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  • Division of Funeral Corp. Charged With Desecrating Corpses Hired to Collect Deceased Victims of Hurricane Katrina
    20 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    A funeral services company which recently learned that one of its subsidiaries is negotiating a lucrative contract with the Federal Emergency Management Agency to remove dead bodies in areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina, paid $100 million to settle a class-action lawsuit several years ago alleging the company desecrated thousands of corpses, and dumped bodies into mass graves.
    Moreover, the company paid $200,000 to settle a whistleblower lawsuit that sought to expose (…)

  • FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions to Fla. Residents Unaffected by ‘04 Hurricane to Help Bush Win Majori
    10 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions to Fla. Residents Unaffected by ‘04 Hurricane to Help Bush Win Majority of Votes There
    By Jason Leopold
    Michael Brown, the embattled head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, approved payments in excess of $31 million in taxpayer money to thousands of Florida residents who were unaffected by Hurricane Frances and three other hurricanes last year in an effort to help President Bush win a majority of votes in that state during his reelection campaign, (…)

  • Seems like More People Died than Prospered under Pres Bush’s Leadership
    7 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Another few thousand bit the dust.
    Chalk another one up for the Bush administration. That’ll be President Bush’s long lasting legacy when we look back on the first few years of the 21st Century. Thousands of people killed on U.S. soil because the president failed to protect them.
    There won’t be any admission of guilt, no one to take responsibility, no one fired for screwing up, just lies and spin, and mudslinging.
    You may be familiar with some of that already.
    “I (…)

  • The President’s Priorities: State of Marriage Took Precedence over State of Louisiana
    5 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jason Leopold
    Why is President Bush more concerned with the state of marriage than the state of Louisiana?
    That’s what the New Orleans City Business paper asked in early February, a couple of weeks after Bush’s State of the Union address, in which the president called for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriages, upon learning that Bush’s budget proposal recommended slashing $34 million from the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, leaving the city (…)

  • Global Warming and Widespread Blackouts Are Just as Deadly as Terrorism
    1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Two years ago this month, a Blackout plunged 50 million people in Northeastern U.S. and the Canadian province of Ontario into total darkness for more than a day, wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy. Now, it’s the devastation in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi wrought by Hurricane Katrina that has killed hundreds, perhaps thousands of people.
    The common thread in both disasters is that energy and environmental experts sounded early alarms about the potential for (…)

  • What Eating Cindy Sheehan?
    31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Cindy Sheehan has been subjected to an unwarranted backlash by right-wing pundits because of her antiwar protests and some explosive statements she made about President Bush. Perhaps Sheehan, while mourning the death of her son, Casey, a U.S. soldier who died in the Iraq war, lashed out at the president, and decided to take her antiwar message to Crawford, Texas, after doing some fact checking on her emotional state. If so, these are likely some of the circumstances that (…)

  • President Bush Knows the True Reasons He Started A War in Iraq, But He’s Not Going to Tell
    23 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Every year, right around the anniversary of 9/11 the Bush administration spins the public about the reasons 1,864 American soldiers have died fighting for a lie in Iraq. And every year, it’s just as crucial that the media tell the public the truth about the reasons the war was started.
    So here goes.
    The disinformation campaign the White House launched last weekend should leave no doubt that the war in Iraq was hatched well before 9/11 and is part of a broader strategy (…)

  • Cheney + Pakistan = Iran
    9 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    When news of Pakistan’s clandestine program showed how the country’s top nuclear scientist was secretly selling Iran and North Korea, the so-called “Axis of Evil,” blueprints for building an atomic bomb were uncovered last year, the world’s leaders waited, with baited breath, to see how President Bush would punish Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharaff.
    Bush has, after all, spent his entire two terms in office talking tough about countries and dictators that conceal (…)

  • Halliburton Secretly Doing Business with Key Member of Iran’s Nuclear Team
    6 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Jason Leopold
    Scandal-plagued Halliburton, the oil services company once headed by Vice President Dick was secretly working with one of Iran’s top nuclear program officials on natural gas related projects and, allegedly, selling the officials’ oil development company key components for a nuclear reactor, according to Halliburton sources with intimate knowledge into both companies’ business dealings.
    Just last week a National Security Council report said Iran was a decade away from (…)

  • Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron to Help Write Nat’l Energy Policy to Be Named Chair of FERC
    30 July 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Energy Adviser Who Solicited Enron to Help Write Nat’l Energy Policy to Be Named Chair of FERC
    By Jason Leopold
    The audacity inside the Bush administration never ceases to amaze.
    The latest example of chutzpah from Bush and co. is the announcement that Joseph Kelliher, a former policy adviser with the Department of Energy who currently serves as a commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the agency that controls the country’s natural gas industry, hydroelectric (…)