- Four years ago today the brilliant blue skies of morning
over New York City were forever shattered by the impact of the first plane
that struck the World Trade Center towers. On that day America and the
world were changed forever. National innocence was lost amid the smoke
and flames that day and with each day since, our international reputation
has been stained by each new lie that the government told both to the nation
and the world. The people largely let this happen in the interests of maintaining
an imagined "status quo" but with the arrival of Katrina it is
clear that a national day of reckoning has arrived.
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- Katrina and 911 share several commonalities and together
these events illuminate failures that the American public has yet to face.
The true costs of these political calamities, now a billion dollars a day
for Katrina alone, presents the congress and the country with a set of
real needs that are now in danger of never being met. The lack of political
leadership, at all levels, coupled with dedicated incompetence and underscored
by arrogance has brought this nation to the brink of collapse. No overview
existed, no plan that took the needs of ordinary people into account was
ever formed in anything from foreign policy to health or human services,
never mind the survivability of any of the national "values"
that we have said we hold "so dear."
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- The color of the floodwaters that still covers New Orleans
are as black as the true purposes that underlie the War on Iraq. The stench
from the aftermath of the storms along the Gulf Coast is at least as powerful
as the open sewers of waste corruption and greed that today runs rampant
through major cities, both here and abroad where the mega-powers continue
to seek control over all international exploits in order to steal that
which they cannot obtain in any other way. The fate of the City of New
Orleans is unclear at this hour, but the future of the United States is
equally uncertain on this fourth anniversary of the attack on the people
of this country, by those who would destroy whatever was, in order to own
whatever is to come.
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- When the purposes for our attack upon Afghanistan began
to come under scrutiny, after signing the Unocal pipeline contract there;
the directors of the wars moved our troops and the national spotlight to
Iraq. When the public began to look more closely into the non-existent
reasons for the wars; instead of answers the administration gave the public
a complete reorganization of the entire government supposedly to guarantee
the safety of every man, woman and child, from any and all threats anywhere
or anytime. HOMELAND Insecurity was the result. To do this 22 separate
agencies were folded into a completely unmanageable single agency. Katrina
has proven that this was a disaster in itself, just waiting to happen,
and now that disaster has become this catastrophe that has cost lives and
property on a scale that has not been seen since the Civil War. So much
for the vision or the leadership of these fools in Washington DC!
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- Our unilateral wars of aggression have been momentarily
eclipsed by Katrina, but the damages and heartbreak there have been countered
by the outpouring of extreme generosity from not only the American public
but from nations and peoples the world over. In the remembrances of this
black day in history we must include the facts that both these world-changing
events were overseen by those same criminals that are pretending to be
legitimate leaders of this nation. However their true constituency consists
of that one percent of the population that now owns forty percent of the
wealth. The welfare of the mass of ordinary people here represents only
an impediment to their continued acquisition of anything and everything
of value. As an example of what they have in mind, it is currently rumored
that Halliburton wants to begin to privatize the water supply. Perhaps
this is part of why so many lies were necessary to cover the true goals
of what is really at issue in all the turmoil surrounding these tragic
and ongoing events.
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- In Afghanistan and Iraq there were so many outright lies,
so much disinformation and created confusion that it has been far more
than just "difficult" to get to the truth beneath the mindless
aggression of the wars. In Katrina, the lack of information that reached
the public just as in Iraq, was the key in dividing the responders, diverting
the life-saving services and confounding the critical efforts needed to
save lives and property during a natural disaster that was more than just
expected as the arrival of this storm had been expected for literally decades,
and all the preparations had been made, but were ignored!
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- By stripping FEMA of its real reason for being, which
originally was coordination and control of all decisions into a single
federal agency that answered only to the president but in this situation
confusion and delay were officially inserted into the response plans of
the federal government thereby guaranteeing that widespread failures were
inevitable.
- When Homeland Insecurity was established the most experienced
FEMA personnel left and were replaced with political hacks, the government
thereby assured that this storm and the others that may yet arrive would
have the maximum violent impact on the nation and the public. This, because
while the cast of characters at the heart of this darkness that is the
Bush administration remains the same; their corrupted reach in all cases
has always been the same target, namely the complete subjugation of the
American population to their illegal and corporate "Grand Designs"
for unopposed power to their "New World Order"
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- In keeping with this plan there is but one final tumbler
that needs to fall into place to complete the takeover, and this could
not have come at a more appropriate moment for the designers of this impending
and unnatural catastrophe. That moment is the predictable rubber-stamp
approval of the next Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court. Bush owes his
entire history to this court that functioned under the now deceased Chief
Justice Rehnquist. On September 12, 05 amid the heartache and confusion
still surrounding Katrina, the hearings for the replacement of the Chief
Justice will begin. This all but automatic appointment of John Roberts
will seal the fate for decades of people yet unborn. The overburdened public
will have no advocates at the hearings to protect the rights of themselves
or their children, among those failures in the senate that will sit to
"advise and consent." So again the public shall remain the real
losers in another sham hearing, for yet another pivotal appointment that
will cut off yet another avenue for change in this ever shrinking prison
that used to be known as America, "Business-As-Usual" shall again
play the heavy in the sad and endless melodrama for the now defunct arena
of American political theater, at a time when determination and resolve
are the only traits that could remotely save this coming day from becoming
part of history. It is interesting that while Bush took nearly a week to
decide to act on Katrina"s wrath, he took just 24 hours to appoint
John Roberts to the most recent vacancy on the Supreme Court, he seems
to know at least what is truly necessary for his personal survival, if
not the nation"s.
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- What really awaits the nation on this Fourth Anniversary
of 911? Given that every major endeavor that the administration has undertaken
has failed, from wars for peace, to tax-cuts for prosperity, all the way
to outsourcing 3 million the jobs to improve this stricken economy. Anarchy
has millions of new adherents, the world has become far more unstable and
gas prices have never been higher. Domestically we have been strangled
by policies and programs and tax codes that have stripped us of our individuality
our freedoms and the core of our way of life: But we have HOMELAND Insecurity
to protect us from phantoms, while the real bandits break every law and
enjoy immunity in the two tiered system of the CRIMINAL" Justice system.
This coming Friday we"ll have a "National Day of Prayer"
that will no doubt fix all those failures that it has taken the bandits
five long years to create in depth.
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- Part of the reason we did not respond to Katrina was
that Bush sent our national guard off to fight in foreign wars that had
nothing at all to do with defending the USA against outside attacks and
he left the nation unprotected from the kinds of disasters they were created
to assist with. Then he compounded our vulnerability by spending the nation
into oblivion with tens of billions wasted on HOMELAND Insecurity and hundreds
of billions on the largest military budget in world history. From these
sums he and his administration then gave generously in sweetheart secret
contracts to their closest friends and supporters. In this effort meant
to pay for putting him in office, he further protected his actions by classifying
everything as "national security" or SECRET. Bush has taken corruption
and political opportunism to a whole new level of expediency while draining
the public purse and slashing the benefits of troops and citizens alike,
in every area where survival needs help just to stay afloat. Despite all
this the world and millions of Americans still rose to the defense of the
intended victims of Katrina, despite the best intentions of the Bush administration
to inflict maxim dislocation and privation among those least able to survive.
This has been a very embarrassing week for the-man-who-would-be-dictator.
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- Under Bush & Company even the dead are denied their
place in history. In both wars this administration has undercounted our
casualties, and misrepresented the true costs in human life to the public.
The true number of those who have died in his unilateral wars needs to
reflect the 6,000 to 8,000 more who died on the way to hospitals or on
the return trip to the states.
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- The same mindset that contrived the artificial body counts
in the Middle East will no doubt be doing the counting of those who died
in Katrina's fury. This government cannot be trusted with the truth, anymore
than we can look to congress for real answers to the real questions whether
that is about the new Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, or the blatant
corruption at the highest levels of this government. What is desperately
needed is a SPECIAL PROSECUTOR to take this investigation wherever it might
lead!
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- Before Katrina there was some discussion about who was
to be responsible for what. But two days before Katrina made landfall FEMA
was put on notice that it was to be in charge, and they were to work with
the cities and the states to see to the evacuations and the provisioning
of the survivors. This included water, food and shelter as well as medical
care and responsibility. Instead of following that mandate the administration
appointed "confusion's disciples" to reign over the hurricane
until their lack of real qualifications forced others to take leadership
positions that began to get actual results. Unlike the war in Iraq, the
Bush puppets here were unmasked and frustrated during Katrina"s recovery
phase" would that the same should happen to those running the endless
war machine in the Middle East. But in that theater of operations the shield
of lies held long enough to establish enough US military deaths to justify
holding on to the farce of "staying the course" thus despite
the falsified casualty figures, this "action" lasted just long
enough to convert the confusion into conflict over whether or not we should
withdraw.
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- Having learned nothing-at-all from Vietnam, we seem determined
to shape Iraq into another American military defeat because of sheer pig-headedness,
and political cowardice in the face of the enemy" and all because
the "wisdom" of our leaders refuses to admit to the true facts
on the ground in these conflicts.
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- When faced with the obvious incompetence and the total
lack of real leadership accompanied by unbounded arrogance the public would
seem to have an obligation to confront this travesty openly, with no quarter
given. If we do not do this who will be left to speak for us when our lives
are on the chopping block of either history or circumstance? How much longer
will outright confusion and lies continue to rule this country? Critical
decisions are needed on every front at this moment. Throughout the five
years of this nightmare nothing has improved. Nor has this administration
ever fired anyone, in any capacity that was directly involved in any of
the massive failures that have all happened on the watch of the current
Bush administration.
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- Looking at the carnage in the wake of Katrina; at the
mixture of blood and oil, chemicals and fecal waste that is populated with
the bodies of the floating dead. What comes to mind is the potential future
of those people still untouched by the stagnant semi-liquid world of death
and decay, ruin and disease, pollution and the toxic wastes unleashed.
What also comes to mind is that in some strange way all of this seems synonymous
with the co-mingling of political failure, massive corruptions and that
blind arrogance that has led this nation since September 11, 2001.
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- USA Inc. decided to play with that temperamental tar
baby of ill-gotten gains and stolen fortunes on the global stage, and now
America is caught up in the muck and mire of those lies and deceits as
surely as New Orleans is still flooded in the ruins of her once proud self.
- The City of New Orleans will eventually be drained, at
least of the surface filth from the storm. How long will it be before we
can say the same thing about this government?
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- How can any real nation worthy of the name afford to
keep such people at the helm of any government? Where are the artists and
the writers, the song makers and the filmmakers, because they are all needed
now to write and paint and sing and show these imposters for who and what
they have shown themselves to be today? If this experiment we call America
doesn't soon begin to get its collective act together, then there may not
be a fifth anniversary of this black day on which to recall the failings
of those who brought 911 into the world. Either the Crusade of the New
World Order will be hobbled into submission by the public that it so despises
or the public will have been conquered by the very people that were supposed
to serve and protect them from exactly this kind of threat.
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- kirwan
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