News - September 2, 2005

World stunned as US struggles with Katrina - "The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society." -- Our vulnerability has been exposed.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/09/02/MTFH62797_2005-09-02_14-16-45_BAU248384.html

The humbling of a superpower - "While Washington struggles to respond to the storm that has humbled the most powerful nation on the planet, we should perhaps reflect on how quickly the thin veneer of civilisation can be stripped away."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/newscomment.html?in_article_id=361078&in_page_id=1787

American city becomes a Third World nightmare - "As we walked past the Windsor Court hotel, we were stopped by a female state trooper. "Y'all came over here without guns? Don't go there. Don't go there unless you have a machine gun around your neck. We pulled our troops out because the civilians have taken over. We don't have the manpower to deal with them," she said."
http://nydailynews.com/front/story/342810p-292645c.html

Katrina, Iraq, and theKnow-It-All Syndrome - ""In case anyone in national security is reading this, get the word to President Bush that we need the military in here NOW. The Active Duty Armed Forces. Mr. President, we are losing this city. I don't care what you're hearing on the news. The city is being lost. It is the law of the jungle down here."
http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7137

US troops given 'shoot to kill' orders in New Orleans - "Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco says the 300 troopers from the Arkansas National Guard has been authorised to open fire on "hoodlums" who have been terrorising the flooded city in the wake of Hurricane Katrina."
http://www.abc.net.au/ra/news/stories/s1451927.htm

New Orleans rocked by huge blasts - "The New Orleans riverfront has been hit by a series of massive blasts, and fires are raging in the area. The blasts are believed to have involved a chemical factory and police have sent a team to see if toxic fumes have been released."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4207202.stm

N'Orleans descendsinto hellish chaos - "As New Orleans descended into anarchy in the wake of devastating Hurricane Katrina and its inundating floods, Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert delivered his stunning opinion that rebuilding the historic city would be pointless and a waste of money."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46102

CLUELESS - "Could the people in charge of managing the catastrophe in New Orleans possibly be more clueless? George W. Bush, President of the United States, six days after repeated warnings from experts about the scope of damage expected from Hurricane Katrina: "I don't think anyone anticipated the breach of the levees." Michael Chertoff, Secretary of Homeland Security, following widespread eyewitness reports of refugees living like animals at the Convention Center: "I have not heard a report of thousands of people in the Convention Center who don't have food and water." Mike Brown, Director of FEMA, referring to people who were stuck in New Orleans largely because they were too poor to afford the means to leave: "...those who are stranded, who chose not to evacuate, who chose not to leave the city..." Patrick Rhode, deputy director of FEMA, commenting on his agency's performance after four days of steadily increasing urban warfare, deeply flawed coordination, and continuing inability to evacuate refugees: "Probably one of the most efficient and effective responses in the country's history." Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives, providing needed reassurance to the newly homeless: "It makes no sense to spend billions of dollars to rebuild a city that's seven feet under sea level....It looks like a lot of that place could be bulldozed."
This is beyond belief. What's with these people?"
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_09/007026.php

FEMA chief: Victims bear some responsibility - "The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday those New Orleans residents who chose not to heed warnings to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina bear some responsibility for their fates." -- Nevermind the fact that most of these people were too poor or sick to get out of New Orleans in advance of the storm, and the government made no provisions to help those less fortunate. Oh, wait, that's supposedly a Democrat philosophy, not a Republican.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.fema.brown/index.html

City was warned levees wouldn't hold - "A number of Mississippi River engineers say they've been warning for years that New Orleans' system of levees and dams could not defend against a weather onslaught like Hurricane Katrina. The warnings were all but ignored by the federal government, which failed repeatedly to fund needed improvements, USA Today reports."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46092

Lake George - "We're naming it Lake George, 'cause it's his frickin fault. Have you seen all that data about the levee projects' funding being cut over the past three years by the Prez, and the funding transferred to Iraq? The levee, as designed, might not have held back the surge from a direct Class 5 hit, but it certainly would not have crumbled on Monday night from saturation and scour erosion following a glancing blow from a Class 3. The failure was in a spot that had just been rebuilt, not yet compacted, not planted, and not armed (hardened with rock/concrete). The project should have been done two years ago, but the federal gov't diverted 80% of the funding to Iraq. Other areas had settled by a few feet from their design specs, and the money to repair them was diverted to Iraq."
http://www.pnionline.com/dnblog/attytood/archives/002336.html

Bush Strafes New OrleansWhere is our Huey Long? - "The National Public Radio news anchor was so excited I thought she'd piss on herself: the President of the United had flown his plane down to 1700 feet to get a better look at the flood damage! And there was a photo of our Commander-in-Chief taken looking out the window. He looked very serious and concerned. That was yesterday. Today he played golf. No kidding."
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=453&row=0

Radio host: No doubt 'End Times' here - "A national talk-radio host believes the severity of Hurricane Katrina is clear evidence that civilization is now in the "End Times" described in the Bible. "I don't think there's any doubt," George Noory said this morning on his "Coast to Coast AM" program. "I think we're in it. I really do."" -- That's it, scare the sheeple even more.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=46090