URGENT, please see asap

That is indeed extremely disturbing.  Just hearing what was in the video from montalk who was watching it off to the side while I was doing something else made my stomach tighten up and my nerves stand on end.   I don't even know what to say, this is some serious SERIOUS shite, in a MAJOR way.  It takes the cake out of everything we've heard so far.

Basically for people who haven't seen it and are curious, there was an open bridge next to the Convention Center leading to a town that has electricity and food......................and the military set up a checkpoint and wouldn't allow anybody to cross.  They kept teling everybody to stay inside the convention center, that "help is on the way".................but help never came.  Day after day, they were forced to stay at the convention center instead of leaving through the open bridge to the next town.   

On a related note:

http://www.rense.com/general67/tofeds.htm

It's disturbing as well, as it recaps in the Mayor's own words everything that the gov't and the President did wrong in reacting to this, all the back and forth fiasco he continually went through fighting for every scrap of help he could get, and he lays it all out there, their total ineptitude, even saying that he's going to be in big big trouble later for what he's saying, but he doesn't care.

Three lessons that we can learn from Katrina -- everybody really read this and take note too:

1)  BE PREPARED.   Be prepared for whatever situation could happen to you in the area where you live.  California -- Earthquakes.  The Northwest - earthquakes and Cascade mountain volcano eruptions.   The south/east - Hurricanes, flooding, etc.    The Northeast - severe winters, cold snaps and flooding.  Wherever you live, assess what is the likely thing that could happen and just be on top of things.  Have supplies on hand, know your ways out, and have alternative forms of transportation in mind.

2)  DON'T EXPECT TO BE RESCUED AND CODDLED.   You're going to be on your own.  You have to have the mentality that you need to take care of yourself.   Don't expect that the gov't will take care of us like we're babies, cause they won't, and they proved it with Katrina.   Adapt the survivalist mentality when faced with a situation.   

3)  DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT "THEY" TELL YOU TO DO.   They corralled tens of thousands of people together in the Super Dome and Convention center.......................BIG mistake.   Be the sheep that slips through the cracks and ducks out.   Take care of yourself.  When they're corralling the herd one way, go the other way.  And do what you have to do to slip out.  There were people in New Orleans who made it out of the city through sheer resourcefulness.   People who stole school busses and mail trucks, did what they had to do to get themselves away from that situation.  They didn't just sit there and let themselves be corralled around.  That's the mentality we have to have.   I totally dug the story about the "renegade school bus" that showed up at the Houston Astrodome.   A 20 year old kid behind the wheel of a stolen school bus full of people.   I was grinning when I read that.   Good for him.

EDIT:   The first reports about the "renegade school bus" said it was stolen, and that officials at the Astrodome were a big when it came to what to do with them, and then decided "they could stay";  But when I just looked it up online, the story now is that they were given the school bus by police in New Orleans who told them to round up as many people as they could find and get out there.  Here's the most updated version:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mp … y2/3334317

"We took the bus and got out of the city. We were trying to get out of the city," James Hickerson said.

Several passengers on the bus said they took the matter into their own hands earlier Wednesday because they felt rescuers and New Orleans authorities were too slow in offering help.

"They are not worried about us," said Makivia Horton, 22, who is five months pregnant."

"took the matter into their own hands" indeed!!!!!!!!  Adopt this mentality!!!!!

Well, the stories keep trickling in.  Now we hear "The Guardsmen Played Cards While People Died in New Orleans":

http://www.rense.com/general67/guards.htm

This is why I had those 3 ideas last night of what we'll have to do to help ourselves if we ever find ourselves in a situation that's even remotely like New Orleans (which I listed in my previous post).   This is what our government resources are like.  This is why we can't rely on them, and will have to make sure we don't sit around waiting to be rescued, and instead, take control of the reigns.

And for me, it's been pretty much cemented that there was "something else" going on in New Orleans, yes, of a conspiratorial nature.  There supposedly were "agent provocateurs" shooting at the very people who were there to help them;  The Mayor could not get the assistance he needed from Bush for over 3 days no matter how much he begged;  The National Guard closed down a viable route out of the convention center keeping the sheep locked up in the pen, and endangering lives for absolutely no logical reason;  now we're hearing that the troops arrived on the scene then basically just sat on their asses and did nothing..................which is EXACTLY what I was saying in another thread yesterday, based on the photos we saw of them trolling up and down the streets of NO with blank empty faces, ignorning the people around them who were suffering..... and which I got blasted for by another poster who happens to be in the military and so probably felt like I was dismantling his personal "sacred cow."

But you know what?   It ended up being the truth.  I, and others were right.  The National Guard showed up and did nothing, and worsened the situation.

These stories are going to keep trickling in, mind you.   This won't be the only controversial stuff we eventually learn about in regards what really was going on during those 6 days.  So the only thing I can advise for anybody who's going to get upset is to keep in mind the three ideas I posted previously - learn from the mistakes of what we saw happening here, and make sure it never happens to you. 

Also, freeme just started another thread entitled "Katrina SOLUTIONS", which expands on this, so take a look at that as well for ideas and where to go from here. 

These  stories are going to generate a second round of loosh feeding due to people reading them and getting all upset with no outlet, feeling helpless to fix anything.  Let's try to avoid that, and concentrate on what we can do from here on out, not only to help any way we can, but to prevent this from happening again, and to get our own selves prepared as well.

On a sidenote, it's been said that the Bush cabal is going to take a hard hit for this.  They're not going to be able to get away with what happened this past week, and they're going down as a result of it.  Remember hearing about how Condalizard was shopping in New York City while all of this was going on?   There's too many stories coming out, too many groups kicking up a stink.  The black activist groups are not going to let this rest, because in their minds, these are their people that were purposefully ignored and encouraged to suffer and die by the evil white politicians.   So, that's not going to go away. And now the mainstream media is picking up on the delayed response like a windfall and just running with it.  Somebody on another thread mentioned that this is by design, that it's "time" for Bush to go down, because the media isn't just "allowed" to talk about these things unless they're given the green light to do so.   So if they're talking about it then it means they've gotten the green light go ahead.

Even if they were badly written!    Ahh, oh well.  I had just rolled out of bed this morning and wrote that, so it's a bit dodgy in the coherancy department, and I didn't really clean it up too much afterwards either.  Too lazy.   Oh well, at least you can tell what I was trying to say.  haha

Usually I'm freakishly good at remembering who said what about who in which thread and when, so I'm sorry for forgetting it was you.    But you're right.  It's going to be interesting to watch where this all goes and how it unfolds in the next few weeks / months in regards to Bush and the Federal government's negligance and slow response; how needed $$$ was funnelled to Iraq instead of being used to repair levees, etc.   And I'm still reeling at the Matthew channelling posted by Jen which reminded us about what acts of war will now possibly be delayed, or cancelled outright, because of this hurricane.  SO much stuff will come out of this, both bad and good, as well as things we can't even begin to forsee right now............