7:14 pm CDT
Boycott Yahoo

Yahoo! gave China data on jailed journalist

1:25 pm CDT
Divide and Conquer: Globalists Fomenting Race War

First in a three-part series by Alex Jones:
Nightmare Racism and Open Call for Revolution: Mexican Independence Day in Austin, Texas Demonstrators' Shirts Made Reference to the Plan of San Diego, a Genocide Operation against Whites over 16

11:18 am CDT


Wayne Madsen lists the many, many things missing from Bush's hurricane recovery plan ...
Bush's New Orleans Rebuilding Scam

They should have named it Hurricane Kafka. We keep hearing more and more surreal stories of police state, bureaucratic, criminally insane, deliberate bungling of the rescue effort ...
Doctor: FEMA Officials Gave Hospital Staffers Mops as People Died

Witnesses, even the owner of the deli, say she was innocent. But that didn't matter to the cops. Being elderly and diabetic, she was an easy catch. And, now, weeks later, she still sits in jail ...
Grandmother, 73, Held as Sausage Looter

Meanwhile, another hurricane may be on the way ...
Tropical Storm Rita Strengthens; Louisiana Now in Cone

3:09 pm CDT


Farewell, Posse Comitatus ...
Military May Play Bigger Relief Role

Cindy Sheehan: Get troops out of 'occupied New Orleans'

Farewell, America ...
FEMA Sends Katrina Survivors to American Gulag

Bush Cheney Regime Plans War on America

Government loves you ...
Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating hurricane victims

Recovering New Orleans' dead subordinated to profit and politics

Criminally Negligent: Homeland Security & Chertoff

Provocateurs? ...
Out-of-state gangs 'invaded' New Orleans, says military analyst

The Boy King in New Orleans ...
Electricity Turned On In New Orleans Neighborhood for Bush, Turned Off When He Left

10:49 pm CDT
The Boy King Comes to the Lost City, Dressed in Blue

Gulf winds carry smoke and the smell of death from the lost city ... Blackwater goons guard the wreckage and the ruin: the makeshift crematorium that the city has become: no cameras allowed, and no prying eyes to witness the disposal of the dead: the forgotten ones, the unknown victims, the uncounted bodies, the useless eaters, all out of sight now, and also out of mind: the lost people of the lost city ...

And elsewhere, in the United States of Emergency, the photo-op hugs in convention centers are over ... the dignitaries and celebrities have all gone home ... and the survivors of the lost city, those who did not find jobs at the job fairs, must now be taken away ... where? ... anywhere but this convention center ... this is, after all, a convention center; revenue is being lost; got to make room for the next convention ... therefore, take these people away ... take them to smaller camps, take them to abandoned high schools, windowless buildings in America's Heartland, barbed-wire church camps in wilderness hills, hidden away from prying eyes ... for these are the forgotten people, out of sight and out of mind, and their city is lost and dark with death ...

Dark, that is, but for a blue light ... yes, tonight, the Boy King has decided to walk among us, and he lights up the darkness of the lost city with a blue shirt matching the blue cathedral in the background as he tells us the lesson we have learned: that Government always loves us, and only desires to protect us, and would protect us more, if only it had more power ... therefore, give it more power, that more cities will not be lost ... and do not be afraid to do so ... for Government wants power only to protect us ... Government loves us, Government adores us, Government's only purpose is to serve and protect ...

And the Boy King also said: Government will rebuild the Lost City ... yes, Government will rebuild ... Government, out of the kindness of its heart, will give you a brand-new city, and a better one, a brighter bauble to replace the one that was lost ...

Yes, upon this fertile ground of snakes and sewage, upon this toxic mess, upon this wreckage of homes lost and the bones of the forgotten dead, yes ... upon these ruins (yet not all ruins, for Nature miraculously spared the quaint, historic, tourist zone!) shall arise something better, yes: a glittering, neon, jazz-themed city with roller-coaster casinos and hurricanes to drink, a place where the neo-con yuppies of tomorrow can party ... all built on the wreckage of the lost ... all new, and bright, and better ...

And we believe it will be better, of course, because the Boy King, dressed in glorious blue, has told us it will be so ...

11:18 am CDT
The Ugly Truth

Who Are The 75,000 Body Bags For?

The Danziger Bridge Incidents

The Great New Orleans Land Grab: The 17th Street Canal Levee was Breached on Purpose

Locals, Officials Suggest Levees were Intentionally Blown

Polls show that a majority of Americans have lost confidence in the Iraq war and believe Bush did a poor job responding to flooded New Orleans. Many Americans hope that these two massive failures have put Bush back into the box of responsible behavior from which Sept. 11 allowed him to escape. However, there is no indication that the Bush administration sees any constraints placed on its behavior by these failures.

The identical cronyism and corrupt government contract practices, by which taxpayers' money is used to reward political contributors, so evident in Iraq is now evident in New Orleans ...
America Has Fallen to a Jacobin Coup

The local government officials initially lambasted the federal government but then showed fealty to them and praised their efforts, a confidence trick that led many Americans to believe that the fault was incompetence at the local level and that federal government takeover was the solution ...
New Orleans: A New World Order Showcase

Blackwater mercenaries are some of the most feared professional killers in the world. What are they doing prowling the streets of NOLA? ...
Overkill in New Orleans

There are already proposals to convert certain flooded areas - including some water-logged neighborhoods - into parks. Under the Supreme Court's recent ruling broadening the definition of eminent domain, speculators could be forced to sell their properties to the government ...
Speculators Rush to New Orleans; Blacks Fear Gentrification

Bush used the starving people of New Orleans as hostages to blackmail the Governor into turning the city over to his troops so he could:

1. hand out all the reconstruction contracts to friends of the Bush Crime Family such as Halliburton; and

2. use his soldiers to control the exit and return of the inhabitants of New Orleans, to ensure that 'undesirables' - blacks and poor white race traitors who like living in a predominantly black culture - never come back so he can rebuild the city as an amusement park for white tourists ...

... [W]e we must not allow them to get away with their evil plans. It would be a social, architectural, and cultural crime to let Bush destroy New Orleans. New Orleans needs to be brought back to life in its existing buildings, most of which can be saved, and with its former inhabitants. Did the Italian government contemplate rebuilding Florence someplace else after the 1966 floods? Does anyone ever seriously contemplate moving Venice, a very similar ecological disaster of a city that is also slowly sinking? The idea is laughable. Let's face it. There are only five culturally important places in the whole country: New York, Boston, Chicago, San Francisco and . . . New Orleans. You just can't give New Orleans up so that some rich Republicans can make money. If the American political system were working properly, Bush's attempt to use the lives of the starving and dying citizens of New Orleans as hostages should lead to his impeachment and removal from office. This wasn't just total incompetence and negligence; it was a criminal act.
The New Orleans Hostage Crisis

4:53 pm CDT
Some Semblance of Normalcy



The story is not over, not by a long shot (see links posted below), but New Orleans-related news reports are beginning to slow down. Therefore, as evidenced by the picture above, this website now returns to some semblance of normalcy.

However, as I say, the story is far from over. I will continue posting the latest news and commentary on the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, in addition to other matters of vital importance that have not received the proper attention over the past couple of weeks ...

4:44 pm CDT
FEMA Crimes

FEMA, Louisana Outsource Katrina Body Count to Firm Implicated in Body-Dumping Scandals

Katrina Survivors Held in FEMA Detention Camp Utah

4:44 pm CDT
An Enjoyable Visit

Last Sunday I received two guests: Alex Ansary of Portland, Oregon, and Austin's own Freeman. Alex hosts a cable access show in Portland called Outside the Box. He is in Austin this week taping interviews with various local activist/researchers, including Alex Jones, Jack Blood, the aforementioned Freeman, SMiles Lewis, myself, and many others for a documentary to air on his show in the near future. Freeman also hosts a show, The Freeman Perspective, on Austin Cable Access. Both guys were a lot of fun to talk to. And their shows are great. If you're fortunate enough to live in either Portland or Austin, check 'em out and support what they're doing.

3:56 pm CDT
Enjoy

Mr. President, you're an asshole.

11:20 pm CDT
Impeach, Indict, Imprison

Finally, the words "criminal charges" are being used in the same breath with "Hurricane Katrina"; however, I am disappointed that, so far, the only persons arrested have been the owners of a nursing home in which 34 residents were drowned.

It may, or may not, have been the case that the owners exercised poor judgment when they decided it would be better to risk the fury of the storm (and hope the government would help) than risk evacuating extremely frail patients, many of whom were on feeding tubes; I know nothing of that.

But this I do know, beyond a shadow of a doubt: Those nursing home owners did not turn away food, water, and medical supplies from an entire city badly in need. Nor did they cut off emergency communication lines and otherwise deliberately interfere with the rescue of thousands of American citizens. No. Only the government did that.

Therefore, if we must assign criminal blame for the horror that occurred in New Orleans, then let it begin on a governmental level, and let it end there as well.

To be specific: The president himself has accepted full responsibility for the horror that occurred in New Orleans. By saying so, he has invited us to put him, and his associates, on trial for mass murder ...

Louisiana Drawing Up Criminal Charges for Flood Deaths

FEMA Requested Only 455 Buses to Rescue 20,000 ... Then Cancelled the Order

Mystery Surrounds Floodwall Breaches

11:14 pm CDT
Screw the Army and Screw its Policies

An 82nd Airborne soldier tells reporters that the Army has a policy that requires the media to be 300 meters away:
Kurt Nimmo: No Photos of Dead "Cockroaches" Allowed in New Orleans

11:09 pm CDT
More Media Lies

"By Thursday," the Chicago Tribune's Howard Witt reported, "local TV and radio stations in Baton Rouge...were breezily passing along reports of cars being hijacked at gunpoint by New Orleans refugees, riots breaking out in the shelters set up in Baton Rouge to house the displaced, and guns and knives being seized."

The only problem-none of the reports were true. "The police, for example, confiscated a single knife from a refugee in one Baton Rouge shelter," Witt reported. "There were no riots in Baton Rouge. There were no armed hordes." Yet the panic was enough for Baton Rouge Mayor-President Kip Holden to impose a curfew on the city's largest shelter, and to warn darkly about "New Orleans thugs ..." LINK

6:35 pm CDT
Spoken Like a True American

NOLA Resident: 'I Leave When I'm Dead'

6:33 pm CDT
Unconstitutional, Illegal, and Unacceptable

Groups Cry 'New Orleans Gun Seizures Illegal'

Mexico, Holland Send Troops to Biloxi

6:31 pm CDT
Covering Up the True Body Count

Rigorous Intuition: Drowning by Numbers

6:28 pm CDT
Who Are the Real Thugs?

In the days following Hurricane Katrina, Denise Moore was trapped in the New Orleans Convention Center, with her mom, her niece and her niece's two-year-old daughter. There she witnessed acts of surprising humanity by armed thugs, taking charge and doing good ...

To find out more about the bridge Denise talked about in Act One, and the armed police who prevented pedestrians from crossing, This American Life producer Alex Blumberg talks with Lorrie Beth Slonsky and her husband Larry Bradshaw. They're paramedics from San Francisco who were visiting New Orleans for a convention when Hurricane Katrina hit. After the storm, they tried to escape the city in a number of ways. When they tried to leave the city on foot, they were told, at gunpoint, by police, that they must turn back ...

This American Life

Another audio link describing the paramedics' plight here: MondoGlobo.net

6:25 pm CDT
Media Lies

Excerpt from the diary of a news cameraman working in New Orleans. Name and affiliation withheld for obvious reasons ...
The Real Story

Australia's Herald-Sun lied about actor Sean Penn's boat springing a leak and sinking. It never sunk; it did take on water, however, due to all the evacuees it was carrying ...
Sean Penn Saved over 40 Lives

In stark contrast to increasingly optimistic mainstream media coverage (cover-up) about "improving relief efforts" and "rebuilding," [Malik] Rahim exposed the fact that there is no relief. No Red Cross, no food, no emergency medical care under a FEMA lockdown that has kept any relief from getting into New Orleans ...
New Orleans: Covert Operations Underway?

6:23 pm CDT
Commentary

Charlene Fassa: New Orleans: Eyes Wide Shut

New Orleans: Dress Rehearsal for Lockdown of America

Military Take-Over of New Orleans a Harbinger of the Future?

12:19 pm CDT
Disappearing the Dead in NOLA?

There are some very troubling developments regarding the collecting of bodies in NOLA. The company hired to do the collection is Kenyon International. Kenyon International is owned by SCI, a major Bush contributor. SCI was involved in a scandal called "Funeralgate" wherein thousands of bodies were improperly and fraudulently disposed of in mass graves in violation of numerous State and Federal laws on numerous occasions. Rather than prosecute the company, the then Governor George W Bush and his campaign manager and future FEMA director Joe Allbaugh seemingly helped the company engage in a cover-up. Both Bush and Allbaugh were named as defendants in a lawsuit regarding the issue.

The fact FEMA and the Bush Administration seem to be intent on blocking media coverage of the collection of bodies, and unsubstantiated rumours of "mishandling" of bodies in NOLA already circulating should lead to great concern among the public. Is the Government planning to cover up the number of dead in NOLA as they covered up the Abu Ghraib scandal? ... LINK

3:09 pm CDT
Murder by Bureaucracy

Lawyer: Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries Interfered with Rescue Effort

3:09 pm CDT
Commentary

Paul Craig Roberts: From Federal Failure Arises More Federal Power

Kurt Nimmo: Blackwater Mercenaries: Coming Soon to Your Town

7:26 pm CDT
Another Blogger on the Scene

GNN's Anthony Lappe Blog from New Orleans

7:05 pm CDT
Bloggers Report the Real News from Occupied New Orleans



Xeni Jardin at Boing-Boing reports that bloggers Jacob Appelbaum and Joel Johnson have arrived in occupied New Orleans. They describe a visit with Black Panther Malik Rahim, an unpleasant encounter with Blackwater goons, the seizure of medical supplies from a nurse by Homeland Security at the request of the Red Cross, corpses unnecessarily left lying in the streets for over a week, and much more, complete with photos, iChat capability, and the ability to stream video ... LINK

11:45 am CDT
Blackwater Black Ops, FEMA Crimes

New Orleans Covert Operations Underway

FEMA Needs to Tell People What It Intends for Their Homes

FEMA and Katrina: REX-84 Revisited

4:36 pm CDT
Rebuilding New Orleans



Wages Slashed for NOLA Rebuilding Effort

Power to the Victims of New Orleans / With the poor gone, developers are planning to gentrify the city

Wayne Madsen: FEMA Prepares New Orleans for New Gambling Mecca

New Orleans Executives Plan Revival

The Death of a City: New Orleans Will Never Be the Same

Architect Daniel Libeskind: Rebuild New Orleans with a Jazz Theme

Make It An Island

3:09 pm CDT
Top Stories

Authorities Bar Red Cross from NOLA; Blackwater Gets Carte Blanche

St. Bernard Residents Told to Leave, or Else

CNN Wins Ruling on News Coverage