point drop in confidence on the American president since a survey conducted days before the war began.
    The coalition effort against (…)

  • Chavez vows to help U.S. poor
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    To thunderous applause and chants in Spanish of "Chavez, friend, the people are with you," Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez strode into the United Methodist Church of St. Paul and St. Andrew yesterday on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
    Chavez told the house packed with peace and anti-globalization activists and community and religious leaders that he would soon start to ship heating oil and diesel fuel at below-market prices to poor communities and schools in the United States.
    "I felt a (…)

  • From ’Old Man of the Mountain" Bush Lies
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    From ’Old Man of the Mountain’, Bush Lies. Update ’Bush Lies’ Tour Sept. 18, 2005
    While painting New Hampshire’s ’Old Man of the Mountain’, the rock outcropping that is featured on the NH quarter, I was struck by the profile that remained, after the Old Man fell. The tragic tumble was about May Day of 2003. I was not physically touched by the new profile but metaphysically inspired. Like the painting I did on Sept. 11 in NYC ( see liberty rings on 9-11, Bellaciao), the ’Old Man’ (…)

  • Message: I Care About the Black Folks
    19 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By FRANK RICH
    ONCE Toto parts the curtain, the Wizard of Oz can never be the wizard again. He is forever Professor Marvel, blowhard and snake-oil salesman. Hurricane Katrina, which is likely to endure in the American psyche as long as L. Frank Baum’s mythic tornado, has similarly unmasked George W. Bush.
    The worst storm in our history proved perfect for exposing this president because in one big blast it illuminated all his failings: the rampant cronyism, the empty sloganeering of (…)

  • CLEANING UP THE BUSH MESS
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Peter Fredson
    Katrina has come and gone and has left both the Gulf Coast and George Bush’s reputation soiled, in tatters, dirtied and in need of a lot of urgent repair. Bush’s credibility is close to zero in many reporters’ estimation; any statement he makes is self-serving and must be scanned carefully for deceit, misinformation and outright lies. His “dry-drunk” attitude, irritability and religious fervor is detrimental to his image of himself.
    His entire administration has (…)

  • How Reliable Is Brown’s Resume?
    18 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    A TIME investigation reveals discrepancies in the FEMA chief’s official biographies
    By DAREN FONDA AND RITA HEALY
    When President Bush nominated Michael Brown to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2003, Brown’s boss at the time, Joe Allbaugh, declared, "the President couldn’t have chosen a better man to help...prepare and protect the nation." But how well was he prepared for the job? Since Hurricane Katrina, the FEMA director has come under heavy criticism for his (…)