WASHINGTON (Reuters) - "Former federal disaster chief Michael Brown told a Senate panel on Friday he warned President Bush of impending catastrophe in New Orleans last summer and informed White House aides of dangerous flooding shortly after Hurricane Katrina struck."
He says he warned that the levee pumps were failing, etc, etc.
The fed did nothing. Then the fed blamed Brown for not doing his job. Brown resigned.
Now Brown is pointing the finger.
Business as usual, right? Typical reaction / non-reaction for a kleptocracy interested in power, profit, privilege ... with life, sense ... neglected.
I'll tell you what's not typical: that we're hearing anything about it. Most top-down negligences, injustices, stupidities ... are instantly buried: and stay buried.
Once upon a time I believed (what I was told) that a superior centralized executive, God, would make it all right, would correct all wrongs, would offer a map that actually fit the territory. Now I believe that that's an impossibility; centralized, top-down authority will never know the truth, let alone tell it. Centrally, kleptocratically-funded science will always be a sick joke. The truth will never be told -- so long as power, profit, privilege ... reigns over life, sense ...
Uh oh. Did I just imply that if our values were revised, perhaps reversed, that we'd be capable of truth? I wouldn't bet the farm on that either.
There's only one thing I am sure of: that the truth matters, the truth will tell in the long run, despite our capacities or incapacities for it.
The truth is the truth. The truth doesn't need any God to administer it.
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