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  • Tough Decisions Elude President
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Tough Decisions Elude President Bill Gallagher September 06, 2005 Detroit - "Keep the damn federal government off our backs and out of our lives!" That’s been the battle cry of conservative Southern politicians for generations. The cry was usually code for their opposition to civil rights. In rural areas of the South, the federal government was despised for sending revenue agents to break up their beloved moonshine stills and forcing the locals to buy taxed booze. They hate government, (…)

  • Lessons From Hell. Amid Death And Destruction, Bush Not As Nero, But As Caligula’s Horse Incitatus
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Lessons From Hell Amid Death And Destruction, Bush Not As Nero, But As Caligula’s Horse Incitatus John Chuckman September 08, 2005 If he is alive, Osama bin Laden surely is enjoying some hearty laughter. Nothing he could imagine, short of the virtually-impossible task of obtaining a tactical nuclear weapon and detonating it in an American city, compares to the damage just inflicted upon the United States by its own President. Ten thousand dead is the estimate of New Orleans’ mayor. A (…)

  • US The New Saddam
    12 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    US The New Saddam Eric Margolis September 04, 2005 The most important news from Iraq last week was not the much ballyhooed constitutional pact by Shias and Kurds, nor the tragic stampede deaths of nearly 1,000 pilgrims in Baghdad.
    The U.S. Air Force’s senior officer, Gen. John Jumper, stated U.S. warplanes would remain in Iraq to fight resistance forces and protect the American-installed regime "more or less indefinitely." Jumper’s bombshell went largely unnoticed due to Hurricane (…)

  • Police force citizens from their homes, shoots their dogs
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ST. BERNARD PARISH, La. - "All Our Visitors Bring Happiness," reads the wrought iron sign on the front column of Albert Cousin’s 102-year-old Victorian house.
    Not Wednesday.
    Sheriff’s deputies in body armor and holding rifles came to try to force Cousin and other residents of St. Bernard Parish to get out of town.
    For the past few days, residents have found comfort in food and water brought by units of the Georgia National Guard, who arrived Labor Day weekend. The roughly 160 members (…)

  • How Bush Blew It
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Bureaucratic timidity. Bad phone lines. And a failure of imagination. Why the government was so slow to respond to catastrophe.
    A woman walks in the flooded streets of the 9th Ward of New Orleans
    By Evan Thomas Newsweek
    Sept. 19, 2005 issue - It’s a standing joke among the president’s top aides: who gets to deliver the bad news? Warm and hearty in public, Bush can be cold and snappish in private, and aides sometimes cringe before the displeasure of the president of the United States, (…)

  • Senate committee wants input on NOLA reconstruction
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Take the power and money out of the hands of FEMA and Halliburton/Bectel and give the money to the PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS to decide how to rebuild and who will rebuild!!
    Urgent! Senate committee wants Katrina input - deadline TODAY 9/11
    The Senate H.E.L.P. Committee (Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) has been requesting input on Katrina reconstruction. The deadline was changed from Friday 9/9 to Monday, 9/12 (but presume 9/11, by the end of today) to allow more input. . It’s a great (…)

  • Pelosi Supports Anti-Fraud Commission on Katrina
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    For Immediate Release Sept. 11, 2005
    WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi announced today that she supports forming an anti-fraud commission to oversee government contracts issued in response to Hurricane Katrina:
    "Congress is rightly spending billions of dollars to help the people and businesses of the Gulf Coast who have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. To ensure taxpayers’ money goes to those in need, not to fraudulent contractors, we must establish an (…)

  • Officials: Death Toll Lower Than Expected
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    But how do we know if they’re telling us the truth?
    by Jennifer Monroe
    NEW ORLEANS, LA — (OfficialWire) — 09/11/05 — According to retired Col. Terry J. Ebbert, who oversees police and emergency operations as New Orleans’s chief of homeland security, "The numbers [of dead] so far are relatively minor as compared with the dire predictions of 10,000."
    "There’s some encouragement in what we found in the initial sweeps," he said.
    The first organized effort to search the city for its dead (…)

  • An Open Letter to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
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    An Open Letter to U.S. Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
    On Loyalty:
    by Stan Goff
    I was a soldier for most of the time between 1970 and 1996. I signed out on my retirement from 3rd Special Forces in Ft. Bragg. I had also served in 7th Special Forces, on three Ranger assignments, with Delta for almost four years, as a Cavalry Scout for a while, and in the 82nd Airborne Division as an infantryman. I started my career in Vietnam with the 173rd Airborne Brigade.
    I thugged around in eight (…)

  • Police Trapped Thousands in New Orleans
    11 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    As the situation grew steadily worse in New Orleans last week, you might have wondered why people didn’t just leave on foot. The Louisiana Superdome is less than two miles from a bridge that leads over the Mississippi River out of the city.
    The answer: Any crowd that tried to do so was met by suburban police, some of whom fired guns to disperse the group and seized their water.
    Around 500 people stuck in downtown New Orleans after the storm banded together for self-preservation, making (…)