Hurricane Katrina
FEMA Failures Reported in
Major Media
FEMA refuses
hundreds of personnel, dozens of vehicles - Chicago Tribune, 9/2/05
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902daley,1,2011979.story
FEMA won't let
Red Cross deliver food - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 9/3/05
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm
FEMA fails to
utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board - Chicago Tribune, 9/4/05
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509040369sep04,1,4144825.story
FEMA turns away
state-of-the-art mobile hospital from Univ. of North Carolina - CNN, 9/5/05
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/09/04/katrina.sick.redtape.ap/
FEMA won't accept
Amtrak's help in evacuations - Financial Times, 9/5/05
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-00000e
FEMA rejects
skills of firefighters, instructs them to hand out fliers - Salt Lake Tribune,
9/6/05
http://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_3004197
FEMA turns back
Wal-Mart supply trucks - New York Times, 9/6/05
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05blame.html
FEMA prevents
Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel - New York Times, 9/6/05
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05blame.html
FEMA blocks 500-boat
citizen flotilla from delivering aid - News Sentinel, 9/8/05
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/12595873.htm
FEMA asks media not to take pictures of dead - Washington Post, 9/8/05
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702126.html
FEMA turns back
German government plane loaded with 15 tons of food - Spiegel, 9/12/05
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,374268,00.html
FEMA prevents
MDs from treating dying people around them because not "federalized"
- NY Times, 9/17/05
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/17/opinion/17tierney.html
FEMA veteran
states bosses ignored his critical warnings in days prior to hurricane - CNN,
9/18/05
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/17/katrina.response/index.html
FEMA diverts
money for hurricane disaster study to future bridge options - CNN, 9/18/05
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/17/katrina.evacuation.ap
FEMA: "First
Responders Urged Not To Respond" Unless Dispatched - FEMA's own website
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470
More Resources
For a highly
revealing personal account by two emergency medical personnel who were participating
in a conference in New Orleans at the time of the hurricane, see their gripping
story at http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805A.shtml.
The mainstream media has largely avoided reporting devastating personal stories
which reveal all that is being covered up. For more on how corporate ownership
of the media blocks key stories like this, see http://www.WantToKnow.info/mediainformation
For those who
are ready to go even deeper, first read FEMA's own description of its founding
here. Then, learn the
deeper aspects of FEMA's shady beginnings at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rex_84.
Finally, for Online Journal's revealing analysis article "New Orleans:
Dress rehearsal for lockdown of America" see: http://www.onlinejournal.com/Commentary/091305Baker/091305baker.html
For a little
hard-hitting humor on the CBS website:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/08/opinion/main827633.shtml
For those interested
in information on secret government weather control programs:
http://www.WantToKnow.info/050307tsunamibombweapon
http://www.WantToKnow.info/resources#haarp
For empowering
ideas on what we can do about all this:
http://www.WantToKnow.info/spreadtheword
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FEMA Failures: Hurricane Katrina
