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Memo to the Media: Stop Enabling the White House Blame Game When it comes to managing political crises (as opposed to national ones), the Bush White House has earned a reputation as masters of damage control. And rightly so -- let’s see you get reelected after Abu Ghraib, the “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US” memo, no WMD, no bin Laden (dead or alive), and “Mission (Most Definitely Not) Accomplished”....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 6:45am PDT
New Orleans: Murder and rape - fact or fiction? There were two babies who had their throats slit. The seven-year-old girl who was raped and murdered in the Superdome. And the corpses laid out amid the excrement in the convention centre.
In a week filled with dreadful scenes of desperation and anger from New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina some stories stood out.
But as time goes on many remain unsubstantiated and may yet prove to be apocryphal.
New Orleans police have been unable to confirm the tale of the raped child, or inde...
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 6:42am PDT
Katrina environmental issues "almost unimaginable" Hurricane Katrina left behind a landscape of oil spills, leaking gas lines, damaged sewage plants and tainted water, Louisiana's top environment official said on Tuesday....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 6:34am PDT
House cancels hearings on Katrina response The House majority leader late Tuesday tried to deflect criticism of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina by saying "the emergency response system was set up to work from the bottom up," then announced a short time later that House hearings examining that response had been canceled....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2005 6:20am PDT
Photos of Oakland Rally Slamming Government's Hurricane Relief 
Numerous community leaders spoke, with a number blaming poverty, racism, and the Bush Administration, for the government's unacceptable performance....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 9:31pm PDT
Bay Area Coalition for Our Reproductive Rights Protests Roberts Nomination (Photos&Audio) 
Bay Area reproductive rights groups protested John Roberts’ nomination to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court as congressional hearings about his confirmation loom. Group responsible for keeping Operation Rescue out of the Bay Area in the eighties also asked Senator Dianne Feinstein to pose their questions to Roberts and hold federal government officials accountable for appointing justices who will defend the rights of all, as well as demand justice for the victims of Hurricane Katrin...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 8:06pm PDT
Pictures From Sept 6th Oakland Rally for Relief 
Around 100 people showed up to protest the slow federal response to provide aid for the victims of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:36pm PDT
9/7 at 12pm in SF: WCW Responds Hurricane Katrina Emergency press Conference: On Hurricane Katrina called by the World Can't Wait
Drive out the Bush Regime - Wed Sep 7 at noon @ SF Federal Bldg, 450 Golden Gate SF...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 4:03pm PDT
Visual Timeline: Katrina versus Bush As they say, a picture is worth 1,000 words. Two columns of pictures: the "Katrina" column on the left, juxtaposed against the "Bush" column on the right....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 2:03pm PDT
New Orleans Police Chief Stands Up To Critics Amid searing criticism and rumors of rampant force desertion, New Orleans Police Superintendent Eddie Compass defended his department Monday with crisp but harsh words, saying officers held their ground without food, water and even ammunition in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:40pm PDT
Bush to lead inquiry into Katrina (Investigating Himself?) US President George W Bush says he will lead an investigation into how the Hurricane Katrina disaster was handled....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:38pm PDT
Fire in New Orleans historic district 
NEW ORLEANS A blaze today in a historic New Orleans district of mostly wooden homes has fired up some complaints about the response.
National Guardsmen cordoned off the area in the lower Garden District as New Orleans firefighters battled the blaze....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:34pm PDT
E. Coli bacteria detected in New Orleans floodwater Floodwater in New Orleans is contaminated with E. coli bacteria, a city official told CNN Tuesday....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:28pm PDT
Storm prompts warning along Florida coast About 120 miles of Florida's Atlantic coast were under a tropical storm warning Tuesday as a new system formed just offshore and threatened to dump up to 15 inches of rain in parts of the state....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 12:25pm PDT
The Smoking Gun: Navy Ship sits unused awaiting Bush's orders, while Bush ate cake (video/x-ms-wmv 1.2MB) After the Hurricane struck, Bush did NOTHING to mitigate the disaster, instead he continued on his scheduled photo ops- yucking it up with Seniors, eating cake with John McCain, and playing guitar for the cameras.
Meanwhile, a US Navy ship with amphibious landing vehicles, hopsital facilities with 600 beds, 9 million meals (MREs) and the capacity to make 100,000 gallons of water per day- sat unused for a week- awaiting Bush's orders.
In this BBC interview with Lt. Commander Sean Kelly ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 9:07am PDT
Pastors for Peace organizing grassroots emergency aid caravan to New Orleans WE ARE ANNOUNCING THAT PASTORS FOR PEACE IS NOW ORGANIZING AN EMERGENCY AID CARAVAN TO LOUISIANA AND MISSISSIPPI. We see an opportunity to do what our government has not done and does not intend to do: to reach out quickly to those who hunger and thirst. We cannot fail to respond to the needs of our sisters and brothers; neither can we...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 8:22am PDT
Plan to Move Astrodome Evacuees on Hold A plan to move some Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Houston Astrodome to cruise ships was postponed Tuesday because many didn't want to go, and a proposed airlift of refugees out of strained Texas appeared to be on hold after the federal government took over....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 8:06am PDT
New Orleans Locals Rescue Their Neighbors in Absence of Government Response Democracy Now! producer John Hamilton spent the past several days in Louisiana. He filed a report from the flooded streets of New Orleans as he rode in a boat with locals searching for survivors in their community....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:57am PDT
Katrina Survivors: difference between the haves and the have-nots Hotel is a microcosm of evacuee experience...
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:53am PDT
Louisiana Gov. Blanco says Army brought attitude, not resources Even as teams of engineers worked to patch ruptured levees in New Orleans, a political breach opened between Gov. Kathleen Blanco and President Bush over who is in charge of the post-Hurricane Katrina recovery effort....
Posted: Tue, Sep 6, 2005 7:27am PDT
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