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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black;font-weight:
bold'>According to the rich assholes, we commoners, and especially, commoners
of color, are expendable, Annie. Mustn’t let anything happen to the “better”
class of people and their homes and cars and various “toys”. There’s always a
plan to keep those assholes safe and keep their hair from being blown about in
the wind and their manicures safe from unsightly chips, however, there is never
a plan to help those with no money or very little of it. In fact NO PLAN IS THE
PLAN!!! How’s that for a plan or non plan or whatever? EVERYTHING IS BY DESIGN.
Don’t you forget that.<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Anne del Prado
[mailto:freespirit_41@hotmail.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Saturday, August 27, 2011
5:56 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> PAA DiscussHouston; George and
Cathy Bettoney<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [PAA-Discuss] FW: <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hamptons</st1:place></st1:City> Hurricane: A
Bankers' Katrina</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Greg Palast is great, as usual<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:50:41
-0700<br>
From: steve<br>
Subject: Fw: <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hamptons</st1:place></st1:City>
Hurricane: A Bankers' Katrina<br>
To: freespirit_41@hotmail.com<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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color:black'>----- Forwarded Message -----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> Greg Palast
<palast@gregpalast.net><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> "stevebonzai@yahoo.com"
<stevebonzai@yahoo.com><br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, August 26, 2011 1:12
PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hamptons</st1:place></st1:City> Hurricane: A Bankers' Katrina</span></font><font
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style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>Hamptons</span></font></b></st1:place></st1:City><b><font
size=4 color=black><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:black;font-weight:bold'>
Hurricane: A Bankers' Katrina</span></font></b><font color=black><span
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<i><span style='font-style:italic'>by Greg Palast<br>
August 26, 2011</span></i> <br>
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color=black><span style='color:black'>Don't worry: the bankers are safe.
The sub-prime sharks, derivatives divas, media mavens and their
hairdressers, their trophy wives and their trophies' personal trainers,
the movers and shakers and money-makers, are all out of danger. Despite the
warning that in a couple of days Hurricane Irene could well hit The
Hamptons, the beach of the best of the ruling class will not lose a tan line. <br>
<br>
I made sure they're safe. A couple of decades ago, I worked on an
emergency evacuation plan for the county of <st1:City w:st="on">Suffolk</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">New York</st1:State>, home of the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Hamptons</st1:place></st1:City>. It's the wealthiest county in
the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>.
<br>
<br>
The <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Hamptons</st1:place></st1:City>'
hurricane plan is six volumes thick. The police and the politicians, the
fire department and the first responders have their copies, their orders,
their equipment and they are ready to roll before a single fake-blonde curl is
ruffled by untoward weather. <br>
<br>
The last hurricane to hit <st1:place w:st="on">Long Island</st1:place>, far
fiercer than Katrina, took two lives, not 2,000. <br>
<br>
But then, the <st1:City w:st="on">Hamptons</st1:City> isn't <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>, is it? <br>
<br>
In 1992, a big storm washed into 190 houses on West Hampton Dunes, getting many
grade-B film scripts very wet. The federal government, with your tax
dollars, rebuilt every single home on the beach (average value then, $2 million
each)—and even rebuilt the beach with an endless samba line of trucks
filled with sand, care of the Army Corps of Engineers. <br>
<br>
There's a photo of one, in case you'd like to move in. (Shouldn't we each
get at least a weekend in the surf for our money?) <br>
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color=black><span style='color:black'>Now look at Patricia Thomas' home
in the Lafitte Housing Project in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>. I met her a year after the city
flooded; she and her cousin and her cousin's two kids, just off the bus
from refugee centers in <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Texas</st1:place></st1:State>,
were told that if they returned to their homes, they would be
arrested. It's been six years and they still are not allowed back
in. Doesn't matter: three years ago, their houses were torn down to
make way for yuppie condos, for the nouvelle carpetbaggers who will enjoy
Lafitte's locale near the French Quarter. <br>
<br>
Last year, a judge ruled that the Army Corps of Engineers and the federal
government were completely responsible for the flooding of Lafitte
and half the city. [<a
href="http://mailings.gregpalast.net/t.aspx?S=1&ID=112&NL=1&N=113&SI=124355&ENC=%212%21GS%21?y%216%214%21JQ%21A%211%28O%213%21CD%21%3E1%21?:%29x%2184%27%216I%21%3EI3%21/R%21%3d%218Cbp%5b"
target="_blank">See the film 'Big Easy to Big Empty.'</a> This week,
the Palast Investigative Fund is providing the half-hour film without
charge. <a
href="http://mailings.gregpalast.net/t.aspx?S=1&ID=112&NL=1&N=113&SI=124355&ENC=%212%21GS%21?y%216%214%21JQ%21A%211%28O%213%21CD%21%3E1%21?:%29x%2184%27%216I%21%3EI3%21/R%21%3d%218Cbq"
target="_blank">Click here to download it</a>.] <br>
<br>
Under the Constitution, the President and Congress must authorize payment to
flood victims, as they did for the Westhampton luvvies. But for the
Thomas family, Obama requested, and Congress, appropriated ... absolutely
nothing. <br>
<br>
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href="http://mailings.gregpalast.net/t.aspx?S=1&ID=112&NL=1&N=113&SI=124355&ENC=%212%21GS%21?y%216%214%21JQ%21A%211:L%21C%28I%21?*c*$8%5b%3C%21CS9%212%21A7%5ET%21D%21G%21:%21;%21.%7D3B%21F3a1%21G-*I.,%5E%21CK%2109DO%212?%217%3d%26A%212%21A8"
target="_blank"></a></span>What about the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New
Orleans</st1:place></st1:City> evacuation plan? Where were their six volumes?
When I watched the chaos in August 2005, I immediately called FEMA to ask for a
copy of the plan. Why were there no busses to take out those without cars? The
number of deaths should have been ZERO. <br>
<br>
The answer: the <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>
plan couldn't be found. The company paid to draft it, Innovative
Emergency Management, couldn't find a copy either. Long after 2,000
drowned, I found the "plan": no provision at all for the 27,000
residents without cars. That's not surprising: the hurricane
evacuation contractor had zero experience in hurricane evacuation. Rather,
IEM's chief did have lots of experience in donating to the Republican
Party. <br>
<br>
This week marks the sixth anniversary of the biggest ethnic cleansing in <st1:country-region
w:st="on">America</st1:country-region> since the Indian wars of the 19th
Century: the flooding of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New Orleans</st1:place></st1:City>.
We will celebrate this weekend, by worrying that Hurricane Irene will
make the President and his donors on <st1:place w:st="on">Martha's Vineyard</st1:place>
spill their daiquiris. <br>
<br>
I met Patricia's cousin five years ago today when, as dusk fell, she was in
tears, wondering where she was going to stay with her kids that
night. "That's what I want to know, Mister, where we going
to?" <br>
<br>
Well, I know of some usually-empty and quite nice federal housing units on
Westhampton Dunes.... <br>
<br>
*** <br>
<br>
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trust, on the Sixth Anniversary of the New Orleans' flood. <br>
<br>
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w:st="on">USA</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <br>
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