While America watched the suffering of those at the Superdome it was possible to drive to the Superdome from outside of New Orleans the entire time. As America watched the lumbering helicopters winch Katrina survivors from their rooftops one at a time several caravans of bass fishermen, towing their bass boats, were refused passage by authorities to launch their boats to evacuate the hurricane survivors from their rooftops. A modern bass boat can carry 10 people at a time at speeds up to 60 mph and can maneuver in water less than a foot deep. These boats would have been far more efficient at rescuing the stranded Katrina survivors than the government’s helicopters.

Remember the reports of sniper fire? Guess what private “security” company was hired and dispatched to New Orleans in the aftermath of Katrina?

Blackwater.

I have little doubt that Blackwater was responsible for the reports of sniper fire and it was a calculated effort to further slow down the rescue efforts.

Remember also that a National Guard mobile hospital was set up for a Bush photo-op that did not treat a single patient, and then when the press had their photos it was dismantled still without treating a single patient.

New Orleans was a very blue democratic stronghold in the middle of the very red Deep South and hurricane Katrina provided a means for the Bush administration to destroy a democratic city, if 5,000 blacks were killed in the process so much the better from their standpoint.

Now step back in time to August, 2001. Reports of a planned al Qaeda attack on the United States had been burning up the intelligence gathering apparatus of the U.S. the entire summer. On August 6, 2001 CBS reported that Attorney General John Ashcroft has ceased flying on commercial airlines due to a security threat.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/ASH402A.html

Two weeks prior to Attorney General Ashcroft abandoning the airlines President Bush attended the G-8 Summit meeting in Genoa Italy. For the first time at a G-7-8 summit American antiaircraft missile batteries were deployed around the grounds of the summit. Since there is no nation close to Italy that presented a threat of attack these antiaircraft defenses could only have been deployed to protect against an airborne terrorist attack.

Beyond that, on at least one night during the summit President Bush was air lifted to sleep on an American aircraft carrier surrounded by its attack group. An American aircraft carrier and its attack group is the strongest air defense system on planet Earth.

Remember that President Bush and members of his cabinet started taking the antibiotic Cipro on the afternoon of September 11, 2001 a full three weeks prior to any public knowledge of the Anthrax attacks…Cipro just happens to be the antibiotic that is used to cure an anthrax infection.

Fell free to draw your own conclusions.

This article should end with:

$23,000,000,000,000 for the bank bailout.

"In fact, $23 trillion is more than the total cost of all the wars the United States has ever fought, put together. World War II, for example, cost $4.1 trillion in 2008 dollars, according to the Congressional Research Service.

Even the Moon landings and the New Deal didn’t come close to $23 trillion: the Moon shot in 1969 cost an estimated $237 billion in current dollars, and the entire Depression-era Roosevelt relief program came in at $500 billion, according to Jim Bianco of Bianco Research.

The annual gross domestic product of the United States is just over $14 trillion."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0709/25164.html

Keep in mind that what we are talking about here is one of the most important and oldest port cities in our Empire.

The fact that so little has been done to repair the damage to it demonstrates that the Empire itself is crumbling.

Before we get lost on the whole "its just the black folks and poor folks they don't care about, they'll keep the industry going just fine" track, let us remember the final point of the article:

--"The Army Corps of Engineers continues work to provide protection from a storm surge that has a 1 percent chance of occurring any given year. However, Katrina was a stronger storm than the system under construction is designed to protect against."--

Even the NEW and REPAIRED system would NOT be able to protect the city -and the port- from Katrina!

Even the practical repair work that is supposedly a priority is nothing more than a hollow, look-busy, gesture.

Amazing,

-matti.

STONE HEART
This land I call home is a land that willfully and with malice has and does treat it’s people as though they were nothing more than something than are expendable for a political or other troubling reason and is this not a prime definition of a stone heart?
There are things that just sit there and fester in my heart and set my mind to thinking that it may not be worth all the effort expended by good people to try and stop this country from sliding down, down further down into that pit that has been dug for, oh so very long.
How can it be? Is there none, none at all; even someone other than from this portion, a small portion, of this whole land that could force this disgusting travesty into the faces of those that hold the allocated help for these peoples? Are they not, of this land, a part?
It is known by all the world that race, poverty and elite agenda that would render the face and composition of New Orleans into an enclave of money only and by any means possible and negating any meaning of old, words in sonnets and sung and played in a song.
Thus do we to others in far off lands also and there is no shame or conscience on the banks of the Potomac.
Tony 8/17/2009

I know a number of folks who evacuated to the Atlanta area after Katrina, and a few more after Rita, and discovered that their opportunities here were much better than they were in Louisiana before the storms. They stayed. Some even went back to sell out before returning to this area.

It was not any particular group that did this. White, black, Hispanic, rich, poor, in between, old, young, students, and retired folks all found a better life for themselves. Many of the people did not suffer damage to their homes. They only evacuated for safety.

New Orleans was and is a beautiful city, full of character, culture, and history. It was not a great place to live or do business. I hope NO gets back together, and finds a way to be a living city once again.

Dafoe
New Orleans lost its soul over Katrina, didn't have to but the deliberate actions of the honky federal and state guvmints made sure that New Orleans was divested of its soul and that corporate socialists fed at the public trough in keeping with guvmint policy. New Orleans is just another dorp, a place to shy away from. Too bad.

It's only a matter of extremely short geological time when the Atchafalaya river will rob the course of the Mississippi, and New Orleans will no longer have a reason to exist.

NOLA is poorly sited, and the natives told them so centuries ago when they started building it.