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<A HREF="#sep05"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>Sept.&nbsp;2005</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#oct05"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>Oct.&nbsp;2005</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#nov05"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>Nov.&nbsp;2005</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#jan06"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>Jan.&nbsp;2006</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#feb06"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>Feb.&nbsp;2006</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#mar06"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>March&nbsp;2006</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#apr06"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>April&nbsp;2006</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#may06"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>May&nbsp;2006</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#jul06"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>July&nbsp;2006</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#aug06"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>Aug.&nbsp;2006</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#apr07"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>April&nbsp;2007</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; <A HREF="#aug07"><FONT COLOR=blue><B>Aug.&nbsp;2007</B></FONT></A>&nbsp; </I> &nbsp; <A HREF="http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline"><B>Katrina timeline</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> <BLOCKQUOTE><HR NOSHADE></BLOCKQUOTE> <A NAME=aug05></a> <B>Aug. 29, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090829firstresponders.html"><B>As Katrina strikes, FEMA urges <nobr>first-responders not to respond</nobr></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Aug. 30 , 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160830Holderman.html"><B>FEMA's new focus on terrorism leaves <NOBR>nation unprepared for natural disasters</NOBR></B></A><BR>by Eric Holderman, <I>Washington Post</I><blockquote>Also: <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160830Holderman.html"><B>Bush began dismantling then-efficient<BR>FEMA as soon as he took office</B></A></blockquote> <B>Aug. 30, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090830NewOrleans.html"><B>New Orleans Police join <NOBR>in looting free-for-all</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <A NAME=sep05></A> <B>Sept. 1, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.whitehouse.gov/ask/20050901.html"><B>With Gulf Coast in ruins, Homeland <NOBR>Security Chief hosts on-line chat</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 1, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050909NaginInterview.html"><B>Interview with the Mayor of New Orleans</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 1, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050903d-901sir.html"><B>Sandbagging New Orleans</B></A><BR>by Sir&nbsp;J, <I>Unknown&nbsp;News</I><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 1, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050903d-901dn.html"><B>Racism in the lack of response&nbsp;to&nbsp;hurricane&nbsp;emergency?</B></A><BR>by Don&nbsp;Nash, <I>Unknown&nbsp;News</I><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 2, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050902FEMA'splan.html"><B>FEMA had rehearsed New Orleans disaster response, <NOBR>but didn't implement plan when disaster really struck</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 2, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090902shoot-to-kill.html"><B>Troops sent to New Orleans for "combat operation"</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 2, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090902airboats.html"><B>FEMA won't allow airboats to rescue Katrina victims</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 2, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090902Deputies.html"><B>Emergency crews turned back by FEMA:<BR><i>They lacked "the required paperwork"</i></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 2, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050903d-902rr.html"><B>Who is this incompetent doofus running FEMA?</B></A><BR>by Rachel R., <I>Unknown&nbsp;News</I><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 2, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050903d-902kf.html"><B>God save America ...</B></A><BR>by Kathy&nbsp;Fisher, <I>Unknown&nbsp;News</I><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 3, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090903playingcards.html"><B>Police official says Nat'l Guardsmen <NOBR>'played cards' amid New Orleans chaos</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 3, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090903RedCross.html"><B>Homeland Security stops Red Cross <nobr>from bringing food for New Orleans</nobr></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 3, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906Refugeesheldatgunpoint.html"><B>Thousands of New Orleans <NOBR>refugees held at gunpoint,</NOBR><BR>not allowed to leave growing hell of Superdome</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 3, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090903ZeroTolerance.html"><B>Bush declares "zero tolerance" for New Orleans<BR>survivors seeking food and water</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 3, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/3/171718/0826"><B>FEMA turned back <nobr>500-boat rescue flotilla</nobr></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 3, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090903MichaelBrown.html"><B>FEMA chief had to be 'asked to resign' <NOBR>from previous job with horse club</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 4, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090904FEMAsaysNO.html"><B>FEMA turns down water, fuel for New Orleans, <nobr>cuts area's emergency communication line</nobr></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 4, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090904Bataan.html"><B>Navy hospital &amp; water purification ship <NOBR>anchored on nearby coast, underused</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 4, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090904GettingpastFEMA.html"><B>College sophomores used fake press passes <NOBR>to circumvent FEMA's rescue roadblocks</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 4, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050910d-904cm.html"><B>Who are these people?</B></A><BR>by Chris&nbsp;M., <I>Unknown&nbsp;News</I><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 4, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090904NeverPredicted.html"><B>Homeland Security Chief says New Orleans <NOBR>disaster couldn't have been predicted</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 4, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090904doctors.html"><B>Red tape keeps hundreds of doctors <NOBR>from helping hurricane survivors</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 5, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/9/5/105538/7048"><B>Firefighters waited five days for <nobr>FEMA's OK to enter New Orleans,</nobr> <nobr>then gave up, returned to Houston</nobr></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 5, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090905dragsfeet.html"><B>FEMA "dragging its feet" as businesses <nobr>try to help hurricane, flood victims</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 6, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160906BrownMemo.html"><B>FEMA head specifically ordered lackadaisical <NOBR>response to "near catastrophic" Hurricane Katrina</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 6, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><a name=0812112></A><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906ems.html">New Orleans during the disaster:</i><BR><B>Police lied to survivors, <NOBR>blocked escape from city</NOBR></B></A><BR> by Larry Bradshaw and&nbsp;Lorrie&nbsp;Beth&nbsp;Slonsky, <i>EMS&nbsp;Network</i><blockquote><small><tt><b><i>From inside New Orleans as the crisis worsened, these survivors found that the authorities were never any help, and often an ugly enemy. </i></b></tt> <NOBR><tt><b><i> &nbsp; =H&amp;HH=</i></b></tt>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<A HREF="050909n.html#0812112"><FONT COLOR=blue>LINK</FONT></A></NOBR></small></blockquote> <B>Sept. 6, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906firefighters.html"><B>As New Orleans waits, FEMA sends firefighters <NOBR>to seminar, assigns them to hand out fliers</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 6, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906Britons.html"><B>U.S. military smuggled white vacationers <NOBR>out of New Orleans Superdome squalor</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 6, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906CampWilliams.html"><B>Refugees from New Orleans <NOBR>behind barbed wire in Utah</NOBR></B></A><BR>by Don&nbsp;Nash, <I>Unknown News</I><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 6, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906NoFoodDrops.html"><B>No food drops planned for New Orleans</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 6, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050910d-906fingers.html"><B><FONT COLOR=red> Now </FONT>is the time for pointing fingers</B></A><BR>by John M., <I>Unknown&nbsp;News</I><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 6, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread167902/pg1"><B>I just got back from a <NOBR>FEMA Detainment Camp</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 7, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090907FEMA.html"><B>FEMA's top-level management <NOBR>stacked with Bush's cronies</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 7, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090907intlhelp.html"><B>International offers of help came immediately, <NOBR>but U.S. approval was delayed by days</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 7, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050907KatrinaRescue.html"><B>Navy pilots reprimanded for rescuing huricane victims</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 7, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/005396.php"><B>More doctors turned away from <NOBR>helping in Katrina aftermath</NOBR></B></A><br><br> <B>Sept. 7, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090507DenverCamp.html"><B>Katrina survivors in "concentration&nbsp;camp"</B></A><BR>by Diane Carman, <i>Denver Post</i><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 8, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160908notwelcome.html"><B>Katrina survivors "evacuated" <NOBR>at the point of a gun</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 8, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090908Canadians.html"><B>Canadian search-and-rescue team <NOBR>first to reach New Orleans suburb</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 8, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090908isitKiguchi.html"><B>Interview about restrictions on <nobr>New Orleans detainees ends abruptly</nobr></B></A><BR>by Don Nash, <I>Unknown&nbsp;News</I><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 8, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160908FEMAlooters.html"><B>FEMA contractors arrested for looting</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 9 , 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.alternet.org/story/25227/"><B>Media spreads at least eight Bush <NOBR>administration lies about Katrina</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 9, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160909gunsandgo.html"><B>Homeowners' guns confiscated in New Orleans, <NOBR>police threaten evacuation by force</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 9, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK 909><A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/static/Overkill.shtml"><B>Blackwater mercenaries patrol New Orleans</B></A><blockquote><a name=1103542></A><small><tt><b><i>Am I nuts? Have I gone bonkers? Or does it seem that the efforts to kill the people of New Orleans have gone much more smoothly, than any efforts to save them? </i></b></tt> <NOBR><tt><b><i> &nbsp; =H&amp;HH=</i></b></tt>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<A HREF="050916n.html#1103542"><FONT COLOR=blue>LINK</FONT></A></NOBR></small> </blockquote> <B>Sept. 9, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050909a-hh.html"><B>"Mission accomplished" in New Orleans</B></A><BR>by Harry Highwater, <i>Unknown&nbsp;News</i><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 9, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050909a-cr.html"><B>Rebuilding New Orleans for Big Oil</B></A><BR>by Carol&nbsp;Rawle, <i>Unknown&nbsp;News</i><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 9, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2005/09/09/national/a124207D29.DTL"><B>Gore helps airlift New Orleans victims</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 10, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160910NewOrleansMilitia.html"><B>New Orleans neighborhood stands together, <NOBR>refuses to surrender what's left of the city</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 10, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050916091015milliontons.html"><B>FEMA sent back German plane carrying <NOBR>fifteen tons of food for hurricane victims</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 11, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160911DavisBacon.html"><B>Bush signs executive order lowering <NOBR>wages across Katrina-devastated areas</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 11, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160911LeeVsFEMA.html"><B>Sheriff threatens to arrest FEMA officials</B><BR><i>Countermands FEMA order that stores remain closed </i></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 11, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160911euthenasia.html"><B>New Orleans doctors <NOBR>had to kill their patients</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 11, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509260911LootersandMayhem.html"><B>Experts question how much looting and <NOBR>mayhem <i>really</i> took place in New Orleans</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 12, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509230912airboats.html"><B>Air boat volunteers, turned back <NOBR>by authorities, rescued 797 anyway</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 12, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509260912DEA.html"><B>Drug Enforcement Agency plays key role in <NOBR>door-to-door searches of New Orleans homes</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 12, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160912BradshawSlonsky.html"><B>Racist police blocked bridge and <NOBR>forced evacuees back at gunpoint</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 12, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160912mercenaries.html"><B>"God" and mercenaries watch out <NOBR>for the rich of New Orleans</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 13, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160913NoPhotosNoStories.html"><B>As bodies are recovered, reporters are threatened: <NOBR>'No photos, no stories'</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 13, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160913Chertoff.html"><B>Chertoff delayed federal response <NOBR>to Katrina disaster, memo shows</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 14, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160914NatlGuard.html"><B>Feds delayed Nat'l Guard's <NOBR>hurricane response for days</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 16, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509230916bridge.html"><B>Mayor of Gretna says  whole community <NOBR>backs bridge-blocking racist police</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 16, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160916environmentalgroups.html"><B>White House seeks to blame environmental groups <NOBR>for New Orleans flooding catastrophe</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 16, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK cops, katrina><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160916MerleneMaten.html"><B>Looting charge against 71-year-old Baptist deaconess <NOBR>defies credulity, witnesses, but ... she is black</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 16, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509160916Docmuststop.html"><B>Doctor says FEMA ordered him <NOBR>to stop treating hurricane victims</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 17, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509230917preparingfortheworst.html"><B>Early warnings were sounded as <NOBR>Bush cut nation's disaster-preparedness</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 19, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509230919discrimination.html"><B>Bush OKs racial, other discrimination <NOBR>in rebuilding of shattered Gulf Coast</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 19, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509230519IcetoMaine.html"><B>Truckloads of ice for Katrina victims <NOBR>trucked everywhere except to victims</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 19, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509260919MREs.html"><B>Food for Katrina victims given by England, Italy, <NOBR>Spain, Israel to be incinerated instead of eaten</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 20, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509230920drownedprisoners.html"><B>Prisoners, including juveniles, drowned in flooded jails</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 20, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509230920fourthamendment.html"><B>New Orleans homes searched by "task force" <NOBR>after residents have been evacuated</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 20, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509230920Levees.html"><B>Researchers unsure what <NOBR>caused levee collapse</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 21, 2005:</B><BR> <! 05sep wof katrina><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050921loyaltyoath.html"><B>Hurricane rescue volunteers turned away <NOBR>if they won't sign loyalty oath</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 23, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509300923when'sthenextbus.html"><B>FEMA subcontracted evacuation buses, <NOBR>ignored bus-owners' group's offers of help</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 23, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509300923Katrinajail.html"><B>Arrested on misdemeanors, <NOBR>left to die in flooded jail</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 25, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509300925Dolphins.html"><B>Hurricane freed U.S. military's <NOBR>dozens of killer dolphins</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 26, 2005:</B><BR> <! jou><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509300926Exaggeration.html"><B>Superdome, Convention Center <NOBR>deaths were wildly exaggerated</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 26, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509300926HurricaneRita.html"><i>Was FEMA's performance after <NOBR>Hurricane Rita a rerun of Katrina fumbling?</NOBR></i><BR> <B>Judge instructs local officials to <NOBR>use force to pry supplies from FEMA</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 27, 2005:</B><BR> <a name=2803202></A><A HREF="http://thinkprogress.org/2005/09/27/brown-false-smear/"><B>Former FEMA Head Brown commits <NOBR>obvious perjury before Congress</NOBR></B></A><blockquote><small><tt><b><i>It's still quite unlikely, but now there's at least a faint glimmer of hope that Michael Brown may serve a stint in prison, where he deserves to be.<BR><BR>Yeah, and while I'm daydreaming, perhaps George W. Bush will be his cellmate. </i></b></tt> <NOBR><tt><b><i> &nbsp; =H&amp;HH=</i></b></tt>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<A HREF="050930n.html#2803202"><FONT COLOR=blue>LINK</FONT></A></NOBR></small> </blockquote> <B>Sept. 28, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509300928CarnivalCruise.html"><B>FEMA's $236-million deal <NOBR>with Carnival Cruise Lines</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Sept. 30, 2005:</B><BR><! kat cops><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0510070930policelooting.html"><B>Police helped loot New Orleans, <NOBR>and they're still at it, say witnesses</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <A NAME=oct05></A> <B>Oct. 3, 2005:</B><BR> <! 05oct kat cop wof><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0510071003HispanicKatrina.html"><B>Police, U.S. Marshals demand ID from <NOBR>Hispanic-looking Katrina refugees</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Oct. 4, 2005:</B><BR> <! kat business 05oct><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0510071004katrinacarpetbaggers.html"><B>Carpetbagger companies clean up after Katrina</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Oct. 6, 2005:</B><BR> <! 05oct ><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0510141006aclulawsuit.html"><B>ACLU sues to force investigation into <NOBR>New Orleans jail's abandonment of prisoners</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Oct. 10, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/101005A.shtml"><B>Bush administration blocks <NOBR>aid for Katrina victims</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Oct. 12, 2005:</B><BR> <! 05oct secretgovt><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0510141012FEMAprivacy.html"><B>FEMA keeps evacuee data secret, <NOBR>hinders search for survivors</NOBR></B></A><br><br> <B>Oct. 13, 2005:</B><BR> <! 05oct ><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0510141013KatrinaMorphine.html"><B>New Orleans hospital staff <NOBR>"debated euthanizing patients"</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Oct. 14, 2005:</B><BR><A HREF="http://www.techcentralstation.com/101405D.html"><B><i>Katrina:</i>&nbsp; Media lied, people died</B></A><BR>by Michael Fumento, <i>Tech Central Station</i><BR><BR> <B>Oct. 21, 2005:</B><BR> <! * 05oct><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0510281021dinnerhour.html"><B>FEMA worker tells of his bosses' <NOBR>disinterest as situation worsened</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Oct. 29, 2005:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.breitbart.com/news/2005/10/29/D8DHNDJ80.html"><B>45 New Orleans cops fired <NOBR>for abandoning their posts</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <A NAME=nov05></A> <B>Nov. 3, 2005:</B><BR> <! * 05oct katrina><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0511041103heckofajob.html"><B>'Can I quit now?' FEMA chief wrote as Katrina raged</B></A><BR><BR> <B>Nov. 17, 2005:</B><BR> <! OK><A HREF="http://neworleans.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/6354.php"><B>Prisoners, left to drown in New Orleans <NOBR>flood, dispute sheriff's account</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Nov. 24, 2005:</B><BR> <! * 05nov ><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0511251124MichaelBrown.html"><B>Ex-FEMA head to start <nobr>disaster planning firm</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <A NAME=dec05></A> <B>Dec. 16, 2005:</B><BR> <! * 05DEC katrina><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0512201216katrina.html"><B>New Orleans aid goes to levees, wealthy residents; <NOBR>most low-income victims' aid requests rejected</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <A NAME=jan06></A> <B>Jan. 12, 2006:</B><BR> <! * 05jan ><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0601130112NewOrleans.html"><B>Proposal would bulldoze New Orleans' <NOBR>poorest, blackest neighborhoods</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Jan. 21, 2006:</B><BR> <! * 05jan ><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0601240121katrina.html"><B>Someone somewhere is making millions <NOBR>on FEMA's emergency housing trailers</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Jan. 24, 2006:</B><BR> <! * 05jan ><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0601270124katrina.html"><B>White House got detailed warnings <NOBR>days before Hurricane Katrina hit</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Jan. 25, 2006:</B><BR> <! * 05jan ><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0601270125katrina.html"><B>White House stonewalling <NOBR>Katrina inquiry, senators say</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <B>Jan. 30, 2006:</B><BR> <! * 05jan ><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0601310130katrina.html"><B>FEMA turned away thousands of rescue workers from <nobr>other government agencies as Katrina victims drowned</nobr></B></A><BR><BR> <A NAME=feb06></A> <B>Feb. 25, 2006:</B><BR><! Friday February ><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0603030225katrina.html"><B>No voting accommodations for <NOBR>New Orleans refugees who fled state</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR> <A NAME=mar06></A> <B>March 22, 2006:</B><BR> <! NOT FILED MONTH & TOPIC: XXXXX-DAY ><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/060324f0322katrina.html"><B>Katrina's other toll: <NOBR>Nearly 1,500 still missing</NOBR></B></A><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="7%" BGcolor=white class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="93%" BGcolor=white class="fonty"><BR> <I><B>Excerpt:</b></I> "How do we know when we're done? How long do you keep looking? What do you do when you've done all the DNA testing you can, when you've called everyone and you still can't find the person?"</TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <A NAME=apr06></A> <B>April 17, 2006:</B><BR> <A NAME=filed></A><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/060417katrina.html"><B>"Not many" of guns confiscated in <NOBR>New Orleans have been returned</NOBR></B></A><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="7%" BGcolor=white class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="93%" BGcolor=white class="fonty"><BR> <i><B>Comment:</B></i> We believe, like the Constitution believes, that people have a right to bear arms, and that the phrase "well-regulated" doesn't mean confiscating guns from law-abiding citizens when guns are most likely to be needed. &nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Helen&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Harry</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/060417katrina.html"><FONT SIZE=-2 COLOR=blue>LINK</FONT></A> </TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <A NAME=jun06></A><A NAME=may06></A> <B>May 2, 2006:</B><BR> <A NAME=filed></A><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0605050502katrina.html"><B>FEMA to New Orleans:<BR>Sink or swim, we're outta here</B></A><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="7%" BGcolor=white class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="93%" BGcolor=white class="fonty"><BR> <I><B>Excerpt:</b></I> The Federal Emergency Management Agency is closing its long-term recovery office in New Orleans, claiming local officials failed to meet their planning obligations after Hurricane Katrina.<BR><BR><i><B>Comment:</B></i> FEMA's arrogance is a good match for its incompetence. It takes my breath away -- but not literally, as FEMA took the breath away from so many in New Orleans last September. &nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Helen&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Harry</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0605050502katrina.html"><FONT SIZE=-2 COLOR=blue>LINK</FONT></A></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <B>May 19, 2006:</B><BR> <A NAME=filed></A><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0606020519GunConfiscations.html"><B>NRA asks nation's local officials to pledge <NOBR>not to confiscate guns in emergencies</NOBR></B></A><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="7%" BGcolor=white class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="93%" BGcolor=white class="fonty"><BR> <i><B>Comment:</B></i> If you believe in the Bill of Rights, as we do, that dang well includes the right to bear arms. Take that right away, and all the other rights are based solely on hope and faith.<BR><BR>Because really, what the hell have you got, without the right to defend yourself?&nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Helen&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Harry</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0606020519GunConfiscations.html"><FONT SIZE=-2 COLOR=blue>LINK</FONT></A> </TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <B>May 20, 2006:</B><BR> <A NAME=filed></A><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0605260520katrina.html"><B>3,000 Katrina victims deemed <NOBR>ineligible, evicted from FEMA trailers</NOBR></B></A><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="7%" BGcolor=white class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="93%" BGcolor=white class="fonty"><BR> <i><B>Comment:</B></i> There is no end to the federal government's screwing of Katrina victims. &nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Helen&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Harry</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0605260520katrina.html"><FONT SIZE=-2 COLOR=blue>LINK</FONT></A> </TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <A NAME=jul06></A> <B>July 16, 2006:</B><BR> <A NAME=filed></A><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/060716Katrina.html"><I>Refugees not allowed to talk with reporters</I><BR><B>Katrina survivors still in tents <NOBR>as FEMA trailers sit empty</NOBR></B></A><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="7%" BGcolor=white class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="93%" BGcolor=white class="fonty"><BR> <I><B>Excerpt:</b></I> "You are not allowed to be here," the guard yelled. "Get out right now."<BR><BR>As they left, the guard refused to let the reporter give Devall a business card so she could contact the newspaper later by phone.<BR><BR>"You will not give her a business card," the guard said. "She's not allowed to have that."<BR><BR>When the reporter persisted, the guard ordered Devall to return to the trailer, saying the reporter was not allowed to talk to her.<BR><BR>The guard then called the police. </TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <A NAME=mar07></A><A NAME=feb07></A><A NAME=jan07></A> <A NAME=dec06></A><A NAME=nov06></A><A NAME=oct06></A><A NAME=sep06></A><A NAME=aug06></A> <B>Aug. 23, 2006:</B><BR> <A NAME=filed></A><A HREF="http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/node/1488"><B>What happened to the <NOBR>foreign cash for Katrina victims?</NOBR></B></A><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="7%" BGcolor=white class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="93%" BGcolor=white class="fonty"><BR> <I><B>Excerpt:</b></I> Ever wonder what happened to all the foreign donations given to the United States in the aftermath of Katrina? It's not good news. It turns out that, like so much of the federal response to the crisis, the largest influx of foreign assistance to the US in memory was met with foot-dragging and clumsy bureaucracy. None of the donated funds has actually made its way to evacuees.<BR><BR> <A HREF="http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/us_school_kids_.html"><B> US school kids donate more to Katrina <NOBR>relief than most big corporations</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR><I><B>Excerpt:</b></I> Over $10 million was raised by school kids through bake sales, lemonade stands, car washes and other fundraisers, according to RandomKid. That's more than almost every major U.S. corporation gave. More than wealthy oil and petrochemical companies, such as Chevron and ConocoPhillips. It's more than what AT&T and Verizon gave combined. And it's more than major brand name corporations like GE and Coca-Cola gave.<BR><BR><A HREF="http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/08/state_farm_insi.html"><B>Whistleblowers say State Farm <NOBR>cheated Katrina victims</NOBR></B></A><BR><BR><I><B>Excerpt:</b></I> State Farm Insurance supervisors systematically demanded that Hurricane Katrina damage reports be buried or replaced or changed so that the company would not have to pay policyholders' claims in Mississippi, two State Farm insiders tell ABC News.<BR><BR>Kerri and Cori Rigsby, independent adjusters who had worked for State Farm exclusively for eight years, say they have turned over thousands of internal company documents and their own detailed statement to the FBI and Mississippi state investigators.</TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <B>Aug. 24, 2006:</B><BR> <A NAME=filed></A><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/060824-no-rescue-authorized.html"><B>Fleet of rescue boats was ready to rescue New Orleans residents, but no-one at FEMA could "authorize it"</B></A><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="7%" BGcolor=white class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="93%" BGcolor=white class="fonty"><BR><I><B>Excerpt:</b></I> John Giljam's floating bus, 40 feet long by 8.5 feet wide, could not only do 75 mph on a highway, it did 7 knots on the water.<BR><BR>As a tour bus, it accommodated 49 passengers and two crewmembers; as a rescue vehicle, it could haul as much as five tons of emergency supplies.<BR><BR><i><B>Comment:</B></i> In a sane society, the people responsible for FEMA's jaw-droppingly incompetent response would be charged with malfeasance, perhaps murder. But it's a year later, and FEMA's former director Michael Brown, FEMA's former director has never been held accountable. The agency has a different man in charge now, but his boss is still Michael Chertoff, the same dithering twit who held that job when New Orleans drowned. &nbsp;&nbsp;<i>Helen&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;Harry</i>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/060824-no-rescue-authorized.html"><TT><FONT SIZE=-1 COLOR=blue>PERMANENT&nbsp;LINK</FONT></TT></A></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <A NAME=jul07></A> <A NAME=jun07></A><A NAME=may07></A><A NAME=apr07></A> <B>April 16, 2007:</B><BR> <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/070416a-Cassandra.html"><B>The Katrinians</B></A><BR>by Cassandra, <i><b>Unknown&nbsp;News</b></i><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="25" BGcolor=white class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" BGcolor=white class="fonty"><BR> <I><B>Excerpt:</B></I> The people from Louisiana and Mississippi are refugees of both a natural and a political disaster, and like most refugees before them, they're not welcome by the communities where they've washed up.</TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <B>April 23, 2007:</B><BR> <A NAME=ANCHOR></A><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/070423-katrina.html"><B>$3.6-billion in Katrina contracts went to<BR>questionable companies, Republican cronies</B></A><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="25" class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" class="fonty"><BR> <I><B>Excerpt:</b></I> FEMA exposed taxpayers to significant waste -- and possibly violated federal law -- by awarding $3.6 billion worth of Hurricane Katrina contracts to companies with poor credit histories and bad paperwork, investigators say.</TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <B>April 29, 2007:</B><BR> <A NAME=INSERT COMMENT></A><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/070429-katrina.html"><B>Hundreds of millions of dollars in Katrina <NOBR>aid from overseas unclaimed, unspent</NOBR></B></A><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="25" class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" class="fonty"><BR> <I><B>Excerpt:</b></I> Allies offered $854 million in cash and in oil that was to be sold for cash. But only $40 million has been used so far for disaster victims or reconstruction, according to U.S. officials and contractors. Most of the aid went uncollected, including $400 million worth of oil. Some offers were withdrawn or redirected to private groups such as the Red Cross. The rest has been delayed by red tape and bureaucratic limits on how it can be spent.</TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <A NAME=dec07></A><A NAME=nov07></A><A NAME=oct07></A><A NAME=sep07></A><A NAME=aug07></A> <B>August 31, 2007:</B><BR> <A NAME=ANCHOR></A><SPAN class="fontsm"><A HREF="http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/31/1436209"><B>The Danziger Bridge killings:<BR>How New Orleans Police gunned down<BR>civilians fleeing the flood</B></A></SPAN><! blockquote><TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="25" class="fonty">&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" class="fonty"><BR> <I><B>Excerpt:</b></I> Seven police officers been indicted for opening fire on two African American families on the Danziger Bridge days after the storm, killing two people and wounding four others. At the time, the official story was that they gunned down snipers. 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New Orleans ... to hand out fliers</A>?<BR><BR> How come day after day after day, <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906NoFoodDrops.html">FEMA couldn't or wouldn't airdrop food and drinking water into New Orleans</A>, but <A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090902shoot-to-kill.html">the U.S. military was there for "combat operations"</a>?<BR><BR>I'm not an expert on search and rescue or military operations, but it just seems to me, people who haven't had food and water for five or six days could be quelled with food and water, instead of "combat operations." </B><DIV align="right"><BR><SMALL><I>Excerpted from</I><BR><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/050909a-hh.html"><B>"Mission accomplished" for FEMA</B></A></small></div> </TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="100%" class="fonty"><I> "I don't want to alarm everybody that, you know, New Orleans is filling up like a bowl. That's just not happening."</I><DIV align="right"><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/wow.html"><B>Bill Lokey, FEMA Spokesman for<BR>New Orleans</B> &nbsp;&nbsp; Aug. 30, 2005</A></div> </TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#BBBBBB" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#CCCCCC" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#DDDDDD" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="5" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#EEEEEE" class="fontpq"> <B> The police commander came across the street to address our group.<BR><BR>He told us we should walk to the Pontchartrain Expressway and cross the greater New Orleans Bridge where the police had buses lined up to take us out of the City.<BR><BR>The crowed cheered and began to move.<BR><BR>We called everyone back and explained to the commander that there had been lots of misinformation and wrong information and was he sure that there were buses waiting for us.<BR><BR>The commander turned to the crowd and stated emphatically, "I swear to you that the buses are there."<BR><BR></B><CENTER><SUP><FONT COLOR=darkred SIZE=+2> * &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; * &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; * </FONT></SUP></CENTER><B> As we approached the bridge, armed Gretna sheriffs formed a line across the foot of the bridge.<BR><BR>Before we were close enough to speak, they began firing their weapons over our heads. This sent the crowd fleeing in various directions.<BR><BR>As the crowd scattered and dissipated, a few of us inched forward and managed to engage some of the sheriffs in conversation.<BR><BR>We told them of our conversation with the police commander and of the commander's assurances.<BR><BR>The sheriffs informed us there were no buses waiting.<BR><BR>The commander had lied to us to get us to move.<BR><BR>We questioned why we couldn't cross the bridge anyway, especially as there was little traffic on the 6-lane highway.<BR><BR>They responded that the West Bank was not going to become New Orleans and there would be no Superdomes in their City.<BR><BR>These were code words for <i>if you are poor and black, you are not crossing the Mississippi River and you were not getting out of New Orleans.</i> </B><DIV align="right"><BR><SMALL><I>Excerpted from</I><BR><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090906ems.html"><B>New Orleans during the disaster:<BR> Police lied to survivors, <NOBR>blocked escape from city</NOBR></B></A></small></div> </TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="100%" class="fonty"> <I>"Considering the dire circumstances that we have in New Orleans <NOBR>--</NOBR> virtually a city that has been destroyed <NOBR>--</NOBR> things are going relatively well."</I> <DIV align="right"><A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2005/WEATHER/09/01/katrina.fema.brown/"><B>FEMA Director Michael&nbsp;Brown</B><BR>Sept. 1, 2005</A></div> </TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#BBBBBB" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#CCCCCC" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#DDDDDD" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="5" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#EEEEEE" class="fontpq"> <B> <B>I'm familiar with how government works, how bureaucracy works, and in a crisis like this I would almost expect moments of grotesque incompetence and idiocy.<BR><BR>I'm not quite prepared, however, for that callous, cold-blooded murder that seems to have been wrought not by the hurricane, not by the flood, but by the bureaucracy that's supposed to help.<BR><BR>Yeah, murder. When the incompetence gets this thick, it smells like murder to me.<BR><BR></B><DIV align="right"><BR><SMALL><I>Excerpted from</I><BR><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090903RedCross.html"><B>Homeland Security stops Red Cross from bringing food for New Orleans</B></A></small></div> </TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="100%" class="fonty"> <I>"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees."</I> <DIV align="right"><A HREF="http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/09/01.html#a4738"><B>President George W. Bush</B><BR>Sept. 1, 2005</A></div> </TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <TABLE CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#BBBBBB" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#CCCCCC" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="2" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#DDDDDD" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="5" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH=100% border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH=100% BGcolor="#EEEEEE" class="fontpq"> <B> <B>A trio of Duke University sophomores say they drove to New Orleans late last week, posed as journalists to slip inside the hurricane-soaked city twice, and evacuated seven people who weren't receiving help from authorities.<BR><BR>The group, led by South Carolina native Sonny Byrd, say they also managed to drive all the way to the New Orleans Convention Center, where they encountered scenes early Saturday evening that they say were disgraceful.<BR><BR>"We found it absolutely incredible that the authorities had no way to get there for four or five days, that they didn't go in and help these people, and we made it in a two-wheel-drive Hyundai," said Hans Buder, who made the trip with his roommate Byrd and another student, David Hankla.<BR><BR></B><DIV align="right"><BR><SMALL><I>Excerpted from</I><BR><A HREF="http://www.unknownnews.org/0509090904GettingpastFEMA.html"><B>College sophomores used fake<BR>press passes to circumvent<BR>FEMA's rescue roadblocks</B></A></small></div> </TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE><BR> <A NAME=daily></A><BR> <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=2><TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" class="fonty"><TABLE CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="center" WIDTH="100%" BGcolor=white class="fonty"> <center><iframe src="http://www.unknownnews.org/dailyRSS.html" width="295" height="525" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0"></iframe></center> </TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE><BR></TD></TR></TABLE> <A NAME=articles></A><BR> <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=2><TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="100%" bgcolor="#eeeeee" class="fonty"> <TABLE CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="100%" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" bgcolor="#eeeeee" WIDTH="100%" class="fonty"><TABLE CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="1" border=0><TR><TD ALIGN="center" VALIGN="center" WIDTH="100%" BGcolor="#eeeeee" class="fonty"> <center><iframe src="http://www.unknownnews.org/articles.html" width="295" height="525" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0"></iframe></center> </TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR></TABLE><BR></TD></TR></TABLE> <A NAME=wdwb></A><BR> <TABLE CELLPADDING="8" CELLSPACING="8" WIDTH="300" border=2><TR> <TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" WIDTH="300" bgcolor="#eeeeee" class="fonty"> <center><A HREF=#wdwb><BIG><font color=blue><B>What we believe</B></FONT></BIG></A></center><BR> We believe in liberty and justice for all, so of course, we oppose many US government policies. 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