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Halliburton Gets 1st Katrina Rebuild Contracts
cobalt123 07:21h

From Cynthia's Interests and Professor Kim's News Notes, guess who got the first rebuild contracts from the US government on Katrina?

Right...

Thanks for the tip, Kim, and thanks to she and Prometheus6 for providing links to the Katrina Relief Auction on flickr.com. I have an auction donation there and we hope to raise as much as possible by September 15 for direct contribution to the American Red Cross.

Kim and Earl are providing great coverage of the news regarding Katrina and politics that much of the mainstream media is not picking up or promoting. For instance, I believe that the sluggish and despicable response to the disaster by the US government is partially due to the politics of POVERTY. But some people are really drawn to what they view is racisim. I also think that the racism is very much in evidence when you read the comments from blogs and in public posting forums. Wow, such blatant hatred and fear such as I've not seen publically for a while.


-- from cobalt123

My own protest image in flickr.com drew over 2,500 views and 79 comments. Some people are pretty ticked just over my "anti-Bush" message, which by the way was very much secondary to the important issues raised by the shift in balance of power in the US, caused by the death of our Supreme Court Chief Justice Rhenquist.

His loss means that our emperor who fiddles gets to appoint a REAL powerful person who will affect the US for generations to come, after Bush leaves office. Rhenquist may have been a conservative, but he was at least a jurisprudence expert and had some sense of balance. The next person appointed may tip things on the Court so far that the disaster from Katrina may be a drop in the bucket as far as social upheavel in the US...

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Controversy on Flickr.com: Katrina Relief
cobalt123 10:34h

My current photo is a political statement through art about the insanity of this devastation and the deficit and morally reprehensible federal government response to these horrors and tragedies. The image is now drawing considerable attention and angry comments in the photo stream by some flickr.com members. However, more members seem to appreciate the artwork and my messages.

It seems that there is quite a bit of blame now extending towards victims and defense by reports that these victims perhaps don't deserve aid for the reports of gunfire and looting. I base this one what I read, see and hear in mainstream US media. Wild rumors feed the blame to judge the homeless and evacuees. This defense of federal government response that is far short of meeting critical needs is despicable. This blame of the victims must stop. This rejection of non-jingoistic rhetoric must stop! Stop the insanity never was more apropos than now.

I myself may have been one of those who was NOT ABLE TO EVACUATE for my income is low and I have a disabled adult son. To have the income for a full tank of gas at the ready and a reliable car, let alone the money to head off into uncertainty, well that may have not been my fate at the first warnings of the scale of this disaster.

Many many middle-class and wealthy white folks have been evacuated and are homeless, having lost everything. However, many of these people have contacts and resources from without and will likely survive much better. Overall, the criticism of the relief response is a damning comment on the politics of poverty.

Never before in our American history has there been such a clear example of the degradation of the less fortunate in our own society.

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The Next Katrina
cobalt123 19:54h

If you like this image, please consider this...

If you click on this link below, the image on flickr.comwill record another "view". The more views and the more comments and the more "favs" it gets, the more attention it gets. Americans are pretty fed-up with business as usual, politics as usual, and all the insane reasons given that the US was not ready to deal with the Hurricane Katrina devastation! Our president TURNED DOWN assistance from other countries! Pride is more important, doncha know. And of course, we would not want to divert funds from Iraq, now would we?

Poverty, racism,glad-handing politicking about Bush Administration agendas, and the president's vacation took turns in creating the disaster and devastation that keeps on giving, from Hurricane Katrina.

This is the link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/40285077/

and this is the image:
The Next Katrina - a political statement montage

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