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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 7:19 PM
FEMA HIDINGBODIES IN NOLA

>   There are some very troubling developments
> regarding the collecting of
>   bodies in NOLA. The company hired to do the
> collection is Kenyon
>   International. Kenyon International is owned by
> SCI, a major Bush
>   contributor. SCI was involved in a scandal called
> "Funeralgate" wherein
>   thousands of
>   bodies were improperly and fraudulently disposed
> of in mass graves of in
>   violation of numerous State and Federal laws on
> numreous occasions. Rather
>   than prosecute the  company, the then Governor
> George W Bush and and his
>   campaign manager and future FEMA director Joe
> Allbaugh seemingly helped the
>   company engage in a coverup. Both Bush and
> Allbaugh were named as defendants
>   in a lawsuit regarding the issue.
>
>   The fact FEMA and the Bush Administration seem to
> be intent on blocking
>   media coverage of the collection of bodies, and
> unsubstantiated rumours of
>   "mishandling" of bodies in NOLA already
> circulating should lead to great
>   concern among the public. Is the Government
> planning to cover up the number
>   of dead in NOLA as they covered up the Abu Ghraib
> scandal?
>
>   One thing is certain: reporters for the Dallas
> times caught Police and
>   National Guardsmen red handed in this video
http://www.dallasnews.com/s/dws/photography/2005/katrina_video/straydogs.html
>   telling the media they were rounding up dogs to be
> collected by the ASPCA
>   and other animal groups, when in fact they were
> caught "exterminating" them
>   on camera. If the government will lie about that,
> what else will they lie
>   about?

Add in that Halliburton and Blackwater (the security boys in Iraq) are 
already on the payroll.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Jones" <billj AT harborside.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 10, 2005 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] The cost of the hurricane so far


> I concluded much the same thing about the California community college
> system when I worked there.  I enjoy the fact that you can take a
> welding course, but the academic courses aren't worth the money
> invested.  Instead of just dumping thousands of bucks per year for each
> enrollee (most of whom have never taken an SAT or submitted a
> transcript) into the hands of a bureaucracy, it would be better just to
> pay their way to a real college with academic standards.
>
> Rob wrote:
>
> > Now if someone gave us $15,500 PER PERSON in our household we could
> > walk out of the Astrodome or what ever place they were holding us and
> > start over most anywhere in this country.
> > We showed up here in Washington on the 24th of Aug 2003 with far less
> > than that in our pockets.
> >
> > I suspect either the numbers are bad or someone is making a HUGE
> > profit off the tax payers. HUGE profit!
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