Katrina and The Black

Holocaust

The War Correspondent’sSurvival Bulletin #3

byDel Jones

aka Nana KuntuThe War Correspondent

by: Del Jones aka Nana Kuntu,The War Correspondent

Dedicated to:

Sistah QProfessor Griff

Bro. IjahknowahRev. P.D. Mene-lik

Bro. Jeremiah Camara

Mumia abu-JamalDedan Kimathi (LA)

Bro. Akhenaton (ATL)Russell “Maroon” Shoatz

Copyright© 2005 by Del Jones

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President Bush

Louisiana Govenor “shoot to kill” Blanco

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History of the Black Holocaust

If history teaches us one thing it’s that our-story is different fromhistory and we only find out the truth long after that information is ofany use in dealing with our current reality, unless of course, we gethip to their pattern of deception and out-right lying.

Consequently, we look at all news and data to find out wuzup. TheKatrina deadly episode screams for us to learn and prepare as theyaccelerate their genocidal progams.

Who are these people, where do they come from and how can theydo the things they do and have done with no shame, no humanism?Our-Story can’t totally be reviewed here, instead we must alwayskeep in mind who these people are and what they have done and notwho we just want ‘em to be, seen? Let’s reach to Afrikan wisdom tosupply some perspective on our enemy.

Talking about our yesterday that has been hidden from us, CheikhAnta Diop put it this way:

When we talk of racism in antiquity, it is important tounderstand that racism as we know it, could not havebeen expressed in the same way vis-a-vis Blacks, forthe simple reason that it was Blacks who hadmonopolized technical, cultural and industrial know-how. The other races had to pattern their technological,cultural and religious developments after theaccomplishments of Egyptian technology, scienceculture and arts. The Greeks were forced to comehumbly and drink at the fountain of Egyptian culture...It was to Egypt that all of the Greek scientists of theHelena's period came in search of knowledge. Hence,racism in the modern sense of the word could not havebeen exercised by whites against Blacks in the sameway during antiquity.

Our illustrous Afrikan historian Dr. Josef ben-Jochannon had this tosay in his classic work Blackman of the Nile and his Family:

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The Black man (indigenous Afrikan and hisdescendants) must once more write about himself, hisculture, and his continent (Alkebulan, Afrika, Ethiopia,Libya, etc.); for no one cares about another's history.Moreover, when a man's history is written by hisenslavers or captors, regardless of his master's religionor economic philosophy, such a history is alwaysdistorted to suit the master-slave relationship; whichis the only possible result from such an enforced union.

In the Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey he explainseducation in a new light, one that would disarm the Culture Banditsand place them exposed naked before you:

You can be educated in soul, vision and feeling, aswell as in the mind. To see your enemy and know himis a part of the complete education of man; tospiritually regulate one's self is another form of thehigher education that fits man for a nobler place inlife, and still, to approach your brother by the feelingof your own humanity, is an education that softensthe ills of the world and makes us kind indeed.

Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, in her “Cress Theory of ColorConfrontation,travels through the white psychic with a laser focuson answering the question of the ages. Why are these people sobarbaric toward the 90% of the population of this earth who are termedpeople of color? She concludes that their fear of genetic annihilationleads them to enact a very paranoid love/hate relationship with Afrikanpeople. She views their castrations of Black men, over-protection ofthe white female, tanning of skin to achieve color while risking skincancer, as just a few of the symptoms dripping like a pusy sore onhue-manity. She writes:

Psychiatrists and other behavioral scientists frequentlyuse the patterns of overt behavior towards others asan indication of what is felt fundamentally about self.

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If hate and lack of respect are outwardly manifestedtowards others, hate and lack of respect are most oftenfound at deeper level toward the self.

On this our Elder Neely Fuller writes in his “Textbook for Victims ofWhite Supremacy:”

Most white people hate Black people. The reason thatmost white people hate Black people is because whitesare not Black people. If you know this about whitepeople, you need to know little else. If you do notknow this about white people, virtually all else thatyou know about them will only confuse you.

If you think that is bad, those who hated themselves put in work tomake us hate ourselves. Their methods of brainwashing and the useof anti-Afrikan propaganda were the work of “Amerikkkan NiggerFactories,” which were executed by its two components educationand the mass media. Add a heavy dose of TERROR (lynchings, policebrutality, privatized prisons etc.) as the knock out punch and it’s all acocktail for genocide. Malcolm X taught us that:

You know that we have been a people who hated ourAfrikan characteristics. We hated our heads, we hatedthe shape of our nose, we wanted one of those longdog-like noses, you know; we hated the color of ourskin, hated the blood of Afrika that was in our veins.And in hating our features and our skin and our blood,why, we had to end up hating ourselves. And we hatedourselves!

Our color became to us a chain - we felt that it washolding us back. Our color became to us like a prisonwhich we felt was keeping us confined, not letting usgo this way or that way. We felt that all of theserestrictions were based solely upon our color, and thepsychological reaction to that would be that as long

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as we felt imprisoned or chained or trapped by Blackskin, Black features and Black blood, that skin andthose features and that blood holding us backautomatically had to become hateful to us. And itbecame hateful to us."

I’ll give the last word to Samuel F. Yette. In 1971, in his groundbreaking work “The Choice,” he offered this to clarify Amerikkka’sintent. Take heed:

Genocide is a political decision. It can be made by atown, city, state, nation or group of nations. It is apolitical decision... We cannot let those patterns, whichhave been applied so successfully around the worldand which are already in motion in this country becarried out to their logical ultimate conclusion. Thesepattern must be halted now.

And we must be the ones to do it. We cannot expecthelp from anyone but ourselves... This is not a problemof civil rights - it is a problem of Black survival. Theconcept of civil rights is pitifully insignificant whenour very lives are at stake.

It is time to put childish political immaturity aside. The table shouldnow be set to study the impact of Katrina, the government’s inactionand slow reaction. The historical importance of it and its genocidalimplications.

Was Katrina a man made weather-war attack or was it just anopportunity used to kill and drive out Black and poor people? Afterthis study make up your mind, but it may require further research.

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Genocide in 1927, Genocide in 2005

Our-Story teaches us everything we need to know about our enemiesand their hatred of us, which leds to our victimization at every turn.Let’s review the great flood of the Mississippi Delta in 1927. Theseare the official figures on the books supplied by Pete Danails, theworld expert on the flood.

The human and geographical extent of the 1927 Mississippi RiverFlood speaks for itself:

16.5 million acres flooded in seven states637,000 people dislocated$102 million in crop losses162,000 homes flooded41,000 buildings destroyed6,000 boats used in rescue250 to 500Êdeaths.Ê

At some points the flooded area measuredÊover eighty miles fromeast to west. It is important to note that other experts and witnesseschallenge the official version and said thousands lost their live andalmost everyone lost everything they owned. More than 50% of ourpeople left the Delta forever citing the flood as the last straw in theirsegregated reality.

They didn’t even bother to count the Black dead and many casesnever gave their people a chance to identify them and claim theirbodies. Pete Daniel had this to add:

In 1927 Southern life was segregated, so there wereproblems along the color line.ÊThe NAACP and otherblack leaders charged that planters were holding theirworkers in peonage (debt servitude), for the NationalGuard patrolled the camps and in some cases wouldnot allow workers to leave without permission from

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the planters from whom they worked.ÊHooverappointed a "Colored Advisory Commission," headedby Robert R. Moton, the president of TuskegeeInstitute, to investigateÊcomplaints about peonage anddiscrimination.ÊCommission members visited manyof the camps and found peonage and discriminationin the facilities provided for African Americans.Ê

Racist whites had us on lock and we couldn’t move. Meanwhile, theNational Guard was used as the military was used in Katrina and2005 to oppress, to control and maybe even kill. The water was everywhere he went on:

‘It couldn't go to New Orleans,’ panicky city fatherstold the Army Corps of Engineers; it would devastatethe regional economy.

To save New Orleans, the leaders proposed a radical plan. South ofthe city, the population was mostly rural and poor. The leadersappealed to the federal government to essentially sacrifice thoseparishes by blowing up an earthen levee and diverting the water tomarshland. They promised restitution to people who would lose theirhomes. Government officials, including Commerce Secretary HerbertHoover, signed off.

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On April 29, the levee at Caernarvon, 13 miles south of New Orleans,succumbed to 39 tons of dynamite. The river rushed through at250,000 cubic feet per second. New Orleans was saved, but the miseryof the flooded parishes had only started. The city fathers took yearsto make good on their promises, and very few residents ever saw anycompensation at all.

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The suffering and dying was a horror delivered by greedy businessmenwho cashed in on our people’s pain. We wandered outta the

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Mississippi Delta with no place to go but anywhere was better thanthere. Fast forward to 2005 and listen to an eyewitness account ofthe events that were not Katrina but the white man at work.

Joe Edwards, Jr. told ABC News that:

I heard something go BOOM!!... My house broke inhalf. My mother's house just disintegrated. It was abrick house. All the houses down there floated downthe street like somebody's guiding 'em...

When the reporter attempted to put words in his mouth Edwards stoodfirm:

“I know this happened, they blew it!

Another witness and participant in the Katrina carnage is JordanFlaherty and on Friday, September 2, 2005 at 4:03 PM he enteredhis observation in a written record and called it Notes From InsideNew Orleans.

If anyone wants to examine the attitude of federaland state officials towards the victims of hurricaneKatrina, I advise you to visit one of the refugee camps.In the refugee camp I just left, on the I-10 freewaynear Causeway, thousands of people (at least 90%black and poor) stood and squatted in mud and trashbehind metal barricades, under an unforgiving sun,with heavily armed soldiers standing guard over them.When a bus would come through, it would stop at arandom spot, state police would open a gap in one ofthe barricades, and people would rush for the bus, withno information given about where the bus was going.

Flaherty described how they were treated and told that once theywere on a bus with a destination they would not be allowed off, evenif they had relatives in the town they were passing thru.

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In effect they were FEMA’s prisoners and being taken to aconcentration camp. He went on:

You had no choice but to go to the shelter in Arkansas.If you had people willing to come to New Orleans topick you up, they could not come within 17 miles ofthe camp.

He said there was no effort to set up a system for communications tofind family members, special needs for children or the sick and injured,for disease treatment or a single trash can. He goes on to describeNew Orleans:

To understand this tragedy, it’s important to look atNew Orleans itself. For those who have not lived inNew Orleans, you have missed a incredible, glorious,vital, city. A place with a culture and energy unlikeanywhere else in the world. A 70% African-Americancity where resistance to white supremacy hassupported a generous, subversive and unique cultureof vivid beauty. From jazz, blues and hip-hop, tosecondlines, Mardi Gras Indians, Parades, Beads, JazzFunerals, and red beans and rice on Monday nights,New Orleans is a place of art and music and danceand sexuality liberated unlike anywhere else in theworld.

It is also a city of exploitation, segregation and fear. The city of NewOrleans has a population of just over 500,000 and was expecting 300murders this year, most of them centered on just a few,overwhelmingly Black, neighborhoods.

There is an atmosphere of intense hostility and distrust between muchof Black New Orleans and the N.O. Police Department. In recentmonths, officers have been accused of everything from drug runningto corruption and theft. In separate incidents, two New Orleans policeofficers were recently charged with rape (while in uniform), and there

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has been several high profile police killings of unarmed youth,including the murder of Jenard Thomas, which has inspired ongoingweekly protests for several months.

Obviously, the high illiteracy rate (50%), Louisiana’s pitifuleducational system and low teacher salary has brewed a gumbo ofdespair and hopelessness. He points out that:

Far too many young black men from New Orleansend up enslaved in Angola Prison, a former slaveplantation where inmates still do manual farm labor,and over 90% of inmates eventually die in the prison.It is a city where industry has left, and most remainingjobs are are low-paying, transient, insecure jobs inthe service economy.

Race has always been the undercurrent of Louisiana politics. Thisdisaster is one that was constructed out of racism, neglect andincompetence. Hurricane Katrina was the inevitable spark ignitingthe gasoline of cruelty and corruption. From neighborhoods that leftmost at risk, to the treatment of the refugees, to the the media portrayalof the victims, this disaster is shaped by race.

The rich fled New Orleans and those with no way to get out and nowhere to go were locked in a struggle of life and death while the city,state and federal government sat on their hands and let them sufferand die. The New Orleans survivor goes on:

Adding salt to the wound, the local and national mediahave spent the last week demonizing those left behind.As someone that loves New Orleans and the peoplein it, this is the part of this tragedy that hurts me themost, and it hurts me deeply.

No sane person should classify someone who takesfood from indefinitely closed stores in a desperate,starving city as a "looter," but that's just what the

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media did over and over again. Sheriffs and politicianstalked of having troops protect stores instead ofperform rescue operations. Images of New Orleans'hurricane-ravaged population were transformed intoblack, out-of-control, criminals. As if taking a stereofrom a store that will clearly be insured against lossis a greater crime than the governmental neglect andincompetence that did billions of dollars of damageand destroyed a city. This media focus is a tactic, justas the eighties focus on "welfare queens" and "super-predators" obscured the simultaneous and much largercrimes of the Savings and Loan scams and masslayoffs, the hyper-exploited people of New Orleansare being used as a scapegoat to cover up much largercrimes.

The echo of the words of Samuel Yette will bounce around until wetake heed and act in our own behalf:

Genocide is a political decision. It can be made by atown, city, state, nation or group of nations. It is apolitical discussion... This is not a problem of civilrights - it is a problem of Black survival. The conceptof civil rights is pitifully insignificant when our verylives are at stake.

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For those of you who can’t seem to grasp the global genocide goingon before your eyes, let’s take a moment in overview so you don’tget it twisted...

Global 2000

To cause by means of limited wars in the advanced countries, bymeans of starvation and diseases in the Third World countries, thedeath of three billion people by the year 2050, people they call "uselesseaters". The Committee of 300 (Illuminati) commissioned CyrusVance to write a paper on this subject of how to bring about suchgenocide. The paper was produced under the title "Global 2000Report" and was accepted and approved for action by former PresidentJames Earl Carter, and Edwin Muskie, then Secretary of States, forand on behalf of the US Government. Under the terms of the Global2000 Report, the population of the US is to be reduced by 100 millionby the year of 2050.

Targets of the Illuminati and the Committee of 300By Dr. John Coleman

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The March 1999 "Vaccines" feature in Parenting magazine providedall propaganda one would expect from a subsidiary of Time, Inc.Time-Warner, Inc., the parent company, is a corporate member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations (CFR). Time's President, Richard D.Parsons, and the Editor-in-Chief of TIME, Norman Pearlstine, arelong-standing CFR members. One CFR published policy objectiveis substantial worldwide depopulation including half of the currentU.S. population being targeted. This population reduction programis largely funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Merck Fund,both financially and administratively linked to the Merckpharmaceutical company--the world's leading vaccine manufacturer.

Parenting with Deadly Timely Propagandaby: Dr. Len Horowitz

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Society is being weeded out right now, as minority species are beingeliminated very specifically by biological germ warfare and othertactics meant to insure the elimination of those less geneticallyfavorable... Our food is being tampered with, by the insertion of foodadditives and substances like aspartame. ....They view this as amassive genetic cleanup.

Thanks for the Memories: The Memoirs of Bob Hope's and HenryKissinger's mind control slave by Brice Taylor Êp281

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It was the residential "schools" that constituted the death camps ofthe Canadian Holocaust, and within their walls nearly one-half of allaboriginal children sent there by law died, or disappeared, accordingto the government's own statistics.

These 50,000 victims have vanished, as have their corpses - "likethey never existed", according to one survivor. But they did exist.They were innocent children, and they were killed by beatings andtorture and after being deliberately exposed to tuberculosis and otherdiseases by paid employees of the churches and government,according to a "Final Solution" master plan devised by the Departmentof Indian Affairs and the Catholic and Protestant churches.

The casualties of that war were not only the 50,000 dead children ofthe residential schools, but the survivors, whose social condition todayhas been described by United Nations human rights groups as that of"a colonized people barely on the edge of survival.”

The Canadian Holocaust by Rev. Kevin D. Annett******

Denis Halliday, who the previous year had resigned as assistantsecretary general of the United Nations said: "We are waging a warthrough the United Nations on the people of Iraq. We're targetingcivilians. Worse, we're targeting children. . . . What is this all about?"....he wrote, "because the policy of economic sanctions is . . . destroyingan entire society.

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Five thousand children are dying every month. I don't want toadminister a program that satisfies the definition of genocide."

Halliday's successor, Hans von Sponeck, another assistant secretarygeneral with more than 30 years service, also resigned in protest.......Von Sponeck's disclosure that the sanctions restricted Iraqis toliving on little more than $100 a year was not reported. "Deliberatestrangulation," he called it. Neither was the fact that, up to July 2002,more than $5 billion worth of humanitarian supplies, which had beenapproved by the UN sanctions committee and paid for by Iraq, wereblocked by George W. Bush, with Tony Blair's backing. They includedfood products, medicines and medical equipment, as well as itemsvital for water and sanitation, agriculture and education.

The cost in lives was staggering. Between 1991 and 1998, reportedUNICEF, 500,000 Iraqi children under the age of five died. "If youinclude adults," said Halliday, "the figure is now almostcertainlywell over a million."

The Media Culpability for Iraq By John Pilger******

Del’s Note: Now let’s look into Afrika and review the deadlypopulation control going on there as the Global 2000 Bible erasespeoples and cultures globally as the final phase of the Afrikanholocaust accelerates. In an important piece entitled “The True ForcesBehind Genocide in Afrika” by South Afrikan writer MosalagaeDitshego, he pointed out that Tribal War was not the cause of theinternal conflict in Rwanda:

Let us get to the bottom of the Rwandan story. In 1938,the Western powers wanted to settle European Jewsin the middle section of Africa— around Uganda,Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya and Tanzania—but faileddue to fierce opposition from Marcus Garvey. TonyMartin mentions this in his book, "Race First."

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According to research by Black American industrial engineer andindependent researcher, Zears Miles, the middle section of Africawas designated as the "Fourth World" by the IMF and its sisterinstitution, the World Bank. The intent was to kill millions of peoplewhom the international bankers had decided constituted "excesspopulation" and "useless eaters," through the simple expedients ofstarvation and disease (AIDS).

In "Behold A Pale Horse," by William Cooper (p.456) and "En RouteTo Global Occupation" by Gary H. Kah (p.42). South Africa, Australiaand New Zealand are also designated the "Fourth World" by the Clubof Rome, which is closely associated with the Bilderberg Group. (TheBilderberg Group consists of about 100 NATO countries). The IMFand World Bank are controlled by the same people who control theU. S. Federal Reserve. The same people, according to Canadianactivist, Glen Kealey, also control the Bank of Canada.

In addition, Gary H. Kah mentions that the leadership of the BilderbergGroup is interlocked with that of the Council on Foreign Relations;and that the Club of Rome has drawn a high percentage of its membersfrom the Council of Foreign Relations.

The Club of Rome and the Bilderberg Group are the ones who areplanning genocide and carrying it out through famine, starvation,wars, and inoculation of disease. In Chapter 9, William Cooper goesfurther and discusses in detail the genocidal methods these eliteorganizations use.

It has been estimated that about 500,000 Rwandan people have beenkilled, most of whom are women and children. This is in keepingwith the tenets of the Global 2000 Report which was written duringthe Carter administration. One of the authors of the Global 2000Report is Henry Kissinger. The Global 2000 Report is based on a"study" carried out by the Club of Rome.

Del’s Note: Ditshego pointed out the refugee situation due to thesocial upheaval drove the people to Tanzania. Their plans to settlewhites in the center of Afrika did not pan out.

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These are the same people who are funding the genocide in Rwandafor their own selfish and demonic ends. What is interesting is thatthese same people now turn around and write and broadcast in themedia, which they control worldwide, that the genocide that is takingplace in Rwanda is "tribalism between the Hutu and the Tutsi." Well,the Hutu and the Tutsi say the war in Rwanda has got nothing to dowith them. This is what they told other Africans in the United States.

They say the war in Rwanda is political; it is between Belgium andFrance. They are either fighting for the turf or are deliberately armingthe two sides to create instability so they can go on exploiting theregion's resources. The western countries' industries and economicsare based on raw materials from Africa. For instance, Belgium exportsheavy machinery but there is not even a single mine in Belgium.Where do they get raw materials to manufacture the heavy machinerythey are exporting? From Africa. Jesse Helms wrote in 1978 that theUnited States industry would halt without South African minerals.

Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1978 National Security Council Memorandum(NSCM-46) also mentions U.S. dependence on African mineralwealth and also calls on the FBI and CIA to make sure that "radical"African Nationalist Movements do not get together with BlackNationalist Movements in the United States of America.

[ Del’s Note: They will do anything to halt true Pan-Afrikanism ]

According to a transcript of Network 23 Program in Los Angeles,Henry Kissinger's National Security Memorandum 200 ("NSM 200")which was quietly declassified in 1990 says among other things that:"The U.S. economy will require large and increasing amounts ofminerals from abroad, especially from less-developed countries. Thatfact gives the U.S. enhanced interests in the political, economic andsocial stability of the supplying countries. Wherever a lessening ofpopulation can increase the prospects for such stability, populationpolicy becomes relevant to resources, supplies and to the "economicinterests of the United States."

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[ Del’s note: Kissinger is calling for Black Genocide here! ]

He points out that what was happening in Rwanda, Southern Sudan,Ethiopia and Somalia were keeping with the stated policies of Global2000 genocide. And as the Black Holocaust continues he states that:

There is also the cruel lie making rounds in the white-owned mediathat Africa is poor and overpopulated. Let us get some facts straighthere. Who is fooling who? Dr. Cheikh Anta Diop demonstrated inhis book "Black Africa" that Africa is the richest continent in theworld. Zears Miles has also established this fact. Compared to Africa,Europe is like an empty cupboard. Edem Kodjo provided thesestatistics: Africa's death rate is 20.8 per 1,000; Latin America 10.6per 1,000; Europe and North America 9 per 1,000; Asia 17 per 1,000.

Africa's population density is 15 per square kilometer: Europe's is 89per square kilometer (this is where overpopulation is the problemnot Africa): Asia's is 52 per square kilometer: America's is 16 persquare kilometer. Africa's population constitutes 10 percent of theworld's population. She occupies the fourth place behind Asia with59 percent; Europe with 16 percent and America with 14 percent. Itis clear that Europe is more overpopulated than Africa and America.

What are the implications of the lessening of population in Africaand what is the intention of the Global 2000 Report? The destructionof Africa's population destroys Africa's economic base. The intentionof the Global 2000 Report is to reduce the African population therebyreducing the potential consumer base which is the key ingredient ofeconomic growth. If Africa does not have its large and sustainablepopulation and a big population growth rate, that will stultify theefforts of evolving our own continental integrated economic systemdevoid of the manipulations and false evaluations that have beencharacteristic of our relationship with Europeans and Euro-Americans.Look at China today. It is the fastest growing economy because of itspopulation of two billion people. It is an emerging economic andmilitary power and does not take silly orders from white Americansand Europeans. Africa should also have its own specific politicalpersonality. She must be an end in herself.

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Del”s Note: The Black Holocaust is the key to their global whitesupremacist plans, but as you can see they are wiping out anyonethat is not in their race including the poor lower class whites. Theywant our land all of it all over the globe. Where ever you are standing,living and working now they want it. In New Orleans and other placeswhere our people’s culture and society is rock solid, whether poor ornot, they want the land and they will do what ever they feel necessaryto reach their goals.

For two decades I’ve been writing and speaking on the BlackHolocaust, as they move in for the kill we must prepare like wenever have before. In my book “The Black Holocaust,” I put it thisway:

We can not sit around waiting to die or worse, looking for mercyfrom a heartless enemy, a genocidal enemy...

Listen y’all am I scaring you? You should be very afraid and readyto act to secure our children’s future.

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Hurricane Katrina timelineCBC News Online | Updated September 4, 2005

Then it hit me, ain’t nobody coming to get me, no one feels my pain.Once again the color my skin reminds me things ain’t change. Begginwater again and again, please don’t make drink the water I’m standin’in...

by: Allen Watty, Hurricane Song.com

This is a basic Timeline some of the info is from the CanadianBroadcasting Corporation (CBC) and gives you a feel for the eventsthat engulfed the people and put them in a life or death predicament:

Aug. 24, 2005: Tropical Depression 12 strengthens into TropicalStorm Katrina over the Central Bahamas, and a hurricane warning isissued for the Southeastern Florida coast.

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Aug. 25, 2005Hurricane Katrina strikes Florida between Hallandale Beach andNorth Miami Beach as a Category 1 hurricane with 130 km/h winds.

Aug. 26, 2005Katrina weakens over land into a tropical storm, before moving outover the Gulf of Mexico. It grows to a Category 2 hurricane with 160km/h winds, veering north and west toward Mississippi and Louisiana.10,000 National Guard troops are dispatched across the Gulf Coast.

Aug. 27, 2005Eleven people die in Florida. Katrina becomes a Category 3 storm,with 185 km/h winds, and a hurricane warning is issued for Louisiana'ssoutheastern coast, including New Orleans and Lake Pontchartrain,and for the northern Gulf coast. New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagindeclares a state of emergency and urges residents in low-lying areasto evacuate. Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour declares a state ofemergency. A mandatory evacuation is ordered for Hancock County,65 kilometers east of New Orleans on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.Coastal Gulf residents jam freeways and gas stations as they rush toescape.

Aug. 28, 2005Katrina grows into a Category 5 storm with 260 km/h winds, andheads for the northern Gulf coast. Mayor Nagin orders a mandatoryevacuation for New Orleans, but 10 shelters are also set up, includingthe Superdome, for those unable to leave. Evacuation orders are postedall along the Mississippi coast. Alabama Governor Bob Riley declaresa state of emergency.

Aug. 29, 2005Katrina, now a Category 4 hurricane with 230 km/h winds, makeslandfall near Buras, La., at 6:10 a.m. CT (7:10 a.m. ET). U.S. PresidentBush makes emergency disaster declarations for Louisiana andMississippi, freeing up federal funds. Katrina rips two holes in theSuperdome's roof, with some 10,000 people inside. At least eightGulf Coast refineries shut down or reduce operations. Airports in thearea closed.

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Aug. 30, 2005The death toll in Mississippi rises to more than 100. Two levees

break in New Orleans and water pours in, covering 80 per cent of thecity and rising in some areas to six meters deep. Many people climbonto roofs to escape. Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco sayseveryone still in New Orleans - an estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people- must be gotten out. Crowds swell at the Superdome and theconvention center in New Orleans. Rescuers in helicopters and boatspick up hundreds of stranded people in New Orleans, and reports oflooting begin to emerge. About 40,000 people are in American RedCross shelters, not including in New Orleans. President Bush cutsshort his vacation.

Aug. 31, 2005Nagin offers a startling estimate of New Orleans' death toll:"Minimum, hundreds. Most likely, thousands," he says. "At first light,the devastation is greater than our worst fears," says Blanco,Louisiana's governor. Looting grows dramatically... Blanco asks theWhite House to send more help, and New Orleans police are calledoff search-and-rescue missions to combat out-of-control looting. U.S.Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt declares a federalhealth emergency throughout the Gulf Coast, sending in medicalsupplies and workers.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates it will be at least 30days or more before New Orleans will be pumped out. Bush authorizesa draw-down from the nation's Strategic Petroleum reserve, asgasoline prices surge above $3 US per gallon and shortages crop up.Five offshore Louisiana oil rigs are reported missing and two moreare adrift. An estimated 52,000 people are in Red Cross shelters, withan additional 25,000 in the Superdome, where conditions areworsening by the hour. The first busloads of victims leave theSuperdome for the Astrodome in Houston, more than 500 kilometersaway. The Pentagon mounts one of largest search-and-rescueoperations in American history, sending in four Navy ships withemergency supplies. Water levels finally stop rising in New Orleans,and engineers work to close a 15-meter gap in a failed flood wall.

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Sept. 1, 2005Looting, car jacking and other violence spreads, and the militarydecides to increase National Guard deployment to 30,000. Outsidethe New Orleans Convention Center, the sidewalks are packed withpeople without food, water or medical care, waiting for buses that donot come. Tempers flare. Nagin, the New Orleans mayor, calls thesituation critical and issues "a desperate SOS" for more buses. Crowdsat the Superdome swell to 30,000, with another 25,000 at theconvention center. The first buses arrive at the Houston Astrodome.Elsewhere, 76,000 people are in Red Cross shelters.

Violence in the region escalates, with rescue boats being stolen bymarauders, and shots fired at helicopters that are bringing out hospitalpatients. Doctors at two New Orleans hospitals plead for help, sayingtheir food, water and power are almost gone. Helicopters evacuateup to 600 patients but an estimated 1,500 others are left behind. Thedeath toll in Mississippi hits 126. Bush asks his father, and formerPresident Clinton, to lead a fund-raising campaign for victims. Texasagrees to take in 75,000 people, and 600 massive sand bags arrive tohelp shore up the broken levees of New Orleans.

Sept. 2, 2005President Bush tours the Gulf Coast area and acknowledges the failureso far of government relief efforts, saying "the results are notacceptable." Thousands of National Guardsmen arrive in New Orleansbringing food, water and weapons: they are greeted with a mix ofgratitude and rage. Explosions rock a chemical storage plant in New