Morons, this is the worst disaster in US history!!

has already completely forgotten about this?

aside from the human and socio-economic impact of the storm - which they seem to still be covering fairly consistently -

there has also been extensive mention in the U.S. corporate media stories about how thin the margin of U.S. oil and gasoline supplies are, specifically in relation to what Katrina did to refineries and oil refining capacity, along with oil reserves, import terminal capacity, offshore rigs, etc.

(it's even more pertinent to Joe Sixpack with U.S. gasoline prices at their current level . . .)

not that any of this matters to a bunch of flag-stickered, TV-addled, Bu$hit-worshiping, McDonalds-guzzling, Wal-Mart shopping, child-porn loving "Christian Fundamentalists" who really do now make up the "mainstream" of Amerika.

I feel devastated by what is happening. It all sounds so haphazard in the recovery. People being told one place to go, and then told to go back where they were. Where are the National Guard troops? How are they getting the people out? What's happening in the Superdome? It makes me sick.

How about Portland offering the Rose Garden, Memorial Colisium and the Convention Center? If the feds or Navy could ship them to the Portland docks, we could take them in. I'd come help!

This is indeed the worst situation, and we're more interested in taking over Iraq. We can't even deal with our own decently.

Who Opened The
New Orleans Floodgates?
By Paul Joseph Watson/Alex Jones
9-1-5


As the federal government takeover of New Orleans continues and the helpless masses beg the state for refuge and assurance, the media is ignoring the key fact that it was the federal government itself that lowered the guard in cutting off key funding to protect Louisiana from natural disasters.

The New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers bore the brunt of a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding for fiscal year 2006.

The Bush administration has been cutting funding for federal disaster relief funds since 2001 while doubling funding in other areas to pump up the biggest growth in government for decades, easily outstripping that of Bill Clinton.

A report from the Best of New Orleans news website outlines the details.

"...Among emergency specialists, 'mitigation' -- the measures taken in advance to minimize the damage caused by natural disasters -- is a crucial part of the strategy to save lives and cut recovery costs. But since 2001, key federal disaster mitigation programs, developed over many years, have been slashed and tossed aside. FEMA's Project Impact, a model mitigation program created by the Clinton administration, has been canceled outright. Federal funding of post-disaster mitigation efforts designed to protect people and property from the next disaster has been cut in half. Communities across the country must now compete for pre-disaster mitigation dollars."

The Bush administration's move to merge FEMA with Homeland Security meant that the two had to compete for funding. Straightforward projects that would have massively reduced the devastation we are now seeing, such as raising houses, were cast aside in favor of anti-terrorism measures.

And since the Bush administration has become renowned for its open border policies, the argument that the money was directed towards the real threats facing America is a hollow excuse.

Much of the Netherlands lies below sea level and after the 1953 flood which killed 1,800 people, the Dutch launched a major flood prevention program called the Delta Plan. Engineers fortified dykes and bolstered other water defenses against a future disaster and there hasn't been one since.

Had a similar project been in place for New Orleans and had Bush not cut the funding, the misery and turmoil being visited on that area would have been avoided.

 link to prisonplanet.com

great:

'not that any of this matters to a bunch of flag-stickered, TV-addled, Bu$hit-worshiping, McDonalds-guzzling, Wal-Mart shopping, child-porn loving "Christian Fundamentalists" who really do now make up the "mainstream" of Amerika.'

... New Orleans was clearly Bush's fault, and it was not under Bush's control.

"There were not enough helicopters to repair the breached levees and rescue people trapped by rising water. Nor are there enough Louisiana National Guardsmen available to help with rescue efforts and to patrol against looting."
 http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=7131

"In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq war."
 link to www.salon.com

"The levees that collapsed were the ones the canceled funds were intended to strengthen. Bush cut all those funds to help pay for his war in Iraq, a war started with lies. [...] Bush has, through incompetence, wrecked a major US city just as thoroughly as any terrorist could ever hope to do."
 http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/new_orleans_bush.html

"They have M-16s, and they're locked and loaded," Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said of 300 National Guard troops who landed in New Orleans fresh from duty in Iraq. "These troops know how to shoot and kill, and they are more than willing to do so, and I expect they will."

 link to www.baltimoresun.com

Forget what you hear on CNN and Fox, the worst disaster in U.S. history hands down was the Spanish Influenza epidemic 1918. It killed over half a million (650,000!!) Americans here, more than 4 years of the Black Plauge in the Middle Ages.
That's quite a bit more important than 911. Read it and weep, folks.

 http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/flustat.html
 http://www.stanford.edu/group/virus/uda/

Now on to politics. We all know Bush fixed the 2002 election when the CEO of Diebold guaranteed his 'top secret' voting tabulator would generate the results Bush wanted no matter how we voted. Anyone who thinks the new electronic voting with no paper reciepts, or public access to the voting databases is a real democracy, is high on oil fumes.

And when Halburton comes down to N.O. for the "recovery" and is charging $30 an hour in Federal money, and paying illegal immigrants $6 and pocketing the rest, well, you get the picture of what's out there. Subscribe to whatever political religion you like and bellow away, but I see rich people getting richer, basic rights getting trampled, Constituion eroding, and poor people getting scammed. I imagine at our pace in about 10 years we will all be working at WalMart, paying Bush's buddies $100.00 a gallon for gas and living in a land kind of like the end of the "The Lorax" by Dr. Suess. That is all.......let the blazing light of truth sink into your skulls and perhaps open your eyes................signing out..............