The Fix is In: Corporate Media and the WH (a must read!)

[cynatnite]

The entire article is an excellent education on how the media is now working.

snip:
By September 12, even the White House admitted that FEMA had been its own disaster area by pushing out its Arabian-horseman-turned-jackass head, Michael Brown. (Bush finally admitted on Tuesday that the buck was going to stop with him whether he liked it or not. “To the extent the federal government didn’t fully do its job right, I take responsibility,” he said.) That same day, CNN’s parent company, Time Warner, announced the hiring of DeLay’s chief of staff as a top Washington lobbyist. This news, and its timing, prompted Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy to tell the L.A. Weekly: “Time Warner aligning itself with the right-wing DeLay machine should send shudders CNN and HBO. Clearly, TW wants DeLay insurance so it won’t have to face cable-ownership safeguards, à la carte rules and broadband non-discrimination policies.”

snip:
If big media look like they’re propping up W’s presidency, they are. Because doing so is good for corporate coffers — in the form of government contracts, billion-dollar tax breaks, regulatory relaxations and security favors. At least that wily old codger Sumner Redstone, head of Viacom, parent company of CBS, has admitted what everyone already knows is true: that, while he personally may be a Democrat, “It happens that I vote for Viacom. Viacom is my life, and I do believe that a Republican administration is better for media companies than a Democratic one.”

When it comes to NBC’s parent company, GE’s No. 1 and No. 2, Jeffrey Immelt and Bob Wright, are avowed Republicans, as are Time Warner’s Dick Parsons (CNN) and News Corp.’s Rupert Murdoch (Fox News Channel). (Forget that Murdoch’s No. 2, Peter Chernin, and Redstone’s co–No. 2, Les Moonves, are avowed Democrats — it’s meaningless because Murdoch and Redstone are the owners.)

Once upon a time, large corporations and their executives typically avoided any public discussion of their politics because partisan positions alienated customers and employees. But all of that changed after GE bought NBC in 1986. For seemingly eons, Immelt’s predecessor, the legendary Jack Welch, was a rabid right-winger who boasted openly about helping turn former liberals Chris Matthews and Tim Russert into neocons. (And Los Angeles Representative Henry Waxman is still waiting for GE to turn over those in-house tapes that would prove once and for all whether Welch, in 2000, ordered his network and cable stations to reverse course and call the election for Bush instead of Gore.)

As for Immelt, he publicly wishes his MSNBC could be a clone of FNC. Not surprising, since he let his network and cable news cheerlead the run-up to the Iraqi war without ever bothering to tell viewers GE had billions in contracts pending. More than half of Iraq’s power grid is GE technology. It was also under Immelt that GE installed a former adviser to W and Condi, who also served as press secretary to former first lady Barbara “Let ’em eat cake” Bush, as NBC Universal’s executive vice president of communications.

http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/43/deadline-finke.php

[NMDemDist2]

1. now that I'm throughly depressed, I nominated it to share my gloom

:banghead:

[Loge23]

2. A Must Read

Terrific piece of reporting along with excellent talking points for any of us engaged in arguing the truth. Highly recommend - a much desreved nomi.

[Supersedeas]

57. True, required for all who dare question Corporate Media Independence

[stevedeshazer]

3. OUTSTANDING

K & R

[fooj]

4. Great find. Thanks for sharing it!

Peace.

[jillan]

5. Looking back, it was around the time of the bushiter v Gore election

when the media changed.

BUT I do believe it is coming back.
When Brian Williams of msnbc tells the story about the lites going off in the city after *'s speech last nite, you have to believe it is a sign.

[Berry Cool]

6. But Keith Olbermann has never carried their water.

He is the canary in the coalmine. Watch him carefully. If he ever starts acting strangely blank-faced and pleasant, and starts talking about how great Bush is...you will know he's been Stepforded.

[jillan]

8. Yeah - thank God for KO!

He was awesome in the days after the election.

Altho, come to think of it, he did have a few Stepford weeks after he started getting into the fraud theories. I know they got to him. I was worried, but he snapped back.:D

[FreedomAngel82]

13. Yep

So true.

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. he even is using Murrow's line now

Good luck and good night

[Berry Cool]

29. He's been using Murrow's line since he started his show, I think.

It's the "Keep your knees loose" addition that is relatively new.

[milkyway]

34. Keith is one of us, permanently. He would quit before he flipped.

What could happen, though, is General Electric dumps his show. Can't have some smart-ass getting in the way of securing military contracts.

[Daphne08]

38. No, he hasn't and I love his show!

Countdown is the best cable news show.

[MADem]

49. And ironically, it started out as a filler after Jerry Nachman got sick

and later died of cancer. KO was SUPPOSED to do the Greek Olympics, but they pulled him in early to fill that gaping hole, supposedly on a temporary basis. Because the show was just a plug in a hole, there was not a load of oversight, and creativity ruled.

KO ended up backing out of the Olympics, with the blessing of his boss, that guy whose kid got killed in the plane crash...

[Skittles]

16. um

have you forgotten all the endless Clinton witch hunts, aided and abetted by the corporate media?

[Jawja]

26. And about how he

doesn't want his son and daughter seeing children dying in the streets believing that this REALLY IS America.

[Trevelyan]

53. Has Anyone Seen Shep Smith on this nightly newscast since he told the

truth loud and clear about the bushco organized genocide at the Dome and on the bridge. I am concerned, have not received even an acknowledgement to my thank you emails.

•E-mail the Show:
[e-mail]

Dear Shep, I wanted to thank you again for trying to save lives at the NOLA Superdome. It is unbelievable that these people were locked in with no food or water, even after the MREs had been delivered earlier in the day and the film of you and Geraldo LATER THAT NIGHT WHEN MRE'S STILL HAD NOT BEEN DELIVERED TO THE DEHYDRATED PEOPLE AT THE DOME WHO WERE EXPERIENCING THE DEATHS OF CHILDREN AND ELDERLY FROM FOUR DAYS WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER, rightly livid about the starvation and lack of water of these imprisoned people and the Iraqi-type checkpoint on the only bridge out for the US citizens who were locked OUT of the Dome, not only turning people away from getting to
water, food and lights but shooting over their heads.

I have gotten out of the habit of watching TV but will try to watch your regularly scheduled program, people have been asking on blogsites if you have appeared on TV after your courageous attempt to save lives.

I am concerned with 2 articles on the Above Top Secrets.com site, the one I just read had to do with Nuclear Contamination in the water of NOLA and the real possibility of something thousands of times greater than Love Canal by the flooding of nuclear reactors and the possible destruction of a nuclear reactor in the Gulf.

The second was the Fema Detainee camps which continued in a Rebuttal but the same questions were raised and not answered and a very strange appearance by someone claiming to be with the Oklahoma govt who had posted on Above Top Secret before but changed his bio which included a great deal of security, military and bio weapons experience, he also was a Federal Marshall.

Also the missing mice with bubonic plague in another state, from a Dental School??

and leading to the missing 5,000 monkeys in NOLA labs that were hosts to Anthrax, other bioweapons and diseases and if the NOLA Evacuees are contaminated and should be quaranteened (but with adequate news media and citizen reportage as to how they are being treated) very suspicious forced evacuations to Utah and other far away states that have been declare disaster areas, possibly as an excuse to declare martial law and for bushco to avoid Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald and his 3 Grand Juries from issuing indictments against the Bush Regime and sending the Federal Marshalls.

The Blackwell Mercenaries, the 82nd Airborne, the illegally armed Mexican troops in NOLA call out for investigative reporting by the Mainstream Media and if you could explore these issues on your show would be of great benefit to the many people who are asking questions and people who should know about decisions being made that are not in the best interests of the American people.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread169641/pg1#pid1700085

http://www.abovetopsecret.com

The forum thread for the Report on Fema Detainees would not work as a link or when I typed into search engine but can be found on the abovetopsecrets home page.

Thank you for caring about human life and doing something to really help.

God Bless,

~~~~
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[KittyWampus]

7. sigh

:(

[Elwood P Dowd]

9. What good does it do them

if incompetent administrations such as BushCo destroy the country and wreck the economy? The neocons and religious right will do just that.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. They still get money

[faithnotgreed]

10. kick

[HR_Pufnstuf]

11. And..

...GE makes the most amount of large aircraft engines.

http://www.geae.com/engines/military/index.html

War is Good (to Wall St.)

[FreedomAngel82]

12. All I have to say is

well duh. This is nothing new. All you have to do is look at how much the Bush administration is critized by the media and compare it to Clinton and look at the Bush administration's policies. All sorts of corporations win big under Bush simply alone with the tax cuts. It's really not rocket science. It's nice to see it in some print though. Of course since it's an LA news paper people will claim "liberal media".

[earth mom]

15. Those bastards have no shame-I hope they rot in HELL! nt

[Justice]

27. Don't Worry, they will - their choices are for money/power not people

You can't take the money and the power with you into the grave --

[Trevelyan]

55. THE GOVT. SHOULD HAVE INNOCULATED ALL OF THESE

"I too thought this was nuts to take these people and send them all over the country without seeing if they have contracted anything that is contagious. Now god knows if there could be some kind of outbreak all over the country."

"YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT! I WORK IN THE NURSING FIELD AND EVERYONE OUT THERE NEEDS TO HEED THIS MANS ADVICE, THIS COULD TURN OUT TO BE A VERY DANGEROUS SITUATION. THE VICTIMS OF KATRINA ARE BEING SENT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, AND RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT THEY COULD BE HARBORING THESE ILLNESSES.

WE NEED TO TAKE EVERY PRECAUTION NECESSARY FOR OUR PROTECTION THE GOVT. SHOULD HAVE INNOCULATED ALL OF THESE PEOPLE BEFORE THEY EVEN TRANSPORTED THEM. IF THEY COULDN'T RESPOND TO THIS EMERGENCY WHAT DO YOU THINK WILL HAPPEN IF THERE IS AN EPIDEMIC. IT SCARES ME TO DEATH BECAUSE I KNOW THIS IS A HUGH POSSIBILITY.

THE EXPOSURE TIME HAS ALREADY BEEN ENOUGH FOR THESE PEOPLE GRANTED THE NUMBER OF DAYS THEY WERE EXPOSED BEFORE GETTING HELP. AND IM SURE SOME OF THEM CONSUMED FLOOD WATERS BEING THEY HAD NO WATER, THIS IS SURVIVAL. BE WORRIED BE VERY WORRIED"

~~"In the beginning it was made clear that the dead were going to be bypassed to save the living. Here is my point, many more fatalities are about to occur in the coming months due to the diseases created from the water being pumped out of New Orleans.

To start with all the life in Lake Ponchaton will die, the grounds in the surrounding area are going to soak up this bacteria and pass it on through vegatation and other means.

This is going to be a really major problem! I would be willing to place a wager that every American in the continuous U.S. will get sick in some manner once the bacteria begins to spread. Those that cannot with stand the sickness, like the elderly, will die due to disease and sickness.

This will be the next phase of effects of the Katrina!

[OneBlueSky]

18. horrid as the story is, it's nice to read the truth every now and then . .

kicked and recommended . . .

[Eric J in MN]

19. I call bullshit.

"...the legendary Jack Welch, was a rabid right-winger who boasted openly about helping turn former liberals Chris Matthews and Tim Russert into neocons."


If Welch boasted openly about it, where and when?

Also, Chris Matthews was against the Iraq War. He's not a neocon.

I'm not a fan of Chris Matthews, who often praises Bush, but he's not a neocon.

[Disturbed]

20. Tweety is schizoid.

He claims to be a Dem but backs the RW on about everything, except for the illegal Iraq Invasion.

[cynatnite]

30. Matthews being a neocon startled me...I'd never heard that before

I'd like to know as well.

[blm]

35. Actually, after the fall of Baghdad and Mission Accomplished, Tweety said

"We're all neo-cons now."

I will never forget that moment. He switches off his principles a little too easily in his quest to keep Bush propped up.

[Peace Patriot]

21. The worst crime of our alphabet soup of war profiteering corporate news

monopolies occurred late on November 2, 2004, when they DOCTORED their own exit poll data (Kerry won) to "fit" the "official result" derived by Diebold's and ES&S's "trade secret," proprietary programming code for vote tabulation (Bush won)--thus denying the American people major evidence of election fraud, and squelching protests and calls for investigation.

I've been around awhile. It's the most appalling journalistic crime I've ever witnessed.

You might say that the NYT and its front page publication of Judith Miller's lies about Iraq WMDs was worse. Over 100,000 thousand innocent people were slaughtered as a result. But I think the election night crime was worse because it prevented us from stopping the war, which the majority of Americans clearly wanted to do, and it demoralized the grass roots movement that had won an incredibly important victory for peace and democracy. It killed hope. There is no worse death.

---------

Stats:

58% of the American people opposed the Iraq war BEFORE the invasion--before all the lies were exposed; before the full horror and costs of it were known. I'll never forget that stat. Feb. '03. Across the board in all polls. 58%!

That figure dipped only once, in the few weeks of the invasion when U.S. troops were at maximum risk, then went right back up to nearly 60%, where it stayed throughout the election. (It's over 70% today.)

The American people never supported this war. Never!

63% of the American people oppose torture UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. May '04. That's my America--a people that sticks to its sense of ethics, and lawfulness, and humanity, despite all the fearmongering.

The great majority people of this country have been insulted and degraded and marginalized by having torture memo writer Alberto Gonzales shoved down our throats as chief law enforcement officer of the Unite States!

Could our DISENFRANCHISEMENT be any clearer?

Overall, the issue polls over the last couple of years show that the great majority of Americans oppose EVERY MAJOR BUSH POLICY, foreign and domestic, way up in the 60% to 70% range. Amazing, mind-boggling numbers--that no one in the war profiteering corporate news monopolies ever comments on! It's so naked--it's laid bare in these polls--that the Bush Cartel does not represent the majority of Americans on ANYTHING.

And this is not even to mention Bush's dismal approval ratings over the last couple of years, or the huge Dem success in new voter registration in 2004, nearly 60/40--people flocking to the Dem Party (to oust Bush!).

We need...

----

Paper ballots hand-counted at the precinct level (--Canada does it in one day, although speed should not even be a consideration, just accuracy and verifiability)

or, at the least...

Paper ballot (not "paper trail") backup of all electronic voting, a 10% automatic recount, very strict security, and NO SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code! (...jeez!).

----

And we need it NOW! Into 'Boston Harbor' with these election theft machines, I say! Enough. Is. ENOUGH!

[milkyway]

36. Great post. If we get the votes counted right in 06, the repugs are gonna

be buried. Those voters in the middle who swing elections are getting a good look at repug policies in action, and they're realizing this is not the government they want.

[WiseButAngrySara]

40. This is an excellent post, and deserves its own thread. K and R for this

alone! I've e-mailed the original post and your response to family and friends. Thanks for your clarity. "Liberal" media, indeed. The lying is enough to kill all hope.

[soleft]

22. Also - isn't there a huge chunk of TW owned by Saudi's?

I've heard Randi talk about this.

[elehhhhna]

23. Re; Jack Welch, (R., assho!e) Mister enron-style accounting

& earnings reports himself. Big fat deal who cares WHAT he thinks?
Just sayin'.

[Joe Chi Minh]

33. Didn't they call him Neutron Jack?

Apparently, he wasn't keen on the neutron-bomb metaphor to epitomise his "downsizing" activities. If I'm thinking of the right(wrong) bloke.

I once read a quite adulatory review of his autobiography (or biography, perhaps) in the Guardian or Observer, by a columnist I trusted and assumed saw the bigger picture. Apparently not.

[OnionPatch]

24. I already knew most of this but

reading this brings it all home again. At the very core of their existance, the big media are all neo-cons! How do we fight this? THIS is the main reason Republicans rule our nation now and is a prime example of how profit takes precedence over the TRUTH and the good of the people. Depressing.....I sent this to everyone I know who still believes the media is liberal. Not that it would do any good: none of them will read more than a headline of anything, ever. :banghead:

[Eric J in MN]

28. Chris Matthews was opposed to the Iraq War. (nt)

nt

[La Coliniere]

25. It's all so crystal clear,

unfortunately the majority still don't know. And probably never will. Or care.
They simply want to be entertained and amused. "Truth? We don't need no stinking truth."

[OnionPatch]

32. Exactly and this is why

I am such a big supporter of liberal radio. A huge portion of the public will not be bothered to read. They just don't care enough. Period. This is why we must "read to them"!! In an entertaining way, of course. As I type this I can hear my neighbor listening to right-wing talk radio as he works on his truck! (I'm about ready to go over there and ask him to turn it down!) We definitely have to break the stranglehold the right has on talk radio. I hear a lot of liberals saying they don't listen to it, but guess what....Joe and Jane Republican and Joe and Jane Independent do! Often. And they don't bother to read these kinds of articles.

[symbolman]

31. Gee, I've had this nifty site called Takebackthemedia.com

for about 4 years now and tho we've rattled a few cages we never got the funding we needed to SLAM these monsters.

If only I got a big old wad of cash I would love to beat them like a circus donkey. :)

Just about ready to quit and get a JOB, the money is GONE and I don't want to lose the house, but at least I've given it a "bloody go"..

[papau]

51. That you have - and thanks :- ) I hope you get that cash and are able to

continue with Takebackthemedia.com

In any case you have done a lot more for the cause than most of us -

and again, thanks.

:toast:

:-)

[Up2Late]

37. Good stuff, though I don't think they made it clear that GE, owner of NBC,

and MSNBC is one of the biggest Defense Contractors we have.

So is this good news for CNN or bad?

I can tell everyone that I have found CNN is hiring a LOT of new people, and the do want people with REAL experience.

[snot]

39. We CAN take Action!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4804949&mesg_id=4804949 :

Are you aware of the Media Ownership Reform Act of 2005?

Ok, we're trying to move mountains. I believe we can do it, IF we all push together. Please write our reps and the media about this legislation! And e-mail your friends about it!

Here's a "primer" on the Act: http://www.chicagomediaaction.org/news.php?id=341
(info edited to avoid copyright violation; pls see link for MORE)

H.R. 3302, July 14, 2005
Media Ownership Reform Act of 2005 (MORA)
. . . .
Background
Although 80% of American homes receive cable and 70% have internet access, only 5 companies control all broadcast television stations and 90% of the top 50 cable networks, as well as produce 75% of all prime time programming. The companies that own most of the popular newspapers also own 85% of the top 20 internet news sites. Americans continue to rely heavily on traditional news sources like television, newspapers, and radio, but two thirds of the newspapers in this country have disappeared since 1975, one third of the independent television stations have done so, and there has been a 34% decline in the number of radio station owners since the Telecommunications Act of 1996 was passed. In addition, independently produced pilots on the four national television networks dropped from 87% in 1990 to 22% in 2002.
. . . .
The Media Ownership Reform Act of 2005 would:
a. deny commercial cable broadcasting licenses to applicants who own a cable system whose service area overlaps the area served by the license.
b. deny commercial satellite broadcasting licenses to applicants who own a satellite carrier providing service to customers in the area served by the license.
c. give companies that are not in compliance one year to divest themselves of license until they are in compliance.
d. invalidate most of the Federal Communication Commission rules that were adopted on June 2, 2003.
. . . .
g. require such license recipients to hold public hearings twice a year, during which the community serviced by the broadcaster can voice concerns, and to publish the transcript of these hearings.
h. restrict the proportion of network video programming for prime time viewing that is network produced to 60% for the four largest television networks, and to higher thresholds for other networks.
. . . .
For Complete Bill: http://www.mediageek.org/archives/hr3032-mora.html

Please also support liberal efforts such as Air America and Current TV. To the extent you have suggestions for ways they can improve, let them know!

Here are some links with more info re- media reform (caveat: I haven't confirmed all these links lately), see:

The Fix is In: Corporate Media and the WH
From http://www.laweekly.com/ink/05/43/deadline-finke.php

http://www.ecotalk.org/VotingMachineCompanies.htm
Big Media Interlocks with Corporate America

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/22021 :
Moyers Addresses PBS Coup

http://www.commondreams.org ; http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Media/Corporati... ; http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership/chart.shtml ; http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0407.tur... ; http://www.leftgatekeepers.com/chart.htm ; http://www.corporations.org/media / ; http://www.fair.org/views.html ; http://www.makethemaccountable.com/myth/LiberalMedia.ht...

http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Media/Corporati... ; see also http://fec.cdt.org/summary.html ; and http://www.reclaimthemedia.org/stories.php?story=03/11/... <http://www.reclaimthemedia..org/stories.php?story=03/11... > ; and you can sign on to a set of principals to protect free speech on the Internet here: http://fec.cdt.org/signup.php

[Cleita]

44. I didn't know about this.

Thanks for posting.

[blm]

56. Have you posted this in a separate thread?

If you had I didn't see it.

[randomelement]

41. Are Republicans the only ones with deep pockets?

Maybe I'm missing something here, but there has to be more than a few Democrats that have the wherewithal to make an attempt to purchase at least one of the major outlets (CNN?). While AAR is a good start, we are largely a nation of TV watchers and I doubt word will ever get out to the general population UNTIL a left leaning, national news outlet is established to shed light on topics that we all feel are being ignored (DSM, rigged-elections, Plamegate, etc).

Apologies in advance if this is too darn naive .....

[Cleita]

43. Hey, welcome to DU.

I thought the same. It's time for a few leftist billionaires to pool resources to buy out CNN or MSNBC. The problem could be that they aren't for sale, but there is such a thing as a hostile takeover.

[Cleita]

42. You think this is bad?

I accidentally left the local WB channel on when the news came on last night. I guess my feed comes from San Diego. Well, guys surf's up! I only watched ten minutes but during that ten minutes the reporter stood on the beach giving a complete report on tide and wave conditions for surfing in the morning. There was nothing about Bush, the Hurricane, the Iraq war or even a local car chase. Nope you have to get your priorities straight. That all important wave is what counts.:sarcasm:

[PurpleChez]

45. Glad to see this point made at DU...

After the widespread outrage expressed by the MSM immediately after Katrina I've been sensing a subtle return to the status quo in the form of news pieces touting the idea that "Our Great Leader is back and he has a Plan for us! Let us draw nigh and listen!" The evil bastard shows up two weeks too late and the news outlets trumpet it like it's actually an accomplishment. He's over. He's done. The pResident is like a dead sycophantic twin hanging lifelessly from the ass of Dick Cheney.

[burythehatchet]

46. thank you thank you thank you

I never miss an opportunity to warn people that CNN is FAR MORE DANGEROUS than Fox has ever been. By exposing their asses we will begin to minimize the damage that they do.

[Great White North]

47. Go figure....

Is it any wonder more and more people are getting their information from International media sources as well as the internet. Frankly, the MSM is (almost) about as reliable as the ole prognosticating magic 8-ball, tea-leave-readings, channeling 17th century wood-nymphs, and Madame Chloe :)

[BrklynLiberal]

48. Excellent article. Thanks for posting. Ithas been shared with my entire

email list.

[leveymg]

50. Goebbels never gassed anyone, but he was as guilty as the SS.

If he hadn't taken the black capsule, he would have just as deservedly gotten the rope at Nuremberg.

[enough]

52. Great article.

Indeed a must read.

[Trevelyan]

54. Some of the things the MSM should be hammering away at:

http://www.legitgov.org/~~~~~~that state to 474.

Over 50 Katrina evacuees have died in TX 14 Sep 2005 Medical examiners says at least 53 Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the New Orleans area have died since coming to Texas.

"It reminded her of a concentration camp" Concertina wire separates people, beach areas 09 Sep 2005 Double rows of coiled razor wire went up along the railroad tracks in Long Beach and Gulfport (MS) to keep people out of the most severely damaged areas of the cities. And it's coming for Pass Christian and parts of Biloxi, according the Col. Joe Spraggins, director of emergency operations in Harrison County... When Lynn Bauer drove along Railroad Avenue in Long Beach on Friday
morning, she was shocked to see a fence crew based out of Lumberton laying the wire... When Bauer saw the razor wire, she said she was hurt. It reminded her of a concentration camp.

~~~~~
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/fema.html
I just got back from a FEMA Detainment Camp

I’m extremely depressed to report that things seem to only be getting sadder concerning the people so devastatingly affected by Katrina last week.

View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/evan/25229/

FEMA is giving proof that the have the "Final Solution" in their concentration camps.

http://www.globalnewsmatrix.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2449

Refugees from New Orleans behind barbed wire in Utah Posted on Wednesday, September 07

Utah's Governor Jon Huntsman has taken in some of the New Orleans refugees, at Camp Williams. Replete with barbed wire, armed soldiers with weapons at ready, police and sheriff with weapons at ready, and hell, they must surely feel right at home. In America yet. What bulls**t! I’m not done with this outrage, not by a long shot. I’m actually just getting started.

Denver Post even used this phrase about what is happening to the NOLA Detainees: Evacuees’ stories are moving, but fence isn't 09/07/2005
By Diane Carman http://www.denverpost.com/carman/ci_3006502

If I didn’t know better, I’d have thought I was peering through the fence at a concentration camp. (more)

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/005403.php#

Thursday :: Sep 8, 2005
Welcome To George's Holiday Camp
Here we go again.

The other day, I wrote about Katrina evacuees being taken to Utah with no prior

knowledge of their destination, and that they were reportedly being kept behind barbed wire.......

And then there is that report I have noted in recent days of the 1,000 evacuees flown to Roosevelt Roads naval base on Puerto Rico's eastern tip. What of them?

Please send questions to http://www.Congress.org/ and media: Why are Evacuees Being Sent to Puerto Rico Against Their Will? The Katrina Evacuees are being treated like POWs behind fences, not allowed to leave with heavy military guard.

Please investigate and help these survivors of Katrina who are being treated like Gitmo detainees. They haven't committed any crime! The following article has a photograph of two very unhappy, oppressed and worn looking women behind orange fence.

~~~~
.....FEMA is refusing to reveal to aid groups the locations of thousands of citizens forced out of their homes by "Hurricane Charley," citing "privacy restrictions."

Original news source:
FEMA Rule Blocking Aid to Seniors - www.heraldtribune.com

Some elderly citizens forced out of their homes by Hurricane Charley are missing out on vital help, including meals, transportation and in-home care, because federal officials won't tell government aid groups where they are.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has temporarily relocated thousands of Charlotte County residents -- many of them senior citizens -- whose homes were destroyed or seriously damaged by the Aug. 13 storm. But, citing federal privacy protection rules, the agency has refused to say who has been relocated, or where they've been sent.

Travis and other officials said their complaints to FEMA officials have gone nowhere. But in response to an inquiry about the problem Tuesday, FEMA deputy federal coordinating officer Brad Gair vowed to find a way to ensure hurricane victims' privacy while getting them access to services.Please visit the link provided for the complete story.

Where have these people gone??

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread167902/pg9

Thank you for any light you can shed on these very dark stories esp. considering the Bush CIA's involvement in MK-ULTRA programs and The Finders.
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[Kurovski]

58. I'd add my vote for "greatest", but the time has expired.

Outstanding. And worth reposting when this article slips from the Greatest page tomorrow.

[TheUnspeakable]

59. As depressing as this is, everyone needs to read it+know what..

we're up against. The media will never change on it's own,we have to figure out an organized boycott. Like we pick one week and call our cable co.s and ask to remove CNN, then next week, MSNBC,etc.