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  • 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 (…)

  • 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 (…)

  • 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... (…)

  • Minister: Bush must be ’shot down’
    8 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Thursday, September 8, 2005
    BERLIN, Germany (Reuters) — A conservative German minister in a southern state has caused uproar by saying U.S. President George W. Bush should be "shot down" for his handling of the crisis in hurricane-struck New Orleans.
    Andreas Renner, Social Minister in Germany’s southern state of Baden-Wuertemberg, clarified later that he had only meant Bush should be downed politically.
    During a visit to a local company on Tuesday, Renner said of Bush: "He ought to be (…)

  • Cheney told to ’go fuck yourself’ in Gulfport, Mississippi
    8 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Vice President Dick Cheney, in Gulfport, Mississippi on a tour of the Katrina hurricane zone, was told to "go fuck yourself" twice on live television.
    During a discussion on hurricane relief efforts, an off camera protester shouts, "Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney. Go fuck yourself."
    The camera remains on Cheney while we hear scuffling in the background. Cheney continues speaking.
    CNN’s reporter asks Cheney, "Are you getting a lot of that Mr. Vice President?"
    Cheney replies, "First time (…)

  • Only in America
    8 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Synopsis
    Even in America?! Bleat the politicians and the US media. Only in America! Responds Daniel Patrick Welch, with an eye on how the response to Hurricane Katrina lays bare the uncivil infrastructure beneath the US’ carefully maintained façade. Issues of class and race are nowhere more starkly on view than they are in the wake of this largely man-made disaster. The near total incompetence and callousness of the Bush administration has thankfully floated to the top of New Orleans’ (…)

  • American Racism Caught on Film
    8 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    These photos speak for themselves.
    http://soapbox.townhall.com/story/2005/9/6/165052/2340

  • ’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 (…)