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Contained in Bush’s speech from the French Quarter last night (9/15/05) is this: Yet the system at every level of government, was not well coordinated and was overwhelmed in the first few days. It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal authority and a broader role for the armed forces — the institution of our government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment’s notice.
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So I have ordered every Cabinet secretary to participate in a (…)

Ali Ghazi, also a Shia from the Iraqi deep south. "I believe it is the Americans who are doing this, pretending it is the Sunni, so there will be a civil war and they can control our wealth." Many survivors lying mangled by this morning’s bombs subscribed to a conspiracy theory according to which the US wants to rule Iraq by fomenting differences between Shia and Sunni.... many of those wounded denied there would be a war between Shia and Sunni. Mohammed Abdul Karim, an injured Shia at Noman (…)

REPORTING FROM NEW ORLEANS by Rosa Clemente September 13, 2005
Listen to this incredible account of New Orleans from Hip Hop activist Rosa Clemente.. www.odeo.com/audio/229956/view
DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS
After a twenty one hour drive, we, Brad a videography and King, arrived in New Orleans, as we crossed the border of Mississippi we spoke to folks displaced, white middle class folks who have not seen a FEMA or RED CROSS vehicle since the hurricane hit, many Mexican and Honduran (…)

By Peter Fredson
The insolence of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez toward U.S. President George Bush cannot be tolerated any longer by the neoconservatives of the U.S. Bush must not allow any inferior nation or race or person to challenge the U.S. bid for world domination. Bush, the darling of his God, the love of his remolded Republican Party, the Messiah of corporations, the apocalyptic leader of American Taliban Fundamentalists, has been insulted beyond any possible bounds of taste, (…)

The West is promoting clash of civilisation to manufacture a new conflict. After the fall of Soviet Union Wester ruling classes need a new enemy to creat fear among western public. Terms such as political Islam and terrorism were coined in the early 1990s with a purpose. Western security forces, big businesses and the media have joined hands in promoting this policy of hatred and fear. The war Iraq is just an example. The media and politicians both sell lies coming from security forces sadly (…)

George Bush stood before the nation tonight and in an attempt to repair his tarnished image, unveiled the most massive reconstruction program since - maybe the reconstruction. At the same time, the US Army Corps of Engineers in conjunction with FEMA announced 4 contracts worth $500 million each, with the option of an additional $500 million. While Bush touted local jobs and local small business incentives, the debris removal contracts have been awarded to 2 corporations in Florida, 1 in (…)

"We thought we’d be fine this time" Gary Mason, Globe & Mail, Sep 5, 2005
HOUSTON - Keith Anderson is different than most of the victims of hurricane Katrina now spending their nights in a cramped Astrodome, convention hall or some church or homeless shelter here. When asked if his government failed him and his fellow residents of New Orleans, whether more could have been done to get people out before panic set in, he doesn’t give you the answer you expect. "I had lots of time to get (…)

A Sausage - Looted or Not - Lands Elderly Church Leader in Prison
By Kevin Mcgill and John Solomon Associated Press Writers Published: Sep 15, 2005
KENNER, La. (AP) - Merlene Maten undoubtedly stands out in the prison where she has been held since Hurricane Katrina. The 73-year-old church deaconess, never before in trouble with the law, now sleeps among hardened criminals. Her bail is a stiff $50,000.
Her offense?
Police say the grandmother from New Orleans took $63.50 in goods from (…)

Here’s the full text (also available here and here and here) of the Associated Press article on something that happened at Danziger Bridge in New Orleans on September 4:
"Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.
Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six.
Fourteen contractors were traveling across (…)

Could the levees in New Orleans have been INTENTIONALLY blown out in order to provide the justification for total FEMA federal takeover?
The locals certainly seem to think so, yet, as usual, the mainstream media is barely picking up on this wave of opinion, so it is left to us once again to bring the issue into the open.
This website distances itself from claims that the levees were blown to target the lower class areas and save the richer areas. The (…)