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preciousdove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 06:27 PM
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Recovering New Orleans’ dead subordinated to profit and politics
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/body-s16.shtml

...The operation was rendered even more sordid by bitter disputes between the local authorities, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the private contractor—Kenyon International Emergency Services—over the terms of the commercial agreement struck for collecting corpses. Louisiana’s Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco and FEMA officials haggled for days with Kenyon over a business deal giving them exclusive rights to profits from body recovery...

The paper also cites Ricardo Zuniga, another FEMA spokesman, who “said Monday that the agency’s policy barred military and municipal police officers from touching the bodies, except to tag them and report their location to higher authorities.”

Spokesmen for Kenyon have said the company arrived in Louisiana in early September, but did not begin working until September 7, and then only on the basis of an oral contract.

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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 06:33 PM
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1. Why would anyone expect the previous political corruption.......
to stop when there is a huge disaster. It's political corruption as usual before, during and most likely after the disaster.
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hedda_foil Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 06:34 PM
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2. Oh my God, my God, my God
Is there NOTHING too base and brutal for these REPtilians?
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Tace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Sep-17-05 06:44 PM
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3. No
There's Not. They'd eat their eldest child for breakfast. I know, I'm the eldest child of a couple of REPtilians.
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