It's interesting that when President Bush shows concern for a faraway people living in fear of their lives (I mean the Iraqi's under Saddam Hussein) he sends in the troops to help them bring about democracy, to bring them freedom, to save them from tyranny. To protect them, and the whole world from the terrorists. When his own citizens are living in fear of their lives, and too poor to leave, he says, "We'll pray for you."
Someone I spoke to recently said that the elites hate the middle class. They want a radical divide. The ultra rich, and the downtrodden poor. The downtrodden are so easy to push around. It's the middle class who are stronger, better informed and more capable of insurrection.
I often read about reports in newspapers finding hypocrisy in Bush policy. That should not be under debate. We can spend hours demonstrating who said what, and what is actually happening. We can spend years waiting to see empty promises bankrupt themselves. Or we can do what guys like Chomsky are doing and saying: activated and pondering what the real strategy is.
The dumb are those who believe what our political leaders tell us. It is totally different thing to begin to calculate what the strategic benefit (ostensibly to a limited number of powerful people) is.
In Africa for example, and Angola in particular, civil war helps those controlling the oil supplies divert funds away from the population who needs services and infrastructure, and into oil and weapons.
Thus, the longer the war goes on, the more the country's population is wiped out, but, importantly, the richer the elites, the controllers become. They want war. They want the masses weak and suffering. It allows them to rule the roost in comfort and without threat.
Bush has family investments in oil and weapons. Go figure he doesn't want the war in Iraq to end, and do you think he cares about a higher oil price?
Does he care about the dead and dying soldiers in Iraq?
He cares about everyone thinking he cares about the lower classes. Once people wake up, his game is up.
It seems there is an awakening, but just an awakening of thoughts.
What is needed is action. In fact, revolution.
Mayor says 80% of city flooded
Katrina's death toll at 67; 1.3 million without power
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 Posted: 1212 GMT (2012 HKT)
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) -- Rescuers worked through the night to reach hundreds of people stranded after Hurricane Katrina ripped across the Gulf Coast killing dozens of people, destroying countless homes and leaving more than a million people without power in three states.
And authorities said they would not be able to reach some of the hardest-hit areas until first light on Tuesday.
The storm is blamed for at least 67 deaths and that toll is almost certain to rise. Mississippi officials said at least 54 people were killed there, including 30 who were killed in an apartment complex near the Biloxi beach. Alabama reported two deaths. The storm killed 11 people last week when it made its initial landfall in Florida.
While Louisiana officials have not yet confirmed any deaths there, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin said there have been reports of bodies floating in the floodwaters.
"My heart is heavy tonight," Nagin said in the interview on CNN affiliate WWL-TV. "I don't have any good news to share."
Nagin said that about 80 percent of the city was flooded and that some areas were under 20 feet of water.
Water poured into the city from Lake Pontchartrain after a two-block-long breach opened in a section of a levee that protects the low-lying city.
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