Katrina: Please post ALL important sources and links here!!

[John Doe II]

Please post all important sources and links here in order not to loose anything important before we can organize the information in a Katrina forum that hopefully will come. Check out here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=104&topic_id=4659394&mesg_id=4659394

And many many thanks to mom cat :applause:

Post all articles, official documents and also links to homepages discussing Katrina.
Please don't discuss the stuff in this thread but in the threads dealing with the different issues of Katrina.
If you don't want to post information a third time here then simply give the URL of the thread on DU.
Thanks a lot for all contribution!!

[terip64]

1. House cancels hearings on Katrina response

Nice try, Tom Delay, but not this time.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/09/07/katrina.congress/index.html
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The House majority leader late Tuesday tried to deflect criticism of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina by saying "the emergency response system was set up to work from the bottom up," then announced a short time later that House hearings examining that response had been canceled.

Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said House Republican leaders instead want a joint House-Senate panel set up to conduct a "congressional review" of the issue.
Tempers flared Tuesday during a contentious closed-door meeting between House members and Cabinet secretaries in charge of directing Katrina relief efforts. A Republican representative stood up and said, "All of you deserve failing grades. The response was a disaster," CNN was told by lawmakers emerging from the meeting.
But DeLay countered that assessment later in a news conference by saying that the onus for responding to emergencies fell to local officials.
"It's the local officials trying to handle the problem. When they can't handle the problem, they go to the state, and the state does what they can to, and if they need assistance from FEMA and the federal government they ask for it and it's delivered," DeLay said.
He added that Alabama and Mississippi did a much better job of responding quickly than Louisiana. Alabama and Mississippi have Republican governors.

snip

In a memo dated August 29 -- the day Katrina made landfall -- Brown asked Chertoff for 1,000 DHS volunteers willing to deploy as soon as possible "for a two-week minimum field assignment" in hurricane-struck states.

The memo was obtained by the media Tuesday.
In it, Brown writes, "We anticipate needing at least 1,000 additional DHS employees within 48 hours and 2,000 within 7 days."
According to Natalie Rule, a spokeswoman for FEMA, the employees were needed to answer phones, do community relations and help set up field hospitals, what she called "non-emergency tasks." They are not first-responders, she said.
"We already had all of our first-responder teams pre-deployed -- 32 teams in all -- who went in and staged in and around the hurricane zone and were ready to go by Sunday. This is deployment that requires that the governor make a request to the federal government," Rule said.
In closing, Brown says in the memo, "Thank you for your consideration in helping us meet our responsibilities in this near catastrophic event." Attached to the memo is a list of requirements for employees heading to the hurricane area, including personal supplies, contact points and physical requirements.
One part of the attachment advises employees to "convey a positive image of disaster operations to government officials, community organizations and the general public."

[bpilgrim]

8. Katrina: Audio, Video & Image Archive

http://news.globalfreepress.com/gallery/index.php?cat=19

peace

[Hello_Kitty]

2. Cool blog post comparing Fla. responses to Katrina

FEMA: Florida Election Management Agency


Mel Brooks once said, "it's good to be king." Well when it comes to hurricanes, it's even better being the President's brother. Especially in a vital swing state. In an election year.
Louisiana's Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco is learning that the hard way. While her state suffered through a disastrous, disorganized and delayed response to Katrina from FEMA and the Bush administration, Florida governor Jeb Bush had no such problems as his state weathered four hurricanes in 2004.

There is no mystery to this discrepancy, as GovExec.com wrote in "How FEMA Delivered Florida for Bush" on November 3rd, 2004, literally the day after the President won reelection:

Now that President Bush has won Florida in his 2004 re-election bid, he may want to draft a letter of appreciation to Michael Brown, chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Seldom has any federal agency had the opportunity to so directly and uniquely alter the course of a presidential election, and seldom has any agency delivered for a president as FEMA did in Florida this fall.


http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/000246.htm

[Inland]

3. kick

[liveoaktx]

4. Political Video and Audio

Category Hurricane

[John Doe II]

5. Further more

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,168634,00.html

FEMA was there PRIOR to Hurricane Katrina
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4671333

The Smoking Gun - Article in the Salt Lake Tribune
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4674353

FEMA Deliberately Sabotaging Hurricane Relief Efforts
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4665492

Bush requested federal takeover of NOLA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4675509
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090301680.html

CNN timeline :
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2005/katrina/interactive/timeline.katrina.large/frameset.exclude.html

bpilgrim’s archive of audio, video etc:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4670197

Let’s put the evidence together
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4658479

[John Doe II]

6. New thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4677017

[Tesibria]

7. Copy of FEMA letter (the "late" one)

is now available at http://wid.ap.org/documents/dhskatrina.pdf

[mom cat]

9. Please rate up and keep kicked! Please put dates on all info!

Thanks so much! :grouphug:...:kick:

[Tesibria]

10. FEMA sends plane to wrong Charlston (Reported 9/6)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/06/katrina.charleston/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Add geography to the growing list of FEMA fumbles.

A South Carolina health official said his colleagues scrambled Tuesday when FEMA gave only a half-hour notice to prepare for the arrival of a plane carrying as many as 180 evacuees to Charleston.

But the plane, instead, landed in Charleston, West Virginia, 400 miles away.

[Tesibria]

11. NOLA-Times Picayune Blogs

Times Picayune:
(Best place for contemporaneous local reports from the beginning of the hurricane warnings)
August: http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_08.html
September:
http://www.nola.com/newslogs/breakingtp/index.ssf?/mtlogs/nola_Times-Picayune/archives/2005_09.html

[Tesibria]

12. Daily Kos - DKosopedia Katrina Chronology

Being updated continually:

http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina_Chronology

[Tesibria]

13. www.katrinatimeline.org

Another great (better, actually) timeline:

http://www.katrinatimeline.org/

[John Doe II]

14. Page 19 and 20

maybe check out especially the threads in "danger" of entering the archive:

Here what I've found.
No idea how good the threads are. Should check out later:

Bady lived and died in Superdom :
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4652126

How Castro handled a hurricane:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4658796

1000 survivors sent to Puerto Rico:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4658980

The only proof needed to prove Bush lied:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4651748

Jefferson Parish President: They’re keeping the body-count low
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4645625

Flash animation to Katrina and Iraq:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4657975

Timeline of aid prevention and refusal:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4610580

[mom cat]

15. The repost of Eloriel's thread. This is a real treasure trove!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4630068

Save this in your favorites!

[John Doe II]

16. And

LA article :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4655455$

Gov Blanco’s letter demanding aid :
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4657604

Patterns in lack of response:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4657713

The leeve:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4661103

[Tesibria]

17. List of Official Quotes from DailyKos (The "Hall of Shame")

http://dailykos.com/story/2005/9/7/84411/03598

Great list of official quotes, with links to sources.

[Tesibria]

18. DKosopedia Index of Katrina-related Info

http://www.dkosopedia.com/index.php/Hurricane_Katrina_Commentary

[Tesibria]

19. BBC Timeline

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4211404.stm

[John Doe II]

20. September 6 threads

St Bernard leeve :
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4660155

Rescuers find 22 bodies lashed together in St. Bernard Parish
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4662161

Duke students talk of disgraceful scenes:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4661721

FEMA’s website:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4661868

Gulf Cleansing--Theory to Explain FEMA Actions and Delays
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4647282

Photojournalists getting harrassed/killed(?) in NO - same as Iraq
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4663783

Did the NO police kill 5 Department of Defense workers?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4658376

[John Doe II]

21. More DU threads

Journalists in NO beaten by cops
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4659291


From 8/29 Cabs $1500 per person NOLA to Airport/Benson EMS in NOLA hotel http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4664117

How come China was able to evacuate 790,000 of their people resulting in
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4661200

CNN Breaking: "No Autopsies on Victims of Katrina"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4659944

[Tesibria]

22. Another Timeline w/ great links

http://www.thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline

This has some good info I've note seen on other timelines, including:

MORNING — LOUISIANA NEWSPAPER SIGNALS LEVEES MAY GIVE: “Forecasters Fear Levees Won’t Hold Katrina”: “Forecasters feared Sunday afternoon that storm driven waters will lap over the New Orleans levees when monster Hurricane Katrina pushes past the Crescent City tomorrow.”

AFTERNOON — BUSH, BROWN, CHERTOFF WARNED OF LEVEE FAILURE BY NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER DIRECTOR: Dr. Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center: “‘We were briefing them way before landfall. … It’s not like this was a surprise. We had in the advisories that the levee could be topped.’”

8AM – MAYOR NAGIN REPORTS THAT WATER IS FLOWING OVER LEVEE: “I’ve gotten reports this morning that there is already water coming over some of the levee systems. In the lower ninth ward, we’ve had one of our pumping stations to stop operating, so we will have significant flooding, it is just a matter of how much.”

[John Doe II]

23. For everybody opening a new thread

please read this on Katrina:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4679848

[Bernardo de La Paz]

24. Floodgate is the right frame / meme. They can't close the floodgate now.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4680397&mesg_id=4680397

Floodgate is to Bush as Watergate is to Nixon.

[John Doe II]

25. More

Larry Johnson: CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE AND KATRINA?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4633807

how did they deal with the bodies after the tsunami?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4664088

My blog mentions several horror stories from Katrina.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4665306

Bush fired head of Army Corps of Engineers in '02 for slamming budget cuts
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4657715

[John Doe II]

26. More

This is how business should respond to Katrina
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4665822

CNN article entirely on DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OFFICIAL VERSION AND TRUTH
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4600287

News search engine :
http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/

Here's why the Mayor is NOT responsible for evacuation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4650373

[John Doe II]

27. More

This is how business should respond to Katrina
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4665822

CNN article entirely on DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OFFICIAL VERSION AND TRUTH
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4600287

News search engine :
http://www.lexisnexis.com/news/

Here's why the Mayor is NOT responsible for evacuation
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4650373

[John Doe II]

28. Please

Can you nominate this thread so people see it and more people participate. Only then the whole thing makes sense!

Thanks !


And great are of course also many MSM sources and links to blogs etc

[mom cat]

29. We are at four votes now! ONE MORE PLEASE! Great job John Doe II

I got back earlier that I expected.

[KyndCulture]

30. I got the 5th.

[mom cat]

31. Thanks swetie!

[Just Me]

32. Nominated and Bookmarked!!!

:hi: Thanks!!!!

[EVDebs]

33. Don't forget FEMA's outsourcing and privatizing

IEM, Inc. got the contract for planning for SE La. and N.O.
http://www.ieminc.com/Whats_New/Press_Releases/pressrelease060304_Catastrophic.htm

"The IEM team will complete a functional exercise on a catastrophic hurricane strike in Southeast Louisiana and use results to develop a response and recovery plan. A catastrophic event is one that can overwhelm State, local and private capabilities so quickly that communities could be devastated without Federal assistance and multi-agency planning and preparedness."

Plus, FEMA waited to contract to out-of-state bus charter companies from as far away as Cincinnatti, OH and in North Carolina, well AFTER the hurricane passed on Monday Aug. 29th, instead of commandeering school and transit buses within Louisiana itself.

From: FEMA Urges Patience Sept. 2nd
http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18540

"Convoys of food, water and ice which are arriving hourly in impacted areas.
The evacuation of thousands from New Orleans to Texas. FEMA has contracted for more than 650 buses to expedite the state-ordered evacuation."

Community Offers Relief
Hickory, NC
http://www.hickoryrecord.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=HDR%2FMGArticle%2FHDR_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784847098&path=

"The Newton-based company received a call around 10 a.m. Wednesday from another bus company that was contacted by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. FEMA was looking to send 250 buses to New Orleans"

Local Company Sending Charter Buses To Gulf
http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/09/02/bus.html

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency is mobilizing 5,000 buses nationwide...FEMA will pay Croswell and other operators $3 per mile, but that was based on the price of gas being $2.50 a gallon."

Outsourcing and privatization have killed jobs in the recent past. Now they are literally and figuratively killers any way you wish to describe...I'm so sick of outsourcing and privatization of profit/socialization of risk. And what's worse, even those Democrats who are the enablers of the Republican economic policies that are continuing to destroy the New Deal, or more accurately, what's left of the New Deal.

[EVDebs]

54. Also see this DailyKos link about busing, this time from Wisconsin

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/4/19549/72688

Here it seems that the state of Louisiana contracted for busing, not FEMA ! I'm not sure of the timing on this story from Sept 4th on DailyKos but the busing issue is a real sticking point in this story.

All very last minute. Newsweek's story on the hurricane shows a picture of school buses on one side of a roadway while charter buses from AL and TN are being boarded.

[Oeditpus Rex]

34. Tons of stuff here (repost)

If This Be Treason

Video dump, "Katrina by the Numbers," NWS bulletins, "Congressional Record paper trail" showing Congressmembers' pleas for more funding to shore up levees, etc.

This is a blog, so you might have to go back a page or two to find everything.

[Josh Portis]

35. Evacuation Plan

Evacuation Plan

[EVDebs]

38. Whoa, this is from like 1990, did FEMA outsourced IEM, Inc's plan

supercede this older plan ?

See www.ieminc.com about their catastrophic hurricane plan for SE LA/New Orleans contracted by Bush admin in June 2004.

[EVDebs]

39. NYTimes Sept 2 gives some disinformation on 'failure to predict'

Government Saw Flood Risk but Not Levee Failure
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/02/national/nationalspecial/02response.html

"The response will be dissected for years. But on Thursday, disaster experts and frustrated officials said a crucial shortcoming may have been the failure to predict that the levees keeping Lake Pontchartrain out of the city would be breached, not just overflow."

Excuse me, but Scientific American Oct. 2001, Drowning New Orleans shows all aspects of the flooding of the city.

Beyond that, IEM, Inc.'s catastrophic hurricane event planning should have prepared for any and all situations, including WORST CASE SCENARIO.

Ya Think ?

[EVDebs]

60. Also Oct 2004 National Geographic's article forsaw this...

Was the NYTimes running interference for BushCo with this article's headline ?

The whole 'no one could forsee' BS is laughable.

[speedoo]

36. Aaron Brown (CNN) interviewed the two black women hugged...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4600320

[Emit]

37. This one has good audio and visuals and images archive

bpilgrim's

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4670197

[John Doe II]

40. Thanks

Thank you everybody!
Things are moving.
I was just away for a couple of hours.
Thanks a lot and lets continue this!
:grouphug:

[John Doe II]

41. More and more

Who redirected helicopters leading to flooding of New Orleans?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4668034


Check this out from 8/29 interview with Mike Brown (FEMA) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4653021

Did People see this NYT article on how Reps said aid timed to come w/Bush
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4508159

Important reference Proof it was the feds fault!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4667616

Compare FEMA Response to Hurricane in FL 2004
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4664680

What the US MSM media will not show you *CAUTION*Graphic Photos*
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4668969

Police of Adjacent Town Used Gunfire to Keep People Trapped in NO
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4663607

I guess no-one in the White House was reading National Geographic in 2004
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4669516

FEMA Chief Waited Until After Storm Hit
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4668733

FEMA sent Helicopters for LEVEE to Church instead
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4667845

RawStory: Advance: Senate Democrats issue relief plan for Katrina
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4647473

[stevietheman]

42. My blog article calling for Bush to resign has many good refs in it...

Web: http://democracy2.blogspot.com/2005/09/singularity-of-this-latest-preventable.html

PDF: http://dl.stevemagruder.com/articles/The%20Singularity%20of%20This%20Latest%20Preventable%20Tragedy.pdf

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

43. Northern Command waiting for orders since Katrina hit Florida.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4605183

[John Doe II]

44. ..

CNN: "We advise people that this city has been destroyed. It has been ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4650516

Brian Williams blog: "cruel and criminal". Must read. He was there.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4652487

CA firefighters (9/11 rescuers) barred from N.O. for a week
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4662617

Sgt. Paul Accardo, 36, N.O.P.D., commits suicide amid Katrina chaos
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4669487

08/27/05 Bush "These declarations will allow federal agencies
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4672077

[preciousdove]

45. Katrina Evacuee Relocation Thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4657680&mesg_id=4657680

[snot]

46. IMPORTANT New Katrina Thread

Momcat's started an important new thread at :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=106&topic_id=22805

Sorry if you already got this elsewhere, just want to make sure. Here's what it's about:

The Admins are swamped and cannot get to our request for a new Katrina forum for a while. So, here is the plan...a tenporary home for the data:

Here is the new thread!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph ...
mom cat (1000+ posts) Wed Sep-07-05 08:07 PM
Original message
DUers Katrina Research Thread: Organized by categories
I am starting this thread to organize information about hurricane Katrina. Please please please help keep this site organized. We need a place where people can find information fast. Here is the design. First I will establish categories as replies to the original post. Each of these will be like a folder. If you have links to articles please put them in the right folder-reply-post. The folder-reply-category-posts will have names such as the following:

Before K: Info about the likely consequences Scientific articles
Befork K: Info about likely consequences madia articles
Before K: What the Government knew
Just before K: Weather and news alerts
Just before K: Govt action..city, state, fed
Before K: FEMA
During K: FEMA
After K: FEMA

If you add any information to these categories, please format the information as follows:

subject line: date first, title of article

message area: link to the article(that has been refreshed), brief description of the article or post from it so that someone can immediately figure out what it is about.

Please use this thread only to organize material into categories. If you do not see your category already listed, please only add new categories if you use the format listed above: pre- K, during K, and after K. Tomorrow we will start a new category called after September 8.

Please also do NOT use this thread to post replies, comments, or request for information.

Thanks for your understanding and patience while I get this organized. If you want to help in this endeavor, I would love to have your support. I am no Lone Ranger and could use help getting this organized. If you can help, please PM me and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

Thanks so much

PS, if you could reccommend this thread, it would be helpful. Also, if you can forward this PM to peolpe you think could develop this thread in an orderly manner, I would appreciate it...Thanks

[drm604]

47. On BBC: Northern Command was in position, waiting for Presidential orders.

These are all related so I'm putting them in one post. They are in chronological order.

On BBC: Northern Command was in position, waiting for Presidential orders.

I have successfully created an mpg of the Sean Kelly BBC interview.

Link to Sean Kelly BBC Interview

Lt. Commander Sean Kelly Responds to the BBC interview flap.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

48. Don't know if it's important, but it sure made an impression on me

Aaron Brown on CNN the Sunday before Katrina hit http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/28/asb.02.html

He wondered aloud if New Orleans was going to be there in the morning, and everyone he interviewed predicted a horrific hurricane with resulting devastation. Sooooooooo, where the hell was Bush, FEMA? Does Bush only care for his "base?"

[Whoa_Nelly]

49. Another timeline that points out the WH lies and spin

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4689467&mesg_id=4689467

[John Doe II]

50. Thanks everybody

and an advice justs for the moment:
If you have no time to check out if the thread you like to add is already mentioned sowhere here then simply post it. Then we're always on the save side.
If you - which would be VERY MUCH appreciated - like already to start putting the infos in categories then please check out mom cat's thread.
See post 46 here or simply:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=106&topic_id=22805

[John Doe II]

51. More

Pic of "grain barge" that may have breached levee.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4688677

Canadians beat U.S. Army to New Orleans suburb (also beat FEMA)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1763297

After Katrina fiasco, time for Bush to go
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.administration08sep08,1,1222575.story?coll=bal-oped-headlines&ctrack=1&cset=true

Have you guys seen this from Bob Harris? What in the hell?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4692732

[John Doe II]

52. So much stuff here

Federal Government Seeks to Block Photos of Dead
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4679605
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4677727


Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are REPRIMANDED http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4679913

Katrina. Even the Orlando Sentinel knew. Sat. Aug 27, 2005 Headline:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4679456

Proof - NAGIN did USE the SCHOOL BUSES to take people out http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4675831

Can FEMA do anything right?!! Look at this list! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4660874

FEMA changed the language of it role in managing disasters http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4681615

[John Doe II]

53. And

KATRINA: Audio, Video & Image Archive - add your thoughts 4 the record!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4670197

Excellent summary of all foreign aid for Katrina victims http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,373565,00.html
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4680254

Two Bush 2000 Florida recount aides were rewarded with top FEMA posts http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4683055

INCREDIBLE First Person Katrina Account http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4657335

This is the "nail in the coffin" that puts the blame game to bed
(about Emergency Declaration) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4681508

[John Doe II]

55. And and

for anyone else looking for info about fema, fla, 2004 election
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4666463


2002 Newspaper Series Predicted N.Orleans Disaster in Detail http://www.nola.com/hurricane/?/washingaway
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4682869

DOES ANYONE KNOW ANY DETAILS ON WHAT EXACTLY BLEW THE LEVEES?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4683669

There is NO conspiracy regarding the disaster declarations http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4695649

[intheflow]

56. A new thread compiling videos and links.

It might all be reposts, but I saw it thought I ought to include it... just in case.

Amazing videos and links on Katrina http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2075230

[intheflow]

57. List of links chronicling FEMA's aid blocking.

Posted by DUer Katty: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x154801

[John Doe II]

58. Thanks!

Don't worry about reposting!
I know it's hard to see if the thread you wish to post here has been already posted. Don't worry. Just to be on the save side POST it.

:toast:

[John Doe II]

59. New

BBC Is Brilliant
(about the treatement of dead bodies)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4702918


This is embarassing...so embarrassing!!!
(international aid)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4698883

FEMA's Hurricane Pam Exercise 2004: Perfect preparation!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4707291

FEMA's Individual Assistance Programs: Have a close look!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4707209

[John Doe II]

61. Here

NPR-ATC - aired "Katrina Timeline Unexecuted plans - Shocking! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4714874

The 32 patients that were abandoned in the Nursing http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4715642

Superdome evacuees telling their stories -- Astrodome media lockdown http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4696214

"Welcome to Krakow" (Katrina evacuees) http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4695393

A FEMA Detainment Camp!?! http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4694439

Dead bodies and soldiers taking pics http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/national/nationalspecial/08orleans.html?hp&ex=1126152000&en=20e00c90f7037aad&ei=5094&partner=homepage

CNN Breaking: 14 bodies found in flooded Memorial Hospital in New Orleans http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4699037

CNN has filed suit! They've filed suit!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4716036


Eight Big Lies About Katrina
http://www.alternet.org/story/25227
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4708084

Physician who told off Cheney lost home in Katrina, detained, selling vide http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4714080

[John Doe II]

62. And

Hurricane Simulation Predicted 61,290 Dead
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1767033

An incredible pictorial essay of NOLA
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3979955

Physician who told off Cheney lost home in Katrina, detained, selling vide
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4714080


NPR-ATC - aired "Katrina Timeline Unexecuted plans - Shocking!

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4839666
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4714874

Rep Davis & Waxman Letter to Chertoff
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4715042

CNN just filed suit to protect their right to cover anything in the rescue
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4716022