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Report from the Houston Astrodome...
10:23: Joel just got removed. Almost arrested. Fox News is down on the floor. I’m in dome, hiding in seats. They’re allowing some media on the floor, not others.
10:31 Just met members of the Polish press, they are being stopped from entering floor. Says this is like the former USSR.
10:57 Raw transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee : "The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city... to keep the French Quarter protected, the ninth ward was sacrificed... people are afraid to speak out... everyone who was near there heard the bombings... they bombed seven times. That’s why they didn’t fix the levees... 20 feet of water. Gators. People dying in water. They let the parishes go, not the city center. Tourist trap was saved over human life. A six year old girl was raped in here.. 9 year old boy killed. A man in the shower beaten. No hot food. No help for elderly."
Another evacuee: "Over 20 rapes per night happening inside this place. They bring in national guard for media purposes. Bush wants us to stay here to raise his ratings. Some workers are stealing the good stuff, like shoes."
11:16: Rough transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee, male: "We are treated like prisoners here. Placed under mandatory curfew. We are citizens!"
11:22 Now I’m speaking to someone else, another woman, who says some people report having witnessed "bomb sounds," believe 17th street levee and others were blown up to manage water flow and protect more valuable portions of real estate.
Evacuee: "They blew the levee to save the city..." Saying a barge broke the levee. She is from St. Bernard Parish. "More expensive places were saved at the expense of the neighborhoods that aren’t as valuable... Rebuilding Bourbon Street matters more to the government... that’s what mattered to Governor Blanco..."
http://www.boingboing.net/2005/09/07/katrina_rape_murder_.htmlby : BoingBoingFriday 9th September 2005
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 02h30 - Posted by 4.*.244.*
That is the situation of freedom, democracy and citizens or human rights in America 2005. More to say?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 05h22 - Posted by 4.***.45.*
That’s par for the course. What else do you expect? There’s no constitutional law available here. Like it or not, this country is for the rich, of the rich and by the rich.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 02h12 - Posted by 206.***.69.**
Walls broken by water pressure fall toward the water flow ...Why edges of walls are pushed inside the lake .....?
Simple demolition hose do that ....
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 07h32 - Posted by 207.***.116.**
Katrina’s consequence either natural or aided by government officials may well be the NEW 911 event predicted. Truly not a result of foreign terrorists. Ezybud
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 09h01 - Posted by 205.***.116.*
It’s all to late, no one wants to really stand up to The Third Anti-Christ which is your’s truly...George W. Bush. We let them gain control with the bullshit they force fed us during 9/11 God we are so DOOMED. A Red Dawn is in the horizon.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 05h31 - Posted by 66.**.255.***
Doesn’t sound far fetched! Haliburton stock is up, drug companies will profit, the Country will be divided and distracted and all the while this criminal Administration will rob us blind, stack the Supreme Court, and continue the murdering of innocents in Iraq! Sounds like the "Perfect Storm" for them!!
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 18h20 - Posted by 24.***.126.***
Listen to this clip of the BIG DICK Cheney -
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Connected--Cheney-F-himself.mov
He is setting up the sting. They will claim that the EPA requires extensive clean up because of the bacteria and health hazards. FEMA does not have the authority of law to pay for clean up on private property. That means that the poor people who owned the homes in the flood ravaged area will have to pay for EPA mandated clean up of hazardous waste. Obviously they won’t be able to afford it so they will have to take the pennies on the dollar that FEMA will offer them for their homes. FEMA will then sell the property to corporate developers to build an International Port and tourist mecca for gambling or whatever.
The levee broke in the middle of the night after the storm passed - and on the river side where the corp had been doing construction. Coincidently, the two of the pumps broke at the very same moment as the levee opened up.
What a coincidence..... if you believe in that sort of thing.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 21h16 - Posted by 69.***.82.***
And Haliburton gets hurricane clean up contracts to add insult to injury. Iraqis/Americans..Both are just cash cows for these animals
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 23h11 - Posted by 12.**.9.***
A divided and distracted country is allowing armed Mexican troops into our nation. when will Americans wake up?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 17h32 - Posted by 24.**.23.**
They were armed with soup kitchen’s to feed your poor, that’s what the military does best in Mexico, other than look tough at tourists and run from the drug cartels. Turn your sound up on that old TV.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 17h40 - Posted by 24.**.23.**
The Mexican army was armed with soup kitchens. In Mexico they look tough at tourists and run from the drug cartels. Turn up your TV or hearing aid and tune in to the basics. There is enough fear and paranoia in the USA for the entire world.Your government is doing an excellent job in this respect which is a fact you can really believe in.cheers, jt
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 01h23 - Posted by 71.*.66.***
Don’t count on it! It’s always darkest before the dawn.
See these sites and see what I mean!
http://www.sunriseofthesolardisk.com/
http://www.twolostmoons.com/
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 01h53 - Posted by 70.***.102.***
How exactly does blowing up a levee save a city? This levee was built to keep water out. By intentionally causing more water to fill the city the Bush Administration has suspended gravity and actually kept a portion of the city dry while flooding it. Wake up, you’re giving all conspiracy theorists a bad name. Or was that your intention all along?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 21h34 - Posted by 151.***.149.**
The tragedy is not that the levees were breached (either through inadequacy or a barge), the tragedy is the breakdown of civility in New Orleans. The looting, raping, pillaging of a bunch of marauders - and yes they were BLACK PEOPLE - on the most vulnerable of New Orleans has always been there unbeknownst to the outside world. It was these people that also made aiding and rescuing such a hazardous job for the rescuers; these people were the ones who were shooting at medical personnel, search and rescue teams, policemen, firefighters and all the others that were trying to help. It is because of these violent black marauders that surrounding towns near New Orleans did not want to open shelters prior to the hurricane because they were afraid of getting beaten up by these violent people. New Orleans, The Big Easy, had become a violent, dirty, corrupt, rotten sinkhole. Big cities across the USA showed a decline in hard crimes but not in New Orleans. The hurricane just exposed the disgusting mess to the outside world.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 11h39 - Posted by 4.*.244.*
Go back to bed you mindless twit.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 19h54 - Posted by 65.**.41.***
This letter must have been written by one of our new christian "born agains" If Jesus walked into your "church", you and your "christian" friends would most probably lynch him for being a long haired, black people loving, peacenik. Am I wrong?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 22h16 - Posted by 83.***.231.**
Hi from France - - Here in the south ( Saint Tropez, Côte d’Azur district ), we have regulary these big fires , most of the time lightened by Real Estate developpers.I think Nouvelle Orléans dykes destruction is organized like that.With this Mafia ( all 3 branches of US GOV sould their souls ) one cannot expect otherwise
Let’s hope the Valerie Plame Grand Juryin the Dirksen BuildingChicago will survive further attacks. ( see rense.com ) George Noudin
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 10h05 - Posted by 205.***.117.**
WE WE To France I’m being force fed FREEDOM FRIES
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 10h13 - Posted by 205.***.117.**
WE WE To France I’m being force fed FREEDOM FRIES
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 22h29 - Posted by 68.**.52.***
Just days after the storm a writer, Henry Makow, who is highly respected in internet circles, stated that he knew the levees were bombed. At the time I thought that was way over the top. Then a second article appeared which drew attention to the curious delay between the passage of the storm surge and the seven hours later that the critical pump in the 9th Ward failed immediately before the levee was breached at four in the morning. Now we have what I guess are ear witness accounts. Perhaps our barbarous foreign policy has, indeed, come home to roost.
Another question that I just can’t shake is: ’Just what, exactly, are they doing with HAARP?"
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 09h50 - Posted by 205.***.116.**
HAARP??? LOL It is awfully strange how the weather has changed over the years it does’nt take a rocket scientist to figure out what there really doing, there ’s just alot of stupid people out there who are caught in the web of creed. I f you beleive the tsunami was natural without having to question it in your mind, Your a slave to the Media and a slave to the new Anti-Christ and he is not Osama Bin Laden, Once Again He is George W. Bush. The reason why I say he is the New Anti-Christ is because we let him fool us, Personally I think this all started when JFK Jr was killed He was a threat from jump, and they took him out because he liked to live like a normal person, I guess he should’ve known better. Then in 2000 they place the race card with minorities and fool them to thinking they were voting for Gore when the machines were rigged to vote for Your’s Truly The Anti-Christ, after the coming months people were still addicted to Bill Clinton , Some people just did’nt want to beleive that Dubya was President and this chapped his ass, So he unveals a plan to destroy the WTC ,and declare war on the Middle East, well it worked and we let him fool us with his wanted dead not alive pic’s of osama, His deck of card’s with Saddam’s Henchmen, and once again you guy’s bought it hooked line and sinker. And Yes a Yellow Ribbon instead of a swastika to all you fool’s who buy the those stupid yellow ribbon’s (They all should be free , don’t ya think?) But We as American’s don’t know any better, While Osama and Your’s Truly laugh behind are back’s, and the Neo con’s who are swinging from Bushes Ball’s, Like Sean Hannity , Rush , Laura Ingram And Ann (CUNTER), Neil Cavuto and the rest of the Fox New’s Clan (thanks Ruppert) Will do there best to fool you and they have . It’s not only just Fox New’s, CNN, Msnbc etc , etc , and now we are here trying to put the puzzle together like the mess in New Orleans. I’ts so funny how the hurricane passes and destroys section’s of the city with power down and water purposely turned off with communication’s. That the looting begin’s, and yes people needed food and water to survive, (and those poor children) once it was shown on The Fox Neo-Con Network (the Looting)all of a sudden the levees are breached, Perfectly setting up these poor people. Then BOOM it happens, Who gives a shit about them stealing Tv’s, Stereo’s and what not! alot of minorities are brainwashed by the music industry anyway, with the booty clapping flamboyant shit! Anywho They were perfect target’s for a new city that’s being worked on right now. It’s estimated that it will exceed over 100 billion dollarsand beleive me not even a small fraction will go to those poor people, Where are the alien’s when you need them!!!!!
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 22h37 - Posted by 70.**.177.***
The new world order is alive and well folks - brainwashing, politics, corruption, manipulation, lies,killing, murder, wars, at the expense of people that believe their vote counts to elect governmentfor the people via congress and the senate....Imao. Hey, it is all a means to an end for an elitewho are striving for a world dictatorship. Remember the old days when integrity and honesty in acommunity had value? When family values and friendship mean’t something? Today’s world is anightmare, and it is only going to get worst, unless the real values of yesterday, are adhered toquickly. Are to angry now, or do you fall in love with Big Brother to accept your fate?? Ox
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 23h08 - Posted by 208.**.144.***
"In the great flood of 1927, the upper crust of New Orleans tried to save the city by breaking the levees and flooding the land of poor farmers who lived farther up the Mississippi River. But even among those poor victims, blacks were treated worse than whites. "
Is it so hard to believe that it could happen again?-
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 23h37 - Posted by 205.***.116.***
WHO BROKE THE LEVEE INTENTIONALLY BY RAMMING IT WITH GRAIN BARGES ???
THE FACTS:
#1 The LEVEE was under the operation and control (via the corruption of local LEVEE boards) of ZIONIST gambling interests. RESEARCH IT TO GET ENLIGHTENED.
#2 FIVE SHOT DEAD IN NEW ORLEANS were DEPT OF DEFENSE workers investigating the INTENTIONAL LEVEE BREAK, according to AP.
#3 Intentionally breaking the 17th street levee flooded 80% of the city and caused the CHAOS -- the LEVEE was intentionally broken after the storm had passed. The storm was only CAT 2 strength when it passed over the city (according to the hurricane center it had MAX winds of 100 MPH when it passed over the city -- weaker than BETSY which resulted in 75 deaths).
#3A This is the reason why the response was INTENTIONALLY SLOW -- few or no witnesses to the INTENTIONAL BREAKING OF THE LEVEE.
#4 There is nothing "natural" or "predictable" when a LEVEE IS INTENTIONALLY BROKEN.
#5 ZIONISTS are ANTI 1st amendment and ANTI 2nd amendment and they are also ANTI AMERICAN, as evidenced by their own actions and speech.
#6 The child raping, robbing, and murdering JUDEO MASONICS / ZIONISTS are NOT religious -- they hide under the guise of RELIGION to fool you. Ever hear of wolves in sheeps clothing?
#7 The #1 terrorist / spy organization in the USA continues to operate openly in Washington DC - its called AIPAC. ADL is a close second, as evidenced by the ARRESTS of those with ties to these organizations -- FRANKLIN, ROSEN, WEISSMAN.
#8 A squad / commission should be immediately established to find the agents / traitors responsible for destroying the LEVEE.
#9 These types of squads for TRAITORS are commonly referred to as FIRING SQUADS.
#10 Why were they putting the names of the LOST people on sticky notes??? It sickened me when I saw that. They should have had hundreds of techs with computers entering the names in databases.
#10A Where has all the LOOTED homeland security billions gone??? It has paid for sticky notes apparently and has been LOOTED by zionist TRAITORS and cronies. Not surprisingly, “HOMELAND SECURITY” is run by a dual US-ISRAELI citizen.
#11 ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL -- do not forget this.
"no one censors speech they agree with"
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 18h34 - Posted by 217.***.65.**
you are in all your comments so utterly and openly against us jews , I did read your commentsin many forums .... what has hurt you so much for such slander ?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 00h10 - Posted by 67.*.56.**
The canal levee was concrete several feet thick. It was rammed well after the class 2 storm hit by a grain barge. When the canal levee broke, the levee was blown near the 9th ward to divert the flow away from the quarter and, more importantly, the gated community of Audobon Place, a section of the city near the Garden District replete with personal helipads that still has running water and sewage.
This is nothing new. Read the history of the 1927 flood and see how the bankers blew the river levees to protect New Orleans and then later completely reneged on written contracts to rebuild the devistated Cajun and Black parishes. They controlled the courts and nullified all agreements to compensate.
The past is Prologue.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 00h49 - Posted by 205.***.116.***
ALERT!!!
In a sick twist of events -- the revised track for Hurricane Ophelia is now on a direct course for Charleston, SC.
For those of you new to these sick ZIONIST mind gamers -- there was a nuclear terror drill in Charleston, SC just last month.
A 4 star general involved in this drill was removed from his post. Relieving a 4 star general from duty is a very unusual event in our nations history.
This is very early in WW3 -- this early phase is a WAR FOR YOUR MINDS. Most people have clearly LOST IT already.
DO YOUR OWN FACT CHECKING -- do not rely on the shills to think for you. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE THINKING FOR YOURSELF -- THEN THINK AGAIN.
Those who think this is going to far - have no idea of the heartless, gutless, ruthless psycho-warfare propagandists we should be fighting.
RESEARCH THIS ON YOUR OWN -- actually spend some time if you care.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 01h59 - Posted by 24.***.171.**
Do you feel safe? Don’t think that this sort of thing can’t happen in your city. New Orleans is merely foreshadowing. Where will the next city evacuate to?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 03h07 - Posted by 64.**.116.***
Today on CNN houses that did not have a scratch in high and dry neighborhoods and with peoplehaving a months supply of water and groceries have been ordered out. Their houses alreadycarry orange condemed spray paint on them. The Mayor (bought and paid for) is adament about forcing these people our. As soon as they are out watch the bulldozers come in andlevel this area. It is already condemed, so next step is to sell these condemed lots to largecorporations that have long wanted to make N.O. a new Las Vegas Disney attraction.Do we live in a great Country or what?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 05h58 - Posted by 68.**.40.**
Dems are kinda like UFO kooks. The media says they are kooks, but just like UFO kooks they have their own special kind of proof that nobody else accepts. And there is no convincing them because just like UFO kooks, they all are the intelligent ones and the rest of us are dolts for not believing their latest wack job theroy.
The far left even gets snubbed by their own party members, like Cindy Sheenan. Hillary ran off to Alaska, and then Hawaii just to be sure she was completely un-available to show up with her in Crawford. Same for the rest of those with any power left. Hiding for fear of appearing with the kooky left.
When are you kooks gonna learn? There is a reason that they won’t associate with you. We are in a war and the gov. is not going to tell you, (and the enemy) what is going on all the time.They might even tell a white lie or two. But you can tell what your party member in the know think about it, They just don’t show for your parties. Think about it.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 10h01 - Posted by 205.***.116.***
Fucking Slave !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 10h02 - Posted by 205.***.116.***
Bush is like Gargamel and were the Smurf’s all he want’s to do is EAT US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 11h06 - Posted by 67.*.119.***
Who in the world is the junior Rush Limbaugh here who picks the subject of thousands dead in New Orleans to call members of the opposition party "kooks"? Don’t these mentally ill types ever get tired of hearing themselves talk? Guess not. I s’pose that’s one of the symptoms of a classic paranoid. Whoops sorry I picked kind of some big words, there. Sorry. What I mean is "Cheetah not understand great big world. Cheetah think president is God. Not love president? Then you DIE! Not allowed say "die" on internet post. So call them kooks instead. Best Cheetah can do in big, scary world."
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 11h11 - Posted by 4.*.244.*
Republicans are kind of like Bozo the Clown....No matter how obvious it is that their hero Bush is a liar and a thug they still smile and jump up and down and honk their little horns. If they had a brain they would be dangerous, as it is they just tie a rope between them and follow the leader straight off of the cliff. No matter how hard their lives become they still laugh and pretend they don’t know what the hell is going on. They think that if they let Bu$hco steal their last dollar, that some day he will invite them to the annual hog calling hootnanny where they can have all of the free bud light they can swill down. Instead of the "village idot" it is whole communities full of idiots fawning over their P.T. Barnum Bu$h freak show. Big Boss can do no wrong, no matter what crimes he commits right out in the open (Cheneyburton, Carlyle, KBR cleaning out the treasury) they just fluff up their orange yarn hair and put on their big shoes and smile , smile, smile...and when the freak himself come swaggering and smirking on stage with his flight suit on and a snout full of coke they all do their butt kissing routine for any who can stomach it.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 17h54 - Posted by 58.***.7.***
Blessed are the kooks, for they shall be prepared.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed11th September 2005 - 15h19 - Posted by 152.***.100.***
It’s all about the "Party" isn’t it.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 07h56 - Posted by 70.**.218.**
What complete, utter BULLSHIT!
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 13h15 - Posted by 198.**.202.***
It’s not bullshit, but bush shit, and it’s what you guys out there have been force fed since 911. If you lot don’t wake up and do something about it, all of us the world over are going to be up to our ears in it.
No one but the American public can put a stop to it, but it must be soon, the longer this goes on, the more laws are passed, the easier it gets to throw all dissenters in jail (re Padilla). Very soon a point will be passed where it would be impossible to stop the onward movement of the present lot who are holding the USA to ransom.
We pray that the American people can rise to this challenge. It is more difficult because the enemy is not a foreign government that is occupying your country, but your own government, and making everyone in it a prisoner of war.
From the southern part of Africa.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed11th September 2005 - 04h31 - Posted by 208.**.209.***
This whole situation is a complete mess. I seirously believe that the govn. wants to own all the land around N.O. to make it a new Las Vegas. Lets just wait and watch it happen. What else can we do?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed11th September 2005 - 05h56 - Posted by 151.***.127.**
Pardon me for saying, but... DID ANY OF YOU AIRHEADED, MEALYMOUTHED TWITS FOLLOW THE ORIGINAL LINK AND READ ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS CAME FROM A FREAKIN’ IM SESSION???!!! Are you COMPLETELY stupid??? What’s more, it came from an IM session SUPPOSEDLY with someone INSIDE the Astrodome!!!!! How freakin’ gullible does one have to be to swallow this drivel without so much as a word of "Well, maybe we should CHECK this information..."
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 18h18 - Posted by 63.***.10.***
The Mexican Army just marched across the border...just like everyone else.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 18h19 - Posted by 24.**.121.***
I have a theory..Maybe the levee’s were hit by a hurricane and that is why they failed.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed11th September 2005 - 18h21 - Posted by 66.**.93.***
Hey, I have a therory! The levees were demolished. Chertoff said it himself in a press confrence on CNN last Saturday. He didn’t say destroyed, damaged or any other word to describe the falure he said "we are facing the unpresedented demolition of 300 ft of levee" I Tivo’d it.
The funny thing about being boiled alive is that the frog, lobster, missionary or whatever you got it that stone soup you call sustanance usually has no idea they are being boiled alive.
Oh and the earth is not flat and ufos are real.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 18h40 - Posted by 205.***.116.***
Welcome to the new world order! If you believe in Jesus or not, everything he said is comming true. Every day something happens bad to us, the citizen! Wake up! It’s only going to get worse. Old money, which who allows countries to fall for their own perposes, are now comming here to "change" our lives for the better (not!). The goal is, to develope one world order with a central police state to control the masses of the whole planet. Please be advised, the weather is just started to increase. This is not the only storm that will hit in that area. Everyone who lives in the Gulf will have to move in land sooner or later. Remember, if they can use a natural disater to steal your land, they will!
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Report from the Houston Astrodome...
10:23: Joel just got removed. Almost arrested. Fox News is down on the floor. I’m in dome, hiding in seats. They’re allowing some media on the floor, not others.
10:31 Just met members of the Polish press, they are being stopped from entering floor. Says this is like the former USSR.
10:57 Raw transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee : "The 17th street levee was bombed by the Army Corps of Engineers to save the more valuable real estate in the city... to keep the French Quarter protected, the ninth ward was sacrificed... people are afraid to speak out... everyone who was near there heard the bombings... they bombed seven times. That’s why they didn’t fix the levees... 20 feet of water. Gators. People dying in water. They let the parishes go, not the city center. Tourist trap was saved over human life. A six year old girl was raped in here.. 9 year old boy killed. A man in the shower beaten. No hot food. No help for elderly."
Another evacuee: "Over 20 rapes per night happening inside this place. They bring in national guard for media purposes. Bush wants us to stay here to raise his ratings. Some workers are stealing the good stuff, like shoes."
11:16: Rough transcript of comments by NOLA evacuee, male: "We are treated like prisoners here. Placed under mandatory curfew. We are citizens!"
11:22 Now I’m speaking to someone else, another woman, who says some people report having witnessed "bomb sounds," believe 17th street levee and others were blown up to manage water flow and protect more valuable portions of real estate.
Evacuee: "They blew the levee to save the city..." Saying a barge broke the levee. She is from St. Bernard Parish. "More expensive places were saved at the expense of the neighborhoods that aren’t as valuable... Rebuilding Bourbon Street matters more to the government... that’s what mattered to Governor Blanco..."
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 02h30 - Posted by 4.*.244.*
That is the situation of freedom, democracy and citizens or human rights in America 2005. More to say?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 05h22 - Posted by 4.***.45.*
That’s par for the course. What else do you expect? There’s no constitutional law available here. Like it or not, this country is for the rich, of the rich and by the rich.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 02h12 - Posted by 206.***.69.**
Walls broken by water pressure fall toward the water flow ...Why edges of walls are pushed inside the lake .....?
Simple demolition hose do that ....
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 07h32 - Posted by 207.***.116.**
Katrina’s consequence either natural or aided by government officials may well be the NEW 911 event predicted. Truly not a result of foreign terrorists. Ezybud
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 09h01 - Posted by 205.***.116.*
It’s all to late, no one wants to really stand up to The Third Anti-Christ which is your’s truly...George W. Bush. We let them gain control with the bullshit they force fed us during 9/11 God we are so DOOMED. A Red Dawn is in the horizon.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 05h31 - Posted by 66.**.255.***
Doesn’t sound far fetched! Haliburton stock is up, drug companies will profit, the Country will be divided and distracted and all the while this criminal Administration will rob us blind, stack the Supreme Court, and continue the murdering of innocents in Iraq! Sounds like the "Perfect Storm" for them!!
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 18h20 - Posted by 24.***.126.***
Listen to this clip of the BIG DICK Cheney -
http://movies.crooksandliars.com/Connected--Cheney-F-himself.mov
He is setting up the sting. They will claim that the EPA requires extensive clean up because of the bacteria and health hazards. FEMA does not have the authority of law to pay for clean up on private property. That means that the poor people who owned the homes in the flood ravaged area will have to pay for EPA mandated clean up of hazardous waste. Obviously they won’t be able to afford it so they will have to take the pennies on the dollar that FEMA will offer them for their homes. FEMA will then sell the property to corporate developers to build an International Port and tourist mecca for gambling or whatever.
The levee broke in the middle of the night after the storm passed - and on the river side where the corp had been doing construction. Coincidently, the two of the pumps broke at the very same moment as the levee opened up.
What a coincidence..... if you believe in that sort of thing.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 21h16 - Posted by 69.***.82.***
And Haliburton gets hurricane clean up contracts to add insult to injury. Iraqis/Americans..Both are just cash cows for these animals
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 23h11 - Posted by 12.**.9.***
A divided and distracted country is allowing armed Mexican troops into our nation. when will Americans wake up?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 17h32 - Posted by 24.**.23.**
They were armed with soup kitchen’s to feed your poor, that’s what the military does best in Mexico, other than look tough at tourists and run from the drug cartels. Turn your sound up on that old TV.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 17h40 - Posted by 24.**.23.**
The Mexican army was armed with soup kitchens. In Mexico they look tough at tourists and run from the drug cartels. Turn up your TV or hearing aid and tune in to the basics. There is enough fear and paranoia in the USA for the entire world.Your government is doing an excellent job in this respect which is a fact you can really believe in.cheers, jt
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 01h23 - Posted by 71.*.66.***
Don’t count on it! It’s always darkest before the dawn.
See these sites and see what I mean!
http://www.sunriseofthesolardisk.com/
http://www.twolostmoons.com/
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 01h53 - Posted by 70.***.102.***
How exactly does blowing up a levee save a city? This levee was built to keep water out. By intentionally causing more water to fill the city the Bush Administration has suspended gravity and actually kept a portion of the city dry while flooding it. Wake up, you’re giving all conspiracy theorists a bad name. Or was that your intention all along?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 21h34 - Posted by 151.***.149.**
The tragedy is not that the levees were breached (either through inadequacy or a barge), the tragedy is the breakdown of civility in New Orleans. The looting, raping, pillaging of a bunch of marauders - and yes they were BLACK PEOPLE - on the most vulnerable of New Orleans has always been there unbeknownst to the outside world. It was these people that also made aiding and rescuing such a hazardous job for the rescuers; these people were the ones who were shooting at medical personnel, search and rescue teams, policemen, firefighters and all the others that were trying to help. It is because of these violent black marauders that surrounding towns near New Orleans did not want to open shelters prior to the hurricane because they were afraid of getting beaten up by these violent people. New Orleans, The Big Easy, had become a violent, dirty, corrupt, rotten sinkhole. Big cities across the USA showed a decline in hard crimes but not in New Orleans. The hurricane just exposed the disgusting mess to the outside world.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 11h39 - Posted by 4.*.244.*
Go back to bed you mindless twit.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 19h54 - Posted by 65.**.41.***
This letter must have been written by one of our new christian "born agains" If Jesus walked into your "church", you and your "christian" friends would most probably lynch him for being a long haired, black people loving, peacenik. Am I wrong?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 22h16 - Posted by 83.***.231.**
Hi from France - - Here in the south ( Saint Tropez, Côte d’Azur district ), we have regulary these big fires , most of the time lightened by Real Estate developpers.I think Nouvelle Orléans dykes destruction is organized like that.With this Mafia ( all 3 branches of US GOV sould their souls ) one cannot expect otherwise
Let’s hope the Valerie Plame Grand Juryin the Dirksen BuildingChicago will survive further attacks. ( see rense.com ) George Noudin
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 10h05 - Posted by 205.***.117.**
WE WE To France I’m being force fed FREEDOM FRIES
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 10h13 - Posted by 205.***.117.**
WE WE To France I’m being force fed FREEDOM FRIES
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 22h29 - Posted by 68.**.52.***
Just days after the storm a writer, Henry Makow, who is highly respected in internet circles, stated that he knew the levees were bombed. At the time I thought that was way over the top. Then a second article appeared which drew attention to the curious delay between the passage of the storm surge and the seven hours later that the critical pump in the 9th Ward failed immediately before the levee was breached at four in the morning. Now we have what I guess are ear witness accounts. Perhaps our barbarous foreign policy has, indeed, come home to roost.
Another question that I just can’t shake is: ’Just what, exactly, are they doing with HAARP?"
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 09h50 - Posted by 205.***.116.**
HAARP??? LOL It is awfully strange how the weather has changed over the years it does’nt take a rocket scientist to figure out what there really doing, there ’s just alot of stupid people out there who are caught in the web of creed. I f you beleive the tsunami was natural without having to question it in your mind, Your a slave to the Media and a slave to the new Anti-Christ and he is not Osama Bin Laden, Once Again He is George W. Bush. The reason why I say he is the New Anti-Christ is because we let him fool us, Personally I think this all started when JFK Jr was killed He was a threat from jump, and they took him out because he liked to live like a normal person, I guess he should’ve known better. Then in 2000 they place the race card with minorities and fool them to thinking they were voting for Gore when the machines were rigged to vote for Your’s Truly The Anti-Christ, after the coming months people were still addicted to Bill Clinton , Some people just did’nt want to beleive that Dubya was President and this chapped his ass, So he unveals a plan to destroy the WTC ,and declare war on the Middle East, well it worked and we let him fool us with his wanted dead not alive pic’s of osama, His deck of card’s with Saddam’s Henchmen, and once again you guy’s bought it hooked line and sinker. And Yes a Yellow Ribbon instead of a swastika to all you fool’s who buy the those stupid yellow ribbon’s (They all should be free , don’t ya think?) But We as American’s don’t know any better, While Osama and Your’s Truly laugh behind are back’s, and the Neo con’s who are swinging from Bushes Ball’s, Like Sean Hannity , Rush , Laura Ingram And Ann (CUNTER), Neil Cavuto and the rest of the Fox New’s Clan (thanks Ruppert) Will do there best to fool you and they have . It’s not only just Fox New’s, CNN, Msnbc etc , etc , and now we are here trying to put the puzzle together like the mess in New Orleans. I’ts so funny how the hurricane passes and destroys section’s of the city with power down and water purposely turned off with communication’s. That the looting begin’s, and yes people needed food and water to survive, (and those poor children) once it was shown on The Fox Neo-Con Network (the Looting)all of a sudden the levees are breached, Perfectly setting up these poor people. Then BOOM it happens, Who gives a shit about them stealing Tv’s, Stereo’s and what not! alot of minorities are brainwashed by the music industry anyway, with the booty clapping flamboyant shit! Anywho They were perfect target’s for a new city that’s being worked on right now. It’s estimated that it will exceed over 100 billion dollarsand beleive me not even a small fraction will go to those poor people, Where are the alien’s when you need them!!!!!
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 22h37 - Posted by 70.**.177.***
The new world order is alive and well folks - brainwashing, politics, corruption, manipulation, lies,killing, murder, wars, at the expense of people that believe their vote counts to elect governmentfor the people via congress and the senate....Imao. Hey, it is all a means to an end for an elitewho are striving for a world dictatorship. Remember the old days when integrity and honesty in acommunity had value? When family values and friendship mean’t something? Today’s world is anightmare, and it is only going to get worst, unless the real values of yesterday, are adhered toquickly. Are to angry now, or do you fall in love with Big Brother to accept your fate?? Ox
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 23h08 - Posted by 208.**.144.***
"In the great flood of 1927, the upper crust of New Orleans tried to save the city by breaking the levees and flooding the land of poor farmers who lived farther up the Mississippi River. But even among those poor victims, blacks were treated worse than whites. "
Is it so hard to believe that it could happen again?-
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed9th September 2005 - 23h37 - Posted by 205.***.116.***
WHO BROKE THE LEVEE INTENTIONALLY BY RAMMING IT WITH GRAIN BARGES ???
THE FACTS:
#1 The LEVEE was under the operation and control (via the corruption of local LEVEE boards) of ZIONIST gambling interests. RESEARCH IT TO GET ENLIGHTENED.
#2 FIVE SHOT DEAD IN NEW ORLEANS were DEPT OF DEFENSE workers investigating the INTENTIONAL LEVEE BREAK, according to AP.
#3 Intentionally breaking the 17th street levee flooded 80% of the city and caused the CHAOS -- the LEVEE was intentionally broken after the storm had passed. The storm was only CAT 2 strength when it passed over the city (according to the hurricane center it had MAX winds of 100 MPH when it passed over the city -- weaker than BETSY which resulted in 75 deaths).
#3A This is the reason why the response was INTENTIONALLY SLOW -- few or no witnesses to the INTENTIONAL BREAKING OF THE LEVEE.
#4 There is nothing "natural" or "predictable" when a LEVEE IS INTENTIONALLY BROKEN.
#5 ZIONISTS are ANTI 1st amendment and ANTI 2nd amendment and they are also ANTI AMERICAN, as evidenced by their own actions and speech.
#6 The child raping, robbing, and murdering JUDEO MASONICS / ZIONISTS are NOT religious -- they hide under the guise of RELIGION to fool you. Ever hear of wolves in sheeps clothing?
#7 The #1 terrorist / spy organization in the USA continues to operate openly in Washington DC - its called AIPAC. ADL is a close second, as evidenced by the ARRESTS of those with ties to these organizations -- FRANKLIN, ROSEN, WEISSMAN.
#8 A squad / commission should be immediately established to find the agents / traitors responsible for destroying the LEVEE.
#9 These types of squads for TRAITORS are commonly referred to as FIRING SQUADS.
#10 Why were they putting the names of the LOST people on sticky notes??? It sickened me when I saw that. They should have had hundreds of techs with computers entering the names in databases.
#10A Where has all the LOOTED homeland security billions gone??? It has paid for sticky notes apparently and has been LOOTED by zionist TRAITORS and cronies. Not surprisingly, “HOMELAND SECURITY” is run by a dual US-ISRAELI citizen.
#11 ALL PEOPLE ARE EQUAL -- do not forget this.
"no one censors speech they agree with"
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 18h34 - Posted by 217.***.65.**
you are in all your comments so utterly and openly against us jews , I did read your commentsin many forums .... what has hurt you so much for such slander ?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 00h10 - Posted by 67.*.56.**
The canal levee was concrete several feet thick. It was rammed well after the class 2 storm hit by a grain barge. When the canal levee broke, the levee was blown near the 9th ward to divert the flow away from the quarter and, more importantly, the gated community of Audobon Place, a section of the city near the Garden District replete with personal helipads that still has running water and sewage.
This is nothing new. Read the history of the 1927 flood and see how the bankers blew the river levees to protect New Orleans and then later completely reneged on written contracts to rebuild the devistated Cajun and Black parishes. They controlled the courts and nullified all agreements to compensate.
The past is Prologue.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 00h49 - Posted by 205.***.116.***
ALERT!!!
In a sick twist of events -- the revised track for Hurricane Ophelia is now on a direct course for Charleston, SC.
For those of you new to these sick ZIONIST mind gamers -- there was a nuclear terror drill in Charleston, SC just last month.
A 4 star general involved in this drill was removed from his post. Relieving a 4 star general from duty is a very unusual event in our nations history.
This is very early in WW3 -- this early phase is a WAR FOR YOUR MINDS. Most people have clearly LOST IT already.
DO YOUR OWN FACT CHECKING -- do not rely on the shills to think for you. IF YOU THINK YOU ARE THINKING FOR YOURSELF -- THEN THINK AGAIN.
Those who think this is going to far - have no idea of the heartless, gutless, ruthless psycho-warfare propagandists we should be fighting.
RESEARCH THIS ON YOUR OWN -- actually spend some time if you care.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 01h59 - Posted by 24.***.171.**
Do you feel safe? Don’t think that this sort of thing can’t happen in your city. New Orleans is merely foreshadowing. Where will the next city evacuate to?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 03h07 - Posted by 64.**.116.***
Today on CNN houses that did not have a scratch in high and dry neighborhoods and with peoplehaving a months supply of water and groceries have been ordered out. Their houses alreadycarry orange condemed spray paint on them. The Mayor (bought and paid for) is adament about forcing these people our. As soon as they are out watch the bulldozers come in andlevel this area. It is already condemed, so next step is to sell these condemed lots to largecorporations that have long wanted to make N.O. a new Las Vegas Disney attraction.Do we live in a great Country or what?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 05h58 - Posted by 68.**.40.**
Dems are kinda like UFO kooks. The media says they are kooks, but just like UFO kooks they have their own special kind of proof that nobody else accepts. And there is no convincing them because just like UFO kooks, they all are the intelligent ones and the rest of us are dolts for not believing their latest wack job theroy.
The far left even gets snubbed by their own party members, like Cindy Sheenan. Hillary ran off to Alaska, and then Hawaii just to be sure she was completely un-available to show up with her in Crawford. Same for the rest of those with any power left. Hiding for fear of appearing with the kooky left.
When are you kooks gonna learn? There is a reason that they won’t associate with you. We are in a war and the gov. is not going to tell you, (and the enemy) what is going on all the time.They might even tell a white lie or two. But you can tell what your party member in the know think about it, They just don’t show for your parties. Think about it.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 10h01 - Posted by 205.***.116.***
Fucking Slave !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 10h02 - Posted by 205.***.116.***
Bush is like Gargamel and were the Smurf’s all he want’s to do is EAT US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 11h06 - Posted by 67.*.119.***
Who in the world is the junior Rush Limbaugh here who picks the subject of thousands dead in New Orleans to call members of the opposition party "kooks"? Don’t these mentally ill types ever get tired of hearing themselves talk? Guess not. I s’pose that’s one of the symptoms of a classic paranoid. Whoops sorry I picked kind of some big words, there. Sorry. What I mean is "Cheetah not understand great big world. Cheetah think president is God. Not love president? Then you DIE! Not allowed say "die" on internet post. So call them kooks instead. Best Cheetah can do in big, scary world."
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 11h11 - Posted by 4.*.244.*
Republicans are kind of like Bozo the Clown....No matter how obvious it is that their hero Bush is a liar and a thug they still smile and jump up and down and honk their little horns. If they had a brain they would be dangerous, as it is they just tie a rope between them and follow the leader straight off of the cliff. No matter how hard their lives become they still laugh and pretend they don’t know what the hell is going on. They think that if they let Bu$hco steal their last dollar, that some day he will invite them to the annual hog calling hootnanny where they can have all of the free bud light they can swill down. Instead of the "village idot" it is whole communities full of idiots fawning over their P.T. Barnum Bu$h freak show. Big Boss can do no wrong, no matter what crimes he commits right out in the open (Cheneyburton, Carlyle, KBR cleaning out the treasury) they just fluff up their orange yarn hair and put on their big shoes and smile , smile, smile...and when the freak himself come swaggering and smirking on stage with his flight suit on and a snout full of coke they all do their butt kissing routine for any who can stomach it.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 17h54 - Posted by 58.***.7.***
Blessed are the kooks, for they shall be prepared.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed11th September 2005 - 15h19 - Posted by 152.***.100.***
It’s all about the "Party" isn’t it.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 07h56 - Posted by 70.**.218.**
What complete, utter BULLSHIT!
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 13h15 - Posted by 198.**.202.***
It’s not bullshit, but bush shit, and it’s what you guys out there have been force fed since 911. If you lot don’t wake up and do something about it, all of us the world over are going to be up to our ears in it.
No one but the American public can put a stop to it, but it must be soon, the longer this goes on, the more laws are passed, the easier it gets to throw all dissenters in jail (re Padilla). Very soon a point will be passed where it would be impossible to stop the onward movement of the present lot who are holding the USA to ransom.
We pray that the American people can rise to this challenge. It is more difficult because the enemy is not a foreign government that is occupying your country, but your own government, and making everyone in it a prisoner of war.
From the southern part of Africa.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed11th September 2005 - 04h31 - Posted by 208.**.209.***
This whole situation is a complete mess. I seirously believe that the govn. wants to own all the land around N.O. to make it a new Las Vegas. Lets just wait and watch it happen. What else can we do?
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed11th September 2005 - 05h56 - Posted by 151.***.127.**
Pardon me for saying, but... DID ANY OF YOU AIRHEADED, MEALYMOUTHED TWITS FOLLOW THE ORIGINAL LINK AND READ ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS CAME FROM A FREAKIN’ IM SESSION???!!! Are you COMPLETELY stupid??? What’s more, it came from an IM session SUPPOSEDLY with someone INSIDE the Astrodome!!!!! How freakin’ gullible does one have to be to swallow this drivel without so much as a word of "Well, maybe we should CHECK this information..."
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 18h18 - Posted by 63.***.10.***
The Mexican Army just marched across the border...just like everyone else.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 18h19 - Posted by 24.**.121.***
I have a theory..Maybe the levee’s were hit by a hurricane and that is why they failed.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed11th September 2005 - 18h21 - Posted by 66.**.93.***
Hey, I have a therory! The levees were demolished. Chertoff said it himself in a press confrence on CNN last Saturday. He didn’t say destroyed, damaged or any other word to describe the falure he said "we are facing the unpresedented demolition of 300 ft of levee" I Tivo’d it.
The funny thing about being boiled alive is that the frog, lobster, missionary or whatever you got it that stone soup you call sustanance usually has no idea they are being boiled alive.
Oh and the earth is not flat and ufos are real.
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> New Orleans tragedy: The 17th street levee was bombed10th September 2005 - 18h40 - Posted by 205.***.116.***
Welcome to the new world order! If you believe in Jesus or not, everything he said is comming true. Every day something happens bad to us, the citizen! Wake up! It’s only going to get worse. Old money, which who allows countries to fall for their own perposes, are now comming here to "change" our lives for the better (not!). The goal is, to develope one world order with a central police state to control the masses of the whole planet. Please be advised, the weather is just started to increase. This is not the only storm that will hit in that area. Everyone who lives in the Gulf will have to move in land sooner or later. Remember, if they can use a natural disater to steal your land, they will!
TCS: Tech Central Station - Imperium Americanum? Hardly.
TCS: Tech Central Station - Imperium Americanum? Hardly.
Blogger Thought: TCS is infantile (especially here).
Blogger Thought: TCS is infantile (especially here).
The Light Of Reason: Arthur Silber
The Light Of Reason
Blogger Thought: He's soon to be homeless... and not because of Katrina. For those of you who can, donate.
Crooks and Liars:
John Amato (C&L): I will collect the donations for Arthur. Use paypal or AMazon on my site and in the message put in " For Arthur" and I'll get it to him.
Blogger Thought: He's soon to be homeless... and not because of Katrina. For those of you who can, donate.
Crooks and Liars:
John Amato (C&L): I will collect the donations for Arthur. Use paypal or AMazon on my site and in the message put in " For Arthur" and I'll get it to him.
ProfessorBainbridge.com: Tony Snow Replies
ProfessorBainbridge.com: Tony Snow Replies
Blogger Thought: Tony and Steven make up. Mr. Snow represents a level of scum that Prof. Bainbridge could not obtain if he invested every neuron in that task.
Blogger Thought: Tony and Steven make up. Mr. Snow represents a level of scum that Prof. Bainbridge could not obtain if he invested every neuron in that task.
VIDEO: Earwitness tells ABC explosives blew Industrial Canal levee
TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS: "VIDEO: Earwitness tells ABC explosives blew Industrial Canal levee"
AP Wire | 09/11/2005 | Kuwait seeks death penalty for Saddam
AP Wire | 09/11/2005 | Kuwait seeks death penalty for Saddam
Blogger Thought: Everybody chime in.... who wants Saddam dead?
Blogger Thought: Everybody chime in.... who wants Saddam dead?
ABC News: Yahoo Founder Explains China E-Mail Move
ABC News: Yahoo Founder Explains China E-Mail Move
Blogger Thought: Looks Yahoo is saying authorities request access on a regular basis in many countries.
Blogger Thought: Looks Yahoo is saying authorities request access on a regular basis in many countries.
The Best-Laid Plan: Too Bad It Flopped - New York Times
Blogger Thoughts: Listened to Brooks on Jim Lehrer. This editorial and Brooks' discussion on Lehrer shows how things are getting skewed to cover up Repub. treason.
The Best-Laid Plan: Too Bad It Flopped - New York Times
September 11, 2005
The Best-Laid Plan: Too Bad It Flopped
By DAVID BROOKS
Among the many achievements of the human race - Chartres Cathedral, the Mona Lisa - surely the New Orleans emergency preparedness plan must rank among the greatest, and the fact that this plan turned out to be irrelevant to reality should not detract from its stature as a masterpiece of bureaucratic thinking.
The plan (which is viewable online at www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=46&tabid=26) begins with the insight: Be prepared. Or as the plan puts it, "Individuals with assigned tasks must receive preparatory training to maximize operations."
The plan lays out a course of action so that all personnel will know exactly what to do in case of a hurricane. The Office of Emergency Preparedness will coordinate with the Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness in conjunction with the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan by taking full advantage of the courses offered by the Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Association and other agencies "as well as conferences, seminars and workshops that may from time to time be available, most notably state hurricane conferences and workshops and the National Hurricane Conference."
In addition, the plan continues, the administrative and training officer of the Office of Emergency Preparedness will maintain close communication with the state training officer of the L.O.E.P., making sure workshops are conducted at the Emergency Support Function level, reviewing Emergency Operating Center/E.S.F. standard operating procedures and undertaking more "intensive work sessions with elements of the emergency response organizations in order to enhance unified disaster planning."
One can imagine the PowerPoint presentations! The millions of cascading bullet points! The infinity of hours spent planning a hurricane response that would make a Prussian officer gasp with reverence!
Furthermore, the plan instructs the O.E.P. director to execute Mass Casualty Incidents scenarios; work with the Association of Contingency Planners and other groups to coordinate disaster organization responses; coordinate, facilitate and encourage other agencies to conduct emergency self-assessments; engage in assessment processes in preparation for the Agency Disaster Report; and produce after-action reports with the O.E.P. shelter coordinator in conjunction with the Louisiana Statewide Hurricane Exercise.
The paper flow must have been magnificent! The quality of the facilitating must have been surpassed only by the magnificence of the interfacing!
The New Orleans emergency preparedness plan offers a precise communications strategy, so all city residents will know exactly where to go in times of crisis. It recommends that two traffic control officers be placed at each key intersection. It recommends busing the thousands of residents unable to evacuate themselves to staging areas prestocked with food.
In short, the plan was so beautiful, it's too bad reality destroyed it. The plan's authors were not stupid or venal. They are doubtless good public servants who worked in agencies set up to prepare for this storm. And yet their elaborate plan crumbled under the weight of the actual disaster.
But of course this illustrates the paradox at the heart of the Katrina disaster, which is that we really need government in times like this, but government is extremely limited in what it can effectively do.
Katrina was the most anticipated natural disaster in American history, and still government managed to fail at every level.
For the brutal fact is, government tends toward bureaucracy, which means elaborate paper flow but ineffective action. Government depends on planning, but planners can never really anticipate the inevitable complexity of events. And American government is inevitably divided and power is inevitably devolved.
For example, the Army Corps of Engineers had plenty of money (Louisiana received more than any other state), but that spending was carved up into little pork barrel projects. There were ample troops nearby to maintain order, but they were divided between federal and state authorities and constrained by regulations.
This preparedness plan is government as it really is. It reminds us that canning Michael Brown or appointing some tough response czar will not change the endemic failures at the heart of this institutional collapse.
So of course we need limited but energetic government. But liberals who think this disaster is going to set off a progressive revival need to explain how a comprehensive governmental failure is going to restore America's faith in big government.
E-mail: dabrooks@nytimes.com
The Best-Laid Plan: Too Bad It Flopped - New York Times
September 11, 2005
The Best-Laid Plan: Too Bad It Flopped
By DAVID BROOKS
Among the many achievements of the human race - Chartres Cathedral, the Mona Lisa - surely the New Orleans emergency preparedness plan must rank among the greatest, and the fact that this plan turned out to be irrelevant to reality should not detract from its stature as a masterpiece of bureaucratic thinking.
The plan (which is viewable online at www.cityofno.com/portal.aspx?portal=46&tabid=26) begins with the insight: Be prepared. Or as the plan puts it, "Individuals with assigned tasks must receive preparatory training to maximize operations."
The plan lays out a course of action so that all personnel will know exactly what to do in case of a hurricane. The Office of Emergency Preparedness will coordinate with the Louisiana Office of Emergency Preparedness in conjunction with the Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan by taking full advantage of the courses offered by the Louisiana Emergency Preparedness Association and other agencies "as well as conferences, seminars and workshops that may from time to time be available, most notably state hurricane conferences and workshops and the National Hurricane Conference."
In addition, the plan continues, the administrative and training officer of the Office of Emergency Preparedness will maintain close communication with the state training officer of the L.O.E.P., making sure workshops are conducted at the Emergency Support Function level, reviewing Emergency Operating Center/E.S.F. standard operating procedures and undertaking more "intensive work sessions with elements of the emergency response organizations in order to enhance unified disaster planning."
One can imagine the PowerPoint presentations! The millions of cascading bullet points! The infinity of hours spent planning a hurricane response that would make a Prussian officer gasp with reverence!
Furthermore, the plan instructs the O.E.P. director to execute Mass Casualty Incidents scenarios; work with the Association of Contingency Planners and other groups to coordinate disaster organization responses; coordinate, facilitate and encourage other agencies to conduct emergency self-assessments; engage in assessment processes in preparation for the Agency Disaster Report; and produce after-action reports with the O.E.P. shelter coordinator in conjunction with the Louisiana Statewide Hurricane Exercise.
The paper flow must have been magnificent! The quality of the facilitating must have been surpassed only by the magnificence of the interfacing!
The New Orleans emergency preparedness plan offers a precise communications strategy, so all city residents will know exactly where to go in times of crisis. It recommends that two traffic control officers be placed at each key intersection. It recommends busing the thousands of residents unable to evacuate themselves to staging areas prestocked with food.
In short, the plan was so beautiful, it's too bad reality destroyed it. The plan's authors were not stupid or venal. They are doubtless good public servants who worked in agencies set up to prepare for this storm. And yet their elaborate plan crumbled under the weight of the actual disaster.
But of course this illustrates the paradox at the heart of the Katrina disaster, which is that we really need government in times like this, but government is extremely limited in what it can effectively do.
Katrina was the most anticipated natural disaster in American history, and still government managed to fail at every level.
For the brutal fact is, government tends toward bureaucracy, which means elaborate paper flow but ineffective action. Government depends on planning, but planners can never really anticipate the inevitable complexity of events. And American government is inevitably divided and power is inevitably devolved.
For example, the Army Corps of Engineers had plenty of money (Louisiana received more than any other state), but that spending was carved up into little pork barrel projects. There were ample troops nearby to maintain order, but they were divided between federal and state authorities and constrained by regulations.
This preparedness plan is government as it really is. It reminds us that canning Michael Brown or appointing some tough response czar will not change the endemic failures at the heart of this institutional collapse.
So of course we need limited but energetic government. But liberals who think this disaster is going to set off a progressive revival need to explain how a comprehensive governmental failure is going to restore America's faith in big government.
E-mail: dabrooks@nytimes.com
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