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  • German Plane With Katrina Aid Turned Back
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    BERLIN - A German military plane carrying 15 tons of military rations for survivors of Hurricane Katrina was sent back by U.S. authorities, officials said Saturday.
    The plane was turned away Thursday because it did not have the required authorization, a German government spokesman said.
    The spokesman, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, declined to comment on a report in the German news magazine Der Spiegel that U.S. authorities refused the delivery on the grounds that the NATO (…)

  • Sr. Airman Says "Unpatriotic" To Always Stand By The President
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sr. Airman Says "Unpatriotic" To Always Stand By The President
    [Thanks to Don Bacon, Smedley Butler Society, who sent this in.]
    September 9, 2005 By Senior Airman John Nixdorf, Stars and Stripes
    On Aug. 22, Stripes printed "Pro-Bush camp counters peace mom," (article, The Associated Press, European print edition; "Patriotic camp springs up to counter peace mom’s anti-war demonstration," Mideast print edition), about the "patriotic" camp intended to counter Cindy Sheehan.
    The headline (…)

  • Summary: Bush Administration Negligence in New Orleans
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    (I’ve compiled, in one place, evidence from mainstream news sources and credible witnesses showing how bad the federal government’s response to the New Orleans disaster really is. This article will be updated daily to include the latest developments.
    I focus solely on the response to the flooding, which is separate and apart from the fact that the flood would not have occurred in the first place if the administration hadn’t slashed funding for levee repairs in order to fund its adventure (…)

  • THE PRICE OF SECRECY
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By William Fisher
    During 2004, the Bush Administration issued more secret court orders, spent $148 creating new classified documents for every $1 spent releasing old ones, invoked the ‘state secrets’ privilege in court cases more frequently than ever before, and received 25 per cent more requests for documents under the Freedom of Information Act.
    These are among the findings of a new “Secrecy Report Card” prepared by
    OpenTheGovernment.org, a coalition of organizations dedicated to (…)

  • FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions to Fla. Residents Unaffected by ‘04 Hurricane to Help Bush Win Majori
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions to Fla. Residents Unaffected by ‘04 Hurricane to Help Bush Win Majority of Votes There
    By Jason Leopold
    Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, (…)

  • Reps. Kucinich and Tubbs Jones Call On Bush To Hire Local Residents,Pay Living Wage to Rebuild NOLA
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Publisher’s note to congressional members....
    I am sure you mean well but do you really think Bush will read your letter and/or give a damn? The definition of Insanity is to continue doing the same thing expecting different results.
    You NEED to take this to the AMERICAN PEOPLE, who will then support you and demand justice for the people of New Orleans.
    What are you all thinking giving more money to FEMA? It is not about money, they turned away much needed resources because they are (…)

  • New Katrina Contracts Awarded; Include Fluor, Bechtel, Halliburton
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Once again, the same massive corporations that have screwed up the Iraq reconstruction, screwed up numerous US projects, and been fined for overcharges and wage and safety violations, have been rewarded by the Bush Administration.
    FEMA reports today that 5 of the nation’s major corporations have been contracted to “speed emergency housing relief” to the Gulf Coast. “Fluor Corp. of Aliso Viejo, Calif. heads up operations for the Housing Area Command. An engineering and construction firm, it (…)

  • Spinning Katrina
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friday, September 02, 2005 Spinning Katrina I am listening right now to Bill O’Reilly, again defending the Bush Administration on what is being done about the victims of Hurricane Katrina. This guy should be fired and I am ashamed that he is a fellow American. This is a crisis of bibicial proportions, and O’Reilly, smug and cocky as ever, shows me that he is a friggin’’ racist in the worst way. He does not care to mention that the Bush administration cut their budget for flooding in June. (…)

  • BUSH — THE MAN WITH A SNAFU PLAN
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Sheila Samples
    "A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the populace, that government is finished." Michael Rivero, What Really Happened
    It’s a good thing President George Bush doesn’t read newspapers or watch TV. If he did, even he could see that people from one end of this nation to the other are rapidly reaching zero tolerance with his bumbling ineptitude each time he is faced with a (…)

  • How accurate is YOUR resume? Ummm... Mr. Brown?
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1103003,00.html
    This link will spell out just how to fabricate the things needed to get a high level federal job like Mr. Brown has with FEMA. Now if a private sector applicant or federal civil servant applicant will notice, most of their applications state they will be "dismissed" (fired?) for "lying" (misrepresentation) on their application. There must be some part of this Mr. Rove aka Mr. Bush does not understand....... Hmmmm...... (…)