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  • Criticism of Bush mounts as more than 10,000 feared dead
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Gary Younge Governor threatens looters with shoot-to-kill Relief convoys arrive after four days
    George Bush arrived last night in the ravaged Gulf coast region amid mounting criticism of his handling of the crisis and a prediction by one senator that the death toll in Louisiana alone could top 10,000 people.
    As thousands of people sat on the streets of New Orleans, having spent their fourth day waiting to be rescued, the city fell deeper into chaos, with gangs roaming the city and (…)

  • A "floatilla of aid" TURNED BACK from New Orleans...Explain!
    4 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    My name is Jason Robideaux, I am an attorney from Lafayette Louisiana and have dealt with all of the various law enforcement agencies in Louisiana during the past 18 years. Although I have had a positive relationship with law enforcement personnel throughout the State for many years, I regretfully have a story to share that will shake your head in disbelief about the La. Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries.
    A group of approximately 1,000 citizens pulling 500 boats left the Acadiana Mall in (…)

  • Nero fiddled as Rome burned, 68 A.D.
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Seems like the current President is taking a page out of Emperor Nero’s book from nearly 2,000 years ago (64 A.D.).
    You see, in 64 A.D. Rome experienced a major fire throught the city under Nero’s watch. Some say he had the city set ablaze.
    What do you know, there were many ambitious reconstruction projects started soon after this fire.
    What was Nero doing? Performing on stage, much to the chagrin of artists and citizens alike.
    But then, in the year 68 A.D. the man committed suicide. (…)

  • FEMA stops a rescue convoy of 500 boats
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Clark Warner
    This is beyond my comprehension and after spending two frustrating days trying to just get someone to let us help we’ve FINALLY been told we can conduct "renegade" boat rescues via the just concluded press conference that Gov. Blanco just held.
    Why is this JUST NOW being allowed? Well let’s start from the very beginning.
    On Wednesday morning a group of approximately 1,000 citizens pulling 500 boats left the Acadiana Mall in Lafayette in the early morning and headed to (…)

  • Kanye West a Hero: Dares to speak truth to power on Live TV- "Bush doesn’t care about black people."
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    During a live Charity Concert on NBC tv, rap star Kanye West abandoned his pre-scripted comments and spoke his truth.
    “I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family and they say we are looting, you see a white family and they say they are looking for food. And, you know, its been five days because most of the people ARE black.
    And even for me to complain, I would be a hypocrite because I would turn away from the TV because it’s too hard to watch. I’ve even been (…)

  • New Orleans: A Disaster Waiting to Happen
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by George E. Curry
    I am angry. I am angry at the mayor of New Orleans. I am angry at the governor of Louisiana. I am angry at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). I am angry at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), now part of the Department of Homeland Security. I am angry at George W. Bush. I am angry because they were warned last November that New Orleans was one of the “Disasters Waiting to Happen” - and did nothing about it. Consequently, hundreds, if not thousands, of (…)

  • Detalied Report on pre-war statements by Bush Admin: "There is No Doubt" they lied
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By CHARLES J. HANLEY | Associated Press September 3, 2005
    NEW YORK - Beneath the giant dome of a Baghdad palace, facing his team of scientists and engineers, George Tenet sounded more like a football coach than a spymaster, a coach who didn’t know the game was over.
    "Are we 85 percent done?" the CIA boss demanded. The arms hunters knew what he wanted to hear. "No!" they shouted back. "Let me hear it again!" They shouted again.
    The weapons are out there, Tenet insisted. Go find them. (…)

  • GOD IS PUNISHING US FOR BUSH
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    GOD IS PUNISHING US FOR BUSH’S PRIDE
    By Peter Fredson
    September 3, 2005
    I went to the local grocery store to get some hot-dog buns. While there I greeted an old lady, a Baptist neighbor. “How are you doing today,” I asked.
    “Not too good. I’ve been watching the TV news about the terrible hurricane on the Gulf Coast, and I’m all upset.”
    “Yes,” I said, in agreement with her, “All that death and destruction is terrible news, and our officials seem to be stumbling in the dark about (…)

  • Katrina Compounded
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Matthew Rothschild
    The scope of the disaster that goes by the name Hurricane Katrina is difficult to fathom at a distance. All the video on TV and all the photographs and words in newspapers, magazines, and on-line cannot adequately describe the loss. A million people homeless, a death toll likely to rise over 1,000, a great city submerged, a region devastated-the enormity was too great to take in.
    Even in the first seventy-two hours after Katrina came ashore near New Orleans, it (…)

  • The Victims, ’Largely Poor and Black’
    3 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By DAVID GONZALEZ
    The scenes of floating corpses, scavengers fighting for food and desperate throngs seeking any way out of New Orleans have been tragic enough. But for many African- American leaders, there is a growing outrage that many of those still stuck at the center of this tragedy were people who for generations had been pushed to the margins of society.
    The victims, they note, were largely black and poor, those who toiled in the background of the tourist havens, living in (…)