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Kucinich Floor Speech on the Supplemental for Hurricane Katrina

Submitted by Pat Simon on September 3, 2005 - 8:33am.
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Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) gave the following speech on September 2, 2005 on the House floor during a special session to provide relief money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina:

This amount of money is only a fraction of what is needed and everyone here knows it. Let it go forward quickly with heart-felt thanks to those who are helping to save lives with necessary food, water, shelter, medical care and security. Congress must also demand accountability with the appropriations. Because until there are basic changes in the direction of this government, this tragedy will multiply to apocalyptic proportions.

The Administration yesterday said that no one anticipated the breach of the levees. Did the Administration not see or care about the 2001 FEMA warning about the risk of a devastating hurricane hitting the people of New Orleans? Did it not know or care that civil and army engineers were warning for years about the consequences of failure to strengthen the flood control system? Was it aware or did it care that the very same Administration which decries the plight of the people today, cut from the budget tens of millions needed for Gulf-area flood control projects?

Countless lives have been lost throughout the South with a cost of hundreds of billions in ruined homes, businesses, and the destruction of an entire physical and social infrastructure.

The President said an hour ago that the Gulf Coast looks like it has been obliterated by a weapon. It has. Indifference is a weapon of mass destruction.

Our indifferent government is in a crisis of legitimacy. If it continues to ignore its basic responsibility for the health and welfare of the American people, will there ever be enough money to clean up after their indifference?

As our government continues to squander human and monetary resources of this country on the war, people are beginning to ask, Isn't it time we began to take care of our own people here at home? Isn't it time we rescued our own citizens? Isn't it time we fed our own people? Isn't it time we sheltered our own people? Isn't it time we provided physical and economic security for our own people?And isn't it time we stopped the oil companies from profiting from this tragedy?

We have plenty of work to do here at home. It is time for America to come home and take care of its own people who are drowning in the streets, suffocating in attics, dying from exposure to the elements, oppressed by poverty and illness, wracked with despair and hunger and thirst.

The time is NOW to bring back to the United States the 78,000 National Guard troops currently deployed overseas into the Gulf Coast region.

The time is NOW to bring back to the US the equipment which will be needed for search and rescue, for clean up and reclamation.

The time is NOW for federal resources, including closed Army bases, to be used for temporary shelter for those who have been displaced by the hurricane.

The time is NOW to plan massive public works, with jobs going to the people of the Gulf Coast states, to build new levees, new roads, bridges, libraries, schools, colleges and universities and to rebuild all public institutions, including hospitals. Medicare ought to be extended to everyone, so every person can get the physical and mental health care they might need as a result of the disaster.

The time is NOW for the federal government to take seriously the research of scientists who have warned for years about the dangers of changes in the global climate, and to prepare other regions of the country for other possible weather disasters until we change our disastrous energy policies.

The time is NOW for changes in our energy policy, to end the domination of oil and fossil fuel and to invest heavily in alternative energy, including wind and solar, geothermal and biofuels.

As bad as this catastrophe will prove to be, it is in fact only a warning. Our government must change its direction, it must become involved in making America a better place to live, a place where all may survive and thrive. It must get off the path of war and seek the path of peace, peace with the natural environment, peace with other nations, peace with a just economic system.

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growing up

Submitted by Jason White on September 3, 2005 - 11:32pm.

Dear DaftAida,

I read the intro at threeworldwars: http://www.threeworldwars.com/intro-letter.htm. This reads like an advertisement, complete with leading questions and testimonials. There's even a "what's the catch" section. The style reminds me of the farcical religion, The Church of the SubGenius (http://www.subgenius.com/), which predicted that on July 5, 1998 at 7:00 AM the Stark Fist of Removal would obliterate the Earth sparing only those who had achieved Slack. The Book of the SubGenius wove a startling good conspiracy theory that had many people actually believing in it's savior, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, and attending revivals. These people desired Slack in their lives, freedom from work and from the ordinary, tedious aspect of life.

I think we all connect the dots of history, try to bring some order to the chaos of the past and the present, and try to "see" the future. Some theorists are exceedingly good at doing this in such a way as to play off of people's paranoia, connectedness, fatalism, desires, joys -- the whole range of emotions. Those theorists who create theories that fit the mainstream view are called "historians". Those that create theories of reality are called "scientists". Those that create theories of spirituality are called "ministers", "priests", "cult leaders", etc. Those that create non-mainstream theories of history are called "conspiracy theorists". We are all conspiracy theorists, though. There are threads of truth in all theories, even ones that don't pretend to be true like the SubGenius.

I think it is important to look inward at why certain aspects of a theory hold truth for you. There are infinite ways of interpreting history and of creating our personal reality. The health and evolution of our sphere of influence arise in part from being able ascertain why we are locked into a particular viewpoint or thought pattern, thereby moving beyond it.

Peace to you,
Jason.

The Protocos

Submitted by DaftAida on September 3, 2005 - 9:36pm.

Tap into www.truthcampaign.co.uk who do a brlliant intro and contents and addemdum to The Protocals including an insider synopsis of military ops once disaster has struck: i.e. opening up the prisons and releasing the rapists, psycopaths etc. to wreak havoc on the civilian population. Time to grow up, children.

Katrina - a weapon of mass destruction - weather control

Submitted by DaftAida on September 3, 2005 - 9:32pm.

I, like so many are stunned by the devastation of this Russian Kali: Katrina. Weather control is a fantastic tool, developed by the genuis Tesla and inverted as Tsunami and Katrina demonstrate.

If you want to cry your heart out, log into www.informationclearinghouse.com or net or org or whatever for live, first-hand reports of this human travesty.

If you want to know the cause of this horror and why aid and support are so lacking in the most powerful state on the globe, get real to weather control: HAARP. It is eloquently precise, yet globally specific and involves electromagnetic beams being bounced off the ionosphere of the Earth.

Yes, folks, this is a weapon of mass destruction and if this site enabled me to attach downloads, I would do so, in order that you could learn about this extraordinary technology for yourselves.

All I can suggest is to tap in HAARP on your search engines and see what you come up with. Alternatively, log into the excellent www.threeworldwars.com and see where that takes you.

If you want to get the live low-down in New Orleans tap into www.informationclearinghouse.org

The situation occuring there is a clear clarion call as to the indifference to human suffering that the presidency holds towards the people it was not elected to govern - only a body which despises human life could act and react in this manner.

The agenda is very simple and has been broadcast to those who have ears to hear - 4/5ths of the human population are going to be annihilated within the next generation to leave a small number of human slaves that the NWO can continue to utilise.

Am I mad? Well, how do YOU account for this, it is not an act of God.
Neither is AIDS, Ebola, Draught, Flooding, Autism etc. The worst thing is that people are raping and murdering their fellow citizens and if you read The Protocols of The Learned Elders of Zion and other material, you would see that this is a the culmination of a purposful and beautifully orchestrated plan. The Zionists hate humanity. The Zionists control Washington. They control the weather and beleive me, brothers and sisters, I am not paranoid, I read this material long time ago and now am seeing it played out. Do you see?