Friday, May 16, 2008

Vendredi

TWO INDIVIDUALS INDICTED ON CHARGES OF CONSPIRACY AND BRIBERY IN
CONNECTION WITH A U.S. ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS NEW ORLEANS
LEVEE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT


A former contract employee of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and a dirt, sand and gravel subcontractor were both indicted in connection with a $16 million hurricane protection project for the reconstruction of the Lake Cataouatche Levee, south of New Orleans, the U.S. Department of Justice announced yesterday.
Dark City Photo-Wet Bank Guy

US probing Iraqi companies for insurance fraud

Corps Tests Pumps, Flood Gates

Will Sacramento be the next
New Orleans?~ecolocalizer


New Campaign -- Control Spending Through Accountability~Darryl Perry

Texas officials sue US over border fence

"Shock Doctrine" Spin in U.S., Burma and Beyond
~Smirking Chimp

"The effect of the disaster and the Burmese government's insufficient response to it means that a good share of the junta's political opposition is now dead or dealing with the aftermath of the huge, rampaging storm.
In other words, the disaster offers a great "opportunity" for the ruling elite to settle old scores by continuing to repress the opposition and to remake the affected areas as they wish.
(There have been reports, unconfirmed, of bodies of monks being found in the cyclone rubble -- burned in a suspicious manner -- mixed in with the tens of thousands of other corpses found floating in the rice fields and ditches and rivers."
And now for something not so completely different...


Burma's Junta Will Survive the Cyclone, prosper from death toll

Burma official death toll: 78,000

Heavy Rains Lash Burma's Cyclone-Struck Irrawaddy Delta
Latest Burma Weather here
and
here.

Burma seals Irrawaddy delta to hide victims' plight
For example: What if, after the next hurricane,
Michael "Jack'ya" Chertoff, Chief of the Dept of Homeland Insecurity and legally the Top Officer in Comnmand in the event of a declared National Situation, decides to seal'off the state of Louisiana, or the southern part of the state, or even just New Orleans, under quarantine due to spreading disease in the storm's aftermath, from all the dead animals and standing water, or just under the order of complete command coordination of the National Response Team? Whence comes the Net of the Rising Tide then? Who we gonna call? How will we stay in touch?
To use an old nut'house euphemism, it will be a scene where the rubber meets the room, the kind of bully'pulpit confrontation that will seperate Hackers from Crackers, sever mere humanity with the shock of mere survival. The rest of the country will not know that the math has changed...that now 2+2=5, that our citizens' blood has gone thinner than Black Water, our posterity sold-off
to the American wet dream.

I was here in the city, during that first week of the flood, with only one or two roads out of New Orleans--and the bridge over the river going west was guarded at gunpoint by frightened, ferel Gretna cops. Roads going east and north around the lake were out.
With the Causeway closed this left us with no way out (or in) and the river at our backs, cornered like rats on a burning ship.
Soooo, how hard would it be to seal'off New Orleans from the rest of the country? I understand the scale of such an operation might not seem plausible, but everyone has seen how these neocowards at the helm are Not at All about Competent Logistics, but All about Plausible Deniability hidden behind a curtain of Freidmaniacal Economies of Scale.
Ergo, this is a valid question because I saw it happen. Other than the old "Huey P. Long Payphones" in the French Market and a few ground lines out of the city we (excluding expendable officials and journalists) were as isolated in the dark as rats in a bag.
So the people of Burma struggle to survive. They are Sinn Féin.
You think I exagerate? HA!!! Exagerate what is left of THIS!
Can we leave them to die too, rather than instead,
denied as we are now the luxury of thinking of them or us? Rats!
















God Admits Burma Cyclone Actually Intended for New Orleans~The Proper Ghandi








A woman prays inside the rubble of the Aung Zey Yong Pagoda and monastery in Kyauktan Township, southern Burma-AP
Now is a good time to listen to Ian Mathews on the player to our right and just look at the reflection of the pagoda in the floodwater. Turn the music up LOUD!
As our eye moves back and forth, from then to now,
can we remember...how we cried
NEVERMORE?
Remember the looted churches, the broken organs, the empty, ransacked, mud-caked pews of our own temples,
New Orleans. How's Your House~How's Your House?


Strong aftershock rattles China quake zone

57th International Annual Convention and Exhibition presented by NCTA.
The Cable Show '08.


~H/T'n'T~Citizen Rain
~Juniper Networks Brings High-Performance Networking to New Orleans
~Cable Helps Restock New Orleans School Libraries

Petition: Keep the National Guard in New Orleans
~Metblogs New Orleans


Undocumented Immigrant Workers Begin to Leave
New Orleans


New Orleans East update
~Thanks Katrina


Notes from New Orleans
~Preservation Nation


Where to live in New Orleans

One Post-Katrina New Orleans Home to be Retrofitted with Universal Design, Green Features~Rolling Rains

Music Friday: Zen walking
~David Rutledge


New Orleans Part 4

Chicago-area Literary Festival to Benefit New Orleans Public Library~Accidentally Jewish

Incite! New Orleans needs books by WOC authors~secondwaver

NEW Scarlett Johansson
- I Wish I Was In New Orleans
~The Beeb Blog


Young @ Heart
New Orleans Movie Listings

Allen Toussaint's "Yes We Can Can" will be featured in the documentary Young at Heart by filmmaker Stephen Walker. Young At Heart is based on an elderly singing group performing rock tunes. "Yes We Can Can" performed by the chorus is a group favorite says singer Steve Martin, "That song typifies who we are, that even at our average age at 78, we can exude that kind of energy." The documentary has been nominated for several awards in 2007.
Allen Toussaint will be touring troughout 2008. - see tour dates
Please see their youtube video posted here yesterday, under the heading "something not so completely different."-Jeudi.

Bonnaroo adds Somethin’ Else
~Consequence of Sound


First Family of New Orleans Music - The Nevilles

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