Dan Cassidy comments: “great story comparing fire disaster and mortgage disaster! “ He also sent me this item from San Francisco titled THE BRONX IS BURNING AGAIN!”

“There were 19,729 foreclosure notices filed in New York City and Westchester and Nassau Counties from July 1, 2006, to July 31, 2007.”

“In the Jamaica and South Jamaica sections of Queens, the average time from mortgage origination to notice of foreclosure was 11 months. In Wakefield and Baychester in the Bronx, it was 14 months, the report said.”..

OUT OF THE FIRE, INTO THE FRYING PAN

David Rubinson sent me the Drant Report in response to my article:

Once again, for minorities it was out of the fire, into the frying pan.

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before:

A vast cataclysm, causing significant injury, death, and widespread destruction, provides a perfect laboratory environment for the imposition of martial law, the suspension of basic rights, and the ongoing obliteration of posse comitatus prohibitions; and — the immediate widespread disenfranchisement, demonization, imprisonment and deportation of minorities, immigrants, and people of color- citizens and not, with the full and enthusiastic complicity of major media.

Last week, the worst fears of our founding fathers came true when once again, Federal Troops were used to enforce local law- i.e. Martial Law.

In San Diego, the Federal Immigration Cops (I.C.E.) - working ostentatiously with FEMA, The Red Cross, and local police, caused local volunteers to turn away fire victims without “proper” ID, forcing them to abandon the evacuation centers, or sleep outside in the parking lots.

INSIDE Qualcomm Stadium — the I.C.E. rousted, questioned, arrested, detained, and actually deported victims of the fires.

MORE ON THIS UNREPORTED STORY:

Inhumane Treatment of Evacuees

The City officials in charge of the evacuation site at Qualcomm invited a Border Patrol information unit to drive in a van and set up a tent next to FEMA and Red Cross inside the stadium. Although the unit is present to provide map information for burn areas, the presence of a BP van and uniformed BP officers has intimidated a number of immigrant families seeking refuge. The presence of BP led a volunteer today who was registering evacuees to turn away undocumented individuals because the volunteer presumed that the evacuees would be in danger of apprehension, especially following an incident yesterday (described below). She did not communicate this to those turned away. She simply turned them away from the only open evacuation center in the county.

HERE’S A TREAT: NEIL YOUNG’S ANTI-WAR SONGS

SING ALONG WITH HARRY SHEARER DOING: WATERBOARDING USA

Talk to me. It gets a bit lonely unless and until, you share your input with me. Anyone see Norman Podhoretz on Jim Lehrer last night pump for war on Iran. Pathetic. Put his pedantic posturing on more and the neo-cons are a goner.

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