tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-160892442010-04-09T15:13:05.508-07:00Here you will find stories about this disaster that will help you "connect the dots" to better figure out what is truly going on here.Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16089244.post-41913102916254428302010-02-26T15:21:00.001-08:002010-04-09T15:12:25.733-07:00

THIS PAGE IS NOW AN ARCHIVE ONLYAs of March 2010, Google is no longer supporting FTP publishing of it's Blogger blogs. Therefore I will be consolidating all of my blogs into a single front page format that I will be experimenting with and changing from time to time until I find something I like.

Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16089244.post-1153256983043883592006-07-18T14:03:00.000-07:002006-07-18T14:09:43.160-07:00

Medics held over Katrina deaths(BBC News, 18 July 2006)A doctor and two nurses have been arrested in the US city of New Orleans over the deaths of hospital patients after Hurricane Katrina last year. . . . The Louisiana attorney general's office said the three had been charged with murdering four patients. . . . At least 34 patients died at Memorial Medical Center, which was cut off after Katrina

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Nameless hurricane victims fill U.S. morgues(IOL, July 6, 2006)Nearly 50 people killed by Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters more than 10 months ago remain unidentified, the Orleans Parish coroner said on Wednesday. . . . Some of the remains were discovered in the last several months as family members or construction workers began demolishing heavily damaged homes in the Ninth Ward and Lakeview,

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Soldiers deployed in New Orleans(BBC News, 20 June 2006)U.S. soldiers are set to be redeployed on the streets of New Orleans to fight crime for the first time since the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. . . . The Louisiana governor asked for the National Guard to return to New Orleans after a weekend that saw six people murdered in the city. . . . New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin had earlier called for

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Katrina, Rita destroyed 113 petroleum platforms(KLTV, May 2006)Officials say Hurricanes Katrina and Rita destroyed 113 petroleum production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. The update came today from the federal agency overseeing offshore drilling. . . . The Minerals Management Service says the 2005 storms also damaged 457 pipelines connecting production facilities in the Gulf and bringing oil

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Red Cross probed on Katrina fraud(BBC NEWS, 27 March 2006)Allegations that American Red Cross [ARC] volunteers engaged in theft and fraud after Hurricane Katrina are being probed by Louisiana's attorney general. . . . The inquiry comes as the ARC, the largest recipient of donations after last year's hurricane, unveiled its own probe into claims of impropriety. . . . Concerns include the improper

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Multiple Layers Of Contractors Drive Up Cost of Katrina Cleanup(Joby Warrick, Washington Post, March 20, 2006)How many contractors does it take to haul a pile of tree branches? If it's government work, at least four: a contractor, his subcontractor, the subcontractor's subcontractor, and finally, the local man with a truck and chainsaw. . . . If the job is patching a leaking roof, the answer may

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New Orleans Will Seek Foreign Aid ... OR is it being bought out?(Reuters, 07 February 2006)Shortcomings in aid from the US government are making New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin look to other nations for help in rebuilding his hurricane-damaged city. . . . Nagin, who has hosted a steady stream of foreign dignitaries since Hurricane Katrina hit in late August, says he may seek international assistance

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Causeway Concentration Camp Survivors Testify Before Congress (KTRE-TV, December 6, 2005) New Orleans residents say race and class clearly were the reason for the government's slow response to Katrina. . . . In an emotional and sometimes tearful hearing, the residents spoke of being cursed and threatened at gunpoint by police. . . . The residents charged they were abandoned by their state and

Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16089244.post-1132261917815253012005-11-17T13:11:00.000-08:002005-11-17T13:11:57.833-08:00

New Orleans mould 'risks health'(BBC NEWS, November 17, 2005)Spores from mould growing in New Orleans homes flooded after Hurricane Katrina pose a major risk to health, a US environmental group has warned. . . . Air tests have shown levels of mould high enough to trigger serious allergic reactions in some people, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) says. . . . It accuses the government

Lorenzonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16089244.post-1130803949804822242005-10-31T16:10:00.000-08:002005-10-31T16:12:29.816-08:00

Why are They Making New Orleans a Ghost Town?(Bill Quigley, BuzzFlash, October 31, 2005) On Halloween night, New Orleans will be very, very dark. Well over half the homes on the east bank of New Orleans sit vacant because they still do not have electricity. More do not have natural gas or running water. Most stoplights still do not work. Most street lights remain out.Fully armed National Guard

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Bush Is in No Hurry on Katrina Recovery(Peter G. Gosselin, Los Angeles Times, 17 October 2005)The president's go-slow approach is called a recipe for chaos, even by fellow Republicans. . . . Almost two months after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast and a month after promising in a nationally televised speech to help rebuild the region "quickly," President Bush has settled on a

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Paranoid conspiracy theories about Katrina (Earl Ofari Hutchinson, AlterNet, October 10, 2005) The instant Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters raged down Canal Street, New Orleans' main drag, the tongues of the assorted doomsayers, fringe bloggers, fire-and-brimstone fundamentalists, unreconstructed Nazis and Klan members, leftists, black activists, loonies and even some in the mainstream media

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Follow the Money!(Palm Beach Post Editorial, September 30, 2005)Hurricane victims keeled over in the Houston heat Wednesday while FEMA, once again caught off-guard, kept them waiting in line. It's so much cooler to be a Bush administration insider who can shove to the front of the line for the $200 billion Congress may provide in disaster aid. . . . As in Iraq, Halliburton -- which Vice President

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Bush calls Homeland Security a "Titanic struggle"[PLEASE NOTE: This story is from June 7, 2002.](Nicholas M. Horrock, UPI, 6/7/2002)President George W. Bush chose an unfortunate word in announcing his new Homeland Security Department Thursday, noting that the U.S. is leading the world in a "titanic" struggle against terror, which caused the cynics among us who wondered whether Bush's massive

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Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans (Ryan Parry, Mirror.co.uk, 20 September 2005) HUNDREDS of tons of British food aid shipped to America for starving Hurricane Katrina survivors is to be burned. . . . US red tape is stopping it from reaching hungry evacuees. . . . Instead tons of the badly needed Nato ration packs, the same as those eaten by

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FEMA is storing Gulf Coast ice in MAINE!(WGME Channel 13 Report, September 20, 2005)Portland [Maine] is still floating in ice. As we first reported Monday night, millions of pounds of ice is being diverted from the hurricane-devastated south to storage in Portland, with up to 200 trucks arriving. FEMA now says the ice ultimately may go back south for another disaster, but the truckers seem

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U.S. pays $2,000 to Americans and $200,000 to Israeli settlers(William A. Cook, Counterpunch, September 9/11, 2005)For the past six weeks the American public has been treated to news reporting of two totally different kinds: five weeks of calculated, controlled lies wrapped in sympathy for modern day saintly "Settlers" being evicted from their homes in their land of Judea, and an open, honest,

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The Great New Orleans Land GrabThere were numerous incidents that occurred during and immediately after Katrina struck that point to the "unthinkable". It now appears that a sophisticated plan was implemented that utilized the "cover of a hurricane" to first destroy and than take over the City of New Orleans. As the world watched the events unfolding, one could not help think that something was

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Locals believe Levees were Intentionally blownCould the levees in New Orleans have been INTENTIONALLY blown out in order to provide the justification for total FEMA federal takeover? . . . The locals certainly seem to think so, yet, as usual, the mainstream media is barely picking up on this wave of opinion . . . Many locals have come forward to suggest that the levees were breached on purpose by

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Neck Deep in Toxic Gumbo (Nicole Makris, AlterNet, September 16, 2005) As the government drags its feet, the unknown number of human bodies decomposing in the New Orleans floodwaters are becoming hosts for a horde of diseases. The bodies continue to fester and rot, potentially contaminating the city they used to call home. . . . Mike Leavitt has declared a public health emergency for the

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Dead bodies everywhere, what the media isn't telling you(Michael Moore, September 14, 2005)My staff and the vets spend their 18-hour days delivering food and water throughout the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. What they have seen is appalling. I have asked them to post their daily diaries on my website (www.michaelmoore.com) along with accompanying photos and video so you can

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Chertoff memo shows something nefarious about Bush's response to Katrina(Jonathan S. Landay, Alison Young and Shannon McCaffrey, Knight Ridder Newspapers, Sept. 13, 2005)The federal official with the power to mobilize a massive federal response to Hurricane Katrina was Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, not the former FEMA chief who was relieved of his duties and resigned earlier this

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25 Mind-Numbingly Stupid Quotes About Hurricane Katrina(Combiled by about.com)"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." . . . George W. Bush"What I'm hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this is (chuckle)--this is working very well for them." George Bush's

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Government Coverup of Dangerous Toxins in New Orleans(Marc Maron and Mark Riley, Morning Sedition, Air America Radio, September 13, 2005)Hugh Kauffman, a Senior Policy Analyst at the Environmental Protection Agency who specializes in emergency response, told Morning Sedition hosts Marc Maron and Mark Riley that a government cover-up is taking place right now, as we speak, to hide information

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