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Katrina
Summary (posts follow):
The basic details of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans in 2005 can be found on thousands of sites. What few other sites will mention is how George W Bush - with the help of Democratic Party leaders and the establishment media - helped drive many victims of Katrina out of work and relocate them out of New Orleans.
In an ideal world, New Orleans reconstruction work would have mostly been done by residents of New Orleans and other Americans. George Bush and the Democrats had other ideas. Taking various actions, Bush assisted connected contractors to employ illegal aliens, driving American hurrican victims out of work. That had huge financial and social costs, both immediate and indirect.
While those as different as Jesse Jackson and Phyllis Schlafly opposed what Bush was doing to some degree, those closer to the establishment assisted Bush. Those who helped Bush drive American hurricane victims out of work included Harry Reid, Linda Chavez, Raul Reyes of USA Today, Gregory Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Times, E. Eduardo Castillo of the Associated Press (also this and this), Ian Urbina of the New York Times, the National Council of La Raza, Peter Pae of the Los Angeles Times, Ruben Navarrette Jr., Jason Zengerle of the New Republic, and others.
If you want to do something about this, ask fiscal conservatives and libertarians (and Republicans who are still supporters of George Bush) questions #4 and #5.
Last modified Jun 13, 2014
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Did Sharron Angle oppose Katrina aid? (+a Harry Reid surprise) - 08/30/10
The video below (with audio from 2005) has Sharron Angle opposing the Katrina relief bill, at least from the standpoint of requiring an accounting of where the proposed $62 billion was going to go. The video also has a surprise about Harry Reid at the end.
Adam Nossiter/NYT discovers illegal aliens in New Orleans vulnerable to crime; why did they support the situation? - 02/16/09
Adam Nossiter of the New York Times offers "Day Laborers Are Easy Prey in New Orleans" (link), a discussion of illegal aliens in post-Katrina New Orleans being mugged because they carry cash. In the past, such articles may be a prelude to a push to let banks profit from illegal activity by opening accounts using the Matricula Consular card. However, in this case the goal seems to be just misguided liberalism:
the head-down laborers from Honduras, Mexico and Guatemala who work on the blazing hot roofs and inside the fetid homes for a wad of cash at the end of the day... ...The ruined homes...
DNC platform draft: a healthcare lie?, same old immigration line with a Bush echo, Katrina, service, firearms, U.N. MDG - 08/09/08
A draft of the Democratic National Committee's platform is in this PDF: link. As one might expect, it's full of vague, empty promises.
1. They refer to "the tens of millions of Americans without health insurance", which is a slight step-down from Obama's false claim that there are 47 million Americans without healthcare.
A standing army for the United Nations? See the candidates who support it. - 07/23/08
Globalist forces are pushing to give the United Nations a standing army consisting of 15,000 troops and personnel who could respond within 48 hours under the command of the U.N. Security Council (called the "U.N. Emergency Peace Service"). While that might make sense under certain circumstances, it could obviously be severly abused and might even result in U.N. troops - i.e., blue helmets - being deployed inside the U.S.
Instapundit offers Katrina update, fails to note impact of illegal alien labor on issue - 06/09/08
Glenn Reynolds (aka "Instapundit", "Insty", "seasonal GOP hack", etc.) sandwiches (pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/archives2/020261.php) an excerpt to this article about Katrina victims still living in hotels between "KATRINA UPDATE: Some receiving FEMA assistance unwilling to help themselves:" and "Read the whole thing."
Unfortunately, Insty doesn't appear to have covered the massive Katr
Mexico to reopen New Orleans consulte, George Bush to appear - 04/20/08
From this we learn that Mexico is reopening their consulate in New Orleans, which they'd closed in 2002. Not only that, but putative U.S. president George Bush will be there to celebrate the event. This coincides with the fourth annual SPP North American Leaders Summit to be held in that city.
And, it follows a completely corrupt, anti- and un-American Bush scheme under which U.S.
Overview of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) failures - 03/06/08
Spencer Hsu of the Washington Post celebrates the DHS's fifth-year anniversary with this two-pager list of their problems and failures:
United Nations "Committee on the Elimination of Racism" chides U.S. over treatment of immigrants - 02/24/08
From their safe Geneva home, on Friday United Nations bureaucrats from the "Committee on the Elimination of Racism" (part of the U.N. "Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights") chided U.S. government representatives for a variety of alleged issues ranging from extraordinary rendition to police brutality to race-based disparities in sentencing to the treatment of legal and illegal immigrants and refugees (www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/cerd/cerds72.htm).
The end of this leaps out:
The U.N. panel discussed a broad range of other questions with the U.S. delegation, including police...
National League of Cities awards New Haven's IDs for illegal aliens scheme - 11/15/07
New Haven, Connecticut is handing out ID cards to illegal aliens, and not only does their mayor John DeStefano have a possible financial incentive, but the city worker who pushed the plan through previously headed a non-profit that is/was collaborating with the Mexican government.
Now, the Washington DC lobbying group National League of Cities and their partner CH2M Hill have given them one of their "2007 Awards for Municipal Excellence":
The Elm City Immigration Project in New Haven is a series of innovative, comprehensive and far-reaching policies and initiatives aimed at strengthening the...
Watch for the "Clergy Response Teams" (quell citizens after martial law) - 08/17/07
The following is an actual news report from Shreveport's KSLA (text here and in extended entry) discussing how the DHS is working with local religious leaders as part of "Clergy Response Teams" who would tell the citizens to give up their guns and abide by any martial law restrictions.
Speculation on this here; note that back in 2006 Prison Planet posted this:
A Pastor has come forward to blow the whistle on a nationwide FEMA program which is training Pastors and other religious representatives to become secret police enforcers who teach their congregations to "obey the government" in...
CNN/Youtube Democratic debate: live coverage - 07/23/07
[UPDATE 5: 10/15/08 McCain/Obama coverage here.]
[UPDATE 4: 10/07/08 McCain/Obama coverage here.]
[UPDATE 3: 10/02/08 Palin/Biden coverage here.]
[UPDATE 2: 9/26/08 McCain/Obama coverage here.]
[UPDATE: If you too think the debate sucked, please
John Edwards' "Road to One America" tour to promote importing poverty - 07/15/07
On Monday, lightweight presidential contender John Edwards will be starting a "Road to One America" tour to begin in New Orleans and end in Kentucky three days and eight states later. The supposed goal will be to highlight the apparent fact that 10% of Americans live in poverty; in actual fact the tour will be just as fake as Edwards himself. I am absolutely certain that he will not only not mention illegal immigration's role in increasing poverty in the U.S., he will take steps to support even more illegal immigration.
U.S. military, National Guard go North America wide; usable for wide range of domestic issues... - 06/05/07
From this:
Under the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, or SPP, the military of the United States and Canada are advancing NORTHCOM into a domestic military command structure, with authority extending to Mexico, even though Mexico has not formally joined with the current United States-Canadian NORTHCOM command structure.
Connecting a number of recent developments, President Bush appears to have positioned the U.S.
Fascist America, in 10 semi-fantastical steps (Naomi Wolf) - 04/24/07
Naomi Wolf offers "Fascist America, in 10 easy steps". First, let's get the easy stuff out of the way. This is in al-Guardian, and she plays the "I'm one of the Smart Americans, I am!" game:
...Even as Americans were focused on Britney Spears's meltdown and the question of who fathered Anna Nicole's baby, the New York Times editorialised about this shift...
Young Pioneers of the Global Climate Change and Environmental Justice Movement (comrade) - 04/05/07
As others have no doubt noted, the general global warming movement seems to have some curious aspects. For instance, here's Frank Gaffney, Jr. in "Assault of the 'Transies'" saying (libertypost . org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=182482):
March 25 Coalition flyer - 03/18/07
From march25coalition . org/organize
May 1st, 2007 we will be out in the streets, not shopping or selling, if possible not working; but Marching.
On February 3rd & 4th, 2007, a Conference hosted by the March 25th Coalition culminated in a call for a national day of actions for workers and Immigrant's Rights. The day, May 1st, 2007.
Greg Palast charged with "unauthorized filming" in Louisiana - 09/11/06
Way-far-out-there but not-as-far-as-Alex-Jones American-turned-British-"investigative"-journalist Greg Palast claims to have been charged with "unauthorized filming" of "critical infrastructure" after shooting the outside of an Exxon plant a hundred miles from New Orleans, Louisiana.
Is Harry Reid dirty? - 08/23/06
To help understand the Senator a bit better, in 2003 the L.A.
More on the Chicago NAIR meeting from Workers World - 08/22/06
Around August 11, a few hundred illegal immigration supporters met near Chicago and created the "National Alliance for Immigrant Rights". One of their leaders is an official with Mexico's PRD party, and the article "Immigrant rights activists meet near Chicago" from Workers World has a little bit more on who's involved and what they want: workers.org/2006/us/immigrant-rights-0824
Of course, it's necessary to take what they write with a grain of salt because the article contains things that could have been written by chief reactionary George Bush himself:
Nineteen Minutemen vigilantes stood...
Chertoff promotes "Guest" Worker Program at House meeting - 07/28/06
Everyone knows he's just a lackey saying what he's told to say, but just for completeness' sake, DHS head Michael Chertoff testified before a House committee yesterday:
...Chertoff noted that other alternatives [to the Senate amnesty scheme] - such as jailing 10 percent of illegal immigrants already in the country - could cost up to $10 billion a year.
"The round 'em up and detain 'em method is astronomically expensive," Chertoff said.
New Orleans: AP covers the worker abuse it helped bring about - 06/08/06
From Rukmini Callimachi of the AP:
They are the backbone of post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction: Workers who converge at dawn and wait to be picked up for 14-hour shifts of hauling debris, ripping out drywall and nailing walls.
But because many are in the country illegally, immigrant workers rebuilding New Orleans are especially vulnerable to exploitation, according to a study released Tuesday by professors at Tulane University and the University of California at B
Pulitzer Prize for Propaganda - 04/17/06
The Pulitzer Prizes have been announced. If they wanted to be a bit closer to the past and present reality, they'd have a Propaganda category. What would that look like? Let's imagine:
Halliburton gets $385 Million detention facilities contract - 01/27/06
Halliburton's KBR subsidiary has got yet another "Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity" contract, and this one is of interest both from the immigration and the tin-foil hat perspective. It involves building detention centers. Of course, detention centers are "multi-use facilities" and can be used to keep people in, keep people out, transship people, and so on. They could be used in case of a natural disaster to provide emergency housing. Or, in the case of the bird flu to detain victims, even against their will. Or, they could be used for mass deportations of illegal aliens.
Hugh Hewitt, Ken Mehlman on illegal immigration - 12/05/05
Slightly popular partisan hack BushBot Hugh Hewitt conducted a radio interview with RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman and discussed the word "illegal immigration". As it turns out, the GOP is declaring war on that word. As regards the actual process of massive illegal immigration, if the GOP had their druthers that would continue and get even worse. Here's a transcript of the interview.
"Bush Talks Tougher on Immigration, but It's Still Amnesty" - 12/01/05
From this:
[...Bush's hot air...]
It is hard not to be skeptical of this White House when it starts saying it will enforce our immigration laws because it has utterly failed to do so to date. Its de facto immigration policy has been the Clinton administration's...
After Hurricane Katrina, Homeland Security declared a holiday (though it has no legal authority to suspend laws) from employer sanctions laws – not only in the storm-tossed areas, but nationwide. This opened the doors for unscrupulous employers to hire illegal aliens – thus displacing or hedging out hurting Americans whose...
Does Jason Zengerle support American workers? - 11/04/05
The titular person contributes to a New Republic page called "The Plank", and he offers "If Ray Nagin bashes immigrants, does he make a sound?" (tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=3290)
That post links to the NYT article "In Louisiana, Worker Influx Causes Ill Will" (link).
Xinhua: "Protests against Bush held across US" - 11/02/05
The (mainland) China newssource Xinhua reports on protests held by an organization called "World Can't Wait". In Los Angeles alone, they say that more than 800 high school students walked out of classes. If you've been following along with the "peace" movement, but you've never heard of WCW before, you're probably thinking, "what's their story? Which extremist group are they affiliated with". Your answer in a moment.
Democrats fail to capitalize on massive Republican incompetence - 10/28/05
Considering all that's been going on for the past few years, you'd think the Dems would get a clue and be able to come up with a way to capitalize on things like Iraq, Katrina, massive illegal immigration, cronyism, corruption, indictments, etc.
"Labor's Hurricane George" - 10/26/05
From Froma Harrop:
New Orleans offers a quick study of Bush labor policy in action: On Aug. 29, Hurricane Katrina strikes, causing widespread destruction. Four days later, President Bush commits $10.1 billion of the taxpayers' money to rebuilding New Orleans.
Bush reinstates Davis-Bacon on Gulf Coast - 10/26/05
Shortly after Katrina, Bush lifted the Davis-Bacon Act, a union favorite that provides a prevailing wage for workers on federal contracts.
David Brooks welcomes new, corrupt, Democraticish conservative movement - 10/24/05
America's boboiest pundit emerged from behind his paywall earlier today to offer "The Savior of the Right". It's about... George W. Bush. And, Brooks... is not kidding.
...Bush hasn't abandoned conservatism; he's modernized and saved it... Almost single-handedly, Bush reconnected with the positive and idealistic instincts of middle-class Americans. He did it by recasting conservatism more significantly than anyone had since Ronald Reagan. He rejected the prejudice that the private sector is good and the public sector is bad, and he tried to use government to encourage responsible citizenship...
Ruben Navarrette Jr. or Vicente Fox? - 10/20/05
The column "A city about to change colors" (signonsandiego . com/news/op-ed/navarrette/20051019-9999-lz1e19navar.html) says it was written by San Diego Union-Tribute editorialist Ruben Navarrette Jr., but it reads like it was written by Vicente Fox.
Does USA Today support illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs? - 10/17/05
USA Today offers a very strange column from Raul A. Reyes entitled Katrina's next expose: Immigration woes (link). Reyes is "an attorney in New York and a member of USA TODAY's board of contributors", and his article reads like a hasty, amalgamated summary of recent pro-illegal immigration essays from other professional Hispanics. It's almost like they're all reading from the same script.
Has the Bush immigration "reform" scheme been scrapped? - 10/16/05
MySA says that Bush's Guest worker plan being shelved. I'm a bit skeptical.
"Final solution" on CSPAN Million Man March coverage; DUmmies defend Farrakhan - 10/15/05
The unverified report here discusses a CSPAN broadcast from 10/14/05 entitled "Hurricane Katrina & Issues Facing African Americans." It was part of their Million Man March coverage.
One of the speakers on CSPAN (Kamau Kambon, author and owner of Blacknificent Books) reportedly said this, according to the rough transcript at the link:
"Now how do I know that the white people know that we are going to come up with a solution to the problem. I know it because they have retina scans, racial profiling, DNA banks, and they’re monitoring our people to try to prevent the ONE person from coming...
Is Mickey Kaus right about Davis-Bacon? - 10/11/05
As previously discussed, president Bush lifted the Davis-Bacon Act early last month. This was done supposedly in order to speed Katrina rebuilding efforts.
Now, Glenn "Insty" Reynolds links to this Mickey Kaus post that has an email from "a seemingly well-informed source deep within the federal bureaucracy".
The source says Bush did this to make it as easy and quick as possible to get things done, and Kaus ends with this:
In sum: 1. Contra Reed, Bush had a perfectly good, non-political reason for suspending Davis-Bacon. 2. Contra Drum (washingtonmonthly. com/archives/individual/2005_09/007171...
Lou Dobbs on illegal aliens rebuilding New Orleans - 10/11/05
From 10/10's transcript:
There is new evidence tonight that good-paying New Orleans construction jobs which should, of course, be going to out-of-work Gulf Coast residents are being filled by foreign workers.
Does the L.A. Times support displacing African-Americans from New Orleans? - 10/10/05
I'm left with that distinct impression after reading the scandalous article "Immigrants Rush to New Orleans as Contractors Fight for Workers" latimes . com/business/la-fi-migrants10oct10,0,6559357.story by Peter Pae). Perhaps the black community should ask that paper to clarify its stance, especially after publishing an editorial from Gregory Rodriguez which supported illegal aliens taking rebuilding jobs from Americans.
Linda Chavez' "ethno-centric rant" - 10/08/05
Remember the Linda Chavez column where she supported illegal aliens taking Katrina rebuilding jobs?
A letter to the editor of the Daily Republic in Northern California responds to her article:
[Chavez] speculated that the reason we don't see sob stories about the 200,000 Hispanics from New Orleans is that they had their act together so much better than other minorities.
The growing New Orleans jobs scandal - 10/07/05
Will cheap illegal labor, working in substandard or illegal conditions and working on federal government contracts, rebuild New Orleans? Will major contractors pocket the difference between what they would have paid Americans and what they will pay those illegal aliens?
And, will all this happen with the support of both "liberals" and "conservatives"?
Will this become a major scandal revealing both Republican and Democratic corruption, or will the news media be able to sweep it under the rug?
Yesterday, Mayor Ray Nagin raised the issue of illegal aliens working in New Orleans at a...