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Mexico Sends First Aid Convoy to U.S.

AP - A Mexican ship laden with hurricane relief supplies anchored off Mississippi Wednesday night, while an aid-bearing Mexican army convoy reached the U.S. border in a journey marking the first time its military has aided the United States.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor.../katrina_mexico

Cops, Troops Warn Holdouts in New Orleans

AP - Using the unmistakable threat of force, police and soldiers went house to house Wednesday to try to coax the last 10,000 or so stubborn holdouts to leave storm-shattered New Orleans because of the risk of disease from the putrid, sewage-laden floodwaters.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...rricane_katrina

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When I read this I had a flashback of 'Lord of the Flies', how sad:

A child in charge of `6 babies'

Chicago Tribune - In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of refugees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...chargeof6babies

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This one is almost a full reply to the original author's question in this thread about the 'recovery', for many and in many areas it will be years:

EPA Chief Had Hard Choice in New Orleans

AP - WASHINGTON (AP - The decision to pour heavily contaminated floodwaters from New Orleans streets into Lake Pontchartrain was a difficult one and could pose new environmental problems in the years ahead, the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ina_environment

Katrina History & Civil Business Politics

New Orleans will rise from the water and our modern day Atlantis will be rebuilt. Everyone should expect to see a very wild Mardi Gras in Feb since this district was still mostly in tact. What if find most amazing is the dual view of the people of the area distrusting of the federal government and yet wanting to be taken care of by it. This tragedy has also let us seen the implicit danger of the subsistence economy established by the United States and its effect on people. Wyldehorse

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NO GAS, NO FOOD, NO LODGING Hurricane Victims Get a Taste of Life in Occupied Iraq

Ted Rall - SAN FRANCISCO--Taps run dry. Food rots when the power goes out. Toilets overflow with waste. Looters strip homes, businesses and public buildings. Armed bandits run wild in the streets. Fires rage out of control. Terrified policemen abandon their posts. Flies buzz over bloated corpses. People wave signs at passing helicopters. "Please help us," they read.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...einoccupiediraq

POST-KATRINA DOUBLETHOUGHT

William F. Buckley - The war against stable thought blazes on, the objective being to put the blame on the Bush administration for what happened in New Orleans.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...nadoublethought

WHY WE FAILED IN NEW ORLEANS

Richard Reeves - NEW YORK -- The 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan, began his tenure by declaring: "In this crisis, government is not the solution, government is the problem ..."
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...ledinneworleans

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You got to love how people add one and two together even if those two pieces don't really match. Was the whole Katrina hits New Orleans and let it flood a conspiracy? See this blogger's view: here.

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BLACKS, WHITES BUILD BRIDGES AFTER KATRINA

As the man stepped off the airplane and looked out at the sea of faces gathered to welcome the survivors of Hurricane Katrina to Utah, he had only one comment: "It sure is white here."
Ref. https://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C...53807%2C00.html

Katrina - Page 5

Here is a ground zero look at Katrina's impact on New Orleans before, during and after the fact. There are 197 pictures here and they were all taken by a survivor with no hype in mind: https://www.kodakgallery.com/Slideshow.jsp?...&Uy=nyvoby&Ux=1

Katrina Politics Business Civil & History - Page 5

I was reading a column of a famous journalist from Trinidad called Ira Mathur and she made a couple of statements regards to this issue, please feel free to add your input:

"Broadcasters red with shame incredulously wondered how scenes associated with the Third World, of nameless corpses gnawed on by rats, of a city submerged in diseased flood waters with garbage, oil and putrefying bodies floating in the stagnant pools, of stranded starving people deprived of clean water, food or medical care, could happen in America.

The mainstream mainly white media reported on the stranded, hundreds of orphans, on the million displaced people on 160,000 flooded homes. They then removed themselves, began calling their own people "refugees."

The world caught on then, as did America. Reuters reported that 'the gaping racial divide" in the United States was laid bare by Hurricane Katrina.

In New Orleans, a city that was more than two-thirds black, more than 30 per cent of the population lived below the poverty level.

The tragedy, said Illinois Senator Barack Obama, showed "how little inner-city African Americans have to fall back on. They could not load up their families in a van, fill it up with $100 of gasoline, throw some bottled water in the back and check into a hotel with a credit card."

https://guardian.co.tt/ira.html