Waiting for a Bus in New Orleans

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Big Easy to Big Empty (video)

Posted 8/31/08 Big Easy to Big Empty The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans   The shocking details of what actually caused the city of New Orleans to flood so severely and lose over 80% of its buildings. Excerpts from the film by Greg Palast. While the new media was talking about levees being "topped," it knew that some of the levees had in fact totally collapsed. This information was withheld from the people on the ground and local government and public safety people for HOURS. Government employees who witnessed the collapsed levees were ORDERED to keep quiet about they saw for MONTHS - and they did.. » read more

We remember what happened in New Orleans

Posted 8/31/08 Flash Bulletin: Your help needed New Orleans needs your help right now. Don't let the US government continue to hide their incompetence and callousness behind of a wall of misinformation. Inform yourself, inform your friends and colleagues. Thanks. Please click here now: The The Truth About New Orleans and America's Infrastructure Mission accomplished Mr.. » read more

Forced to Live in Hunger (Australia Aborigines)

August 25, 2008 SUGAR, flour, milk powder and bread account for half the calories consumed by people in remote Aboriginal communities, a groundbreaking study reveals. Fruit accounts for only 1 per cent of energy consumption, and vegetables - including potatoes and hot chips - just 5 per cent in one community in north-east Arnhem Land. Peter Yoomarie. Photo: Greg Bearup It is the first study to investigate the link between poverty and inadequate nutrition among Aborigines in the Northern Territory. While it focused on the one unnamed community of 2000 people, it offers a damning insight into a broader crisis in the nutrition of indigenous Australians.. » read more

D'Anne Burley Needs Help!

August 17, 2008 August 17, 2008 Researcher and radio broadcaster D'Anne Burley is very ill. She has congestive heart failure [CHF], severe edema, fluid inher lungs, and difficulty breathing and walking. D'Anne is completely out of funds and needs immediate multiple emergency loans of at least $50 to stay alive.  Otherwise she'll be thrown out on the street and likely will not survive. Also her research materials will be destroyed.. » read more

Q&A: "A Silent Housing Crisis Is Unfolding"

Interview with Anna Tibaijuka, Under-Secretary-General of U.N. Habitat UNITED NATIONS, Jul 11 (IPS) - With a billion people living in slums, and thousands more joining them every day, the world faces yet another looming challenge -- the rise of an impoverished urban underclass, says Anna Tibaijuka of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (U.N. Habitat).. » read more

Is It Just ME? .....

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Inssurance Not Required FEMA Told Flooded Town

[NOTE:  This is an example of the risks people are willing to take.  They gamble with nature and with levees, and when they lose they blame the government and expect the government to bail them out.  Hatonn says, if you build your house on a fault line, expect to have problems.  The same goes for dams, levees, flood plains and sea coasts.  We still live in a freewill world!  PHb] ************************ GULFPORT, Illinois (CNN) -- All roads in the town of Gulfport, Illinois, lead to nowhere.. » read more

Walking tour of flood-ravaged downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa (video)

June 17, 2008 The Gazette's Elizabeth Hladky shot this video of various businesses and institutions in downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. Many, such as the Paramount Theatre and Ground Transportation Center, sustained heavy damaged from Cedar River flooding. TO VIEW THIS VIDEO CLICK ON: www.vimeo.com/1188888?pg=embed&sec=1188888. » read more

WHISTLEBLOWER CHALLENGE TO KOFI ANNAN

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