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TVNL Editor's Comments: 3 points need to be made over and over regarding the response to Hurricane Katrina:

1.      As our thumb twiddlers tried stared off into space trying to figure out how to throw food and water out of airplanes, China successfully evacuated a million people in advance of a hurricane.

2.      Director of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff told Tim Russert , not once but twice, that he read the paper on Tuesday morning saying that New Orleans dodged a bullet. Russert did not seem to understand the ramifications of his statements. Chertoff, on TV, admitted that he waited to see what already happened before he addressed the situation. In other words there was no actions taken in preparation for the levy breaking. He was not prepared to handle the event until after it happened. This speaks volumes.

3.      I have said over and over that terrorism is not even on the list of things that pose a serious threat to Americans (unless “terrorists” continue to get the help and weapons technology from our own government), and that The Bush environmental policy will kill more people than all terrorism in history combined. Maybe now people will start to understand that American cities do not do well under water.

It is time to start listening to the liberals on such issues. It is always a matter of time before people realize that the liberals are correct on such issues. We can not survive many more lessons so that the stubborn greedy right wing can learn these things at the expense of human catastrophe. Think about it! – Jesse, Editor, TvNewsLIES.org

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WAR : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war

· Iraqi police, soldiers killed in Baquba attacks - Unknown gunmen killed 19 Iraqi police and soldiers and wounded another 16 in three separate attacks near Baquba, north of Baghdad, on Saturday, police and hospital sources said.

· TASK FORCE FREEDOM SOLDIER KILLED AUG. 29TH - A Task Force Freedom Soldier was killed by small arms fire in Tal Afar, Iraq on Aug. 29th.

POLITICS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#politics

· FEMA Outsourced N.O. Disaster Plans To Politcal Cronies/Donors - Now for the interesting background on Ms. Beriwal. She is a big-time contributor to the GOP. She's given thousands of dollars to Republicans, including Louisiana Sen. David Vitter, Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan, Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby, Louisiana Rep. Bobby Jindal, Rep. Richard Baker of Louisiana, the National Republican Congressional Committee, former Arkansas Sen. Tim Hutchinson. Vitter was the largest recipient of funds from Beriwal.

· Warnings went ignored as Bush slashed flood defence budget to pay for wars - Vital measures to protect New Orleans from "catastrophic" hurricane damage were scrapped by the Bush administration to pay for its wars on terror and in Iraq, despite official warnings of impending disaster.

· Bush faked levee repair for photo op yesterday - Flying over this critical spot again this morning, less than 24 hours later, it became apparent that yesterday we witnessed a hastily prepared stage set for a Presidential photo opportunity; and the desperately needed resources we saw were this morning reduced to a single, lonely piece of equipment.

· Louisiana oficially asked for help from George W. Bush four days before Bush ended his vacation. - An official request for help was made to George W. Bush BEFORE the hurricane arrived (8/28)!!!

ECONOMY : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#economy

· THE POOR GET POORER - “The rich got richer and the poor got poorer” is a sentence most often used to describe the economic plight of underdeveloped countries. - But last week, it was being used to describe the economy of the world’s lone superpower: The USA.

· In Manhattan, Poor Make 2˘ for Each Dollar to the Rich - The top fifth of earners in Manhattan now make 52 times what the lowest fifth make - $365,826 compared with $7,047 - which is roughly comparable to the income disparity in Namibia, according to the Times analysis of 2000 census data.

· Pumping Us Dry - Katrina tragedy is an absolutely perfect storm for oil companies - The very first thing George W. Bush did in response to Hurricane Katrina was to offer a helping hand—not to the people stranded on rooftops in New Orleans, but to his friends in the oil industry. - All over the world this summer, oilmen raced to dump surplus into the U.S. market, where the rigged prices made them a killing. Oil traders in China, the second biggest world market next to the U.S., were shoving oil into the high-priced U.S. market to make more money.

9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911

· Former CIA Director Tenet Threatens Disclosures? - Former CIA director George Tenet, said to be the target of what the Washington Times called "a scathing report by Inspector General John Helgerson” - may go public with embarrassing disclosures about the Bush administration and its actions leading up to Sept. 11, 2001.

CONGRESS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#congress

· Conyers readies gas price gouging, hurricane bankruptcy bills - John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, will introduce legislation next week in response to gas price gouging and bankruptcies related to Hurricane Katrina, RAW STORY has learned.

DOMESTIC : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#domestic

· How Could This Be Happening in the United States? - "Third World America," declared the headline in the Daily Mail in London on Saturday. "Law and order is gone, gunmen roam at will, raping and looting, and as people die of heat and thirst, bodies lie rotting in the street. Until now, such a hellish vista could only be imagined in a Third World disaster zone.

· FEMA Dir. Mike Brown fired from prior job at Horse Assoc. - Yes, that's right... the man responsible for directing federal relief operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, sharpened his emergency management skills as the "Judges and Stewards Commissioner" for the International Arabian Horses Association... a position from which he was forced to resign in the face of mounting litigation and financial disarray.

· Bush visit halts food delivery - Three tons of food ready for delivery by air to refugees in St. Bernard Parish and on Algiers Point sat on the Crescent City Connection bridge Friday afternoon as air traffic was halted because of President Bush’s visit to New Orleans, officials said.

· Chief Justice Rehnquist Dies at Home - Rehnquist was appointed to the Supreme Court as an associate justice in 1971 by President Nixon and took his seat on Jan. 7, 1982. He was elevated to chief justice by President Reagan in 1986.

ENVIRONMENT : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#environment

· Gore will speak in Portland - Former Vice President Al Gore will give a speech in Portland on Tuesday on global warming.

· IEA boss warns of global energy crisis - The head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) says Hurricane Katrina could spark a worldwide energy crisis if damage to US refineries leads to a big increase in US purchases of European petrol.

INTERNATIONAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#international

· China Raises Typhoon Death Toll to 53 - The storm forced the evacuation of nearly 1 million people in Zhejiang and neighboring Fujian province from low-lying coastal areas and mountain villages prone to flash floods.

· Mine kills 20 police in India - Maoists rebels set off a landmine under a security vehicle, killing at least 20 policemen in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh, a state official said on Sunday.

· Venezuela convinced of US invasion - Venezuela has uncovered plans for a US-led invasion and is preparing to defend the country against invading forces if necessary, President Hugo Chavez said in a report carried by the state-run news agency. - "If it occurs to the United States to invade our country - Fidel Castro said it and I agree - a war will start here to last 100 years," Chavez was quoted as saying. "Not only this country would be burned up, but a good part of this continent; they shouldn't make any mistake about it, we are preparing to repel an invasion."

MILITARY & VETERANS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#military

· Guardsmen 'played cards' amid New Orleans chaos: police official - A top New Orleans police officer said that National Guard troops sat around playing cards while people died in the stricken city after Hurricane Katrina.

· Troops begin combat operations in New Orleans - “This place is going to look like Little Somalia,” Brig. Gen. Gary Jones, commander of the Louisiana National Guard’s Joint Task Force told Army Times Friday as hundreds of armed troops under his charge prepared to launch a massive citywide security mission from a staging area outside the Louisiana Superdome. “We’re going to go out and take this city back. This will be a combat operation to get this city under control.”

EDITORIAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#editorial

· A Colossal Failure of Leadership - Saving people and maintaining order are the first order of government in any disaster. In New Orleans, neither has been achieved.

· Falluja Floods the Superdome - AS the levees cracked open and ushered hell into New Orleans on Tuesday, President Bush once again chose to fly away from Washington, not toward it, while disaster struck. - But hard as it is to reflect upon so much sorrow at once, we cannot allow ourselves to forget the real history surrounding 9/11; it is the Rosetta stone for what is happening now.

· Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - Now nature has done what the Civil War couldn't do. Nature has done what the labor riots of the 1920's couldn't do. Nature had done what "modern life" with its relentless pursuit of efficiency couldn't do. It has done what racism couldn't do, and what segregation couldn't do either. Nature has laid the city waste - with a scope that brings to mind the end of Pompeii.

· Craig Roberts: Something is NOT right! - Having worked in Emergency Management in the military, and on the civilian side (I'm with Mayes County Emergency Management in Oklahoma as the Dive Team Leader), I can't help but wonder by the old REX-84 plan is not being used. This would open up Fort Chaffee, Eglin AFB and a dozen other empty bases to refugees immediately. Fort Chaffee alone has warehouses full of bedding for the barracks, blankets etc.

JOURNALISM & MEDIA : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#media

· Don't Blame Bush For The Flood? - From day one, as the Levees split, water filling New Orleans, devoted Bush defenders, RUSH LIMBAUGH and HANNITY, with other daytime "Pretend-Conservative" talk radio hosts (and war lusting FOX), predicted evil "liberals" were going to blame Bush! Everyday since, they daily shout: "Don't Blame Bush For the Flood!" - BUT PLEASE JUST SHUT UP, RUSH AND SEAN! OR STOP BEING "NEO-CON" PARROTS - AND BE HONEST! It's not just so-called "liberals!" Included are longtime (before Hannity was conceived) "Constitutional CONSERVATIVES" like myself - Paul Craig Roberts and Scott Ritter - who hold Bush accountable, along with his incompetent cabal of war lusting civilian misadvisors!

· Why Some in the Media Suddenly Became Liberal - They left their FOX News and CNN studios and became living citizens. Guess what happens when you do this? You become a liberal. Liberals live in reality. They see things up close. They understand humanity because they are part of it. It is their EXPERIENCE that causes them to become liberal. Only those who are protected from the bulk of reality remain conservative.

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HEALTH & SCIENCE : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#health

· Encephalitis kills 140 in Nepal - The Nepalese authorities say that 140 people have died of Japanese encephalitis - or brain fever - over the past two months.

· Cholera warning for West Africa - A cholera epidemic is spreading rapidly across West Africa, killing nearly 500 people and infecting thousands of others, United Nations officials warn.

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