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stories in the mainstream media which show clear censorship and suggest a major
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U.S. Censoring Katrina Coverage, Groups Say September 8, 2005, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/07/AR2005090702126.html When U.S. officials asked the news media not to take pictures of those
killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, they were censoring a key part of
the disaster story, free-speech watchdogs said yesterday. The move by the
Federal Emergency Management Agency is in line with the Bush administration's
ban on images of flag-draped U.S. military coffins returning from the Iraq war,
media monitors charged in separate telephone interviews. On Tuesday, FEMA
refused to take reporters and photographers along on boats seeking victims in
flooded areas, saying they would take up valuable space needed in the recovery
effort and asked them not to take pictures of the dead. A FEMA spokeswoman
wrote: "The recovery of victims is being treated with dignity and the utmost
respect and we have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the
media." FEMA's policy of excluding media from recovery expeditions in New
Orleans is "an invitation to chaos," said Tom Rosenstiel, director of the
Project for Excellence in Journalism, a part of Columbia University's journalism
school.
U.S. agency blocks photos of New Orleans dead
September 6, 2005, Reuters http://today.reuters.com/investing/financeArticle.aspx?type=bondsNews&storyID=2005-09-07T005629Z_01_N06101601_RTRIDST_0_KATRINA-PHOTOGRAPHS.XML The U.S. government agency leading the rescue efforts after Hurricane
Katrina said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of
the dead as they are recovered from the flooded New Orleans area. The Federal
Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the
devastation caused by the hurricane, rejected requests from journalists to
accompany rescue boats as they went out to search for storm victims. "We have
requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media," the
spokeswoman said in an e-mailed response to a Reuters inquiry.
Note: Though the previous Washington Post article mentioned this news a
couple days later, no major media picked up this important Reuters story.
Frustrated: Fire crews to hand out fliers for FEMA
September 6, 2005, Salt Lake Tribune http://www.sltrib.com/search/ci_3004197 Not long after some 1,000 firefighters sat down for eight hours of
training, the whispering began: "What are we doing here?" As New Orleans Mayor
Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are
exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly
trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room
in Atlanta. Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the
United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were
going to be deployed as emergency workers. Instead, they have learned they are
going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf
Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA. On
Monday, some firefighters stuck in the staging area at the Sheraton peeled off
their FEMA-issued shirts and stuffed them in backpacks, saying they refuse to
represent the federal agency. As specific orders began arriving to the
firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a
flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside
President Bush as he tours devastated areas.
A Compilation of FEMA's Rejections of Qualified Help
FEMA refuses hundreds of personnel, dozens of vehicles - Chicago Tribune,
9/2/05
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-050902daley,1,2011979.story FEMA won't let Red Cross deliver food - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette,
9/3/05
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05246/565143.stm FEMA fails to utilize Navy ship with 600-bed hospital on board - Chicago
Tribune, 9/4/05
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0509040369sep04,1,4144825.story FEMA turns away state-of-the-art mobile hospital from Univ. of North
Carolina - CNN, 9/5/05
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/09/04/katrina.sick.redtape.ap/ FEMA won't accept Amtrak's help in evacuations - Financial Times,
9/5/05
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/84aa35cc-1da8-11da-b40b-00000e FEMA turns back Wal-Mart supply trucks - New York Times, 9/6/05
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05blame.html FEMA prevents Coast Guard from delivering diesel fuel - New York Times,
9/6/05
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/national/nationalspecial/05blame.html FEMA blocks 500-boat citizen flotilla from delivering aid - News Sentinel,
9/8/05
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/editorial/12595873.htm FEMA: "First Responders Urged Not To Respond" Unless Dispatched - FEMA's own website http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18470 Chertoff: Katrina scenario did not exist
September 5, 2005, CNN http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/09/03/katrina.chertoff/ Defending the U.S. government's response to Hurricane Katrina, Homeland
Security Secretary Michael Chertoff argued Saturday that government planners did
not predict such a disaster ever could occur. But in fact, government officials,
scientists and journalists have warned of such a scenario for years [see
articles immediately below]. Chertoff, fielding questions from reporters, said
government officials did not expect both a powerful hurricane and a breach of
levees that would flood the city of New Orleans. In 2002 the New Orleans
Times-Picayune ran a five-part series exploring the vulnerability of the city.
The newspaper, and other news media as well, specifically addressed the
possibility of massive floods drowning residents, destroying homes and releasing
toxic chemicals throughout the city. (Read: "Times-Picayune" Special Report:
Washing away) Scientists long have discussed this possibility as a sort of
doomsday scenario. As far back as Friday, August 26, the National Hurricane
Center was predicting the storm could be a Category 4 hurricane at landfall,
with New Orleans directly in its path. The National Weather Service prediction
proved almost perfect. Katrina made landfall on Monday, August 29.
Katrina makes many of planners fears a reality
September 9, 2005, MSNBC http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9274362/ As Katrina roared into the Gulf of Mexico, emergency planners pored over
maps and charts of a hurricane simulation that projected 61,290 dead and 384,257
injured or sick in a catastrophic flood that would leave swaths of southeast
Louisiana uninhabitable for more than a year. These planners were not involved
in the frantic preparations for Katrina. By coincidence, they were working on a
yearlong project to prepare federal and state officials for a Category 3
hurricane striking New Orleans. Their fictitious storm eerily foreshadowed the
havoc wrought by Category 4 Katrina a few days later, raising questions about
whether government leaders did everything possible as early as possible to
protect New Orleans residents from a well-documented threat. Brown, relieved of
his onsite Katrina duties Friday, said he was kept apprised of Hurricane Pam
planning from the beginning. He assumes the report also was sent to superiors at
the Homeland Security Department, but can I put it in the hands of Secretary
Ridge or Secretary Chertoff? No.
Gone With the Water (Hurricane Predicted Again One Year Ago)
October, 2004, National Geographic http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0410/feature5/ As the whirling maelstrom approached the coast, more than a million people
evacuated to higher ground. Some 200,000 remained, howeverthe car-less, the
homeless, the aged and infirm, and those die-hard New Orleanians who look for
any excuse to throw a party. Thousands drowned in the murky brew that was soon
contaminated by sewage and industrial waste. Thousands more who survived the
flood later perished from dehydration and disease as they waited to be rescued.
It took two months to pump the city dry, and by then the Big Easy was buried
under a blanket of putrid sediment, a million people were homeless, and 50,000
were dead. It was the worst natural disaster in the history of the United
States. When did this calamity happen? It hasn'tyet. But the doomsday scenario
is not far-fetched. "It's not if it will happen," says University of New Orleans
geologist Shea Penland. "It's when."
New Orleans is Sinking (Hurricane predicted on 9/11!!!)
September 11, 2001, Popular Mechanics (Note the date of this article) http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/research/1282151.html The fact that New Orleans has not already sunk is a matter of luck.
Emergency planners believe that it is a foregone conclusion that the Big Easy
someday will be hit by a scouring storm surge. And, given the tremendous amount
of coastal-area development, this watery "big one" will produce a staggering
amount of damage. Yet, this doesn't necessarily mean that there will be a
massive loss of lives. The key is a new emergency warning system developed by
Gregory Stone, a professor at Louisiana State University (LSU). It is called
WAVCIS, which stands for wave-current surge information system. Within 30
minutes to an hour after raw data is collected from monitoring stations in the
Gulf, an assessment of storm-surge damage would be available to emergency
planners. Disaster relief agencies then would be able to mobilize
resources--rescue personnel, the Red Cross, and so forth.
Navy Pilots Who Rescued Victims Are Reprimanded
September 7, 2005, New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/national/nationalspecial/07navy.html Two Navy helicopter pilots and their crews returned from New Orleans on
Aug. 30 expecting to be greeted as lifesavers after ferrying more than 100
hurricane victims to safety. Instead, their superiors chided the pilots...at a
meeting the next morning for rescuing civilians when their assignment that day
had been to deliver food and water to military installations along the Gulf
Coast. While refueling at a Coast Guard landing pad in early evening, Lieutenant
Udkow said, he called Pensacola and received permission to continue rescues that
evening. According to the pilots and other military officials, they rescued 110
people. The next morning, though, the two crews were called to a meeting with
Commander Holdener, who said he told them that while helping civilians was
laudable, the lengthy rescue effort was an unacceptable diversion from their
main mission of delivering supplies.
Kanye West's Torrent of Criticism, Live on NBC
September 3, 2005, Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR2005090300165_pf.html NBC's levee broke and Kanye West flooded through with a tear about the
federal response in New Orleans during the network's live concert fundraiser for
victims of Hurricane Katrina. The rapper was among the celebs and singers
participating in the one-hour special, produced by NBC News. West was not
scheduled to perform; he was one of the blah, blah, blahers, who would read from
scripts prepared by the network. West: I hate the way they portray us in the
media. You see a black family, it says, "They're looting." You see a white
family, it says, "They're looking for food." And, you know, it's been five days
[waiting for federal help] because most of the people are black. And even for me
to complain about it, I would be a hypocrite because I've tried to turn away
from the TV because it's too hard to watch. I've even been shopping before even
giving a donation, so now I'm calling my business manager right now to see what
is the biggest amount I can give, and just to imagine if I was down there, and
those are my people down there. Parent company NBC Universal said in a
statement, "Kanye West departed from the scripted comments that were prepared
for him, and his opinions in no way represent the views of the networks." West's
comments would be cut from the West Coast feed, an NBC spokeswoman told The TV
Column.
Halliburton Subsidiary Taps Contract For Repairs
September 5, 2005, Washington Post/AP http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/04/AR2005090401193.html An Arlington-based Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has been criticized for
its reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract
to do emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities damaged by
Hurricane Katrina. The subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc., won
the competitive bid contract last July to provide debris removal and other
emergency work associated with natural disasters. KBR has been at the center of
scrutiny for receiving a five-year, no-bid contract to restore Iraqi oil fields
shortly before the war began in 2003. Halliburton has reported being paid $10.7
billion for Iraq-related government work during 2003 and 2004. The company
reported its pretax profits from that work as $163 million. Pentagon auditors
have questioned tens of millions of dollars of Halliburton charges for its
operations there. Last month three congressional Democrats asked Defense
Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld to investigate the demotion of a senior civilian
Army official, Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, who publicly criticized the awarding of
that contract. Vice President Cheney headed Halliburton from 1995 to 2000.
Bush lifts wage rules for Katrina
September 9, 2005, CNN/Reuters http://money.cnn.com/2005/09/08/news/economy/katrina_wages.reut/ President Bush issued an executive order Thursday allowing federal
contractors rebuilding in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina to pay below the
prevailing wage. In a notice to Congress, Bush said the hurricane had caused "a
national emergency" that permits him to take such action. Bush's action came as
the federal government moved to provide billions of dollars in aid. "The
administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of
people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities," Miller
said. "President Bush should immediately realize the colossal mistake he has
made in signing this order and rescind it and ensure that America puts its
people back to work in the wake of Katrina at wages that will get them and their
families back on their feet."
More Resources For a highly revealing personal account by two emergency medical personnel
who were participating in a conference in New Orleans at the time of the
hurricane, see their gripping story at http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/090805A.shtml
Originally published on the Emergency Medical Services Network website, this
story was strangely removed just a few days later. The mainstream media is
largely avoiding reporting devastating personal stories which reveal all that is
being covered up. For more on how the media effectively blocks key stories like
this, see http://www.wanttoknow.info/mediainformation
For those interested in information on secret government weather control
programs, see two links below:
http://www.WantToKnow.info/050307tsunamibombweapon http://www.WantToKnow.info/resources#haarp For reliable, verifiable information on a major cover-up of 9/11:
http://www.wanttoknow.info/911information For empowering ideas on what we can do about all this:
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