Precedents of the AmeriKKKan Empire
Precedents of the AmeriKKKan Empire “The Neo-con Empire (if I may so call it) has arisen since the Second World War and is based on the concept which its proponents have come to call a Pax Americana, whereby the U.S.A., by brute force, by threats or by guile will impose its will not on a defined region such as the Roman Empire, but on the whole world. The aim is the same as that of the Romans, namely to favour trade and economic benefits for the central rulers, who will have to persuade their subjects at home to behave as desired in such farces as the elections, which therefore closely resemble the circuses beloved of the Roman mobs. We therefore have two parallels, firstly the coming to power similar to that of Adolf Hitler, and secondly the maintenance of power and the extension of the Empire in a manner which harks back to the Romans.” Robert Thompson Axis of Logic 09-24-05
We hears so much about the AmeriKKKan Empire as if AmeriKKKan imperialism was new, as if the NeoConmen ideologues who dominate the current political and cultural landscape were the first Euro-AmeriKKKans to envision the United States as a empire. In an essay on www.axisoflogic.com entitled
Imperialism - a note to the good people of the U.S.A. Robert Thompson posits US imperialism driven by the NeoConmen, the architects of the Bu$h administration’s predatory and rapacious foreign policies, likens these policies to the ancient Roman Empire and the Third Reich of Adolph Hitler. While this is an apt analogy of current events, the fact of the matter is, just like George W Bu$h ascended to the presidency with a global war agenda, AmeriKKKa itself was born of an agenda of pillage plunder murder and conquest. The European powers that made their presence felt in this hemisphere, the Spanish, Portugese, French, British and the Dutch did not come in peace. They came seeking booty, gold, and natural resources to augment their meager existence in Europe. They came with little or nothing in the way of trade materials other than guns and powder because even if they had been honest tradesman and merchants (which they were not) they had nothing of real value to offer the indigenous people here. Once they established trading settlements (colonies), their cultural norm of xenophobia, blood lust and warmongering set in, fighting, rape and murder became the norm. Immediately after the Revolutionary War was over, George Washington and Co. ( a distant relative of the current White House occupant) resumed their genocidal assault on the native inhabitants of the land with an eye towards more conquest and westward expansion. This policy was carried out by successive administrations under various names and propaganda campaigns. Manifest Destiny was one of the last such PR campaign. All the while they were slaughtering the natives and warring with the darker people of Mexico, the ruling elites of AmeriKKKa set their sights on being a world empire like their European brethren. To accomplish this they devised schemes to purchase land from their neighbors ala the Louisiana Purchase or pick on the weaker European Empires and steal their possessions. This is what the Mexican-AmeriKKKan and Spanish-AmeriKKKan Wars were really about. In the back of the European’s mind, in the deep recesses of their psyche (should I say psychotic?) was the notion of an AmeriKKKan empire.
Today we see the out pressing and results of this trans-generational scheming for Empire in places like Guam, Hawaii, Haiti, Afghanistan and Iraq, not to mention indirect economic and cultural neocolonial rule in Central and South America, Africa and Asia. What Robert Thompson writes about is the imperial style of the AmeriKKKan elite. To hismind they are taking their cues from Adolph Hitler and the Roman Empire. And why not, it is a known fact the Bu$h family supported Hitler and his Nazi regime, they were his agents in AmeriKKKa. What is not so well known is following WW II the US imported hundreds if not thousands of Nazi scientists, businessmen and intelligence agents and integrated them in AmeriKKKan society. Research
Operation Paperclip, research the history of the CIA and its nefarious offshoots like
MK Ultra,
Operation Mockingbird and research modern AmeriKKKan biochemical warfare and you will see a direct link to the Nazis and their ruling elite sponsors like the Dulles brothers, the Rockefeller and Harriman families and the rest of the New World Order puppets. Human beings are creatures of habit, the rapine, bloodletting and pillage are cultural patterns and habits of the Caucasian people. Long before there was a Roman Empire or a Hitler there were Aryans, Persians, Medes, Dorians, Goths, Jutes, Normans, Angles Saxons etc. These are the barbarian ancestors of the modern “white people’ we see every day. These are the real beginnings of the AmeriKKKan empire.
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Following The Money Trail
Following The Money Trail “The first detailed tally of commitments from federal agencies since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast four weeks ago shows that more than 15 contracts exceed $100 million, including 5 of $500 million or more. Most of those were for clearing away the trees, homes and cars strewn across the region; purchasing trailers and mobile homes; or providing trucks, ships, buses and planes. More than 80 percent of the $1.5 billion in contracts signed by the Federal Emergency Management Agency alone were awarded without bidding or with limited competition, government records show, provoking concerns among auditors and government officials about the potential for favoritism or abuse. Already, questions have been raised about the political connections of two major contractors - the Shaw Group and Kellogg, Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton - that have been represented by the lobbyist Joe M. Allbaugh, President Bush's former campaign manager and a former leader of FEMA.”- Eric Lipton and Ron Nixon New York Times 09-26-05
Human beings are creatures of habit. Habits are attitudes, emotions, behaviors and ways of responding to circumstances and situations we have done over and over in the past to the point we react automatically without even conscious thought about how to react. On an individual or personal level habits are called patterns, on a family or group level they are called folkways, mores, customs, traditions and on the larger societal level they are called culture. Once you discern a person’s or groups habitual behavioral patterns you can accurately predict their current and future behaviors. In fact if you are really clever based on your knowledge of their habits yo can manipulate them to do what you want them to do! Looking at the Bu$h crime family you can see clearly discernable patterns of psychopathy, corruption and cronyism that are unfolding even as you read this in the clean up operations for Hurricane Katrina. The New York Times reported in today’s edition there are growing concerns much of the work and money going to clean up the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is going to close friends and allies of Republicans in general and the Bu$h cabal in particular. Why should we be shocked that most of the contracts have been awarded through no bid or low competition? You could say time is of the essence and the work needs to be done as soon as possible and these contractors have the expertise, so what’s the big deal? Well the big deal is there is an appearance of impropriety and a very real lack of fiduciary oversight. According to the Times article,
“Some businesses awarded large contracts have long records of performing similar work, but they also have had some problems. CH2M Hill and the Fluor Corporation, two global engineering companies awarded a total of $250 million in contracts, were previously cited by regulators for safety violations at a weapons plant cleanup. The Bechtel Corporation, awarded a contract that could be worth $100 million, is under scrutiny for its oversight of the 'Big Dig' construction project in Boston. And Kellogg, Brown & Root, which was given $60 million in contracts, was rebuked by federal auditors for unsubstantiated billing from the Iraq reconstruction and criticized for bills like $100-per-bag laundry service. All of the companies have publicly defended their performance.” What we will see especially when you consider the Bu$h family pattern of corruption and fraud ala the massive nation wide Savings and Loan Scandal that Jeb, Neil and George H.W Bu$h profited from and when we understand the notoriously rampant patterns of Department of Defense and HUD fraud and money laundering will be more taxpayer rip offs, price fixing and gouging, out and out fraud and theft. The cronyism and good ol’ boy network will reap billions. The Times quotes Bennie Thompson a Mississippi Congressman who complained about the rampant cronyism he sees already.
“‘There is just more of the good-old-boy system, taking care of its political allies,’ Mr. Thompson said. ‘FEMA and the others have put out these contracts in such a haphazard manner, I don't know how they can come up with anything that is accountable to the taxpayers.’”. That’s their pattern: steal and loot the public coffers with no oversight or accountability. If you get caught, you just cover it up because for the most part the media plays the game by the crooks’ rules. To get an idea of how big a boondoggle or profit making venture this could turn out to be, one company got rid of its total leftover 2005 inventory of mobile homes,
“FEMA has led the effort to line up contractors to install tens of thousand of temporary homes. The scale of the job is still unclear - depending on demand, FEMA may downsize its plans - but the agency has been rushing to buy as many travel trailers and mobile homes as it can. It has signed five contracts each worth more than $100 million with major manufacturers. And it has scoured the country, buying up whatever it can find on dealers' lots. That has turned into a bonanza for businesses like Wagner's RV Center in Suamico, Wis., which sold 69 trailers to FEMA for $1.3 million. ‘In a single sale, we cleared out most of our leftover inventory from the 2005 model year,’ said Leonard Wagner, the owner of the RV center. ‘That does not happen very often.’”. The clean up and relocation have to be done. However, the victims and taxpayers deserve an honest effort, not another opportunity to be ripped off. The work has to be done but the habit (patterns) of the Bu$h crime family and their cohorts are to find ways to engage in out and out fraud when doing business with the government. Worse, they often manipulate the situation and circumstances or they have inside information or foreknowledge. This is the petri dish that spawned the corruption fraud and abuse we’ve witnessed in the past.
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The New New Orleans
The New New Orleans Tuesday, August 23, 2005 By Michael McGough, Post-Gazette National Bureau WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Supreme Court yesterday refused to reconsider one of its most controversial rulings of the 2004-05 term: a 5-4 decision upholding a Connecticut city's use of eminent domain to acquire private property for a redevelopment plan anchored by a private business. The order denying a rehearing did not come as a surprise because the court seldom reconsiders one of its decisions. But few rulings have provoked such public outrage as the court's June 23 decision in Kelo v. New London. In that case, the court held that New London, which had been designated a distressed municipality, could acquire the property of Susette Kelo and eight other residents of the city's Fort Trumbull neighborhood and use the land for an elaborate development surrounding a $300 million Pfizer pharmaceutical company research facility. I watched the US Supreme Court decision in
Kelo v New London with great interest because as a borough councilman in a small historically African-American incorporated self governing town we are facing opposition to a proposed redevelopment plan ourselves. I must admit at first I was surprised by the 5-4 decision. However after thinking about it, given the influence of corporatism in contemporary AmeriKKKa, I’m not shocked. After all, this is the same right wing leaning court that awarded the presidency to George W Bush in the infamous Gore v Bush decision of 2000. Contrary to the propaganda we learned in Civics 101, the US Supreme Court is not concerned about justice. In it’s long and infamous history the US Supreme court has demonstrated that it is really an arbitrator of last resort, not for justice but for maintaining a status quo favoring the interests of the ruling elites. In this case the taking of private property for economic development rather than public projects like roads, schools or reducing blight is consistent with recent rulings and the corporatist (fascist) drift of AmeriKKKa . The reason I say I’m not surprised is because I see the Kelo v New London decision as the linchpin for the taking of private property in New Orleans that will eventually alter the socio-economic landscape of that beleaguered city. The Kelo v New London ruling will set the stage for a massive land grab or as Justice Sandra Day O’Conner called it, “a reverse Robin Hood, stealing from the poor to give to the rich”, which will pave the way for a re-gentrified New Orleans. Unlike the project we are attempting in our town where any land owned by citizens would be amply compensated for, the use of Kelo v New London will be used in New Orleans to take advantage of poor black home owners (although most of the people stranded by Hurricane Katrina were not home owners). The devastated and hard pressed homeowners will probably accept any offer made by the developers who are salivating at the opportunity to build a new city minus all the poor and black residents Katrina and FEMA dislocated. It is highly unlikely the residents who were whisked off without telling them where they were being taken, who have been relocated in shelters and “resettlement” (concentration?) camps, who lacked the wherewithal to even evacuate New Orleans on their own during an impending catastrophe, will have the wherewithal to return to the city to start over.
I have seen numerous articles on the Internet suggesting Hurricane Katrina allowed the Bu$h administration and FEMA to practice ethnic cleansing on the QT. When the levees were mysteriously breeched (it is has now been ascertained the rising waters of the storm did not compromise the New Orleans levee structures) the low-lying areas of a city built below were inundated with flood water. The flooding wiped out many homes and the owners have lost everything. However, many of the residents lived in public housing because black home ownership in New Orleans is relatively low on a per capita basis, as one would expect in a city with a high poverty rate and almost seventy per cent black inhabitants! The residents who lost everything and who have also been displaced, will not be factors in the new New Orleans! Those planning to rebuild New Orleans don’t want or need them because they offer little in the way of skills, entrepreneurship (other than the underground economy) or economic potential. The working class homeowners unfortunate enough not to have their deeds, adequate flood or home owners’ insurance can easily be swindled out of their property by unscrupulous city, insurance and mortgage officials. The ruling elites of New Orleans understand the importance of the city as a tourist center and one of the most strategic ports in the world, so they definitely plan to rebuild the city. Only poor blacks will not be welcome. They don’t plan on bringing back the poor blacks who lived there prior to the hurricane.
FEMA did its part by displacing and relocating folks hundreds and in some cases thousands of miles away from the city. The fact most of those who were relocated are not homeowners, makes it easier for them not to make it back to the city. The homeowners cannot look to the federal government or the courts for support now that the US Supreme Court has rendered the Kelo v New London decision. The head of the legal team who filed suit on behalf of Susette Kelo admitted he wasn’t surprised the Supreme Court refused to reconsider its ruling. In an article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette dated 09-23-05 Scott G. Bullock of the Justice Institute stated, “Considering that the court in over 50 years has not reconsidered a ruling in these circumstances, it's not a huge surprise. It does make it crystal clear that the Supreme Court won't protect small businesses and homeowners, and that they will have to go to their state legislatures.” According to Bullock relief will be sought in the state legislatures and courts. As we all know, the poor people of New Orleans unlike Halliburton and Bechtel who will make billions rebuilding the city, do not have access to the legislature or the courts. In a document published by The Committee for a Better New Orleans in their Housing and Neighborhood task force entitled Blueprint For A Better New Orleans stated, “ Vacant and blighted properties are public safety hazards, eyesores and barriers to neighborhood revitalization. Eliminating these pervasive problem properties from New Orleans is essential to reclaiming and maintaining the City's unique neighborhoods.
Reclaim neighborhoods by reducing the number of blighted properties (lots and vacant buildings) through renovation and redevelopment, with demolition as a last resort.
2.Neighborhood revitalization.
Nothing defines New Orleans' character so much as its rich variety of neighborhoods. To maintain these treasures, the citizens themselves must be in charge of preserving their heritage and charting their future, and must have the information, tools and resources to take on this responsibility. Strengthen the capacity of our citizens to define, develop and maintain attractive and vibrant neighborhoods.
3.Increasing the rate of home ownership.
In that it gives people both a much larger stake in the future of their neighborhoods as well as a platform for their own economic advancement, home ownership is widely considered a key to community health and revitalization. New Orleans must increase dramatically its rate of home ownership.”
Significantly increase the rate of home ownership for low to middle income residents through a combination of public and private initiatives addressing home finance and education, as well as livable and affordable supply of housing stock.
4.0 Affordable rental housing.
Renters will always be part of the housing equation. As the City aims to reduce residential density in the housing developments, additional rental properties will be needed in neighborhoods throughout New Orleans. A particular pitfall to avoid in this process is clustering of low-income renters. Low to moderate income residents, the elderly and the homeless are specific populations with particular rental needs.
Increase the supply of affordable rental housing by increasing resources and removing barriers for low to moderate income housing (including special needs populations) in mixed income areas. ” All this sounds good and looks good on paper but how were they planning to accomplish all this in New Orleans as poor and corrupt as that city was? It seems to me Hurricane Katrina, FEMA and Bu$h helped them solve a major part of their problem.
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Take Your Blinders Off
Take Your Blinders Off WASHINGTON - (KRT) - As the anti-war movement arrives in Washington this weekend, many top Democrats are leaving. Nationally known Democratic war critics, including Howard Dean, the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Russell Feingold of Wisconsin and John Kerry of Massachusetts, won't attend what sponsors say will be a big anti-war rally Saturday in Washington. The only Democratic officeholders who plan to address the rally are Reps. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia and John Conyers of Michigan. Today's leading Democrats head a party divided over the war, and many leaders are wary of standing with anti-war activists, who represent much of the party's base. The divide between anti-war activists and Democratic leaders underscores a challenge the party faces in the 2006 congressional elections and beyond. Some activists say that Democrats such as Clinton and Kerry who criticize the war but refuse to demand a timetable for withdrawal are effectively supporting the status quo - and may not merit future support.- Knight Ridder Newspapers 09-22-05
There is lots going on today. Soccer moms and dads attending their children’s games, high school and college football to keep folks distracted, the Congressional Black Caucus (which usually is a colossal waste of time but this year promises to offer a few meaningful sessions) will be winding down; and there are a slew of anti war rallies scheduled around the country. Plus folks are waiting with bated breath to see what happens with Hurricane Rita as it hammers its way towards Texas. Interestingly a national anti-war rally is scheduled for Washington D.C. today at a time when AmeriKKKa’s support for Bu$h’s ill conceived and immoral crusade for oil and US dollar hegemony are at all time low. Yet non of the marque names of the Democratic Party are in attendance or scheduled to speak at today’s rally, not even anti war stalwarts like Dennis Kucinich or Howard Dean. What’ sup with that? I’ve read articles criticizing rally organizers for not being fully inclusive and inviting right wing opponents of the war such as Pat Buchanan. Interestingly it is the fearless Cynthia McKinney and the venerable John Conyers who are going to be on hand and participate in today anti-war rally. I’m not surprised! There was a time in this country when the moral compass and the clarion for righteousness prerogatives of Africans in AmeriKKKa. While there were certainly many abolitionists who fought long and hard against chattel slavery black folks like Frederick Douglas, Henry Highland Garnett and Sojourner Truth were eloquent and fierce advocates of freedom and justice whose voices rang out with conviction and passion. As the shadows of fascism encroach upon the land and militarism and economic and color caste calcify in the early years of the twenty-first century, it seems the voices of dissent of moral suasion and even revolution have all been muffled. Over and over I’ve asked myself where is the modern Martin Luther King Jr.? Why haven’t a new Elijah Muhammad or Malik El Haj El Shabazz materialized to exhort us to rediscover our courage and commitment. Where is the twenty-first century Callie House or Mary McCloud Bethune? When will they manifested themselves in our midst to energize, galvanize and show us the way to do for self? But the most important question is when will we stop looking outside of ourselves, both personally and collectively for someone to come and recuse us? When will we abandon the messiah mentality and realize as my friend Ralph Stevenson always says, we are the ones we have been waiting for??!
It is obvious by their absence from a national anti- war rally that will include much of their former or still lingering constituency within the Democratic Party that the so called leadership of the Democratic Party is just as out of touch with the wants and wishes of common folk as are Bu$h and his NeoConmen cabal. It’s no that the people don’t know the Democratic Party leadership sold them out in 2004; they can’t be that stupid (in a stupor). They know John Kerry was part and parcel of the same upper crust blue blood ruling elite that pulls George W Bu$h’s strings, folks just wanted a change from Bu$h. What goes around comes around. The US and the CIA have rigged and stolen elections around the world since WWII. They, meaning the NeoCon Republican fat cats, stole the US presidential elections in 2000 and 2004 But there is the Law of KARMA to be reckoned with. The consequences of their malevolence are being felt here and now! We saw just how ruthless and sociopathic the Bu$h Cheney cabal really is during Hurricane Katrina. Alas the Democratic Party especially the DLC wing is just as fascist as the Republicans. In fact they used a modified Republican Southern Strategy to win the White House in 1992 and ‘96. It is time for folks to take the blinders off and see things for what they really are. The Democratic Party has betrayed its core constituency of organized labor, civil rights, immigrant and working class interests in favor of multi-national corporate hand outs/bribes. As long as this is the case, and there is money to be made in waging war, don’t look for the Democratic Party’s marquee names to show up at anti-war rallies. And don’t be surprised and shocked when they don’t!
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Will Rita Be Another Katrina?
Will Rita Be A Repeat of Katrina? “Take a look at these headlines – FEMA refusing all offered rescue assistance from Amtrack to experienced firefighters, FEMA not delivering on promises, FEMA barring delivery of desperately needed food or water to frightened and bewildered victims of Katrina, FEMA telling First Responders not to 'respond' to the disaster. Does anybody but me see a pattern here? Is it possible for an emergency aid organization to show up at the scene only to refuse all offers of aid? Does McDonald's cook up a bunch of hamburgers and then lock its doors to its hungry patrons? FEMA is the Patriot Act on crack. Once its powers are unleashed, Oliver North's REX 84 'exercise' will become a reality. The Constitution will be suspended and FEMA will have the right to detain or seize the property of anyone even suspected of engaging in, or who might be thinking of conspiring with others to engage in acts of espionage or sabotage. REX 84 also advocated rounding up and transferring to 'assembly centers or relocation camps' of at least 21 million American Negroes in the event of massive rioting or disorder, not unlike the rounding up of the Jews in Nazi Germany in the 1930s. The actual number of displaced New Orleans residents is unknown. Overnight, they became 'refugees,' and hundreds of thousands packed into the Super Dome or sat sweltering in the sun on roads and bridges during a nightmarish week of waiting for help that did not come, while political fat cats finger-pointed and accused each other of playing the 'blame' game. Finally, their military liberators herded them onto buses and planes, refusing to reveal their destination – husbands and wives separated, families split apart – and disappeared to 'assembly centers or location camps' throughout the United States.”- The Unconstitutional FEMA Sheila Samples http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=SAM20050916&articleId=962
I was watching the Weather Channel to get some info on the new hurricane barreling down on the Gulf Coast that at this point is headed for the Louisiana-Texas border. The storm is categorized as a level four hurricane and should make landfall by Saturday morning. Since Katrina hit and the levees broke (or were sabotaged) I have seen some alarming information about the US government aside from the “ineptitude” and callousness of the Bu$h administration. We have seen and heard first hand reports about FEMA obstructing relief efforts, preventing first responders from coming into New Orleans, denying donated supplies from foreign countries and taking a combat approach towards the operation rather than a search and save mind set. Will FEMA, local state and federal authorities handle this hurricane the same way they handled Katrina? Will FEMA sit around and wait for the situation to worsen so they can call out the active military like they did during Katrina? Will there be reports of sabotage in Corpus Christie or Houston like there were with the New Orleans levees? Will the media mind control apparatus demonize any unfortunates who lack the resources and wherewithal to evacuate their homes and community? Will FEMA use the chaotic situation as a dry run for martial law and a heavy handed response like they did during Katrina? (See www.Armytimes.com) . Will Bu$h and Co. use Hurricane Rita as an excuse to demand more power, to continue their push for repeal of the Posse Comitatus Act so the US military can be used as law enforcement, lock down and martial law nation wide? The current situation in the Gulf Coast bears watching because the Bu$h administration will use this to further their villainous agenda. Don’t believe for one moment the way they acted during Katrina was a reflection of their ineptitude. It was a replay of 9-11, when they deliberately sat back and did nothing to prevent 9-11 even though they had ample evidence such an occurrence was eminent and some in the administration like Dick Cheney may have actually been part of the planning and execution itself! One thing is for sure only an idiot believes some religious fanatics living in a cave in Afghanistan was able to pull 9-11 off. Even if they had known about the live military and civil defense training drills scheduled for that day, there is no way in hell Osama bin Laden could have coordinated those attacks to coincide with the drills without at least having inside information about the drills and the military stand down that was in effect during the training sessions. Contrary to the slew of lies the Bu$h administration and the bogus 9-11 Commission told, federal authorities have known about plots to use commercial airplanes as missiles for years. (See Operation Bojinka at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Bojinka)
In the case of Hurricane Rita we will have to watch to see if state and local authorities coordinate the evacuation of the cities in Texas better than the authorities in New Orleans and Louisiana did. Will another devastating storm in the Gulf Coast further undermine petroleum and natural gas supplies form the Gulf Coast which furnishes twenty-five per cent of domestic oil and about a third of our natural gas? This means more price fluctuations, a negative impact on the economy, more social disruption, massive dislocation and destruction. Will these super storms follow the Bu$h administration pattern of no bid contracts to his buddies, faulty book keeping and massive fraud or will the public demand oversight and accountability? Will the fascists in the Republican Party and their go along cronies in the Democratic Party stack the deck to prevent an independent investigation or review of the response good or poor of Hurricane Rita like they just did with Hurricane Katrina? These and more questions need to be asked. Keep your eyes and ears open, think critically and come to your own conclusions independent of what corporate media feeds you. The answers will play out in the days and weeks ahead following this latest storm. One last question, is Hurricane Rita part of weather warfare the ruling oligarchy is utilizing to further their ultra- fascist agenda to reconfigure the AmeriKKKan political, physical, economic and cultural landscape? Time will tell, but we must be vigilant and ready to move to thwart their plan if in fact we see it unfold during this latest storm situation.
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Our Consciousness Is Showing
Our Consciousness Is Showing “Man’s consciousness is a creative act and the kind of consciousness one has will determine the kind of world one creates. Consequently, when we look at the world we live in, Afrikan people, we must recognize that to a great extent it is a world of our own creation. It is a world generated by the kind of consciousness that we have permitted to be installed in us as a people. We talk about the white man as having power. Recognize that power ultimately has to do with a relationship between people and that the white man’s so called power is to large degree based upon the nature of the relationship he has with the black man. We empower him by the nature of our own behavior and attitudes as a people. He cannot be what he is unless we are what we are.” Afrikan Centered Consciousness Versus The New World Order Dr. Amos N Wilson page 89
Our consciousness is always showing. A anceint proverb says it so consicely, “there is nothing hidden (our thoughts, attitudes and values) that will not be revealed ” (expressed, demonstrated acted out through our behavior). So when we see, for example, the fiendish way the Bu$h administration allowed our people to suffer and die in New Orleans despite ample warning, despite satellite tracking of the storm by the National Weather Service and the US military or we see the result of Bu$h’s lies and how the Democrats spinelessly go along with imposing fascism in AmeriKKKa, this is really an outpressing or demonstration of their consciousness,
and ours! But the thing that troubles me is why are we so surprised? How can we, after knowing what white people did to the Native Americans, what they did to our ancestors and are doing to us (during Hurricane Katrina for example) and the atrocities they are committing in Haiti and Iraq; how can we feign shock and surprise? I came of age during the 1960's and I remember members of the Nation of Islam calling white folks devils, I remember the cartoons in the
Muhammad Speaks newspaper depicting them as devils with horns and pointed tails as part of Elijah Muhammad’s ideology and explanation of the existing socio-political realities. It appears the Europeans are using their technology (tricknology as the Black Muslims used to say) to program us into acquiescing to their dominance, our subjugation, their bloodlust, our victim-hood and maintenance of the existing Eurocentric status quo. And we as media consumers mindlessly, willingly and uncritically suck it all up. We are so punked out we can’t even discern the media is their prime propaganda tool. We have succumbed to the notion the white man is all powerful and invincible despite empirical evidence to the contrary beamed before our eyes daily as we witness the courageous Iraqi, Cuban North Korean and Venezuelan nationalist leaders resisting the imposition of Western cultural and economic predatory exploitation on their people. Is there a fundamental difference between them and us? Why are we so docile, so lethargic and so timid when it is obvious they acted the way they did during the hurricane because New Orleans was mostly black and poor?
Consciousness is active it is not passive. To be conscious is to be, being means action; the process of awareness, being aware, actively using our imagination, our volition and inner resources to actualize ourselves to actively plan, design and create our immediate and extended environment and reality. We are powerful beings in that regard with unlimited and untapped potential. The operative words are unlimited and untapped. In fact we are so untapped it is almost as if we are comatose or dead. We have allowed aliens to take over our minds. We are the targets of menticide, the deliberate attempt to destroy a people’s minds or literally drive them crazy. We see this every day. Look at our children, listen to how they talk, what they talk about and ask yourself, is this normal or sane? Look at what they watch, listen to and use to entertain themselves ask yourself on the whole, is it empowering, ennobling and self and group affirming? If not, you need to challenge them to expand their choices. What about us, do we still consume massive hour of media? If so what is the quality and content of what we watch, listen to and use to entertain ourselves. If it is not pro-African or liberation oriented, we need to begin to think and act differently. We have the power and the ability to choose; and the opportunity to change!
Hurricane Katrina as devastating as it was, provided an excellent opportunity for us to reassess our situation in AmeriKKKa. Do we have the consciousness to even see the need to reassess where we are and the real challenges we face? The whole world saw how our people were dissed in New Orleans by the federal government. And that is not counting reports the levees were intentionally sabotaged or that FEMA deliberately prevented help and supplies from getting into the city. If this is true and I believe it is, this is all the more reason to alter our consciousness about our situation in AmeriKKKa! If we fail to act, then the outcome will be inevitable we will continue to be destroyed or at the very least will continue at the mercy of cold hearted and callous people . The few of us who survive or future generation of humans will say Africans in AmeriKKKa were wiped out because we lacked a consciousness of survival, we lacked a consciousness of ethnic integrity (being true to one’s self) and the unwillingness to do for self! As we take an assessment of our situation, we will see our state of consciousness as reflected by our outer conditions, our environment and quality of life (or lack thereof). Why? Because our consciousness is always showing.
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Waving The False Flag
Waving the False Flag BAGHDAD, Sept. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Iraqi police detained two British soldiers in civilian clothes in the southern city Basra for firing on a police station on Monday, police said. "Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two British soldiers," an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosives, the source said. He added that the two were being interrogated in the police headquarters of Basra. The British forces informed the Iraqi authorities that the two soldiers were performing an official duty, the source said. British military authorities said they could not confirm the incident but investigations were underway.-news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/19/content_3514065.htm
International news organs are reporting a British operation to “rescue” British soldiers involved in a shooting in Basra. It seems the two men were stopped at a checkpoint by Iraqi security officials and the two Englishmen who were dressed in civilian (some reports indicate they were in traditional Arab clothing) clothing started shooting. The Brits opened fire on the Iraqis and one of the victims eventually died. Come to find out the car was loaded with explosives! The two men were detained in a Basra jail and according to some reports were later taken to a house. Quite naturally the spin from British authorities and their news fails to mention the explosives plus they justify the attack by twelve tanks on the Basra jail as a result of their concern "for the safety of their comrades". I suspect the British tanks went in to get the soldiers out oftheir government's fear they would be interrogated and eventually reveal their mission and why they were dressed in Arab clothing driving a car loaded with explosives. I also suspect the two were part of a special ops team going around blowing up buildings and assassinating folks in a false flag operation to be used to blame the “insurgency” and fuel the rationale for both Britain and the US staying in Iraq.
Nations and groups use what are called false flag operations to create the false impression another group or nation is responsible for a terrorist or military action so the second gets blamed for it. For example the Boston Tea party was a false flag operation. White colonists dressed up as Native Americans and dumped a ship load of tea into the harbor. They hoped the disguise would make the British think the deed was done by ‘Indians”. I suspect the two British soldiers stopped at the check point in Basra with a car load of explosives were up to some mischief. More than likely they were either supplying explosives to some group for nefarious use or and this is my opinion they were preparing for some sort of false flag operation so the blame would be charged to insurgents, probably some CIA/M16/Mossad front organization like al Qaeda or one of the notorious shadowy bogey men like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Right on cue the Western media mind control apparatus is spinning the story the two men were working “undercover”. The New York Times dated 09-20-05 had a story that read, “
Two British soldiers working under cover were arrested Monday in the southern city of Basra and then freed as a British armored vehicle blasted through the wall of their jail after an angry crowd began rioting outside, an Interior Ministry official said. The official said that the soldiers were undercover officers dressed as Iraqis and that Iraqi police officers had arrested them after the men fired at a traffic police officer. A British military spokesman in Basra confirmed that ‘two U.K. military personnel’ had been detained early on Monday ‘in a shooting incident’ and that troops had used an armored fighting vehicle ‘to gain entry’ to the police station to release them. He said that more than one vehicle had been in the area and that the police inside the station had refused to obey orders from the Interior Ministry to release the men.” Notice the Times article admits two UK military personnel were detained and that more than one armored vehicle was seen in the area of the police station but does not say ten to twelve vehicles stormed the police station as other accounts do. If the Brits were undercover why did they fire on the Iraqi security guards at the checkpoint during a routine stop? The Iraqis stated the two looked suspicious. This begs the question, how and why did they have a carload of explosives, something the New York Times article conveniently fails to mention? The Times quotes an unnamed Iraqi official who was not authorized to speak to the press (So why did the Times use him for a quote?); and uses his quote to spin the story to say the Brits were in danger of being seized by Iraqi militia hoping to use the Brits to force an exchange for their colleagues in British custody. “
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the press, said the riot began Monday evening when militia members converged on the police station holding the British men, apparently hoping to seize them in order to free their three colleagues in British custody. The British spokesman said there had been 100 to 200 people in the crowd. Ali Dabagh, a Shiite member of the National Assembly who had just emerged from a briefing with Interior Minister Bayan Jabr in Baghdad on Monday night, said that militia members had begun attacking the station with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, and that British troops soon responded to defend it. The ministry official said that British armored vehicles had fired on the station, headquarters of the major crimes unit in central Basra, and broken through its outer wall. Troops then stormed in and freed the two men, he said. There were reports of prisoners escaping, but the official denied them.” Contrast this with a story in the Chinese newspaper Xinhua which reported “Iraqi police detained two British soldiers in civilian clothes in the southern city Basra for firing on a police station on Monday, police said. ‘Two persons wearing Arab uniforms opened fire at a police station in Basra. A police patrol followed the attackers and captured them to discover they were two British soldiers,’ an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua. The two soldiers were using a civilian car packed with explosives, the source said. He added that the two were being interrogated in the police headquarters of Basra. The British forces informed the Iraqi authorities that the two soldiers were performing an official duty, the source said. British military authorities said they could not confirm the incident but investigations were underway.” The only similarity between the two is they both admit the Brits were dressed as Arabs. The US and British media will use the incident to further demonize Iran while downplaying an obvious false flag on the part of England. The Times of London carried this version of the same incident, “
There are strong suspicions that the bloodshed is being orchestrated with weapons and encouragement from Iran. The clashes and the arrest of two undercover soldiers was almost certainly triggered by the arrest at the weekend of Sheikh Ahmed al-Fartusi, the leader of the Mahdi Army, a banned militia loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr. He was seized by British troops in a raid that also netted his brother and another colleague. 'The operation is the result of an ongoing multinational force investigation that identified individuals believed to be responsible for organizing terrorist attacks against multinational forces,' said a statement released by the British military on Sunday after the deaths of six British soldiers and two security guards over the past two months.” So we see Iran which coincidently is the next target of the Axis of Evil (AmeriKKKa, Britain and Israel) is being linked editorially to the incident although there is no evidence that this is true. Don’t drink the Kook-Aid, on this one; think for yourself . Connect the dots to get the real picture of what is going on.
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Get Ready For A Militarized AmeriKKKa
Get Ready for A Militarized AmeriKKKa “Reservations about granting the military too much power at home are older than the republic itself, harking back to days when British soldiers were foisted upon colonials for room and board. In the Constitution, the framers made specific provision to check military power by declaring that America's armed forces be directed by civilian authority - namely, the various secretaries of Defense. Posse Comitatus goes even further, giving only National Guard units the authority to act as law enforcement, because they are under the control of governors. Active-duty troops are being used in the Gulf relief efforts but only for humanitarian efforts and logistical support. The move to amend Posse Comitatus would likely give them law-enforcement powers.”-
The Christian Science Monitor 09-19-05
Hurricane Katrina revealed to the world just how heartless and cold blooded the ruling oligarchy and their Bu$h cabal puppets are. The local and state governments were overwhelmed by the storm and their frantic calls for assistance to the federal government were deliberately ignored, as George W Bush remained on vacation, Vice President Cheney remained MIA and the rest of the administration was conspicuously absent (just like they were on 9-11)! FEMA waited for conditions to get worse and actively prevented first responders, supplies, food water and volunteers from even entering New Orleans following the storms’ devastation! As conditions worsened, the people marooned in the city became more desperate and the mainstream media did its job by focusing on the privation, anxiety and rage of the people stranded in New Orleans. The Bu$h administration’s response was one of nonchalance and benign indifference. But this was far from the case. Bu$h, Brown, Chertoff , Cheney et al were patiently playing their hand. They waited for the public outcry, “do something” then they acted by sending in the military. The military came in not with a “let’s roll up our sleeves and help save lives” mentality. They came in with a “We’re locked and loaded ready to kick some ass” mentality. (See www.Armytimes.com for a true assessment of how the US Army perceived their mission in New Orleans). The governor of Louisiana even warned Iraqi vets were on their way with “shoot to kill orders”. Now we are learning mercenary or as they are now called “private security contractors” are being employed in New Orleans and that the reports of rape and looting were exaggerated or in many cases untrue!!!
None of this should surprise us. Bu$h and his cronies have shown us their real selves, what hey stand for and how little they respect the AmeriKKKan people. Just like 9-11 when he sat reading to elementary kids when he was informed of the World Trade Center “attacks” when he failed to tend to his main function which is to “protect and defend” the country, he lollygagged in Crawford Texas on vacation as Hurricane Katrina moved inland and lashed the Gulf Coast region. We must be clear on this, there is a pattern here. Bu$h is not the large and in-charge, macho leader/ warrior his PR/propaganda/ mind control handlers have painted him to be. He is a dim-witted sociopath who is being used to usher in the next level of fascist police state policies in AmeriKKKa. Hurricane Katrina was a staging operation by FEMA and the ruling oligarchy to dupe the masses into demanding the federal government assume more and more power, spend more tax payers’ money on boondoggles for Bu$h’s buddies while putting a US city on military lock-down and martial law. People warning us about the perils of going down this road are like Biblical prophets crying in the wilderness, our warnings are beyond the hearing and comprehension of the masses. In the meantime the media and the Bu$h administration are calling for more power, more money and more use of the military in future domestic emergencies. An article in The Christian Science Monitor dated 09-19-05 slyly promotes that notion, “ As Washington picks through the lessons learned from hurricane Katrina, there is a growing conviction that the only organization with the skills, expertise, and resources needed to respond quickly to a catastrophe of such magnitude is the American military. President Bush suggested a larger disaster relief role for the armed forces in his national address last week, and Congress has indicated it will take up the issue this autumn. Though the topic has emerged at other troubled times - most recently 9/11 - Congress has always avoided amending Posse Comitatus, the law that has kept active-duty soldiers out of civilian law-enforcement affairs since Reconstruction.” This was their goal all along; the militarization of AmeriKKKa, turning AmeriKKKa into a police state! Why are mercenaries patrolling the streets of New Orleans? Why has the Bu$h administration decided to investigate itself concerning Hurricane Katrina failures? You can bet your bottom dollar, when they do, the results will be a Warren and 9-11 Commission white-wash of gigantic proportions recommendating the Posse Comitatus Act be amended to allow the US military to engage in domestic “law enforcement”. The article puts forth the bogus analysis that the delay in Bu$h’s response to the storm warrants the militarization of AmeriKKKa!?
“As officials look at what went wrong - and wonder what to do if a future disaster similarly eviscerates local responders - their attention has turned to the military. Clearly, the armed forces are best prepared to deploy quickly to devastated areas, bringing not only a clear command structure, but an array of resources ideally suited for difficult work - from mobile communication systems to troops trained for the most taxing conditions. In his Thursday address, Mr. Bush called the armed forces ‘the institution of our government most capable of massive logistical operations on a moment's notice.’” The thing is, if the federal government had mobilized earlier and FEMA had not obstructed relief efforts and the media had told the truth about what FEMA was really doing to obstruct rescue and relief operations, the damage would have been much less and more lives would have been saved.
The lobotomized AmeriKKKan people just don’t get it. The media mind control has done their job well stifling critical thinking, the ability to think independently and draw one’s own conclusions. This was a set up from jump street, just like 9-11! Bu$h and Co. along with FEMA knew what a category four or five hurricane directly hitting New Orleans would do. Yet they elected to do nothing! The National Weather Service as well as military satellites tracked and predicted the path of the hurricane days in advance for crying out loud! The Bu$h administration elected to do nothing just as they elected to do nothing about the ample warnings they had about 9-11 (See Operation Bojinka or Operation Able Danger for example). Please don’t drink the Kool-Aid on this one. FEMA and military responses to disasters are not what we need. Just like we didn’t really need the US PATRIOT ACTs I or II! What we need are, well thought out and coordinated local and state emergency management plans and programs. We need to go back to being prepared, working together as whole communities planning and formulating evacuation procedures, and routes where necessary and not allowing politicians off the hook as they scape-goat one another and demanding more powers for themselves and the military.
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Hurricane Katrina Media Psy Op
Hurricane Katrina Media Psy Op “The mass media made an abrupt turn, adapting and shaping the images of the Administration’s catastrophe. In seven days the magic of the media transformed the Bush team from incompetent and ignorant leaders to decisive and caring officials. At the same time the desperate, dying and furious were converted into an unruly, crime-ridden, ungrateful and chaotic mob. The political message was clear: Repression and militarization were priority conditions for survival and humanitarian aid. The city had to be under de facto martial law before it could be saved. Viet Nam and Falluja come to mind. After all, counter-insurgency is what we do best. According to the President, his Cabinet members and the media: “America is rising to the occasion.” We won’t forget the 10,000’s of dead and injured, we’ll even lower the flag for a few days – that is if the Congressional Black Caucus raises the issue. As the President would say, ‘Let’s move on. We’ve got a war to win in Iraq.’”- Prof James Petras The Militarization of New Orleans http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?
I immediately became suspicious of the outrage of reporters on the cable news channels and networks about the inefficiency of the Bu$h administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina because it was so out of character. These white folks follow orders and read the scripts that run the well oiled propaganda/PR/Marketing/advertising media machine without blinking an eye. The more I though about it, the more convinced I became it was a setup. The same white folks who mindlessly cooperate with a fascist administration as they bum rush, bombed, murdered and colonized three sovereign countries (Afghanistan Haiti and Iraq) without a whimper of protest or dissent went into conniptions supposedly because poor and infirm Africans in AmeriKKKa were marooned and stranded during a major storm. Please, give me a break! Where was the concern about their plight and condition before the storm? The Katrina situation from beginning to present was a planned, deliberate and orchestrated move by the Bu$h administration to condition the AmeriKKKan public and prepare us psychologically for martial law/lock-down and military occupation of AmeriKKKan cities. Am I saying the angst and concern of some of the reporters on the ground in the midst of the hurricane was not genuine? No, I’m saying their very real emotions were used by the media elites to set the stage for a psychological warfare operation to depict how bad the situation in New Orleans was, next to demonize and criminalize the blacks who weren’t able to get out thereby setting the stage for acceptance of a military occupation of the region. Now the media is back to cheerleading FEMA and the military’s role in the Gulf Coast.
Over the course of the hurricane, I’ve written about how FEMA waited around doing nothing, how Fema prevented first responders, volunteers and needed supplies food and water from coming into New Orleans, these are documented facts. I’ve already written how these facts will be swept under the rug by the Republican or “independent” Warren or 9-11 Commission type investigation. I’ve written about mercenaries and the military who came into New Orleans with a combat mind set rather than a search rescue and repair mission (See www.Armytimes.com). I’ve hinted at the media’s role in the psy op. I’ve read reports of the levees being sabotaged the day after Katrina struck. I’ve seen stories about the in fighting between the Bu$h administration and the Governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans. I reviewed documents about how FEMA acted during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 with the same arrogance and heavy handed approach towards the citizens of Florida. I read and written about advanced technology that can be used as a weapon HAARP (see www.HAARP.net for full details) to manipulate and control the weather. Connecting the dots, it is clear this was a well coordinated fiendish plan to use this storm as a practice run by FEMA, the military and the Bu$h administration to upgrade plans already on the books, plans like The King Alfred Plan or REX 84 that call for lock down relocation and interment of huge numbers of US citizens. This is not written to terrify you but to enlighten. We can no longer stick our head’s in the sand and pretend not to know what we know! Or be in denial about what we know about the psychopathy of the ruling oligarchy. The media is in on it big time. They repeat their stories and pictures over and over again. As someone once said, “If you repeat a lie convincingly enough over and over the people will believe it.” This philosophy is the key to getting the AmeriKKKan public to accept certain underlying notions as reality, like: Osama bin Laden executed 9-11 from a cave in Afghanistan , Saddam Hussein had WMD , Jean Bertrand Aristide was a drug dealing criminal or no one honestly thought the levees were in danger of being breached! If you believe any of these ideas it is because you have internalized the media’s Jedi Mind Tricks. Snap out of it! Think for yourself, ask yourself who benefits from this? How does a military occupation of New Orleans and Biloxi Mississippi for example help the flood victims? On the other hand, have the media and the ruling oligarchy successfully conditioned us to accept armed soldiers and mercenaries with “shoot to kill” orders in our streets?
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Corporate Wealth Redistribution (Thievery)
Corporate Wealth Redistribution (Thievery) “Delta executives declined to say how long the airline would remain under bankruptcy protection, but it could take years if the nearly three-year bankruptcy at United is any guide. Problems are also looming with its pension plan. If Delta's pension plan defaults, it would set a record, surpassing even the size of United's pension plan collapse earlier this year, according to estimates issued yesterday by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Already, the agency's finances have been severely shaken by a series of large corporate bankruptcies and pension failures. The guarantor estimated that Delta's pension plan had promised benefits worth $17.5 billion, but had assets of only $6.9 billion, for a $10.6 billion shortfall. The most recent estimate of United's shortfall, by contrast, was $10.1 billion.” MICHELINE MAYNARD Bankruptcy For 2 New York Times 09-15-05
The news two major airlines, Delta and Northwest Airlines, have filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection seemed to shock many Wall Street investors and media business talking heads. If they were really paying any attention to trends in the industry, they would not be shocked. Over the last few years this has been the trend, airlines filing for bankruptcy, defaulting on their pension obligations to their union employees yet at the same time offering their CEO huge compensation packages. In many ways it is a con game. Yes, the airlines are in financial difficulty, rising fuel prices, stiff competition from low fare no frills carriers have cut into their profit margins. But it must also be understood the airlines like most major industries in AmeriKKKa have shortchanged their employees by under funding their pension contributions by billions (that’s with a b) of dollars. According to an article in the New York Times dated 09-15-05 Delta Airlines has a major shortfall in their company pension obligations.
“Problems are also looming with its pension plan. If Delta's pension plan defaults, it would set a record, surpassing even the size of United's pension plan collapse earlier this year, according to estimates issued yesterday by the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Already, the agency's finances have been severely shaken by a series of large corporate bankruptcies and pension failures. The guarantor estimated that Delta's pension plan had promised benefits worth $17.5 billion, but had assets of only $6.9 billion, for a $10.6 billion shortfall. The most recent estimate of United's shortfall, by contrast, was $10.1 billion.” According to an article by Reuters dated 09-15-05 the pension under funding by both airlines was a major factor in filing.
“ For both Delta and Northwest, huge pension obligations are another major issue and the main factor that separates them from low-cost carriers, Feld said. Delta's pension plans are estimated to be $10.6 billion underfunded according to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., the federal agency that insures private pensions. How the airlines deal with that liability will influence the amount creditors recover, said Fitch's Warlick. Strategists said they expect Delta and Northwest to follow the path of U.S. Airways and United, which terminated their defined benefit pension plans and handed them over to the PBGC. If the carriers had to shoulder their own pension liabilities, recovery prospects for other creditors would be hurt, they said. First in line to be repaid will likely be lenders who provided debtor-in-possession financing, money obtained to keep a company operating in bankruptcy.” Notice their strategy, pass their pension obligation off on the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp. According to its own Website the PBGC guarantees “‘basic benefits’ earned before your plan ended, which include: Pension benefits at normal retirement age, most early retirement benefits, annuity benefits for survivors of plan participants and disability benefits for disabilities that occurred before the date the plan ended ” On the surface workers at United and Northwest Airlines can breathe a sigh of relief thinking their pensions were protected and safe. However what the PBGC Website doesn’t tell us is that the agency itself facing a revenue shortfall of over $24 billion (that’s with a b) dollars! This means the very vehicle created to be the safety net for millions of AmeriKKKan workers to protect their hard earned pension funds is itself in financial difficulty! It also means taxpayers and workers may be forced to ante up funds to bail the PBGC out. What we are seeing is class warfare, pillage and redistribution of wealth on a massive scale. It’s the corporate version of the Savings and Loan scandal or the ongoing HUD and Department of Defense fraudulence. For the most part the corporate owned media rarely explains what is going on or how it will impact the working class. It is part of their ongoing class warfare against poor and working people, designed to keep the masses ignorant of what the corporate leaders and their government cohorts and flunkies are doing to us. I doubt if Bu$h will even address the Delta and Northwest Airlines difficulties during his prime time speech tonight or the media will ask any probing questions that will shed new light on the subject or embarrass their corporate ownership. But that’s par for the course in fascist AmeriKKKa.
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Bu$h’s Real Goal In The Katrina Debacle , More Power
Bu$h’s Real Goal In The Katrina Debacle , More Power “By STEWART M. POWELL Hearst Newspapers WASHINGTON — President Bush on Monday urged Congress to examine whether the White House needs stronger powers to deal with catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina. Bush’s backing for the congressional inquiry raised the possibility that lawmakers might expand presidential authority to: • Order mandatory civilian evacuations • Dispatch U.S.-based armed forces for emergency search-and-rescue operations • Grant wider leeway for active-duty U.S. military personnel to carry out law enforcement operations. “It’s really important that as we take a step back and learn lessons — that we are in a position to adequately answer the question: ‘Are we prepared for major catastrophes?”’ Bush said during a tour of hurricane damage in New Orleans. He said if there was a terrorist attack with weapons of mass destruction, such as germ-warfare agents, “we’ve got to make sure we understand the lessons learned to be able to deal with catastrophe.” Asked whether the federal government needed broader authority to “come in earlier or even in advance of a storm that (is) threatening?” Bush replied: “I think that’s one of the interesting issues that Congress needs to take a look at.”- www.TheState.com 09-13-05
I kept wondering what the real motives behind the federal government’s seemingly inadequate response to Hurricane Katina were? Looking at what happened it seemed to me it was deliberate; that FEMA consciously delayed, they were premeditated in preventing first responders, supplies and food from getting into the city. We now know FEMA cordoned the city off preventing help and supplies from entering. I went back and reviewed a book I read about a year or so ago, Alice In Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster subtitled; Why the Official Story of 9-11 is a Monumental Lie by David Icke. On page 442 Icke talks about FEMA and Hurricane Andrew which struck South Dade County Florida in August of 1992. He says,
“Far from helping the hundreds of thousands of homeless and injured victims, FEMA cordoned off the area and left people to fend for themselves. They were given no food, no water, no medical supplies, no shelter and no help whatsoever when the disaster struck.” He quotes a resident Ms K.T. Frankovich who wrote a book documenting her experiences entitled Where Heavens Meet. In it she shared how police and FEMA officials in a convoy of twelve to fifteen cars patrolling her neighborhood three days after the hurricane hit who put a revolver to her temple, threatened her and refused to assist her and treat her wounds which included a broken jaw, cuts and embedded glass. (My emphasis) Sound familiar? Was their behavior during Hurricane Andrew in 1992 a dry run for 2005's Hurricane Katrina? Were they both practice ops in preparation for a FEMA/military occupation/lock down of major AmeriKKKan regions or cities during their most vulnerable time? Is this a coincidence or an eery preview of things to come? Was Michael Brown really that inept or was he a convenient fall guy (chump) like former CIA Director George J. Tenet who obediently fell on his sword to protect Bu$h’s lies about WMD in Iraq ? Think about this, Brown is the only member of Bu$h’s administration to resign under pressure no matter how bad things got People like Pearle, Powell, Wolfowitz, Tenet and Allbaugh all resigned, some under clouds of misgiving and angst over their policies and performance, but none of them were run out of town on a rail by the media like Michael Brown. Was this a case of the media discovering its spine or was there something more nefarious and clandestine going on? While there is always the possibility members of the corporate media did deprogram their minds and get some courage; I suspect the whole affair is part of the usual pattern of the ruling oligarchy creating or exacerbating a pre-existing problem so they can offer “solutions” which further their own New World Order agenda, which is more government control over our lives.
In an article in The State, a South Carolina newspaper, dated September 13, 2005 (following a partisan Republican Party’s move to block formation of an independent commission to study the federal government’s failures during Hurricane Katrina), George W Bu$h is quoted as saying he urges Congress to determine whether or not he needs more powers to deal with disasters like Hurricane Katrina or a terrorist attack on the US? The article said,
“Asked whether the federal government needed broader authority to ‘come in earlier or even in advance of a storm that (is) threatening?’ Bush replied: ‘I think that’s one of the interesting issues that Congress needs to take a look at.’ Bush’s comments came as outside experts urged a variety of changes they said could improve the federal government’s ability to respond to natural disasters or terrorist attacks.” Of course the article doesn’t identify these “outside experts” were, but you can bet your last money many of them were members of right wing NeoCon think tanks, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. These groups and their puppets and stooges’ main objective is to facilitate the consolidation of more and more power into fewer and fewer hands until AmeriKKKa is a fascist oligarchy under the rule of a psychopathic element. This criminal element would think nothing of plotting and planning 9-11 using CIA assets and patsies, or manipulate the weather using HAARP technology (see www.HARRP.net for full details), lie about WMD or withhold assistance during a disaster to get what they wanted which is more power and control over us.
It’s time to wake up and realize who and what we are dealing with here. Bu$h’s mea culpa for the Katrina disaster is a sham. He has never admitted a mistake or taken responsibility for any errors or admitted he lied in the past, why the “change” now? It is all part and parcel to their plan to use it to further their nefarious agendas. Watch, just like 9-11, the Republican investigation will recommend more consolidation of power, more invasion of privacy, more erosion of civil liberties (ala the US PATRIOT ACT and Kean Commission recommendations to form a secret police and super spy agency) and expanded powers for FEMA and the military. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
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A Gruesome Story
Gruesome Story “In an extraordinary interview with The Mail on Sunday, one New Orleans doctor told how she 'prayed for God to have mercy on her soul' after she ignored every tenet of medical ethics and ended the lives of patients she had earlier fought to save. Her heart-rending account has been corroborated by a hospital orderly and by local government officials. One emergency official, William 'Forest' McQueen, said: Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die. Euthanasia is illegal in Louisiana, and The Mail on Sunday is protecting the identities of the medical staff concerned to prevent them being made scapegoats for the events of last week.” - the Mail on Sunday UK 09-11-05
Just when you though things couldn’t get any worse or the reports more bizarre, now comes an article published in the Daily Mail for Sunday September 11, 2005 an English newspaper featured an article by CAROLINE GRAHAM and JO KNOWSLEY claiming doctors in New Orleans gave high dosages of morphine to patients in critical condition in a New Orleans hospital in order to expedite their deaths rather than allow them to die during Hurricane Katrina. The story does not name the physicians or the hospital but claims they staff was afraid of roving bands of drug fiends who were looting looking for a fix. The report made it seem as if the hospital staff was in dire danger of assault by looters, that power went out and they had numerous terminally ill patients on their hands and had to make life or death decisions as to who to dispose of and who to save. Only one staff member was quoted by name. The article states,
“ One emergency official, William 'Forest' McQueen, said: ‘Those who had no chance of making it were given a lot of morphine and lain down in a dark place to die.’ The rationale was that many of these people were going to die anyway so they simply speeded the process up. The article further stated, “The doctor said: I didn't know if I was doing the right thing. But I did not have time. I had to make snap decisions, under the most appalling circumstances, and I did what I thought was right. I injected morphine into those patients who were dying and in agony. If the first dose was not enough, I gave a double dose. And at night I prayed to God to have mercy on my soul.’ The doctor, who finally fled her hospital late last week in fear of being murdered by the armed looters, said: This was not murder, this was compassion. They would have been dead within hours, if not days. We did not put people down. What we did was give comfort to the end. ‘I had cancer patients who were in agony. In some cases the drugs may have speeded up the death process. We divided patients into three categories: those who were traumatised but medically fit enough to survive, those who needed urgent care, and the dying. People would find it impossible to understand the situation. I had to make life-or-death decisions in a split second. It came down to giving people the basic human right to die with dignity.”I went to their Website /www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html? And read the article. Whether this article is true or not, I cannot say. Perhaps this paper is an Enquirer clone that prints exaggerated and bogus stories with doctored photographs. However if this is true it raises some serious questions about the ethics of emergency management, physicians and health care professionals. The slant of the article gives the impression the hospital staff was stressed out and pressured by fears of roving bands of looters trying to get at the drugs in the facilities pharmacy. Of course we have no way of know if this in fact was true but, in my mind it is similar to the ol’ “I was afraid for my life” excuse many urban police officers use when they shoot black males. What is says is even if the article is a hoax and fraud, black life or the lives of poor people are expandible and expedient. The unidentified doctor is quoted as saying she wasn’t sure she was doing the right thing,
“The doctor said: ‘I didn't know if I was doing the right thing. But I did not have time. I had to make snap decisions, under the most appalling circumstances, and I did what I thought was right. I injected morphine into those patients who were dying and in agony. If the first dose was not enough, I gave a double dose. And at night I prayed to God to have mercy on my soul.’ The doctor, who finally fled her hospital late last week in fear of being murdered by the armed looters, said: ‘This was not murder, this was compassion. They would have been dead within hours, if not days. We did not put people down. What we did was give comfort to the end.’” We may never know whether this story is real because the Bu$h administration is suppressing pictures and stories about recovery of bodies and just as they attempt to suppress graphic photos of the collateral damage of US weaponry in Afghanistan and Iraq. It is alarming to think euthanasia is going on especially when the doctors don’t even know if what they are doing is correct But white AmeriKKKa has a long history of similar atrocities and neglect in dealing with Africans in AmeriKKKa. Keep your eyes and ears open. Incidents like this may just be the tip of the iceberg.
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What Are We Going To Do Now?
What Are We Going To Do Now? “Nationalism is a double edged sword. It can be wielded as a tool of oppression by cohesively organized peoples or nation states such as those of Western Europe, who used it to impose their exploitative rule over many non-European nation and peoples, or by White Americans to enslave and otherwise dominate Black Americans. It can also be use as a tool to organize people, nation states, to best achieve their liberation from oppression an/or to achieve sovereignty or self-determination and to gain control of a national territory.” Dr. Amos N. Wilson
Blueprint For Black Power A Moral, Political and Economic Imperative for the Twenty-First Century page(s) 849-50.
Once again our experiences at the hands of our political adversaries has demonstrated the need to have practical and workable plans of action, survival to counterbalance the at very least callous and insensitive and at worst a genocidal response to a situation like Hurricane Katrina. We must realize that this 2005 disaster mirrors the 1927 response of whites towards Africans in America who were caught and devastated by the inundating floods of 1927 in the Mississippi Delta region. Images of trapped citizens of New Orleans who are too poor, too sick with no means of transportation, no social support networks or the wherewithal to escape the impending floods and the anemic response of the Bu$h administration to their plight begs the question, can we depend upon the government for our survival in a time of need? On my Internet radio program
The Digital Underground which airs live Sundays on www.Harambeeradio.com From 12 Noon to 2 PM Eastern time (forgive the shameless plug) this past Sunday I had two non mainstream journalists as guests: Henry DeBarnardo and Saeed Shabazz. Brother DeBernardo is the publisher of
The Black Star Newspaper out of Philadelphia Pa. and Brother Shabazz is the UN Correspondent for
The Final Call Newspaper. We discussed Hurricane Kartina, the ample and detailed warnings of a storm like that, the storm itself and aftermath from a number of differing perspectives and vantage points. However the one pertinent question these astute brothers raised was, “what are we going to do in light of what we have just witnessed?” That is the 64 Million Dollar question. There is no doubt in most black folks’ minds that at the very least the initial (and inept) response of the Bu$h administration reflected their race and class biases towards a city that is almost 70% African-American and who has a disproportionate percentage of people living below the poverty line. For me Bu$h’s secondary response, that of combat operations rather than search, and rescue of survivors and repairing the levees and draining the flood water demonstrates his mental myopia. I saw a photo of heavily armed National Guardsmen on one Website, they were riding in an armored carrier in the flooded streets of New Orleans as bystanders watched. The caption read, “If the only tool you have is a hammer, all the world looks like a nail.” My concern was with the decidedly militarist tone to this operation. Why did the recent issue of www.Armytimes.com have the banner headline, “Combat Operation In New Orleans.” What is that about?
As the brothers on my radio program separately asked, “What are we going to do now”? What are we going to do? We have social, fraternal and religious organization mobilizing to help send aid directly to the victims in the Gulf Coast and that is needed and commendable; but what about formulating an overarching plan to insure our survival in a racist, color and class biased culture. Quiet as it’s kept, most of us can easily envision ourselves in the shoes of our brethren in New Orleans regardless of our jobs, bank accounts and salaries. There but for the grace of the CREATOR go we all We saw first hand just how cold-blooded and callous Bu$h and Co. are. Kanye West was correct, Bu$h doesn’t care about black people, but this is no major revelation. How long has Kanye been Black in AmeriKKKa? It’s not even about Bu$h. Bu$h’s response was similar and symptomatic of many white AmeriKKKans. Their attitudes made it easy for the mass media to demonize the poor and the sick who were marooned in New Orleans as undesirables, as criminals unworthy of saving. It’s not just about the Republicans either, Bill Clinton was appraised of an equally abhorrent ongoing condition in the waning days of his presidency; the disproportionate incarceration rates of people of color (Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans ). The US Sentencing project in their landmark report raised this issue, but the man loved and revered by the Negro elite , the man who owed his presidency to their loyalty chose to do nothing to ameliorate this situation This is bi-partisan racism. This is all the more reason we must come together to formulate strategies to empower ourselves by building strongly ethnocentric social networks, independent economic and educational infrastructures and cohesive political organization. What lessons do we need to learn from Hurricane Katrina? Where do we go from here? When will we stop being reactionary and totally dependent on our adversaries for sustenance and assistance and become proactive, self-determined and self-actualizing people?
Look at our situation, where would you get food if a major disaster or military siege/occupation like the one going in New Orleans now hit your town? Are we up to speed and in the loop as far as commuity defense and emergency management preparation are concerned in our towns and neighborhood? If not, why not? Do we even know our neighbors well enough to know where in their homes and apartments they or their family members sleep in case of a fire or other emergency? Do we have enough supplies of bottled water, first aid kits, canned or dehydrated food to tide our neighborhood over in case our community is condoned off or cut off from supplies? Have local churches, mosques and temples even thought about htist? Will the Millions More March address any of these questions in light of recent current events? Do we even see the need for any of this? Questions, questions, does anyone see the urgency or need come up with answers?
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Worst Case Scenario
Worst Case Scenario “Over and over last week, people said that the scenes from the convention center, the highway overpasses, and the other suddenly infamous Crescent City venues didn't "look like America," that they seemed instead to be straight from the Third World. That was almost literally accurate, for poor, black New Orleans (whose life had never previously been of any interest to the larger public) is not so different from other poor and black parts of the world: its infant mortality and life expectancy rates, its educational achievement statistics mirroring scores of African and Latin American enclaves. But it was accurate in another way, too, one full of portent for the future. A decade ago, environmental researcher Norman Myers began trying to add up the number of humans at risk of losing their homes from global warming. He looked at all the obvious places -- coastal China, India, Bangladesh, the tiny island states of the Pacific and Indian oceans, the Nile delta, Mozambique, on and on -- and predicted that by 2050 it was entirely possible that 150 million people could be "environmental refugees," forced from their homes by rising waters. That's more than the number of political refugees sent scurrying by the bloody century we've just endured.”- Bill KcKibben www.TomDispatch.com 09-06-05
Just when you though it couldn’t get any worse: images of poor inform stranded African-Americans languishing on rooftops, dehydrated, malnourished, the callousness, inattention and seeming incompetence of the Bu$h administration, the schizophrenic corporate media mind control apparatus demonizing the marooned blacks then ravaging Bu$H for his ineptitude and insensitivity, the military presence in New Orleans in a hostile combat ready mode rather than a citizen friendly search and rescue operation (see www.armytimes.com ) the revelations this scenario was predicted by FEMA and Science America and now another piece of the puzzle, the revelation the US government has the capability and capacity to alter weather conditions! Was Hurricane Katrina a man-made disaster? To hear environmentalists and some researchers tell it, it was. They claim weather conditions due to global warming are being impacted and storms are more intense as the Earth gets warmer and the polar ice melts. Others say it was a man-made disaster because of the massive NeoConmen's funding cuts that prevented the maintenance and upgrading of the New Orleans levee and pumping systems and the necessary funds to enact Army Corps of Engineers recommendations and the failure to heed reports published by the New Orleans
Times Picayune or
Science America, that predicted this exact scenario. Some say the storm’s impact was worsened by failure to act in a timely fashion as the National Weather Service predicted a category 4 plus storm was coming days in advance of Katrina actually moving inland. Africans in AmeriKKKa were further emotionally ravaged by the images and the psyop the mainstream media used to demonize the impoverished victims marooned in the city due to illness and lack of transportation. As if that wasn’t bad enough, now we must consider the very real possibility the storm and aftermath were man made for several additional reasons. First there is the fact that the US and Russia both have the capability and capacity to manipulate weather conditions using what the US calls
High Frequency Active Aural Research Project (
HAARP) . It appears to most cogent folks there is also a fiendish plan to use this storm as a training op and dry run for a FEMA/Military operation to control, cordon off and militarize (disarm and subjugate) a whole urban region, dislocate massive numbers of the citizenry and relocate them to resettlement (internment?) camps all under the guise of disaster relief.
This may seem far fetched to the many who engage in the
Ostrich Syndrome (sticking one’s head in the proverbial sand thinking you are hiding but all the while exposing your behind which is totally unprotected and in plain view) who are in total denial about just how diabolical the ruling oligarchy really is. Think about this for a moment, this is the same cabal that lied to start an illegal war that now has the nation mired in a no win situation in Iraq. This is the same group who knew about (and in all likelihood planned and executed with the help of rogue proxy intelligence operatives and patsy assets) 9-11 and did nothing to prevent it. This is the same ruling elite who have since the late 1940's been working on developing the means to control weather conditions whose psychopathy is so recalcitrant they would use HAARP technology as a means of warfare! Could the storm have been created or intensified using HAARP technology just as they used 9-11 to move their New World Order agenda along? What is HAARP technology? In simple terms HAARP is the opposite of a Radio Telescope, instead of receiving frequency waves from space, this device sends low frequency waves out. By their own admission these waves are focused and steerable and can be used for a myriad of nefarious operations (see
www.HAARP.net for a history and full explanation of the technology and its potential uses). Can I prove for certain HAARP technology was used to either create or intensify Katrina? No, but given how the Bu$h administration has used the disaster to jump start the militarized bum rush of the Gulf Coast, I see no reason to discount the use of HAARP technology. If they use the corporate mass media ad supposedly bi-partisan independent commisions (composed of the ruling elites or their functionaries) to brainwash people, brow beat them to discourage critical thinking and dissent and accept the nonsensical notion religious fanatics living in caves in Afghanistan plotted and circumvented a multifaceted, multi-billion dollar US defense and inter-agency intelligence system and to pump up an illegal war in Iraq; they will use anything to further their plot to usher in their New World Order. The Bu$h administration is the most secretive and deceptive we have seen in quite a while, far surpassing the deceit of the Johnson, Nixon and Reagan administrations. The more we connect the dots about their motives and see the effects of their machinations, the more this looks like a worst case scenario.
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The Plot Thickens
The Plot Thickens “Our neolib rulers plan for the new New Orleans to serve as a template for the rest of the nation where the Constitution now hangs precariously by a frayed thread. In the event of a “terrorist attack” and the imposition of martial law, we can expect the lessons learned in the new New Orleans to be practiced elsewhere—shoot to kill for “looting” food and water, doors kicked in by jackbooted troops who ignore the desperate pleas of hungry and thirsty citizens and lasciviously demand women flash their breasts (as if life is a segment of the Girls Gone Wild video), and treating citizens as if they are al-Qaeda suicide bombers.”- Another Day In The Empire 09-08-05
As the flood waters recede in the Big Easy, more and more reserve and active duty troops are being flown in to forcibly remove residents from their homes and neighborhoods. Even ultra fascist Dick “Never Around During Any Danger” Cheney is on the scene to oversee the dry run of a FEMA takeover of an AmeriKKKan urban area. It is clearer by the day the federal government’s response to Hurricane Katrina from their tardiness to mobilizing resources, to the media psyop of spreading rumors and disinformation about alleged looting rapes and murders (to demonize the mostly poor and African-American residents still trapped in the city), to FEMA cutting comminations lines and preventing first responders, volunteers ad supplies from coming into the city to the callously nonchalant attitude of the Bu$h administration towards New Orleans compared to their response in Florida last year is more than just bunlging or overt racsim. Reports are being circulated via the Internet and various local media just how disorganized the “rescue and recovery” efforts were. The real tragedy is the people are being duped into believing Michael Brown and Bu$h are just two incompetents (hung over preoccupied with other things frat boys) as opposed to the dangerous sociopaths they are. If this were not a practice scenario for a FEMA/Military takeover of a city why did
Army Times the newsletter of the US Army run the following article:
“Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans By Joseph R. Chenelly Times staff writer, NEW ORLEANS — Combat operations are underway on the streets “to take this city back” in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. ‘This place is going to look like Little Somalia,’ Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. ‘We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.’ Jones said the military first needs to establish security throughout the city. Military and police officials have said there are several large areas of the city are in a full state of anarchy. Dozens of military trucks and up-armored Humvees left the staging area just after 11 a.m. Friday, while hundreds more troops arrived at the same staging area in the city via Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters. ‘We’re here to do whatever they need us to do,’ Sgt. 1st Class Ron Dixon, of the Oklahoma National Guard’s 1345th Transportation Company. ‘We packed to stay as long as it takes.’ While some fight the insurgency in the city, other carry on with rescue and evacuation operations. Helicopters are still pulling hundreds of stranded people from rooftops of flooded homes.” http://www.armytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1077495.php.
The Army Times piece is no fluke, it is them talking to each other or supporters. It is not for public consumption1 On Meet the Press a Louisiana Emergency Management official broke down and cried from frustration and revealed FEMA turned back several truckloads of fresh water donated by Wal-Mart. Other parishes surrounding New Orleans have reported FEMA cut telephone lines, set up roadblocks preventing the movement and accessability of recuse workers and volunteers . Does this sound like a bungled response to you? No it is more nefarious and sinister. Even the so called transformation of the media is part and parcel to this. Notice now that Dick “Hide and Wait” Cheney is now on the set, the press is back to their old cow-towed stenographer role. Meanwhile thousands of troops have converged on New Orleans and they are in a combat ready mode rather than a search and rescue mode! What’s up with that? The Bu$h administration has been warring with Louisiana officials who were reluctant to turn over all authority to the feds. Now it is becoming clearer why. The feds plan using this catastrophe as the model and practice run for imposing lock down on an urban region. Not only are they practicing evacuation techniques, door to door searches and weapons confiscation (why are taking people's weapons?) , setting up roadblocks and checkpoints, but they are also disbursing and resettling thousands of reluctant residents who are unwilling to abandon their battered homes and lose their water logged possessions. The government is moving them to who knows where for who knows how long coming on the heels of a domestic psyop campaign where they attempted to demonize a group of desperate US citizens (although the media does this every day). The Blog
Another Day In The Empire recently posted this commentary
“FEMA refused evacuation help from Amtrak; it turned away experienced fire fighters and first responders; it turned back Wal-Mart supply trucks; refused to allow the Red Cross to deliver food; blocked a 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid; turned away generators and other equipment (see this page with links to news stories). In other words, FEMA went out of its way to deny aid and allow people to die from dehydration, starvation, and lack of medicine and medical help. In addition to denying aid, and thus killing an as of yet (and possibly forever) unknown number of people, FEMA is attempting to control media access to the worst natural disaster in American history (see Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of Dead). Moreover, journalists and photographers have been assaulted by troops and had their notebooks and cameras confiscated (see The Eye of the Hurricane by Matthias Gebauer).” 09-08-05
This is real brothers and sisters, this is no joke! It is time to sound the alarm and wake the people up from our stupor. The fascist that control the Republican Party and their spineless a counterparts in the Democartic party have moved to stack the deck in the “investigation” of Katrina mishaps. Look for a Warren and 9-11 Commissions type white wash on this one. Also notice now the feds are restricting press coverage of the clean up, body recoveries and forced evacuations (except for photo-ops by prominent administration officials). Keep your eyes and ears open, think critically and most of all don’t go for the okey-doke. The plot gets thicker every day.
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There is Nothing Hidden That Won't be Revealed
The Truth Comes To Light, There is Nothing Hidden That Won’t Be Revealed
"US authorities ignored warnings that New Orleans was vulnerable to a hurricane nightmare and slashed funding that could have saved the city as spending on the war in Iraq soared, experts said. Four years ago the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) warned a major hurricane or flooding in the Big Easy was among the three catastrophes most likely to hit the United States, along with a terrorist attack on New York. But instead of boosting funding to the centuries-old city of 1.4 million people that lies below sea level, authorities cut funding for hundreds of millions of dollars of critical work to bolster and repair the levees that keep the waters of the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain at bay. ‘This was a disaster waiting to happen,’ said John Rennie, editor-in-chief of US science and technology bible, Scientific American. ‘For years there has been a multitude of warnings that critical work on rebuilding the levees has been lagging and that the city was particularly vulnerable but these warnings effectively went unheeded,’ he told AFP. Rennie's magazine warned in 2001 that a degradation of the city's levee and pumping systems, new building developments and inadequate evacuation routes had put New Orleans at serious risk of a human catastrophe in which more than 250,000 people could be stranded and thousands killed." AFP www.afp.com 09-02-05
There is an old saying, "the dirt comes out in the wash", meaning sooner or later the facts will be discovered by effort. The wash in this case is the unwillingness of the AmeriKKKan public to continue believing the Bu$h administration’s lies and B.S. When asked why the federal government was so slow in responding to the category five hurricane that hit the US Gulf Coast and submerged the city of New Orleans under water, George W. Bu$h responded, "No one anticipated the levees would break." As usual the corporate media gave Bu$h free pas by not calling him on his obvious lie. I say obvious lie because the Federal Emergency management Agency (FEMA) issued a report in 2001 predicting one of the three most probable disasters that would befall AmeriKKKa would be a direct hit on the city of New Orleans by a major hurricane. FEMA, a federal agency, said this and the hurricane scenario was at the top of their short list of predictable disasters along with a terrorist attack on New York and a major earthquake in San Francisco. Not only did FEMA predict such an event, Science American a very influential scientific journal also warned in 2001 the neglected levee and pumping systems in New Orleans, along with inadequate evacuation routes and infrastructure put New Orleans at risk for as many as 250,000 people stranded and thousands killed. Plus the Times-Picayune won a Pulitzer prize for their five part series on the dangers posed by antiquated levee and pumping systems, poor engineering and inadequate funding for emergency preparation for a major breech in the systems. So just as Bu$h said, "no one thought terrorists would use airplanes as missiles" and that his administration was not warned about 9-11 when ample evidence to the contrary exists ,although it was the intention of the 9-11 Commission to whitewash these facts from the public consciousness and record, (see recent revelations about Operation Able Danger) now Bu$h is claiming ignorance of any warnings about this problem. Let’s not forget the National Weather Service warned of the intensity and severity of the storm days before it hit inland and the storm was also tracked and plotted by the national intelligence and military satellites, so the outrage of many AmeriKKKans at the pathetic response of the Bu$h administration is well deserved. Unlike during 9-11 at least the media is not falling for the Bu$h administration’s okey-doke; although they are not challenging him on his lies directly, like they did Bill Clinton when he lied about his relations with Monica Lewinsky.
Michael Brown the head of FEMA has come under blistering criticism and rightly so. He is a political hack who has demonstrated a total ineptitude and callousness for the whole world to see. Brown’s ineffectiveness and Bu$h’s continued support for him are additional reasons why there is growing public indignation, even by white folks who normally could care less about the plight of poor black people. Just as he hasn’t fired, demoted or chastised anyone for the massive intelligence, military and civil defense failures of 9-11, Bu$h again demonstrated his real values and class loyalties by protecting his fellow Yale alum Michael Brown. The Republican spin machine is working overtime in a vain attempt to undo the perception (reality) of callousness and insensitivity on the part of the Bu$h cabal. Now all of a sudden the images and reports it the mainstream media are softer and show more whites being rescued and cared for. The media is also showing a less hard edge by the National Guardsmen and active duty military, depicting their humanitarian interaction between the victims as opposed to pictures of emotionally distressed blacks, unsubstantiated reports of rapes, murder and looting in an obvious attempt to demonize the poor folks trapped in New Orleans while Bu$h was playing a guitar, Cheney was hiding in Wyoming or Condoleezza Rice was frolicking on Broadway and shopping for shoes (similar to Nero fiddling while Rome burned). Hurricane Katrina has revealed the bitter ideological and class divisions in AmeriKKKa, an insensibility and a "let them eat cake" mentality of the upper classes. Most conscious black folks knew this class and cultural schism existed all along, but it took Hurricane Katrina to reveal it to the world.
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