CUNY Investigated a Student for ‘Triggering’ Comment About Israel

CUNYThe City University of New York (CUNY) conducted a three-month investigation into a student accused of writing a “triggering” comment on the Earth and Environmental Sciences listserv.

The student, Rafael Mutis, had complained that the department was advertising grants to study in Israel. This, in Garcia’s view, was “some sick zionist propaganda.” The discussion thread quickly degenerated into a nasty argument about Israel and Palestine, as tends to happen.

But things didn’t end there. Garcia soon learned that another student had sent an email to the university’s Title IX office to lodge a formal complaint. “Rafael and others have equated Fullbright [sic] Israel as being ‘Sick Zionist Propaganda,'” the message read. “It was explained to them why this is hate speech and that it is offensive and triggering both nicely (by others) and not nicely (by me) and they won’t stop.”

At the end of the email, according to New York magazine’s Jesse Singal,

the student explained why, in her view, what happened on the listserv was an act of discrimination: “I can’t find an IT policy that provides guidance for what is appropriate for a list serv. I understand free speech. They were asked to stop using triggering language and continued to do so. But making me feel intimidated and harassed because of my ethnicity/religion intimidating [sic] doesn’t give Jewish students an equal opportunity to receive GC information as the only way to avoid the hate speech is unsubscribe from the list serve that provides critical information in the pursuit of my degree.”

Title IX deals with gender discrimination, not ethnic or religious discrimination, but the complaint landed in the lap of a bureaucrat with an interest in pursuing the matter anyway.

Singal reports that Mutis was forced to meet with an administrator, even though his remark about Zionism was absolutely protected under the First Amendment—CUNY is a public school—regardless of whether it was offensive, hateful, or triggering. Mutis wisely brought along a lawyer, who noted that Mutis had broken no policy. Indeed, CUNY had not even bothered to name a policy that Mutis might have broken, since there is none.

Three months later, Mutis learned that the investigation had come to an end. According to Singal:

The rose-colored view here is that this system “worked,” in a certain sense. But on the other hand, anyone with even the faintest understanding of the First Amendment could have taken a swift look at the listserv exchange and said, “No, CUNY can’t investigate him for that.” CUNY is a public university, and public universities must abide by the First Amendment when it comes to these sorts of disciplinary systems….

It’s astounding, and worrying, to think about the time and money a public university spent on what should have been a two-sentence response to the complainant: “I’m sorry to hear you were hurt by the tenor the conversation on the listserv. Unfortunately, CUNY is bound by law to respect the First Amendment, and with a few extremely narrowly defined exceptions, that includes statements others find offensive or hurtful.”

This incident provides good evidence that the Obama-era Education Department’s overly broad Title IX guidance has indeed made it too easy for students to bring frivolous complaints against each other. In this case the complaint wasn’t even gender-based, but that didn’t matter. This is one reason Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s proposed Title IX reforms are clearly needed.

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Penn State Math Course Covers “Imperialism” & “Cultural Intolerance”

Authored by Grace Gottschling via Campus Reform,

A professor teaching a general education math course at Penn State University included pages of his personal opinion on politics and social justice issues in exams.

Campus Reform received copies of exams, including a midterm, from an anonymous student who was concerned by the political nature of the course material when they took Professor Marc Fabbri’s math class last spring. The course material contains large portions of political opinion that have little relevance to the course topic.

The course, “Finite Mathematics,” is designed for non-science majors and fulfills a general education requirement. The course is described by Penn State as an “introduction to logic, sets, [and] probability,” however, the take-home tests Campus Reform received appear to contain the professor’s personal opinion and few math problems.

Fabbri details several seemingly random environmental efforts in the Great Lakes as well as the 1965 Clean Water Act signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in section three of a course document titled “Would the Real Trump University Please Stand Up,” obtained by Campus Reform.

Over the course of two and a half pages, the professor gives a lengthy account of how he became aware of fracking before asking students to analyze statistics related to fracking violations.

Fabbri asks students to negate the statement “all those who enjoy religious freedom promote cultural toleration” after detailing, for nearly three pages, several academics’ condemnation of imperialism in a section entitled “Imperialism, Hubris and Cultural Intolerance: Threats to Democracy.”

The professor begins with a positive review of Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton in section two of the midterm, entitled “Red Party Politics Shifts and Cracks,” before asking students to analyze voting statistics between male and female voters during the 2008 presidential election.

“The emergence of the Tea Party played a central role in the 2008 U.S. presidential election,” the document reads.

“The victor was Barack Obama who, like Bill Clinton, served as U.S. president for 8 years – the two men guided always by the strength of character and force of intellect of First Lady Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton.”

Fabbri is slated to teach three sections of the course this fall. 

Penn State spokesman L. Reidar Jensen told Campus Reform that the school is “aware” of the exam materials and is “in the process of looking into this situation further.”

While Jensen referenced the professor’s right to academic freedom, he noted that the university seeks to “encourage any student who believes that an instructor has acted beyond the limits of academic freedom to consult the policies and procedures in place for seeking a faculty conference and mediation.”

Fabbri has yet to respond to Campus Reform’s request for comment.

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Tailing 3 Year Auction Prices At Highest Yield Since May 2008

The deluge of bond issuance is upon us.As Nomura notes, following last week’s massive U.S. IG issuance (3rd largest week all-time at $60B), the market expects another $25-$30B in the pipeline this week (~$9B in high grade supply yesterday), on top of a combined $73BB of 3-, 10- and 30-year Treasury securities to be sold this week, the 2nd largest amount across said tenors in one week since 2010, moments ago the US Treasury concluded the first of this week’s coupon auctions, which was the sale of $35 BN in 3 Year notes.

Printing at a high yield of 2.821%, this was the highest yield since May 2008 (when it was suspended until November 2008, at which point it had tumbled to sub-2%), and tailing the When Issued 2.820% by just 1 basis point.

The internals were mediocre, with Indirects taking down 46.3% of the auction, above the 42.7% in August, but below the 48.1% 6 month average. Directs took down 10.7%, in line with historical averages leaving Dealers with 43.0%.

The auction took place as the 10Y crept up to session highs, just above 2.97%, even though the 2s10s barely budged, and was last seen 1 basis point higher at 23.2bps.

And with the first of the week’s coupon auctions digested without much trouble, all eyes turn to tomorrow’s 10Y reopening which will see some $23 billion sold to the willing masses.

 

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Family of Dallas Man Killed by Cop Says Officer’s Story Doesn’t Add Up

The family of Botham Jean, who was shot to death by an off-duty Dallas police officer on Thursday, is questioning the officer’s account of what happened the night of the fatal shooting.

Amber Guyger told responding officers she had just returned to her apartment complex following her shift with the Dallas Police Department. Guyger said “she entered the victim’s apartment believing that it was her own,” according to a statement put out by police hours after the shooting.

An arrest affidavit for Guyger, who’s been charged with manslaughter, lays out in more detail her account of how the situation escalated. According to the affidavit, Guyger lives on the third floor of the complex in apartment #1378, while Jean lived directly above her in apartment #1478. She parked on the fourth floor, then attempted to enter Jean’s apartment using her “unique door key,” the affidavit says. Since the door was already ajar, it “fully opened under the force of the key insertion.”

At that point, the affidavit says Guyger encountered Jean, who she believed to be a burglar. After giving “verbal commands” that Jean ignored, Guyger shot him twice, according to the warrant. It wasn’t until after the shooting that Guyger realized she was in the wrong apartment, the affidavit says.

But Jean’s family thinks there are holes in that story. For one thing, attorneys for the family said at a press conference yesterday that Jean wasn’t the type of person to leave his front door ajar, the Dallas Morning News reports.

One lawyer, Lee Merritt, isn’t so sure Guyger thought Jean’s apartment was her own when she shot him. “There are witnesses who said that before the gunshots they heard the officer knocking at the door and repeatedly saying, ‘Let me in,'” Merritt tells The Washington Post. After the shots were fired, one witness reported that Jean said: “Oh my God, why did you do that,” Merritt added at the press conference. The attorney said he believes those were Jean’s last words.

The shooting is currently being investigated by the Texas Rangers state police force. Authorities conducted a blood test on Guyger, but have yet to reveal the results. Guyger, a four-year veteran of the police department who has been placed on paid administrative leave, was arrested Sunday but later set free on $300,000 bail. She could face additional charges—including murder—depending on what a grand jury decides after hearing the case.

For now, Jean’s mother just wants to know why her son was killed. “The number one answer that I want is, ‘What happened?'” Allison Jean told reporters yesterday. “I have asked too many questions, and I’ve been told that there are no answers yet. I’m looking forward to the powers that be to come up with the answers to make me more satisfied that they are doing what is in the best interest of getting justice for Botham.”

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If You Oppose NFL Kneeling, You May Be A Victim Of Russian Trolls: WaPo 

The Washington Post, offering no evidence, would like us to know that those dastardly Russians are at it again – using weaponized social media accounts to twist our minds over the NFL kneeling controversy. 

In short, Americans whipped up over NFL players refusing to stand for the National Anthem may not be in control of their own emotions thanks to “instances of accounts linked to Russian trolls” who have “weighed in” on the NFL controversy, as recently as four months ago

So, not actual Russian trolls – but Twitter accounts linked to them, and four months ago. Got it. 

Citing a report by CNN which also contains no evidence, WaPo‘s offers a “reminder from CNN Tech about the opportunity that Russia sees in the divide here over the anthem.” 

CNN worked with researchers at Clemson University that have archived millions of tweets sent by the Internet Research Agency, a Russian troll group that was indicted by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in February. The accounts’ links to Russia were discovered by Twitter, which provided details about them to Congress. The data shows the trolls repeatedly weighing in on the debate, using different accounts to take both sides. While they used some accounts to push petitions to fire the protesting players, they used others to hail them as heroes.

Over the past year, social media networks have identified and removed thousands of accounts tied to the IRA. But despite the tech companies’ efforts, there’s no indication that the group is shying away from the NFL controversy.

Clemson University researchers and CNN have found instances of accounts linked to Russian trolls by Twitter weighing in on the issue as recently as May of this year. –CNN

So – four months ago, Clemson University and CNN found “instances of accounts linked to Russian trolls” weighing in on the NFL kneeling controversy – triggering feeble-minded ‘Muricans into false patriotism and false protest, or something like that. 

Who needs evidence when words will suffice?

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“Don’t Wait Until It’s Too Late” – North Carolina Governor Orders Mandatory Evacuation

As Hurricane Florence bears down on the east coast, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper has issued a mandatory evacuation order of the state’s barrier islands.

“Don’t wait until it is too late. It could put your lives and lives of emergency responders in danger.”

Roy Cooper’s message to residents ahead of Hurricane Florence:

We know this storm surge is going to be significant. People need to leave now before they can’t. People are doing a pretty good job currently. We want to make sure people understand that people should not ride Hurricane Florence out.

North Carolinians are strong, and we are resilient. We will get through this. We’ve weathered tough hurricanes before, and we will do it again…

Be prepared for lots of rain and wind. Utilities say to expect to lose power for several days.”

North Carolina Emergency Services also warned…

 

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Bernie Sanders, Defender of Bread Lines as Sign of Prosperity, Attacks Amazon’s Corporate Lingo as ‘Orwellian’

Yesterday Sen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) renewed his attacks on Amazon by sharing a new video in which the company is accused of using “Orwellian language” in referring to its staff and facilities.

On Monday, Sanders tweeted out a video of British journalist James Bloodworth talking about his own experience working in an Amazon warehouse in the United Kingdom. Among the horrors Bloodworth discovered was that workers and managers were not referred to as such, but were instead given the title of “associate.”

This according to Bloodworth was “Orwellian language to blur the distinction between you as a worker and what the management were doing.” Also included in this authoritarian doublespeak was the company referring to the buildings where it fulfills customers’ orders not as warehouses but as “fulfillment centers,” describing fired employees as being “released,” and referring to conversations between employees and bathroom breaks as “idling time.”

Sanders by all accounts agrees with Bloodworth’s assessment of Amazon’s language as Orwellian, tweeting out the video of the author talking along with the caption “listen to how Amazon uses its own lingo to blur the distinction between billionaire CEO Jeff Bezos and the average Amazon employee making minimum wage.”

It’s a typical complaint from Sanders, who has launched a full-frontal attack on Amazon in recent weeks, accusing the company of poor working conditions and pay. It’s also a bizarre complaint given some of the senators past statements, which one could very well consider Orwellian in their own right.

Take Sanders’ defenses of the authoritarian Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, which he visited and enthusiastically supported while mayor of Burlington, Vermont in the 1980s. When asked about his support for the Sandinistas in light of the food shortages in the country that resulted in people standing in bread lines, Sanders retorted:

It’s funny, sometimes American journalists talk about how bad a country is, that people are lining up for food. That is a good thing! In other countries people don’t line up for food: the rich get the food and the poor starve to death.

Then there is Sanders’ support for the Castro regime in Cuba, which, according to his telling, had “deficiencies” but also instilled in the population a genuine love of the government.

“The people we met had an almost religious affection for [Fidel Castro]. The revolution there is far deep and more profound than I understood it to be. It really is a revolution in terms of values,” Sanders told the Burlington Free Press after returning from a trip to the country.

Obscuring the crimes of authoritarian regimes by praising signs of poverty as examples of enrichment, or employing meaningless adjectives to justify the oppression committed by those same regimes is basically the definition of Orwellian language, and a damn sight worse than Amazon referring to its worker bees as “associates.”

To be sure, these are old examples of Sanders’ rhetoric, but it’s not like Sanders has given up on deploying Orwellian language in the present. In fact, the video the Vermont senator tweeted out of Bloodworth describing Amazon as authoritarian also included screen shots of an anonymous worker who claimed that working at the retail giant was “worse than being in jail some days.”

A fuller quote from that worker can be found in a press release lauding Sanders’ introduction of a bill that would tax Amazon and other large employers for hiring workers who’re receiving certain welfare benefits. It reads in part: “I have emotional trauma from working there as well as physical. It felt worse than being in jail some days. Because you had chosen to be there.”

Freedom is slavery anyone?

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Fortnite Probably Won’t Make Your Child a Neo-Nazi

|||Dan Grytsku/Dreamstime.comA post on Reddit has boycott mobs grabbing their pitchforks and getting ready to storm the gaming servers. In July, reformed white supremacist Christian Picciolini conducted an online interview on r/IAmA, a popular interview forum on Reddit. There, Picciolini responded to a user’s question about recruitment by saying that organized bigots used “nefarious tactics” like going to mental health forums and using multiplayer games like Fortnite, Minecraft, and Call of Duty to spam their message of racial superiority. While the existence of racist messages in multiplayer games is not a new concept, it’s likely that the media reaction to Picciolini’s interview helped to blow a few things out of proportion.

Using Picciolini’s answer, The Sun published a story with the headline, “GAMER DANGER: Reformed Neo-Nazi reveals how White Supremacists use FORTNITE to radicalise kids.” The story was cross-posted on major news sites like the New York Post and Fox News, both using headlines about the alarming recruitment tactics supposedly targeting impressionable kids. Independent journalist Tim Pool, who formerly worked with Vice, broke down why that story might be alarmist in a video published over the weekend.

Pool notes that the original story lacks any fact-checking beyond a statement made by one person. Additionally, there are no quotes from any of the video game companies whose products are involved in the alleged “recruitment.” “While it is interesting that someone who claims to be a former white supremacist made this claim,” Pool argued, “that does not mean it is true.”

Bonus links: Video games are often society’s scapegoat for atrocious behaviors. Politicians like Hillary Clinton, former President Obama, and President Trump have all repeated the claim that video games are linked to violent behavior.

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“The Race To The Top”: How The Fed Unleashed A Global Liquidity Crisis

Following a lament by Urjit Patel, the head of the Reserve Bank of India, who three months ago predicted (correctly) that the Fed’s tightening coupled with the shrinking of its balance sheet and the ramp up in Treasury issuance would result in a dollar liquidity shortage and that “a crisis in the rest of the dollar bond markets is inevitable” unless something changed, we showed how shrinking liquidity as a result of Quantitative Tightening had emerged as the main culprit for the turmoil and “rolling bear markets” that have hit the rest of the world, courtesy of the following chart from Nedbank.

Picking up on the topic of shrinking dollar liquidity and broad money supply, BofA’s Barnaby Martin today notes that much more pain is in store as the Fed’s withdrawal of the punchbowl looks to be far from over; in fact, the Fed’s balance sheet declined by a significant €60bn in August, the biggest monthly decline seen yet in this tightening cycle, adding that last Friday’s healthy US wage growth data will only support the Fed’s resolve to push on with monetary policy normalization.

More importantly, Martin observes that the Fed’s QT (Quantitative Tightening) “is having the effect of pulling global capital  out of those pockets of the economy that were the big beneficiaries of the post-GFC reach for yield” such as Emerging Markets and, of course, stock markets around the world. 

And in what may be the best chart showing the culprit behind the recent EM turmoil, the BofA strategist shows that this year’s Emerging Market vulnerability has coincided with the sharp deceleration in central bank balance sheet growth.

This in turn has led to the biggest ever differential in Emerging Market vs G-10 currency vol as EM traders have been scrambling to avoid getting burned by the rising price of the dollar.

Here, Martin introduces a new concept to explain the growing routs across global markets as dollar become increasingly more scarce: “race to the top.”

This particular race is the opposite of what was observed for much of the past decade, when one central bank after another cut rates to zero, or below, and purchased trillions worth of assets to win the “race to the bottom”:

In the initial years after the Lehman event, central banks were primarily focused on staving-off the threat of deflation via huge monetary loosening. This created a “race to the bottom” in global interest rates as currency weakness would help central banks achieve their aims.

Today, howewer, the tables have turned, as a result of the Fed’s tightening campaign which may push the US fed funds rate to 3% or more, and the risk of capital flight – into US assets – is provoking a “race to the top”, of sorts, in interest rates. Here Martin makes a sobering observations: “over the last 6 months, the cumulative number of interest rate hikes across the globe is almost on par with that  seen just prior to the Lehman event.

This, of course, is a problem for most countries as higher rates mean slower economic growth and capital outflows. And emerging markets are, of course, leading this rate hiking charge. Indeed, stemming the capital flight, after years of QE-induced inflows, requires some “eye-watering interest rate hikes” – such as the recent 40% rate hike from Argentina. This, in turn, has led to the ratio of EM FX volatility to G7 FX volatility to jump to an all-time high (as shown above).

Anticipating more central banks joining this “race to the top” in rates, markets have responded sending Russian 10yr sovereign debt yields above the yields on South Africa’s sovereign debt, with both now yielding north of 9%.

And since Martin is first and foremost BofA’s European credit strategist, he warns that the “race to the top” in interest rates is problematic not only for EMs but also for European corporate bonds, on two fronts:

  • Firstly, with the ECB having pledged not to touch interest rates until at least next summer, higher rates elsewhere simply creates more “competing” asset classes for European credit. In EM for instance, positive real interest rates make the 1% nominal yield on European high-grade credit look very meager now (chart 8).
  • Secondly, extreme EM FX volatility becomes a fundamental issue for a number of European companies. As chart 10 shows, Europe is a relatively open economy and many European companies have become a lot more global over the last decade, increasing their reliance on emerging market revenues.

Last week, BofA’s Michael Hartnett made a similar point, noting that just as Japan was the catalyst for the 1998 Asian crisis, so Europe will be the spark that makes the current EM turmoil into a global crisis, and as direct evidence he showed the recent collapse in German foreign factory orders, an indication of how hard EMs have been hit in recent months, and that it is only a matter of time before Europe’s export powerhouse suffers too.

Validating this point, it is hardly a surprise that while the correlation of US equity markets to EM equities remains negative at present, the correlation between European equities and EM equities has been significantly positive over the last few months.

Extending this line of thinking, with the Fed unlikely to stop hiking any time soon – especially not with a record number of job openings and US workers quitting the jobs just as wages accelerate to the upside – the next casualty of the Fed-inspired dollar liquidity shortage will be Europe, at which point the EM crisis will finally break into the “developed” market. At that point it will have no choice but to jump the Atlantic and finally affect both the US economy and stock market, both of which have shown remarkable resilience to the world’s rolling bear markets and emerging market turmoil.

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FEMA Is Almost Certainly Not Ready for Hurricane Florence

The East Coast is scrambling as residents prepare for Hurricane Florence’s landfall later this week. States of emergency have been declared in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, with government officials warning people to take Florence very seriously.

More than a million people have been forced to evacuate their homes, including everyone on the coast of South Carolina. Long story short: Florence is a big deal. It’s already been upgraded to a Category 4 storm, and could even become the first Category 5 hurricane to hit the Southeastern coastal region.

Residents aren’t the only ones prepping for Florence’s landfall; the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is getting ready too. FEMA has set up “incident support bases” at military facilities in North and South Carolina so it can provide hurricane victims with essentials like food, water, and blankets, according to USA Today.

Unfortunately, there’s a pretty big chance FEMA is going to muck it up. How can you tell? Just look at the agency’s record when it comes to disaster response. In the past 13 years alone (since Hurricane Katrina), FEMA has wasted billions of taxpayer dollars and repeatedly shown it’s not great at, you know, managing emergencies.

Here are just a few examples:

Hurricane Katrina led to one giant FEMA failure. Katrina, which hit New Orleans in 2005, killed more than 1,800 people and caused an estimated $125 billion in property damage. FEMA responded by wasting billions, and in some ways making the situation worse.

The New York Times reported in 2006 that fraud, abuse, and simple bureaucratic incompetence accounted for almost $2 billion in waste. Some of that waste particularly stands out. FEMA spent nearly $500 million on mobile homes that nobody used, in addition to handing out a combined $10 million in disaster aid to prison inmates.

Moreover, as Cato Institute director of tax policy Chris Edwards pointed out in 2015, FEMA officials often prevented private organizations—like hospitals, volunteer doctors, and even the Red Cross—from trying to help out.

FEMA wasted up to $3 billion in 2015. A report from the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Inspector General audited $1.55 billion in FEMA disaster relief expenditures from the 2015 fiscal year. Roughly 29 percent of that money—$457 million—was spent on “questionable costs,” the report said, including “duplicate payments, unsupported costs, improper contract costs, and unauthorized expenditures.” Then-DHS Inspector General John Roth said at the time that “assuming a similar problem exists in the funds we didn’t audit, we are looking at a total of $3 billion every year in improperly spent government funds.”

As of 2017, FEMA was still terrible at giving money to the right people. A December 2017 inspector general report revealed FEMA’s “lack of process” when it comes to tracking insurance requirements. “Without a reliable system to track insurance information, FEMA risks providing duplicate assistance,” the report stated, meaning that “billions of dollars of taxpayer funds have been and will continue to be at risk of fraud, waste, and abuse.”

FEMA was completely unprepared when Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico. Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico when it made landfall last September, killing nearly 3,000 people (much higher than the original government estimate of 64) and inflicting $90 billion worth of damage. In FEMA’s own “After-Action Report,” released in July, the agency admitted it was not ready for the storm. The Times summed up the problems:

The report says FEMA had thousands fewer workers than it needed, and many of those it had were not qualified to handle such major catastrophes. FEMA had to borrow many workers from other agencies to help it manage the immense demand for essentials, from hotel rooms to drinking water, in the aftermath of the storms.

Although FEMA distributed 130 million meals, 35 million of them in Puerto Rico, the report says the agency took longer than expected to secure supplies and lost track of much of the aid it delivered and who needed it.

FEMA’s IT infrastructure is out of date. Testifying before Congress in July, DHS Acting Inspector General John Kelly said FEMA’s outdated IT systems are getting in the way of effective disaster response. “Until FEMA provides the IT systems and capabilities needed to meet the demands posed by emergency management, timely response and recovery from disasters will be hindered, increasing the risk of delays in providing disaster assistance and grants,” Kelly told the House Homeland Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Communications.

Right now, it looks like Florence is going to wreck some serious havoc. If the past is any indication, FEMA’s response probably won’t be up to par.

Bonus link: Click here to read Reason‘s robust archive on disaster-response public policy.

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