By ADAM NOSSITER, Associated Press Writer
Storm victims were raped and beaten, fights and fires broke out, corpses lay out in the open, and rescue helicopters and law enforcement officers were shot at as flooded-out New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday. "This is a desperate SOS," the mayor said.
Anger mounted across the ruined city, with thousands of storm victims increasingly hungry, desperate and tired of waiting for buses to take them out.
"We are out here like pure animals. (…)
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New Orleans Mayor Issues ’Desperate SOS’
2 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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New Orleans in Anarchy With Fights, Rapes
2 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
24 commentsBy ALLEN G. BREED
New Orleans descended into anarchy Thursday, as corpses lay abandoned in street medians, fights and fires broke out and storm survivors battled for seats on the buses that would carry them away from the chaos. The tired and hungry seethed, saying they had been forsaken.
"I’m not sure I’m going to get out of here alive," said Canadian tourist Larry Mitzel, who handed a reporter his business card in case he goes missing. "I’m scared of riots. I’m scared of the locals. We (…) -
Global Warming and Widespread Blackouts Are Just as Deadly as Terrorism
1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 commentsBy Jason Leopold
Two years ago this month, a Blackout plunged 50 million people in Northeastern U.S. and the Canadian province of Ontario into total darkness for more than a day, wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy. Now, it’s the devastation in Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi wrought by Hurricane Katrina that has killed hundreds, perhaps thousands of people.
The common thread in both disasters is that energy and environmental experts sounded early alarms about the potential for (…) -
A Walt Handlesman Cartoon
1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentby Mary MacElveen!
To My Fellow Americans,
It is especially important in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to remind the American people that while this absentee government approved of the war in Iraq and spent billions doing so, these funds could have been better used to clean up after such catastrophes.
As corporations who run our government made out like bandits where our government gave them billions and with the tax breaks to those who do not need it, this is our time to fight (…) -
‘Descent Into Hell’, 50,000 Lives Bring Apocalyptic Warning to All Citizens of United States...
1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 comments‘Descent Into Hell’, 50,000 Lives Bring Apocalyptic Warning to All Citizens of United States, the World Cries ‘You Are Not Alone’, They Cannot Hear
By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Russian Subscribers
Russian Intelligence reports are stating this morning that the grave situation developing in the American City of New Orleans can only be described as a ‘Decent Into Hell’, as to this hour over 50,000 human beings of this once great American City remain trapped by rising flood waters (…) -
Hurricanes and this Thing Called Humanity, by Manuel Valenzuela
1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
3 comments(Great article, quite relevant today. Just replace the word hurricane for tsunami)
www.valenzuelasveritas.blogspot.com
From the Oceans, Indiscriminate Devastation
As if to burst the bubble of human grandeur, infallibility and perceived omnipotence, Earth has once again thundered powerful vibrations onto her once pristine surface, in a sudden instant of horrific oceanic energy killing hundreds of thousands of innocent human beings and laying waste to vast coastlines throughout Asiatic (…) -
Waiting for a Leader
1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsGeorge 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 (…)
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The National Guard Belongs in New Orleans and Biloxi. Not Baghdad.
1 September 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
4 commentsby Norman Solomon The men and women of the National Guard shouldn’t be killing in Iraq.
They should be helping in New Orleans and Biloxi.
The catastrophic hurricane was an act of God. But the U.S. war effort in Iraq is a continuing act of the president. And now, that effort is hampering the capacity of the National Guard to save lives at home.
Before the flooding of New Orleans drastically escalated on Tuesday, the White House tried to disarm questions that could be politically (…) -
How Bush’s policies doomed New Orleans
31 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
51 commentsIt appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us. Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004
Over the last coupla days there has been some wailing and gnashing of (…) -
HAARP used to down Air France Flight 358
4 August 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsUPDATE: 3:47 PM August 3rd - HAARP used to down Air France Flight 358 Confirmed to Lenny Bloom by HAARP Technicians. Pass It On To The World. More to Come Soon.
This is another one I’d like to figure out! From: http://www.cloakanddagger.de/