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A Worrisome Lack of Leadership: Hurricane Katrina

SOME LINKS AND INFO ON HOW TO HELP	The Department of Homeland Security wants you to know that September is National Preparedness Month.	More Audio & Video Here there are image links here (NOAA, NASA, etc. Not ground-level)
It's gotten to the point where FEMA & DHS need their own button:	Notable Quotes	Environmental Impact
Katrina's 25 Big Questions	Katrina Flyover	This is pretty strange and may interest conspiracy theorists. I'm sure it's just an oversight.

Katrina Timeline (Other storms too)
- BBC Timeline of Katrina
- Der Spiegel Timeline
- Spiegel surfs the web so you don't have to.
- Everything you wanted to read about Katrina
- Newsweek special coverage
A Lack of Leadership
- Wrong Priorities?
- The Mayor of New Orleans Audio Interview (Transcript is here)
- The Big Disconnect
- "Not Acceptable?" Well, whose fault is THAT?
- Cafferty rips the administration a new one. (Transcript and Audio)
- US Won't Let Canada Help Katrina Victims
- Political Hurricane
- FEMA: Brown finds out about the Convention Center on TV (Audio here if the video disappears) They only found out on THURSDAY!!!
- A Dearth of Answers
- Waiting for a Leader
- Help from other countries who began mobilizing before Bush cut his vacation short on Wednesday.
- Conservative Paper Editorial
- The money, personnel, and equipment weren't there because we are fighting an illegal war (see Downing Street memo)
- Impeach Bush (More here)
- Bush to lead inquiry into Katrina (Right. That'll be fair.)
- Rumsfeld: Hurricane won't affect Iraq war effort
- Jaw-Dropping TV
- FEMA screws up again! Wrong city!
- FEMA: Does this look a little out of date to you? (Check the dates on the publications)
- It's the Governance, Stupid!
- Deja Vu all over again!
- This is the Department of Homeland Security page for 21 September 05. Note that the only news articles provided on the web are from September 12th and 19th!
- Rumsfeld signs "severe weather execution order" two weeks before Katrina, then apparently forgets. (See DOD disaster report here)
- How many Mike Browns are out there?
- Hospital ships remain off shore and are not deployed
- Chertoff, not FEMA delayed the Federal response
- Katrina's 25 Big Questions
- Tax cuts and Hurricane Katrina
- The government has no plans for disaster relief
- FEMA overwhelmed (Feb 16, 2006) The highlights of the report are here
- Contractors overcharge in cleanup by as much as 1700 percent.
Callousness
- 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.
- Barbara Bush sees sunny side of the disaster
- Bush: "We're going to rebuild Trent Lott's house and I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch"
- Thousands Die and Condi goes Shopping
- Bush rules out significant federal aid to hurricane victims
- About 100 people die after being rescued from their roofs and not provided food, shelter, or water.
- FEMA: Blame the Victim
- Bill O'Reilly
- Rice defends Bush's response to Katrina
- Rush Limbaugh asks "Why don't they afford cars?"
- Laura Bush "Volunteer next week or the next week...". Put your children in school (see results of Bush policies on Texas schools).
- 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.
- Poll: 74% of Republicans approve of Bush's response to Katrina
- Liberal Media Bias
- Fundamentalist leaders say God destroyed New Orleans because of gays.
- We're back in the stone age
- Every Crisis an Opportunity
- Video: Navy pilots chastised for rescues
- Tom Delay: To three young evacuees from New Orleans: "Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?"
- Bill O'Reilly wishes that Katrina should have hit the U.N. building. Audio
- O'Reilly" "many, many, many" hurricane victims that failed to evacuate are "drug-addicted ... thugs"
- Fox News political analyst and Newsday columnist Jim Pinkerton accuses survivors of whining to get more federal support
- Clear Channel's Glenn Beck describes hurricane survivors as "scum bags" and he hates 9-11 families.
- ABC 20/20 co-anchor John Stossel supports price gouging
- Will New Orleans become white, rich, and Republican?
- A civil war over claims
- Katrina Conservatism: There's something for everyone in Bush's reconstruction plan
- Bush's "Raw Deal"
- Real estate agents in Baton Rouge are laughing! $130,000 houses for $204,000!
- Grandmother fired for Katrina absences
- GOP bankruptcy laws screw storm victims
- Brown puts blame on Louisiana officials
- Brown: "I know what I'm doing"
- Republican budget plan, "Operation Offset", targets poor and elderly (More HERE)
- New bankruptcy laws and Katrina victims.
- Bush repeals the Davis Bacon Act. Now employers in New Orleans can pay workers less! (White House, More information on the act is here)
- Death on the roof
- Compassion for the few
- Repopulating New Orleans despite toxic waste
- Using Illegal Labor to Clean Up after Katrina: Gulf Coast Slaves
- Read Brownie's e-mails. "I am a fashion god"
- FEMA gives 150,000 Katrina victims 15 days to leave hotels
- 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.
- Death of an American City
- Goodbye New Orleans
News Links
- CNN
- MSNBC
- FOX What a joke, unless you're interested in the economic impact.
- Der Spiegel (English Language) You may have to sign up (free)
- BBC (Very good- see the side stories)
- WorldWatch Institute
- Germany: How emergency management failed New Orleans
- Nature (European science magazine)
- Media Matters: Rush Limbaugh lies and shifts the blame.
- National Public Radio Special Web Series on Katrina

Blogs
The Missing Images... What is it REALLY like along the Gulf Coast?
- Katrina Diary with Pictures
- Read this Nature report. Some models predict 80,000 dead.
- Compare to the Tsunami
- Too awful for broadcast
- Thousands are probably dead
- BBC (Very good- see the side stories)
- Health Hazards in Katrina's Wake
- CNN Report from Charity Hospital (Audio)
- Oil Spill
- Gunmen Attack Contractors
- The grim journey to find survivors
- 22 bodies found tied together
- Six-year-old child in charge of 6 babies
- Fishery Failure
- Flood water: Chemical tests
- Flood water: Biological tests
- Agriculture Street Landfill Site (Superfund site in New Orleans)
Anyone Could Have Seen This Coming
- Times-Picayune series on eventual flooding in New Orleans (July 2002)
- October 2004 National Geographic
- No one can say they "Didn't see it coming
- Thinking Big about Hurricanes
- Houston Chronicle 12/01/01
- 2001 Poster depicting public health consequences of a Louisiana Hurricane.
- Center for the Study of Public Health Impacts of Hurricanes (Main Page)
  - Louisiana Costal Issues (See changes here)
  - New Orleans Hurricane Study Area
  - Katrina and past hurricane images are here
- Scientists warn of greater hurricane costs in the future
- No One Could Have Anticipated (SEE THE VIDEO)
Lay the Blame Where it Belongs
- How many Mike Browns are out there?
- A letter to all who voted for George W. Bush from Michael Moore
- If it weren't true it would be funny
- WorldWatch Institute: Unnatural Disaster
- Warnings went ignored as Bush slashed flood defense budget to pay for wars
- Has Katrina Saved the US Media?
- New Orleans crisis shames US
- Multiple failures caused relief crisis
- Talking heads begin to lose it
- The money, personnel, and equipment weren't there because we are fighting an illegal war (see Downing Street memo)
- Did it have to happen?
- Local officials discuss who's to blame
- It's your failure too, Mr Bush (Washington Post)
- Fire the FEMA director and others
- More on Brown and FEMA here
- Chertoff (DHS): "Everyone thought the crisis had passed when the storm left"
- Warnings went ignored as Bush slashed flood budget to pay for wars
- Bush's other Gulf War
- War on the Mississippi
- Bush Administration's 2005 Budget Reductions for Levee Construction and Repair
- Bush Slashed Hurricane Funding for New Orleans
- Funding for New Orleans Levees were to be cut $71.2 Million Dollars for FY 2006
- How to create a crisis
- Gulf Oil Rigs Missing (told you so)
- Save our Coast
- Editorial: Bush fails to take responsibility for botching Katrina support and Iraq
- German readers weigh in on Katrina
- The "Blame Game?" It's called accountability.
Global Warming Stuff
- Get "Eye of the Storm" hurricane tracking software
- German conservative links US CO₂ policy to Katrina
- Global Warming and Katrina
- Is global warming the cause of intense hurricanes? (Video here)
- Global Warming and Climate Change