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They're having to stack the dead bodies . . .
Trapped in New Orleans
I was seriously hoping that I would not have to write this article. But it has been too long now, and I have to say something. Regardless of whether the deaths en masse of poor black folks in New Orleans is due to neglect or maliciousness, the end result is constructively a genocide on poor blacks in America, right now, in 2005. The lack of aid to New Orleans at this late hour (7 pm, Sept. 1) is not explicable. I have only one explanation that I can muster up. And that explanation is classism and racism.
"The river rose all day,
The river rose all night. Some people got lost in the flood, Some people got away all right. The river have busted through clear down to Plaquemine: Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline. "Louisiana, Louisiana, They're trying to wash us away, They're trying to wash us away." -- Randy Newman, Louisiana 1927
ok,
if this is how FEMA / Homeland Security / whatever is supposed to "prepare" for or "effectively respond" to a ****natural**** disaster -
In the midst of all of this pain and misery, the media and the authorities have decided that the central story now is the looting and "lawlessness" that are taking place around the city.
The New Orleans Indymedia center is now back online and offering information on the disaster and updates about the relief efforts.
There was no way to stop Hurricane Katrina, but the chaos, suffering and death that resulted from this storm WAS preventable. Why didn't the government organize massive and systematic evacuation? Why weren't the levees maintained? Why were so many people left to fend for themselves?
impeach bush
For the good of what is left of the nation, George W. Bush must go.
crazy, crazy. Bush thought that funding the Iraq war and tax cuts were more important than funding the Southeast Louisiana Flood control project, which would have improved the levee and pump system in New Orleans. The article says,
"The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain."
Some observations are made about the relevance of US crony capitalism and the breakdown of community and social solidarity in hypercapitalist postmodern America, and the recent devastation sparked by Hurricane Katrina on the Louisiana and Gulf coasts.
The Reverend Pat Robertson, heavyweight mullah of God's Own Party, often invokes hurricanes and other acts of God as evidence of the truth of his damnation of various sinners. Once again, another hurricane strikes just in time to prove the Reverend right -- this time, about President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, whom Pat has issued a fatwa against for being a "dangerous Communist" controlling "a huge pool of oil."
Yes, it's decision time. Energy costs will tip the balance between "global" economy and "Local" economy.
Real fuel conservation is needed to avoid shortages affecting rescue efforts!
Repent America issued a press release yesterday blaming Hurricane Katrina on the sinful ways of the city of New Orleans.
... Or have a natural disaster fester into civil conflict and race wars!
Why can't I find where Cheney is?
Need help organizing a protest action to ensure the victims of Hurricane Katrina are rescued and supported.
This repulsive press release was sent out by these lunatics. Please flood them with emails (cc: to the White House) telling them just how unacceptable and unchristian this press release is.
Christopher Hitchens, the scourge of the late Mother Teresa of Calcutta, is at it again! The ex-Lefty has written a rant defending the indefensible - the Iraqi War! His main point: Saddam Hussein was a thug, so therefore the Iraqi war was justified. The Straussian Neocon, however, got it wrong! Under International Law, regime change isn't a legal cause for a war. This is why Bush and his poodle, Blair, had to "fix" the intelligence around the policy.
There seems to be an MO for how this White House handles urban crises: let the place descend into chaos and anarchy and only then go in. Could there be method to this madness?
"The river rose all day,
The river rose all night. Some people got lost in the flood, Some people got away all right. The river have busted through clear down to Plaquemine: Six feet of water in the streets of Evangeline. "Louisiana, Louisiana, They're trying to wash us away, They're trying to wash us away." -- Randy Newman, Louisiana 1927
Craigslist is being used by people all over the US to offer help to refugees of Hurricane Katrina. Maybe you can offer help too. Check it out!
Citgo, a subsidiary of Petroleos de Venezuela, SA (PDVSA), will be selling gasoline at subsidized rates in the US, courtesy of President Hugo Chavez -- in order to ease the impact of the hurricaines on the Gulf Coast, and reduce the effects of predatory profiteering by US energy companies.
Do you remember 9/11?(Sure you do) Remember how the media talked about nothing else for over a month++?
Eat shit, Bill!
Anarchist Action is calling for a revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Convergence Against the War in San Francisco on Sep. 24 - take the streets to resist the war and the system behind it! As long as there is capitalism - and the state to support it - this perpetual state of war, racism, sexism, and xenophobia will continue.
"The religious fundamentalist gave the American superpower's mission character to the megalomaniac worldview. Its soldiers bring freedom everywhere as "the gift of almighty God for all people of this world, not as America's gtift.."
Stories from times spent in and around New Orleans with a science twist.
If Bush hadn't sent everyone off to war and blown the budget on the military, there'd have been stronger dykes in New Orleans and more troops and equipment to help with the rescue effort.
The great lie that is the war on terrorism has just taken a very serious blow. A category 5 hurricane named Katrina.
Now we know why the Commander-in-Thief is rushing back to DC from his 5 week vacation...damage control.
Hurricane "Katrina" hit the central Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, causing devastation. When the Army Corps of Engineers had asked for additional funding to protect the New Orleans region from flooding, the Bush-Cheney Gang said, "No!" Meanwhile, the Neocon-inspired Iraqi War continues to waste hundreds of billions of dollars of our nation's resources. Isn't it time for the American people to wake-up and take action to restore the Republic?
Bush has no rights to sit in any chair or office--except perhaps the electric chair. He stole both 2000 and 2004. He is an illegitimate narcissistic dictatorial twit. Feeney has no rights to even be in the Congress, he should be arrested as well. Plus, Feeney's Florida network connects with a Chinese spy network in the USA. In the past five years, a coterie of traitors has hijacked both the Republican party as well as U.S. democracy, destroyed the whole U.S.A. Constitution and Bill of Rights, taken the U.S. into two wars on false pretenses, has been involved in countless financial crimes and war profiteering crimes...what are you waiting for?!
4:30 minute video. About two thousand people converged in Crawford for the "Cindy (Sheehan) Doesn't Speak for Me" rally Saturday. However, in a odd turn of events, and despite repeated pleadings that "we are on your side, we are on the right," the rally turned on conservative youth "Protest Warriors."
Not like more evidence is needed as to how racist, sexist, classist, and sexualist the corporate media is, but these AP, Reuters, and AFP photos attribute "looting" flooded grocery stores to non-white people, while white people miraculously "find" whole lots of cool stuff at flooded grocery stores. Go figure.
In a lengthy process involving a great many activists in Canada and the US, the "Declaration on the Principles of Parks" was discussed, drafted, revised and rewitten multiple times. The end product, currently endorsed by 73 Canadian and US environmental groups, is being released this morning for general review and signon.
Since July 1 of this year, political prisoner and AIM warrior Leonard Peltier (Lakota/Anishinabe) has been moved from three different correctional facilites.
On Friday September 2nd, Peter will plead guilty in Federal Court to two counts of animal enterprise terrorism charges. He is expected to receive the maximum sentence of 2 years.
The great lie that is the war on terrorism has just taken a very serious blow. A category 5 hurricane named Katrina.
"The US economy grows but depends on the rest of the world suplying billions of dollars of more goods to the US every year than come from the US.. This will not last forever.."
"Brains are not only washed but spin-dried. Soldiers become murder machines or professional killers..The Bush cavemen are firmly convinced they are liberating their victims. Hitler was also convinced he`liberated' Czechoslovakia.."
by Jeffrey Steinberg
Those left behind fend for themselves
It seems that Republicans are placing climate scientists under "unprecendented scrutiny" in an attempt to instill of climate of fear similar to the Mc Carthy trials.
"These doors were locked by order of the Port Authority of New York . . . in part because of concerns about suicides, daredevil stunts and possible theft or vandalism of the MILLIONS OF DOLLARS worth of broadcasting equipment on the roof." NIST Report - "The 2003 code does not intend roof access to be used for evacuation and has no prohibition on locking this access." (p 26/80)
A photographer and journalist rides along with the troops in Mosul.
Fuck the GAP! Fuck the fat-ass tourists! Finally some of that $$ going to local people who can use it.
Welcome to the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation, a national assembly initiated by President George W. Bush through an executive order aimed at strengthening conservation partnerships with states, tribes, and local communities and promoting citizen stewardship of our natural and cultural resources.
St. Louis, Missouri August 29 - 31, 2005
C-SPAN has now set some times and dates for airing the event.
August 31 They will air on C-SPAN from 8:00 pm to 11:30 pm on Wednesday, August 31 And on Friday, September 2 from 8:00 pm to 1:00 am. It is broken into two parts as described below:
Anti-War America
Todd Gitlin August 30, 2005 Todd Gitlin (toddgitlin.net) contributes regularly to TPMcafe.com and is the author of The Intellectuals and the Flag, forthcoming from Columbia University Press. There come moments in the course of all movements when they go mainstream, despite the best efforts of their enemies to demonize them and of their most radical elements to purify them. Such a moment has probably arrived in the case of the current anti-war effort. But pitfalls also loom.
Taft is the first governor in Ohio history to be charged with misdemeanor ethics violations. His no contest plea opens a new chapter in Ohio politics.
Was Hurricane Katrina Contrived Via Scalar Manipulation? Was it Created as a Distraction? Before you write the idea off as insane, read this......
Islamic Relief Initiates Urgent Appeal for Victims of Hurricane Katrina Disaster
Responding to the worst storm in the southern United States in thirty years, Islamic Relief has initiated an appeal to help the victims of the floods caused by Hurricane Katrina. Islamic Relief USA 1919 W Magnolia Blvd Burbank, CA 91506 (888) 479-4968  http://www.irw.org/
 info@irw.org
Tax ID#: 95-4453134
"I BELIEVE the government has just successfully proved that any seaman recruit has reasonable cause to believe that the wars in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, and Iraq were illegal." This statement, which could easily be mistaken for an indymedia editorial, sprang from the lips of Lt. Commander Robert Klant, the military judge presiding over the recent court-martial of GI resister Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Pablo Paredes.
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