And in a most disgusting example of chutzpah

The back-page Post story added: "National Guard officials in the states acknowledged that the scale of the destruction is stretching the limits of available manpower while placing another extraordinary demand on their troops -- most of whom have already served tours in Iraq or Afghanistan or in homeland defense missions since 2001."
 
Speaking for the Mississippi National Guard, Lt. Andy Thaggard said: "Missing the personnel is the big thing in this particular event. We need our people." According to the Washington Post, the Mississippi National Guard "has a brigade of more than 4,000 troops in central Iraq" while "Louisiana also has about 3,000 Guard troops in Baghdad."
http://www.rense.com/general67/BRING.HTM

George W. Bush gave one of the worst speeches of his life yesterday, especially given the level of national distress and the need for words of consolation and wisdom. In what seems to be a ritual in this administration, the president appeared a day later than he was needed. He then read an address of a quality more appropriate for an Arbor Day celebration: a long laundry list of pounds of ice, generators and blankets delivered to the stricken Gulf Coast. He advised the public that anybody who wanted to help should send cash, grinned, and promised that everything would work out in the end.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090105Z.shtml

Hurricane Katrina could prove more than a natural disaster for the Gulf Coast. It has the potential to be a tipping point that heads the economy toward recession, economists say.
 
How worried should Minnesotans be about a storm 1,300 miles away?
 
"I think the right word is 'very,' " said Tom Stinson, Minnesota state economist.
 
Hurricanes hit the United States every year, but Katrina was different.
http://www.rense.com/general67/katrinacouldtipUStoward.htm

At least seven bodies were scattered outside, and hungry, desperate people who were tired of waiting broke through the steel doors to a food service entrance and began pushing out pallets of water and juice and whatever else they could find.

An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him.

Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=154485508&p=y54486zy4

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the U.S. government, on Wednesday called U.S. President George W. Bush a "cowboy" who had failed to manage the Hurricane Katrina disaster and evacuate victims.
 
"That government had no evacuation plan, it is incredible, the first power in the world that is so involved in Iraq ... and left its own population adrift," Chavez said in a cabinet meeting broadcast live on television.
 
His remarks came as U.S. authorities evacuated thousands of people from New Orleans and after Bush said it would take years to recover from flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina
http://www.rense.com/general67/cowboybushfailedinkat.htm

The coastal communities of South Mississippi are desperately in need of an unprecedented relief effort.
We understand that New Orleans also was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, but surely this nation has the resources to rescue both that metropolitan and ours.

Whatever plans that were in place to deal with such a natural disaster have proven inadequate. Perhaps destruction on this scale could not have been adequately prepared for.

But now that it has taken place, no effort should be spared to mitigate the hurricane's impact.

The essentials -- ice, gasoline, medicine -- simply are not getting here fast enough.

We are not calling on the nation and the state to make life more comfortable in South Mississippi, we are calling on the nation and the state to make life here possible
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001052870

My response? It is precisely because this nation finds itself in a desperate war declared by a formidable foe determined to use our open borders to destroy this country that we must act now.

Some will remind me I endorsed Bush just two years ago for re-election.

My response? I made it very clear at the time that I was not really endorsing Bush, per se, but seeking the only practical way to defeat his reckless and irresponsible and treasonous opponent. There is no contradiction here. Kerry had to be defeated. Now Bush must go. America can do better.

I don't agree with many of Pat Buchanan's foreign policy ideas. But on the border, he is 100 percent right.
...
I don't even believe Bush is being honest when he makes this argument. I am convinced there are international agreements behind this. I am persuaded the systematic destruction of the American way of life through uncontrolled and illegal immigration is part of a master plan for merger and global consolidation – first with our neighbors in this hemisphere and later worldwide.

This secretive plot must end here and now
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46062

The Red Cross, under the Liberty Fund, collected $564 million in donations after 9/11. Months after the event, the Red Cross had distributed only $154 million. The Red Cross' explanation for keeping the majority of the money was that it would be used to help 'fight the war on terror'. To the victims, this meant that the money was going towards bombing broken backed third world countries like Afghanistan and setting up surveillance cameras and expanding the police state in US cities, and not towards helping them rebuild their lives.
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/010905redcross.htm

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2005/010905redcross.htm

Well.. call me nuts.. than is OK..maybe I go too far here..We know of the internment camps all around the country and the special railcars.. Will these poor homeless people be taken to these camps and eventually vanish...of course, we will only be shown them entering a military camp. From there they can be quietly moved to these camps and no one will ever know who they are and what happened to them..... We will need people who live close to these known camps to keep watch and report... The media will never follow up on these people.... Think... where do you put many thousands of people who are homeless and no jobs???? And ask... Do they even plan on rebuilding New Orleans?


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DEAD...BODIES IN TREES THROUGHOUT MISSISSIPPI...OMG

Astonishing Exclusive From Mississippi BREAKING NEWS
Paramedic Rescue Operation | 8-31-05

It is with heavy heart I write this...

I have finally reconnected with my best friend who is a paramedic who was sent from Georgia 2 days ago to Gulf Port, Mississippi before the hurricane hit.

He just reached me within the last 10 mins via emergency cell phone to tell me he was alive.

Thousands of bodies have been discovered throughout Mississippi in Gulf Port, Waveland, Hancock County, Bay of St.Louis.

They are hanging in trees and they are pulling them out 30 at a time. Entire families found drowned in their homes and washing up on shore.

The stories he could tell me were brief. National Guard is on the scene and arresting anyone seen on the streets.

The numbers are staggering and what I have been told tonight will shake people to their foundation as the numbers will be coming out in the next 24-hours of just how many people have actually perished in these and 3 other beach communities.

More to follow...
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=77695

As indicated above, this plan to get rid of textbooks and implement Pavlovian/Skinnerian computerized instruction has been on the drawing board for many years just like everything else in "the deliberate dumbing down" of our schools. This is the education (training) system for "The Brave New World Order", the system which denies "free will" and will assure that your child no longer receives a traditional academic education, but that he be "trained" with rewards and punishments to be a docile, accepting, non-thinking, atheistic "performer" (robot) in Lenin's International Socialist System, euphemistically referred to by our controlled media as “democratic socialism” which is being implemented, world region by world region, as I write.
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According to doctors, teachers, and parents it causes sickness and stress for students and turns teachers into robots. Its pre-training Manual lists the following teacher and resource materials: Adaptation of Birds, Monitoring Forms Before and After Instruction (observation data sheet records), How to Teach Animals by Skinner, How to Teach Animals: A Rat, A Pigeon, A Dog, by Kathleen and Shauna Reid. The late Dr. Jeanette Veatch, internationally known in the field of reading, called the ECRI program “a more modern version of breaking children to the heel of thought control.” She added, “it is so flagrantly dangerous, damaging and destructive I am appalled at its existence.”
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The late Professor Benjamin Bloom, internationally known behaviorist, father of Pavlovian/Skinnerian mastery learning and outcomes based education, said in his Taxonomy of Educational Objectives:

"The evidence points out convincingly to the fact that age is a factor operating against attempts to effect a complete or thorough-going reorganization of attitudes and values. (Taxonomy, p. 85) The evidence collected thus far suggests that a single hour of classroom activity under certain conditions may bring about a major reorganization in cognitive as well as affective (attitudes, values and beliefs) behaviors." (Taxonomy, page 88)


http://www.newswithviews.com/iserbyt/iserbyt29.htm

U.S. consumers spent more than they earned in July for just the second time in the last 46 years, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Personal incomes increased 0.3% in July, while spending soared ahead by 1%. As a result, the personal savings rate tumbled to negative 0.6%, the lowest since monthly records began in 1959. Read the full report.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid={D09C8048-99F1-40E4-9805-16EDAB3834B0}&siteid=mktw

According to the government’s own 2004 statistics, the civilian non-institutional population of United States males, age 16 and over, was 107.7 million people. Of those 107.7 million males, 14.7 million were estimated to be age 65 or over. Therefore, the number of men between 16 and 64, which traditionally constitutes this nation’s workforce, was 93 million.

Of those 93 million men, the government admits that 4.4 million of them are unemployed. And when I say unemployed, I mean utterly and completely inactive. The government considers someone “employed” if they work as little as one hour a week. People who do not even work one hour a week are still considered “employed” if they are “temporarily absent” from work.

But in addition to the 4.4 million men who are officially “unemployed” the government admits that 28.7 million men over 16 are “not in the labor force.” Subtracting from this 28.7 million the estimated 11.9 million men 65 and over belonging to that group, results in 16.8 million men between the ages of 16 and 64 who are “not in the labor force.”

Adding the 4.4 million officially unemployed to the 16.8 million who are factually unemployed yields a total of 21.2 million unemployed men between the ages of 16 and 64.

These 21.2 million unemployed men of working age represent almost 23% of the 93 million working age men in the United States
http://www.exilemm.com/e-sub-realunemployment.shtml

In Berlin, it doesn't take much to be to be stained with the dreaded label. Indeed, in some parts of the city -- Friedrichshain, Prenzlauer Berg, Kreuzberg -- just walking down the street in a clean collared shirt with no tattoos showing is enough to stand out from the ultra-nonchalant, hyper-cool masses. From the Berlin perspective, entire cities -- Munich, Hamburg -- are spiessig whereas Berlin itself is seen as the center of German chic where anything goes and the nightlife is unbeatable.

Enter Berlin's mayor Klaus Wowereit. Recently crowned "The Glamour Guy" by Time Magazine, the 51-year-old gay man is better known as a partying socialite than as a hard-nosed manager -- all part of his strategy to make Berlin Europe's creative center by attracting the young and hip rather than the old and stodgy.
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372189,00.html

This is a column for everyone in the path of Hurricane Katrina who ever said, "I'm sorry, I'm just not interested in politics," or, "There's nothing I can do about it," or, "Eh, they're all crooks anyway."
 
Nothing to do with me, nothing to do with my life, nothing I can do about any of it. Look around you this morning. I suppose the National Rifle Association would argue, "Government policies don't kill people, hurricanes kill people." Actually, hurricanes plus government policies kill people
http://www.rense.com/general67/whyNOisindeepwater.htm

"We prepositioned 18 disaster medical teams, medical supplies and equipment, urban search and rescue teams. All of these were prestaged, along with millions of Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), liters of water, tarpaulins and truckloads of ice. By prepositioning these resources, we were able to speed our ability to deliver these necessary supplies," Mr. Chertoff said.
    However, the prepositioned teams were not inside the hardest-hit area of New Orleans, where television cameras yesterday showed dead bodies on the streets and reporters told of widespread incidents of murders, rapes, robberies, sniper shootings and carjackings.
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20050902-122924-8001r.htm

SPLOID EXCLUSIVE: FEMA is directing Katrina donations to none other than the Rev. Pat Robertson …

Millions of Americans and people around the world have rushed to donate money to the victims of Hurricane Katrina, which is shaping up to be one of the worst U.S. disasters in history, if not the worst.
http://www.surfingtheapocalypse.net/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=96484

Unidentified animal photographed by Devin McAnally about six hours after he shot the creature. No blood visible.
Described as about 20 inches tall, 30 inches long with 2-inch-long, thin, fangs that extended downward from
upper jaw and overlapped with 1.5 inch fangs protruding upward from lower jaw. (Not visible in photos.)
There are spots on the hide and sparse hair similar to descriptions by eyewitnesses in Puerto Rico of the alleged
"chupacabra goat-sucker" there. Digital photograph © 2004 by Devin McAnally.
http://www.earthfiles.com/news/news.cfm?ID=970&category=Environment

Patrick Rhode, deputy director of FEMA, commenting on his agency's performance after four days of steadily increasing urban warfare, deeply flawed coordination, and continuing inability to evacuate refugees: "Probably one of the most efficient and effective responses in the country's history."
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007026.php

All Hannity did on his radio and television show today was discuss how looters were halting rescue efforts because police and National Guard units were being diverted to stop the lootings.

Hannity would do all he could to divert the discussion to this "talking point" when the issue came up that there was no rescue effort visible.

That is how the Bushies are going to spin why there was no initial rescue effort - the looters were shooting at the rescuers - to hide their lack or resources and competence.
http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_news&Number=293930220

The latter catastrophe has so far led to two wars marked by lies and an utter lack of official accountability. But the former disaster, if we're lucky, just might lead us out of the morass generated by Bush's reaction to the terrorists – if, as seems far more likely this time around, the president won't be able to evade the "accountability moment" he said had transpired successfully with his reelection. For as commentators like Paul Craig Roberts and Norman Solomon have been quick to point out, the War Party's obsession with invading Iraq has directly and needlessly exacerbated Hurricane Katrina's destructive power – which now reflects rather poorly on their judgment
http://www.antiwar.com/deliso/?articleid=7136

September 2, 2005 -- Hurricane Katrina may be Bush's and the GOP's "Chernobyl." The anger of the American people over the lack of planning for Hurricane Katrina, the diversion of troops, equipment, and money (including $250 million in New Orleans flood control money to Halliburton) to a quagmire in Iraq, and price gouging and fuel shortages engineered by oil companies are being talked about by Washington's punditocracy as Bush's Chernobyl, a reference to the 1986 meltdown at the Soviet nuclear reactor and the cover-up of news and lack of government response that hastened the fall of the Soviet Communist Party
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

UPDATE: We can now report that the jamming of New Orleans' communications is emanating from a pirate radio station in the Caribbean. 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. The Pentagon must locate the positions of these transmitters and order the Air Force to bomb them immediately.

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. The jamming frequencies are:

72.0MHZ  

45.0MHZ   

10.245MHZ

10.240 Mhz  

11.340 Mhz

455 IF  233 MHZ 

A former DoD source says the U.S. Army uses a portable jammer, known as WORLOCK, in Iraq and this jammer may be similar to the one that is jamming the emergency frequencies.

If a U.S. Navy ship is, in fact, jamming New Orleans communications, the crew must immediately shut down the jammer and take action against the Commanding Officer..

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We have just learned from a journalist in Mobile that yesterday, Sprint blocked all cell phone calls from the Gulf Coast region to points north and west. Calls were permitted between Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida but no calls could be made to Washington, New York, or Los Angeles
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans -- and the delay helping stranded people get out or even get water and food -- is raising questions that U.S. cities may be ill-prepared to cope with a potentially worse disaster: a major attack.

Four years after the September 11, 2001, attacks, the storm disaster marked the first time the federal government has invoked its post-September 11 response plan aimed at enhancing Washington's ability to deal with national incidents.

But as Americans reeled at images of death and desperation among the city's refugees, experts on domestic security said a nuclear or biological attack on a big U.S. city could cause greater mayhem, and unlike the storm, come without warning.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050902/ts_nm/weather_katrina_terrorism_dc

We're naming it Lake George, 'cause it's his frickin fault. Have you seen all that data about the levee projects' funding being cut over the past three years by the Prez, and the funding transferred to Iraq? The levee, as designed, might not have held back the surge from a direct Class 5 hit, but it certainly would not have crumbled on Monday night from saturation and scour erosion following a glancing blow from a Class 3. The failure was in a spot that had just been rebuilt, not yet compacted, not planted, and not armed (hardened with rock/concrete). The project should have been done two years ago, but the federal gov't diverted 80% of the funding to Iraq. Other areas had settled by a few feet from their design specs, and the money to repair them was diverted to Iraq
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002336.html

Huey Long laid out a plan: a progressive income tax, real money for education, public works to rebuild Louisiana and America, an end to wars for empire, and an end to financial oligarchy. The waters receded, the anger did not, and Huey "Kingfish" Long was elected Governor of Louisiana in 1928.

At the time, Louisiana schools were free, but not the textbooks. Governor Long taxed Big Oil to pay for the books. Rockefeller's oil companies refused pay the textbook tax, so Long ordered the National Guard to seize Standard Oil's fields in the Delta.

Huey Long was called a "demagogue" and a "dictator." Of course. Because it was Huey Long who established the concept that a government of the people must protect the people, school, house, and feed them and give every man or woman a job who needs one.
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=453&row=0

Pentagon officials said Thursday they have found three more people who recall an intelligence chart that identified Sept. 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta as a terrorist one year before the attacks on New York and Washington. But they have been unable to find the chart or other evidence that it existed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050902/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/sept_11_hijackers;_ylt=ArltKAGgoXxE62SDcv79melH2ocA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MjBwMWtkBHNlYwM3MTg



As a flooded New Orleans sinks further into despair, up to 500 Florida airboat pilots have volunteered to rescue Hurricane Katrina victims, transport relief workers and ferry supplies.

But they aren't being allowed in. And they're growing frustrated.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/orl-caneboats0205sep02,0,4766048.story?coll=sfla-news-florida

On tonight's news, CTV (Canadian TV) said that support was offered from Canada. Planes are ready to load with food and medical supplies and a system called "DART" which can provide fresh water and medical supplies is standing by. Department of Homeland Security as well as other U.S. agencies were contacted by the Canadian government requesting permission to provide help. Despite this contact, Canada has not been allowed to fly supplies and personnel to the areas hit by Katrina. So, everything here is grounded. Prime Minister Paul Martin is reportedly trying to speak to President Bush tonight or tomorrow to ask him why the U.S. federal government will not allow aid from Canada into Louisiana and Mississippi. That said, the Canadian Red Cross is reportedly allowed into the area.

Canadian agencies are saying that foreign aid is probably not being permitted into Louisiana and Mississippi because of "mass confusion" at the U.S. federal level in the wake of the storm.
http://storiesinamerica.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/8/31/235829/261


And in a most disgusting example of chutzpah, the so-called "President" Dubya strummed a guitar at the Coronado Naval Base in San Diego while thousands drowned in New Orleans. One day, Bush's name will replace Emperor Nero's as a synonym for a lackadaisical tyrant who fiddled while his nation was in need: "Bush fiddled while New Orleans drowned." Maybe Bush could play the guitar while someone sings that refrain.