May be useful while the search engine is down...others should post their links before we lose them all.
9/4 message from aid worker concerning Laura visit to area
http://hal-law.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/4/124532/7736 9/3
Kanye West criticism:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090300165.html'I'M TERRIFIED. I REALLY AM - I FEEL LIKE THE WORLD'S GONE NUTS.'
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nypost/20050903/cm_nypost/39i39mterrifiedireallyamifeelliketheworld39sgonenuts39Nagin just now on CNN:
"i'm trying to get all the resources to get these people help. I'm screaming at the governor; i'm screaming at *, and i won't stop until everyone is safe. the CIA could come in here and wipe me out any minute, but i'm not stopping until everyone is safe."
KOS timeline on our lack of response (IMPORTANT LINK)
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/3/131934/75039/2:
World mobilises to aid US victims
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4210264.stmGeraldo and Shepherd on Fox:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/02.html#a4763United States of Shame, M.Dowd
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/03/opinion/03dowd.htmlJabbar Gibson (kid who stole a school bus to save people):
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/topstory2/3334... transcript of Mayor Nagin:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/nagin.transcript/index.htmlCNN: Only half of NG equipment left in US.
Read and Weep - FEMA "turned away Police and Doctors" at the stateline
LEESBURG, Va. (AP) - A group of Loudoun County sheriffs deputies heading to Louisiana to help maintain order among hurricane refugees had to turn around at the Virginia border when they couldnt get confirmation from emergency management officials, the Loudoun County sheriff said.
Their attempts to get confirmation from the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Louisiana state officials have gone unanswered over 12 hours.
http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/Web/2005/092005/0902deputiesTranscripts: Yes, Bush did say we're gonna rebuild Trent Lott's home
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050902/dcf054.html?.v=7 We've got a lot of rebuilding to do. First, we're going to save lives and stabilize the situation. And then we're going to help these communities rebuild. The good news is -- and it's hard for some to see it now -- that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house -- he's lost his entire house -- there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch. (Laughter.)
CNN's Jack Cafferty just asked if the arrival of supplies and Bush were a COINCIDENCE
Here's the Nasty Reason for Locking Down NOLA: Quarantine
The germs that cause Cholera and Typhoid are already incubating inside of large numbers of the survivors. There is no way to effectively isolate and treat all of those infected if they were allowed to simply evacuate and disperse in large numbers.
CNN Reporters are carrying guns for protection: just heard they're in a gas line and they've taken up arms to protect themselves.
From Baton Rouge:
We don't' understand why the Red Cross is refusing to feed refugees housed in homes all up and down the state. We are told they must be IN the shelter to have hand outs from the Red Cross - and yet the shelters are full - they can't HANDLE the people. So hundreds of citizens are taking them in - and assistance is being denied to those not in the shelters. The reason given for this - at least at our Red Cross office - is because "regular citizens" might try and take food they are not entitled to - so they can only feed those who are in their shelters.
Chris Matthews to Andrea Mitchell: why didn't a "real executive person" help?
Chris Matthews asked Andrea Mitchell: "I would have thought that someone in the White House, watching what was going on in NOLA, like Andy Card, or someone who's a REAL EXECUTIVE PERSON," and get on the phone and say get this done.
PBS to air NOW program tonight on levees
http://www.buzzflash.com/alerts/05/09/ale05128.htmlLA governor: No help for Blue governor in red state.
Alabama governor is Repug. He's getting help.
CNN: Big lines for gas
Xavier University ...400 students still trapped ... one dead
<snip>
The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top of the massive berm that holds back the lake and then spilled over. Nearly 80 percent of New Orleans lies below sea levelmore than eight feet below in placesso the water poured in. A liquid brown wall washed over the brick ranch homes of Gentilly, over the clapboard houses of the Ninth Ward, over the white-columned porches of the Garden District, until it raced through the bars and strip joints on Bourbon Street like the pale rider of the Apocalypse. As it reached 25 feet (eight meters) over parts of the city, people climbed onto roofs to escape it.
Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued. It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000 were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States.
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Reading those paragraphs above, it comes as quite a shock to realize that the article is almost a year old.
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/?fs=www7.nationalgeographic.comBiloxi Mayor----"there has been no help. There is a little ice and a little water, there is no food available" Bush just drove through there an hour ago BTW.
How much water has Bush had to drink today?
"I will get back to him" - Condi Refering to help from France
Pleas for Help can be seen written on the streets of Grand Isle, Louisiana
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4589316A "floatilla of aid" TURNED BACK from New Orleans A group of approximately 1,000 citizens pulling 500 boats left the Acadiana Mall in Lafayette this morning (Weds.) and headed to New Orleans with a police escort from the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Department. The "flotillia" of trucks pulling boats stretched over five miles. This citizen rescue group was organized by La. State Senator, Gautreaux from Vermilion Parish. The group was comprised of experienced boaters, licensed fishermen and hunters, people who have spent their entire adult life and teenage years on the waterways of Louisiana.
http://www.thedeadpelican.com/lawyer.htmWash Post:
September 2, 2005; 7:23 AM
NEW ORLEANS -- An explosion jolted residents awake early Friday, illuminating the pre-dawn sky with red and orange flames over the city where corpses rotted along flooded sidewalks and bands of armed thugs thwarted fitful rescue efforts.
Congress was rushing through a $10.5 billion aid package, the Pentagon promised 1,400 National Guardsmen a day to stop the looting and President Bush planned to visit the region. But city officials were seething with anger about what they called a slow federal response following the devastation left by Hurricane Katrina.
A SWAT team drives past flood victims waiting at the Convention Center in New Orleans, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005. Officials called for a mandatory evacuation of the city, but many resident remained in the city and had to be rescued from flooded homes and hotels and remain in the city awaiting a way out. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) (Eric Gay - AP)
"They don't have a clue what's going on down there," Mayor Ray Nagin told WWL-AM Thursday night.
National Guard not allowing aid into the city
There are supplies sitting in Baton Rouge for the folks in New Orleans, but the National Guard has the city surrounded and is not letting anyone in or out. They are turning away people with supplies, claiming it is too dangerous.
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/3941.php NYT: Airlines to Fly Up to 25,000 Refugees Out of New Orleans!
The nation's airlines have been mobilized to fly up to 25,000 refugees out of New Orleans beginning today, under an emergency plan put into effect for the first time by the Department of Homeland Security.
Under the department's national response plan, 15 airlines, including 10 major commercial carriers, will transport up to 25,000 refugees from Louis Armstrong Airport outside New Orleans to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, airlines taking part in the plan said this morning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02cnd-air.htmlC-SPAN Congressional Black Caucus Angry About FEMA Response
NO mayor on aar affiliate, scathing, heartbreaking (audio)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4578849N.O. Mayor Nagin: Gov't has left us to die
Bush just said the level of help being received is unacceptable!
Bush on CNN "We are going to help rebuild Trent Lotts house. "
The Bush Speech In Screen Shots From CNN. Check Out The Quotes!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4581421BLACKWATER mercenaries coming to NOLA to provide "security services"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/1/222637/6400 Wes Clark: "it took President Bush days to get off his mountain bike"
How "Battle Hardened" Nation Guard are responding: gun point
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor /
"Bigfoot" is a bar manager and DJ on Bourbon Street, and is a local personality and icon in the city. He is a lifelong resident of the city, born and raised. He rode out the storm itself in the Iberville Projects because he knew he would be above any flood waters. Here is his story as told to me moments ago. I took notes while he talked and then I asked some questions:
Three days ago, police and national guard troops told citizens to head toward the Crescent City Connection Bridge to await transportation out of the area. The citizens trekked over to the Convention Center and waited for the buses which they were told would take them to Houston or Alabama or somewhere else, out of this area.
It's been 3 days, and the buses have yet to appear.
Although obviously he has no exact count, he estimates more than 10,000 people are packed into and around and outside the convention center still waiting for the buses. They had no food, no water, and no medicine for the last three days, until today, when the National Guard drove over the bridge above them, and tossed out supplies over the side crashing down to the ground below. Much of the supplies were destroyed from the drop. Many people tried to catch the supplies to protect them before they hit the ground. Some offered to walk all the way around up the bridge and bring the supplies down, but any attempt to approach the police or national guard resulted in weapons being aimed at them.
There are many infants and elderly people among them, as well as many people who were injured jumping out of windows to escape flood water and the like -- all of them in dire straights.
Any attempt to flag down police results in being told to get away at gunpoint. Hour after hour they watch buses pass by filled with people from other areas. Tensions are very high, and there has been at least one murder and several fights. 8 or 9 dead people have been stored in a freezer in the area, and 2 of these dead people are kids.
The people are so desperate that they're doing anything they can think of to impress the authorities enough to bring some buses. These things include standing in single file lines with the eldery in front, women and children next; sweeping up the area and cleaning the windows and anything else that would show the people are not barbarians.
FEMA refusing to give reporter a death toll
National Guard rolling into NOLA
Things in Houston going to hell..deaths on the buses, no toilets in Dome
From a Houston dome blog:
http://blogs.chron.com/domeblog /
Out in the parking lot, dozens of buses filled with more evacuees are waiting to unload. Bryant says Harris County Tax Assessor Paul Bettencourt said as many as 18,000 people may be on the grounds by noon.
A doctor told Bryant some people have died on those buses.
On the Astrodome floor, people sleep in cots, some getting real rest for the first time since taking shelter in New Orleans' Superdome. But a few have been arrested for fighting over those cots.
Volunteers are bringing badly needed supplies to the volunteers, but when they pull into the parking lot, they are often swarmed by the desparate.
It's about 10:30 p.m. and Eric is reporting that people continue to flow into the Astrodome.
It's been less than a day and already the crowds are beginning to take their toll on this gigantic dome turned shelter.
The toilets are overflowing and when Eric went to the restroom he found out only one toilet was flushing.
The blogger in NO:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/"Apocalypse Now" "Anarchy in the USA", World Stunned as U.S. Struggles
CNN Headline says it all: "Where's The Help?"
Mayor NO say's "where's the F*cking ships?!"
TOONS: Katrina's Aftermath Edition
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4578471CNN Poll: Has Bush done enough to help victims of Katrina?
80% NO
N.O mayor sends another SOS----right when chimp is doing photo op
Hastert backtracks on suggestion to bulldoze New Orleans
Why Didn't Bush wear the Flight Suit again??
The results are acceptable says Bush on CNN
Why is Bush* smiling while talking to reporters?
30 truck convey bring food and water to convention center now.
from cnn
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050902/pl_afp/usweatherde... Death toll in Louisiana could be above 10,000: US Senator - Yahoo! News
it doesn`t look good
Dennis K. - Gulf looks like it was obliterated by a weapon--- weapon of mass indifference.
New Orleans mayor lashes out at feds
Nagin: 'They are spinning and people are dying'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/02/katrina.nagin/index.htmlLaura Bush live on CNN: "Some things are working very, very well...
FEMA donations being routed to Rev. Pat Robertson
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18473 UPS just shut down in Orlando, FL: no gas
National Guard not allowing aid into the city
There are supplies sitting in Baton Rouge for the folks in New Orleans, but the National Guard has the city surrounded and is not letting anyone in or out. They are turning away people with supplies, claiming it is too dangerous.
http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/3941.php NYT: Airlines to Fly Up to 25,000 Refugees Out of New Orleans!
The nation's airlines have been mobilized to fly up to 25,000 refugees out of New Orleans beginning today, under an emergency plan put into effect for the first time by the Department of Homeland Security.
Under the department's national response plan, 15 airlines, including 10 major commercial carriers, will transport up to 25,000 refugees from Louis Armstrong Airport outside New Orleans to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, airlines taking part in the plan said this morning.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02cnd-air.htmlNO mayor on aar affiliate, scathing, heartbreaking (audio)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4578849N.O. Mayor Nagin: Gov't has left us to die
Wes Clark: "it took President Bush days to get off his mountain bike"
9/1:
Scott McClellan: "We are NOT requesting international aid." A Canadian reader of Daily Kos reports as follows:
"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."
There are jets loaded and ready to go from many countries!
CNN: Press Not Allowed to Talk to the "Refugees" Reporter in Houston Astrodome just stated that they were only allowed to photograph the "refugees" from the fifth tier of the Astrodome, but they are NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK TO ANY OF THE REFUGEES.
NO: Many Thousands Trapped in 2 Hospitals, Convention Center and Superdome
Two New Orleans hospitals plead for help
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9159903 /
Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, saying they were nearly out of food and power and had been forced to move patients to higher floors to escape looters.
call from marriot on canal...armed civilians surrounding police officers
CNN's Spellman report -"Poor cannot get on the buses(superdome)"
Says the hotel guests and well to do are getting on the buses to be evacuated from the Superdome, and the poor people on the street cannot get on the buses.
Video of Conditions inside NO Convention center so Shocking/Can't be Aired
Report on MSNBC Devastation,
chairs, corpses lined up against the walls...Babies dying, People dying of dehydration, no food...people told to come there...walked in water to shelter and there was nothing there...no one is in charge...Photographer said photographs so shocking he could barely take them... Anchor said the pictures are so shocking about the people and conditions MSNBC couldn't air them
15 to 20, 000 People trapped in NO Convention Center. Mayor urges March
Woman Stuck in Hotel in the FQ: "No Police, No NG, NO FEMA Nothing!"
Can we house NOLA refugees in mothballed military bases?
Here in Seattle we have 2 closed installations; Fort Lawton & Sand Point Naval Station, where military housing sits empty.
No water/food/medicine drops because THERE AREN'T ANY?
GOOD LORD! An emergency session of Congress has been called to they can authorize "immediate costs" for FEMA. Is this why there have been no air drops of water, food, medicine etc - BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY TO DROP?!?!?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20... WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration intends to seek $10 billion to cover immediate relief needs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, congressional officials said Thursday, and lawmakers decided to break off their summer vacation to approve the request by the weekend.
Several officials said the $10 billion would cover immediate costs for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the government's front-line responder in cases of natural disasters.
Americans offering temp homes to NO homeless.
http://neworleans.craigslist.org/hhh/FACTS: Bush was told about NO , he funded a study to confirm & then CUT $$
Bush fired Republican who criticized hurricane funding cuts
"I'm not saying it wouldn't still be flooded, but I do feel that if it had been totally funded, there would be less flooding than you have," said Michael Parker, a former Republican Mississippi congressman who headed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from October 2001 until March 2002, when he was ousted after publicly criticizing a Bush administration proposal to cut the corps' budget."
Dumbest Bush Quote About Katrina Disaster So Far
President Bush flew over the ravaged city and parts of Mississippi's hurricane-blasted coastline in Air force One. Turning to his aides, he said: "It's totally wiped out,...it's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground."
Legendary Musican "Fats" Domino Among The Missing in NOLA
Biloxi Newspaper Slams Relief Effort, Begs for Help
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001052870Video of Biloxi mechanic: "Bush shouldn't be the president no more"
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/01.html#a4727 Cafferty: "...never seen anything as badly bungled as (hurricane relief)"
CNN's Jack Cafferty just talked about viewer response to the question, "How do you rate the federal government's response to the hurricane?". He said that there hasn't been a single positive response, and that he personally has never seen anything as badly bungled as the government's response to this disaster.
"A fly-by aboard Air Force One is NOT leadership."
Admiral Crocker (couldn't catch his first name), on the Ed Schultz show, just now.
NY Times: Bush Gave "Worst Speech of His Life"
Still blogging from NO:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/(202) 456-1111 Call the White House & Demand His Resignation
Just in from AP New Orleans Mayor SOS!!!!
http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/hurricanes_and_tropical_... AP - 19 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS - 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. We don't have help," the Rev. Issac Clark, 68, said outside the New Orleans Convention Center, where corpses lay in the open and he and other evacuees complained that they were dropped off and given nothing no food, no water, no medicine.
CNN reporter verifies this seems to be accurate except he isn't sure about the rapes.
volunteers to help in the astrodome told to take course on 9-7???
bush: "Don't buy gas if you don't need it. " as he boards Air Force One
FEMA director just blamed the people who "chose" to stay in NO
9/1:
Recap of Tony Zumbado on MSNBC:
* People journeyed for days in chest deep water and followed the instructions of the Government by doing so. When they arrived at the convention center for "help" it was non existent.
* Babies starving/dying of dehydration, dead bodies lined up along the walls, and in spite of it all people are STILL patiently waiting for help.
* People are NOT looting but taking food/water for survival.
* It's NOT dangerous to approach the convention center - people are far more calm then they were after hurricane Andrew.
* Horrible scene, beyond imagination.
Check out Olbermann later for more.
So very sad. Where are the helicopters with food/water rations!?
Snip from MSNBC here:
"They were told to go to the convention center. They did, they've been behaving. It's unbelievable how organized they are, how supportive they are of each other. They have not started any mles, any riots ... they just want food and support. And what I saw there I've never seen in this country." ~ Tony Zumbado
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9160710 /
Local Audio NOLA 9/1:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4557836Scott McClellan: "We are NOT requesting international aid." A Canadian reader of Daily Kos reports as follows:
"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."
There are jets loaded and ready to go from many countries!
CNN: Press Not Allowed to Talk to the "Refugees" Reporter in Houston Astrodome just stated that they were only allowed to photograph the "refugees" from the fifth tier of the Astrodome, but they are NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK TO ANY OF THE REFUGEES.
NO: Many Thousands Trapped in 2 Hospitals, Convention Center and Superdome
Two New Orleans hospitals plead for help
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9159903 /
Doctors at two desperately crippled hospitals in New Orleans called The Associated Press Thursday morning pleading for rescue, saying they were nearly out of food and power and had been forced to move patients to higher floors to escape looters.
call from marriot on canal...armed civilians surrounding police officers
CNN's Spellman report -"Poor cannot get on the buses(superdome)"
Says the hotel guests and well to do are getting on the buses to be evacuated from the Superdome, and the poor people on the street cannot get on the buses.
Video of Conditions inside NO Convention center so Shocking/Can't be Aired
Report on MSNBC Devastation,
chairs, corpses lined up against the walls...Babies dying, People dying of dehydration, no food...people told to come there...walked in water to shelter and there was nothing there...no one is in charge...Photographer said photographs so shocking he could barely take them... Anchor said the pictures are so shocking about the people and conditions MSNBC couldn't air them
15 to 20, 000 People trapped in NO Convention Center. Mayor urges March
Woman Stuck in Hotel in the FQ: "No Police, No NG, NO FEMA Nothing!"
Can we house NOLA refugees in mothballed military bases?
Here in Seattle we have 2 closed installations; Fort Lawton & Sand Point Naval Station, where military housing sits empty.
No water/food/medicine drops because THERE AREN'T ANY?
GOOD LORD! An emergency session of Congress has been called to they can authorize "immediate costs" for FEMA. Is this why there have been no air drops of water, food, medicine etc - BECAUSE THERE ISN'T ANY TO DROP?!?!?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20... WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration intends to seek $10 billion to cover immediate relief needs in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, congressional officials said Thursday, and lawmakers decided to break off their summer vacation to approve the request by the weekend.
Several officials said the $10 billion would cover immediate costs for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the government's front-line responder in cases of natural disasters.
Americans offering temp homes to NO homeless.
http://neworleans.craigslist.org/hhh/FACTS: Bush was told about NO , he funded a study to confirm & then CUT $$
Bush fired Republican who criticized hurricane funding cuts
"I'm not saying it wouldn't still be flooded, but I do feel that if it had been totally funded, there would be less flooding than you have," said Michael Parker, a former Republican Mississippi congressman who headed the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from October 2001 until March 2002, when he was ousted after publicly criticizing a Bush administration proposal to cut the corps' budget."
Dumbest Bush Quote About Katrina Disaster So Far
President Bush flew over the ravaged city and parts of Mississippi's hurricane-blasted coastline in Air force One. Turning to his aides, he said: "It's totally wiped out,...it's devastating, it's got to be doubly devastating on the ground."
Legendary Musican "Fats" Domino Among The Missing in NOLA
Biloxi Newspaper Slams Relief Effort, Begs for Help
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001052870Video of Biloxi mechanic: "Bush shouldn't be the president no more"
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/01.html#a4727 Cafferty: "...never seen anything as badly bungled as (hurricane relief)"
CNN's Jack Cafferty just talked about viewer response to the question, "How do you rate the federal government's response to the hurricane?". He said that there hasn't been a single positive response, and that he personally has never seen anything as badly bungled as the government's response to this disaster.
"A fly-by aboard Air Force One is NOT leadership."
Admiral Crocker (couldn't catch his first name), on the Ed Schultz show, just now.
NY Times: Bush Gave "Worst Speech of His Life"
Still blogging from NO:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/interdictor/(202) 456-1111 Call the White House & Demand His Resignation
Thu Sep 01st 2005, 01:55 PM ET
CHRONOLOGY....Here's a timeline that outlines the fate of both FEMA and flood control projects in New Orleans under the Bush administration. Read it and weep:
January 2001: Bush appoints Joe Allbaugh, a crony from Texas, as head of FEMA. Allbaugh has no previous experience in disaster management.
April 2001: Budget Director Mitch Daniels announces the Bush administration's goal of privatizing much of FEMA's work. In May, Allbaugh confirms that FEMA will be downsized: "Many are concerned that federal disaster assistance may have evolved into both an oversized entitlement program...." he said. "Expectations of when the federal government should be involved and the degree of involvement may have ballooned beyond what is an appropriate level."
2001: FEMA designates a major hurricane hitting New Orleans as one of the three "likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country."
December 2002: After less than two years at FEMA, Allbaugh announces he is leaving to start up a consulting firm that advises companies seeking to do business in Iraq. He is succeeded by his deputy, Michael Brown, who, like Allbaugh, has no previous experience in disaster management.
March 2003: FEMA is downgraded from a cabinet level position and folded into the Department of Homeland Security. Its mission is refocused on fighting acts of terrorism.
2003: Under its new organization chart within DHS, FEMA's preparation and planning functions are reassigned to a new Office of Preparedness and Response. FEMA will henceforth focus only on response and recovery.
Summer 2004: FEMA denies Louisiana's pre-disaster mitigation funding requests. Says Jefferson Parish flood zone manager Tom Rodrigue: "You would think we would get maximum consideration....This is what the grant program called for. We were more than qualified for it."
June 2004: The Army Corps of Engineers budget for levee construction in New Orleans is slashed. Jefferson Parish emergency management chiefs Walter Maestri comments: "It 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."
June 2005: Funding for the New Orleans district of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is cut by a record $71.2 million. One of the hardest-hit areas is the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, which was created after the May 1995 flood to improve drainage in Jefferson, Orleans and St. Tammany parishes.
August 2005: While New Orleans is undergoing a slow motion catastrophe, Bush mugs for the cameras, cuts a cake for John McCain, plays the guitar for Mark Wills, delivers an address about V-J day, and continues with his vacation. When he finally gets around to acknowledging the scope of the unfolding disaster, he delivers only a photo op on Air Force One and a flat, defensive, laundry list speech in the Rose Garden.
A crony with no relevant experience was installed as head of FEMA. Mitigation budgets for New Orleans were slashed even though it was known to be one of the top three risks in the country. FEMA was deliberately downsized as part of the Bush administration's conservative agenda. After DHS was created, FEMA's preparation and planning functions were taken away.
Actions have consequences. No one could predict that a hurricane the size of Katrina would hit this year, but the slow federal response when it did happen was no accident. It was the result of four years of deliberate Republican policy and budget choices. It's the Bush administration in a nutshell.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/20... Wa Po Katrina pics 8/30
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2005/08/30/GA2005083000006_index_frames.htm?startat=1MSNBC pics:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9106827/displaymode/1107/s/2/framenumber/1/var1/btn_0video from 8/30:
http://nebe-b.org/wgno26flyover.asx White people find...
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/photos_ts_afp/050830071810_shxwaoma_photo1Black man loots...
http://news.yahoo.com/photo/050830/480/ladm10208301530Slides: wwltv 8/30:
http://www.wwltv.com/Molly Ivins blasts Bush
http://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=19557***********************************************************************
Headlines on DU 8/30 (I didn't keep the links)
CNN just now: Mississippi "borrowing" 800 Natl Guard from Alabama
NYT blasts Bush
CNN: Coast Guard using black paint on the houses with dead people
red paint on the houses with injured: Hancock County, Miss.
People are drowning,starving,forced to drink sewage...
How many of the LA national guard are in Iraq right now? 3000 deployed to Iraq Oct 2004.
CNN just reported that one guy just killed himself inside the SuperDome. (He jumped)
Katrina Louisiana Watch: Death in Dome, Boats Needed, Bagging Levee
BUSH you piece of shit.. WE NEED THE NATIONAL GUARD
"Looters will be treated RUTHLESSLY" - Gov of MS, Barbour
cnn saying "hundred's killed' in MS--Biluxi just now they are reporting
Mayor Nagin: Twin Spans bridge IS TOTALLY DESTROYED: Slidell, LA
WWL-TV - Martial Law declared in Jefferson Parish, Timeline given:
In one week, residents only will be allowed (with proper id) to return and pickup essentials only, then asked to leave and not return for a month
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