Friends, Lurkers, misguided Conservatives,
This Oregon boy lived and loved New Orleans for all it's aging
trollops, dirt-poor Gospel huggers and Byzantine graft. The bad dreams
are ebbing, at last, but I've woken many nights sweating and anxious
with trapped/drowning dreams of retreating to dark attics with water
rising and no way out for my wee family.
Watching our "Devil Take The Hindmost" neoFEMA leave yet more po' folk
"Left Behinders" stuck in Houston bus terminals & streets brings all
this into focus - and adds an exclamation point to the stories below.
Now, the cold calculated {dare we call it sociopathic?} reality this
mercenary administration exudes is brilliantly illuminated in a few
articles and news stories you won't find on CNN, but continue to seep
out of the proto Paid Avoidance Zone {Shockwave Rider anyone?}. If
ever there was question about the relevance of GwB's war of choice
affecting us here and now in realtime, here it is. Think of it:
Houston, energy capital of the US, the most-feared superpower in the
world, has run out of gas.
These problems are systemic.
Transcripts and streaming details can be found here for Friday, Sept
23, 2005 show:
http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl?issue=20050923
Naomi "no logo" Klein's related article describes Catastrophe
Capitalism and the naked merging of business and government while
excluding the dispossessed. Remember the armed guards, endless
frisking and curfews around evacuation camps as compared to the Baton
Rouge embrace of commercial interests in daily planning sessions.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/klein
The metal fist dispenses with velvet gloves in Jeremy Scahill's scary
plumbing the awfulness of overwhelming muscle that New "Might Makes
Property Rights" Orleans has become and details the blatant lawlessness
the wealthy exhibit under the guise of re-engineering the social strata
of one of America's oldest cultures.
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051010/scahill
And finally Pratap Chatterjee's Corpwatch analysis describes how the
very same people who failed to reconstruct Iraq {at great off-ledger
expense} are now geared up for "rebuilding" the Gulf Coast. Failed
principles and awful management could be made fuzzy and distant in
Iraq, but they are now applied domestically.
When will RICO be applied?
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12647
- Jonathan Gibson -
www.formandfunction.com/word
On Sep 22, 2005, at 9:47 PM, Dave Land wrote:
Folks,
Don't know if you've seen the latest ad from MoveOn.org, but it's very
well done.
https://political.moveon.org/donate/nosafer-QT.html
Dave
Thanks, I'd heard rumbles of this effort but too busy to chase it down.
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