Our Real Government Is in Israel
NO MORE FOREIGN AID TO ISRAEL. THE “REAL” WELFARE STATE
NO ONE PAYS ATTENTION TO MY “BULL-SHIT” BUT I PUT IT OUT THERE ANYHOW. RON WALDRON.
In your view, what best describes the current political makeup of the United States?
Democracy
273 (12%)
Plutocracy
271 (12%)
Dictatorship
221 (10%)
Fascist State
639 (30%)
Slave State to Israel
697 (33%)
Do you think Hurricane Katrina will affect the amount of American aid transferred to Israel?
RESULTS:
Yes ( 24 %) No ( 76 %)
NEVER A CUT THERE FOR USA TAX PAYERS. WHY!
Talk about a welfare State, and a killing machine, violence, discrimination. Robert Tracinski , better recheck some facts.
Home : WRMEA: U.S. Aid to Israel
U.S. Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact
Summary
Benefits to Israel of U.S. Aid
Since 1949 (As of November 1, 1997)
Foreign Aid Grants and Loans
$74,157,600,000
Other U.S. Aid (12.2% of Foreign Aid)
$9,047,227,200
Interest to Israel from Advanced Payments
$1,650,000,000
Grand Total
$84,854,827,200
Total Benefits per Israeli
$14,630
Cost to U.S. Taxpayers of U.S.
Aid to Israel
Grand Total
$84,854,827,200
Interest Costs Borne by U.S.
$49,936,680,000
Total Cost to U.S. Taxpayers
$134,791,507,200
Total Taxpayer Cost per Israeli
$23,240
WE MUST CHANGE THIS CRAP.
VOTE FOR AN AMERICAN FOR AMERICA.
the government wasn’t prepared, scrimped on storm spending and shifted its attention from dealing with natural disasters to fighting the global war on terrorism.
The president’s 35-minute Air Force One flyover of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama was the perfect metaphor for his entire presidency: detached, disconnected, and disengaged. Preferring to take in America’s suffering — whether caused by the war in Iraq or Hurricane Katrina — from a distance. In this case, 2,500 feet.
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), which was enveloped by the new Department of Homeland Security with a new mission aimed at responding to the attacks of al-Qaida.
LOOKS LIKE RACISM IN NEW ORLEANS.
“Israel has created in the Occupied Territories a regime of separation based on discrimination, applying two separate systems of law in the same area and basing the rights of individuals on their nationality. This regime is the only one of its kind in the world, and is reminiscent of apartheid in South Africa.”
Is what happened in New Orleans the wave of the future in America as well as in such far-away places as Darfur and Iraq — where genocide is not only feasible but is actually happening? This “administration” is very good at doing nothing when ACTION could save thousands of lives.
“It’s not like New Orleans was caught off guard. This could have been prevented.
“There’s military right here in New Orleans, but for three days they weren’t even mobilized. You’d think this was a Third World country.
“I’m in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans, the only part that isn’t flooded. The water is good. Our parks and schools could easily hold 40,000 people, and they’re not using any of it.”
WE USA TAX PAYERS NEED TO DEMAND, NO MORE AID TO ISRAEL AT ALL. ENFORCE UN SANCTIONS. NOW!!
WE ARE NOW OFFICIALLY IN A DICTATORSHIP
journalists barred from New Orleans killing spree
The Bush administration’s war on the people of New Orleans long ago passed from outrage to atrocity. WHY HAS BUSH NOW BANNED ALL REPORTERS FROM NEW ORLEANS WHILE RUMSFELD’S HIRED-KILLER *MERCENARIES* MURDER OUR CITIZENS?? This is what Third World tinpot dictators do–they hide the bodies. They ignore the rule of law and the idea of democracy and a constitution.
Massive BLOOD ON THEIR HANDS: the blood of more than 2,000 soldiers in Iraq, more than 100,000 Iraqi men, women, children, and babies, assorted “mysterious deaths” of maybe hundreds of investigative reporters, biographers, and whistleblowers over the years, high-level assassination plots, and now at least 30,000 or 40,000 American citizens in New Orleans–this is evil in its purest form and MUST BE RESISTED.
SO I ASK AGAIN: WHAT IS BUSH TRYING TO HIDE? WHY CAN’T THE MEDIA WITNESS HIS ATROCITIES?
IMPEACH, INDICT, IMPRISON THE ENTIRE BUSH ADMINISTRATION **NOW**
The entire foundation of our democratic heritage has been almost totally shredded by these ghouls. Watch for the “camps” in your state. Welcome to hell.
When looking good for the cameras is more important than dying human beings. Can it get any worse? God please help this country.
As specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew’s first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas.
“Last night, Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco said 300 Iraq-hardened
Arkansas National Guard members were inside New Orleans with
shoot-to-kill orders.
” ‘These troops are…under my orders to restore order in the streets,’
she said. ‘They have M-16s, and they are locked and loaded. These troops
know how to shoot and kill and they are more than willing to do so if
necessary and I expect they will.’ “
The word goes out on the news “violence and looting has broken out”, and from that time on all the victims are treated like they are all criminals. The survivors are herded on trains and busses not knowing or having a say about where they are going. Relief is held back so people won’t want to stay to rebuild. Four helicopters and soldiers in dress uniforms are positioned behind the president for a photo-op instead of helping in the rescue and relief efforts.
Someone has to speak up and say enough is enough. This will not stand in our USA. How many more American citizens have to die before the rest of us stand up and shout “NO MORE”. Please God give someone the strength to step up and lead us out of this darkness.
At least seven bodies were scattered outside the convention center, a makeshift staging area for those rescued from rooftops, attics and highways. The sidewalks were packed with people without food, water or medical care, and with no sign of law enforcement.
An old man in a chaise lounge lay dead in a grassy median as hungry babies wailed around him. Around the corner, an elderly woman lay dead in her wheelchair, covered up by a blanket, and another body lay beside her wrapped in a sheet.
“I don’t treat my dog like that,” 47-year-old Daniel Edwards said as he pointed at the woman in the wheelchair.
“You can do everything for other countries, but you can’t do nothing for your own people,” he added. “You can go overseas with the military, but you can’t get them down here.”
The street outside the center, above the floodwaters, smelled of urine and feces, and was choked with dirty diapers, old bottles and garbage.
“They’ve been teasing us with buses for four days,” Edwards said. “They’re telling us they’re going to come get us one day, and then they don’t show up.”
Every so often, an armored state police vehicle cruised in front of the convention center with four or five officers in riot gear with automatic weapons. But there was no sign of help from the National Guard.
At one point the crowd began to chant “We want help! We want help!” Later, a woman, screaming, went on the front steps of the convention center and led the crowd in reciting the 23rd Psalm, “The Lord is my shepherd …”
“We are out here like pure animals,” the Issac Clark said.
“We’ve got people dying out here – two babies have died, a woman died, a man died,” said Helen Cheek. “We haven’t had no food, we haven’t had no water, we haven’t had nothing. They just brought us here and dropped us.”
REMEMBER THE LOOTING, SHOOTING, AND RIOTING STARTED 5 & 6 DAYS AFTER
“KATRINA” CAME ASHORE.
ANGER FOR NO REASON, WELFARE PEOPLE, POOR LAZY. ??
PLEASE INVESTIGATE, AND REPORT:
DECEPTIONS HAVE RUN WILD
FOR SEVERAL YEARS . CHURCH
CONGREGATIONS BEING ASK FOR 10% OF THEIR WAGES AS TITHING. MORE FOR ALMS.
THEN WHEN THERE IS A DISASTER THEY ARE ASKED FOR DONATIONS FOR THE VICTIMS.
WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM THAT THEY HAVE INVESTED ON WALL STREET,
AND THE STOCK MARKETS.
TAX FREE PROPERTIES, HEAVY
INVESTMENTS, NEVER TOUCHED FOR THE REASONS
IT WAS GIVEN TO THEM.
THE BIGGEST FRAUD FOR THE
LONGEST PERIOD OF TIME.
PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW JUST HOW THE ” CHRISTIAN RELIGION ” HAS MISREPRESENTED THE ACCOUNTING OF THE MONIES..
IT IS actually fraudulent, exploitive and even blasphemous.
the government is late responding to the victims of
katrina. but the big deal
evangelical system sure did not dip into their funds neither. just keep asking for more from the members.
members that continue to give in good faith to a corrupted system!!
Tithing has been taught in the New Testament Church for quite a while. In many European countries your tithe is taken out of your paycheck, just like taxes. Here in America, the land of the free and the home of the brave, we have a Constitution to protect us from such tyranny. But that hasn’t stopped organizations such as the Mormons (Latter Day Saints) to attach the issue to such important principles as attaining their Godhood! Without tithing they cannot get a “temple recommend” and without the temple recommend they cannot get into the Temple to perform their ordinances that help them earn their Godhood. But is our doctrine any better? Many Protestant Churches teach that God can’t bless you if you don’t tithe! They’ll say, “Haven’t you ever read Malachi? He said that if you don’t tithe, you are robbing God!” Now I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to be found guilty of robbing God! Malachi goes on to say that “you are cursed with a curse” if you do not tithe! Wow! That sounds like serious business. But was Malachi written to the Church, or to the Jews under the Law? Malachi 1:1, says it was, “the oracle of the word of the Lord to Israel”. Notice it does not say, “the oracle of the word of the Lord to the Church”. We are not under the Law, but under the New Covenant of Grace. The Law no longer has a hold on us (Hebrews 8:6-13). We are no longer bound by the tenets of the Law (Gal 3:25). We are justified by faith, not by works of the Law (Romans 3:28). We are redeemed from the curse of the Law (Galatians 3:13). Anyone who has questions about this subject should stop and read the fifteenth chapter of Acts; the third and fourth chapter of Romans; the eighth through the eleventh chapter of Hebrews; the second chapter of Ephesians; and the whole book of Galatians! This is a foundational teaching of the New Testament Church. This is one of the biggies, an “essential” if you will. We are saved and justified by Grace alone, through Faith alone! Paul says in Galatians:
2:16, “…by the works of the law shall no man be justified.”
The International Federation of Journalists on Monday urged the United Nations to investigate deaths of media staff at the hands of coalition forces in Iraq.
Rubai the 67th journalist or media assistant to be killed in Iraq, killed by US troops since the invasion of Iraq, March 2003. In addition, two are still missing, it said. In contrast, a total of 63 journalists were killed in the Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975.
People are realizing that 9/11 is the key to regaining our freedom, to taking our country back from the cynical psychopaths running the US government who are implementing diverse and subversive programs of mass murder all over the world.
Preacher Pat Robertson’s call for the American government to assassinate Venezuela’s president may have done irreparable damage to his already shaky standing among the nation’s religious and political circles.
Karl Rove’s “Murder, Inc.”
High level European intelligence sources now report that Karl Rove
coordinated Hobeika’s assassination. The hit on Hobeika employed
Syrian intelligence agents. Syrian President Bashar Assad was trying to
curry favor with the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9-11 and was
more than willing to help the White House. In addition, Assad’s father,
Hafez Assad, had been an ally of Bush’s father during Desert Storm, a period
that saw Washington give a “wink and a nod” to Syria’s occupation of
Lebanon. Rove wanted to help Sharon avoid any political embarrassment from
an in absentia trial in Brussels where Hobeika would be a star witness. Rove
and Sharon agreed on the plan to use Syrian Military Intelligence agents to
assassinate Hobeika. Rove saw Sharon as an indispensable ally of Bush in
ensuring the loyalty of the Christian evangelical and Jewish voters.
Sharon saw the plan to have the United States coordinate the hit as a way to
mask all connections to Jerusalem.
Sharon’s Likud party supports ethnic cleansing.” “Israel’s
ugly face” such despicable people, the real “Jewish
identity” of Israel. To think the “USA , BUSH and Evangelicals, support
Israeli is in itself a grave development. Arab Moslems must
FIGHT. THE USA IS UNDER-SIEGE BY AIPAC, ISRAEL, AND
MOSSAD. BAPHOMET-scheme to establish a New World Order in fact is a reality?
Accountable and Transparent Government : We need complete reform
of our form of government. We no
longer have a two party system, its now
called Republocrat.
Nor do we have anyone living up to an”Oath of Office” anywhere in
government. Elected or appointed. That is the biggest decay of moral values
in this Country.
GO TO CONGRESS.ORG:
http://capwiz.com/congressorg/sbx/f/?aid=7953506&r=1
Decline in world opinion has been America’s unwavering support for Israel
and no one, not our elected representatives nor the media, dare to question
our Middle East foreign policy.
Our one-sided support for Israel and the steady erosion of Palestinian
rights cannot be justified by any rational foreign policy based on justice
and human rights.
Accountable and Transparent Government : We need complete reform of our
government. We no longer have a two party system, its now called
Republocrat.
Nor do we have anyone living up to an”Oath of Office” anywhere in
government. Elected or appointed. That is the biggest decay of moral values
in this Country. WE NEED A THIRD PARTY.
REMEMBER WHAT NADER TOLD US. START NOW FOR
2006 & 2008. PROTEST NOW, BRING TROOPS HOME NOW.
Americans should not allow these crimes to be committed.
END AIPAC, MOSSAD & ISRAELI INFLUENCE.
WILL WE EVER BE AMERICA AGAIN?
Oath of Office-(ETHICS)
www.prisonplanet.com
According to reporter Greg Szymanski anonymous Military Sources said Byrnes
was a Leader of a Group in the Military that was pre-paring to Blow the
Whistle on the Planned “Terrorist” event. American’s must be vigilant more
then ever right now. The Neo-Cons clearly need another crises worse then 911
to get American’s to go along with “Marshall Law” and Military Rule across
America. Military Personell, for you that are ubaware of the plan for “World
Government” plan by our Misleaders in Washington may I suggest you read The
“Project For The New American Century” PSS. Note CNN News, and other News
sources were stationed right in the Situation Room just so they could cover
the Attack really well!!
LABOR UNION FRAUD, CORRUPTION, AND PAYOLA:
DOL holding U.S. jobs exclusively for foreign workers
DOL refuses to allow Americans to apply for 50,000 U.S. jobs being held open for H-1B foreign workers.
DOL is funded by U.S. taxpayers and should be placing the interests of U.S. workers above those of foreign workers.
CNN Lou Dobbs exposed it on August 26th.
CORRUPT UNION LEADERS HAVE
BEEN ACCEPTING PAY-OFFS ON
THIS, OUT-SOURCING, AND THE TRADE AGREEMENTS.
WHAT DO YOU GET FOF YOUR DUES?
THE RIGHT TO ENLIST AND GO TO WAR!!
“Our war machine is devastating, and versatile. It can do everything but stop.
WHO ELSE WILL FIGHT THIS WAR FOR BUSH & SHARON??
NO ONE BUT THE UNEMPLOYED!!
The General Secretariat is expanding its role in providing international co-ordination and support for law enforcement agencies in member countries and international organizations responsible for the investigation and prosecution of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
(ABOUT TIME)
INCLUDE THOSE SUSPECTED TO HAVE BEEN COMMITTED BY THE USA!!
IT IS VERY EVIDENT THAT THE
PREPARATION, AND RESPONSE
TO “KATRINA” WAS/IS INADEQUATE.
“RACE” BECAME AN ISSUE WITH SOME,
WHICH EQUATES TO TOO MANY.
I’M A WHITE AMERICAN, I APOLOGIZE TO THE PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS, FOR THE SHORT COMINGS WE ALL HAVE WITNESSED.
AMERICA HAS RESPONDED AND
GIVEN MORE IN DONATIONS THEN EVER BEFORE.
WHO IS MAKING SURE
THE DONATIONS ARE BEING DISTRIBUTED FIRST TO THE VERY POOR AND NEEDY. ??
ACCOUNTABILITY BEING THE
ISSUE WITH EVERYTHING.
THAT WILL DISTINGUISH IF
“RACE” IS A CONTINUED ISSUE
IN THE RECOVERY EFFORT.
I FOR ONE HOPE FAIRNESS
WILL BE A PRIORITY.
PERSONALLY I DONATE TO
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
AN ORGANIZATION CREATED
BY THE BEST, FOR THE BEST REASONING, WITH THE BEST
RESULTS. MAKE THE MONEY COUNT WHERE IT SHOULD,
THE MOST IN NEED FIRST, FOR A CHANGE.
NOT LIKE 911, DISCRIMINATION BY WEALTH..MORE TO THE
LEAST IN NEED.
PLEASE INVESTIGATE, AND REPORT:
DECEPTIONS HAVE RUN WILD
FOR SEVERAL YEARS . CHURCH
CONGREGATIONS BEING ASK FOR 10% OF THEIR WAGES AS TITHING. MORE FOR ALMS.
THEN WHEN THERE IS A DISASTER THEY ARE ASKED FOR DONATIONS FOR THE VICTIMS.
WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM THAT THEY HAVE INVESTED ON WALL STREET,
AND THE STOCK MARKETS.
TAX FREE PROPERTIES, HEAVY
INVESTMENTS, NEVER TOUCHED FOR THE REASONS
IT WAS GIVEN TO THEM.
THE BIGGEST FRAUD FOR THE
LONGEST PERIOD OF TIME.
PLEASE INVESTIGATE, AND REPORT:
DECEPTIONS HAVE RUN WILD
FOR SEVERAL YEARS . CHURCH
CONGREGATIONS BEING ASK FOR 10% OF THEIR WAGES AS TITHING. MORE FOR ALMS.
THEN WHEN THERE IS A DISASTER THEY ARE ASKED FOR DONATIONS FOR THE VICTIMS.
WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM THAT THEY HAVE INVESTED ON WALL STREET,
AND THE STOCK MARKETS.
TAX FREE PROPERTIES, HEAVY
INVESTMENTS, NEVER TOUCHED FOR THE REASONS
IT WAS GIVEN TO THEM.
THE BIGGEST FRAUD FOR THE
LONGEST PERIOD OF TIME.
PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW JUST HOW THE ” CHRISTIAN RELIGION ” HAS MISREPRESENTED THE ACCOUNTING OF THE MONIES..
IT IS actually fraudulent, exploitive and even blasphemous.
the government is late responding to the victims of
Katrina. but the big deal
evangelical system sure did not dip into their funds neither. just keep asking for more from the members.
members that continue to give in good faith to a corrupted system!!
I’m a high school drop out, living
in a small modest home.
We live on a small income.
I feel fortunate , but guilty being
able to eat three times a day.
The community here is very
economically depressed.
The industry has moved south, or
to Mexico, or out-sourced to India
& China.
A large part of this community
eats once a day.
I feel embarrassed to see Americans
with such extravagant
spending at the Oscar awards.
Such class distinction and
governess disguised as Democracy.
Taking more from the poor, giving
to the Rich.
Robin Hood where are you?
Of course it is young people from
communities like ours that die fighting
for foreign agent causes.
We need real change, not just at
the Presidency. BUT the control
strings in congress.
Get rid of lobbies.Reform.
Maybe some Accountability.
It is OK to DREAM, isn’t it ?
UNITE.
We of this community would
die for the “Victims of Katrina”. We will give what we can. We will fight
for their
rights against imperialism.
We will not fight for oil, nor
for occupation of another’s
land & resources.
We are still Americans, will
we ever be America again?
SHOOT TO KILL then go to
WASHINGTON!
New Orleans and the Death of the Common Good
The destruction of New Orleans represents a confluence of many of the most
pernicious trends in American politics and culture: poverty, racism,
militarism, elitist greed, environmental abuse, public corruption and the
decay of democracy at every level.
Much of this is embodied in the odd phrasing that even the most circumspect
mainstream media sources have been using to describe the hardest-hit victims
of the storm and its devastating aftermath: “those who chose to stay
behind.” Instantly, the situation has been framed with language to flatter
the prejudices of the comfortable and deny the reality of the most
vulnerable.
It is obvious that the vast majority of those who failed to evacuate are
poor: they had nowhere else to go, no way to get there, no means to sustain
themselves and their families on strange ground. While there were certainly
people who stayed behind by choice, most stayed behind because they had no
choice. They were trapped by their poverty – and many have paid the price
with their lives.
Yet across the media spectrum, the faint hint of disapproval drips from the
affluent observers, the clear implication that the victims were just too
lazy and shiftless to get out of harm’s way. There is simply no
understanding – not even an attempt at understanding – the destitution, the
isolation, the immobility of the poor and the sick and the broken among us.
This is from the “respectable” media; the great right-wing echo chamber was
even less restrained, of course, leaping straight into giddy convulsions of
racism at the first reports of looting in the devastated city. In the
pinched-gonad squeals of Rush Limbaugh and his fellow hatemongers, the
hard-right media immediately conjured up images of wild-eyed darkies
rampaging through the streets in an orgy of violence and thievery.
Decline in world opinion has been America’s unwavering support for Israel
and no one, not our elected representatives nor the media, dare to question
our Middle East foreign policy.
Our one-sided support for Israel and the steady erosion of Palestinian
rights cannot be justified by any rational foreign policy based on justice
and human rights.
Accountable and Transparent Government : We need complete reform
of our form of government. We no
longer have a two party system, its now
called Republocrat.
Nor do we have anyone living up to an”Oath of Office” anywhere in
government. Elected or appointed. That is the biggest decay of moral values
in this Country.
The Zionist state of Israel is the only remaining political
regime in the world that issues official licenses to its military personnel
and security agents to kill with impunity non-Jews, to torture them, to
dispossess them of their land, to demolish their houses and make them
homeless, to deny them the support and sympathy of the world and to employ
state-of-the-art warfare technology to kill their dream and strip them of
their humanity. If that is not barbarism, what is?
NOW check out the Evangelical organizations and
the corrupt investments on
WALL STREET, and think again
before you jump for the “WOLVES IN SHEEP CLOTHING”,REALIZE
Bible thumping has become an ART form. Or a sign of the true
anti-Christ.LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP !
Oath of Office-(ETHICS) WHERE ? NOT ANY WHERE IN USA!!
ONLY$$$$$$$$$COUNT. WE ARE SOLD OUT BY POLITICIANS
AND PREACHERS..THE AXIS OF EVIL.. FIGHT 4 FREEDOM..
WE NEED A 3TD PARTY ONE FOR THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
NOT CHURCH & STATE..
www.prisonplanet.com
According to reporter Greg Szymanski anonymous Military Sources said Byrnes
was a Leader of a Group in the Military that was pre-paring to Blow the
Whistle on the Planned “Terrorist” event. American’s must be vigilant more
then ever right now. The Neo-Cons clearly need another crises worse then 911
to get American’s to go along with “Marshall Law” and Military Rule across
America. Military Personell, for you that are ubaware of the plan for “World
Government” plan by our Misleaders in Washington may I suggest you read The
“Project For The New American Century” PSS. Note CNN News, and other News
sources were stationed right in the Situation Room just so they could cover
the Attack really well!!
Preacher Pat Robertson’s call for the American government to assassinate
Venezuela’s president may have done irreparable damage to his already shaky
standing among the nation’s religious and political circles.
The International Federation of Journalists on Monday urged the United
Nations to investigate deaths of media staff at the hands of coalition
forces in Iraq.
Rubai the 67th journalist or media assistant to be killed in Iraq, killed by
US troops since the invasion of Iraq, March 2003. In addition, two are still
missing, it said. In contrast, a total of 63 journalists were killed in the
Vietnam War, which lasted from 1955 to 1975.
People are realizing that 9/11 is the key to regaining our freedom, to
taking our country back from the cynical psychopaths running the US
government who are implementing diverse and subversive programs of mass
murder all over the world.
New Orleans and the Death of the Common Good
The destruction of New Orleans represents a confluence of many of the most
pernicious trends in American politics and culture: poverty, racism,
militarism, elitist greed, environmental abuse, public corruption and the
decay of democracy at every level.
Much of this is embodied in the odd phrasing that even the most circumspect
mainstream media sources have been using to describe the hardest-hit victims
of the storm and its devastating aftermath: “those who chose to stay
behind.” Instantly, the situation has been framed with language to flatter
the prejudices of the comfortable and deny the reality of the most
vulnerable.
It is obvious that the vast majority of those who failed to evacuate are
poor: they had nowhere else to go, no way to get there, no means to sustain
themselves and their families on strange ground. While there were certainly
people who stayed behind by choice, most stayed behind because they had no
choice. They were trapped by their poverty – and many have paid the price
with their lives.
Yet across the media spectrum, the faint hint of disapproval drips from the
affluent observers, the clear implication that the victims were just too
lazy and shiftless to get out of harm’s way. There is simply no
understanding – not even an attempt at understanding – the destitution, the
isolation, the immobility of the poor and the sick and the broken among us.
This is from the “respectable” media; the great right-wing echo chamber was
even less restrained, of course, leaping straight into giddy convulsions of
racism at the first reports of looting in the devastated city. In the
pinched-gonad squeals of Rush Limbaugh and his fellow hatemongers, the
hard-right media immediately conjured up images of wild-eyed darkies
rampaging through the streets in an orgy of violence and thievery.
Not that the mainstreamers ignored the racist angle. There was the already
infamous juxtaposition of captions for wire service photos, where depictions
of essentially the same scene – desperate people wading through flood
waters, clutching plastic bags full of groceries – were given markedly
different spins. In one picture, a white couple are described as struggling
along after finding bread and soda at a grocery store. But beneath an almost
identical photo of a young black man with a bag of groceries, we are told
that a “looter” wades through the streets after robbing a grocery store. In
the photo I saw, this evil miscreant also had a – gasp! – pack of diapers
under his arm.
Almost all of the early “looting” was like this: desperate people – of all
colors – stranded by the floodwaters broke into abandoned stores and carried
off food, clean water, medicine, clothes. Perhaps they should have left a
check on the counter, but then again – what exactly was going to happen to
all those perishables and consumer goods, sitting around in fetid, diseased
water for weeks on end? (The mayor now says it could be up to 16 weeks
before people can return to their homes and businesses.) Obviously, most if
not all of it would have been thrown away or written off in any case. Later,
of course, there was more organized looting by criminal gangs, the type of
lawless element – of every hue, in every society – whose chief victims are,
of course, the poor and vulnerable. These criminal operations were quickly
conflated with the earlier pilferage to paint a single seamless picture of
the American media’s favorite horror story: Black Folk Gone Wild.
But here again another question was left unasked: Where were the resources –
the money, manpower, materiel, transport – that could have removed all those
forced to stay behind, and given them someplace safe and sustaining to take
shelter? Where, indeed, were the resources that could have bolstered the
city’s defenses and shored up its levees? Where were the National Guard
troops that could have secured the streets and directed survivors to food
and aid? Where were the public resources – the physical manifestation of the
citizenry’s commitment to the common good – that could have greatly
mitigated the brutal effects of this natural disaster?
“President Coolidge came down here in a railroad train,
With a little fat man with a notebook in his hand.
The president say, “Little fat man, isn’t it a shame
What the river has done to this poor cracker’s land?”
Well, we all know what happened to those vital resources. They had been cut
back, stripped down, gutted, pilfered – looted – to pay for a war of
aggression, to pay for a tax cut for the wealthiest, safest, most protected
Americans, to gorge the coffers of a small number of private and corporate
fortunes, while letting the public sector – the common good – wither and die
on the vine. These were all specific actions of the Bush Administration –
including the devastating budget cuts on projects specifically designed to
bolster New Orleans’ defenses against a catastrophic hurricane. Bush even
cut money for strengthening the very levees that broke and delivered the
deathblow to the city. All this, in the face of specific warnings of what
would happen if these measures were neglected: the city would go down “under
20 feet of water,” one expert predicted just a few weeks ago.
But Bush said there was no money for this kind of folderol anymore. The
federal budget had been busted by his tax cuts and his war. And this was a
deliberate policy: as Bush’s mentor Grover Norquist famously put it, the
whole Bushist ethos was to starve the federal government of funds, shrinking
it down so “we can drown it in the bathtub.” As it turned out, the bathtub
wasn’t quite big enough — so they drowned it in the streets of New Orleans
instead.
But as culpable, criminal and loathsome as the Bush Administration is, it is
only the apotheosis of an overarching trend in American society that has
been gathering force for decades: the destruction of the idea of a common
good, a public sector whose benefits and responsibilities are shared by all,
and directed by the consent of the governed. For more than 30 years, the
corporate Right has waged a relentless and highly focused campaign against
the common good, seeking to atomize individuals into isolated “consumer
units” whose political energies – kept deliberately underinformed by the
ubiquitous corporate media – can be diverted into emotionalized “hot button”
issues (gay marriage, school prayer, intelligent design, flag burning,
welfare queens, drugs, porn, abortion, teen sex, commie subversion,
terrorist threats, etc., etc.) that never threaten Big Money’s bottom line.
Again deliberately, with smear, spin and sham, they have sought – and
succeeded – in poisoning the well of the democratic process, turning it into
a tabloid melee where only “character counts” while the rapacious policies
of Big Money’s bought-and-sold candidates are completely ignored. As Big
Money solidified its ascendancy over government, pouring billions – over and
under the table – into campaign coffers, politicians could ignore larger and
larger swathes of the people. If you can’t hook yourself up to a
well-funded, coffer-filling interest group, if you can’t hire a big-time
Beltway player to lobby your cause and get you “a seat at the table,” then
your voice goes unheard, your concerns are shunted aside. (Apart from a few
cynical gestures around election-time, of course.) The poor, the sick, the
weak, the vulnerable have become invisible – in the media, in the corporate
boardroom, “at the table” of the power players in national, state and local
governments. The increasingly marginalized and unstable middle class is also
fading from the consciousness of the rulers, whose servicing of the elite
goes more brazen and frantic all the time.
When unbridled commercial development of delicately balanced environments
like the Mississippi Delta is bruited “at the table,” whose voice is heard?
Not the poor, who, as we have seen this week, will overwhelmingly bear the
brunt of the overstressed environment. And not the middle class, who might
opt for the security of safer, saner development policies to protect their
hard-won homes and businesses. No, the only voice that matters is that of
the developers themselves, and the elite investors who stand behind them.
“Louisiana, Louisiana,
They’re trying to wash us away”
The destruction of New Orleans was a work of nature – but a nature that has
been worked upon by human hands and human policies. As global climate change
continues its deadly symbiosis with unbridled commercial development for
elite profit, we will see more such destruction, far more, on an even more
devastating scale. As the harsh, aggressive militarism and brutal corporate
ethos that Bush has injected into the mainstream of American society
continues to spread its poison, we will see fewer and fewer resources
available to nurture the common good. As the political process becomes more
and more corrupt, ever more a creation of elite puppetmasters and their
craven bagmen, we will see the poor and the weak and even the middle class
driven further and further into the low ground of society, where every
passing storm – economic, political, natural – will threaten their homes,
their livelihoods, their very existence.
LABOR UNION FRAUD, CORRUPTION, AND PAYOLA:
DOL holding U.S. jobs exclusively for foreign workers
DOL refuses to allow Americans to apply for 50,000 U.S. jobs being held open for H-1B foreign workers.
DOL is funded by U.S. taxpayers and should be placing the interests of U.S. workers above those of foreign workers.
CNN Lou Dobbs exposed it on August 26th.
CORRUPT UNION LEADERS HAVE
BEEN ACCEPTING PAY-OFFS ON
THIS AND OUT-SOURCING.
Decline in world opinion has been America’s unwavering support for Israel and no one, not our elected representatives nor the media, dare to question our Middle East foreign policy.
Our one-sided support for Israel and the steady erosion of Palestinian rights cannot be justified by any rational foreign policy based on justice and human rights.
Accountable and Transparent Government : We need complete reform
of our form of government. We no
longer have a two party system, its now
called Republocrat.
Nor do we have anyone living up to an”Oath of Office” anywhere in government. Elected or appointed. That is the biggest decay of moral values in this Country.
Dam-It George:
You always manage to upset
the “apple-cart”. Dad and Mom
are both ready for heart attacks.
1. They forgave you for attacking
Iraq ,on Mossad’s worthless information.
2. For not having an Exit Plan.
3. For allowing NO. Korea, and
Iran to developed nukes , while
you were busy covering up
Halliburton for Dick.
4. For losing all our friends
around the World, and creating
such a huge National Debt.
5. Even for your mess with Out-
sourcing, and Social Security.
6. BUT they are mad as HELL,
for exposing Bahomet, AIPAC,
Icsep, Winep,Sharon/Russian’s
Syndicate , Costa Nostra, Media,
Hollywood, and Las Vegas,
real connections to our family
and Party & CONGRESS.
I’m mad because my chances of
following in Dads steps are ruined
by you, AGAIN!!
You should have seen Dads face
when he heard you had to give
$350 million to Palestine, to keep
pressure off Yourself and Israel.
Be prepared for the Music;
Jed
ISRAEL LAUGHS ALL THE WAY TO THEIR BANK
“By Way Of Deception Thou Shalt Do War.”
– the official motto of Mossad
9-11, Mossad, the CIA
and “False Flag Operations”
AIPAC is a negative factor
for AMERICANS.
WE WANT ACCOUNTABILITY:
American citizens are paying for the horror inflicted on the people of Palestine and the people of Iraq by America’s reckless and inhumane policy. American citizens should not allow these crimes to be committed in their names. Americans can stop their government crimes and interference in the affairs of nations around the world.
Our economy has been out-sourced to India and China, now
BUSH wants to finance THEM threw investing our SOCIAL
SECURITY WITH THEM. We say hell no, The AMERICAN
people. REFORM GOVERNMENT. WE LOST ALL TRUST
IN THIS ADMINISTRATION, and CONGRESS.
Demand Full Disclosure and Investigation of Bush Administration Torture Policies IN ISRAEL.
TAX THE TAX FREE-THEY INVOLVED THEMSELVES INTO
GOVERNMENT. THEY SHOULD PAY AS WE DO, THEN
VOICE OPINIONS.
INVEST IN AMERICA & AMERICANS ONLY
Broadcasting to IP’s around the world.
allendpost@yahoo.com
sandralee42004@yahoo.com
slyviabush@yahoo.com
william_umar@yahoo.com
philtakuma@yahoo.com
chuks44444@yahoo.com
+ 3 others have broadcasted messages world wide.(All 50 States in USA)
3 to 5 million messages sent out per day. They have done so for approximately
2 yrs.
Political messages in support of Americans and Democrats.(critizing Israel),
Republocrats, Separation Church & State. Tax the Tax Free. Support
Iraqi’s and Palestinian’s.
E-mails sent to Editors of several newspapers in all 50 states.
To college newspapers in all 50 states. To international newspapers.
To Church organizations. To Farm Bureaus most States.
To activist groups. To labor unions.
Copies sent several times to each of the following.
Lou Dobbs, Anderson Cooper, Wolf Blitzer, and Paula Zahn at CNN .
MSNBC. ABC- Meet the Press.
New York Times
To Interpol, UN, Nato, and Intel agencies.
to Senators, FBI, President and V. President.
We heard some trivial complaints a couple times. BUT have never heard a word back
from any of the above. Other then the standard automatic responce.
Also sent to DNC–RNC–Move-on.org. Justice and Peace. & Ralph Nader.
WE ARE A VERY POLARIZED SOCIETY..
REALITY CHECK: THERE IS NO SANTA CLAUS