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U.S. of A. – Sep. 2, 2005
Blogging 30 minutes of the WWL TV feed:
St. Bernhard attorney by telephone
St. Bernard parish – 6000 rescued by boat through local authorities – shelters have roof damage and window damage – no food, no water, no help seen, no helicopters, national guard came by, left, never heard of again – parish offcials have had no contact with FEMA at all.
Live a reporter of WWL TV at I10 staging point
I10 – several thousands on I10 for 4 to 2 days – many more under the I10 – finally have water and food, first busses just arrived – medevac by heli for few, but more come IN by heli from roof rescues – yesterday 5 died there – 10 portapoties unusable – people live on couple of inches of human waste – people don´t know where helis are flying too – 1000 childrens in the sun – one albino baby in the sun – state police there doesn´t understand why there is no more help – they are passing out food, they are passing out water, but thats all – when the helis start or land they blow the filth all over the thousands standing around
Interview with LSU scientist
Catastrophy playing exactly like we thought it would happen. FEMA took so long, they knew, we talked about this. We knew the levees would blow for years. We have highly contaminated water in NO – where will we pump it? Also the debris will stuck all pumps, we talk about months to take the water out.
We don´t know if an epedemic is forming because we don´t have medical surveilance. We should have refugees camps by now, tent cities.
We will see increase in suicides, alcoholics, drug addictions, prostitution – people need consoling.
We expected in planing that law enforcement officials would have to come in first – we expected desperate violence – we expected fleets of helicopters on day one – we are at day five and some are coming now – if 80% evacuated we still have 300,000 in wider NO – they are getting about 10,000 per day out now.
My personal updated estimates:
– 1,800,000 homeless people for the next 6 to 12 month
– 50,000 – 80,000 dead
– 250,000 in medical condition
– -3% on US total GDP by end of the year
Maybe you understand now how they passed Patriot Act only 11 days after 9/11, a legal tome nearly 500 pages thick, that no Senator read. Also, why the CIA is being dismantled and their black ops budget folded into Rumsfeld’s bag of tricks for assassins and disappearers, with no oversight. And why FEMA disappeared into Homeland “Defense”, and then all those Federal budgets went secret, for your eyes only, an end to FOIA disclosure.
Where the hell has our $400,000,000,000 gone?! In
$1M bales of shrink-wrapped newly minted $100’s,
handed out like some cocaine cartel drug dealer.
9/11, the buildup to, and the aftermath, was a para-military action to save the US banks. That wasn’t your money they were protecting. Average Americans lost $10 TRILLION of their savings as the Clinton era ended and Bush II came to power.
Just ask yourself! Why would the entire Federal government go into a top secret lockdown mode?
Hell, the Russians have our space shuttle design, and the Chinese have our H-bomb design. There’s probably not two secrets you could rub together that aren’t known to the Israeli’s, the Chinese or the Russians in some form or other.
So what’s the big deal, Special Compartmentalized Information Lifestyle Polygraph thing all about?
It’s about making America over into Whitey-land.
That may shock you, you may react in denial, but look at Israel from its humble humanist beginning to radical Zionism, Ariel Sharon, and especially Netanyahu running now as a super-Zionist.
Radical, white Baptist fundamentalist Neo’s.
Face facts! There are a whole lot of blatantly racist American white people, well-off, rich, and especially truly wealthy white people, who don’t work for a living and like to have servants. They love their $2M birthday parties and $3M weddings.
They happen to be in power. Not just in power, but in Power, now owning all three branches of US government, all of Fortune 500 and Wall Street.
They own almost everything you can see, touch, taste, smell or feel. They couldn’t care less about New Orleans. They will, common sense will tell you, bulldoze those tar paper shacks, use an ruse of, Where are your title papers? and Here, I’ll give you $1,000 to settle your claim, eminent domain, and then the developers will seize whole neighborhoods for gentrification.
Isn’t that a beautiful word, ‘gentrification’?
Rolls off the tongue so much more nicely than ‘apartheid’. And soon there will be wonderful townhouses and elegant brownstones and stately mansions, and they will all be owned by rich whites, Saudi princes, wealthy Chinese, and Russian mobsters. New Orleans v. Las Vegas II.
Ask yourself! What could FEMA even *possibly* be spending $500,000,000 a day on!!! The World Trade Center complex, you recall, is $2,000,000,000 to replace! FEMA is “spending” as much *every day* as the huge Orange County Justice Center cost to build! They are “spending” as much every week as the World Trade Center complex costs to rebuild.
But then where the hell is FEMA?! They’re not rebuilding the levies! They’re not paying the troops, helicopters and armored vehicles! Buses and water bottles cost $500,000,000 a day? Huh?
Why is it so hard for people to accept they are being brutally raped by this Red Army in power?
What genetic defect took us from a rowdy crew
of don’t-tread-on-me fighting frontiersmen, and reduced US to such sniveling limp dick cowards?
“Oh, King George would never do that. He has our best interests at heart! He loves black people, he even has one in his Cabinet! He wears that American flag lapel pin and goes to church every Sunday. Look, it’s not his fault we are under attack, and the whole world hates US! Our taxes are going to keep America strong, wherever it is that they are, I mean, going. Stay the course!”
If you met someone on the street talking like that in the 1970’s, you’d call them a strung-out speed-freak junkie. But that’s how our pundits and spinners talk to US today! And we buy it! Our taxes are sure as hell not going to New Orleans, and we just got another $10,200,000,000 poorer!
When the sheriff serves your bankrupcy notice and moves what’s left of your crap out onto the curb, and you’re sitting there with your water bottle, wondering where you’re going to hitchhike to that still offers living wage, will you wake up then?
The majority of US are all flat, busted, broke!
Unlike the Chinese government, and most of the developed world’s governments, here in America, you either work, pay the piper, or you *die*.
This wasn’t Anti-9/11. This was Revenge of 9/11.
Posted by: Clarence Thomis | Sep 3 2005 6:26 utc | 34
International opinion is scathing, harsh…Of course everyone wants to think they could do better…and the US is in the dog house…
Part of the ‘doing better’ part is simply being honest, and admitting to problems when they exist.
The image is of a country that pretends to be ‘First-World’.
It appears that the technological expertise, the astronomical military expenditures, the impressive communication systems, the large and well funded Government, the vaunted Democracy, the richness of the people, the legendary entrepreneurship and inventiveness of the US, is not sufficient to drop water, biscuits or rations, medecines, on some tens of thousand people -or even more- in one of their own cities.
Parachutes aren’t only for people.
Sirens cost nothing and are very useful.
What is more disturbing, is that in catastrophes, solidarity works, people come together, act cooperatively. In most W countries, they do so under the aegis of the State, or ‘affiliated’ organisms, etc.
Looking at the blogosphere, the Blues are blaming Bush and the Gvmt. and the Reds are stressing that the situation is exceptional, BushCo are doing all they can, etc.
The US is a divided society that prefers to focus on partisan divisions, quarrel vociferously, behind the blank anonimity of screens, the jitter and chatter of TV, or the protection of ‘free speech’ in the community – they talk more about Media bias than about facts, are completely immune to common sense.
They don’t understand that they have been turned into individal consumers, the rootless, shiftless, despairing ‘rich’, demographic numbers in a table, machines that can eat, must work and must buy, to serve their masters. That they are being led by the nose and that their caring and compassion is a hollow joke — in its effectiveness – of course it is heartfelt — they cannot understand. Or if they understand it, they can do nothing but must pretend that insult and agitation and death threats confer on them some glorious kudos, some badge of personhood, status, determination.
My feeling is that even in deepest darkest Africa, in Iraq, people are not so stupid. They even understand that ethnic allergy or strife (which is not racism, a 19th cent. EU invention) is but one part of the landscape. That is is shifting, it can change, it is built on sand…a cynical eyebrow can put paid to all that…
(bit of a rant, I’m angry.)
Posted by: Noisette | Sep 3 2005 18:49 utc | 47
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