Subway, Among Others, Sponsors 9/11 Exploitation Party
The Pentagon would hold a massive march and country music concert to mark the fourth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an announcement tucked into an Iraq war briefing today.
"This year the Department of Defence will initiate an America Supports Your Freedom Walk," Rumsfeld said, adding that the march would remind people of "the sacrifices of this generation and of each previous generation".
The march will start at the Pentagon, where nearly 200 people died on September 11, 2001, and end at the National Mall with a show by country star Clint Black.
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http://www.buyblue.org/node/545 9/11 Recovery Loans Mismanaged
The government promised banks a hands-off approach in overseeing nearly $5 billion in Sept. 11 recovery aid to small businesses. What it got in return was numerous loans to companies that didn't need terror relief — or even know they were getting it, The Associated Press found.
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Many loans went to local outlets of some of America's most famous and lucrative companies.
For instance, more than 100 Dunkin' Donuts, Subway and Quiznos franchises across the country got loans. So did 14 Dairy Queens. Gordie Barnes, who received a $1.49 million loan to buy the Williams Garden Center in New Bern, N.C., said the previous owners had mentioned that business was dropping off, but not necessarily because of the attacks. "It would be a very big stretch of the imagination to figure out how this store would be impacted by those wackos who flew their planes into the Twin Towers," he said. Leslie Bair used a $396,000 loan approved in January 2002 to purchase a recreational vehicle campground in Inglis, Fla. "I would hate to think that my money took money away from somebody else who needed it," she said.
Of the 19,000 loans approved by the two programs, fewer than 11 percent went to companies in New York City and Washington, an AP computer analysis showed. Thousands of businesses far from the devastation simply submitted short applications that linked their slow business to the widespread economic fallout caused by Sept. 11, and got loans. For instance:
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