The original failure in New Orleans is the creation since the “Great Society” of LBJ of abdication of inidividual responsibilities over to the Federal Government. New Orleans obviously had no emergency plan. Louisiana clearly had no plans, and then quickly called a press conference to blame the President of the United States. Did they really want him making their local plans for them? What’s thier job – if it isn’t to run their city and state?

Now political hacks want to blame the President for the Hurricane and it’s aftermath. The conclusion being that because Liberals are so much more intelligent than Conservatives, that they would have been able to prevent the catastrophe had they been in power.

I don’t know the political stripes of New Orlean’s Mayor or Louisiana’s Governor – but their abidication of responsibility to the Federal government hints that they are Democrats.

The foot dragging by authorities is not the result of inefficiency.
Nor is it latent racism.
It is a cold calculated manoeuver designed to accomplish several goals of the Bush administration.

1. A step toward martial law.
The spin from the media, (which despite disinformation to the contrary is very much a part of Bush’s big-business coalition) is that the major problem in New Orleans has been the breakdown of law and order.
That’s simply not true. The major problem has been the lack of vital needs such as food and water. The majority of the people who looted stores, did so to survive. Survivors of the situation has stated that 90% of the looting was only people looking for vital needs. In fact the “looters” were responsable for saving the lives of the elderly, the children, the infirm and all those who could not have survived without help.
So why the over accentuation on “crime”?
Because the Bush league plans to push through special emergency police powers to allow the president to send troops anywhere in the country whenever he chooses to do so, with or without the consent of state and/or local authorities.

2. An increased state of paranoia.
Just as in the case of 911, this catastrophe serves to terrorize the population. The public is being told a lie that whenever disaster strikes, people turn into savages. This has not been the case. In fact everything was done to make the situation as bad as possible. For instance radio broadcasts told people to go to the Superdome and the Convention Center, however there was absolutely no help to be found at those locations. When columns of troops did pass by those centers on Wednesday, they not only did not help in any way, they actually pointed their guns at anyone who approached the column.
Meanwhile the media was blaming the disastrous situation in the centers on “mobs” and “gangs”. The ultimate aim is to make Americans afraid of poor people, especially blacks. But as I said earlier, it’s not really about race. It’s about fear. You have to have an enemy, a boogey man to scare the people. And since there aren’t enough Arabs in the area to blame them, blacks are the best choice.

3 Distraction
While everybody’s attention is diverted by the disaster, news about the rise of gas prices, escalating war casualties in Iraq, increasing resistance to the administration, the upcoming military draft, the approaching invasions of Iran and Syria, etc etc etc is pushed to the back pages.
In this function, New Orleans has relplaced Aruba.

He’s clearly been taken to task several times about his lack of knowledge about the situation, even by people who aren’t even citizens of this country. If this wasn’t a time of despair, it would almost be funny.

Now I am documented, I would like you both to explain me here who has financialy support Germany to go to 2WW? Who was the first provider of arms to Germany? Who didn’t respect his agreements with European countries during the 1WW, waiting 3 years before joining the combat for peace? Who had installed Hitler at the head of Germany? What for? Who reinforced Germany after the 2WW and why? Who wellcomed ex-nazies after the 2WW first of them the crazy scientists such as was Mengele? Who had achieved to ask huge amounts of money and economic asservisment for the price of a peace he had first provocated (as usual, that’s a trade mard)? Who had incouraged Japan in its tentative to asserve the rest of Asia? Why, knowing their methods? Who negotiated after the 2WW that Japan escape from the authority of international courts, knowing Japan was a nazy ally? Who had take the main benefits from Japanese medical experiences on human prisoners? Who still going on making war all over the word in the name of peace, pretending first they were fighting against communism, then against islmism? At least, who managed to keep its population under a so law level of instruction that you even cannot know the real history of your own country? I give you a track, it’s not the ex-Russia. Guess who it is… When you want to know about the cause of a war, surch for the vaincquor even hidden beyond the mask of pacificator. Those who had resisted to Hitler aigainst US capitalism and the European countries that were alreadey asserved to its power after 1WW is the same country who had so clearly analysed the US groth consequences at the very begining of the 20th century that they have so clearly describe what will happened, what still going on (the text I refer to is dated 1923). Before 2WW US threatened Europe by owning its whole economy, today China owns all our ones. So what are we going to do?

What I learned thanks to you is realy very interesting. If you are not able to find the answers to my questions by yourselves I will be very glad to share my knowledge with you. But as far as English is not my mother tong and the texts are very long, it will ask me a real effort of translation and as froml now I am not sure that your quest for truth is motivated enough to allow you reading it, I prefer to wait for you to ask it for.

Whatsoever, thank you again for your participation helping me to reinforce my historical knowledge. I keep going on.

Please don’t think I blame americans. I blame the system and the ideology you fighted communism and today are fighting islamism with, I blame capitalism and a certain point of view on what must be the peace and the progress all over the world.

Sorry having this kind of development here at this so dramatic time for some of your compatriots but you will understand that I am only answering to nationalists’ assertions.

Ravo, this is about the 5th time I’ve seen you play the race card. You’re utterly disgusting!

I’d like to see just how many of the Bushies are going to take Ravo to task. So far, I haven’t seen a single comment from them.

Exactly. FEMA was activated two days before Katrina hit.

They have no excuse. They blew it. Case closed.

‘President Bush has issued a pre-storm emergency declaration that puts federal agencies on alert to provide aid, Gov. Kathleen Blanco said Saturday night, adding that FEMA representatives told her such a move is highly unusual.’

http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050828/NEWS01/508280312/1002/NEWS

THE PREZ HIMSELF ALERTED FEMA.
I guess that should have been an authority high enough on the command chain to get them going.

It is necessary to live in intelligence with the system, but in revolt against its consequences, it is necessary to live with the idea that we survived worst. Jean Baudrillard

The consequences of our actions are scarecrows for the cowards and the rays of light for the wise ones. Aldous Huxley

If all the remainder fails, you will always be able to reach immortality by a spectacular error. John Kenneth Galbraith

C’mon all you black racists trying to make this racial…lets see the same anger towards the Mayor for not contacting the Gov. to get the ball rolling, and for allowing all those people to be stranded like that in the first place…that you’d show a Mayor who had WHITE skin.

You are all opportunists to divide people. DESPICABLES ALL

But it’s STILL NOT Bush. As I understand LA, the MAYOR had to request help from the Gov before she could ask Bush. This is all the legacy of the closest the US has ever come to a dictator Huey “KingFish” Long back in the ’30s who had a nasty tendency to usurp powers in LA that he didn’t have.

You need to lay off the crack pipe.

For the 50 states, “local jurisdiction” means the Governor, not the Mayor. As D.C. is not a state, if it were to have local jurisdiction, then that would fall to the District’s Mayor. But it doesn’t, so he must defer to the President, who is the commander-in-chief of the D.C. National Guard, even in the case of a local emergency.

Anywhere else in the United States, Governors (not the Mayors) have the domestic control over the Guard.

So our German friend is in fact correct.

Here are some quotations I find out from your news papers:

- “You cannot just blame the president, or any one person. Everyone is partly to blame. It’s the whole system.”

- I said to a FEMA official, ‘What’s the main bit of advice you can give me?’ and he said, ‘You need to make sure you’re accounting for all your expenses,”

And at least:

- Pardon my French, everybody in America, but I am pissed…

I am really trying to understand what’s going on in your part of the world, in my planet, and my stage questions are as follows:

Don’t you think that part of your people, first of them some of your hegemonic leaders and what we call their fanatics fellowships red necks (only poor uneducated results of a decadent system of manipulation) plus some well thinking rich white people (only social soldiers of an ideological army), are afraid to see this ethno-ghetto get down by Katarina (those the whole system don’t need preferring let them kill each others or themselves instead of killing them directly) spread away and propagate their moral diseases to the rest of their cleany society?

Thanks to all of you for helping me to understand how much your/our ideology is sick. How much your/our utopian managing system is out of control. How much your/our methodology of action is out too.

I hope the rest of the world will figure it out to help humanity stop going on this way which pretends to pull us to progress. Which progress? Whose progress? Financial markets’ one? Ideology’s one? Well thinkings one? Rationalists’ one?

Stop thinking, pretending and believing only this system can manage everything. We all must stop thinking mechanically, financially. We first must think humanly. That’s progress, human progress. Not an anonymous and blind progressing progress that even world economy’s barons recognize they don’t know anymore by whom and what it is driven.

I think the entire world must end off with solidarity and think on fraternity. Referring to Oedipus’ and Antigone’s myths.
I think we all must stop thinking technical performance, kind of 101’s know how, to first think human dignity.

Don’t feel ashamed about your/our representatives. They are your/our representatives. By the less, those you/we have named; those whom our system has selected and recognized as right performers; those supposed to be able to generate money and a certain healthy. They are all managed by what they think is performance. They must do so because any else, the system will irrevocably erase them from power, money and recognition as it has already erased non purposed people. This system is now entirely controlling human lives and destinies, asserving us to its own benefits, not (any more) ours which remain humanists utopias. We must help them and help ourselves by laying down our day to day, individual, collective, local, global, cultural and historical experiences to think on a new paradigm. A paradigm dedicated to human’s and humanity’s benefits. Not anymore market’s or ideology’s ones.

What to think about all of us if we still naming leaders who think prior on short time (their time, the time of their very small responsibility), prior to their media PR credibility or in other leaders’ recognition instead of people and individuals’ interests?
What to think about all of us if we are only able to react to spectacular events? What to think about ourselves if we are only able to polemicate on responsibilities? What to think about us if we are active only in immediate basis? What to let think about us? That we are child? That’s what we became because of consumer and politic propaganda. It is time to wake up from hypnotise, to stop thinking selfishly or communitary which means for our similars. It is time to auto criticise our evolution management. It is time to summarise, to analyse and to act in regard of humans’ benefits. It is time to avoid market’s and ideology’s hegemony. Not only in the US. The point is that if we do not concert all together, no one will accept to be the first to take such a risk. And that’s the real power of this gigantic system: if we are not able to act in the same time all together, we will let him win.

Do you know how the system will win? By achieving to confine us in child ignorance to let the system going on playing with our lives as short terms’ costs:

“In L’enseignement de l’ignorance (the teaching of ignorance) Jean-Claude Michea informs us that in 1995, 500 politicians, economic and scientific leaders of foreground, component in their eyes the elite of the world, started to recognize as an obviousness which does not deserve to be discussed, that in the century to come, two tenth of the population will be enough to maintain the activity of the world economy. An essential question thus arises: how would it be possible to maintain the “governability” of 80 percent of supernumerary humanity, of which uselessness at summer programmed by liberal logic? The solution was found by Brzezinski, former adviser of J Carter under the name of “tittytainment”*: it is a question of defining a cocktail of hypnotizing entertainment and sufficient food making it possible to maintain the good mood of the frustrated population of planet.”
Source: Herve Bokobza
* Fusion between “entertainment” which means to divert and “tits” which means chest.

Our very contemporary time is this of Dionysius, the very selfish forever child god of Antic mythology. Dionysius is a reminiscent of what was the Dévas (gods) in Indo European Sanskrit mythology; the parental one of all our monotheists’ religions and cultures, being Christians, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, or whatsoever. Etymologically, Dévas became “dice” (in French “dés”, but also “déesses”, “idée/idea”, “video”, “destiny”, “disaster”, “to divert” and in Latin “ludus” which means play, game and entertainment) as mythological gods use to play human destiny with dice. What characterise the childhood is what we all are became today. People only able to get impressed and to act instinctively, aesthetically, first thinking on themselves, small selfish tirans. Disaster is what your country is experiencing today, what Asia has experienced a few months ago; a gods’ calamity. No one can be held responsible for this. But we all must be very careful not to get impressed by this tragic spectacle and only think what is immediate. Crisis comes from the Greek word “crisis” which means “choices”. Choices are the only way to answer to a crisis such as this.

Don’t let time be the time of Dionysius only thinking selfishly, aesthetically in short terms. Don’t let La Boétie get right with his “Discours sur la servitude volontaire” (Speech about voluntary servitude). Don’t let our world head of which your empire became a second declining Roma which devise was “Bred and games for people”. Let this disaster time be the time of choices. Right choices which will make us all together grow to take in charge our lives, our human condition depending on these calamities. Stop naming responsible your ascendants or the system. The ultimate enemy of humanity as been revealed, its names are ultra human disaster and humanity heresy thinking we are gods!

The mayor must request the needed assistance from the President,

ONLY DC is unique in that it doesn’t require local jurisdiction to make the request.

Please apologize

Grray Says:

September 3rd, 2005 at 6:55 am
Rove, erh, sry, Ravo, ‘The Mayor should have had the National Guard ready to go’? For god’s sake, use your head first and search for information on topics you don’t know anything about before posting nonsense like this.

I’m a german citizen and even I know that US mayors have NO authority over the National Guard, not even over the members who are inhabitants of the city. That’s ‘no’ in the meaning of zero, nil, nothing. Doing a quick google I found the information that not even the mayor of Washington DC has authority over ‘his’ National guard units:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/agency/army/arng-dc.htm
Ravo, you’re either a totally ignorant blabbermouth or a spinmeister. But be beware that most here are not stupid enough to fall for your obvious misinformation.

Here are some quotations I find out from your news papers:

- “You cannot just blame the president, or any one person. Everyone is partly to blame. It’s the whole system.”

- I said to a FEMA official, ‘What’s the main bit of advice you can give me?’ and he said, ‘You need to make sure you’re accounting for all your expenses,”

And at least:

- Pardon my French, everybody in America, but I am pissed…

I am really trying to understand what’s going on in your part of the world, in my planet, and my stage questions are as follows:

Don’t you think that part of your people, first of them some of your hegemonic leaders and what we call their fanatics fellowships red necks (only poor uneducated results of a decadent system of manipulation) plus some well thinking rich white people (only social soldiers of an ideological army), are afraid to see this ethno-ghetto get down by Katarina (those the whole system don’t need preferring let them kill each others or themselves instead of killing them directly) spread away and propagate their moral diseases to the rest of their cleany society?

Thanks to all of you for helping me to understand how much your/our ideology is sick. How much your/our utopian managing system is out of control. How much your/our methodology of action is out too.

I hope the rest of the world will figure it out to help humanity stop going on this way which pretends to pull us to progress. Which progress? Whose progress? Financial markets’ one? Ideology’s one? Well thinkings one? Rationalists’ one?

Stop thinking, pretending and believing only this system can manage everything. We all must stop thinking mechanically, financially. We first must think humanly. That’s progress, human progress. Not an anonymous and blind progressing progress that even world economy’s barons recognize they don’t know anymore by whom and what it is driven.

I think the entire world must end off with solidarity and think on fraternity. Referring to Oedipus’ and Antigone’s myths.
I think we all must stop thinking technical performance, kind of 101’s know how, to first think human dignity.

Don’t feel ashamed about your/our representatives. They are your/our representatives. By the less, those you/we have named; those whom our system has selected and recognized as right performers; those supposed to be able to generate money and a certain healthy. They are all managed by what they think is performance. They must do so because any else, the system will irrevocably erase them from power, money and recognition as it has already erased non purposed people. This system is now entirely controlling human lives and destinies, asserving us to its own benefits, not (any more) ours which remain humanists utopias. We must help them and help ourselves by laying down our day to day, individual, collective, local, global, cultural and historical experiences to think on a new paradigm. A paradigm dedicated to human’s and humanity’s benefits. Not anymore market’s or ideology’s ones.

What to think about all of us if we still naming leaders who think prior on their media PR credibility or in other leaders’ recognition instead of people and individuals’ interests?
What to think about all of us if we are only able to react to spectacular events? What to think about ourselves if we are only able to polemicate on responsibilities? What to think about us if we are active only in immediate basis? What to let think about us? That we are child? That’s what we became because of consumer and politic propaganda. It is time to wake up from hypnotise, to stop thinking selfishly or communitary which means for our similars. It is time to auto criticise our evolution management. It is time to summarise, to analyse and to act in regard of humans’ benefits. It is time to avoid market’s and ideology’s hegemony. Not only in the US. The point is that if we do not concert all together, no one will accept to be the first to take such a risk. And that’s the real power of this gigantic system: if we are not able to act in the same time all together, we will let him win.

Do you know how the system will win? By achieving to confine us in child ignorance to let the system going on playing with our lives as short terms’ costs:

“In L’enseignement de l’ignorance (the teaching of ignorance) Jean-Claude Michea informs us that in 1995, 500 politicians, economic and scientific leaders of foreground, component in their eyes the elite of the world, started to recognize as an obviousness which does not deserve to be discussed, that in the century to come, two tenth of the population will be enough to maintain the activity of the world economy. An essential question thus arises: how would it be possible to maintain the “governability” of 80 percent of supernumerary humanity, of which uselessness at summer programmed by liberal logic? The solution was found by Brzezinski, former adviser of J Carter under the name of “tittytainment”*: it is a question of defining a cocktail of hypnotizing entertainment and sufficient food making it possible to maintain the good mood of the frustrated population of planet.”
Source: Herve Bokobza
* Fusion between “entertainment” which means to divert and “tits” which means chest.

Our very contemporary time is this of Dionysius, the very selfish forever child god of Antic mythology. Dionysius is a reminiscent of what was the Dévas (gods) in Indo European Sanskrit mythology; the parental one of all our monotheists’ religions and cultures, being Christians, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists, or whatsoever. Etymologically, Dévas became “dice” (in French “dés”, but also “déesses”, “idée/idea”, “video”, “destiny”, “disaster”, “to divert” and in Latin “ludus” which means play and entertainment) as mythological gods use to play human destiny with dice. What characterise the childhood is what we all are became today. People only able to get impressed and to act instinctively, aesthetically, first thinking on themselves, small selfish tirans. Disaster is what your country is experiencing today, what Asia has experienced a few months ago; a gods’ calamity. No one can be held responsible for this. But we all must be very careful not to get impressed by this tragic spectacle and only think what is immediate. Crisis comes from the Greek word “crisis” which means “choices”. Choices are the only way to answer to a crisis such as this.

Don’t let time be the time of Dionysius only thinking selfishly, aesthetically in short terms. Don’t let La Boétie get right with his “Discours sur la servitude volontaire” (Speech about voluntary servitude). Don’t let our world head of which your empire became a second declining Roma which devise was “Bred and games for people”. Let this disaster time be the time of choices. Right choices which will make us all together grow to take in charge our lives, our human condition depending on these calamities. Stop naming responsible your ascendants or the system. The ultimate enemy of humanity as been revealed, its names are ultra human disaster and humanity heresy thinking we are gods!

Well, whaddaya know… Jersey Exile and I are on the same page on *something*, anyway.

It’s a little silly to say that everybody else “left” even as a variety of people are still posting. But I do understand if you have some bandwidth worries or some other concern relating to busy threads.

Again you should learn some Civics 101 before shooting your mouth off. The Mayor has *no* say in the deployment of the National Guard, and the President had all the authority he needed to go in as soon as a state of emergency was declared on August 27th, two days before Katrina made landfall. That’s all FEMA needed. And they blew it. FEMA’s very reason for existence is disasters such as these, so don’t start trying to peddle the “How could they have known?” and “These things take time” bullshit.

The National Guard was called up by the Governor and ready for action by August 29th — that is, the less than 2/3’s left that hadn’t been sent overseas, along with critical equipment like high-water vehicles. Considering the entire NOPD department consists of 1500 officers, another thousand Guardsmen or two could have made the difference in stabilizing the situation. *That’s* where the President was needed. And that’s where he failed.

You bet your ass I want my President to step up and protect my country when the circumstances warrant it. Two things should have been immediately apparent as Katrina approached: 1. the levees might fail, and 2. public lawlessness would almost certainly break out, as it does in any disaster’s wake. Having enough boots on the ground could have gotten more people out of the city and maintained an atmosphere of law and order.

That’s not the Mayor’s fault; that’s not the Governor’s fault, either — both deployed what they had but it wasn’t even close to being enough, and everyone knew it… except for the Feds, who were too busy playing the guitar and shoe shopping to take things seriously until the likes of Sean Hannity were calling them out for it.

Sorry, Charlie. Try LGF if you can’t handle the truth.

And now add to that news coverage of Federalized National Guard troops moving poor black people out of their homes at gunpoint. For a mere storm.