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  • Pat Robertson’s Katrina Cash
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Max Blumenthal
    Every cloud has a silver lining. Hurricane Katrina has devastated New Orleans, leaving thousands dead and hundreds of thousands homeless, and plunging the entire city into chaos. In the hurricane’s wake, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its director, Michael Brown, forced out of his former job at the International Arabian Horse Association, with no credentials in disaster relief, have become targets of withering criticism. Yet FEMA’s relief efforts have (…)

  • Berlin, Meet William Timken
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Charles Hawley in Berlin
    America’s new ambassador to Germany, William R. Timken Jr., introduced himself to Berlin’s press corps on Tuesday. While many in Germany have been critical of Timken’s big business past, Hurricane Katrina was talking point number one.
    In September 2001, one of newly appointed German Ambassador Daniel Coats’s first official duties was to accept German aid and solidarity offered in the wake of the devastating terror attacks in New York and Washington.
    Fast (…)

  • Bush administration snubs Cuban hurricane relief offer
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bill Van Auken
    Among the many offers of aid for New Orleans and Gulf Coast disaster victims that the Bush administration has either blocked, squandered or delayed is that of a substantial emergency medical brigade from Cuba.
    The Cuban government of President Fidel Castro offered in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation to send over 1,000 doctors and 36 tons of medicine and equipment to the disaster zone. After 10 days, the Bush administration has yet to even (…)

  • US Navy Pilots Who Rescued Hurricane Victims Are Reprimanded
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID S. CLOUD
    PENSACOLA, Fla. - Two Navy helicopter pilots and their crews returned from New Orleans on Aug. 30 expecting to be greeted as lifesavers after ferrying more than 100 hurricane victims to safety. Instead, their superiors chided the pilots, Lt. David Shand and Lt. Matt Udkow, at a meeting the next morning for rescuing civilians when their assignment that day had been to deliver food and water to military installations along the Gulf Coast.
    "I felt it was a great day (…)

  • The city where the dead are left lying on the streets
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    In a makeshift grave on the streets of New Orleans lies the body of Vera Smith. She was an ordinary woman who, like thousands of her neighbours, died because she was poor. Abandoned to her fate as the waters rose around her, Vera’s tragedy symbolises the great divide in America today
    by Andrew Buncombe in New Orleans However Vera Smith may have lived her life, one thing was certain. In death, she had no dignity. Killed in the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, her body lay under a (…)

  • Martinez: Cuban aid should be welcomed
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Sen. Mel Martinez said he was ’grateful’ for Cuba’s offer to send doctors to assist in the Katrina relief effort, though the Bush administration has not responded to the offer.
    BY PABLO BACHELET
    pbachelet@herald.com
    WASHINGTON - Florida Republican Sen. Mel Martinez said Wednesday that the U.S. government should accept Cuba’s offer to send hundreds of doctors to treat victims of Hurricane Katrina, provided they are needed and ``reasonably well-trained.’’
    Cuban leader Fidel Castro has (…)

  • Mahathir calls US, UK terrorist nations
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Friday 09 September 2005, 9:22 Makka Time, 6:22 GMT
    US and British pilots whose bombs killed Iraqi civilians were murderers, and actions taken by those two countries during the invasion and occupation of Iraq amounted to terrorism, former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has said.
    Several British and US diplomats walked out in protest of Mahathir’s broadside against their countries in a speech at a national conference in Kuala Lumpur on human rights on Friday. Mahathir, who (…)

  • History repeating itself: circa 1938
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum... <—please read
    The title of the story is: I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp
    This is a story that needs to get some serious passing around. I believe that Hurricane Katrina is our Kristalnacht. I’ve been hearing (reading) stories (some with pictures) the last few years about secret encampments enclosed with razor wire. This isn’t one those places, but this story will definitely let you know what’s in store. I am reminded of the words of (…)

  • Correction: Venezuela’s Chavez Fuels A Class War
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    I attempted to post this as a response to “Venezuela’s Chavez Avoids Class War”, but my response did not post. I hope that this posting is published.
    Dear Professor Pareja:
    While your commentary, “Venezuela’s Chavez Avoids Class War”, attempts to portray the virtues of Venezuela’s current government, it oversimplifies the nice-looking trees at the danger of ignoring the forest. I will first respond to your specific examples, and then I will attempt to frame the big picture (…)

  • New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed
    9 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Report from the Houston Astrodome...
    10:23: Joel just got removed. Almost arrested. Fox News is down on the floor. I’m in dome, hiding in seats. They’re allowing some media on the floor, not others.
    10:31 Just met members of the Polish press, they are being stopped from entering floor. Says this is like the former USSR.
    10:57 Raw transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee : "The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city... (…)