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  • ’Katrinagate’ fury spreads
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Gabrielle Chwallek
    Washington - "For God’s sake, are you blind?," a woman shouts at the head of the federal emergency management agency (FEMA), Michael Brown.
    "You’re patting each other on the back, while people here are dying."
    The woman is not a victim of Hurricane Katrina. She is a reporter with US television network MSNBC who is so affected by the misery she has witnessed she can hold back no longer.
    "Katrinagate" is the term being used by the media to describe the biggest (…)

  • Haunted by Hesitation
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MAUREEN DOWD Published: September 7, 2005
    WASHINGTON
    It took a while, but the president finally figured out a response to the destruction of New Orleans.
    Later this week (no point rushing things) W. is dispatching Dick Cheney to the rancid lake that was a romantic city. The vice president has at long last lumbered back from a Wyoming vacation, and, reportedly, from shopping for a $2.9 million waterfront estate in St. Michael’s, a retreat in the Chesapeake Bay where Rummy has a (…)

  • Disaster used as political payoff
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Juan Gonzalez
    The Federal Emergency Management Agency has done it again.
    Already under fire for its woeful response to Hurricane Katrina, the federal disaster agency appears to have turned hurricane relief donations into a political payoff - until it was challenged.
    All last week, FEMA bureaucrats gave prominent placement on the agency’s Web site to Operation Blessing, the Virginia-based charity run by controversial right-wing evangelist and Christian Coalition founder Pat (…)

  • New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Press conference: Tuesday, September 6, 2005 4:00 p.m. CST outside the Reliance Center at Kirby and McNee
    New Orleans Black Community Leaders Charge Racism in Government Neglect of Hurricane Survivors
    Press conference to announce plan to save lives and demand role in rebuilding effort
    HOUSTON - A national alliance of black community leaders will announce the formation of a New Orleans People’s Committee to demand a decision-making role in the short-term care of hurricane survivors and (…)

  • Where the Rumsfelds Retreat, The Cheneys Soon Could Follow
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    ST. MICHAELS, Md. — They’ve grown used to having a secretary of defense in their midst — the way his weekend estate is tucked behind a bend in the road, how he takes casual walks tailed by dark SUVs. Now, residents of this Eastern Shore retreat are preparing for someone even bigger to buy a house down the road: the vice president.
    "I’d heard it was going to close either Tuesday or Wednesday of this week," Carroll Hurley, a funeral home owner, said Saturday, seated with his breakfast gang (…)

  • Katrina Survivor: “They died for no reason but lack of organization”
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    MALIK RAHIM is a veteran of the Black Panther Party in New Orleans, a housing rights activist and recent Green Party candidate for New Orleans City Council. He lives in the Algiers neighborhood, the only part of New Orleans that isn’t flooded. They have no power, but the water is still good, and the phones work. Their neighborhood could be sheltering and feeding at least 40,000 refugees, he says, but they are allowed to help no one.
    This report from New Orleans was published by the San (…)

  • White & Black Alike, Unite Against The Bush Criminal Regime
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    We have been spoon fed a pack of lies from day one - this apparent willful campaign to mislead the public is very deep, so far reaching, and if not understood by the general public, could ultimately lead to full martial law being declared across the United States.
    Regardless of our race, color, or religious beliefs, we must all come to understand the crimes that our evil "leaders", their military personnel and a corrupt media have brought upon this country and its people. We are now (…)

  • Group: Internal memos show oil companies limited refineries to drive up prices
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) today exposed internal oil company memos that show how the industry intentionally reduced domestic refining capacity to drive up profits, RAW STORY has learned.
    The three internal memos from Mobil, Chevron and Texaco illustrate how the oil juggernauts reduced refining capacity and drove independent refiners out of business in an effort to increase prices. The highly confidential memos reveal a nationwide effort by American Petroleum (…)

  • To support the victims of Katrina, do NOT give to “Operation Blessing”
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Mary MacElveen
    I am outraged as I read where FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) is directing Katrina donations to none other than the Rev. Pat Robertson. This is the same man who broke the law by threatening Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’ life on national TV.
    According to information readily available at Sploid, it states “FEMA has released to the media and on its Web site a list of suggested charities to help the storm’s hundreds of thousands of victims. The Red Cross is (…)

  • Bush’s Death Tax
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Wayne Besen
    This may be politically incorrect, but I’m having serious qualms about writing a check for Hurricane relief. The way I see it, I already gave my fare share for the effort on April 15. This is Tax Day, the painful moment where we surrender a large chunk of our hard earned change to the federal government, so they can fix levees and plan for national emergencies.
    President George W. Bush, however, decided to squander this money on tax breaks for Cappuccino Conservatives and (…)