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Bush :: More Profits for KBR – Halliburton et al.
Hmmm – Swift Bush Vows Treatment (SVBT) of all workers on basis of equality – Republican way!
Bush was also very quick to repeal EPA regulations.
Based on Bush’s learning at Harvard ::
Skull and Bones from Yale University, probably the most powerful secret society in America. Sutton explains the Hegelian-Masonic motto “order out of chaos”, an act of creating wars to create a need for peace.
"Heh people - I've got a BIG contract to sign for security in Iraq for my Army - to spread democracy and free elections - needs some sacrifice at home. What you have no home? Bet you save a lot of money on fixed monthly costs. You can always knock on the door of the Salvation Army. Building gone? Oh, I hear they will drive in with a big truck soon."
President signs executive order allowing contractors to pay below prevailing wage in affected areas.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) Sept. 8, 2005 — President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the prevailing wage.
In a notice to Congress, Bush said the hurricane had caused “a national emergency” that permits him to take such action under the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act in ravaged areas of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana and Mississippi.
More to follow below the fold »»
Is the diary by roseeriter true after all?
“The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities,” Miller said.
“President Bush should immediately realize the colossal mistake he has made in signing this order and rescind it and ensure that America puts its people back to work in the wake of Katrina at wages that will get them and their families back on their feet,” Miller said.
George W. Bush, right, during his
Harvard Business School years.
(Harvard Yearbook)
33 Years Later … It’s Hard Work!
5-Minute Video on Morning of 9/11
Some men never change, only the bubble gum exchanged for … a pretzel.
From the NewsChannel 6 Storm Spotting Team:
Governor Blanco requested $9,000,000 and a federal state of emergency declared Saturday. She sent the following letter to President Bush:
(Saturday) August 27, 2005
The President
The White House
Washington, D.C.
Through:
Regional Director
FEMA Region VI
800 North Loop 288
Denton, Texas 76209
Dear Mr. President:
Under the provisions of Section 501 (a) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. §§ 5121-5206 (Stafford Act), and implemented by 44 CFR § 206.35, I request that you declare an emergency for the State of Louisiana due to Hurricane Katrina for the time period beginning August 26, 2005, and continuing.
[…] In response to the situation I have taken appropriate action under State law and directed the execution of the State Emergency Plan on August 26, 2005 in accordance with Section 501 (a) of the Stafford Act. A State of Emergency has been issued for the State in order to support the evacuations of the coastal areas in accordance with our State Evacuation Plan and the remainder of the state to support the State Special Needs and Sheltering Plan.
[…] I have designated Mr. Art Jones as the State Coordinating Officer for this request. He will work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency in damage assessments and may provide further information or justification on my behalf.
Sincerely,
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco
Governor
Enclosure
Why were offers for assistance not accepted? Offers from states, nations and the Red Cross.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson offered Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco help from his state’s National Guard last Sunday, the day before Hurricane Katrina hit Louisiana. Blanco accepted, but paperwork needed to get the troops en route didn’t come from Washington until late Thursday.
Heavily armed Drug Enforcement Agents prepare to patrol down Canal Street in the besieged city of New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina. AP Photo/Dave Martin
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Bush and Disaster Charts
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Katrina disaster situation explained, during his visit on Friday to Mobile in Alabama, before traveling to Biloxi, Mississippi and New Orleans in Louisiana.
KSLA News 12 Latest Headlines Katrina Catastrophe
The governor of Texas worries that his state may not be able to take many more evacuees from Hurricane Katrina. Governor Rick Perry says Texas is committed to doing everything it can to help, but wants to be sure it can provide the services needed, including medical care and education. Perry says local officials “are beginning to notify us that they are quickly approaching capacity.” Louisiana and the FEMA. have been alerted.
Texas has taken in over 220,000 evacuees, with more on the way. Nearly 19,000 are in the Houston Astrodome. Over 120,000 are in 97 shelters in Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, and dozens of smaller cities. Another 100,000 are in hotels and motels, with still more in churches or private homes.
Carnival Cruise Lines has canceled voyages for three of its ships so they can house victims of Hurricane Katrina. The schedules of the Ecstasy, the Sensation, and the Holiday have been cleared for the next six months. Two will dock in Galveston, Texas, and the third in Mobile, Alabama. Together, they can hold about 7,000 passengers.
The request for the cruise ships came from the FEMA. The cost of the charters was not disclosed. Carnival is apologizing to those whose cruise plans have been canceled. The number is believed to be in the tens of thousands. Anyone who re-books will get a one-hundred-dollar-per-person shipboard credit.
Latter link, reads as follows —
” With the chartering of the cruise ship Holiday to the Military Sealift Command (MSC) on behalf of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as part of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts …”
Mmmm … housing for evacuees?
… a week later, evacuees do not want to board a cruiser!
Perhaps a FREE cruise for Bush’s cabinet to the Bermuda Triangle?
Bush – DHS Chertoff – FEMA Brown
… reminds me of the report by Oprah Winfrey.
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WAFB TV – Charmaine Neville :: Heartbreaking Story of Escape
Damion Neville, left, hugs his mother, New Orleans jazz and blues singer Charmaine Neville, who survived Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The two were reunited on Saturday in Baton Rouge after Damion arrived from Houston. Advocate staff photo by MARK SALTZ
Resting Saturday at a friend’s quiet home in Southdowns, Charmaine Neville was a world away from the despair and desperation that surrounded her New Orleans home last week.
Before Hurricane Katrina and breaks in the city’s levee system brought a great city to its knees, Neville lived on Pauline Street in the city’s Ninth Ward.
Celine Dion, Harry Connick slam N. Orleans suffering, as Sean Penn sinks
Celine Dion
What did the press talk about :: OIL
With whom did the President communicate: Mike Brown.
The conference planned for August 31, Wednesday afternoon 16:00 hours, involves all top dog bureaucrats for an interagency task force. No phone calls to the governors of the disaster stricken states? At this time, thousands of Americans along the Gulf Coast have drowned, many hundreds will not be rescued and will die in the coming hours as the bureaucrats convene an interagency task force, awaiting the presence of VP Cheney from Wyoming – our top dog Energy crisis – meaning :: OIL
- Higher Gas Price :: Higher Profits
- Refineries world-wide already to full capacity – see diary by Jerôme.
- Urgent need for US to build new refineries.
- Due to Katrina :: EPA rules suspended!
- Rebuilding Gulf Coast to meet desires.
- Only need to rid NOLA of … undesirable elements.
MSNBC :: Fuel Pipelines 100% capacity
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Sept. 7, 2005 — The two main pipelines Colonial and Plantation are pumping full capacity according to State Secr. of Transportation.
I couldn’t understand strategic oil pipelines dependent on electrical power and not self-generating diesel units. Emergency units were placed in pumping stations to get transport back on line. Corporate power!
Barbara Bush has heaped further pressure on the beleaguered US President by claiming refugees from Hurricane Katrina are better off thanks to the floods.
America’s former first lady and President George W Bush’s mother claimed the aftermath of the deadly hurricane is “working very well” for the many made homeless and still anxiously waiting for news of friends and relatives following the disaster.
Mrs Bush made the series of gaffes after visiting the stricken Astrodome in Texas where many evacuees from New Orleans are being housed in appalling conditions.
“What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas.
“Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.”
“And so many of the people in the arena here were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.”
Iceberg Barbara Visited the Wrong Stadium
Equal opportunity in the NOLA Superdome.
I understand some clean-up needs to be done – she could join for let’s say 24 hours – a day and a night!
Of course for such a short period of time, no meals and water is permitted. There are no buses, so perhaps some swimming is required in Crescent city. Karl can spin this event in a Cold War stint!
Son just like mom … disconnected.
All Ye Faithful
Is George Bush the Christians’ Christian?
Skull and Bones from Yale University, probably the most powerful secret society in America. Sutton explains the Hegelian-Masonic motto “order out of chaos”, an act of creating wars to create a need for peace.
The firm of Kenyon Worldwide Disaster Management has been hired by FEMA to coordinate the recovery of bodies in Orleans, Jefferson, St. Bernard and Plaquemines parishes. Officials estimate it will be able to handle 500 to 1,000 bodies, which will be stored in refrigeration trucks until they can be buried.
A temporary warehouse morgue in rural St. Gabriel, La. that had been prepared to take 1,000 bodies, was being readied to handle 5,000.
Life's End Marked "X"
IT’S LORD OF THE FLIES IN LOUISIANA
R.I.P. May all these brave Americans meet their creator and rest in peace.
Their deaths demand accountability and Justice!
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I have found these the best source for local NOLA news ::
Nola.com with people finder & news archives.
Also Louisiana TV news and video reports ::
2 the advocate – Baton Rouge
KSLA TV – Shreveport
KTAL News – Katrina Pet Rescues Continue
WAFB TV – Baton Rouge
WVUA7 – Tuscaloosa
4WWL TV.com – New Orleans
2WSB TV – Atlanta
Does anyone have other or better suggestions?
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we’re in, will summon a leader who will come forward. Moment of crisis requires HOPE for survival to make change happen. Despair, like fear, only works to the advantage of present crooks in the WH.
It is important for all Americans to recognize this person, who will stand up to be counted.
In the meantime, do what you can and do best, if that is blogging to spread the truths about this administration, so be it. We’ll hang in there until the Republicans are run out of our capital city, named after our founding father George Washington. I do believe he also battled a King George … and won!
America needs to return to the fundamentals of democracy, rule by the people, for the people and of the people.
Perhaps we should reflect the words of a truly Great American, Abraham Lincoln and his Gettysburg address—
G E T T Y S B U R G A D D R E S S
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
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… that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain …
–that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom–and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The Demoratic leadership must follow a line of sweeping reform in the Capital, including Congress. We the people will only accept ousting of all incompetent, chickenhawk politicians, who have let this country go down a path of ruins.
RIPPLE OF HOPE
“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring. Those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Robert F. Kennedy
– SPECIAL REPORT from THE TIMES-PICAYUNE –
It’s only a matter of time before South Louisiana
takes a direct hit from a major hurricane.
Billions have been spent to protect us,
but we grow more vulnerable every day.
Five-Part Series published June 23-27, 2002
▼ ▼ ▼ PREVIOUS DIARIES RELATED TO KATRINA ::
- BUSH Think on Creation :: “Order out of Chaos”
Links To Skull & Bones Society! - Volunteers At Heart :: RESCUE MISSION KATRINA
- Chandeleur Islands Gone ¶ “Hazard Waste Areas ::
Everyone Needs to Get Out! “ - Breaking – NG | DHS Orders :: Red Cross Not Allowed In NOLA
- Disasters George Bush Wrought :: Analysis and Katrina Update
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to kick …
the meek
the poor
those who are deprived
the weak and the elderly.
we’ll smoke them out of their caves
or more relevant, drown them out of their homes.
we don’t have the time and resources to take care of those not participating in our society.
to paraphrase my mother: people should thank me for taking them out of their misery in NOLA.
You did good Mikey
Just heard FEMA Brown is relieved from job?!
George you can’t hide …
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IEM, FEMA, and Hurricane Pam: I was there ◊ by suspect device
Originally posted ◊ at Suspect Device Blog
You may have seen mention of the “Hurricane Pam” exercise in press coverage of Louisiana’s emergency preparedness, or lack thereof. I used to work for IEM and was at the Hurricane Pam exercise.
As with most IEM projects, the Hurricane Pam exercise was put together at the last minute, in a blind animal panic with no time for refinement, testing, or subtlety, but it still was a remarkable and bold idea.
There were contracts in place with major vendors across the country, and prestaging areas were already determined. […] this is one reason FEMA has rejected large donation and turned back freelance shipments of water, medical supplies, food, etc: they have contracts in place to purchase those items, and accepting the same product from another source could be construed as breach of contract. This could lead to contract cancellation, thus removing a reliable source of product from the pool of available resources. … but the reasoning is that if they accept five semis of water from the east Weewau, Wisconsin, Chamber of Commerce, the water supplier, who is contractually bound to provide 100,000 gallons per day will be freed from that obligation.
So: Louisiana did have a hurricane plan (pdf file), but was devising a new one, to be based on recommendation from the people who would actually be doing the work. The need to evacuate people from impact areas, including those without transportation or the means to obtain it, was discussed, despite media assertions to the contrary.
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FEMA Region VI related contract firms ::
Established in 1956, Dewberry is a multidisciplinary planning, engineering, and design firm, employing more than 1,600 individuals. As FEMA’s largest contractor
URS Corporation provides planning, engineering, architecture and applied science to hundreds of government agencies and private industrial and commercial companies worldwide. The company has more than 26,000 employees.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Sept. 2, 2005 — The U.S government is sending four mobile morgues to the area struck by Hurricane Katrina.
One unit is working in Louisiana and the other three are en route or in staging areas, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Friday.
The death toll in the storm remains uncertain but officials have said it could be hundreds or thousands.
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Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Teams — known as DMORT — are made up of civilian volunteers who provide victim identification and mortuary services. The teams set up temporary morgue facilities and handle body preparation and disposal of remains.
Organized under FEMA, the teams work under direction of local authorities during an emergency.
They include funeral directors, medical examiners, coroners, pathologists, forensic anthropologists, medical records technicians and transcribers, finger print specialists, forensic dental experts, dental assistants, x-ray technicians, mental health specialists, computer professionals, administrative support staff and security and investigative personnel.
[Links and bold emphasis added are mine – Oui]
In diary by Jerôme a Pàris is mentioned De Boer was involved in setting up morgue facility after London bombings. I searched for any link in UK, I haven’t found any info. Begin to think this was bogus, false information. As I added comment to diary: De Boer delivers accommodations – NOT morgues.
MY CONCLUSION :: ALL HEADLINES IRRESPONSIBLE for suggestion up to 25,000 dead!
These statements add to FEAR, please corroborate stories first before publication. Rovian tactic?
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Excellent roundup Oui, can’t imagine how you find the time to do all the diaries with all the depth that you do…
My take … see comment re: VP Cheney.
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– how is SP Patrick Fitzgerald coming along – any news soon?
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A bungled initial response to Katrina exposedthe perils of a rigid, insular White House.
Inside Bush's plan to show he isn't isolated.
Living Too Much in the Bubble?
TIME Sept. 11, 2005 — And as if the West Wing were suddenly snakebit, his franchise player, senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, Karl Rove, was on the disabled list for part of last week, working from home after being briefly hospitalized with painful kidney stones.
SusanHu :: Cover The New Yorker
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Just don’t believe it, the official FEMA website for Region VI —
Very simply, failure is often the fastest and easiest way to learn. When something does not go right, we think about what caused that undesirable outcome. Success is wonderful but not necessarily the best teacher. When things go right we are often so relieved that we don’t analyze it to the same degree. Your experience could save hours, dollars and lives in reducing the learning curve for others. Jack Canfield and Mark Hansen highlighted some of the “failures”. This list a few of successful people who succeeded because they walked down the road of failure.
Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor because he didn’t have creative ideas. Disney also went bankrupt more than once before he built the Disney Empire.
Hey Brothers and Sisters of the Gulf Coast – thanks for dying, this has made us a lot smarter [and richer …]!
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AREA MAP FEMA REGION VI
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