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(241,604 posts) Mon Aug 18, 2025, 04:15 AM Aug 18

The End of FEMA, and the Briberization of our Emergency Response - Greg Palast

The reason New Orleans drowned is that they privatized emergency evacuation planning, and canceled the FEMA plans. Now Trump’s saying he's going to eliminate FEMA by December. Understand, in a hurricane, in a flood, these are our lifeguards. And when you talk about privatization of our emergency response systems, it’s not privatization, it’s briberization. They're turning hurricanes, floods, and wildfires into a profit center — and more people are going to die as a result.

For more on this, watch my 1 hour special All Washed Away, which highlights the horrific connection between the drownings in Kerr County and those in New Orleans — 20 years ago this month — and the Trump/DOGE scheme to sell off FEMA.

Now available on YouTube: • All Washed Away:

The flood in Kerrville, Texas, was not an Act of God, it was an Act of Trump. Greg Palast’s investigation for Democracy Now! shows the horrific connection between the drownings in Texas and in New Orleans — 20 years ago this month — and the Trump/DOGE scheme to sell off FEMA, the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Join Palast on this updated version of his undercover investigation — which earned him a criminal charge by the Dept. Homeland Security. Palast blows open the chicanery and ugly profiteering that cost 1,500 lives in New Orleans, 139 lives in Texas and more drownings to come in this brave new hurricanes-for-profit TrumpWorld.

Greg Palast’s powerful documentary All Washed Away is now available on YouTube and Substack. With music by New Orleans' own Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Cajun rockers Speedbuggy, with the original soundtrack tune.

Watch this 1-hour special…then take swimming lessons.

For updates and the details of this investigation — sign up on Substack at: https://substack.com/@gregpalastinvestigates

Support our work with a tax-deductible donation for the Palast Investigative Fund: https://donorbox.org/all-washed-away-fema-campaign

If you make a tax-deductible contribution of $50 or more, I’ll send you a signed copy of my bestseller Armed Madhouse with a special chapter on the drowning of New Orleans: https://donorbox.org/armed-madhouse-hardback

Or, if you prefer a signed copy of the DVD Big Easy to Big Empty, the original investigation with a special half-hour interview with Amy Goodman: https://donorbox.org/big-easy-to-big-empty-dvd-amy-goodman-interview