Hello from Plundered DemocracyThe Alatheia Agora wishes you were here!Hanging on to His Precious- September 30, 2005 Scouted by Aspidistra Flying...http://www.serendipit-e.com/plundered/2005/09/hanging_on_to_h.html Out, Out Damn Spot- September 22, 2005 Looks like my favorite poet, Sharon Olds, doesn't want to associate with those in the current regime. They do, after all, have blood on their hands. In a letter to Laura Bush, Olds declines an invitation to the September 24...http://www.serendipit-e.com/plundered/2005/09/out_out_damn_sp_3.html Bush administration gives FDA women's health appointee the "Woof"- September 20, 2005 Link: FDA Rethinks Women's Chief. washingtonpost.com FDA Rethinks Women's ChiefToigo Is Acting Head; Agency Denies Naming Veterinary OfficialBy Marc Kaufman Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, September 20, 2005; A21 One week ago, the Office of Women's Health of the Food...http://www.serendipit-e.com/plundered/2005/09/bush_administra.html President's nephew arrested on Sixth Street: no comment necessary- September 20, 2005 Link: President's nephew arrested on Sixth Street. AUSTIN President's nephew arrested on Sixth Street John Ellis Bush charged with public intoxication, resisting arrest. (enlarge photo) John Ellis Bush By Tony Plohetski, Steven Kreytak AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF Saturday, September 17, 2005The youngest...http://www.serendipit-e.com/plundered/2005/09/presidents_neph.html Patients put down- September 12, 2005 Link: Patients put down September 12, 2005 DOCTORS working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leave them to die in agony as they evacuated. With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded...http://www.serendipit-e.com/plundered/2005/09/patients_put_do.html This site showed up on one of our Google ads under the heading "Private Prisons"- September 10, 2005 Link: Omni View: Innovative Incarceration. When I clicked on the link, it mostly was talking about Native American reservation corrections sites... but I found the entire thing REALLY disturbing. First of all, what kind of outfit tries to sell itself...http://www.serendipit-e.com/plundered/2005/09/this_site_showe.html A Priceless Photo- September 9, 2005 sneezed along by Coffenut...http://www.serendipit-e.com/plundered/2005/09/a_priceless_pho.html My favorite sound bite yesterday- September 8, 2005 Link: nancy1.mov (videoquicktime Object). At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had ''absolutely no credentials.''She related that she had urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Michael...http://www.serendipit-e.com/plundered/2005/09/my_favorite_sou.html FEMA planned to leave people behind- September 8, 2005 http:newstandardnews.netcontentindex.cfmitems2322 Though officials involved in the scenario acknowledged that tens of thousands of residents would be without the means to evacuate New Orleans in the absence of government help, the Hurricane Pam scenario teams did not determine strategies for evacuating...http://www.serendipit-e.com/plundered/2005/09/fema_planned_to.html U.S. agency blocks photos of New Orleans dead- September 7, 2005 They cite issues of respect for the dead, but it also helps banish the images from the minds of a public that would probably hold the federal officials who messed up so badly. Convenient, eh Link: Reuters AlertNet - U.S....http://www.serendipit-e.com/plundered/2005/09/us_agency_block.html |