This is unbelievable Brown: You want me to be a hero
“My mistake was in recognizing that for whatever reasons … Mayor Nagin and Governor Blanco were reticent to order a mandatory evacuation,” he said.
“If I, Mike Brown, individual, could have done something to convince them that this was the big one and they needed to [...]
“When the only tool you know how to use is a hammer every problem looks like a nail”.
Bush looks to Pentagon to take lead in disasters
President Bush indicated Sunday that he may ask Congress to put the Pentagon in charge of the response to domestic disasters such as the two recent hurricanes — a change [...]
There has long been a debate in this country about whether the media is now more about entertainment than information, preferrs scandal to substance and creates drama to hold viewership. I don’t know if any of you saw the emergency landing of a JetBlue A320 plane with landing gear problems in Los Angeles the [...]
Dan Froomkin has a good column today. The whole thing is long but worth the read. His commentary on Bush’s speech the other day that rambled on blaming everyone except the Easter bunny for his failures around the world is spot-on but this section particularly caught my eye.
From a comment by a reader [...]
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Peace and justice activist Roger Benham of Connecticut joins us by phone from Algiers Louisiana. He is there to provide emergency medical care for victims of Hurricane Katrina, and he says he would like to [...]
Josh talks a bit about the bush response to the failure of his response to the Katrina catastrophe, here, here, here, and most especially here. As you’ll notice the one thing all those links have in common is Karl Rove.
Remember, bush put Michael Brown, an utterly unqualified individual, in charge of FEMA which by [...]
(note: this interview is followed by a short discussion with Bill Dobbs of United for Peace and Justice)
Galloway Goes to Washington - Again, for September 24th Anti-War Demonstration
Talk Nation Radio broadcast for September 14, 2005, Dori Smith
British MP George Galloway talks about his book on the Senate testimony he provided to Senator Ron Coleman [...]
From Newsweek, as clear an indication of the failure of leadership. It isn’t that bush failed to act it is more that he lives within such a bubble of privilege and has made is clear to his staff that he cannot face unpleasant truths that he is incapable of creating any real leadership for [...]
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“I call it < "http://www.michaelparenti.org/superpatriotism.html">Superpatriotism because it’s an unthinking knee jerk thing which equates more and more military expenditure and military strength with “patriotism”. It equates attacking and waging wars on other people with love [...]
Just a quick thought.
In August of 2001 George W. Bush was on vacation at his Potemkin ranch in Crawford Texas when he read a briefing entitled “bin Laden determined to strike in the U.S.”…and in less than a month did just that. Bush’s reaction? “No one could have anticipated” such an attack.
In August [...]
Bill Moyers has written an excellent and, as usual, thoughtful piece on the lessons of 9/11 that we have failed to learn, 9/11 and the Sport of God. I don’t subscribe to his religious viewpoints, or any religious viewpoints for that matter, but he transcends his theology in a way fundamentalists never can to [...]
READ THIS, FOLLOW THE LINKS, and when you do remember that through all of this Al Gore wanted no publicity, it has nothing to do with image with him. It is about people in need and meeting that need and that is all. Had a Republican politician, especially those in charge in D.C. [...]
For those of you who watched the news lately, or The Daily Show which is more accurate anyway, you probably saw the new footage wherein a voice in the background repeats Dick Cheney’s words to him (those famous 3 words he uttered on the floor of the Senate to illustrate Republican dignity in action) as [...]
It really is impossible to make this shit up.
Arlington, Va (AP) - Anyone who joins Sunday’s Nine-Eleven memorial Freedom Walk without registering could be arrested.
Pentagon officials tell The Washington Post that the route from the Pentagon to the Mall will be lined with four-foot-high snow fencing. US Park Police will keep out interlopers. Hundreds [...]
Well, on the heels of a prohibition on photographs of the dead returning from Iraq and a “we don’t do body counts” attitude towards those Iraqis foolish enough to get in the way of a bullet or a bomb or a tank round we now have the latest, so far successful, effort to ensure that [...]
What drives this man and why the hell does he get away with this stuff? A huge thanks to Talking Points Memo for this via The DailyKos. The original article in in the Salt Lake Tribune.
As specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was [...]
The National Geographic published this article 4 years ago. It gives me chills just to read it. But of course, the bush administration didn’t know any of this…
The storm hit Breton Sound with the fury of a nuclear warhead, pushing a deadly storm surge into Lake Pontchartrain. The water crept to the top [...]
Brian Williams (of NBC) has a blog and an entry that is chilling.
There are a few details from a week ago that are strikingly telling in the light of day a week later. Our team arrived in Baton Rouge Sunday afternoon, Aug. 28. After renting cars, we headed to top off our gas tanks before [...]
Wow, this is a White House that is responsive to threats, knows how to contain damage and minimize casualties. From the moment the threat became apparent this White House went into high gear, marshalling all its resources, enlisting key personnel and working long hours to coordinate a response, get the word out and ensure [...]
Slate has some good stuff right now on the incompetence of the feds
Part of the problem is the consolidation of FEMA—an agency that deals with natural disasters—into a superagency set up primarily to deal with terrorist attacks. The head of FEMA used to be a Cabinet-level job and as such would sit in on [...]