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Latest tagged entries for 'FEMA'
NYT: 'Almost an epidemic of depression' in New Orleans
Monday, 26 June 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
New Orleans is afflicted with "what appears to be almost an epidemic of depression," according to an article slated for the front page of Wednesday's New York Times, RAW STORY has found.
Incompetence? Crime? You decide
Saturday, 10 June 2006 11:59 P GMT-05
FEMA disregarded its own hurricane response plans by not allowing the Interior Department and other federal and local agencies to aid in the days immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit.
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The Destruction of the World Trade Center: Why the Official Account Cannot Be True
Sunday, 5 March 2006 8:13 A GMT-05
David Ray Griffin's excellent analysis of what is wrong with the official theory of how the WTC buildings collapsed on September 11, 2001.
Why Indeed Did the WTC Buildings Collapse?
Sunday, 5 March 2006 5:59 A GMT-05
Professor Steven E. Jones' analysis of the collapse of WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7 on 9/11.
Sheriff Prosecuted for Diverting FEMA Truck to Aid Katrina Victims
Friday, 3 March 2006 7:23 P GMT-05
Forrest County Sheriff Billy McGee prosecuted for comandeering FEMA trucks with water and ice that were idling as FEMA would not release them to the victims of Katrina.
FEMA critic's shirt gets him tangled up in ticket
Friday, 3 March 2006 3:44 P GMT-05
A Katrina survivor is ticketed by Homeland Security officials for giving out an anti-FEMA T-shirt.
Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina
Thursday, 2 March 2006 6:27 A GMT-05
Bush Administration officials caught on tape discussing the 'non-existent' Katrina scenario.
March in Washington, DC to stop evictions of those displaced by Katrina
Friday, 24 February 2006 10:14 P GMT-05
On March 28, 2006 there will be a march in Washington, DC to stop evictions of those displaced by Katrina who are currently in FEMA-funded hotels.
Legislators demand overhaul of FEMA
Monday, 20 February 2006 1:08 P GMT-05
Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, and Representative Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican, want FEMA overhauled after its disastrous performance in the wake of Katrina.
Senators hear 'shocking examples' of FEMA waste
Tuesday, 14 February 2006 4:44 P GMT-05
A good summation on the FEMA's failures and inefficiencies in its response to Hurricane Katrina.
As others profit, Katrina survivors suffer
Tuesday, 11 October 2005 3:36 P GMT-05
Cronyism, corruption, incompetence and blind ideology threaten to add to the suffering of those who were abandoned in the first place.
FEMA takes many workers off 'cane duty
Sunday, 18 September 2005 11:00 A GMT-05
FEMA bureaucrats yesterday infuriated exhausted Hurricane Katrina responders and lawmakers with yet another blunder.
Federal Emergency Management Agency leaders ordered officials in the agency's Preparedness Division to stop all Katrina relief eff
Doctor says FEMA ordered him to stop treating hurricane victims
Friday, 16 September 2005 7:50 P GMT-05
Doctor ordered to stop his work and let the patient die only because FEMA feared a lawsuit, or so they claimed.
The Forever Elsewhere Management Agency
Friday, 16 September 2005 4:49 P GMT-05
It was day 13 after Katrina struck, and no one was coordinating the relief effort in one of the poorest communities along the coast.
The federal response to Katrina is a disaster in its own right
Wednesday, 14 September 2005 11:27 A GMT-05
Chertoff - deliberately or through sheer incompetence - delayed the federal response to Katrina by days, potentially causing unneeded casualties on a catastrophic scale.
Embattled FEMA Director Mike Brown Resigns
Monday, 12 September 2005 4:40 P GMT-05
Federal Emergency Management Agency director Mike Brown said Monday he has resigned "in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president," three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
Embattled
EXCLUSIVE!!! FEMA Chief Brown Paid Millions in False Claims to Help Bush Win Fla. Votes in '04
Saturday, 10 September 2005 2:55 P GMT-05
FEMA Chief Brown paid to those unaffected by the storm in Florida to influence the Florida vote in the 2004 Election.
Chertoff: Katrina scenario did not exist
Monday, 5 September 2005 2:08 P GMT-05
Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued Saturday that government planners did not predict such a disaster ever could occur.
