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Big Easy to Big Empty:
How the White House is Still Drowning New Orleans

From the film commercially released this week based on the investigation for Democracy Now! – the story you won’t get on CNN:
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“They don’t want no poor niggers back in – that’s the bottom line.”

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“By midnight the White House knew – but the state police didn’t know.”

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“Stop that camera, we’ve called security.”

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“This is criminal negligence for which people go to jail.”

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“It is a prison set-up. I’ve never been to the bottom
of the barrel until I came here.”

From the film, Big Easy to Big Empty: The Untold Story of the Drowning of New Orleans, an investigation by Greg Palast for Democracy Now! Re-released this week in DVD including exclusive interviews by Palast and Amy Goodman of heroes and villains – the deep horror, the dark humor and the no-bullshit truth you won’t get on CNN.

Get a copy of the DVD here, watch an excerpt here, watch the hour-long broadcast on Link TV tonight, and read the new chapter on New Orleans in Armed Madhouse click here to buy, or hear it read here.
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