Dear God! You HAVE to watch the video that got Greg Palast in trouble!

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/28/1342209 The Gestapo has been reborn.

It takes RealPlayer. It becomes pretty obvious why Bushco would want to shut him up 5 minutes into the 46 minute tape.

Keep this kicked, but please keep this thread kicked as well: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2074521

And another great thread on the subject: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2074521

This is as important as Spike's Requium but far more pointed in pointing out the real "evildoers."

[CBGLuthier]

1. Is there a transcript somewhere?

I refuse to have realplayer on my computers. Obnoxious damn software.

[The Straight Story]

3. you and me both! (nt)

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

4. I don't blame you. I think there's a link to the transcript at the above

link in the OP and I now see that you can download the MP3 there as well.

[Pepper32]

6. I know your pain

That software is a resource hog, I hate it.

Hopefully, someone will post a transcript.

On edit: There is a rush transcript here, just visit the page. HTH

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/28/1342209

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

7. Here's the MP3 link:

http://ia311519.us.archive.org/1/items/dn2006-0828/dn2006-0828-1_64kb.mp3

[Pepper32]

9. I just downloaded it, thanks for the link! n/t

[bobbolink]

18. Thanks. Listening now. Couldn't get the video.

Talking to him from behind a glass wall??

Are they in prison?

sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh...

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

33. What about RealAlternative?

www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

[tridim]

8. Get "Real Alternative"

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

It kicks ass.. No ads, just good clean audio and video. While you're at it get "Media Player Classic", same reason.

[AndrewJacksonFaction]

34. Whoops did not see your post above.

[seabeyond]

24. good for you. i had it once. ruined everything. and i want to watch

will check below to see if i see another place to find it. but hate that realplayer. took for ever to get it all off

[yodermon]

39. google "media player classic"

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/guliverkli/mpc2kxp6490.zip?use_mirror=internap will get you to a direct download page.

[blogslut]

2. No plan

They had no f*cking plan

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

5. But they were paid $.5 million for no plan while LSU had one already

paid for with tax dollars.

Sux.

[blogslut]

10. Way sux

It's a damaging bit o film. I think saw it on Google video. I don't have the address but I bet it can be found on another format than Real.

[Joanne98]

14. Bush didn't want the FREE plan. I'm beginning to think they blew up

the levee. Is that where we're headed here. Was Katrina pre-meditated
MURDER? What about Nagin. He's got to be in on this.

[Skidmore]

11. k&r

[Warpy]

12. Oh, Mah. Gawd, the emergency plans had been PRIVATIZED???

This is something I didn't know.

That company still can't FIND the plans? Yeah, right! That company is another god damned GOP front. It's business is like all those Group W businesses headed by Brent Wilkes: they launder Federal dollars and turn them into contributions to the GOP.

Now it all makes sense. I wish it didn't, but it does.

We have got to get enough of them out of Congress to investigate this stuff.

[Gregorian]

13. It's not nice to expose Bush irresponsibility.

Investigative journalism is considered dangerous in Bush's America.

It messes up their evil plans. Don't mess with a Bush. But we are going to mess with people who intend to ruin America. No matter what the consequences.


What did I tell everyone? I said this as the levee was crumbling. New Orleans is a name with name recognition. They let it crumble so they could gentrify it. It's the new Las Vegas. You must be this tall to enter. It's another Disneyland. And this is the America the conservatives dream of. Sanitized. Fit only for goon tourists. It's all about money. Damn them.

[Gin]

19. The same damn company gets the bid to figure out what went wrong

during Katrina.....and they were paid half million dollars for an evacuation plan that doesn't exist.

Beam me up Scotty! This is surreal!

[Bonobo]

15. I'm watching....sickening.

Innovative Emergency Management -bastards.

http://www.ieminc.com/

[drm604]

23. Check out this page regarding IEM

This site: http://www.bombsecurity.com/inftr1.html
lists IEM under the heading "Consultants: WMD Prepardness" ;( (That's their spelling, not mine.)
I sure hope they haven't gotten any of our tax dollars for "WMD Prepardness".

[SpiralHawk]

16. "All your truth are belong to us." - BushCo Big republicon Government

They also don't want the citizens of the USA to know about the dead sons and daughters who are returning from Iraq and Afghanistan in caskets after having been sold a pack of WMD lies by the republicon oil-profiteering cronies.

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

17. Dammit, boyou! So spot on. n/t

[Leopolds Ghost]

21. You have no chance to evacuate make your time. HA HA HA

Take off every Riverboat Casino!!

:evilfrown:

[MelissaB]

20. When will I stop being surprised?

:kick:

:cry:

[Tom Yossarian Joad]

29. I you're like me...

Never. As long as the gestapo are in power.

[BREMPRO]

22. first i've heard of IEM... that's a revelation...

what a surprise... more wasteful outsourcing of federal government contracts to incompetent republican donor ad hoc front operations. As in most cases, with tragic results. We need a real investigation, and need to take back the congress to get it done..

[Tuesday_Morning]

25. Bravo!

Real reporting - stunning, isn't it?

[ms liberty]

26. I saw this piece when it ran - disgusting! K&R n/t

[jasmeel]

27. I emailed IEM and asked for the emergency mgmt plan-still

haven't heard back. Maybe you wanna try-or call.

Chris Kisling
Business Development Manager
8555 United Plaza Blvd., Suite100
Baton Rouge, LA 70809
Voice: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Send email to Chris Kisling

[Nikki Stone 1]

28. Interesting idea

Kicking this thread

[rman]

30. "Innovative Emergency Management"

Why does that make me LOL?

[rman]

31. part 2:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/08/28/1342222

Also see

Palast, Pascarella Face Homeland Security Charges
http://www.gregpalast.com/palast-pascarella-face-homeland-security-criminal-charge#more-1485

[rman]

32. Which is the "sensitive national security site owned by Exxon"

filmed by Palast, about which HS is charging him?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2074521

Is it supposed to be in the video shown on Democracy Now?

[leftchick]

36. I haven't seen it either

??

[Chico Man]

38. I sincerely hope it's not the closed down apartments he broke into

[Monk06]

44. It appears that the sensitive national security site is IEM

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Madhu_Beriwal

Beriwal authored the Witt Report concerning evacuation
plans for nuclear power emergencies.

Her advice in the Witt report?

"Acccording to the Witt report, rather than just drive off willy nilly at the first sign of trouble, causing massive traffic jams. Folks, with the help of properly educated officials, should first study the danger as indicated by radioactive plume, or in the case of a hurricaine, wind speed, category and direction, etc. carefully, maybe stay home. They must be studied and educated before hand with great patience and respect so they will not be afraid."

[rman]

49. No shit

Makes sense, but a quick search yesterday didn't turn up a connection.
Thanks for digging a bit deeper.

It's interesting how yet again, the neocon gang and their friends seem to think that all things emergency management are a matter of national security, as though a natural disaster is to be treated the same way as a terrorist attack.

[mike_c]

35. kick and a recommendation....

eom

[KoKo]

37. kick

[Pacifist Patriot]

40. Responding so I can...

find this post easily when I get back home tomorrow. K & R

[lonestarnot]

41. Hey those two threads are the same.

They are messin' with my man! Hey you fuckers leave him alone! He has the best hairline around, unlike a fucker with a rug like Brit Hume, he's a natural!

[mdmc]

42. kicking for a later look

thanks

[BelgianMadCow]

43. at a loss for words

still have to read why they claim he needs to be shut up

i am sickened

[Kurovski]

45. Kick and "R".

[LSK]

46. kick - wow this is quite an amazing piece

[stevedeshazer]

47. MUST SEE!

Incredible.

[havocmom]

48. Kick

:kick:

[upi402]

50. kick

:kick:

[Red Right and BLUE]

51. Link to IEM's press release re: getting contract to plan evacuation

http://www.ieminc.com/Whats_New/Press_Releases/pressrelease060304_Catastrophic.htm

[xchrom]

52. k&r

[Red Right and BLUE]

53. Interesting... IEM changed their press release page just before Katrina.

http://leninology.blogspot.com/2005/09/politics-of-weather-3-shyness-of.html

That's right. The evidence that hurricane-management was privatised and handed over to IEM has been eradicated from the IEM website. It's almost as if someone was trying to evade responsibility for incompetence that's resulted in the deaths of thousands, or something.

edit: before not after.