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GAO Hands FEMA Another Katrina Blow
FEMA officials must be wondering if Hurricane Katrina will ever blow over. Now, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports that FEMA lost another $30 million taxpayer dollars through “ineffective oversight” of contracts to maintain and deactivate those mobile homes and travel trailers use for emergency housing. The loss, reports the [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 28th, 2007 | Category: Excess, FEMA, GAO, Katrina, Mismanagement, Oversight, Public Health, Tax Dollars, arrogance, catastrophe, consequences, emergency, fraud, profiteers, refugees | Comments (3)

(CBS) There are still 50,000 families along the Gulf Coast living in travel trailers given to them by FEMA. Six months ago we began investigating reports of toxic formaldehyde fumes making some of those people sick. And as Chief Investigative Reporter Armen Keteyian reports, FEMA has done more to cover their own backs than help [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 7th, 2007 | Category: CBS, Corruption, Disaster, Excuses, FEMA, Hypocracy, Ignorance, Katrina, R. David Paulison, Tax Dollars, Waste, chemicals, cover up, incompetence, taxpayers | Comments (1)

The Quakers have a wonderful website, AFSC.ORG , that keeps tally of the dollars being flushed down the war toilet. They have posted alternative directions this enormous amount of money could be better spent. This country contains well over 300 Million souls. The quality of life is rapidly being thrown in two [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 23rd, 2007 | Category: 1984, Accountability, Anti-War, Armageddon, Black Ops, Bush, CHIPS, Children, Clean Energy, Collateral, Corruption, Crooks, Dollars, EPA, Education, Excuses, FDA, FEMA, Health Care, Hypocracy, Immigration, Mercenaries, Oil, Oversight, Povery, SCHIPS, Tax Dollars, US Treasury, War, War Contractors, War Cost, Waste, arrogance, budget, civil liberties, displaced persons, economics, executive privilege, fraud, infrastructure, negligence, no-bid contract, profiteers, resonsibility, troops, veterans benefits | Comments (6)

Feds plan IDs to restrict volunteers at disasters
Some say program would shield first first responders from needed criticism
Ambitious ID program
In an effort to provide better control and coordination, the federal government is launching an ambitious ID program for rescue workers to keep everyday people from swarming to a disaster scene. A prototype of [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 2nd, 2007 | Category: City of Austin, Disaster, Emergency Management, FEMA, Fire Fighters, First Responders, Police, Politics, Red Cross, Samaritans, Volunteers, disinformation, medics | Comments (5)

China’s US$1.3 trillion in foreign exchange reserves are the largest in the world and are believed to be comprised largely of dollar assets, potentially giving Beijing enormous sway over the dollar’s value and currency markets worldwide.
…. Chinese government economists as saying China would dump its dollar holdings in the event of a trade war with [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 12th, 2007 | Category: Armageddon, Casualties, China, Collateral, Contractors, Corruption, Crooks, Dollars, DoubleSpeak, FEMA, Homeland Security, Hypocracy, Oil, Outsource, Oversight, Pentagon Corruption, Ron Paul, Tax Dollars, The Divider, The Liar, Time Bomb, US Treasury, War Cost, appropriation, betrayal, cover up, disinformation, infrastructure, national security, profiteers, resonsibility, state of emergency, taxpayers | Comments (9)

Pakistani Official Says Musharraf Rejects State of Emergency
Chosun Ilbo, South Korea - 28 minutes ago
Pakistani officials say President Pervez Musharraf does not intend to declare a state of emergency. Ruling party head Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain made the …
No emergency rule’ for Pakistan
CNN International - 38 minutes ago
LAHORE, Pakistan (CNN) — Pakistan’s embattled president Gen. Pervez Musharraf will not [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 9th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Cheney, Corruption, Democracy In Action, Disaster, DoubleSpeak, Excuses, Executive Branch, FEMA, Homeland Security, Musharraf, Orwellian, Pakistan, Scandal, Tax Dollars, The Liar, War Crimes, conspiracy, crimes, disinformation, emergency, marketing | Comments (1)

States Feel Left Out Of Disaster Planning
By Spencer S. Hsu Washington Post Staff Wednesday, August 8, 2007
A decision by the Bush administration to rewrite in secret the nation’s emergency response blueprint has angered state and local emergency officials, who worry that Washington is repeating a series of mistakes that contributed to [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 8th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, America, Armageddon, Bush, Casualties, Cheney, Chertoff, Collateral, Corruption, DHS, Deception, Democracy In Action, Dillusion, Disaster, DoubleSpeak, Excuses, Executive Branch, FEMA, Homeland Security, Hypocracy, Katrina, King George, Kucinich, Legacy, Outsource, Oversight, Patriot Act, Politics, President, Promises, States, Tax Dollars, The Divider, The Liar, Waste, administration, conspiracy, destruction, dictatorship, disinformation, economics, national security, neglect, resonsibility, taxpayers, threat | Comments (2)

Maliki: timetable for US withdrawal not possible
Iraqi PM says neither Baghdad nor Washington can set timetable for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq.
Collapsing Bridges vs. War in Iraq
The Bush administration’s spending priorities – including an estimated $1 trillion for an unnecessary war – will cost the lives not only of US soldiers and Iraqi civilians [...]

Posted by bosskitty August 4th, 2007 | Category: Accountability, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, Anti-War, Armageddon, Army Corp of Engineers, Bush, Casualties, Cold War, Collateral, Congress, Contractors, Corporate Corruption, Corporate corruption, Deception, Democracy In Action, Excuses, FEMA, Fear, History, King George, Nikita Khrushchev, Oil, Outsource, Patriot Act, Pentagon Corruption, Politics, President, Promises, Prophesy, Scandal, Statistics, Tax Dollars, The Divider, The Liar, Theocracy, War Cost, Waste, administration, civil liberties, civil rights, destruction, disinformation, economics, profiteers, resonsibility, taxpayers | Comments (1)

CRAWFORD, TX:
A tragic flood this morning destroyed the personal library of President George W. Bush.
The flood began in the presidential bathroom where both of the books were kept.
Both books have been completely destroyed.
A presidential spokesman said the president was devastated as he had almost finished
coloring the second one.
The White House tried to call FEMA but [...]

Posted by nytexan July 26th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Crawford, FEMA, Humor, President | Comments (18)