VL-IV (15) Tubal Nuances, pages 355/356, 370/371, 377/378

[rich]

it is hard to believe but FEMA was once a well-run organization (i'm
thinking Clinton appointee James lee Witt--a man w/ true background in
disaster mgmt--see aftermath I think of Hurricane Andrew in Florida)
before the bumblers Joseph Allbaugh (almost a cartoon cutout--check
out the hairdo) and eventually Michael Browne got their hands on it.

background of the head of FEMA in 1984 was a Reagan insider, friends
of the lovely Edwin Meese (the American Hermann Goring). booted out
for corruption (good gosh!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_O._Giuffrida

rich

On 4/21/09, Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 11:05 AM, rich wrote:
>
>> Reagen fired the all the striking air traffic controllers in 1981,
>> considering the importance of such a job a pretty reckless thing to do
>> beyond the union busting
>>
>> rich
>
> Good catch. Don't forget that this is all happening in the midst of
> Rex 84:
>
> 	In April 1984, President Reagan signed Presidential Directorate
> 	 Number 54 that allowed FEMA to engage in a secret national
> 	"readiness exercise" under the code name of REX 84. The
> 	exercise was to test FEMA's readiness to assume military
> 	authority in the event of a "State of Domestic National
> 	Emergency" concurrent with the launching of a direct United
> 	States military operation in Central America. The plan called for
> 	the deputation of U.S. military and National Guard units so that
> 	they could legally be used for domestic law enforcement. . .
>
> http://uweb.txstate.edu/~lf14/conspire/rex84.html
>
> 	. . .such appraisals are the result of these readers' failure to
> 	apprehend the historical depth the novel offers, and their
> 	refusal to take seriously the endpoint of the history it
> 	relates. There has yet to be a critic who, like the ghost of Walter
> 	Rathenau in Gravity's Rainbow, is able to "see the whole shape
> 	at once,"  the continuing pattern of executive aggrandizement
> 	so carefully interwoven into the exposition of Vineland and
> 	which leads up to a moment as apocalyptic as any in recent
> 	fiction. To answer Leithauser, Wilde, and Mackey, there is
> 	inVineland something "overarchingly malignant," "some
> 	glamorously threatening force," an "awesome glimpse of the
> 	sublime and the demonic"; it has simply gone unrecognized.
>
> http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/okla/thoreen24.htm
>
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