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 [Signs of the Economic Apocalypse] Signs of the Economic Apocalypse 9-5-05: An astute downtown New Orleans attorney interviewed on National Public Radio noted from the safety of a friend's house a safe distance from town that Katrina had happened at the end of the month, "when many of the poor have run out of funds." Put these facts of no cars and no cash together with some typical coping strategies for surviving chronic poverty and gaping holes in public services and infrastructure and it becomes all too clear why many impoverished and disproportionately Black citizens of New Orleans didn't "choose" to evacuate.

 [Life Goes Off] Labor Day News: (AP) -- The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon raised more than $3 million by late Sunday night in a unique edition of the annual event that benefits both the Muscular Dystrophy Association and victims of Hurricane Katrina. Viewers pledged more than $3 million by 10:30 p.m., according to Bob Mackle, a telethon spokesman.

[Wwltv.com] WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Local News: (AP) -- The Bush administration sent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, its highest ranking black official, Sunday to visit the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast amid criticism it had responded slowly to the suffering of poor, minority victims. She returned to her native Alabama to attend services at the Pilgrim Rest AME Zion church outside Mobile.

 [Xymphora.blogspot.com] xymphora: As Big Money solidified its ascendancy over government, pouring billions over and under the table into campaign coffers, politicians could ignore larger and larger swathes of the people. If you can't hook yourself up to a well-funded, coffer-filling interest group, if you can't hire a big-time Beltway player to lobby your cause and get you 'a seat at the table,' then your voice goes unheard, your concerns are shunted aside.

 [Npr.org] NPR : Hurricane Katrina Web Log: Former New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial pleads for the Bush administration to "put every available federal resource" into aiding hurricane survivors and evacuating the city before more lives are lost. "This great American city -- a great cultural city -- is fighting for its life right now," Morial, now the president of the National Urban League, tells NPR's Ed Gordon.

[Buzzmachine.com] BuzzMachine: Hurricane Katrina will go down in history as one of the worst storms ever to hit an American coast, but the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history. I am personally asking our bipartisan congressional delegation here in Louisiana to immediately begin congressional hearings to find out just what happened here.

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