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US Northern Command and Hurricane Rita There are indications that the Bush Administration is preparing to enact far-reaching emergency procedures in response to Hurricane Rita, which could potentially lead the country into a situation of Martial Law (Global Research)
FEMA The Secret Government - Executive Order Number 12148 created the Federal Emergency Management Agency that is to interface with the Department of Defense for civil defense planning and funding (Free America and Harry V. Martin)
The Promise of Plug-In Hybrids I am riding in a customized 2005 Toyota Prius traveling just under 35 mph, and the central display console shows we’re getting 99.9 miles per gallon. We’re actually doing much better than that, but the Prius’ mileage monitor can’t display anything more than three digits. (Mother Earth News)
Iraq probe into soldier incident The Iraqi government has launched an inquiry into the events that led the British Army to stage a dramatic rescue of two UK soldiers detained by police (BBC)
Letter from 9/11 Commission to Arlen Specter "The 9/11 Commission interviewed [Stephen Hadley's] boss, Condoleezza Rice, for 4 hours. She said nothing about a chart and mentioned nothing about the name Mohamed Atta on a chart." (9/11 Commission)
Opec to increase oil production Oil cartel Opec will release an extra two million barrels a day, some of the last spare oil production it has, in an effort to ease crude price pressures (BBC)
'Excuse me Condi, can I go to the bathroom?' President Bush had a more pressing worry than terrorism or reforming the United Nations during a Security Counil meeting in New York yesterday - the leader of the world's only superpower wanted to go the loo (London Times)
Adam Pearlman, al-CIA-duh Patsy In the case of the CIA and Al-Qaeda, it is becoming increasingly difficult to separate the goals, strategies and even membership of these two groups, despite their alleged, bitter and mutual enmity (The Scotsman)
Reuters carries Bush toilet break photo World leaders are exploring ways to revitalize the United Nations at a summit on Wednesday but their blueprint falls short of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's vision of freedom from want, persecution and war. (Reuters)
Doctors Euthanized Katrina Victims With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive (Australian Daily Telegraph)
Mercenaries guard homes of the rich in New Orleans After scenes of looting and lawlessness in the days immediately after Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans has turned into an armed camp, patrolled by thousands of local, state and federal law enforcement officers, as well as 70,000 national guard troops and active-duty soldiers now based in the region (London Guardian)
New Orleans becomes federal city as recovery efforts grind on A metropolis that once bustled with busy residents and tourists who partied on Bourbon Street is now occupied by U.S. military forces and a dozen federal agencies working side by side, street by street, with state and local authorities. It seems that every agency wants a piece of this action (Government Executive)
Cheney quip adds fuel to Katrina politics Dick Cheney became the latest high profile official to offer a soundbite about Hurricane Katrina, saying all evacuees he's met have been 'thankful,' adding to a spate of comments raising eyebrows regarding the Katrina disaster (The Raw Story)
Some Urge Greater Use of Troops in Major Disasters The breakdown of local and state agencies that tried to respond to Hurricane Katrina has spurred fresh debate about whether disasters of such magnitude ought to be turned over to the U.S. military and other federal authorities to manage at the outset (Washington Post)
Exclusive: The Hunt SCOTLAND Yard launched Britain's biggest ever manhunt yesterday to catch the London bombers - vowing: "We will go to the ends of the earth to nail these coldblooded killers." (Mirror.co.uk)
FEMA Chief Waited Until After Storm Hit Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, sought the approval from Homeland Security Secretary Mike Chertoff roughly five hours after Katrina made landfall on Aug. 29 (Associated Press)
12 Lessons That South Carolina Can Learn From Katrina In 2001, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) ranked the most likely and deadly disasters that could befall the United States.
The top three were:
* a terrorist attack on New York
* an earthquake in San Francisco
* a hurricane in New Orleans
The list was announced at a conference on Sept. 10. The next day was 9/11.
Two of those three uber-disasters now have occurred, and emergency response to the catastrophes is being criticized as inadequate and, in some cases,
”such as housing refugees in New Orleans' Louisiana Superdome” irresponsible.
Friday, President Bush called the federal response to Hurricane Katrina "unacceptable."
(The State Newspaper)
We warned MI6 of tube attacks, claim Saudis Specific details of a plot to bomb the London Underground involving a terror cell of four people were passed to MI6 last December, raising fresh questions about whether the 7 July atrocity could have been averted (London Guardian)
“One of the Worst Abandonments of Americans on American Soil Ever” "Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now." - "Yesterday — yesterday — FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards and said no one is getting near these lines…" (Think Progress)
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