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  • Over 100 trucks await orders from FEMA to bring water to NOLA“They’ve got their thumbs up their ass"
    14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Food Not Bombs volunteers from Prescott and Tucson serve their first meals to a group of FEMA-contracted truckers and refugees at the Baton Rouge convention center.
    After receiving word that over 100 truckers were sitting in a Target parking lot in east Baton Rouge, the AZ Food Not Bombs mobile kitchen showed up with several pots of beans, chili and rice.
    We spent a couple hours talking with the semi drivers, who were operating under FEMA to bring water and food into New Orleans - but, (…)

  • FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals
    14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    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 (…)

  • As bodies recovered, reporters are told ’no photos, no stories’
    14 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Orleans — A long caravan of white vans led by an Army humvee rolled Monday through New Orleans’ Bywater district, a poor, mostly black neighborhood, northeast of the French Quarter.
    Recovery team members wearing white protective suits and black boots stopped at houses with spray painted markings on the doors designating there were dead bodies inside.
    Outside one house on Kentucky Street, a member of the Army 82nd Airborne Division summoned a reporter and photographer standing nearby (…)

  • HATRED OR UNDYING LOVE?
    13 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    HATRED OR UNDYING LOVE?
    By Peter Fredson
    September 13, 2005
    I spend much time reviewing my computer files, which now occupy about 5 gigabytes of space, to see how things started and to try and prognosticate how they might end. While looking at the Bill Clinton years I am impressed at the hatred expressed against him by Republicans, certainly tantamount to their hatred toward Franklyn Delano Roosevelt. Intense, bitter, vicious, nasty, seething and immensely personal. All the Bush (…)

  • Let’s Make Sure President Bush Doesn’t Survive Katrina
    13 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We’ve all loved New Orleans, and the Big Easy has loved us right back. We’ve partied there, gambled perhaps, gorged on the delicacies and had a good time to the point of embarrassing ourselves. Losing yourself in the revelry was par for the course in this uniquely American city, a town where anything goes and all is forgiven.
    Today New Orleans represents a national disgrace that is unforgivable. The devastating loss of life and human dignity in the Gulf Coast region must forever live in (…)

  • Out of the Deadly Waters of New Orleans a New Awareness Rises
    13 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? By ANNE RICE La Jolla, Calif.
    WHAT do people really know about New Orleans?
    Do they take away with them an awareness that it has always been not only a great white metropolis but also a great black city, a city where African-Americans have come together again and again to form the strongest African-American culture in the land?
    The first literary magazine ever published in Louisiana was the work of black men, French-speaking poets and (…)

  • Bush’s America
    13 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    More good news tonight from the Treasury Department....minimum credit card payments are going up 100 per cent with the blessing of the US Treasury. The average American card holder, according to MSNBC cable news, has a credit card balance of $9,000 and most pay a minimum of $200 per month...today. When the new minimum goes into effect, that minimum will be $400 per month. Who will be the beneficiary of such drastic action?
    The circumstantial evidence is mounting daily, exceeded only by (…)

  • Bush Hating 101
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It’s hard to imagine that all things bad with america and americans can be personified by one person " George Bush ". All I can say is the more you rant and rave that only the president is at fault and to blame for an "act of God ", the more apparent and ridiculouse you cry babies appear. All I can say is listen to reason or no one will hear your stupidity. Why not throw away another election or any chance at one.
    Consider this. 1) The moron that released the prisoners into the Superdome, (…)

  • Hurricane Katrina should invalidate the right of George Bush to appoint Supreme Court Justices
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    It is impossible for me, as it is for most Americans, to watch the horror and suffering from Hurricane Katrina and not feel physically sore, pained, bereft, empty, heartbroken. And angry.
    The Katrina tragedy should become a watershed in American politics. This was when the usually invisible people suddenly appeared in all the anguish of their lives — the impoverished, the old, the infirm, the kids and the low-wage workers with no cars, TVs or credit cards. They showed up on America’s (…)

  • It’s time for the Democrats to rise up and stop doing business as usual
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Incompetence, cronyism, accountability, corruption, leveling with the American people, honesty and integrity are all words that we expect get a "hot button" response in political focus groups. In fact, these were words used by Bush in the disputed 2000 race that got him within 540,000 votes of beating Al Gore.
    So why then are the Democrats always so timid about using them in relation to Bush? Because he is incompetent; engages in rampant cronyism and corporate campaign contributor (…)