The Department of Homeland Security and FEMA: Disaster Planning or Planning a Disaster?

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• The Big Disconnect
• US Won't Let Canada Help Katrina Victims
• FEMA: Brown finds out about the Convention Center on TV (Audio here if the video disappears) They only found out on THURSDAY!!!
• FEMA screws up again! Wrong city!
• FEMA: Does this look a little out of date to you? (Check the dates on the publications)
• Happily, at least some FEMA employees got labor day off. Compare Sunday's and Monday's "National Situation Update" At least they changed the day and date.
• FEMA: Blame the Victim
• Homeland Security bars Red Cross from delivering food
• Florida airboaters are not allowed to assist.
• Twenty police and six medical volunteers turned away by FEMA
• FEMA cuts communication lines for Jefferson Parish.
• Excerpt from above- Chertoff: "New Orleans dodged the bullet". Newspaper front pages for 30 August 2005
• FEMA Rap for Kidz (On site)
• Allbaugh steps down as director of FEMA to manage a company to support other companies wanting to do business in Iraq. Michael Brown is appointed FEMA director even though he had no previous disaster management experience. Brown was fired from his previous job because of mismanagement. Brown's work at International Arabian Horse Association
• FEMA does not fund Louisiana's pre-disaster mitigation funding request
• FEMA recognizes that Katrina has the possibility of being a major storm
• DHS 's Chertoff argues that Katrina scenario did not exist.
• Twenty police and six medical volunteers turned away by FEMA
• About 100 people die after being rescued from their roofs and not provided food, shelter, or water.
• Florida airboaters are not allowed to assist.
• Homeland Security bars Red Cross from delivering food
• FEMA: Exhaustion and Illness adding to Death Toll
• FEMA cuts communication lines for Jefferson Parish. Sheriff reconnects lines and posts armed guards.
• Apparently, FEMA employees took off on Monday since Sunday's and Monday's reports are the same page (except for the date). These are real links, not like my highlighted links.
• Aid Agencies Need Help
• Five ways to fix FEMA
• The only lifeline was Wal-Mart
• It's the Governance, Stupid!
• Mayor Ben Morris of Slidell, La: "FEMA better bring weapons if they are taking our materials"
• Chertoff, not FEMA delayed the Federal response
• FEMA grant program ends. Were the funds distributed fairly?
• Unable to keep up with demand, FEMA closes relief station
• October 8th! FEMA wrong number
• FEMA in chaos at the start, memos show
• The government has no plans for disaster relief
• FEMA ignored warnings (Oct 21 2005)
• Read Brownie's e-mails. "I am a fashion god"
• FEMA gives 150,000 Katrina victims 15 days to leave hotels
• FEMA forced to extend housing benefit.