Must See Video: Greg Palast's Katrina report

[BurtWorm]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/28/1342209

GREG PALAST: Welcome to New Orleans, whose motto is “The City that Care Forgot.” In fact, it's a city that everyone forgot.

BROD BAGERT: Reckless negligence that killed human beings. Old ladies watched the water come up to their nose over their eyes, and they drowned in houses just like this in this neighborhood, because of reckless negligence that's unanswered for.

DR. IVOR VAN HEERDEN: By midnight on Monday, the White House knew. But none of us knew.

PATRICIA THOMAS: Katrina didn't come in my house and put these gates up on my windows and things. Katrina didn't have me walking out here looking for somewhere to stay. Man did this. This was manmade.

MALIK RAHIM: They wanted them poor niggers out of there, and they ain’t had no intention to allow it to be reopened to no poor niggers, you know? And that's just the bottom line.

GREG PALAST: Our president says he hasn’t forgotten a promise he made here.

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: I want the people down there to understand that it's going to take a while to recover. This was a huge storm.

GREG PALAST: Well, Mr. President, I think people down here know it was a huge storm. Over half a million of them fled the flood. It's been a full year, and only 170,000, far less than half, have come back, almost none to their own homes.


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You must see Brod Bagert's enraged outcry against the government's neglect in New Orleans since Katrina; Palast getting tossed out of yet another Republican crony operation stealing Federal dollars to do nothing; and evidence that New Orleans developers have used the opportunity of Katrina to evict poor and working people from some of the most beautiful public housing apartment blocks in the US for fun and profit. Follow the links at top of the article to view.

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. Thanks for providing some highlights. K & R

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[BurtWorm]

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[Metta]

3. Kudos, once again, to Greg Palast and thanks bw. k&r

Truth to power. They think they're immune to the karma they create. If they only knew.

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[Leopolds Ghost]

5. They recently demolished an entire neighborhood of public housing

(Townhouses, mostly families and the elderly) in Washington, DC
to make way for military office buildings and Marine barracks.

This was done by DC under the guise of HOPE VI and "Stadium-related development" stemming from the construction of a baseball stadium. Of course, that's just an excuse to kick the poor out and replace it with windowless office buildings for the military that have nothing to do with stadiums. The top businesses in the city taxed themselves to pay for it. Sadly, many, perhaps most, "urban liberals" in the area support the plan and I'm sure the same is true in New Orleans, especially when you look at the statistics and discover that two of the most hostile groups in both cities toward each other are middle and upper class vs. poor African Americans. This mirrors the Republicanization of southern whites, pitting the middle class against the poor in a landscape marked by disinvestment and hatred of "ghetto blacks".

[EFerrari]

6. This really is "Must See" video. Greg is brilliant and the people he

interviews break your heart.

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[BurtWorm]

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