Katrina. Who benefits??

by **dbeach** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:38 pm

beachfront property cheap..federal dollars poring in. sounds like after 9/11..when the big players got lots of free fed cash..only it will be more localized..eacg big player scrambling to rebuild New orleans. This tragedy will be exploited worse than 9/11..if the pols can get away with it.. <a href="http://judicial-inc.biz/katrina.htm">judicial-inc.biz/katrina.htm</a> "Chertoff And Brown Were In Charge As blacks were starving, without food and water, sometimes for six days, they took to looting. FEMA, which could have quickly airlifted supplies in to help, did nothing for days. 'Shoot to Kill' FEMA is run by Brown nee (Bronski), under Chertoff, whose great accomplishment was sending down armed troops with orders - " Shoot to Kill". Michael Parker Said "Bush Cut Funds" Michael Parker, revealed that The Army Corps. of Engineers needed $62.5 million to fix the levee, but Bush only approved $10.5 million. Interesting Video of local officials' reaction to FEMA. Is Sabotage A Possibility? When you factor in the magnitude of the incompetence, it really isn't out of the realm of possibility. All the levees required were simple fixes. The gross negligence of the rescue effort, and it's five day delay, will surely prevent the return of most of the blacks. No doubt there will be some tenement housing built in surrounding areas, for blacks to resettle in, and the real estate developers will offer them pennies for their New Orleans' property."

by **DrDebugDU** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:47 pm

39. And in the Cui Bono category -- someone jokingly predicted it earlier I thought they were nuts. Turns out I am. After all this time, still not cynical enough. (Just like Lili Tomlin: No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up.) Halliburton hired for storm cleanup <a href="http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3335685">www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssis...ss/3335685</a> 47. Here's mine. "Investors bet on Katrina's winners and losers". FLUOR Well we just heard about Halliburton but as you see Fluor is back... Investors have been piling into the engineering and construction stocks, banking on the fact they should be big winners in the reconstruction. Fluor Corp. jumped $3.34 yesterday to close at $61.91, on the New York Stock Exchange, bringing its advance since last Friday to $4.22 a share. Baton Rouge, La. based Shaw Group Inc. which said it has been in contact with the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and other governmental agencies to assist in the recovery efforts, closed at $21.10, having gained $4.91 over the last three sessions. <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050901/RWINNERS01/TPBusiness/MoneyMarkets">www.theglobeandmail.com/s...neyMarkets</a> WINNERS? Engineering and construction: Fluor Corp., Shaw Group and Jacobs Engineering Energy: Imperial Oil, Sunoco and Valero Energy Lumber producers: Weyerhauser and Louisiana-Pacific Possible winners: Livestock producers, Smithfield Foods, Archer Daniels Midland and Bunge LOSERS: The good people of New Orleans. Bush Family Values.. LIE, STEAL AND MURDER! Usrename (351 posts) Fri Sep-02-05 10:36 PM Response to Original message <a href="http://www.waynemadsenreport.com">www.waynemadsenreport.com</a> / September 3, 2005 -- FEMA privatized hurricane disaster recovery planning for New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana. The firms that received the contract are big GOP contributors. Adding to the controversy regarding the Army Corps of Engineers diverting $250 million from the SELA (Southeast Louisiana) Urban Flood Control Program to Iraq and Halliburton reconstruction projects, is the revelation that FEMA outsourced hurricane recovery planning to the Baton Rouge-based consulting firm Innovative Emergency Management (IEM), Inc. to develop a "Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana." The award was announced on June 3, 2004 on the firm's web site but was taken down just as Hurricane Katrina's winds and waves first started pounding New Orleans. It would now appear that the hurricane plan IEM and its team developed wasn't worth a damned thing. IEM's team partners for the more than $500,000 contract are Dewberry of Arlington, VA, URS Corporation of San Francisco, and James Lee Witt Associates. Witt was FEMA Director under Bill Clinton. IEM's president is Madhu Beriwal. The company was founded in 1985. Dewberry and URS are engineering firms. IEM is also a Defense Department contractor and has contracts with the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) along with team members Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin. Now for the interesting background on Ms. Beriwal. She is a big-time contributor to the GOP. She's given thousands of dollars to Republicans, including Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan, Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, Louisiana Rep. Bobby Jindal, Rep. Richard Baker of Louisiana, the National Republican Congressional Committee, former Arkansas Sen. Tim Hutchinson. Vitter was the largest recipient of funds from Beriwal. The Chairman of Dewberry Sidney Dewberry, the Vice Chairman, Barry K. Dewberry, and Secretary of the firm, Michael Dewberry have been substantial contributors to George W. Bush, Virginia Sen. John Warner, the National Republican Congressional Committee, Sen. Shelby, "Every Republican is Crucial" Political Action Committee, Rep. Virgil Goode of Virginia (also fingered in the Duke Cunningham MZM, Inc. scandal), Virginia Sen. George Allen, Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf, Virginia Rep. Tom Davis, Virginia Rep. Eric Cantor, Virginia Rep. Bob Goodlatte, the Republican National Committee, and the Federal Victory Fund of Annandale, VA controlled by Tom Davis. The Dewberrys have also contributed to the financially-tainted Democrat from Virginia's 8th District, Jim Moran. URS's board of directors includes Richard Blum, the husband of California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein and retired General Joseph Ralston, the former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and current Vice Chairman of the Cohen Group (former Defense Secretary William Cohen's firm). Ralston also served as a director of the Timken Company, the firm of current US ambassador to Germany William Timken, a big time contributor to George W. Bush. Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco has announced that she is hiring Witt to assist in the hurricane recovery. Just a minute here. His firm (which includes retired Gen. Wesley Clark) was part of the IEM team that came up with the non-existent $500,000 FEMA New Orleans-Southeast Louisiana Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan. Why pay this guy again for his incompetence? Republicans + Democrats = Partners in Crime. Paraphrasing Monday Night Football's intro -- ARE YOU READY FOR REVOLUTION? Privatized rescue/relief : When did FEMA contract for the 650 buses <a href="http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18540">www.fema.gov/news/newsrel...a?id=18540</a> Privatized rescue/relief : When did FEMA contract for the 650 buses ? by FEMA in order to bus out the Superdome/ConventionCenter sites. Privatization plays a major role in explaining the 'hot potato' rescue and food/water delays. Who at DU dares to delve into this ? ""Convoys of food, water and ice which are arriving hourly in impacted areas. The evacuation of thousands from New Orleans to Texas. FEMA has contracted for more than 650 buses to expedite the state-ordered evacuation."" from FEMA's website FEMA Urges Patience While Search Continues for Stranded Victims and Supplies Stream In Release Date: September 2, 2005 Release Number: HQ-05-190 BLACKWATER coming to NOLA to provide "security services" xray s (1000+ posts) Fri Sep-02-05 04:55 AM Original message BLACKWATER coming to NOLA to provide "security services" Bush looted and castrated FEMA in order to "privatize" relief. There hasn't been any reaction from the Feds over this disaster because they have to wait for the private contractors to get their shit together (and Cheney gets the fat ass contracts in line and approved by the US House of Whores) Well...here comes BLACKWATER!!! Just in time for "shoot to kill" www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/1/222637/6400 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 01, 2005 BLACKWATER JOINS HURRICANE KATRINA RELIEF EFFORT! This morning (September 1, 2005), Blackwater USA joined the ongoing relief effort in the Gulf Region devastated by Hurricane Katrina by dispatching a SA-330J Puma helicopter to help assist in evacuating citizens from flooded areas. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Erik Prince stated, "At this time, all Americans should band together and assist our countrymen who have been struck by this natural disaster." The following services are available: # Airlift Services # Security Services # Humanitarian Support Services # Logistics and Transportation Services Anyone having a security or evacuation request may call (252) 435-2052/2488. All requests shall be prioritized and acted upon as quickly as possible.

by **dbeach** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:53 pm

all parts of govt..from Vets to environment to urban planning to ..... have been scaled back and reduced for the boy/king/god and his wars and the many more wars he has planned.. There is an insiders joke amongst the lower workers in govt..that if bush or any of the big shots visit or inquire of your agency BEPREPARED for the WORST cutbacks in cash and workers... clinton/gore also reduced govt BUT not like bush who literally stole form the levees to give to hallbutton ALWAYS god to hear from ya

by **dbeach** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 1:56 pm

<a href="http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/060905tapscontract.htmHalliburton">www.prisonplanet.com/arti...alliburton</a> Subsidiary Taps Contract For Repairs 'Washington Post | September 6 2005 An Arlington-based Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has been criticized for its reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract to do emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc., won the competitive bid contract last July to provide debris removal and other emergency work associated with natural disasters."

by **hanshan** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 2:37 pm

<a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/09/26/MN301359.DTL" target="top">Poindexter's office closed Department tried terrorism futures</a> Washington -- A Pentagon office that became steeped in controversy over privacy issues and a market in terrorism futures was shut down by Congress on Thursday as the Senate passed and sent to President Bush a $368 billion military measure that eliminates money for it. The Pentagon spending plan for 2004 adopted by the Senate says that the office, the Information Awareness Office, which had been headed by Adm. John Poindexter, should be "terminated immediately" while a few projects under its control could be shifted elsewhere within the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The House passed the measure on Wednesday. Wolfowitz, answering a question about the program from Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, defended the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/29/terror.market/" target="top">(DARPA),</a> which created the program and set up a Web site describing it. "The agency that does it is brilliantly imaginative in places where we want them to be imaginative," he said. "It sounds like maybe they got too imaginative in this area." Many in Washington were shocked to learn of Poindexter's quiet return to the nation's capital last year. And he immediately came under scrutiny when his program came up with a terror-tracking system that would scour credit card records, driver's license records and passport applications to try to sniff out potential terrorists. Many lawmakers and civil libertarians said such a program would be an invasion of privacy and unconstitutional. Under the latest now-canceled program, called the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/07/31/poindexter.resigns/" target="top">Futures Markets Applied to Prediction (FutureMAP</a>), investors using futures market analysis would have been allowed to predict the likelihood of acts of terrorism or international incidents -- such as an attack on Israel or the overthrow of the king of Jordan, both cited as examples on the program's Web site earlier this week. A correct prediction would yield a profit for the investor. The <a href="http://dc.internet.com/news/article.php/2243331" target="top">Policy Analysis Market (PAM),</a> the first phase of the project, was already online with funding from a federal grant and was scheduled to begin a beta testing on today. The Defense Department had also requested $8 million for its "Futures Markets Applied to Prediction" (FutureMAP) initiative, which would expand on the Policy Analysis Market's terror-wagering scheme. PAM was a joint venture between DARPA; the Economist Intelligence Unit, the business information arm of The Economist Group, publisher of The Economist; and Net Exchange, which was responsible for design, development and operation of the PAM trading system. PAM was designed to much like other financial markets, with investors buying "futures" in events they think are likely to happen, and selling off futures as they believe events become less likely to happen. Some of the possibilities the PAM website offered for sale were the overthrow of the King of Jordan, the assassination of Yasser Arafat, and a missile attack by North Korea. Bidders would profit if the events for which they hold futures -- including government coups, assassinations and missile attacks -- occur. "Spending taxpayer dollars to create terrorism betting parlors is as wasteful as it is repugnant. The American people want the Federal government to use its resources enhancing our security, not gambling on it," Wyden and Dorgan wrote in a letter to Poindexter.  manipulating the weather for fun & profit <a href="http://www.weatherwars.info/" target="top">www.weatherwars.info/</a> The idea of using an independent organization to control a technology that has a high potential for abuse has been raised by previous administrations. An abortive plan to create a backdoor surveillance capability in encrypted communications, known as Clipper, was introduced by the Clinton administration in 1993. It called for keys to the code to be held by an organization independent of the F.B.I. and other law enforcement agencies. <a href="http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2002/12/23/total_information.html" target="top">www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2002/12/23/total_information.html</a> ....

by **dbeach** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 3:14 pm

this is bothering me..grabbbin money from one dept means its going somewhere else..most likely more wars or black ops..

by **DrDebugDU** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:40 pm

Dow Ends Up 142 As Oil Prices Tumble By ELLEN SIMON The Associated Press Tuesday, September 6, 2005; 5:12 PM NEW YORK -- Wall Street rallied Tuesday as oil prices tumbled, the service sector reported strong growth, and investors embraced large-cap stocks such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Coca-Cola Co. and Home Depot Inc. The Dow Jones industrial average gained more than 141 points. Investors rejoiced as crude oil and gas futures dipped following the decision by industrialized nations to release 60 million barrels of crude from strategic stockpiles in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. A barrel of light crude settled at $65.85, down $1.61, on the New York Mercantile Exchange, while gasoline prices on the exchange fell 13 cents to $2.05 per gallon. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090600312.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/06/AR2005090600312.html</a> Guess some people has been making a lot of money out other people's misery...

by **Col Quisp** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:37 pm

<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090701309.html">www.washingtonpost.com/wp...01309.html</a> "As the controversy over forced evacuations deepened, administration officials said President Bush will be asking Congress for as much as $50 billion in immediate aid for the Hurricane Katrina catastrophe. White House Press spokesman Scott McClellan said the $10.5 billion down payment approved last week "is being spent more quickly than we even anticipated." "There will be more that will be needed," he said." Interesting.....Even they did not anticipate how fast the money would be spent. It's a free for all, man! Grab and go! Here are the REAL looters.

by **dbeach** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:58 pm

$ 50 BILLION HERE..MORE BILLIONS THERE before ya know it he has us all poor and ready for the kill..ITS THEIR PLAN!! PIGS!!!

by **DrDebugDU** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:20 pm

Carnival Corp. will receive $192 million plus expenses for the use of three ships in hurricane recovery efforts. <snip> "The federal government will pay Miami-based Carnival Corp. $192 million for providing temporary housing to evacuees from hurricane Katrina on three luxury cruise liners. Carnival, the world's largest cruise ship company, also will receive up to $44 million in reimbursement for fuel and other costs under a deal with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The deal, announced Saturday, allows FEMA to use three Carnival ships -- The Sensation, the Ecstasy and the Holiday -- to accommodate between 6,000 and 8,000 evacuees for six months in Galveston, Texas, and Mobile, Ala. Carnival declined to disclose how much profit it earns from those three ships in a more typical six-month period." <a href="http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/12575582.htm">www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/12575582.htm</a> And thanks to MrBill for the calculation: $192,000,000 for rent plus $44,000,000 for fuel(utilities?)equals $236,000,000. That's $236 million. Divide by 8000 people and you get $29,500. That's $4916.17 per month. On the board of directors we find: Ambassador Richard G Capen Jr. - Former U.S. Ambassador to Spain <blockquote>Quote:<hr> Former Ambassador To Spain To Speak At Bush Library Richard Capen, former U.S. ambassador to Spain, will present a lecture, "The Media and International Relations in the 21st Century," at 6 p.m. Tuesday (Nov. 6) in the Bush Museum Orientation Theater at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum. Capen's career represents a unique blend of diplomacy and newspaper publishing, highlighted by tours as United States ambassador to Spain and more than three decades in the newspaper business. Known for his commitment to personal values and a positive approach to life, he is a nationally recognized columnist, author and speaker on contemporary trends in America. The lecture is open to the public. <a href="http://www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/01/110101-6.html">www.tamu.edu/univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/01/110101-6.html</a> <hr></blockquote> Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=drdebugdu>DrDebugDU</A> at: 9/7/05 5:34 pm

by **antiaristo** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 7:41 pm

Worth posting in full, I think Wednesday, September 07, 2005 The New Orleans hostage crisis From an important posting in Dispatch from the Trenches (emphasis in the original): "OK, let's get this straight: Michael Brown is most likely an incompetent stooge but the fact of the matter is that when he refused to release supplies, National Guard troops, and construction equipment, and then ordered the Superdome locked and checkpoints set up along the roads leading out of New Orleans to turn back anyone trying to escape the destruction, he was following orders. None of it was accidental, none of it was a matter of poor decision-making or the wrong priorities. It was a deliberate attempt by the Bush Administration to blackmail the state of Louisiana into handing the city over to the Federal government. On Friday, four days after Katrina hit, National Guard troops finally arrived, supposedly bringing food and water to those trapped in the Superdome. It's true that there was an initial delivery of emergency supplies, but it was hardly adequate. Everyone assumed more would be coming. But the NG came armed, supposedly to defend itself against bands of looters with handguns and rifles. Soon after, it became clear that the NG's real orders were to lock down the Superdome and prevent anyone from leaving. Between Wednesday morning and Friday night, ships loaded with food, water, and medical supplies arrived. FEMA refused to allow them to be off-loaded. Michael Brown then ordered the communications lines cut that tied emergency workers together. Shortly before midnight, the Bush Administration essentially delivered an ultimatum to Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco: before they released the emergency supplies, they wanted her to sign the city of New Orleans over to the Federal government." Note that the link is to the infamous article in the Washington Post, the one in which the Post reprinted the lie told to them by a 'senior administration official' (presumably Karl Rove or someone working for him), that Blanco had not declared a state of emergency as of Saturday, September 3, when in fact, as the correction at the top of the article says, Blanco had declared the state of emergency on August 26 (many feel the Post has an ethical obligation to reveal the name of the 'senior administration official', as any promise of confidentiality was rendered inoperative by the lie, and the fact of the lie is now part of the news). The spinning that is going on is part of the blame-shifting exercise by the White House, but, as Dispatch from the Trenches points out, has a darker purpose as well. Based on Bush's supposed authority to use the National Guard to quell civil disturbances under the Insurrection Act, Bush wanted to declare martial law and take over the city of New Orleans. Why? Dispatch from the Trenches gives four reasons, the most important ones being the third and fourth (emphasis in the original): "Declaring martial law would give the Federal government total control of the city: the Army would be brought in to police it and - perhaps most important to this corporate president - the Federal government would have charge of all the rebuilding contracts, giving it $$$billions$$$ to hand out to its corporate sponsors. There's also the little matter of taking decisions about how and what to rebuild out of the hands of the people of New Orleans and putting them into the hands of people who see New Orleans as 'Sin City', effectively ensuring that New Orleans would never again be the Big Easy." Bush used the starving people of New Orleans as hostages to blackmail the Governor into turning the city over to his troops so he could: hand out all the reconstruction contracts to friends of the Bush Crime Family such as Halliburton; and use his soldiers to control the exit and return of the inhabitants of New Orleans, to ensure that 'undesirables' - blacks and poor white race traitors who like living in a predominantly black culture - never come back so he can rebuild the city as an amusement park for white tourists. The lie told to the Washington Post was just part of the pressure put on the Governor. Bush's plan explains why available troops were left out of the city when they could have been useful and were only installed as the city was being evacuated (they now serve as overarmed security guards), and why FEMA took active steps to prevent aid and aid workers from getting to the city. It also explains why the mainstream press spent so much time reporting on looting, rapes and murders, all in an attempt to force Blanco to agree to Bush's demands. The looting stories were almost entirely cases of people foraging for the food which Bush had ensured they couldn't have, and the rape and murder stores were largely fictional. The entire scenario was an attempt by the Bush Administration to make money off the tragedy caused by Katrina, an attempt that was partially foiled by Blanco's refusal to be blackmailed into handing the city over to Bush. The struggle continues, and we must not allow them to get away with their evil plans. It would be a social, architectural, and cultural crime to let Bush destroy New Orleans. New Orleans needs to be brought back to life in its existing buildings, most of which can be saved, and with its former inhabitants. Did the Italian government contemplate rebuilding Florence someplace else after the 1966 floods? Does anyone ever seriously contemplate moving Venice, a very similar ecological disaster of a city that is also slowly sinking? The idea is laughable. Let's face it. There are only five culturally important places in the whole country: New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and . . . New Orleans. You just can't give New Orleans up so that some rich Republicans can make money. If the American political system were working properly, Bush's attempt to use the lives of the starving and dying citizens of New Orleans as hostages should lead to his impeachment and removal from office. This wasn't just total incompetence and negligence; it was a criminal act.

by **dbeach** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:35 pm

"This wasn't just total incompetence and negligence; it was a criminal act." So in otheer wordss bush is just being himself..and its no act that he is the CIC {Criminal in Charge} I am impressed by anyone who resist and does not bow down to the unelected/SC appointed boy/king/god named bush Blanco means white . nice that she resited the blackmail

by **chiggerbit** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 12:45 am

Did Brit Hume speculate on this disaster as he did on the London bombings? <a href="http://sayanythingblog.com/2005/07/07/brit-hume-sees-terror-attack-as-time-to-profit/">sayanythingblog.com/2005/...to-profit/</a>

by **dbeach** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 1:02 am

Faux news proto fasciscimo. Heard that construction stocks and machinery are doing quite well..thank you.. Katrina looks like another gold mine for the wall st.crowd.. 9/11 is already eclipsed by this disaster..I think man made hurricaines are not new..BUT thats just a thought... keeps the FEMA boys in goood shape and delta force always there to break your skull or shoot ya. DELTA FORCE LEGAL BUTCHERS!! who mass murder the poor for the rich ... DELTA FORCE . A living disgrace to every US Veteran

by **Martha** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 2:28 pm

I read somewhere (can't find it now - still looking) that Thom Hartmann was saying that recruiters had set up in the Astrodome. Anyone else hear about it? This Du thread is the only thing I've seen about it so far. <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4678930">Here</a> ---- edited for link ---- Okay, found <a href="http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/25161/#comments">this</a> Recruitment of Katrina victims in Astrodome Posted by Evan Derkacz at 11:06 AM on September 7, 2005. Here's your fresh water and blanket, can I interest you in a tour of duty? The irony train continues full speed ahead. Stupid war... too few troops... massive evacuation results... recruitment of evacuees to shore up the losses that shouldn't have occurred in the first place... A press release, apparently from several sources and reported by Operation Flashlight, indicates that the military has taken a page from the missionary handbook: "Doling out food to the hungry crowds overflowing Houston’s Astrodome, the National Guard has engaged in ad hoc recruiting in recent days... the U.S. military is conducting a Job Fair in the Astrodome in a blatant effort to exploit the despair of masses of Americans evacuated from the Gulf Coast. Once signed up, even if purportedly to reconstruct their region, they could easily find themselves deployed to Iraq..." This is like some sick joke you only make in your most cynical moments... NOTE: If a reader would like to follow up on this story using the contact info in the link, we'll work to post whatever they find out... Evan Derkacz is a New York-based writer and contributor to AlterNet. Which seems to be based on <a href="http://www.operationflashlight.com/?p=22">this</a> Don't know how reliable this "Operation Flashlight" site is though. Shameless Just got this forwarded: MILITARY RECRUITMENT - 9/7 JOB FAIR IN THE ASTRODOME NO SCAVENGING THE GULF COAST CRISIS TO BOOST THE DEPLETED RANKS OF THE MILITARY! Stop the military from preying upon the vulnerable! Come educate youth dislocated from their lives and communities – facing homelessness, joblessness and often hopelessness – about the false promises of recruiters! Doling out food to the hungry crowds overflowing Houston’s Astrodome, the National Guard has engaged in ad hoc recruiting in recent days. Tomorrow, September 7, 2005, the U.S. military is conducting a Job Fair in the Astrodome in a blatant effort to exploit the despair of masses of Americans evacuated from the Gulf Coast. Once signed up, even if purportedly to reconstruct their region, they could easily find themselves deployed to Iraq, left with medical coverage for only two for only combat-related injury and the expectations for training eviscerated. And if they sign up on the promise of temporary relief, they could find themselves bound for extended tours of duty. Download info from the formidable Counter-Recruitment resources on the United for Peace and Justice site. www.unitedforpeace.org. Come and speak truth to empower! Call for a real jobs program which employs people to reconstruct the entire Gulf Coast region for the benefit of those in need, not to pander to corporate greed! Point people in Houston: Bill Crosier, Progressive Actino Alliance 713-641-1941 paa@crozierbiomed.com Renee Fletz, News Director KPFT 713-526-4000 Omowale Luthuli, Office of the Commissioner, Precinct One 713-678-7385 Beloup Parker, S.H.A.P.E. Community Center 713-521-0629 Shana, New Orleans Network/League of Pissed Off Voters shana@indyvoter.org We’re working our contacts in Baton Rouge to get on the phone with folks in the Astrodome. For shame. —Macon This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 7th, 2005 at 2:35 pm and is filed under The Government, Texas. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. ---- I can see it now... "Come on and join up, we'll let you help rebuild your own community. We'll even help you with housing and medical for your family. You can stay in Louisiana. Nah, we won't send you to Iran - uh, I mean Iraq." "Trust us.... " ---- edit for other links Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=martha@rigorousintuition>Martha</A> at: 9/8/05 8:28 pm

Katrina. Who benefits??

Katrina. Who benefits??

Cui Bono. Halliburton, Fluor and Blackwater are the first...

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