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Ring them bells from the sanctuaries Cross the valleys and streams. For they're deep and they're wide And the world's on its side And time is running backwards And so is the bride.
Interesting photo looks a little staged-sorry but it's unbelievable to me to see poor black folks and poor white folks helping each other. Maybe when they (the poor and even the new middle class) realize that they are all in the same boat you will finally see some changes. A side note on most of the photos I've seen in the media: Having seen the wreckage of Samolia I can only make a visual comparison to what's going on in the South these days. " When I was "in" I could not imagine flying over anyone-especially my own goddamn countrymen-in the manner I see today. Not to say that I was goddamn Captain America but I had eyes. I never thought I would see the day when our own countrymen/women would turn a blind eye to what is going on. All the spy shit aside I would say that this shit has to stop. But, I ask you and everyone else out there: When will we-the citizens of this planet- that give a fuck-stop looking/falling into the Black Hole/Dark Hallways for clues and start coming up with some answers to start a positive change in this world?
There are, of course going to be images like this in the aftermath of disaster of this magnitude, but the response from parties in charge of rescue and relief efforts has been disgracefully incompetent, if not outright malicious. I don't believe that this storm was man-made or man-influenced. Neither do I believe that much could have been done to prevent its physical effects upon the gulf coast. New Orleans, as a man-made structure was going to go, inevitably; Many here disagree with me, I'm sure, but I don't see this as a deliberate attempt to murder thousands of people. That at least would be a distinct, specific evil to define and combat. What I see is worse, I think, and is one of the few things that causes me to feel real desperation in terms of where we are as a community. I think those folks were left behind because nobody, or at least nobody in charge, cared anything about them one way or the other. Thousands of people who, because of their economic status and race just didn't matter. That frightens me in a way our malicious and murderous government cannot. I guess this is a bit out of character from my previous posts, folks, so I apologize for the schizophrenia. I consider myself a die-hard realist and (laughter at the cliche or dramatism duly accepted) a fighter, and there is not much, honestly, that breaks me down; but to see so many of our brothers and sisters treated like so much human garbage makes me feel pretty hopeless.
In Other Words: DICTATORSHIP The lack of help for Katrina victims is now being blamed on the lack of a "strong leader" on Fox, CNN, etc. I have been trying to figure out the inaction of the government in saving the lives of the people in New Orleans. It makes no sense that we cant airlift and drop water and food into the city. What really is happening is a PsyOps and mind f**k of the American people by sacrificing the lives of the poor in New Orleans. ka rigged solution) appear to be: 1 The call for a strong leader (otherwise known as a dictator). I keep hearing this from different newscasters such as Bill OReilly and others. Verbatim they keep saying: What we need is a strong leader. The newscasters use Rudy Giuliani during 9/11 as an example of a strong leader. Well, it is widely know that Giuliani is running for president in 2008 as a republican. The hidden thought line here is: We need a dictator to protect us from black looters during a national emergency. "Tricks used by world manipulators include Hegelian dialectics and false dichotomies. Hegelian dialectics is better known as problem-reaction-solution, whereby a problem is created to push people into accepting a rigged solution. Incidents such as the Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine massacre, and 9/11 attacks were engineered by the shadow government to justify the further removal of freedoms from the populace to keep them safe. Ultimately, liberty traded for security leads to slavery." The process of saving lives in a disaster scenario does not require a strong leader. First of all, they should have had the drinking water, food, and medicine pre-positioned in the city. Second, they needed thousands of National Guard troops in the New Orleans city to preserve order. Believe me, this so-called need for a strong leader will be rammed down our throats by the media and the politicians in the coming months.
However, I have been scouring the Net all day for stories, and tonight watched the networks, and what *I* am seeing is immense anger on behalf of the people of New Orleans, whether it's people on the Faux News site saying WHERE ARE THE FEDS or CNN comparing what the feds say and the truth on the ground or the interviews on Dateline asking firemen if they've seen the feds and the firemen saying NO. I've also read the entire transcript of the Ray Nagin interview which was reproduced on the Times Picayune blog, read of a Republican senator blasting the feds, of Hastert forced to backtrack his dismissive comment that New Orleans would not be rebuilt. As for the wingiest wingnuts, the Freepers and Dittoheads and anyone who would waste a second of their precious life listening to that sleazy creep O'Reilly, their response was predictable. Some truth is getting out and if the righteous anger that this could happen, then the American people are truly soul-dead "Good Germans" and will deserve what they get. Alas, even a tragedy of this magnitude will not wake some of the selfish, spoiled narcissists in this country up. I got an email today from someone speaking of the sudden closing of a local bookstore "Will we ever recover from the shock?" if that is the most 'shocking' thing in their mental universe--well, then I may have to line up with the fundies at least to the point of believing that some people need smiting, though not the same ones the American Taliban does. Folks, I live in poverty in a studio cottage by a railroad track where I am embroiled in a legal battle with my crooked landlord, and I have said many times this past week that I am grateful that I have clean water, food, my beloved cats safe and well fed, a TV to watch and a computer to go online, plus a truck with a 4 banger that gets pretty good mileage, and since I live within a few blocks of every place I go regularly--my bank, church, the PO, grocery store--I don't need to drive very often. Compared to what the poor and abandoned of the Gulf Coast are enduring, my life is a champagne brunch on a cruise ship. What I believe Americans need to feel is gratitude if they have a roof over their head, food in their bellies, and know where their loved ones are; and a holy, white hot rage on behalf of those who do not have that which should be channeled to HOLD ACCOUNTABLE the assclowns who brought this about: Bush, Cheney, Chertoff, Michael Brown, AND CONGRESS on both sides of the aisle since I haven't seen anything much coming out of the Democrats other than Clinton's stomach turning endorsement of Bush. Impeach, recall, send a million people to DC to call Bush THE BUTCHER OF NEW ORLEANS. Also recognize that beyond the hurricane, the withdrawal of funding from the levee project, the gutting of FEMA, the soulless eyes of George Bush, we are all complicit in a two tier society, where rich and poor have grown further apart until we are in our income inequality tied with Turkmenistan. I'm not a Christian but I respect Jesus for saying that no one is His true follower who does not do right by 'the least of these'. I wish you could hear Joan Baez's heartbreakingly clear voice singing the following Woody Guthrie song. Maybe someone will write a song about the 'least' of the Gulf coast.
Very typical in NO for older white people to have a black caretakers. The fact that babies died for the lack of a few bottles of water and milk -- that is something I'll never understand until the end of my days. I mean, choppers coulda drop pallets of milk instead of sand on the levee, right? But NO was an U...
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