“Out of control”

“Sinking into chaos”

I just watched the CTV news. Holy shit. I thought CNN was showing some strong footage.

You know all those ‘conspiracy nuts’ that said maybe the government doesn’t want any foreign help around to see what is really going down?

Well, I haven’t seen anything on American news feeds (not that I have acess to them all) that equals what I have just witnessed in the last 15 minutes.

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They began with a report from the superdome in NO.

People are crying begging, “We’re dying out here!”

They are lying in sewage. You could see the piles of crap.

A woman, also crying, said, “Look at this filth. Look at this. We’re dirty. We don’t live like this.”

They interviewed a woman in the basement of the superdome. She was in hysterics, frantically searching for food. She cried, “People are going into diabetic shock b/c they haven’t had anything to eat since monday. I have to find food.”

Another woman they were interviewing said, “I don’t want to die like this.” She went into insulin shock while on camera. Another refugee, a woman who is a nurse began yelling, “We need insulin here!” to the large group of people. She found some and administered it to the woman on the spot. She said she has been caring for people because there is no help.

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Graham Richardson reported from the Houston astrodome. He said, “We are in the richest country in the world and the people are wandering around looking like refugees.”

They interviewed people coming from the buses. Those people said that the situation they came from is one of all out anarchy.

People are being murdered and raped.

A woman said she was carjacked and then raped.

Dead bodies litter the street.

One young white man said that the guard was not letting them out, which corresponds with what duranta is reporting in her diary, Our Government is Killing the People of New Orleans.

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Jed Kahane reported from Gulfport. He talked about the dead. Finally, someone is talking about the dead.

There are 15 coroner’s working now, and they can’t keep up with the bodies.

The coroners are finding the bodies of their friends.

There are 6 refrigerated tractor trailers filling up with bodies. They showed them sitting side by side by side … you get the visual.

Rotten fish and food (pallets of chicken) is throwing off search dogs in their search for bodies.

He also said that looters are walking down the street picking up shampoo and clothing amid the debris – people’s property that has been scattered. They have nothing else, and nowhere to look.

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They interviewed a Canadian family here in Canada, whose mother and aunt have been trapped down in NO. They were on a vacation. The mother is epileptic and doesn’t have enough medicine. They received word from the aunt, who told them that there is no help at all. They were in tears.

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Plus, there is a fresh report from CTV on Vancouver BC’s Urban Search and Rescue (USAR)team, which arrived in LA Wednesday night “after being asked by state officials for assistance.”

They are describing mass chaos.

Gun fights.

Hostage situations.

“It’s absolutely crazy, the devastation is unreal — the gunfire, the shooting, the looting is like something you see in a movie.”

Acadian Ambulance Service says it was greeted by an armed and angry crowd as it tried to airlift supplies into Kenner Memorial Hospital late Wednesday.

Richard Zuschlag, president of the ambulance service, said his medics were “crying, screaming for help,” and that his pilots “refused to land.”

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Although the team is equipped with satellite phones, Inglis says even they aren’t working.

“There is virtually no communications here. We’re using the MCI truck that’s been set up, and using their satellite communications network.”

From their website they are reporting,

“We’ve been attached to the Louisiana State Troopers, and we also have the National Guard assisting us. Unfortunately, from time we were given orders to move from Lafayette at 4:30 a.m. this morning up here, the lid has blown off this place. There’s a lot of gun fire, a number of hostage situations right down the street. So, all search and rescue has been halted in this area for now. We will not be performing any search and rescue operations for at least the next 8-12 hours.

I am shocked anew.