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Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government

09 September 2005

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All links to articles as summarized below are available here:

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Minister: Bush must be 'shot down' 08 Sep 2005 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. During a visit to a local company on Tuesday, Andreas Renner, Social

Minister in Germany's southern state of Baden-Wuertemberg, said of Bush: " He

ought to be shot down. " [bush is such a menace, even his fellow Nazis want him

" shot down. " If he weren't already a crawling, belly-to-the-ground reptile,

shooting him " down " would be a possibility. As is now, he cannot get any lower.

--MDR]

 

Cheney told to 'go f*ck yourself' in Gulfport, Mississippi 08 Sep 2005 Vice

pResident Dick Cheney, in Gulfport, Mississippi on a tour of the Katrina

hurricane zone, was told to " go f*ck yourself " twice on live television, RAW

STORY has learned. During a discussion on hurricane relief efforts, an off

camera protester shouts, " Go f*ck yourself, Mr. Cheney. Go f*ck yourself. "

 

Bush suspends wage laws --Bush signs executive order allowing contractors to pay

below prevailing wage in affected areas. Dictator Bush issued an executive order

Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane

Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage. In a notice to Congress, Bush said the

hurricane had caused " a national emergency " that permits him to take such action

under the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in ravaged areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana

and Mississippi. [Next, Nutball will be bringing back slavery.]

 

Bush Renews Sept. 11 Emergency Declaration 08 Sep 2005 Dictator Bush on Thursday

renewed the national emergency he declared after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist

attacks. The pResident's declaration allows for the mobilization of reserve

military forces and other steps.

 

Police Begin Seizing Guns of Civilians 09 Sep 2005 Local police officers began

confiscating weapons from civilians [!!!] in preparation for a forced evacuation

of the last holdouts still living here. " Only law enforcement are allowed to

have weapons, " P. Edwin Compass III, the superintendent of the New Orleans

police, said. That order apparently does not apply to the hundreds of security

guards whom businesses and some wealthy individuals have hired to protect their

property. The guards, who are civilians working for private security firms like

Blackwater, are openly carrying M-16s and other assault rifles.

 

White House Considered Invoking Insurrection Act 09 Sep 2005 As New Orleans

descended into chaos last week and Louisiana's governor asked for 40,000

soldiers, Dictator Bush's senior advisers debated whether the pResident should

speed the arrival of active-duty troops by seizing control of the 'hurricane

relief mission' from the governor. To seize control of the mission, Mr. Bush

would have had to invoke the Insurrection Act, which allows the president in

times of unrest to command active-duty forces into the states to perform law

enforcement duties.

 

New Orleans becomes a war zone --A dress rehearsal for martial law? By Bill Van

Auken 8 Sep 2005 " The disaster that struck New Orleans and the southern Gulf

Coast has given rise to the largest military mobilization in modern history on

US soil. Nearly 65,000 US military personnel are now deployed in the disaster

area, transforming the devastated port city into a war zone... It is becoming

increasingly apparent that the disastrous delay in providing aid to the city’s

beleaguered citizens was in large part a matter of waiting until this massive

military force was ready to deploy. "

 

FEMA and Katrina: REX-84 Revisited by Kurt Nimmo 08 Sep 2005 " Regardless of all

the corporate media hype, FEMA was not created to respond to natural disasters

and help American citizens (in fact, it is an unconstitutional construct,

created by Executive Order, and draws its 'lawful' facade not from the American

people, but the fact Executive Order 12148 was published in the Federal

Registry). 'FEMA has only spent about 6 percent of its budget on national

emergencies, the bulk of their funding has been used for the construction of

secret underground facilities to assure continuity of government in case of a

major emergency, foreign or domestic,' writes Harry V. Martin. "

 

Former FEMA head and Halliburton lobbyist visits Louisiana for deals 08 Sep 2005

The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Joseph

Allbaugh, now a lobbyist for Halliburton, is in Louisiana helping his clients

obtain disaster relief contracts, the Washington Post reported today. [Hey Dick,

want to take a dip in Lake Pontchartrain?]

 

Former FEMA Chief Is at Work on Gulf Coast 08 Sep 2005 During his two years as

director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during pResident Bush's

first term, Joe M. Allbaugh traveled to Louisiana for a series of disasters,

from tropical storms Allison and Isidore to Hurricane Lili. Yesterday, Allbaugh,

now head of his own Washington lobbying and consulting firm, was in Baton Rouge,

La., helping his clients get business from perhaps the worst natural disaster in

the nation's history. After leaving FEMA in March 2003, Allbaugh, who managed

the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign, founded Allbaugh Co., a lobbying-consulting firm

with many clients in the disaster-relief business. Among those clients are: the

KBR division of Halliburton, TruePosition, the Shaw Group, and UltraStrip.

 

Money Flowed to Questionable Projects --State Leads in Army Corps Spending, but

Millions Had Nothing to Do With Floods 08 Sep 2005 Before Hurricane Katrina

breached a levee on the New Orleans Industrial Canal, the Army Corps of

Engineers had already launched a $748 million construction project at that very

location. But the project had nothing to do with flood control...

 

Israel's relocated citizens receive $300,000 each from the US government; United

States evacuees are to receive $2,000 per family. [see: Hurricane relief may cut

into U.S. pullout aid for Israel 04 Sep 2005 The scope of the disaster relief

that the U.S. government is preparing for the areas hit by the hurricane is

likely to reduce the amount of American aid to be transferred to Israel, Army

Radio reported Sunday, citing unnamed White House officials.

Menendez not ready to endorse U.S. aid for disengagement 11 Aug 2005 United

States Rep. Robert Menendez (D-NJ, Dist. 13) told NJJN in Jerusalem on Aug. 9

that he is not ready to endorse American funding to aid the implementation of

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Gaza Strip withdrawal plan... Sharon's

aides have asked the Bush administration for $2.2 billion in aid to help cover

the cost of relocating some 9,000 settlers to undeveloped areas in the Negev and

the Galilee.

U.S. Offers Katrina Families $2,000 Each 8 Sep 2005 Dispossessed families of

Hurricane Katrina will receive debit cards good for $2,000 to spend on clothing

and other immediate needs, the Bush administration announced Wednesday.]

 

Canadians beat U.S. Army to New Orleans suburb 08 Sep 2005 A Canadian

search-and-rescue team reached a flooded New Orleans suburb to help save trapped

residents five days before the U.S. military, a Louisiana state senator said on

Wednesday. The Canadians beat both the Army and the Federal Emergency Management

Agency to St. Bernard Parish east of New Orleans, where flood waters are still 8

feet deep in places, Sen. Walter Boasso said. [bush (at minimum) allowed the

floodwaters to rise, so that he could send in Halliburton to clean up ($$$) and

to make a *killing* (literally). See: Halliburton Subsidiary Gets Katrina Repair

Contracts 06 Sep 2005]

 

How Reliable Is Brown's Resume? A TIME investigation reveals discrepancies in

the FEMA chief's official biographies 08 Sep 2005 an investigation by TIME has

found discrepancies in his online legal profile and official bio, including a

description of Michael Brown released by the White House at the time of his

nomination in 2001 to the job as deputy chief of FEMA. (Brown became Director of

FEMA, succeeding Joe Allbaugh, in 2003.)

 

FEMA's Blocking Relief Efforts - An Amazing List (rense.com) 08 Sep 2005

 

Katrina Timeline (thinkprogress.org)

 

2,000 Postal Workers Missing 08 Sep 2005 The post office has delivered some

15,000 Social Security checks at collection points in the area affected by

Hurricane Katrina, officials said Wednesday. But the agency is still trying to

locate 2,000 of its workers.

 

Officials warn of toxic floodwaters, ready 25,000 body bags 08 Sep 2005 Soldiers

toting M-16s strengthened their grip on New Orleans as concerns grew about the

risks posed by the toxic floodwaters and officials braced for what could be a

staggering death toll by readying 25,000 body bags.

 

25,000 body bags ordered 08 Sep 2005 New Orleans officials today ordered 25,000

body bags as they braced themselves for the grim task of recovering and

identifying the dead. Rescue workers went from house to house searching for

corpses and armed troops attempted to coax those who refused to leave from their

homes.

 

Doctors Urge U.S. to Accept Cuba's Offer of 1586 Disaster-Trained Doctors to

Stop Katrina Epidemics 07 Sep 2005 A prominent U.S. medical group voiced " deep

concern " over delays in health care and epidemic prevention reaching Katrina

victims, and urged U.S. authorities to accept Cuba's offer of 1586

disaster-trained physicians to prevent a " second wave of sickness and death. "

 

Base on standby as officials await word on evacuee arrival 07 Sep 2005

Volunteers were sent home and everything from toothbrushes to teddy bears waited

unused as Gov. Mitt Romney (R-Nutball) announced on Wednesday that the state's

(MA) effort to house as many as 2,500 people displaced by Hurricane Katrina was

put on hold.

 

City had evacuation plan but strayed from strategy 08 Sep 2005 City officials

had 550 municipal buses and hundreds of additional school buses at their

disposal but made no plans to use them to get people out of New Orleans before

the storm, said Chester Wilmot, a civil engineering professor at Louisiana State

University and an expert in transportation planning, who helped the city put

together its evacuation plan.

 

Rell: 1,500 Hurricane Victims To Relocate In Connecticut 08 Sep 2005 Gov. M.

Jodi Rell ® said that the state will help 1,500 people displaced by Hurricane

Katrina relocate to Connecticut. Rell said that she has sent an emergency

request to pResident George W. Bush to make the state eligible for federal aid

for people evacuated because of the hurricane.

 

Oregon may receive 500 evacuees on Saturday 08 Sep 2005 The federal government

has asked Oregon to be prepared to receive as many as 500 Hurricane Katrina

evacuees on Saturday. Word came Thursday morning, a day after the Federal

Emergency Management Agency had asked Oregon and other states to put

preparations to shelter storm survivors on hold.

 

First By the Floods, Then By Martial Law --Trapped in New Orleans By Larry

Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky 06 Sep 2005 " Just as dusk set in, a sheriff

showed up, jumped out of his patrol vehicle, aimed his gun at our faces and

screamed, 'Get off the fucking freeway.' A helicopter arrived and used the wind

from its blades to blow away our flimsy structures. As we retreated, the sheriff

loaded up his truck with our food and water. Once again, at gunpoint, we were

forced off the freeway. "

 

Whoopsi Gras By Mark Fiore (animation) 07 Sep 2005

 

After Katrina fiasco, time for Bush to go By Gordon Adams " We have a president

[sic] who is apparently ill-informed, lackadaisical and narrow-minded,

surrounded by oil baron cronies, religious fundamentalist crazies and right-wing

extremists and ideologues. He has appointed officials who give incompetence new

meaning, who replace the positive role of government with expensive baloney...

It is time to hold them accountable - this ugly, troglodyte crowd of Capital

Beltway insiders, rich lawyers, ideologues, incompetents and their strap-hangers

should be tarred, feathered and ridden gracefully and mindfully out of

Washington and returned to their caves, clubs in hand. " [a *must read.*]

 

Louisiana Guard soldiers heading home --80 percent of New Orleans unit lost

homes, jobs, relatives 08 Sep 2005 Hundreds of soldiers from a New Orleans

National Guard unit begin leaving Thursday to return to the devastation left by

Hurricane Katrina. Guard officials said 80 percent lost homes or jobs and some

had not heard from relatives since the storm.

 

UN raises alarm on death squads and torture in Iraq 08 Sep 2005 The United

Nations raised the alarm on Thursday about mounting violence in Iraq blamed on

pro-government militias and urged the authorities to look into reports of

systematic torture in police stations.

 

Regime Pledges To " Uproot " Tall Afar Mujahideen As Al-Qaida Tallies Operations

08 Sep 2005 By Ubaidah Al-Saif (Translation) " Following the failed US attempt to

break into the city of Tall 'Afar, even amid reports of chemical weapons use,

Muwaffaq ar-Rabi‘i, the 'National Security Adviser' in the US-installed 'Iraqi

government' in Baghdad declared Wednesday morning that his regime would treat

what the Mujahideen in Tall 'Afar with severity and force, saying that the

'terrorists' would be 'uprooted totally' from the city. "

 

Is the US military preparing another massacre in Tal Afar? By James Cogan 08 Sep

2005 " The largest US military offensive on an urban area since the attack on

Fallujah last year has been underway since September 2 in the city of Tal Afar,

an ancient metropolis with a predominantly Sunni Muslim, ethnic Turkish

population of some 300,000. "

 

Anti-war bus tour stops in Ohio --'Bring Them Home Now' event attended by 100 08

Sep 2005 The national bus tour sparked by Cindy Sheehan's monthlong protest

against the Iraq war outside pResident Bush's Texas ranch rolled into Cincinnati

on Wednesday on its way to Washington.

 

U.S. " war on terror " saves few lives, expert says 09 Sep 2005 The U.S. " war on

terror " is saving fewer lives than just spending the money on disease prevention

and research, and has probably caused deaths by taking money away from basic

services, an expert said on Thursday.

 

9/11 a US plot, newspaper claims 09 Sep 2005 Australia's most radical Islamic

group has defied John Howard by launching a provocative public campaign to

persuade Muslims the 9/11 terror attacks were a massive US-inspired

conspiracy... The newspaper devotes a feature to supporting claims made by a US

author, David Ray Griffin, that a plane never crashed into the Pentagon and that

the story was an elaborate hoax by the US. The feature says: " The hole created

in the (Pentagon) facade was not big enough to fit the nose of a plane let alone

an entire (Boeing) 757 -- the question is how could such a big airplane have

created such a small hole? " http://www.legitgov.org/9_1_1_oddities.html

 

Sept. 11 Recovery Loans Went to Many Who Didn't Need Them 08 Sep 2005 The

government's $5 billion effort to help small businesses recover from the Sept.

11 attacks was so loosely managed that it gave low-interest loans to companies

that didn't need terrorism relief - or even know they were getting it, The

Associated Press has found. And while some at New York's Ground Zero couldn't

get assistance they desperately sought, companies far removed from the

devastation had no problem winning the government-guaranteed loans.

 

Texas grand jury indicts DeLay committee 08 Sep 2005 A grand jury has indicted a

political action committee formed by U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and a

Texas business group in connection with 2002 legislative campaign contributions.

 

Bush Job Approval Hits 41%—All Time Low --Public Rates All Levels of Government

Poorly in Katrina Handling 08 Sep 2005 pResident Bush’s job approval rating took

a hit in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, dropping to a historic low of 41%, a new

Zogby America poll reveals.

 

Bird flu pandemic inevitable, says WHO 08 Sep 2005 The World Health Organisation

(WHO) yesterday warned that a pandemic of the bird flu strain lethal to humans

is inevitable, and would likely kill between one and seven million people

worldwide, Reuters reports. [We really need to eliminate the Bush regime before

bird flu 'mysteriously' arrives, as a Weapon of Mass Distraction for Bush's

Katrina and Iraq. Outside of forced quarantines and utilizing FEMA's

concentration camps on a grand scale, I really can't foresee any other actions

that Bush and Halliburton will take during the pandemic. --Lori Price]

http://www.legitgov.org/flu_oddities.html

 

 

[08 Sep lead stories] Making the Quarter rounds By Brian Williams, Anchor and

NBC Nightly News Managing Editor 07 Sep 2005 " ...[T]he city has now reached a

near-saturation level of military and law enforcement. In the areas we visited,

the red berets of the 82nd Airborne are visible on just about every block.

National Guard soldiers are ubiquitous. At one fire scene, I counted law

enforcement personnel (who I presume were on hand to guarantee the safety of the

firefighters) from four separate jurisdictions, as far away as Connecticut and

Illinois. And tempers are getting hot. While we were attempting to take pictures

of the National Guard (a unit from Oklahoma) taking up positions outside a

Brooks Brothers on the edge of the Quarter, the sergeant ordered us to the other

side of the boulevard. The short version is: there won't be any pictures of this

particular group of guard soldiers on our newscast tonight. Rules (or I suspect

in this case an order on a whim) like those do not HELP

the palpable feeling that this area is somehow separate from the United States.

At that same fire scene, a police officer from out of town raised the muzzle of

her weapon and aimed it at members of the media... obvious members of the

media... armed only with notepads... There are automatic weapons and shotguns

everywhere you look. "

 

Customs Tells Workers to Stop Helping FEMA 08 Sep 2005 The U.S. Immigrations and

Customs Enforcement agency told its employees Wednesday to stop volunteering for

hurricane relief duty with the government's primary disaster agency so they can

focus on helping New Orleans police instead.

 

Police told to clear New Orleans 07 Sep 2005 New Orleans' mayor has told police

to use persuasion or force to evacuate anyone still refusing to leave the

flooded city, as health fears grow. Ray Nagin said all but those involved in the

rescue effort should leave.

 

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