Saying his hands were tied by law, a federal judge dismissed a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers over levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina, but rebuked the agency for failing to protect the city. - 17th Katrina report.

Prior to Katrina, over 5,000 families in New Orleans lived in public housing. Today, less than 1/4 of them have returned home. Black Mayor Nagin doesn't want public housing. TRACIE WASHINGTON: look out window, there's a Trump sign. He is coming.

Aug. 29 marks 1st anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, killed 1,500+ people in New Orleans alone, displaced 770,000 residents, destroyed 300,000 homes. Federal govt's response widely condemned. Disaster Profiteers still circling like VULTURES!

Michael Vick may lose his career for killing dogs, but the Hospital Administrators are free because they had the good sense to only kill Blacks. The implications are obvious: BLACK LIVES ARE WORTH LESS THAN THOSE OF DOGS IN AMERICA!

Seven police officers been indicted for opening fire on two African American families on the Danziger Bridge days after the storm, killing two people and wounding four others. At the time, the official story was that they gunned down snipers.

On 2nd Anniversary of Katrina, horrendous difference between Recovery Assistance granted most of New Orleans & the Indifference, Ethnic Cleansing and Double Standard treatment (including the Red Cross) to the mostly Black Lower 9th Ward.

Dana Cloud of the 'Save Kenneth Foster' campaign said QUOTE "This case demonstrated to the world just how arbitrary and capricious capital punishment is". Foster had been sentenced to death for a crime Texas admits he did not commit or plan.

American Society of Civil Engineers "It would take nearly $190 billion to fix 70,000 structurally deficient bridges over next 2 decades". $23 billion surplus when Bush took office, Highway Trust Fund to go broke because Bush killed gas tax increase.

Jeremy Scahill "Blackwater is elite Praetorian Guard for 'global war on terror', with its own military base, 20 aircraft fleet, 20,000 private contractors, run by multimillionaire Christian conservative who bankrolls Bush, can overthrow governments."

Katrina Privatization: glimpse of a terrifying future in which only the wealthy are saved. Under Bush, government sectors (i.e. Homeland Security) turned into glorified temp agencies, with essential functions contracted out to private companies.

New Orleans police raided & arrested Activists @Saint Bernard Public Housing Project where they prevented government demolition plans. Meanwhile Federal officials try to silence leading attorney for Low-Income Residents = Compassionate Conservatism!

Viewed before Katrina as institutional disaster, New Orleans' public schools got a second shot at success by implementing a bold experiment in public schooling. 60% of the city's reopened schools are now independently-run charter schools.

GREG PALAST: New Orleans, where space shuttle is built, only deep-water port of American SE. Big canal runs to gulf draining Cyprus groves; was quite safe from hurricanes because hundreds of miles of marsh. Gone! Destroyed by OIL INDUSTRY!

Aug. 29 marks 1st anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, killed 1,500+ people in New Orleans alone, displaced 770,000 residents, destroyed 300,000 homes. Federal govt's response widely condemned. Disaster Profiteers still circling like VULTURES!

Marie Antoinette was called Madame Deficit, blamed for France's financial problems. Dame Barbara Bush’s tax-deductible “gift” for Katrina evacuées with instructions: "part must be spent on educational software from son Neil Bush's company"!

The bill would also limit the power of community or citizen groups, because if they filed a lawsuit to challenge the location of a refinery, they would be required to pay an oil company’s legal costs whether they win or lose the lawsuit.

I use independent & unbiased news sources, whenever possible, to disarm conservatives, who will impugn credibility of any liberal source.. if you know a group of persons are opposed to your well-being, listening to them is counterproductive

Hurricane Katrina VISUAL only, no political comments

Tabacco warned you what would happen.. 'Disaster Feeding Frenzy' By Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr...Jeremy Scahill "The Militarization of New Orleans" - First Step In Bush Takeover..tabacco.myblogsite.com/ EMINENT DOMAIN: Your Home/Business Gone?

while victims try to get their bearings, barracudas are circling. Naomi Klein witnessed this in Iraq, calls it “disaster capitalism”..Congress appropriated $62 Billion..Hundreds of billions more reclaiming Gulf..The feeding frenzy has begun.

As President Bush says he'll rebuild New Orleans... we speak with ..independent journalist Rosa Clemente about crackdown in shelters.. She describes being harassed by a New Orleans police officer while doing interviews at a Red Cross shelter.

URGENT: YOU MUST READ THIS ARTICLE FROM 'DEMOCRACY NOW!', THEN READ MY MINE 7/25/05..I told you so! The capitalists, under George W. Bush, are stealing New Orleans from the poor and will rebuild it for the rich - Guess who won't be invited back!

"From the start, I didn't think much of George W. Bush..mangled the language- couldn't say "terrorism", shortened to "terror", couldn't handle tough questions- stopped holding news conferences, avoided going to war when called on to fight one."

We have anonymous guest commentator. I shall refer to him as Mr. Anonymous. I am reminded of the KKK, who also preferred anonymity. His comments found at “Hurricane Katrina – New Orleans Blacks Dying – George W. Bush’s Indifference Update"

Bush dragging his feet on purpose to kill Black people in New Orleans and maneuver the rest of the Blacks out of New Orleans. Yes, New Orleans will be rebuilt..They will rebuild New Orleans for Whites Only..http://www.democracynow.org/