We’ve turned the corner in the fight against the MSM.
Posted by: Friendly Fire | Sep 3 2005 9:25 utc | 1
Privatise Everything! (w/apologies to Jello Biafra)
Innovative Emergency Management So this private company got the contract to develop the plan last year. The original release: the Baton Rouge-based emergency management and homeland security consultant, will lead the development of a catastrophic hurricane disaster plan for Southeast Louisiana and the City of New Orleans under a more than half a million dollar contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Now all press releases regarding it have been pulled from their website post-Katrina.
Also, a company called Dewberry is involved too: Louisiana Plans for Major Hurricane Disasters:
Had one of the devastating hurricanes targeted New Orleans and southeast Louisiana, state and local officials would have been ready. In July, Dewberry teamed with IEM, Inc., of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to conduct a seven-day emergency planning exercise that gauged the region’s readiness for a catastrophic hurricane. The FEMA-sponsored exercise enabled participating agencies to evaluate and fine-tune their preparation, response, and recovery plans for a wide range of emergency conditions.
Dewberry provided expertise in the areas of hurricane tracking and inundation modeling; debris management, including dealing with hazardous materials and leaking underground storage tanks; urban search and rescue operations; and temporary housing. The firm also provided guidance in utilizing GIS to identify critical state-owned infrastructure and facilities.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 3 2005 9:34 utc | 2
The 9/11 victims were victims of an unforseeable attack (or so it is supposed). They died -nothing could be done for them. The injured were subsequently completely invisible. The aggrieved were – just that. Losing a loved one is tough but Gvmt. cannot compensate for that pain. The victims in Iraq are foreign, ‘Arabs’ or worse, or volunteer soldiers, and anyway it is all going on far away.
The Katrina victims are Americans on American soil – and they are suffering in an ordinary, everyday way, most people can imagine what should be done. Milk should be given to babies. The dead should be buried. Buses are needed. And so on. Therefore the beginning of outrage on the TVs. Without it, people would no longer watch?
If the Gvmt. apparatus survives this, nothing will stop America’s complete downfall.
Posted by: Noisette | Sep 3 2005 9:46 utc | 3
The lack of functioning flush toilets has temporarily intoxicated them. After couple of nights sleep and few days in a properly insulated environment they will be back to normal.
Nothing is changed.
They are the chorus moving The Cataclysm Show along though the katharsis.
Posted by: Anonymous | Sep 3 2005 10:02 utc | 4
The big disconnect on New Orleans
The official version; then there’s the in-the-trenches version
The only online paper I find that does NOT have New Orleans at least somewhere on the front page is HAARETZ. You would think they would at least a bit concerned about losing money to NO folks.
Here is an UPDATE: (from my earlier post Regarding :Who is jamming communications in New Orleans? ) We can now report that the jamming of New Orleans’ communications is emanating from a pirate radio station in the Caribbean.
The noise is continuous and it is jamming frequencies, including emergency high frequency (HF) radios, in the New Orleans area. The radio frequency jammers were heard last night, stopped for a while, and are active again today. The Pentagon must locate the positions of these transmitters and order the Air Force to bomb them immediately.
However, we now have a new unconfirmed report that the culprit may be the Pentagon itself. The emitter is an IF (Intermediate Frequency) jammer that is operating south southwest of New Orleans on board a U.S. Navy ship, according to an anonymous source. The jamming is cross-spectrum and interfering with superheterodyne receiver components, including the emergency radios being used in New Orleans relief efforts. The jamming frequencies are:
72.0MHZ
45.0MHZ
10.245MHZ
10.240 Mhz
11.340 Mhz
455 IF 233 MHZ
A former DoD source says the U.S. Army uses a portable jammer, known as WORLOCK, in Iraq and this jammer may be similar to the one that is jamming the emergency frequencies.
If a U.S. Navy ship is, in fact, jamming New Orleans communications, the crew must immediately shut down the jammer and take action against the Commanding Officer..
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 3 2005 10:54 utc | 8
Addendum:
But from what my friends tell me it sounds more like the Woodpecker signal. And after hearing it I have to agree.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 3 2005 11:03 utc | 9
Stuff happens.
And when you combine limited government with incompetent government, lethal stuff happens.
America is once more plunged into a snake pit of anarchy, death, looting, raping, marauding thugs, suffering innocents, a shattered infrastructure, a gutted police force, insufficient troop levels and criminally negligent government planning. But this time it’s happening in America.
W. drove his budget-cutting Chevy to the levee, and it wasn’t dry. Bye, bye, American lives.
Your Uncle $cam’s PSA for the day:
As b, has posted the local station WWL is still running live feeds, though not 24 hours. For those who can’t get enough, there are several ways to get often live, certainly, up to date info. One way to follow the news stories is through ( RSS ). RSS stands for Rich Site Summary or Really Simple Syndication and uses XML (eXtensible Markup Language) as a format.
So when you find a site with a BLOG you want to keep up with, if it’s available through an RSS Feed, it can viewed by web surfers in one of two ways which are much easier than revisiting the site whenever you happen to remember it:
1. by browsing using an RSS directory or RSS Search Engine.
These are generally free but you have to set up a login and password.
Three examples are BlogLines, NewsIsFree and Feedster. You’ll be able to store your favourite “feeds”, perform RSS Feed searches, refer feeds to friends, and more.
If you’re already a yahoo member, you can read and organise favourite feeds there once you’ve logged in. Also there’s a new browser competing with Internet Explorer and Netscape: Foxfire, which is set up to read feeds automatically.
2. by using RSS software (an aggregator).
This automatically downloads the latest updates of the feeds you’ve “subscribed to” to your desktop with your email. This is like an email subscription without having to sign up or share personal data with a website or list owner.
If you want to download an aggregator, here are a few:
RSSReader, FeedReader or NewsGator (NewsGator is made to work in Microsoft Outlook)
The only aggregator I know of for the MAC platform is NetNewsWire –
The growing trend is to read the internet by RSS Feeds, not browsing.
You can jump online, and using either an RSS Service or an RSS Reader, quickly check current headlines, local weather, new articles on your favourite sites, etc. This new style of gathering information saves time compared with visiting search engines, typing in remembered url’s or even accessing your browser’s Favorites Menu.
Best of all? No SPAM.
WDSU Is another like WWL. If you want the real story on what’s going on in NOLA, forget the mainstream media. Watch/Listen to the live transcripts of national guard and other agencies on IRC.
Other possibilities are go to shoutcast.com and search “scanner” and there’s a bunch of NOLA and related scanners at the top of the search results
Here are two that may be of interest:
Astrodome Scanner Stream and Louisiana National Guard Scanner Stream.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 3 2005 14:09 utc | 11
How can you not hate this guy
Bush to women: “There’s a Salvation Army center that I want to, that I’ll tell you where it is, and they’ll get you some help. I’m sorry…. They’ll help you…..
Woman 1: “I came here looking for clothes…”
Bush: “They’ll get you some clothes, at the Salvation Army center…”
Woman 1: “We don’t have anything…”
Bush: “I understand…. Do you know where the center is, that I’m talking to you about?”
Guy with shades: “There’s no center there, sir, it’s a truck.”
Bush: “There’s trucks?”
Guy: “There’s a school, a school about two miles away…..”
Bush: “But isn’t there a Salvation center down there?”
Guy: “No that’s wiped out….”
Bush: “A temporary center? ”
Guy: “No sir they’ve got a truck there, for food.”
Bush: “That’s what I’m saying, for food and water.”
Bush turns to the sister who’s been saying how she needs clothes.
Bush to sister: “You need food and water.”
The lesson I’ve learned from this moment is that if Bush is in charge, you are fucked if you expect the govt to function.
Where I am, there are several groups who are coordinating collections of money and supplies, and who are getting people with medicial training to go to the area to help out. This is being organized at the state and city level. Buses are going down every two weeks to rotate people and to bring in more supplies.
The Bush administration could have done this days ago. but they didn’t.
Anyone who trusts these people who are looting the federal govt and destroying our infrastructure have to be living in total denial….or they’re crazy.
Posted by: fauxreal | Sep 3 2005 15:49 utc | 13
Through the above picture link you can see each house in NO etc. after the flooding.
Vacation is Over… an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush
Any idea where all our helicopters are? It’s Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.
…
That’s the trouble with live tv…sometimes the truth slips out!
That pretty much says it all about Fox-their employee with the most integrity is Geraldo Rivera!
Posted by: doug r | Sep 3 2005 17:28 utc | 17
The Red Cross has not & is not, allowed to enter the city of New Orleans. Unbelievabable.
Posted by: anna missed | Sep 3 2005 18:01 utc | 18
Well the Gummint has its priorities figured: forget food, water, transport, let’s get the sonic torture devices down there for “crowd control” — what a great oppo for some field testing.
Experiment IV
Kate Bush
We were working secretly
For the military.
Our experiment in sound,
Was nearly ready to begin.
We only know in theory
What we are doing:
Music made for pleasure,
Music made to thrill.
It was music we were making here until
They told us
All they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone
From a distance.
So we go ahead,
And the meters are over in the red.
It’s a mistake in the making.
From the painful cry of mothers,
To the terrifying scream,
We recorded it and put it into our machine.
…
It could feel like falling in love.
It could feel so bad.
But it could feel so good.
It could sing you to sleep
But that dream is your enemy.
We won’t be there to be blamed.
We won’t be there to snitch.
I just pray that someone there
Can hit the switch.
But they told us
All they wanted
Was a sound that could kill someone
From a distance.
So we go ahead,
And the meters are over in the red.
It’s a mistake we’ve made.
Posted by: catlady | Sep 3 2005 20:14 utc | 20
so much about this has the “feeling” of an experiment.
Posted by: eftsoons | Sep 3 2005 20:30 utc | 21
They’re running the relief effort in the same way as Operation Iraqui Freedom. Timing of events that they control is scripted to frame the emperor as in charge of rescue. But just like the mission accomplished episode, reality trumps the theatrics. If this is not criminal nothing is.
Posted by: YY | Sep 3 2005 23:52 utc | 22