Ominous Katrina-inspired Reports from Yurica--Read Up!

From an email:

Hi,

The Yurica Report set up a new directory with links to links and about 75 articles! It is all on the Hurricane and FEMA and mismanagement! With a hint of things yet to come. Many of these articles are shocking. Still, you may want to pass this on to your friends. Do take the time to download the 49 page report from ICE called The End Game, its in a PDF file and well worth your time to see how the immigration department, now called ICE, has suddenly become one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the U.S. (and probably the world). The End Game is their plan to create temporary cities--to hold around 5 million people! It began in 2002. You can download The End Game by clicking here:

http://www.yuricareport.com/Civil%20Rights/Endgame.pdf

It is about 1257 KB so it will take a while to download. Our question is why the Feds did not produce some of their temporary housing facilities for the people in New Orleans.

The Directory is at: http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/HurricaneDisasterDirectory.html

Here are some excerpts from the Directory and their links that should give you a sense of the breadth and width of our coverage: The first group is on FEMA and ICE. The second group focuses on the hurricane and gives eye witness accounts of FEMA's interference and obstruction, etc.

Over 45 Articles! Don't miss one of the great journalistic investigations of
the decade!

FEMA Under Bush Leaves
a Long Trail of Corruption

Investigations by Florida's Sun-Sentinel
Reporters Reveal Republican Miami-Dade
County, which suffered little or no hurricane
damage, received the bulk of the aid, while
Broward County, a Democratic stronghold
received little. Here are over 45 stories
revealing a trail of stunning corruption
and mismanagement including the
fact that 20% of FEMA inspectors had
criminal records:

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/FEMAunderBushTrailOfCorruption.html#anchor528697

When Hurricane Frances hit South Florida Labor
Day weekend, 100 miles north of Miami-Dade
County, but Sun-Sentinel reporters found
that the federal government approved $28
million in storm claims there for new furniture
and clothes and thousands of new televisions
microwaves, refrigerators and other appliances.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency
paid for new cars, dental bills and a funeral
even though the Medical Examiner recorded
no deaths from Frances... The reports have
prompted calls for investigations by federal
and state officials and the beginnings of an
inquiry by the Inspector General for the
Department of Homeland
Security.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/FEMAunderBushTrailOfCorruption.html


FEMA Prepared for Mass
Destruction of U.S. Cities
Starting in 2002
Crash effort was made to create temporary
cities to handle millions of displaced
persons by January of 2003.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Civil%20Rights/FEMAPlanForEmergencyCities.html

$300 million dollars of contracts awarded:
So where are they?

http://www.yuricareport.com/Civil%20Rights/FEMAPlanForEmergencyCities.html#anchor460395


ICE Deploys Over 700 Law
Enforcement Officers to
Golf Coast
Sept. 8, 2005
WASHINGTON, D.C. U.S. Immigration
and Customs Enforcement (ICE) today
announced that over the past ten days it
has deployed roughly 725 law enforcement
and support personnel from around the country
to the Gulf Coast as part of the governments
response to Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/ICE_SentOver700toGulfCoast.html

Read about the Camps of ICE

Where in the past the US Immigration authorities
have detained their prisoners in various holding
facilities, to include County Jails, Municipal Jails,
Federal Prisons, they have embarked upon this
ENDGAME plan which will make them the largest
jailer of human beings in all of history.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Civil%20Rights/TheCampsOfICE.html

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NEW: Bush Requests $51.8 Billion More
for Relief

GOP Leaders Launch Inquiry on Katrina
Preparation and Response

By Jonathan Weisman and Amy Goldstein
Washington Post Staff Writers

President Bush sent Congress a request for
$51.8 billion in additional hurricane relief yesterday,
raising Katrinas cost to the federal government
to $62.3 billion so far, easily a record for domestic
disaster relief. Separately, Republican leaders
moved to try to contain the political fallout from
Katrina, forming a joint House Senate review
committee of senior lawmakers who will
investigate the government's preparation
and initial response to the catastrophe.
Democrats called again for an independent
probe similar to the investigation of the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/BushRequests$51.8More


NEW: FEMA Turned Away Aid, Rescue
Crews, Cut Emergency Communication
Lines:
Witnesses Agency draws ire of frustrated
volunteers and donors

by Dru Oja Jay

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, several witnesses
have alleged that the Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) turned away volunteers who were
ready to help New Orleans residents people trapped
in their flooded homes. Other witnesses have said that
FEMA turned away offers of aid, prevented water and
fuel from reaching people on the ground, and cut
emergency communications lines.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/FemaCutEmergencyPhoneLines.html

Why FEMA failed

Ideologically opposed to a strong
federal role in disaster relief and obsessed
with terrorism, the Bush administration
let a once-admired agency fall apart.

By Farhad Manjoo

Sept. 7, 2005 | Days before Hurricane Katrina struck
the Gulf Coast, the city of Chicago drew up a list of
resources it was willing to make available for relief
efforts in areas that might be hit by the storm. Chicago
told the Federal Emergency Management Agency
that in the event of disaster, it could spare more than
100 Chicago police officers, 36 Fire Department
personnel, eight emergency medical experts, more
than 130 staff from Chicagos Department of Public
Health, 140 staff from the Department of Streets &
Sanitation, dozens of trucks and two boats.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/WhyFEMAFailed.html


NEW: Historic MSNBC Meet the Press
with Tim Russert Transcript Reveals
FEMAs Acts of Potentially Criminal
Magnitude

Transcript for September 4

Michael Chertoff, Marc Morial, Mike Tidwell,
Mark Fischetti, David Wessel, Haley Barbour
and Aaron Broussard

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/TimRussertInterviewsOnKatrina.html


NEW: Techniques of Bush Administration
Exposed: Senior White House Official Lied to
Washington Post. Here is the Correction:
A Sept. 4 article on the aftermath of Hurricane
Katrina incorrectly said that Louisiana Gov.
Kathleen Babineaux Blanco (D) had not declared
a state of emergency. When in fact, she declared
an emergency on Aug. 26. The corrected article
with inserts is below:

Many Evacuated, but Thousands Still Waiting
White House Shifts Blame to State and Local
OfficialsBy Manuel Roig-Franzia and Spencer Hsu
Washington Post Staff Writers

NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 3 Tens of thousands of
people spent a fifth day awaiting evacuation from
this ruined city, as Bush administration officials
blamed state and local authorities for what leaders
at all levels have called a failure of the countrys
emergency management.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/BushOfficialsLieAboutGovBlanco.html

Governor Blanco Declares State
of Emergency

Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco today issued
Proclamation No. 48 KBB 2005, declaring a state
of emergency for the state Louisiana as Hurricane
Katrina poses an imminent threat, carrying severe
storms, high winds, and torrential rain that may cause
flooding and damage to private property and public
facilities, and threaten the safety and security of the
citizens of the state of Louisiana The state of emergency
extends from Friday, August 26, 2005, through Sunday,
September 25, 2005, unless terminated sooner.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/GovBlancoDeclaresEmergency.html


Read the full Statement of the Document
that Exonerates Louisiana Officials
Copy of Letter from Governor Blanco to
President Bush
Dated August 28, 2005

Dear Mr. President:
Under the provisions of Section 401 of the Robert T.
Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance
Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121-5206 (Stafford Act), and
implemented by 44 CFR 206.36, I request that
you declare: an expedited major disaster for the
State of Louisiana as Hurricane Katrina, a Category
V Hurricane approaches our coast south of New
Orleans; beginning on August 28, 2005 and continuing.
The affected areas include all the southeastern
parishes including the City of New Orleans directly
impacted by the brunt of the storm and the mid state
and northern parishes accepting the thousands of
citizens forced to evacuate from the impacted areas
directly affected by Hurricane Katrina.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/BlancoToPresident_letter8_28_05.html


In July, 2005: Coastal Advocates
Dismayed by Bush's Opposition
Date: 7/22/2005
Gov. Kathleen Blanco released a copy of a letter to
President Bush on Wednesday in which she encourages
him to visit Louisiana to see the state's coastal erosion
problems firsthand. In it, she touches on concerns
that the deteriorating Louisiana coast threatens critical
oil-industry infrastructure, including transportation
routes and pipelines. Although budget constraints
are said to be the reason for the Bush administration's
opposition, Blanco said, please consider the far
greater costs of not addressing the catastrophic
coastal land loss occurring in Louisiana, land loss
that puts our nation's energy security and economic
future at risk.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/GovBlancoTriedInJuly.html


NEW: The Lethal Tardiness of the Bush
Administration
By Matthew Rothschild
The scope of the disaster that goes by the
name Hurricane Katrina is difficult to fathom
at a distance. All the video on TV and all the
photographs and words in newspapers,
magazines, and on line cannot adequately
describe the loss. A million people homeless,
a death toll likely to rise over 1,000, a great
city submerged, a region devastated-the
enormity was too great to take in.
Even in the first seventy two hours after Katrina
came ashore near New Orleans, it became
obvious that government had failed, at every level.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/LethalTardinessOfBushAdmin.html


Here Is the Story Behind the Hurricane
In 2001, the Federal Emergency Management
Agency ranked a major hurricane strike on New
Orleans as among the three likeliest, most
catastrophic disasters facing this country, directly
behind a terrorist strike on New York City.
One of the strongest storms in recorded history
rocked the Gulf Coast, bringing 145 mph winds
and floods of up to 20 feet.

Two months ago, President Bush took an
ax to budget funds that would have helped New
Orleans prepare for such a disaster. The New
Orleans branch of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
suffered a record $71.2 million reduction in federal
funding, a 44.2 percent reduction from its 2001 levels.
Reports at the time said that thanks to the cuts,
major hurricane and flood protection projects will
not be awarded to local engineering firms.

http://www.yuricareport.com/BushSecondTerm/StoryOfAHurricane.html

Homeland Security would not let the Red Cross
deliver food
Saturday, September 03, 2005
By Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post Gazette
As the National Guard delivered food to the New
Orleans convention center yesterday, American
Red Cross officials said that federal emergency
management authorities would not allow them
to do the same.

http://www.yuricareport.com/Disaster/FEMARefusedRedCrossFood.html


That is all for now! Thanks for reading our stuff!

Katherine

:loveya:

:kick:

in discussion about the FEMA response -- duh -- but the argument seems to be "since FEMA screwed up so bad, we should call in the military."

yurica rocks!

Mike Ruppert has been reporting the same thing. LIHOP?

So, when should we start using strong encryption, or is that now illegal?