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  • RESIGN
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Madsen
    "Team Bush" still refusing international aid. Russian rescue crews on four cargo planes with helicopters on board sit idle at an airport near Moscow waiting for green light, Cuba has 1500 doctors with 26 tons of medical supplies and Bush is refusing them entry to U.S., Venezuelan disaster rescue teams wait for a "go," Dominican Republic crews with hurricane recovery experience wait and wait and wait. It’s the same scene at airports around the world. Meanwhile, FEMA turned (…)

  • Bush criticism is widely reported
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fierce criticism of President Bush’s response to Hurricane Katrina dominates Tuesday’s papers, amid reports of ongoing suffering among storm victims.
    The Daily Mirror condemns the response as amazingly inadequate, pointing out that the richest country on Earth needs aid from poorer nations.
    And the Guardian says many evacuees at a Louisiana church centre visited by Mr Bush were unimpressed by the president.
    Meanwhile, the Sun likens New Orleans to a medieval wasteland.
    Hurricane (…)

  • Editorial blasts federal response
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) — The Times-Picayune of New Orleans printed this editorial in its Sunday edition, criticizing the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina and calling on every FEMA official to be fired: An open letter to the President
    Dear Mr. President:
    We heard you loud and clear Friday when you visited our devastated city and the Gulf Coast and said, "What is not working, we’re going to make it right."
    Please forgive us if we wait to see proof of your promise (…)

  • New Orleans : prisoners fell on barbed wire in bid to find water
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    New Orleans prison inmates desperate to get water fell out of cell windows onto razor wire where they hung for hours waiting to be rescued, according to a sheriff’s deputy.
    Luis Reyes, who guarded a prison during Hurricane Katrina and the days after, said that some detainees drowned in their cells as flood waters rose.
    In an interview with AFP, Mr Reyes said many prisoners broke out of their cells because there were just not enough guards to control the Community Correctional Centre (…)

  • The Superdome: Monument to a Rotten System
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There is nothing “unnatural” about the disaster of New Orleans. When politicians
    by Dave Zirin
    http://www.opednews.com
    Nowhere is this personified more painfully than in a monument to corporate greed that has rapidly become the earth’s most damnable homeless shelter, the Louisiana Superdome.
    The Superdome is perhaps the most unintentionally appropriate name since Mr. and Mrs. Cheney looked at their newborn son and said, “Dick.” It was birthed in 1975 with pomp and bombast, as the (…)

  • The Smoking Gun: Navy Ship sits unused awaiting Bush’s orders, while Bush ate cake
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Ben Frank
    After the Hurricane struck, Bush did NOTHING to mitigate the disaster, instead he continued on his scheduled photo ops- yucking it up with Seniors, eating cake with John McCain, and playing guitar for the cameras. Meanwhile, a US Navy ship with amphibious landing vehicles, hopsital facilities with 600 beds, 9 million meals (MREs) and the capacity to make 100,000 gallons of water per day- sat unused for a week- awaiting Bush’s orders. In this BBC interview with Lt. Commander (…)

  • Is Cheney dead?
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No one is saying one way or the other but I find it extremely interesting to note that not one word has come from the Vice President concerning Katrina nor has he been seen in the media.
    Also...
    I visited his "fan club" website and all they would say when asked where Cheney was is..."undisclosed location ?".
    Question mark,theirs.

  • CHENEY ALERT!! WHERE IS THE VICE PRESIDENT?
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    OK, I think we need to find little Dicky because he’s probably in a hospital somewhere or dead. Why the government would conceal this is a real question, but keep a sharp eye out for a Cheney sighting at the funeral of the Chief Justice this week. Cheney needs to attend.
    If he’s not there, he’s probably a goner. Somebody please keep posting "Where’s Dick" stories so this stays in front of people.

  • New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin to feds: ’Get off your asses’
    6 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Transcript of radio interview with New Orleans’ Nagin
    New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the slow pace of federal and state relief efforts in an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM.
    The following is a transcript of WWL correspondent Garland Robinette’s interview with Nagin on Thursday night. Robinette asked the mayor about his conversation with President Bush:
    NAGIN: I told him we had an incredible crisis here and that his flying over in Air Force One does not do (…)

  • 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 (…)