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by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 6 September 2005
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Edito Governments Catastrophes USA

by Wayne Madsen

"Team Bush" still refusing international aid. Russian rescue crews on four cargo planes with helicopters on board sit idle at an airport near Moscow waiting for green light, Cuba has 1500 doctors with 26 tons of medical supplies and Bush is refusing them entry to U.S., Venezuelan disaster rescue teams wait for a "go," Dominican Republic crews with hurricane recovery experience wait and wait and wait. It’s the same scene at airports around the world. Meanwhile, FEMA turned back 8 buses from Washington, DC that were to bring 400 evacuees to the DC Armory which has been stockpiled with just about every need. The Bush regime has finally reached the crescendo of evil.

And why is FEMA so incompetent? It was turned into a political patronage agency by Bush for Bush’s campaign lickspittles. This from a disaster recovery specialist with inside contacts at FEMA:

Mike Brown was Joe Allbaugh’s college roommate. (Allbaugh was Bush’s first FEMA director). Allbaugh is now a consultant who makes tons of money for greasing the skids for companies to get business with the federal government in Iraq and with FEMA. Note to Federal law enforcement. You might want to investigate the relationship between Allbaugh and IEM, Dewberry, and URS — the companies that took $500,000 to develop a "Catastrophic Hurricane Disaster Plan for New Orleans & Southeast Louisiana," a plan they never delivered and a project for they fraudulently included James Lee Witt Associates as one of their team partners. The sleazy revolving door spewing out money spins very fast with the Bush administration.

Mike Brown had absolutely no experience in disaster management. When Allbaugh became director in January, 2001, he politically cleansed FEMA of anyone who was associated with outgoing director James Lee Witt, who had done an excellent during the Clinton administration. Allbaugh was charged with cleaning out of FEMA because of the neocon desire to rid the Federal bureaucracy of FEMA and replace it with charitable giving as a means of disaster relief.

So Allbaugh’s first priority was to gut FEMA. This became an even greater priority after the Democrats (especially Joe Lieberman) forced Bush to create a Department of Homeland Security. FEMA was rolled into DHS. Allbaugh was caught by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) using the FEMA Boeing 737 aircraft for private purposes, including numerous personal trips to Florida and political trips around the country. The Republican National Committee reimbursed FEMA for the political junkets, but the embarrassing trips hit the pages of the New York Times and Allbaugh chose at that time to leave and set up his own consulting business. He left without any pressure from the White House.

In early 2001, The American Arabian Horse Association fired current FEMA director Mike Brown as its executive secretary after a non-productive period of employment. Admittedly, Mike Brown had spent a large part of 2000 campaigning for Bush rather than doing his job, but the bottom line for the horse association was that Brown neglected his duties and day to day responsibilities.

Brown was lucky. His old college roommate, Allbaugh, appointed Brown as his number 2 within days of his firing by the horse association. This cozy relationship was noted throughout the Allbaugh period. Upon Allbaugh’s departure, Brown was designated by Bush to succeed him as FEMA director. He is called "Brownie" by Bush.

"Brownie" has few supporters in FEMA. In fact, the general commentary is that he lacks basic organizational and management skills and he is a bullshit artist, not a leader.

http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

Forum posts

  • I agree. I have been signing all the Impeach Bush petitions I could for months and objecting to Bush’s criminatl cabinet choices and before that following the Green Party recount. Through it all I have been trying to educate myself about the Bush Crime Family and their backers including Skull and Bones, and Bilerberg.

    I just recently found out about Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and hope he sends Federal Marshalls soon to arrest the whole Bush cabal. I try to leave messages on as many boards as I can of things to do that might encourage Fitzgerald or Congress to order the arrest of the Bush thugs. I wil place the URL for the timeline of empty promises to the dying people of New Orleans of basic aid and to the American people who wanted to help but pulled back each time a false promise was made hoping these poor people would get the help they need.

    If the rightwing media was traumatized and outraged enough to start telling the truth and showing their baffled outrage, maybe we can get these goons out of our government for good.

    Everybody go to Congress.org and write your Congressperson and the leaders of Congress to arrest bush and to co-sponsor the Resolution of Inquiry introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee and the names of Congresspersons and the committees they are on who need to co-sponsor are on afterdowningstreet.org. Please support this effort in any way you can. Stop before the Bush Regime commits mass murder again.

    Thank you all for you courageous efforts.

    • Bush and his cabal have shown to be power drunk ,untouchable and though they feign concern,lack empathy for anyone not a multimillionare.:(
      Here is a very revealing link about the BUSH & Co. that someone sent me via email. Below is the link.

      http://www.hermes-press.com/criminality.htm

      Signed,
      Angry in San Diego!!!

    • Here is also another (more recent) link on Bush &Co. that is connected to previous site posted above.

      Info about Katrina is also included.

      Signed,
      Angry in San Diego!!!

      http://www.hermes-press.com/index.html

    • waaaa..waaaa..waaaa..boo hoo hoo....Bush is Satan...blah...blah...blah You idiots all say same the same mindless drivel over and over because you can’t collectively come up with enough brain cells to have an original thought on your own. You just repeat whatever BS Micheal Moore, Al Sharpton, and other such mental midgets spew from the anus below their noses... Do those of us with intelligence and common sense a favor... Whenever you feel the urge to whine like a two-year old having a temper tantrum, instead of oping your idiot mouth, just sit back and have yourself a nice warm cup of SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!! It will do wonders in helping look like less of a immature moron.

    • Look who’s talking...another Bu$h Sycophant....did you learn all of your White house talking points for the day skippy, so that you can finish each othe’s sentences??? Talk about mindless, anyone who could look you straight in the face and say they do not think Bu$h is a fucking freak show crook has got to be braindead.....stupid bastard, that would be you.

    • By the way, you never did answer, how is Bu$h’$ anus smelling today???

    • Here is a link to the rundown on the Carlyle Group...the Bu$h crime family’s corporation, the first 1 1/2 minutes are translated from Duch the rest is in English, it is long but it is an education in itself about this scary conglomerate, headed by the Bu$h crime family...

      www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3995.htm

      you can not listen to this and not be totally freightened by what these people are doing.

    • oops that is translated from Dutch...

    • insults and bad language are a poor way of disguising a lack of reasoned, sensible arguing of your case. prove to us why the Bush family are "the Waltons" and deserve our respect.

    • I do apologize but your lack of education is "really" showing. Either that or you are now doing or in the past have done some bad, bad drugs.

  • YOUR WORDS "CESCENDO OF EVIL" ARE JUST- WHEN I LOOK AT TEAM BUSH I SEE TEAM HITLER-I SEE BLACKS IN THE CONVETION CENTER LIKE JEWS IN THE SHOWERS- WHERE WERE THE SAME GUARDS WHO CHECKED THE EVACUEES INTO THE SUPER DOME? I AM WHITE AND FROM A VERY PRIVILAGED BACKGROUD. THE TWIN TOWERS ARE THE REICHSTAG- MY COUNTRY HAS BEEN HOODWINKED BY THE BIG LIE, AND OUR PRESS IS SENSORED- HOW DO WE TAKE OUR COUNTRY BACK? OR WAS IT EVER OURS?

  • Team Bush has announced preemptive nuking again. The Pentagon doctrin are the doctrin of a rogue state. Do these people think other countries will take their nukes? How stupid.

    By the way Russia has already developed a far more advanced protection shields against American Nukes. Moreover Russion engineers hired to do work for the military have already deactived more then a half of nukes criminal American think they would still work.

    Americans must be all just plain stupid to put up with the Bush gang.

  • Mr. Madsen,
    I love your commentary and anlysis. But you have not gone far enough.
    The claim that FEMA was mis managed, incompetent or doesn’t have enough resources is not the right interpretation of the disaster. If it were just these problems, then the fix would be to spend more money on the central government level, expand Homeland Security, and add more management layers. I think these would all be in the wrong direction.

    The problem is deeper, IMO. It was a conscious decision to carry out this disaster. It was started years ago by underfunding the Corp of Engineers. But the specific actions of FEMA of turning back help of all kinds from many sources immediately and still going on was not incompetence. Look at the few sand bags that have been dropped near the levee breaches in current footage, and you will see that there is no big effort to fix this problem. There is an attach on the poor of that city to disburse them, take their land and spend government money to take over the operation, keeping the powerful even more powerful.

    So continue to post the problems and expand your view to include the problem of a corrupt central government, not an incompetent organization. We should have less central government and more local decision making. And I do agree that new leadership wpould be desirable.