[Mb-civic] Re: Interesting tidbits

[DAGMAR & ANTON]

a small collection...

Dagmar


>    In 1997, Thomas Frist, Bill Frist's father, was
> investigated for insider 
> trading in the same company, and while he was
> cleared of charges, the incident 
> makes it harder to believe that mere coincidence is
> involved in the present 
> case. The LA Times, perhaps the nation's leading
> liberal paper, had already hit 
> First for looking like a "bungler" whose only goal
> was self-advancement, a 
> clear reference to his Presidential ambitions. 
>     
> Here at home, even loyal Republicans are beginning
> to bail out on Mr. Bush's 
> fiendish willingness to shove the monumental costs
> of the federal government's 
> operations - including his war, his tax cuts and his
> promised reconstruction 
> of the Gulf Coast - onto the unsuspecting backs of
> generations still to come. 
> There is a general sense now that things are falling
> apart. The economy was 
> already faltering before Katrina hit. Gasoline
> prices are starting to undermine 
> the standard of living of some Americans, and a
> full-blown home-heating-oil 
> crisis could erupt this winter. The administration's
> awful response to the agony 
> of the Gulf Coast has left most Americans believing
> that we are not prepared 
> to cope with a large terrorist attack. And Osama bin
> Laden is still at large.  
> 
> 
> Either President Bush just doesn't get it, or he
> just doesn't care, or he 
> thinks the people he serves are all gullible morons.
> He's appointed his own 
> Homeland Security Advisor, Ms. Frances Townsend, to
> lead the White House 
> investigation into how the government screwed up
> with Hurricane Katrina - and what to do 
> about it.Does the president really believe the
> American people will find such 
> an investigation credible?...
> 
> > San Diego - A branch of the U.S. Navy secretly
> contracted a 33-plane fleet 
> > that included two Gulfstream jets reportedly used
> to fly terror suspects to 
> > countries known to practice torture, according to
> documents obtained by The 
> > Associated Press.    At least 10 U.S. aviation
> companies were issued classified 
> > contracts in 2001 and 2002 by the obscure Navy
> Engineering Logistics Office 
> > for the "occasional airlift of USN (Navy) cargo
> worldwide," according to 
> > Defense Department documents the AP obtained
> through a Freedom of Information Act 
> > request.    Two of the companies - Richmor
> Aviation Inc. and Premier 
> > Executive Transport Services Inc. - chartered
> luxury Gulfstreams that flew terror 
> > suspects captured in Europe to Egypt, according to
> U.S. and European media 
> > reports. Once there, the men told family members,
> they were tortured. Authorities 
> > in Italy and Sweden have expressed outrage over
> flights they say were 
> > illegal and orchestrated by the U.S. government.
> > 
> > 
> >  A Louisiana state senator has praised a Canadian
> search and rescue team. 
> > Senator Walter Boasso said a Vancouver-based team
> reached St. Bernard parish 
> > five days before the U.S. army got there.
> > 
> > "Fabulous, fabulous guys," Boasso said. "They
> started rolling with us and 
> > got in boats to save people ... We've got Canadian
> flags flying everywhere."
> > 
> > 
> I know everyone has heard about people firing on
> helicopters. I'm certainly 
> not saying it is right, but after being there, I
> understand. For five days, 
> helicopters are flying overhead, but none of them
> are dropping water or food down 
> for anyone. They fly by using load speakers saying
> that anyone found looting 
> or stealing will be arrested, and those are the
> helicopters that are followed 
> by gunshots, from what I see.  
Nick Glassman is a senior manager of 
> programming for MediaFLO at Qualcomm, Inc.
>  AlterNet: Swimming to New Orleans 
> 
> 
> 
> September 9, 2005 -- Dallas meeting plans
> reconstruction of New Orleans 
> without poor African Americans. According to
> well-informed New Orleans 
> sources, New Orleans' wealthiest families, including
> those who are 
> direct descendants of the French who settled New
> Orleans (not the 
> Acadians [Cajuns] who were poor refugees from
> British tyranny in Nova 
> Scotia) are meeting in Dallas today with Bush
> administration officials, 
> New Orleans city officials, wealthy Texas oilmen,
> and bankers to plan 
> for the reconstruction of New Orleans. These wealthy
> New Orleans 
> residents live in the gated community of Audobon
> Place, a section of 
> the city near the Garden District replete with
> personal helipads that 
> still has running water and sewage and was only
> slightly affected by 
> hurricane Katrina. It is now reportedly being
> patrolled by private 
> Israeli security forces. Yesterday's Wall Street
> Journal ran a piece 
> with more details on this story.  Rep. Richard Baker
> (R-LA): "We finally 
> cleaned up public housing in New  Orleans. We
> couldn't do it, but God did."
> These New Orleans residents have been scattered
> across the United 
> States and are now under the control of FEMA. There
> is an understanding 
> by the wealthy New Orleans elite that the poor will
> never be able to  return.
> 

> "We need people to remember forever what they saw on
> TV last week. The ugly 
> truth is that skin color, age and economics played a
> role in who survived and 
> who did not. How could we forget that race still
> matters in this country? We 
> haven't swept poverty away. We've just swept it
> under the rug." Howard Dean
> 
> 
> "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
> about things that matter."  
> Martin Luther King
> 



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