Emergency Management (EM) 
May 2008
USNG:
18SUJ00449732
www.wecansolveit.org
May 28th, 2008 Emmitsburg (EM)
About Propaganda: "Pay No Attention to the 'Ten Times Better Prepared' Agency Behind the Curtain"
"...Related, have we really become a society of dimwits ruled by propaganda ministers that put out spin, taken up by select media/reporter buds who agree to reprint rather than report...."
"...FEMA's good ship propaganda continues to sail onward across the flat planet earth (winning awards)...."
"...For the past 15 years, plain and simple, the largest afflictions have been a seeming addiction to propaganda and cronyism...."
"...and the evident pushing of such information by the FEMA propaganda ministry, including how the California fires "response was widely, and favorably, compared to the agency's response to Katrina," the notion of doing exactly what the FEMA deputy administrator Harvey Johnson, administrator Paulison, and others, wanted folks to do back in October of 2007 (trying to make the fiasco of a fake news conference go away), "put the focus back on FEMA's response to the fires in California," seemed like a good thing to do. So, here we go...."
"...Another good source for showing how much propaganda production there was to the FEMA and DHS management appearances in California in 2007...dramatic statements of this fire event showing how much better things have become since Katrina...the "New FEMA"..., can be found on the FEMA website...."
"...Meanwhile, back at the FEMA propaganda bat cave, another five FEMA workers were “responding” (driving) to California from Denver with a few pieces of communications equipment (a need at this point is uncertain at best, but it makes good press and now there are ten FEMA employees in "response" roles to the fires)...."
"...Back to California, it must have spoiled an otherwise wonderful smoke-filled blue sky and absolutely blue ribbon propaganda day for FEMA, DHS, and President Bush...to have the Washington Post report on FEMA's fake news conference...."
"...Manufactured successes for the fires, politico's throwing a fake news conference and then blaming their "career people" subordinates for "setting up" the Admiral, "not standing up" and stopping him from doing the wrong thing, i.e., propaganda, lying to the American public (and it wasn't even April 1st). If any of that had been in the article, it just would not have been a very effective April Fools day joke, because of course, this is the real 'New FEMA'...."
"...Truly, a FEMA rising to (soon) see off to high paying contractor jobs...a few who even now believe their own press (propaganda) (given they make so much of it up themselves), but somehow, do not regard in a serious way the word “preparedness” (or "narcissism")...."
"Faux News - Live by the Propaganda Sword, Get Fired by the Propaganda Sword"
"...This Washington Post column regarding FEMA's not surprising at all "Orwellian oops", provides the "propaganda" comments in the Oct. 23rd (EM) post below a bit more perspective...."
"...Though spinners of propaganda will make them anyway, there is no rational comparison of this fire event, or subsequent FEMA response, to disasters like Katrina, there are simply far to many fundamental differences...."
"...How many years will it take to recover and regain a government of the people for the people, not patronage for the connected..., propaganda for the masses...."
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