To: <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org> Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:35:33 +1000 Subject: [Puptcrit] Liberty can not be preserved...... Liberty can not be preserved without general knowledge among people." (August 1765) John Adams. I do not intend to continue the debate over Katrina but thought that some of you may be interested in broadening their information base. I have hundreds more links if any one wants......please dont make a smart arse comment Mr Stephens...... Regards Daniel If you only click on ONE link in this email, make it this one: http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/index.html "And I want to give you one last story and I=B4ll shut up and let you tell me whatever you want to tell me. The guy who runs this building I=B4m in, emergency management, he=B4s responsible for everything. His mother was trapped in St. Bernard nursing home and every day she called him and said, "Are you coming, son? Is somebody coming?" And he said, "Yeah, Mama, somebody=B4s coming to get you. Somebody=B4s coming to get you on Tuesday. Somebody=B4s coming to get you on Wednesday. Somebody=B4s coming to get you on Thursday. Somebody=B4s coming to get you on Friday." And she drowned Friday night. She drowned Friday night. MR. RUSSERT: Mr. President... MR. BROUSSARD: Nobody=B4s coming to get us. Nobody=B4s coming to get us. The secretary has promised. Everybody=B4s promised. They=B4ve had press conferences. I=B4m sick of the press conferences. For God sakes, shut up and send us somebody. " FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-00000e.. "We need food and water and they sent us men with guns" : Katrina survivor World stunned as U.S. struggles with Katrina By Andrew Gray The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10082.htm The National Public Radio news anchor was so excited I thought she'd piss on herself: the President of the United had flown his plane down to 1700 feet to get a better look at the flood damage! And there was a photo of our Commander-in-Chief taken looking out the window. He looked very serious and concerned. That was yesterday. Today he played golf. No kidding. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10073.htm Murder and mayhem in New Orleans' miserable shelter "They died right here, in America, waiting for food," By Mark Egan Leroy Fouchea, offered to show reporters the dead bodies of a man in a wheelchair, a young man who he said he dragged inside just hours earlier, and the limp forms of two infants, one just four months old, the other six months old. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10088.htm In the refugee camp I just left, on the I-10 freeway near Causeway, thousands of people (at least 90% black and poor) stood and squatted in mud and trash behind metal barricades, under an unforgiving sun, with heavily armed soldiers standing guard over them. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10090.htm A man walked past the bodies dragging a pallet loaded with big bottles of ginger ale, some plates and a frying pan. To the rest of America watching the tragedy unfold on their televisions, he was one of the looters, denounced by President Bush. But to the people inside the convention centre, he was one of a band of heroes keeping them alive. http://www.guardian.co.uk/katrina/story/0,16441,1561996,00.html America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning. But this time it's happening in America. http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=8017 A visibly angry Mayor Daley said the city had offered emergency, medical and technical help to the federal government as early as Sunday to assist people in the areas stricken by Hurricane Katrina, but as of Friday, the only things the feds said they wanted was a single tank truck. http://www.suntimes.com/output/hurricane/cst-nws-daley03.html The evacuation was interrupted briefly as some 700 guests and employees from the Hyatt Hotel could move to the head of the evacuation line - much to the amazement of those who had been crammed in the stinking Superdome since last Sunday. http://snipurl.com/hf4x FEMA turns away experienced firefighters http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/5/105538/7048 FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec.. FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspec.. FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm FEMA bars morticians from entering New Orleans http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15147862&BRD=... FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/3/171718/0826 FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509.. FEMA to Chicago: Send just one truck http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902dale.. FEMA turns away generators http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/WWLBLOG.ac3fcea.html FEMA: "First Responders Urged Not To Respond" http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470 We had to kill our patients by CAROLINE GRAHAM and JO KNOWSLEY Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leaving them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10249.htm Last September, a Category 5 hurricane battered the small island of Cuba with 160-mile-per-hour winds. More than 1.5 million Cubans were evacuated to higher ground ahead of the storm. Although the hurricane destroyed 20,000 houses, no one died. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10112.htm Met by Despair, Not Violence: As they plunged into the dark water engulfing the business district of New Orleans, their wake pushed the body of a woman onto the steps of the Superdome. The floodwater had ripped her pants down to her knees. She was facedown in the muck, a red ribbon still tied neatly around her graying hair. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10114.htm Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President Bush's visit to New Orleans, officials said. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10119.htm For the entire time Bush was in the state, the congressman said, a ban on helicopter flights further stalled the delivery of food and supplies. http://snipurl.com/hfod Video: Police looters in walmart http://snipurl.com/hfoe A Perfect Time for Assessing Blame: Who will reap this bonanza? Not the people employed to remove wreckage, build houses and restore the infrastructure. While Congress was appropriating nearly $52 billion in relief and reconstruction programs last week, Bush quietly suspended the Davis-Bacon Act in the flood region. This law mandates that workers on federal construction projects be paid at least the prevailing local wage. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10256.htm 'Racist' police blocked bridge and forced evacuees back at gunpoint : Witnesses said the officers fired their guns above the heads of the terrified people to drive them back and "protect" their own suburbs. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10241.htm 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. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10239.htm As bodies recovered, reporters are told 'no photos, no stories' : Outside one house on Kentucky Street, a member of the Army 82nd Airborne Division summoned a reporter and photographer standing nearby and told them that if they took pictures or wrote a story about the body recovery process, he would take away their press credentials and kick them out of the state. http://snipurl.com/hnk4 News From Behind The Facade By John Pilger The poor were no longer invisible; the bodies floating in contaminated water, the survivors threatened with police shotguns, the distinct obesity of American poverty - all of it mocked the forests of advertising billboards and relentless television commercials and news sound-bites (average length 9.9 seconds) that glorify the "dream" of wealth and power. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10275.htm http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Hannity-Colmes-Smith-Rivera-freak-in-NO.wmv http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer118.html http://www.nycore.org/katrina.html http://rense.com/general67/jamin.htm http://www.livejournal.com/users/mparent7777/2658960.html http://www.aworldtowin.net/katrina.htm http://www.theage.com.au/letters/index.html http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article310554.ece http://www.plenglish.com http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10194.htm http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10196.htm http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10182.htm http://snipurl.com/hjau http://snipurl.com/hjaw http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3004197 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10198.htm http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10204.htm http://homepage.mac.com/jlramer/Audio/iMovieTheater19.html http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805Y.shtml http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/155937/ http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10215.htm http://snipurl.com/hmh4 http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8514671/#050912a In the Floods, Parties' Agendas Surface: A $51.8 billion relief bill that Congress passed on Thursday included a significant change to federal contracting regulations. Holders of government-issued credit cards will be allowed to spend up to $250,000 on Katrina-related contracts and purchases, without requiring them to seek competitive bids or to patronize small businesses or companies owned by minorities and women. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10262.htm The federal official in charge of the bungled New Orleans rescue was fired from his last private-sector job overseeing horse shows. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10115.htm The near total incompetence and callousness of the Bush administration has thankfully floated to the top of New Orleans' rank floodwaters like so much rotting waste; and no amount of blame-the-victim spin and war-over-people rhetoric can put the genie back in the bottle. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10107.htm _______________________________________________ List address: puptcrit-AT-lists.driftline.org Admin interface: http://lists.driftline.org/listinfo.cgi/puptcrit-driftline.org Archives: http://www.driftline.org
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