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Showing posts with label katrina. Show all posts

13 October 2010

i guess i need to be grateful for some journalists

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I wish they'd nail bigger mass murderers, but damn, this is important too. I was watching the Katrina hearing where the residents were testifying. The sound went out on a bunch of the testimony. I was pissed. I just KNEW it wasn't a mistake, but was left unable to state exactly why until I went to play the hearing again from the video archive. In the archive there were still spots with blanked-out audio, but NOT just blanketly for the ones they knew were on the bridge.

It still makes me crazy that they call it "looting" when aid and services were withheld for so long. Would you sit there and die? And it pisses me off that FRONTLINE is spewing all the cops' excuses, just as though it was their job.

Here, read this book and then tell me what you think of what happened and didn't happen in New Orleans five years ago.

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love, 99
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01 April 2010

don't scare white people

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I remember the witnesses telling Congress about this and the audio during the damning testimony going dead on C-SPAN. I was knocking over buildings in my wrath.
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There was a LOT to be scared of in New Orleans. A great deal of that killing after Katrina was about being terrified of the legendarily-murderous people from the slum, but... well, it was, it is a travesty the size of Jupiter.
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01 January 2009

israel doesn't have a corner on the market

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And when I say Cynthia McKinney should be president, I ain't being charitable or colorful, I bloody well mean she should be president. If this were a decent country, full of decent people, she would be president.

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—not uttered by anyone in charge lately

Anyone calling Obama a leftist, liberal, or progressive needs to have the stupid beat out of them.
—Old Uncle Dave

As for the Taliban ... their stated grievance is the same as Gen. Washington’s in our war with the British: If you want this war to end, get out of our country.
—Pat Buchanan

Obama-era drone warfare ... in general looks like Bush-era drone warfare on steroids.
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There has to be altruism in the universe.
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The morons in Washington are pushing the envelope of nuclear war. The insane drive for American hegemony threatens life on earth. The American people, by accepting the lies and deceptions of “their” government, are facilitating this outcome.
—Paul Craig Roberts

I am a child of the South. Janet Napolitano tells me I need to be afraid of people who are labeled white supremacists but I was raised around white supremacists. I am not afraid of white supremacists. I am concerned about my own government. The Patriot Act did not come from the white supremacists, it came from the White House and Congress. Citizens United did not come from white supremacists, it came from the Supreme Court.
—Cynthia McKinney

No one has to "marry" anyone else politically; no one has to embrace every tenet or belief that an anti-imperialist ally might hold. You simply have to say: "All of us, regardless of our other views, believe this truth to be self-evident: dismantling the empire will bring immediate and enormous benefits to our nation and to the world."
—Chris Floyd

The power of the people on top depends on the obedience of the people below.
—Howard Zinn

...the government only starts listening to its voters once the more corrupt option turns out to be untenable.
—Matt Taibbi

· One out of seven American homeowners will probably lose their homes by the end of 2010.

· Only 4.7 percent of distressed homeowners who enrolled in the modification plan have gotten any help.

· Out of Obama's $75 billion program, only $2.3 million has been spent—or 0.03 percent.

Obama's performance on the foreclosure crisis—along with unemployment, the biggest problem America faces—makes Bush's laissez faire approach to Hurricane Katrina look caring and loving in comparison. If ever there were a cause for impeachment, look no further.
—Ted Rall

As self-appointed champions of civilisation against barbarism, they fail to see that a certain barbarism is the flipside of civilisation itself, inseparable from its smooth operation. For every cathedral, a pit of bones; for every artistic masterpiece, human wretchedness and back-breaking toil.
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