Why So Few First Responders in New Orleans? They're in Iraq!
Washington's perverse imperial priorities -- wage war abroad first, protect Americans at home later -- exacerbated the tragic impact of Hurricane Katrina…
Nature’s assault on the Gulf Coast was, in some ways, comparable to a strike by a tactical nuclear weapon. The toxic wake to be left by receding floodwaters will create a public health catastrophe larger than most conceivable bio- or chemical weapons attacks. Added to this is the breakdown of civic order in New Orleans and elsewhere in the region. Grave as the crisis would be even in the best of times, the absence of First Responders deployed to Iraq threatens to turn it into an unprecedented calamity…
Full article at http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_2136.shtml
Already President Bush is talking about rebuilding those areas destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. As far as I know the FedGov can initiate rescue operations, and also restore those FedGov facilities that were destroyed. But for it to spend any funds at all to restore privately owned buildings or businesses is illegal under the Constitution of the United States. Neither the President nor Congress has any semblance of authority to appropriate public money as an act of charity. In fact, the Constitution doesn’t even define charity. Congress is granted power by the Constitution to do certain prescribed things. It is authorized to collect and pay money to do these things, and nothing else. Anything beyond this is usurpation, and is a violation of the Constitution. The responsibility of the President in this situation is only see to the proper execution of the decisions of Congress.
For the Constitution to be worth anything, it must be held sacred, and rigidly observed in all its provisions. At this time in the history of our country, the Constitution is certainly no threat to the whims of most of our elected officials. To be honest with ourselves, we might as well formally repeal or at least revise it before the United Nations imposes on us its own constitution, which I understand is already in the works. Americans no longer deserve the freedoms it affords us.
The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is one of the most dangerous powers that can be entrusted to man. Persons who wield such power and misinterpret it either do not have the ability to understand the Constitution, or are wanting in the honesty and firmness to be guided by it.
French Quarter Holdouts Create 'Tribes'
In the absence of information and outside assistance, groups of rich and poor banded together in the French Quarter, forming "tribes" and dividing up the labor.-AP
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050904/D8CDMM700.html
Katrina and the Economy...
Banks Give Reprieve to Stricken Homeowners
With tens of thousands of homeowners in four states displaced by Hurricane Katrina, some banks and finance companies are allowing customers to forgo monthly mortgage payments for 90 days without incurring late fees or other penalties. This forbearance, as the industry calls it, is also being extended by some banks to home equity lines, credit card balances and student and auto loans.-AP http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/02/D8CCCMNG0.html
Will Katrina Curb Economic Growth?
The physical and psychological damage caused by Hurricane Katrina is likely to reverberate across the global economy in ways that will curb growth well into 2006, economists say.-AP http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/04/D8CDNIU04.html
Grim Outlook for 4 Gulf Coast Refineries
The U.S. refinery system struggled back Sunday from Hurricane Katrina, with two storm-shuttered facilities restarting and flows of crude oil improving enough to allow refineries in the Gulf Coast and Midwest to ramp up production. But four damaged Gulf Coast refiners look likely to remain shut for weeks or even months, taking with them more than 5 percent of U.S. capacity.-AP
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/04/D8CDPPA80.html
Katrina to Slow Economy, Boost Housing Sector
Swathes of U.S. Gulf Coast homes destroyed by Hurricane Katrina scar the region's landscape, but eventual rebuilding will stoke an already torrid national housing market, economists say.-FOX News http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168381,00.html
Cargill Says Grain Exports Halted on Mississippi After Katrina
Cargill Inc., the world's largest agricultural company, was forced to halt shipments from its four grain terminals in Louisiana after flooding from Hurricane Katrina led the U.S. Coast Guard to ban ocean-going vessels. Panamax-class ships used for exports have been barred from entering the Mississippi River, preventing grain from leaving the Port of New Orleans, said David Feider, a spokesman for Wayzata, Minnesota-based Cargill. The U.S. is the world's largest exporter of corn and soybeans, and the nation's farmers will begin harvesting this year's crop during the next month.-Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000103&sid=a5macWMmbw.U&refer=us
New Orleans: A Geopolitical Prize
All of the rivers flowed into one -- the Mississippi -- and the Mississippi flowed to the ports in and around one city: New Orleans. It was in New Orleans that the barges from upstream were unloaded and their cargos stored, sold and reloaded on ocean-going vessels. Until last Sunday, New Orleans was, in many ways, the pivot of the American economy.-Stratfor.com
http://www.stratfor.com/news/archive/050903-geopolitics_katrina.php
Thank God for Katrina, those gaming boats in Mississipi are gone and all the wickedness that goes on in New Orleans will holt for a good while. The sodomites will have to find another place to have their "southern decadence" activities. We live down here and the LORD wiped Pensacola beach out with hurricane Ivan because Pensacola allowed the sodomites to come and have their unclean activites for the Memorial Day week each year. They moved to the Navare Beach area and the LORD wiped that beach out with hurricane Dennis (which is spelled sinned backwards.) This also coincides with the pressure the U.S. put on the Israeli government to move the Jews out of Gaza and give Israeli land over to Arabs. That is a big no-no in Gods eyes...
Praise the LORD for Ivan, Dennis and Katrina! The catastrophes will keep moving west...
Re: "That is a big no-no in God's eyes." It's also a "big no-no," Jones, to make severe judgments like you just did. Judging is God's job, not ours. While I agree with you completely that wickedness should be stamped out, and the Lord often does intervene to bring a sudden halt to evil, with a tragedy as enormous and so many GOOD people affected by Hurricane Katrina, I don't know how you can feel comfortable stating so casually, "Thank God for Katrina." Other Americans, even visiting foreign tourists--good, decent people, not only the wicked--are hurting BADLY right now. How do you think they'll feel, Jones, when they stop by here and read your "Thank God for Katrina" heartless remark?
This is a time for sticking together, for helping the victims, their friends, their families to heal...to help hold our country, what's left of it, together. Jones, you've often given us many good posts here at these forums. That last post wasn't one of them.
Criminal Plot Underway in the New Orleans Swamp
By Kurt Nimmo
It is mighty suspicious the New Orleans "refugees" (as the corporate media call the Americans removed from the disease-ridden swamp left in the wake of Hurricane Katrina) are being relocated far and wide. Most of them will probably never return and will end up in ghettoes in Baton Rouge, Houston, and elsewhere (it appears Baton Rouge is being groomed as an expansive slum, since the rebuilt New Orleans will be a casino and tourist destination with time-share condos and luxury housing). It should be noted that the usual suspects will "remove debris" and supposedly "restore electric power" and "repair roofs" (an absurd declaration, considering many if not most of the homes in the New Orleans swamp will be condemned). "The Navy has hired Houston-based Halliburton Co.," the Houston Chronicle reported on September 1, well before the current effort to "rescue" and "evacuate" those not killed outright during the storm and afterwards, as Bush was on vacation and FEMA twiddled its thumbs, allowing as many residents as possible to die before people who actually have a conscience and are not neoliberal sociopaths began to scream and demand Bush be impeached for criminal negligence. "Halliburton subsidiary KBR will also perform damage assessments at other naval installations in New Orleans as soon as it is safe to do so," that is to say after the "refugees" have been relocated in distant slums. "FEMA privatized hurricane disaster recovery planning for New Orleans and Southeastern Louisiana. The firms that received the contract are big GOP contributors," writes Wayne Madsen. For some reason I am not surprised.
As for the hardy who have stayed behind, determined to rebuild their lives and city, expect the swamp of New Orleans to be declared a health hazard and the remaining residents (or poor and middle class residents with no stake in the new corporate Las Vegas on the Mississippi) to be removed by the National Guard and Army at gunpoint. "On the sixth day of disaster and despair, an urgent new problem erupted: disease. A suspected outbreak of dysentery compelled authorities in Biloxi, Miss., to hurriedly evacuate hundreds of people from a shelter. Medical experts have warned of epidemics sweeping through crowded, unsanitary shelters," reports Knight Ridder.
"By early Saturday morning, buses had evacuated most people from the frightening confines of the Superdome," notes al-Jazeera. "At the equally squalid convention centre, thousands of people began pushing and dragging their belongings up the street to more than a dozen air-conditioned buses, the mood more numb than jubilant." It is obvious the fiasco that was the Superdome -- in essence a prison where old people and babies died from neglect and gangbangers roamed free to terrorize, murder, and rape -- and the convention center are designated departure points for depopulating the ruined city. Abandoning people at these departure points -- sans water, food, or medical care -- was part of the psychological warfare plan: people are desperate to escape these two fetid and disease-ridden prisons and are thankful to be relocated, probably to never return. Most of them are unaware their homes will be bulldozed by Halliburton and the land sold for pennies on the dollar to corporate developers.
Since Bushzarro world is all about customizing reality for political reasons, chances are pretty good we will never know what happened in the wake of Katrina. "We can now report that the jamming of New Orleans' communications is emanating from a pirate radio station in the Caribbean," explains Madsen. "The noise is continuous and it is jamming frequencies, including emergency high frequency (HF) radios, in the New Orleans area. The radio frequency jammers were heard last night, stopped for a while, and are active again today.... However, we now have a new unconfirmed report that the culprit may be the Pentagon itself. The emitter is an IF (Intermediate Frequency) jammer that is operating south southwest of New Orleans on board a U.S. Navy ship, according to an anonymous source. The jamming is cross-spectrum and interfering with superheterodyne receiver components, including the emergency radios being used in New Orleans relief efforts.... A Vancouver, British Columbia Urban Search & Rescue Team deployed to New Orleans reported that their satellite phones were not working and they had to obtain other satellite phones to keep in touch with their headquarters and other emergency agencies in British Columbia." There are also rumors spreading on forums and blogs that troops are confiscating and destroying civilian cameras. Graphic photos are however surfacing on the internet, once again trumping the corporate media, handmaiden to Bushian crimes and cover-ups.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/050905criminalplot.htm
A City in Survival Mode
McCarthy, a tall, burly retired refrigerator mechanic with a booming voice who owns two 19th century houses on the border of the Garden District, has been chasing off looters showing up on touristy Magazine Street. So far, he has been successful, he said, because "I'm big, I'm angry, and they are just kids -- and I don't even have a gun." All the other residents on his block evacuated before the hurricane, but he stayed behind to protect the neighborhood. He is letting McEleney stay in his house, which he calls "Hotel Rwanda." "We need people with guns here!" he roared, walking down the eerily empty street and wielding his shovel like a lance. "Where are the people with guns?"-San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/09/04/MNG16EIE0K1.DTL&hw=vera+smith&sn=001&sc=1000
Lt. Gen. H. Steven Blum's Assessment Of The Guard/N.O. Situation
As long as there's one uniformed police officer in the city of New Orleans, we will send as many National Guard soldiers to augment, support and work in support of that lone law enforcement officer as necessary. So if hypothetically there's only one left, who's in charge? It's still that lone police officer supported by the National Guard in their role as military support to law enforcement.-Defense Dept. briefing
http://www.rense.com/general67/blum.htm
I live there Jake, I am one of them and I do thank God for Katrina!
Quote:Re: "That is a big no-no in God's eyes." It's also a "big no-no," Jones, to make severe judgments like you just did. Judging is God's job, not ours. While I agree with you completely that wickedness should be stamped out, and the Lord often does intervene to bring a sudden halt to evil, with a tragedy as enormous and so many GOOD people affected by Hurricane Katrina, I don't know how you can feel comfortable stating so casually, "Thank God for Katrina." Other Americans, even visiting foreign tourists--good, decent people, not only the wicked--are hurting BADLY right now. How do you think they'll feel, Jones, when they stop by here and read your "Thank God for Katrina" heartless remark?
Here is what God thinks of this situation:
Pr 1:25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind (hurricane); when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Jer 25:15 ¶ For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations (the United Nations), to whom I send thee, to drink it.
16 And they shall drink, and be moved, and be mad (they are mad in New Orleans), because of the sword that I will send among them.
17 Then took I the cup at the LORD'S hand, and made all the nations to drink, unto whom the LORD had sent me:
Jer 25:31 A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the LORD hath a controversy with the nations (the United Nations), he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the LORD.
32 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.
33 And the slain of the LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
THAT IS WHAT THE GOD OF LOVE SAID ABOUT IT...
Now, I am not "judging" anyone Jake, you are judging me! I am taking the LORD's side of the matter, you are taking the worlds side.
I AM JUST PRAISING THE LORD FOR HIS WONDEROUS WORK KATRINA! AMEN!
I am not on "the world's side," Jones, but I am on Americans' side--and the people of the Gulf Coast, be they black or white, good or evil--are still Americans. It was not my intention to try to judge you or anyone else, only to point out that your earlier remark sounded very unfeeling, considering the hurt and tragedy that so many innocent people are enduring right now. I responded to your first post because I felt it's important for Katrina victims browsing this forum to know that not all of us here feel as Jones does. Instead of "praising the Lord for his wonderous work," some of us here are praying for broken hearts to heal, for broken lives to mend, for those who must relocate to find jobs and for the Lord to help those whose lives have been shattered by the vicious Katrina.
America Wake Up
September 4, 2005
This was sent by my daughter and Katie is my granddaughter. Katie's dad (my daughter's ex-husband) is a career army officer who has finished two tours in Iraq. He began in Special Forces (Green Berets, at that time) and became a helicopter pilot although his last two tours were as a translator; among several other languages he speaks Arabic. He was also a life-long Republican so something shook him loose from his beliefs. He's a Colonel so he's privy to a bit of information.
D.S.
Katie just talked to her Dad. He told her he has been watching this thing unfold and he is totally disgusted, because as part of his job he knows the capability of the government to help these people. He knows how many helicopters the military has, and where they are, and what they are capable of, and they could have easily dropped water, food, etc. practically right away. He used the example of a Black Hawk helicopter saying it can conveniently hold 5,000 lb. of supplies, a Chinook can hold 27,000 lb of supplies conveniently, etc. He says he doesn't think it's that the gov't doesn't care about black and poor people, they just don't care about people at all. (Not the citizens, because we are all totally outraged.) Apparently he bases his opinion on the fact that he saw first-hand, while he was in Iraq, the US government did not care about their own soldiers in Iraq. I remember he came back totally disgusted with the military. He said it's all about politics and the honchos all stand around congratulating one another.
http://stevequayle.com/News.alert/05_Global/050906.Iraq.view.html
Why are you bringing up race? No one here is bringing up race, what does black or white have anything to do with it???
Quote:the people of the Gulf Coast, be they black or white, good or evil--are still Americans
Jake, Your posts sound like you cannot think outside of the box (glass toilet, the boob tube). The fourth estate is only for propaganda didn't you know that? The news media is only showing you what they want you to see, that is how they work, fear mongers, RACE instigators, etc... This is an alternative website with a publication that is not part of the mainstream media.
God gave you a good brain, you will have to stand before the judgement and answer for what you decide to believe, God or the fourth estate.
Please reread the scriptures above without predjudice.
I Thess. 5:18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Re: “This is an alternative website with a publication that is not part of the mainstream media.”
Rest assured, Jones, I am VERY familiar with this “alternative website with a publication that is not part of the mainstream media” and most appreciative of Joel’s work and ideas. Like you, Golfer, Ralph, Ted and the other regulars here, I’ve been a WAB subscriber for years.
Re: “Jake, Your posts sound like you cannot think outside of the box (glass toilet, the boob tube).” I wouldn’t know what’s on TV, Jones. Haven’t watched TV in years—don’t even waste money on cable TV and the like. I’m strictly a Net kind of guy. No interest in television at all.
Re: “The news media is only showing you what they want you to see, that is how they work, fear mongers, RACE instigators, etc...” On this statement we can definitely agree, Jones—as we have agreed on many other issues in the past when we’ve chatted in the WAB forum together for years back when Golfer called himself Shoots, and New Orleans still looked like America.
Thanks for the good wishes and Scripture verses, Jones. One can never have too many friends praying for one’s salvation and spiritual enlightenment or too much Scripture in one’s life, I’ve always believed.
Locating Hurricane Katrina Survivors
Below is a list of Web resources to help locate missing persons in the areas ravaged by Hurricane Katrina:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168455,00.html
The 'City' Of Louisiana
Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff said it all, starting his news briefing Saturday afternoon: "Louisiana is a city that is largely underwater..."
Well there's your problem right there. If ever a slip-of-the-tongue defined a government's response to a crisis, this was it… And most chillingly of all, this is the Law and Order and Terror government. It promised protection - or at least amelioration - against all threats: conventional, radiological, or biological. It has just proved that it cannot save its citizens from a biological weapon called standing water. http://www.rense.com/general67/city.htm
Australian Wonders -Is New Orleans Another Spin On 911?
Last night, our independent Australian SBS broadcast report from their own independent team on a hired boat in New Orleans. The report was radically different from what was reported by the BBC and the American TV networks… http://www.rense.com/general67/spin.htm
Note to Jones:
I don’t discredit all of WHAT you said in the first place—that God surely must be angry, that God does, indeed, punish wicked cities. I guess it was simply the WAY you said it that prompted my first response to your post. But here is an article worth looking at that takes Jones’ point a few steps further. I personally received this same eerie email (see the very bottom) from Barry Chamish, who compared Gaza and Katrina, right before the Katrina ordeal blew sky high.
I don’t disagree with Jones or Chamish that God works this way sometimes, but the Scriptures also tell us how sad the Lord feels when He must send harsh punishments down to earth. Is that not why or how He must have felt when He placed the rainbow in the sky following Noah and the flood? Here’s the article, dated Sept. 7, 2005:
Did God Send Katrina as Revenge over Gaza?
Eerie parallels between forced evacuations spark speculation.
While most religious authorities seem to agree one cannot discern the intentions of God, there has been talk in some circles here and on the Internet the storm that turned parts of the Gulf Coast into a disaster zone, prompting hundreds of thousands to evacuate their homes and possibly causing upwards of 10,000 deaths, was thrust upon the U.S. for its support of the Gaza evacuation.
"Katrina is a consequence of the destruction of [Gaza's] Gush Katif [slate of Jewish communities] with America's urging and encouragement," Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Lewin, executive director of the Rabbinic Congress for Peace, told WND. "The U.S. should have discouraged Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon from implementing the Gaza evacuation rather than pushing for it and pressuring Israel into concessions."
Lewin is one of many rabbis in Israel and abroad who have been making similar statements both in private and in speeches to their congregations.
Rabbi Joseph Garlitzky, head of the international Chabad Lubavitch movement's Tel Aviv synagogue, recounted for WND a pulpit speech he gave this past Sabbath:
"We don't have prophets who can tell us exactly what are God's ways, but when we see something so enormous as Katrina, I would say [President] Bush and [Secretary of State Condoleezza] Rice need to make an accounting of their actions, because something was done wrong by America in a big way. And here there are many obvious connections between the storm and the Gaza evacuation, which came right on top of each other. No one has permission to take away one inch of the land of Israel from the Jewish people."
Abraham, the biblical father of the Jews, received this promise from God in the book of Genesis: "I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed."
One week before Katrina made landfall, Israel carried out the evacuation of 9,500 residents from Gush Katif and four Samaria communities. Residents were forced from their homes by Israeli troops, some dragged away kicking and screaming and placed on buses that took them from the area. The majority of former Katif residents are currently homeless while the Israeli government struggles to find permanent housing solutions.
The Gaza withdrawal was backed by the U.S. government. Some Middle East analysts and senior Israeli politicians entirely attributed the evacuation plan to pressure coming from the American establishment.
"I welcome the disengagement plan," stated Bush immediately following the announcement of the Gaza evacuation. "These steps will mark real progress toward realizing the vision I set forth in June 2002 of two states living side by side in peace and security."
Now, Garlitzky and many others here and on the Internet are pointing to what they call eerie similarities between Katrina and the evacuation of Gush Katif, including parallels in events, names and numbers:
· Close to 10,000 Jews were expelled from their homes in the Gaza Strip and parts of northern Samaria. Katrina's death toll is now expected to reach at least 10,000.
· America's population ratio to Israel is about 50:1. Ten thousand Jews who lost their Gaza homes is the equivalent of about 500,000 Americans who are now reported to be displaced as result of Katrina.
· Gaza's Jewish communities were located in Israel's southern coastal region; America's southern coastal region now lies in ruins.
· The U.S. government called on Louisiana residents to evacuate their homes ahead of the storm. The Israeli government, backed by statements from U.S. officials, demanded Gaza residents evacuate their homes.
· Katrina, written in Hebrew, has a numerical equivalent of 374, according to a biblical numbering system upheld by all traditional Jewish authorities. Two relevant passages in the Torah share the exact numerical equivalent: "They have done you evil" (Gen. 50:17) and "The sea upon land" (Exodus 14:15).
· Bush, from Texas, and Rice, from Alabama, were the most vocal U.S. backers of the Gaza evacuation. Hurricane Katrina hit the states in between Texas and Alabama – Louisiana and Mississippi.
· Similarity in scenes: Many residents of Jewish Gaza climbed to their rooftops to escape the threat of expulsion, while residents of the Gulf Coast climbed on their own rooftops to protect themselves from the rising waters. Jewish Gaza homes described as beautiful and charming were demolished this week by Israel's military. Once beautiful homes in New Orleans now lie in ruins.
· The day Katrina hit, Israel began carrying out what was termed the most controversial aspect of the Gaza withdrawal – the uprooting of bodies from the area's Jewish cemetery. There have been media reports of corpses floating around in flooded New Orleans regions.
· Citizens of Israel were barred from entering Gush Katif; people were only allowed to leave Jewish Gaza. As Katrina was making landfall U.S. authorities barred citizens from entering the affected areas. People were only allowed out.
· Gush Katif was an important agricultural area for Israel, providing the Jewish state with 70 percent of its produce. A New Orleans port that exported much of the Midwest's agricultural production was destroyed by Katrina.
The connections have caused a firestorm of speculation on Internet blogs and in chat rooms.
In a Jerusalem Newswire op-ed discussing the similarities just before Katrina made landfall, writer Stan Goodenough commented, "Is this some sort of bizarre coincidence? Not for those who believe in the God of the Bible and the immutability of His Word. What America is about to experience is the lifting of God's hand of protection, the implementation of His judgment on the nation most responsible for endangering the land and people of Israel.
"While the 'disengagement' plan was purportedly the brainchild of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the U.S. has for more than a decade been the chief sponsor and propeller of a diplomatic process that has dangerously weakened Israel in the face of an overwhelming, growing threat to annihilate her. ... Can't you see the link, America? Won't you see the link?"
Another Newswire piece quoted a Christian Louisiana resident in Katrina's direct path as stating, "[The hurricane is] a direct 'coming back on us' [for] what we did to Israel: a home for a home."
A blog on TheRaphi.com by Mideast pundits Paul Eidelberg and Israel Hanukoglu linking Katrina to the Gaza evacuation warned, "We urge the American people to remind their president that the evil the nations do to Israel always strikes them. Pharaoh, Haman, Hitler and all the leaders of nations that have opposed the will of God for His people have perished or ended on the ash heaps of history."
Billye Brim, a Christian prayer leader and founder of Billye Brim Ministries who had visited Gush Katif weeks before its evacuation, noted on her website: "Is there a connection between [Katrina and Gush Katif]? I believe so. Is this judgment? I believe so. And I must say it. Outright! Many wont like to hear it. Many wont agree. But I believe America is in danger and something has to be done. ... America needs to repent. From Bush, Rice and the State Department on down. America must repent for actively opposing God's plan for Israel as revealed in His Word."
WorldNetDaily the past week has received numerous letters from readers urging a Katrina-Gaza connection.
One letter stated, " I think you all are dancing around the real cause of the hurricane. Let me suggest to you that it is the wrath of God on our nation because President Bush pressured Sharon to take the homes from the Jews. ... I knew we would be punished on a large scale. I faxed letters and contacted Bush every way I could begging him not to go forward with that plan to evacuate Gaza but he did so anyway, and as a result we were hit in a week with a hurricane that will make history."
Perhaps the first to publicly connect Katrina to the Gaza evacuation was famed Israeli conspiracy theorist Barry Chamish, who sent a mass e-mail noting, "GUsh is like GUlf, and KATif is like KATrina. If you take 'KAT' from KATif and KATrina, you are left with 'IF' and 'RAIN.' If you support Gush Katif evacuation, it will rain."
Chamish told WND yesterday: "Simple human beings cannot fully understand what is going on, but the events certainly must be connected. It's statistically impossible to have two such great natural disastrous like the recent tsunami in Asia and Katrina right after each other. This is the hand of God. He is saying something."
Jerusalem Kabbalist Rabbi David Batzri drew the parallel: "Divine retribution is meted out according to the principle of 'measure for measure,' just as the Jews were forced out of their homes as a result of U.S. pressure on Israel, so too are Americans being forced out of their homes."
But Rabbi Mordechai Greenwald, leader of a Jerusalem synagogue, said connections between the Gaza evacuation and Katrina should not be made.
"No rabbi can tell you why such a disaster struck," Greenwald told WND. "Doing so, making these statements, is dangerous and counterproductive. There have been debates the past 50 years for the reason of the Holocaust, and we still don't know what it was about. Some things we are not meant to know."
Greenwald said the religious leaders who publicly blame Katrina on U.S. support of the withdrawal "do not speak for the majority of rabbis. We cannot say who is being punished for what."
Meanwhile, some are urging the U.S. to ensure against what they say will be further damage in Gaza.
Lewin of the Congress for Peace told WND: "There are news reports that weather centers in the U.S. have predicted additional hurricanes on the way, some maybe even stronger than Katrina. Bush and Rice still have a chance to stem the tide of further punishment by at least pressing for Gaza not to be turned over to the Palestinians, which will allow terrorists to occupy the area that Israel evacuated. Although the damage of the destruction of Gush Katif was done, letting it serve as a terrorist base for al-Qaida and other anti-American and anti-Israeli groups will only bring more destruction and chaos in the region and the world over."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46178
Explosive revelation by Fox News' Major Garrett
On the Fox News Channel just a little while ago, Major Garrett, one of Fox's star reporters, and author of The Enduring Revolution, broke a very disturbing story for those on the left that want to play the blame game regarding the reaction to the Katrina. Here's his interview with Hugh Hewitt. http://www.radioblogger.com
Also...
A storm chaser and his hurricane hunting friends share their notes, photos, video clips, charts and new change of attitude at http://www.sky-chaser.com/kat05.htm
Police Begin Seizing Civilians' Guns
Local police officers began confiscating weapons from civilians in preparation for a forced evacuation of the last holdouts still living here, as President Bush steeled the nation for the grisly scenes of recovering the dead that will unfold in coming days.-New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/national/nationalspecial/09storm.html?hp&ex=1126324800&en=1b27db938424d6bd&ei=5094&partner=homepage
Is Forced Evacuation Legal?
A catastrophe such as Hurricane Katrina has shown how lines of authority can become blurred when it comes to handling an emergency. CNN spoke with a number of legal experts to discuss the law governing the removal of residents from New Orleans… Generally, "the police power of the state trumps an individual's right when there is a public health emergency."-CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/09/08/martial.law.qanda/index.html
White House Mulled Seizing Relief Mission in Gulf Disaster
As New Orleans descended into chaos last week and Louisiana's governor asked for 40,000 soldiers, President Bush's senior advisers debated whether the president should speed the arrival of active-duty troops by seizing control of the hurricane relief mission from the governor.-Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/08/AR2005090801862_pf.html
Political Issues Snarled Plans for Troop Aid http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/09/national/nationalspecial/09military.html?ei=5090&en=aa642b8c89c27c01&ex=1283918400&adxnnl=1&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&adxnnlx=1126238795-dGCl9WlaN8lbkCHBy9hw2w&pagewanted=print
Tales of Horror from New Orleans http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46234
FEMA Contractors Arrested for Looting
Three Texas truck drivers under contract with the federal government to bring in storm relief supplies for Plaquemines Parish have been arrested for allegedly looting toys, dolls, women’s lingerie and other merchandise from a Belle Chasse Family Dollar store, authorities said.
--Times-Picayune, Louisiana
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html
The U.S. is Completely Unprepared for Disasters Beyond New Orleans
America has become a nation of characters rather than a nation with character.- Richard Markland
http://stevequayle.com/News.alert/05_Cosmic/050909.US.no.prep.html
Astrodome Radio Station Blocked http://www.wired.com/news/hurricane/0,2904,68806,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_7
Powerful X-17 Solar Flare Erupts; Katrina Communications May Have Been Affected
http://standeyo.com/NEWS/05_Earth_Changes/050908.solar.flare.html
Gone with the Water
The Louisiana bayou, hardest working marsh in America, is in big trouble—with dire consequences for residents, the nearby city of New Orleans, and seafood lovers everywhere…
Flashback Article from 2004 National Geographic:
http://standeyo.com/NEWS/05_Earth_Changes/050904.gone.with.water.html
FEMA Nixes Grassroots Radio Station for Hurricane Evacuees
Although the effort was trumpeted in the media as an example of grassroots ingenuity in the face of disaster, local officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency have nixed an attempt by Houston activists to set up a low-power radio station at the Astrodome that would have broadcast Hurricane Katrina relief information for evacuees.-Village Voice http://villagevoice.com/news/0537%2Cferguson%2C67701%2C2.html
FEMA Director Relieved of Duties
Under criticism for alleged management failures and resume discrepancies, Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown has been relieved of his role as head of the response to Hurricane Katrina. Brown will be replaced by Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad W. Allen, who was overseeing relief and rescue efforts in New Orleans.-WorldNetDaily http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46249
Eight Big Lies About Katrina
In the past week, Bush administration officials and conservative commentators have repeatedly used the national media to spread misinformation about the federal government's widely criticized response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina…- Raphael Schweber-Koren and Jeremy Schulman,Media Matters for America
http://www.rense.com/general67/katlies.htm
Hurricane Simulation Predicted 61,290 Dead
Planners were working on yearlong project when storm hit – AP http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050909/D8CGRB7O1.html
Paying the Price for Katrina and America’s Shadow Government
Is FEMA’s broad security power really for national disasters? What is the real purpose of the massive underground bunkers? Why is FEMA unaccountable to our elected representatives? And do we really have a shadow government that answers to no one?- John W. Whitehead/The Rutherford Institute http://www.rutherford.org/articles_db/commentary.asp?record_id=357
Blackwater Mercenaries Deploy in New Orleans
Blackwater mercenaries are some of the most feared professional killers in the world and they are accustomed to operating without worry of legal consequences. Their presence on the streets of New Orleans should be a cause for serious concern for the remaining residents of the city and raises alarming questions about why the government would allow men trained to kill with impunity in places like Iraq and Afghanistan to operate here.-Truthout.org
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/091005A.shtml
Mississippi Guard Gets No Leave from Iraq
Scores of Mississippi National Guard troops in Iraq who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina have been refused even 15-day leaves to aid their displaced families, told by commanders there were too few U.S. troops in Iraq to spare them, according to members of the Mississippi Guard.-Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/10/AR2005091001255_pf.html
New Orleans Executives Plan Revival
New Orleans' business leaders and power brokers are concocting big plans, the most important of which is reopening the French Quarter in 90 days…Other schemes being discussed include staging a scaled-down version of Mardi Gras, scheduled to take place at the end of February 2006.-New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/business/10plan.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5065&en=db28443d0bd08bfa&ex=1126929600&adxnnl=1&partner=MYWAY&adxnnlx=1126350280-5JoT%20KLukXKghkmm/lAx8A
What Happened To The Three BSL 3 Germ Labs In New Orleans?
At the very least, there are two Level-3 biolabs in New Orleans and a cluster of three in nearby Covington. They have been working with anthrax, mousepox, HIV, plague, etc. There are surely other labs in the city.-The Memory Blog
http://www.thememoryblog.org/archives/000588.html
Bush Still Trying to Cut Funding for Agencies That Deal With Hurricanes
Even after requesting $60 billion for Katrina relief, the White House is trying to trim the regular budgets of U.S. agencies that track hurricanes and perform flood control.-Capitol Hill Blue
http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7365.shtml
Mexico, Holland Send Troops to Biloxi
Marines from Mexico, Holland and the U.S. are part of an international Hurricane Katrina cleanup effort building up on ships about 20 miles offshore in the Gulf of Mexico. Four Canadian ships are on the way.-The Sun Herald
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthsuperior/news/nation/12606201.htm
Bush Vows to Make Gulf 'More Vibrant'
President Bush vowed Saturday [Sept. 10, 2005] to make the Gulf Coast region "more vibrant than ever" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina but did not outline how much federal aid he expects to ultimately send to the region to assist in that effort. In his Saturday radio address, Bush pointed out the U.S. will send $52 billion for response and recovery efforts, and implied more help would be forthcoming to help victims in Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana -CBS MarketWatch
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BA01DA6AC%2D4A17%2D44D5%2D8489%2D41EE39A67221%7D&siteid=mktw&dist=
New Orleans Flood Map
Click on the map at the link below for water depth information. Use the controls in the upper left corner to zoom and pan the map. Water depths based on ground truthing on Tuesday September 6, 2005. Water depths reported are the average of a 100x100ft region around the point you click.
http://www.mapper.cctechnol.com/floodmap.php
For updates regarding the postal service areas affected by Hurricane Katrina, see:
http://www.usps.com/communications/news/serviceupdates.htm?from=bannercommunications&page=katrina
or http://www.usps.com/
For a few words from our current leaders:
25 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina And Its Aftermath
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/currentevents/a/katrinaquotes.htm
Business Owners May Return to New Orleans
Business owners in the central business district were issued passes into the city Monday to retrieve vital records or equipment needed to run their companies, as New Orleans slowly and painfully stirred back to life two weeks after being slammed by Katrina.-AP
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050912/D8CIPIMOA.html
We Had To Kill Our Patients
Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive…Euthanasia is illegal in Louisiana.-Daily Mail UK
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=361980
Rep. McKinney Special Order Censored???
I mentioned the word impeachment on the House Floor Thursday late afternoon, but I don't see it in the official Congressional Record transcript. I was chided by the Speaker that it was out of order to question the President's motives. I didn't question motives, I questioned actions: from lack of actions on Katrina to cutting the budget of safety net programs, to rewarding the rich to the detriment of all the rest of us. This transcript directly from the Congressional Record is mangled and omits that word!!!! I can't believe this.- Rep. Cynthia McKinney
http://www.rense.com/general67/specorder.htm
Mercenaries Guard Homes of the Rich in New Orleans
Hundreds of mercenaries have descended on New Orleans to guard the property of the city's millionaires from looters. The heavily armed men, employed by private military companies including Blackwater and ISI, are part of the militarization of a city which had a reputation for being one of the most relaxed and easy-going in America.-London Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0%2C16441%2C1567656%2C00.html
Matt Drudge http://www.drudgereport.com/ asks:
Where Did All The Dead Bodies Go? Official La. Toll at 197
Authorities raised Louisiana's death toll to 197 on Sunday, and recovery of corpses continued. Teams pulled an unspecified number of bodies from Memorial Medical Center, a 317-bed hospital in uptown New Orleans that closed more than a week ago after being surrounded by floodwaters.-AP
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050912/D8CIM1K80.html
Federal Response to New Orleans Was ‘Faster’ Than After Hugo and Andrew.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05254/568876.stm
Cover-Up: Toxic Waters ‘Will Make New Orleans Unsafe for a Decade'
Toxic chemicals in the New Orleans flood waters will make the city unsafe for full human habitation for a decade, a US government official has told The Independent on Sunday. And, he added, the Bush administration is covering up the danger.-Independent UK http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article311818.ece
Major Developments in Hurricane Aftermath
At least 2 suicides among evacuees, 55 others, mostly elderly, have died…
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/D8CKB4N0K.html
Bioweapons Defense Research Medical Labs Wiped Out By Hurricane
Katrina's Floodwaters
Years of Research Ruined in Katrina Flood
http://www.rense.com/general67/bio.htm
Ron Paul on Katrina Response
Rep. Ron Paul rightfully criticizes how the Federal Government responded to the Gulf Coast disaster. Furthermore, the Congressman questions the logic of granting FEMA nearly $52 billion when they have already "failed so spectacularly." http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul275.html
Out-of-State Gangs 'Invaded' N'Orleans
Well-organized, heavily armed, out-of-state street gangs from as far away as Memphis, Dallas and Miami invaded New Orleans during the Hurricane Katrina evacuation of the city and turned it into a "free-fire zone," said military analyst Col. David Hunt. Hunt made the charges on Fox News Channel's "O'Reilly Factor" last night, saying local police forces were unprepared, outgunned and overwhelmed.-WorldNetDaily
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46373
Agency Warns Buyers on Katrina Car Sales
In the market for a good used car? Watch out for vehicles that sat submerged for days in the flooded streets of New Orleans, Biloxi or other Gulf Coast cities ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.
Insurance companies usually purchase such vehicles from policyholders, declare them "totaled" and then sell them at auction to be resold for parts, many of which will still be suitable for use in other cars and trucks.
But some unscrupulous dealers and wholesalers buy flood-damaged cars at scrap prices, clean them up, retitle them and resell them. The vehicles may look good, but their electronics and safety systems are likely damaged - and threaten the safety of the new owners.
After virtually every major U.S. flood, the Better Business Bureau warns prospective used car buyers to be on the lookout for flood- damaged vehicles.
"You want to be extra cautious," said Ken Vender Meeden, president of the Grand Rapids-based Better Business Bureau of Western Michigan. "Unfortunately, deals that sound too good to be true for cars could include damaged goods. `Let the buyer beware' applies most readily in post-hurricane-type disasters."
When Hurricane Floyd struck Florida in 1999, an estimated 75,000 vehicles were ruined by floods and totaled by insurance companies, according to Carfax Inc., a Fairfax, Va.-based firm that performs background checks on used vehicles.
More than half of those cars and trucks, however, were resold to buyers unaware of the vehicles' past or uninformed about the extent of the damage caused by flooding, Carfax said.
Carfax estimates, based on information it has received from law enforcement and government authorities, that between 250,000 and 500,000 vehicles could have been damaged by flood waters generated by Katrina…
More “caveat emptor” tips at http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/16/D8CLHTAO3.html
44 Oil Spills Found in Southeast Louisiana
More than 500 specialists are working to clean up 44 oil spills ranging from several hundred gallons to nearly 4 million gallons, the U.S. Coast Guard said in an assessment that goes far beyond initial reports of just two significant spills.-MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9365607/
New Orleans: A New World Order Showcase
The media curtain has begun to fall on New Orleans but the questions continue. In hindsight we can see the whole fiasco for what it really was, a showcase for the suffering that some would like every American city to undergo.-Paul Joseph Watkins & Alex Jones/Prison Planet
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/150905nwoshowcase.htm
As New Orleans Flooded, Chertoff Discussed Avian Flu in Atlanta
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, the U.S. official with the power to order a massive federal response to Hurricane Katrina, flew to Atlanta for a previously scheduled briefing on avian flu on the morning after the storm swept ashore. Chertoff's decision to fly to Georgia for a business-as-usual briefing even as residents in New Orleans fought for their lives in rising floodwaters raises new questions about how much top officials knew about what was happening on the Gulf Coast and how focused they were on the unfolding tragedy. In fact, Chertoff didn't know for sure that New Orleans' life-preserving levees had failed until a full day had passed.- Knight Ridder
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12657190.htm
Cheney Ordered Power Back On To Pipelines Not Hospitals
Shortly after Hurricane Katrina roared through South Mississippi knocking out electricity and communication systems, the White House ordered power restored to a pipeline that sends fuel to the Northeast. That order - to restart two power substations in Collins that serve Colonial Pipeline Co. - delayed efforts by at least 24 hours to restore power to two rural hospitals and a number of water systems in the Pine Belt.-HattesburgAmerican.com
http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050911/NEWS05/509110304
Doctor Says FEMA Ordered Him to Stop Treating Hurricane Victims
In the midst of administering chest compressions to a dying woman several days after Hurricane Katrina struck, Dr. Mark N. Perlmutter was ordered to stop by a federal official because he wasn't registered with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.-Advocate/Rense.com
http://www.rense.com/general67/doctorsaysFEMAordered.htm
No Bankruptcy Relief for Katrina Victims
Survivors of Hurricane Katrina who were hoping to avoid the weight of the new bankruptcy law may be out of luck. Representative F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, has indicated he will not hold a hearing on waiving the law for purposes of disaster relief.-ConsumerAffairs.com
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/katrina_bankruptcy03.html
Parts of New Orleans to Open Next Week
In a big step toward restoring the pulse and soul of New Orleans, the mayor announced plans Thursday to reopen over the next week and a half some of the Big Easy's most vibrant neighborhoods, including the once-rollicking French Quarter. The move could bring back more than 180,000 of the city's original half-million residents and speed the revival of its economy, which relies heavily on the bawdy, Napoleonic-era enclave that is home to Bourbon Street, Mardi Gras, jazz and jambalaya.-AP
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050916/D8CL6NL09.html
New Orleans Mayor Defends Return Plan
Mayor Ray Nagin defended his plan to return up to 180,000 people to the city within a week and a half despite concerns about the short supply of drinking water and heavily polluted floodwaters.
Coast Guard Vice Adm. Thad Allen, head of the federal disaster relief effort, said Saturday that Nagin's idea is both "extremely ambitious and "extremely problematic."
But Nagin said his plan was developed in cooperation with the federal government and balances safety concerns and the needs of citizens to begin rebuilding.-AP
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050918/D8CML4P80.html
Same Pathogen In N.O. BioLab Shows Up In Evacuees
"I just heard a talk show host on WABC NY confirm that Mayor Nagin went to Dallas and purchased a new home for his family. He moved his family to Dallas and claims that he will live in New Orleans during the work week but the family will remain in Dallas where the children will go to school. Now what does that tell you about the safety of New Orleans? What does he KNOW that the public doesn't?" asks Dr. Patricia Doyle.-Rense.com
http://www.rense.com/general67/patho.htm
Eminent Domain And The New Orleans Land Grab
The disaster in New Orleans has created an opportunity for land speculators and developers alike, much in the way corporations see the third world.- Portland Indymedia.org
http://www.rense.com/general67/landgrab.htm
Nagin's CNN Katrina Warning Article Predicted Levee Failure
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said the storm surge would likely topple the levy system that protects the city. CNN is replacing and revising articles on Katrina. This first, original CNN article disappeared and was replaced by a edited version which you will see after the first.-Rense.com
http://www.rense.com/general67/nagin.htm
Eyewitness Report To Lack Of N.O. Mosquito, Bird Activity
Patricia Doyle, PhD believes that New Orleans is, at this time, void of mosquitoes and birds, and, at this time, WNV, EEE, St. Louis Encephalitis or other abrovirus won't be a great health risk. So, why commence a massive Naled pesticide attack on the people of N.O.? Their immune systems are stressed and they are medically vulnerable.-Rense.com
http://www.rense.com/general67/report.htm
Electricity Turned On In New Orleans Neighborhood For Bush, Turned Off When He Left
No more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness again, to audible groans, It's enough to make some of the folks here who witnessed it...jump to certain conclusions.-Brian Williams/MSNBC
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/170905power.htm
Fuel Oils in Sediment in New Orleans
A new health risk emerged Friday from the sediment of New Orleans - test results showing that diesel and fuel oils, which can take years to break down, make up as much as a 10th of the weight of some sediment samples. Earlier tests turned up dangerous amounts of sewage-related bacteria and lead in floodwaters and more than 100 chemical pollutants.-AP
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/12668392.htm
Recovering New Orleans’ Dead Subordinated to Profit and Politics
The fact that the sensitive and urgent task of retrieving victims’ bodies is contracted out to a private corporation is itself testimony to the contempt for Katrina’s victims. It is a prime example of how big business and its political representatives subordinate all aspects of social life to profit…SCI has been implicated in multiple scandals.-WSWS.org http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/sep2005/body-s16.shtml
WHAT IF…They tell you to evacuate??
There were people from New Orleans who actually evacuated to Biloxi – not good thinking…
In the event you do evacuate, there are some things that you can have setup beforehand to help insure your property remains safe from looters and that you leave with adequate preparation…
http://independencejournal.com/whatif08.htm
'Potentially Catastrophic' Rita Forces Evacuations
Hurricane Rita, a "potentially catastrophic" Category 5 hurricane with destructive force equal to the might of Hurricane Katrina, churned through the Gulf of Mexico early Thursday toward the Texas coast, prompting evacuation orders for more than 1.1 million Texans and the few remaining holdouts in flood-ravaged New Orleans.
http://stevequayle.com/News.alert/05_Cosmic/050922.catastroph.Rita.html
Jobless Claims Related to Katrina Rise by 103,000 Last Week
The number of Americans thrown out of work by Hurricane Katrina shot up by 103,000 last week, bringing the total seeking jobless benefits because of the storm to 214,000, the government reported Thursday.
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGBTOLK0XDE.html
Hurricane Rita Interactive Map
This map provides current mobile offshore rig positions as of September 20, 2005 as well as 24-hour manned platform locations. Please use the radio buttons located next to the "Map Options" label and then click on the map to change the map view.-RigLogix
http://gom.rigzone.com/rita.asp?Command=MAP
Suit Filed to Halt New Orleans Gun Seizures
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) and National Rifle Association (NRA) joined with individual gun owners in Louisiana Thursday morning, filing a motion in United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana seeking a temporary restraining order to stop authorities in and around the City of New Orleans from seizing firearms from private citizens in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/9/21/200219.shtml
Hurricane Victims Say Guns Helped Fend Off Criminals
After the storm came the carjackers and burglars. Then came the gun battles and the chemical explosions that shook the restored Victorians in New Orleans' Algiers Point neighborhood.
"The hurricane was a breeze compared with the crime and terror that followed," said Gregg Harris, a psychotherapist who lives in the battered area…
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/220905gunshelped.htm
Katrina Evacuees to Be Injected with Neurotoxin
It is well known that mercury is a neurotoxin, the cause of autism and other cognitive maladies. It has been taken out of most vaccines but is still in tetanus shots and has actually been increased in the flu vaccine. To prevent a potentially catastrophic outbreak of influenza in crowded hurricane shelters, the state Office of Public Health is giving vaccines to occupants of about 80 shelters around Louisiana.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/220905tobeinjected.htm
New Orleans Relives Flooding Nightmare
Hurricane Rita's steady rains sent water pouring through breaches in a patched levee Friday, cascading into one of the city's lowest-lying neighborhoods in a devastating repeat of New Orleans' flooding nightmare. "Our worst fears came true," said Maj. Barry Guidry of the Georgia National Guard.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050923/D8CQ35S00.html
Hurricane Rita: Will FEMA Block Aid & Take Guns?
Will Rita mean another Laboratory test of The Martial Law Police State?
The bottom line on Katrina is that whether you believe it was all incompetence or part incompetence and part malevolence, the lasting pretext is the same. When a disaster takes place, you have no rights and the federal government can arrest you if you don’t follow their every order.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/Sept05/230905Rita.htm
Military Recruiters Showed Up Before FEMA, Red Cross
Hurricane evacuees don't see FEMA or Red Cross, but military recruiters show up in force. According to a number of sources familiar with the Gulf Coast evacuation situation arising from Hurricane Katrina, military recruiters appeared at hurricane evacuation centers across Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Arkansas, and other states long before evacuees ever saw anyone from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or the Red Cross.
Military recruiters, aware that a number of young, poor, and long-term or hurricane-related unemployed and homeless African American and white men were housed at evacuation shelters, took advantage of the disaster to recruit additional cannon fodder for Bush's war in Iraq.
http://www.rense.com/general67/mil.htm
Monster Mold Threatens Health in South
New Orleans homeowner: "It smells like death."
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050927/D8CSPNVO1.html
Brown Shifts Blame for Katrina Response
"My biggest mistake was not recognizing by Saturday that Louisiana was dysfunctional," two days before the storm hit, Brown said.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050927/D8CSRFT02.html
Leader of New Orleans Police Resigns
Police Superintendent Eddie Compass resigned Tuesday after four turbulent weeks in which the police force was wracked by desertions and disorganization in Hurricane Katrina's aftermath.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050927/D8CSRRJ82.html
'Oil Storm' Sisters - Katrina And Rita
Is the "Secret Government" using weather as a weapon of mass destruction against the American people?
I'm not going to HAARP on about the reality of weather manipulation by our government. Nor am I endeavoring to convince diehard skeptics that weather "weaponization" is a reality. It's my contention however that weather warfare is in full swing. Weather weapons are being selectively used by the "usual suspects" to advance their global takeover and enslavement plan-- the creation of a OWO fascist dictatorship.
http://www.rense.com/general67/sis.htm
Rita Victims ‘Living Like Cavemen’
Nearly four days after Hurricane Rita hit, many of the storm's sweltering victims along the Texas Gulf Coast were still waiting for electricity, gasoline, water and other relief Tuesday, prompting one top emergency official to complain that people are "living like cavemen."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,170591,00.html
Unfeasibility of Rebuilding New Orleans
The river is moving away from the city. The city is sinking because of its weight, because no upbuilding by new muck for many decades, because of being cut off from the fresh water, because it is sliding off a cliff (the Continental Shelf), and because the Oil and Gas Industry is extracting oil out from under it. It is a city that for all intents and purposes is now Sea domain. Spend the money on developing alternative energy solutions instead…
…The Mississippi River is moving westward. The City of New Orleans will be cut off from fresh water, and be attached to a silted-in port of no value, attached to water that doesn’t go anywhere. This is a certainty. The only issue with this event is when. The event is going to happen shortly. If the events occur as a result of a flood rather than by deliberately managed processes, the USA may find that its precious Mississippi River port area is worthless. Even before Hurricane Katrina, the city was living on borrowed time. Its dance with the Mississippi River is soon to end…
At this time the City of New Orleans is effectively a ringed, sinking island 10 feet or more below sea level, and something close to 20 miles off shore of the USA. In about 50 years, it will be nearly 60 miles off shore and will be at least 40 feet below sea level. To keep the city the dikes will have to be so high as to stagger the imagination and our national budget.
To summarize: The river is leaving the city. The city is sinking because of its weight, because no upbuilding by new muck for many decades, because of being cut off from the fresh water, because it is falling off a cliff (the Continental Shelf), and because the Oil and Gas Industry is sucking it down like a kid slurping a root beer float.
More at http://pesn.com/2005/09/23/9600175_Rebuild_Energy_Systems_Not_NewOrleans/
$2,480 for less than two hours of work to cover each damaged roof in New Orleans
Knight Ridder has found that a lack of oversight, generous contracting deals and poor planning mean that government agencies are shelling out as much as 10 times what the temporary fix would normally cost.
The government is paying contractors an average of $2,480 for less than two hours of work to cover each damaged roof - even though it’s also giving them endless supplies of blue sheeting for free.
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8567
Texas Emergency Hurricane Hotline Outsourced to India
As Hurricane Rita roared toward them, more than 300 people called the local emergency number broadcast all around Nacogdoches County in east Texas. What they didn't know was that the operators on the other end of the phone were 7,000 miles away in India.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/HurricaneRita/story?id=1164181&page=1
What I Learned in Louisiana
by Anthony Wade
The real problem is planning. There are no real plans for what to do with these people… http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_anthony__051003_what_i_learned_in_lo.htm
Parish President: FEMA Still Fumbling
The president of St. Tammany Parish accused the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Sunday of continuing to mismanage the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a charge denied by an agency spokeswoman.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/02/hurricanes/index.html
Indian Firms to Help with Katrina Cleanup?
Indian construction companies are set to gain entry into the United States. http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1507483%2C0002.htm
Mayor of New Orleans Announces 3,000 Layoffs
Mayor Ray Nagin said Tuesday the city is laying off as many as 3,000 employees - or about half its workforce - because of the financial damage inflicted on New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20051004/D8D1E2M82.html
Hurricanes Destroyed 109 Oil Platforms: US Government
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed 109 oil platforms and five drilling rigs in the Gulf of Mexico, but only a small portion of production will be lost for good, the US government said.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/04/051004193044.krohifb6.html
Katrina Educates World On Need For Owning Guns
http://www.gunowners.org/no02.htm
90% Of Katrina Reconstruction Contracts Going To Companies Outside States Affect
Companies outside the three states most affected by Hurricane Katrina have received more than 90 percent of the money from prime federal contracts for recovery and reconstruction of the Gulf Coast, according to an analysis of available government data.
The analysis by The Washington Post takes into account only the first wave of federal contracts, those that had been entered in detail into government databases as of yesterday. Together they are valued at more than $2 billion. Congress has allocated more than $60 billion for the recovery effort, and the ultimate total is expected to rise far higher.
But already the trend toward out-of-state firms is clear, despite pledges by administration officials that federal funds for Katrina relief will become an engine of local economic redevelopment. Among the contracts analyzed, 3.8 percent of the money went to companies that listed an Alabama address, 2.8 percent to firms in Louisiana and just 1.8 percent went for Mississippi contractors. Taken together, that amounts to less than $200 million…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/03/AR2005100301691_pf.html
Levees Were ‘Heaved’ Upward from Below
That is different from initial theories offered by the Army Corps of Engineers that the floodwalls were topped by storm surge and raises more questions about design and construction.-Total Information Analysis/Prison Planet
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/october2005/051005heavedupward.htm
9,000 Homes Sitting Empty in FEMA Lot
More than 9,000 mobile homes and campers meant for the victims of Hurricane Katrina are sitting unused at government staging areas while displaced families continue to live out of tents and shelters.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C172068%2C00.html
Job Losses from Hurricanes Jump to 438,000
The number of people who have lost their jobs because of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita jumped to 438,000 last week as the economic shockwaves from the nation's costliest natural disaster continued to be felt six weeks after Katrina hit.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2005-10-13-weekly-jobless_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA
FEMA Went on $12.1 Million Spending Spree
Purchases spread over 45 states and Canada, many items now missing
On the Saturday after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, a federal employee swooped into a Guitar Center store in Atlanta and snapped up audio mixers, wireless microphones, speakers and amplifiers, and paid the $17,039.10 bill with a government credit card.
"They bought it right off the floor, and we put it together for them," store manager Scott Magno said. The equipment was to be used at a convention center where several hundred people were being trained for community-relations duties in the hurricane area.
The purchase was part of a $12.1 million credit-card shopping spree by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the immediate rush after the hurricane. Now the government faces a new challenge: Where is all that stuff, and what should be done with it?
Full article at http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-11-02-fema-credit-cards_x.htm
New Orleans Levees Still Aren't Safe ... And Maybe Never Were
Senate hearings question whether levees were purposely constructed poorly.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1512890/20051103/index.jhtml?headlines=true
This story was forwarded to us by an old friend. The woman reporting is her cousin's daughter.
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Subject: RE: Another Katrina story...and damn well said!
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 21:58:54 +0000
You know what After just going through our very first hurricane, I have to tell you that all of what is written below is SO true. Jason, the kids and I endured hurricane Wilma this week, actually on Monday. We were told on the local forecasts that the hurricane would be hitting the gulf coast at a category 3, but should slow down and hit the Atlantic coast at a Cat 1, so we decided to stay.
Well, the hurricane did not hit us as a 1, it remained a 3, and it was pretty scary. There is a lot of damage out here, but the aftermath is worse than the storm. We can not get cash out of ATM Machines because there is no electricity in 90% of the city. There is only gas at 3-4 stations, which all of the people from down south are coming up to get, and all of the local folks to fill their generators. We were very fortunate, as we live on the same electrical grid as the police department so we were the first ones back up.
So far out here we have been having looters steal peoples generators, beating people in the gas lines claiming they were in line first, going on TV and saying they are starving and there is NO assistance, yet FEMA was here within 24 hours with food, water and ice. Don't get me wrong I know a lot of people have a lot of damages, but there are people who are here for just the hand outs.
If you are expecting a hurricane category 1-5 it does not matter and you know this, yet plan to stay, you should always be prepared with food and water for at least 7 days, however 24 hours after the fact we had people saying they were starving, and they need food, and money.
Did you know if I want to get some money from FEMA all I have to do is tell them I bought a generator and gas to run it, but no longer have a receipt for it, and they will reimburse me for $500. I was fortunate enough to find this out from people at the gas station today telling me "How to get free stuff after the hurricane". They were saying FEMA will give you a clothing allowance, just tell them you lost everything in the hurricane, bring your kids birth certificates, and you get $$$ for them, as a matter of fact if you bring your sisters or cousins kids birth certificates, and say they are your kids you can get money for them too. Now my question back to these people was if you lost EVERYTHING in the hurricane, how were you able to find the birth certificates. Well that is neither here nor there, but we live in a very sad place when all some people can think about is "how much free stuff can I get".
Now, as I said before we are extremely lucky to have power on, so we are helping out our co-workers by doing their laundry and they are coming over for showers, etc., If I had enough food I would feed them all, but since we do not have food in the stores right now, I am not going to take the chances that the kids wont eat. But, I just hope that tomorrow morning I will still get to go to work considering many of our neighbors are getting their gas stolen right out of their cars.
Take it from me, hurricanes are no fun, but the people who make them worse should be taken to a free little island and have free little sand to sleep on, with free ocean water to drink, and free kipper snacks to eat to their hearts content...
Take care everyone,
Kelli Barabasz
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After the above e-mail was the following account:
Another perspective from a relief worker in Utah.
Let me tell you a few things about the wonderful group of evacuees we received here in Utah. The first plane arrived with 152 passengers. Of the 152; 10 were children. 3 of these children had been separated or abandoned by their parents. As these passengers attempted to board the plane, the National Guard removed from their person; 43 handguns (it is Illegal to own a Handgun in New Orleans), 20 knives, one man had 100,000 dollars in cash, 20 pounds of Marijuana, 10 pounds of Crack, 15 pounds of Methamphetamines, 10 pounds of various other controlled substances including Heroin. Upon their arrival here in SL C, two people immediately deplaned and lit up a joint.
During the course of medical evaluations, it was discovered that parents were using their kids to carry loads of looted jewelry (price tag still on), and other items. One third of the people who got off the plane were angry that they didn't get to go to Houston or San Antonio. Over the course of the next 36 hours we received an additional 430 evacuees. Most of these, like their predecessors had to be relieved of illegal items. Additionally, most of them were the owners of exceptionally prolific criminal records, just like those in the first flight. By the second night in the shelter, there was one attempted rape of a relief worker, sales of drugs on going and a gang had begun to rebuild. When the people arrived at the shelter, they were given the opportunity to dig th rough piles of donated clothes from local church groups. Many complained that they were second hand clothes. The state set up a reception center with relocation assistance, Medicaid and workforce services among many assistance groups.
This past Saturday, workforce services held a job fair. 85 of the 582 evacuees attended. 44 were hired on the spot. 24 were asked back for a second interview. Guess the others had no desire to work. Yesterday we began relocating evacuees to be with family or friends who had agreed to take them in as well as three to the county jail. Now in the health arena; 4 with AIDS, 15% of those 582 had some form of STD, one case of TB, 2 Heroin withdrawals, 15 mental health admissions, one brain tumor and 15 nursing home patients. Like everyone in this nation, I watched as the news media blasted FEMA and President Bush for the "poor response".
While everyone on TV saw nothing but people being let down by government, I saw people letting down people. Who would have ever thought that we would reach a point in time that US citizens would lie around in piles of trash complaining that no one had come to pick them up out of it. What ever happened to people pulling together to make their circumstance better? Why couldn't they get up and move on their own or at least just clean up the area where they had to wait for evacuation? Why did they feel the need to take a crap in the aisle of the superdome? FEMA did not fail them. FEMA is not a response agency. State and local government is responsible for the first 72 hours. But more important, we all have a responsibility to help ourselves and neighbors.
Poverty is not an excuse to behave like anima ls. The rest of the Gulf Coast did not have problems like this! Difficult situations are not an excuse to loot your neighbor 24 hours before the storm even hits. I have always said New Orleans was a toilet! Now everyone has proof that not only was it a toilet, but a toilet long overdue for a flush.
Matthew Anderson
Salt Lake City, Utah
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I think this should encourage us to be cautiously compassionate.
Cyrus35
E-mail, Memos Detail Katrina’s Political Storm
100,000 pages of documents show Gov. Blanco and Bush’s PR concerns.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9969769/
Katrina Victims Living In Dark, Eerie New Orleans
The city nicknamed the "Big Easy" could now be dubbed the "Big Creepy."
For the handful of people living in hurricane-ravaged homes in the city's most devastated sections, life in dark, desolate silence, with no neighbors to be found, can be unnerving.
"This always was a quiet street, but this is ridiculous," said Charles Broussard, 59, who lives in a rented trailer parked at his Lakeview home, which was submerged under eight feet of water after Hurricane Katrina struck and nearby levees gave way. "At night, it's just me. "
Since the Aug. 29 hurricane and flooding that followed, many neighborhoods, from scenic waterfront on Lake Pontchartrain to the poverty-ridden Lower Ninth Ward, are void of residents, their houses uninhabitable.
Only a fifth of the city's population of half a million has returned, most to areas that did not suffer flood damage and where services have been restored…
Full article at http://www.rense.com/general69/eer.htm
Who Really Died In That New Orleans Katrina Shootout?
The Sept. 4 gun battle, first killing five and now two on the Danziger Bridge between what was first reported as New Orleans police and U.S. military agents, has turned into a hodge-podge of conflicting reports, misstatements or outright official lies…
Full article at http://www.rense.com/general69/whore.htm
NeoCons/Developers Try To Bulldoze Katrina Survivor Homes
"I see it firsthand every day and the media is just ignoring what is really happening here.
"Simply, the city, state and federal government are using their illegal imminent domain powers to take away personal property. There are 14,000 homes in the 9th Ward ready to be bulldozed and most of the people have been systematically kept away from the city and don't even know what's going on.
Darby said after assessing many of the thousands of homes in the 9th Ward and other poorer neighborhoods, it is his opinion and the opinion of many others that most of the homes are in good enough shape to be repaired, not demolished.
"The media is not telling this side of the story as they all are working together, including New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and others all the way up to the White House, who are intent on paving the way with billions of dollars of redevelopment money to first level the homes and then replace them with casinos, hotels and other expensive type housing," said Darby…
Full article at http://www.rense.com/general69/neoconsdevelopers.htm
Brown Was Paid To Aid Investigation Of Katrina Response, Now Refuses To Cooperate
For nearly 2 months after Mike Brown was forced to resign from FEMA for his incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina, he continued to collect his full $148,000 salary as a “consultant.” Why was Brown retained? According to a FEMA spokeswoman, it was so he could fully cooperate with the investigations into what went wrong:
FEMA spokeswoman Nicol Andrews confirmed that Brown is still on FEMA’s payroll as a consultant. She said he works from home, where he is “pulling all the documentation together” to aid in the investigations into the government’s response to Katrina.
Now that Brown has cashed his checks, he is refusing to cooperate with the Senate investigation:
While FEMA has been helpful, Mike Brown — the former FEMA director who resigned amid intense criticism of his agency’s response — has refused to answer even the simplest questions, [Sen. Joe] Lieberman added.
Brown continues to talk about the issue, but only for a fee. He recently keynoted a storm response conference and provided “insight and perspective on Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.” Senators investigating the issue could have attended for the low price of $375.
Source: http://thinkprogress.org/2006/01/25/brown-refuses-to-cooperate/
US Accepts 7,000 Muslims From Russia
We're importing THOUSANDS of Muslims from the HUGE country of Russia, guaranteeing them: "housing, furniture, medical, and lifetime pensions for disabilities etc." I'm sure the tens of thousands living in TENTS in Mississippi, Louisiana, Seattle, New Hampshire etc., will appreciate that somebody's being cared for and it's not them!
http://www.rense.com/general69/usacc.htm
Homeland Security Targets T-Shirt Seller
Ridiculing the Federal Emergency Management Agency is high art in the Gulf Coast areas where Hurricane Katrina hit last year.
Many parade floats in New Orleans' Mardi Gras were decorated in themes that skewered the relief agency.
George Barisich, president of the United Commercial Fisherman's Association, has been selling anti-FEMA T-shirts since last fall, a reflection of his frustration with the federal government's response to the storm that left him homeless and unemployed.
But on Feb. 1, when he handed a shirt to a fellow Katrina victim as he was picking up canned goods at a charity's relief tent, Barisich found himself in trouble with the government.
He was cited by a group of Homeland Security officials for selling a T-shirt on federal property - in this case, near a FEMA center in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart in Chalmette, La.
Barisich, 49, says he didn't sell the shirt, which said: "Flooded by Katrina! Forgotten by FEMA! What's Next, Mr. Bush?" He says he gave it away.
The government is sticking to its guns. "If we ignored this violation, you could have potentially 20 to 30 people standing out in front of the (FEMA) center, obstructing things," says Dean Boyd, a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) spokesman. "We've got a duty and a job under the law."
Boyd says the message on Barisich's shirt isn't the issue. Barisich says he intends to fight the $75 ticket in court.
… Barisich says he was ticketed after six DHS officers gathered at his truck. Boyd says he can't confirm the number. Barisich says he was told he would be arrested if he did not take the ticket. "I said, 'Do you really want to arrest me? Am I the only one here who thinks this is asinine? You're harassing a person who just lost everything.'"
Barisich's extended family lost 14 of its 17 houses in St. Bernard. Three of his fishing boats vanished. Two other boats survived but can't get to sea because they're in a canal filled with debris and silt. And he doesn't have enough cash to rebuild his oyster beds.
He says he'll fight the ticket because "if you do something wrong, you pay for it. If you didn't, you don't ever say you did."
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/040306T-Shirt_seller.htm
Through the Lens of New Orleans, America Lost its Super Power
From New Orleans, the wrecked city that George Bush promised to rebuild in that bizarre stage-managed speech last September, the suggestion that Americans want to rule the world is laughable.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/through-the-lens-of-new-orleans-america-lost-its-super-power/2006/03/05/1141493543879.html
http://millennium-ark.net/NEWS/06_USA/060306.Katrin.superpower.html
Churches Still Waiting For Katrina Aid
After Hurricane Katrina struck, President Bush enlisted a coalition of clergy from across the nation to distribute part of the $110 million in private funds that his father and former president Bill Clinton raised to help victims of the storm. But six months later, Bishop T.D. Jakes, one of the ministers selected by Bush, said that not a dime of the $20 million designated for faith organizations along the Gulf Coast has arrived.
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story312.htm
More fallout from Hurricane Katrina is roaring toward New Jersey.
Alarmed by an expected $22 billion in federal flood insurance claims resulting from the catastrophic 2005 hurricane season, Congress is considering changes that would jack up premiums or require thousands more homeowners to enter the program.
Either action is likely to drive up the cost of living at the Jersey Shore or along the state's flood-prone rivers, where nearly 200,000 policy owners already pay an average of $629 a year in premiums.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1141627705128070.xml&coll=1
http://millennium-ark.net/NEWS/06_USA/060308.NJ.Katrina.ins.html
Russia Accused of Artificially Generating Freak Hurricanes Over America
The hurricanes which have been raging recently off the American coast were created by Russian military specialists. Using a special electromagnetic generator they have perfected a secret meteorological weapon, capable of striking innocent people from any distance and destroying their homes. This accusation was recently made by American meteorologists. Russian scientists did not even begin to defend themselves: in their opinion, if anyone is causing damage to the climate, it is the Americans, with their famous NAARP, “The project for active research on ‘the northern lights’, being to blame.-Pravda
http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/06-03-2006/76916-weather-0
Bush - A Deaf Man Spouting
The Katrina videotape is defining for Bush's presidency. It exposes a deaf man spouting talking points.-Sidney Blumenthal/The Guardian
http://www.rense.com/general69/spout.htm
Mississippi Experiences Post Katrina Boom
Six months after Hurricane Katrina smashed through a fragile necklace of Mississippi coastal towns, the region is enjoying a post-storm boom. Fueled by insurance money, federal reconstruction aid and speculative capital, surviving hotels and restaurants are filled to overflowing, beachfront land prices are soaring, and developers are placing billion-dollar bets that shattered antebellum mansions will give rise to condominium resorts.
The shared sense here is that Mississippi's recovery, while still in its early stages and reliant on continuing outside help, is moving much faster than Louisiana's. Blessed with less damage, more federal aid and greater political clout -- and know-how from past storms -- Mississippi's lightly populated coastline is emerging from chaos, while large parts of the metropolis next door remain a silent, rotting wasteland.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11752115/
Search For Katrina’s Dead Stymied By Bureaucratic Wrangling
More than six months after Hurricane Katrina, the plodding search for the dead remains stymied by the same bureaucratic wrangling that has kept the rebuilding of New Orleans at a snail's pace.-TerraDaily.com
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Search_For_Katrinas_Dead_Stymied_By_Bureaucratic_Wrangling.html
Katrina Zone Considers Hired Guns
Contractors in Louisiana would make arrests, carry weapons.-Washington Post
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11800942/
DynCorp May Replace Cops in St. Bernard Parish
It’s a good thing I don’t live in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. If I did, I’d refuse to accept the authority of DynCorp, the renta-cop and mercenary corporation that may soon replace the police in the storm-ravaged parish.-Kurt Nimmo/Prison Planet
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/march2006/150306_b_DynCorp.htm