TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Monday, January 19, 2009

The final program of the official pre-Obama era features updates from the Zionist jihad, a message from Rev. James David Manning, examination of Obama's intentions toward Bush's war crimes, examination of the literary tropes in Obama's ghostwritten phony autobiography, and the vexing perplexing question of whether or not he artists formerly and presently known as Prince is in fact a doppelganger or if it's all just in your head.


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  Labels: doppelgangers, gitmo, israel, Katrina, obama, revere radio

Thursday, October 02, 2008

Labels: cynthia mckinney, Katrina

Sunday, August 31, 2008

Many of the institutional safeguards which kept black operations from releasing a biowarfare plague on new Orleans and Louisiana in the wake of the Katrina operation have been stripped in the past three years, renewing fears among informed observers.

As reported on Total411.info in September 2005, an aggressive psy-op campaign led by Kenyan-born British agent Jeff Koinange, operating under the auspices of CNN, hoped to lay the groundwork making an outbreak of disease a plausible random event in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately, counter-psychological operations by New Orleans officials and the lack of consolidated federal control over state institutions thwarted the plot. Now, however, the picture seems bleaker.

The former governor of Louisiana, French-Cajun Kathleen Blanco declined to run for reelection after FEMA officials kidnapped hundreds of thousands of her voters after Hurricane Katrina and refused to tell the state of Louisiana where they were placed. The new governor is Republican Piyush "Bobby" Jindal. Jindal was born of Indian (British Commonwealth) parents and was a Rhodes Scholar, a known breeding ground for British intelligence agents. He went on to major positions in the La. health department and George W. Bush's Health & Human Services, perfect grooming for presiding over a totalitarian biological security event. (His most sickening public moment was when he organized the "inked finger" salute to Fuhrer Bush at the State of Union Address wherein Bush attempted to justify the UK-US' dishonest and illegal war on Iraq.)

Whereas Blanco refused to turn control of the National Guard to the Department of Defense, known quisling and kiss-ass Jindal is expected to turn over the reins to the feds with nary a peep of opposition. That chain of command could be key. Louisiana may have averted a planned post-Katrina bio-attack in September 2005. After it had been announced that the US Air Force would begin spraying New Orleans for mosquitos, word came that the spraying would instead be led by the Air National Guard -- which is controlled by Baton Rouge rather than Washington.

While it is probably important to spray for mosquitos given the likelihood swarms seeded with lab-created diseases may be released, it is also important the state of Louisiana have control and check everything cannister that is sprayed to make sure they do not contain exotic military bioweapons. If Jindal, as expected, gives all control to the U.S. Department of Defense, this important check will not be in place. Forces on the ground loyal to the state and the elite of New Orleans (National Guard, Blackwater mercenaries, state police) must also be on alert for bioterrorists.

Control of the Defense Department and its impressive array of weather weapons passed in June from the Cheney-linked neocon network to the Brzezinski-backed Trilateral network, close to both Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Presumptive President Barack Obama. Hurricane Gustav serves Brzezinski's purposes in running McCain's convention. But Brzezinski's style is more of a soft-kill grinding down of the American people rather than the shock-and-awe of Dick Cheney. Given that difference and style, a rerun of the bombed levees of Katrina is less likely than a Jindal-coordinated biological event and totalitarian crackdown. The Agenda 21 land grab stalled in the wake of Katrina is certain to get a statewide boost in the coming months as well.

Readers who would like to contact Jindal and LSU and ask them not to release West Nile Virus can reach the governor at 225-342-7015 and the university at 225-578-3871.

Labels: brzezinski, Gustav, jindal, Katrina, synthetic terror alert

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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• Obama abandoned by his mother - twice!
  
  
• Harlem's Rev. Manning preaches on Hitler, Obama and the Anti-Christ
  
  
• Shatner exposes NASA's latest Mars cover-up
  
  
• Czech President Vaclav Klaus on the green shackles of the global warming scam
  
  
• Rep. Dennis Kucinich inmpeaches Bush on Katrina (and 34 other things)
  
  
• Ron Paul on the true costs of the Iraq war

  Labels: global warming, Katrina, kucinich, NASA, obama, revere radio, Ron Paul

Saturday, April 12, 2008

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• Canal St. Madam fingers Plaquemines Parish President, perhaps literally.
  
  
• Ron Paul on the economy and 9/11.
  
  
• MORE!

  Labels: 9/11, Katrina, revere radio, Ron Paul

Thursday, March 06, 2008

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• Katrina class-action lawsuit update
  
  
• PumpItOut.com interviews NIST re: 9/11
  
  
• Ron Paul on the Texas Transport Corridor
  
  
• William F Buckley & JFK assassination
  
  
• Dick Gregory on THE MAN posioning malt liquor
  
  
• New BEATLES songwriting conspiracy on the way?

  Labels: 9/11, assassination science, beatles, jfk, Katrina, NIST, revere radio, Ron Paul

Sunday, October 21, 2007

Sequoia electronic voting machines weren't the only thing helping the ascent of Rhodes Scholar Piyush Jindal to the Louisiana Governor's mansion on Saturday. A convenient road closure also helped block the New Orleans diaspora from voting. CNN Oct. 20:

" A truck carrying acetylene-filled cylinders was engulfed in flames Saturday after it overturned and some containers exploded, closing part of Interstate 10 in New Orleans on gubernatorial election day, authorities said.

The driver, who suffered minor injuries, apparently fell asleep at the wheel about 5 a.m. (6 a.m. ET) and hit a guardrail, said Louisiana Highway Patrol Trooper Louis Calato.

Debris from the shattered cylinders hit five cars, he said. There was no hazard, he added.

The highway was expected to be closed in both directions for hours while the spill was cleared, and traffic was being rerouted. Calato said more than 200 cylinders were on the truck.

Saturday's election is a key one for Louisiana.
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FEMA has kept records on Louisiana diasporan refugees form state authorities who wanted to make sure they could vote.

Jindal's close ties to both London and the biopharma-military complex worry analysts who note that a British team led by CNN reporter Jeff Koinange narrowly failed in releasing West Nile virus in the immediate aftermath of Katrina.

Labels: Katrina, mi6

Thursday, August 30, 2007

From AP August 29, 2007:

"A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that Louisiana's attorney general can't sue the Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of Hurricane Katrina victims who don't have lawyers.

The emergency order by the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals came on the day of the deadline flood victims had to file suit -- the second anniversary of Katrina. The order negates a lawsuit filed by state Attorney General Charles Foti earlier Wednesday.

The appeals court said that U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval acted without proper authority in appointing Foti as guardian for about 350,000 people with claims against the Corps.

Duval had agreed to let Foti sue the Corps on behalf of lawyerless claimants who had not yet filed suit.

[...]Joseph Bruno, lead plaintiff attorney, criticized the 5th Circuit's ruling, saying it would likely cut out many people from pursuing action against the corps.

"Every time you turn around, the government is sticking it to us, trying to limit their liability," Bruno said.

[...]On Feb. 2, Duval ruled the Corps of Engineers can be held liable in a case alleging a navigation channel called the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet caused much of the flooding in eastern New Orleans and St. Bernard Parish.

Buoyed by that ruling, lawyers filed a suit against the Corps, alleging that dredging on the 17th Street Canal caused the flooding of most other parts of the city.

The Corps has argued it is shielded from suits by the 1928 Flood Control Act. The Corps has acknowledged that some of the flooding was caused by poor designs and faulty engineering on the 17th Street Canal. But the agency says the [MRGO]Outlet did not contribute significantly to the flooding.
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Labels: Katrina

Sunday, July 15, 2007

The federal government's slow-motion genocide operation on South Louisiana continues, as highlighted this week in a U.S. Senate hearing shaired by Louisiana's Sen. Mary Landrieu.


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  Release from the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu, July 10 2007:

  "Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., today chaired a hearing on the process localities must go through to complete Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) project worksheets (PWs), a requirement for receiving federal funds. As a result of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, there are 23,000 public works projects in Louisiana, and each one requires complicated, time consuming steps in order to receive FEMA funds.
  
  "The project worksheet system is inefficient, slow and contradictory," Sen. Landrieu said. "Anyone who comes in contact with it quickly understands it is one of the major roadblocks to our recovery from Katrina and Rita. Destroyed localities with no tax base are required to put up money in advance. Work is reviewed not just building-by-building but segment by segment. Tens of thousands of documents must be completed for a single project. Communities are prevented from building better and smarter. Our locals must re-justify their projects because of FEMA's high employee turnover. And FEMA inspectors systematically low ball damage estimates, in some cases by four or five times."
  
  The first panel of witnesses that testified before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Disaster Recovery Subcommittee included locally elected officials who each testified that FEMA is tied up in bureaucracy and undermines the recovery by continually underestimating project costs and hiring inexperienced personnel.
  
  The officials included: C. Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans; Kevin Davis, President of St. Tammany Parish; and Henry "Junior" Rodriguez, President of St. Bernard Parish.
  
  St. Bernard Parish was completely destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, displacing 67,500 people, and President Rodriguez said FEMA was primarily responsible for the slow pace of recovery. In one example, he explained that the parish sought to consolidate its sewer system into one wastewater plant, a less costly approach than repairing or replacing the pre-storm system. FEMA has told the parish to pursue the project in three different ways but because of FEMA's red tape, the parish still lacks a working sewer system and instead pumps out waste by the truckload.
  
  "We got by Katrina and Rita," President Rodriguez said. "I don't know if we can get through FEMA. This is one hell of a catastrophe. We're still working out of trailers. We're in no better shape now than we were two years ago."
  
  Mayor Nagin added that the constant FEMA staff turnover requires New Orleans to repeatedly justify the need for public works projects.
  
  "Every couple of months we seem to have dealt with a different FEMA representative," Mayor Nagin said. "And we almost had to start from scratch every time a new person came in."
  
  Witnesses who testified on the second panel included... Mark Merritt, Senior Vice President of Response and Recovery, James Lee Witt Associates.
  
  Merritt, who worked for FEMA under Director James Lee Witt from 1993 until 2001, testified that FEMA is measuring its progress by the number of project worksheets written.
  
  "We should be counting the number of schools, hospitals and miles of roads repaired and replaced, not the number of PWs written," he said. Merritt added that FEMA is a much different agency than when he worked there. He said the agency no longer employs the necessary staff to deal with catastrophic disasters and that 80 percent of FEMA employees sent to Louisiana following the hurricanes had just nine days of experience. FEMA staff tasked with Gulf Coast recovery lack the experience to recognize flexibility in the Stafford Act, which is the "core of what is inhibiting the PW process," he said.
  
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Tuesday, June 05, 2007

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Mostly media clips in this edition of Total Info Radio on the Revere Radio Network:


• Walter Legge of the Louisiana Recovery Authority talks about the latest scam the feds are pulling on Louisiana homeowners
  
  
• Sir Rudolph Giuliani, agent of the British Crown, admits that WTC7 was headquarters for several federal agencies engaging in black operations.
  
  
• PumpitOut.com interviews Somerset County, PA coroner Walter Miller on his contradictory statements regarding the supposed crash of "Flight 93."
  
  
• PumpItOut.com and FalseFlagNews.com discuss Los Alamos National Laboratory, directed-energy weaponry, and 9/11.
  
  
• Dr. Judy Wood discusses molecular dissociation of WTC steel and the DIRTY cover-up.

  Labels: 9/11, directed-energy, Katrina, revere radio, united 93

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

From the office of U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu, 03/27/2007:

"The White House today released a Statement of Administration Policy reaffirming its opposition to fair hurricane funding rules and levee construction in S. 965, the Senate Supplemental Appropriations Bill. U.S. Senator Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., secured language in the bill to waive the 10 percent local cost match required of Hurricane Katrina-, Rita- and Wilma-affected communities for disaster recovery projects. She also secured $1.3 billion to cover a shortfall for east and west bank levee projects in New Orleans and surrounding parishes, which was originally authorized in the 3rd supplemental in 2005.

According to the statement, "because of the excessive and extraneous non-emergency spending it contains, if this legislation were presented to the President, he would veto the bill." ...

"The Administration continues to hold Louisiana and the Gulf Coast to a different standard than all other disaster-stricken communities," Sen. Landrieu said. "Our communities withstood an unprecedented disaster, but the Administration continues to oppose giving the region the same funding tools that he gave after 9/11 and his father gave to Hurricane Andrew victims in 1992. This match requirement, and the paperwork it creates, paralyzes the recovery of Louisiana's schools, firehouses and small businesses.

"The President could remove much of this red tape with a stroke of his pen, and as long as our communities must meet this requirement, recovery will continue to be slow.

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Labels: Katrina

Sunday, March 18, 2007

From BayouBuzz.com:

"In 1928, a North Louisiana populist and member of the Railroad Commission (the forerunner to the state’s Public Service Commission) capitalized on the greatest natural disaster that the state of Louisiana had ever experienced (the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1927) to capture the gubernatorial election. This populist, of course, was Huey Long. His "tax the rich," Robin Hood style of politics left behind a legacy that defined the contours of Louisiana politics for most of the twentieth century. Now another North Louisiana populist is poised for a gubernatorial run that seeks to duplicate Huey Long’s feat after a natural disaster (Katrina) that dwarfs even the Great Mississippi River Flood as far as the state of Louisiana is concerned.

Foster Campbell, a Democrat from Bossier Parish and current member of the Public Service Commission, is running for governor. Prior to his election to the Public Service Commission, he spent twenty-seven years as a member of the Louisiana State Senate. While in the Senate, his signature issue was his push for an oil processing tax on foreign oil refined in the state of Louisiana. He tried and tried and tried to amend the state constitution to allow for this tax but failed to win the support of the Legislature.

Campbell attributes his lack of success to the power of the oil and gas industry and the "coziness" of state leaders to that industry’s representatives. Campbell has not given up on his idea – instead, he's making the processing tax the centerpiece issue of his campaign for governor. Therefore, expect Foster Campbell's candidacy to engender a great deal of controversy during this election cycle.

For his part, Campbell probably would have it no other way. Campbell will run a classic Huey Long style populist campaign. His hope is to make the processing tax the central issue in the campaign. The tax, according to Campbell, would generate $5 billion a year – money that he feels would enable Louisiana the revenues to invest in its roads, schools, infrastructure, coastal restoration, and in the rebuilding of New Orleans without having to wait for a handout from the federal government. For him, it also helps that two of his likely opponents – Governor Blanco and U.S. Rep. Bobby Jindal - are strongly opposed to Campbell's proposal. Campbell will attempt to portray them – and anyone else who opposes his tax – as stooges in the pockets of the oil and gas industry. He will attempt to mount a classic "people vs. the special interests" campaign in the hopes of generating a populist wave that sweeps him into the Governor’s Mansion.

... His populist message may appeal beyond North Louisiana – indeed, it may strike a resonant chord particularly among black voters in South Louisiana (whom Blanco badly needs) who feel the governor has not done enough to help blacks who were disproportionately displaced by the horror of Katrina. Furthermore, those who feel the federal government has treated Louisiana like a stepchild might embrace a proposal that holds out the possibility of Louisiana taking responsibility for solving its own problems rather than waiting for the cavalry from Washington to swoop down to save us.

Campbell himself has believed that it would take a crisis for Louisiana to enact the oil processing tax and Katrina may well have provided it. The storm exacerbated many underlying problems that existed prior to Katrina – our poverty, the state's failure to invest in education, our ailing health care system, the worst roads in the nation, the erosion of our coasts which made the storm worse, and so on. Thus far, state government has not responded to the crisis the state is in as a result of Hurricane Katrina with policy prescriptions adequate to meet the gravity of the challenges left in the storm’s wake. This failure creates an opening for a candidate who proposes something radical to meet the crisis. Campbell hopes to fill that void. Voters impatient with the pace of the recovery and/or disillusioned with the current regime may find Campbell appealing. Whether he succeeds or not, one thing is for sure: it will be a very interesting ride.
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Campbell's plan would use the refinery tax money to eliminate all personal and corporate state income tax and still have billions left over for infrastructure improvements.


• Foster Campbell's FosterCampbell.com

  Labels: Katrina, oil mafia

Friday, March 02, 2007

The only possible defense the Army Corps of Engineers could present for negligence is the truth -- that the flodwalls on New Orleans' canals were bombed.

From The Times-Picayune March 02, 2007:

"Submitting a claim for a staggering $77 billion, the city of New Orleans joined tens of thousands of would-be plaintiffs who rushed to beat a Thursday deadline to alert the Army Corps of Engineers that they may sue for losses resulting from the levee breaches after Hurricane Katrina.

Also joining the queue were Entergy New Orleans, the city's bankrupt electrical utility, which is seeking $655 million, and the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board, which put in a claim of about $460 million, spokesmen for the agencies said.

While they are likely to be among the largest filed, the three claims became part of an avalanche of paperwork that poured into the corps' Leake Avenue headquarters as Thursday's 11:59 p.m. deadline approached, corps personnel said.

By the time of the morning commute, cars already had clogged the two-lane River Road and miles of connecting arteries. The miles-long traffic jam got so thick that the federal agency established satellite pick-up points on Carrollton Avenue and Magazine Street.

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Until recently, the idea of suing the Army Corps of Engineers was dismissed by most lawyers as a non-starter. They pointed to a 1928 federal law immunizing the corps from lawsuits stemming from its flood-control projects.

But early last month, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ruled that the corps has no such protection when it comes to lawsuits over problems caused by its navigation projects.

That decision kept alive a 2006 lawsuit filed against the corps by WDSU-TV anchor Norman Robinson, a Lower 9th Ward couple and two St. Bernard Parish residents, and raised prospects of success of similar cases.

Robinson and his fellow plaintiffs argue that negligence by the corps in building and maintaining the Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet destroyed protective wetlands and turned the shipping channel into a speedway for Katrina storm surges that destroyed their homes.

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Labels: Katrina

Sunday, January 21, 2007

Crime reporter Dan Moldea exposed years ago how NFL games can be and are routinely fixed for various reasons. Football has long served as a taxpayer-funded "bread-and-circuses" distraction for the American people; turning their attention away from the high crimes of the state. but in recent years, the NFL has been used as a tool of even more sophisticated psychologicla operaitons on the American people. This was reflective in the post-9/11 rise of the New England Patriots coupled with the winter Super Bowl holiday ritual becoming increasingly nationalistic and militaristic.

Television analyst Steven Colbert exposed on Wednesday night how the rise of the New Orleans Saints may be being used as a way to preoccupy the remaining people of New Orleans and divert their attention away from outstanding questions (exploding levees, HAARP, etc.) regarding the federal genocide operation unleashed on the city in August 2005:



Total411.info's sources in New Orleans report that this has indeed been the case as of late, with local news media reporting on barely anything else; New Orleanians lining up around the block for Saints memorabilia, the fully-employed dropping hundreds or thousands of dollars on game and plane tickets, etc.

Will humanity ever learn?

Labels: Katrina

Sunday, January 14, 2007

From Newsweek Jan. 11, 2007:

"Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.[...]

The decision by Lieberman, the new chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, to back away from the committee's Katrina probe is already dismaying public-interest groups.[...]

Sen. Joe Lieberman, the only Democrat to endorse President Bush’s new plan for Iraq, has quietly backed away from his pre-election demands that the White House turn over potentially embarrassing documents relating to its handling of the Hurricane Katrina disaster in New Orleans.

Last year, when he was running for re-election in Connecticut, Lieberman was a vocal critic of the administration's handling of Katrina. He was especially dismayed by its failure to turn over key records.[...]

Among the missing material: the record of a videoconference in the White House Situation Room in which former Federal Emergency Management Agency chief Michael Brown said he warned senior officials about the dire situation in New Orleans, but was greeted with "deafening silence." Also missing: records believed to include messages and conversations involving the president, Vice President Dick Cheney and their top aides during the days in late August and early September 2005 when the Katrina disaster was unfolding and thousands of city residents were flocking to overcrowded shelters and hanging onto rooftops awaiting rescue.

But now that he chairs the homeland panel—and is in a position to subpoena the records—Lieberman has decided not to pursue the material, according to Leslie Phillips, the senator’s chief committee spokeswoman.[...]

But in the view of White House critics, the Katrina fallout is far from over. They view the missing White House material, along with contracting foul-ups and abuses, as an important part of the story ... said Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, a liberal watchdog group. "For the Congress not to be willing to stand up to the White House and demand to know who's accountable is a total abdication of their responsibility. How serious about oversight are they if they're not willing to flex their muscle over this one? Wasn't the election about holding the government accountable? Congress has the power for oversight, and the mandate. Does it have the will?"

Rep. Charlie Melancon, a Louisiana Democrat who participated in House investigations on Katrina last year, also said the Katrina disaster needs further inquiry and that he will continue to push for such a probe in the House. ... "We deserve to know what happened."

In the House, both Democrats and the GOP majority on the Government Reform Committee last year also expressed frustration with White House refusals to turn over internal records related to Katrina. But as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi continues to keep committees on a tight leash, it is not at all clear that House leaders will be more assertive than Lieberman plans to be in the Senate. A congressional official familiar with the agenda of Rep. Henry Waxman, the House panel’s new chairman, said that trying to force the White House to surrender Katrina material was still a "possibility."

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Labels: Katrina

Thursday, December 28, 2006

From Associated Press Dec 25 2006:

" Four of the largest Katrina contracts currently under review by the Homeland Security Department's inspector general. The companies have denied that political connections played a factor in their contract awards.

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BECHTEL GROUP INC.
Location: San Francisco

Value of contracts: $250 million, on top of previous no-bid work of up to $575 million

Contributions: More than $1.3 million since 2000, primarily to Republicans

Also: CEO Riley Bechtel served on Bush's Export Council from 2003-2004

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CH2M HILL COMPANIES LTD.
Location: Englewood, Colo.

Value of contracts: $250 million, on top of previous no-bid work of up to $500 million

Contributions: Nearly $1 million since 1999, primarily to Republican National Committee and other Republicans

Also: Roughly $500 million in previous government contracts

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FLUOR CORP.
Location: Irving, Tex.

Value of contracts: $250 million, on top of previous no-bid work of up to $1.4 billion

Contributions: More than $930,000 since 2000, primarily to Republicans

Also: Contracts awarded to subsidiary Del-Jen Industries also under review

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THE SHAW GROUP INC.
Location: Baton Rouge, La.

Value of contracts: $250 million, on top of previous no-bid work of up to $950 million

Contributions: Roughly $290,000 since 2000, evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans

Also: Former FEMA director Joe Allbaugh, a longtime friend of President Bush, is Shaw's registered lobbyist and business consultant

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Sources: Federal Emergency Management Agency, Hoover's, Taxpayers for Common Sense
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Labels: Katrina

Monday, October 09, 2006

From Wayne Madsen Report Sep. 30/Oct. 1, 2006:

"Department of Homeland Security latest to report computer thefts. More than 100 laptop computers used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to process sensitive information following hurricanes Katrina and Rita along the Gulf Coast are now reported as being stolen. Three U.S. Coast Guard computers have also been stolen. It is not known how many people were affected by the theft of any personal data contained in the computers.
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Labels: Katrina

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

UPDATED: Here's the audio of the first program.

Total Information Productions is proud to premiere its weekly webcast tonight on the Revere Radio Network.

The topic for tonight's program is Hurricane Katrina, the sabotage of New Orleans' levees and what's next for the city.

The webcast will go out tonight and every Monday night at 9pm ET -- LISTEN LIVE HERE:

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  Labels: Katrina

From CNN August 28, 2006:

"A man who pulled a hoax on Louisiana officials and 1,000 contractors by presenting himself as a federal housing official said Monday he intended to focus attention on a lack of affordable housing.

"We basically go around impersonating bad institutes or institutes doing very bad things," said the man, who identified himself as Andy Bichlbaum, a 42-year-old former college teacher of video and media arts who lives in New York and Paris.

"That would be HUD. At this moment, they're doing some really bad things."

Masquerading as Rene Oswin, an official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Bichlbaum followed Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin to the lectern Monday morning at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner.

In a speech to attendees of the Gulf Coast Reconstruction and Hurricane Preparedness Summit, he laid out grandiose plans for HUD to reverse course.

After the speaker read from a text he said had been prepared by his boss, HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson...

"Everything is going to change about the way we work, and the change is going to start here today in New Orleans," the man said during his speech.

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The man left a flier bearing a HUD emblem that said attendees could go to a ribbon-cutting ceremony at a public housing project. A free lunch and transportation aboard buses were promised.

[...] In his speech, Bichlbaum said the department's mission was to ensure affordable housing is available for those who need it.

"This year, in New Orleans, I'm ashamed to say we have failed," he said.

To change that, HUD would reverse its plans to demolish 5,000 units "of perfectly good public housing," with housing in the city in tight supply, he said.

Former occupants have been "begging to move back in," he said. "We're going to help them to do that."

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Bichlbaum said Monday's prank was the latest in a series pulled off by The Yes Men, whose members have recently masqueraded as representatives of McDonald's, Halliburton and Dow Chemical.

"Fortunately, the law protects freedom of speech," he said. "What we're doing is not actually lying. It's actually exposing the lies. There's nothing morally wrong with what we're doing."

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Annie Chen, media coordinator for Survivors Village, a tent-city protest for the reopening of public housing in New Orleans, applauded Bichlbaum's theatrics.

"Right now, a lie is better than the truth," she said.
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Sunday, August 27, 2006

Out of the $120 billion or so federal dollars apprpriated for Katrina aid, the city of New Orleans has only received one one-thousandth of that to repair its infrastructure, whch was devestated when federally built and maintained levees exploded. AP Aug 25:

"NEW ORLEANS - First came the floodwaters, then the paperwork. Billions of promised federal dollars to fix New Orleans' crumbling infrastructure have gone largely untapped a year after Hurricane Katrina. City officials complain that a snarl of red tape, restrictions and unexpectedly high costs have kept hundreds of public buildings in disrepair, streets pocked with potholes and most parks too dirty for children to play.[...]

the city has collected only $117 million to start the repair work in what has been billed as the largest urban restoration in U.S. history.

For every repair project, city officials must follow a lengthy application process — and spend their own money — before getting a dime of federal aid to fix at least 833 projects such as police stations, courtrooms, baseball fields or auditoriums.

Residents don't care much what the cause is. They're just tired of crater-like potholes, sudden drops in water pressure and debris-clogged storm drains.

"We're not asking for a lot. At this point, we're just looking for basic services: power, gas, water. Sewer that doesn't back up into your house would be nice too," said Jeb Bruneau, president of the neighborhood association in the Lakeview area.

[...] The worksheets are submitted to FEMA, which determines whether the project is eligible for federal aid. If approved, the federal government releases the approved money to the state, but the local government fronts the money to have the work done. After that, the local government can submit receipts for reimbursement.

The process takes months and can be further complicated if costs surpass the original request — a particular concern in New Orleans because of shortages of materials and construction workers.

It also requires the city have cash to pay upfront.

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Labels: Katrina

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Rocky Vaccarella, who traveled to DC to heap praise upon GW Bush, says on MSNBC's Hardball that he thinks the levees were sabotaged under the cover of Hurricane Katrina!


Here's a transcript of the relevant remarks, from Hardball, Aug. 25, 2006:

"ROCKY VACCARELLA, KATRINA SURVIVOR: I live in St. Bernard Parish, and I was born and raised right there. I fished off them levess. And them levees held up during many hurricanes that came through. And you know, back in '65 -- it was a proven fact that the levees were blown up! And i feel my opinion about the levee is a little bit different than some other opinions...

Because I was actually on my roof when the levees broke, and I just have concern that it might have not been a "weak levee." I rode my bike on that levee as a child... to me the levee was like the Great Wall of China.

CHRIS MATTHEWS, MSNBC HOST: Yeah --

VACCARELLA: I was inside the levee protection system. I felt safe. We beared the storm. And then the next thing you know, the levees were breached.

MATTHEWS: Let me--

VACCARELLA: And you know what, sometimes the levees were breached to protect other cities...
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When Vaccarella says "back in '65," he is referring to Hurricane Betsy. During the that storm, the levee along the Indutrial Canal was breached, flooding the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish.

It is bizarre that this man so fervently supports the figurehead of the federal government while simultaneously believing the federal levees were covertly sabotaged -- and presumably covered up by that same federal government. But such perhaps is the doublethink endemic in traumatized 21st-Century America.

Labels: Katrina

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Last year, filmmaker Spike Lee indicated he knew the levees of New Orleans were intentionally sabotaged under the cover of Hurricane Katrina. Now, he has a four-hour documentary on the levee breaches set to premiere on HBO.

It is unkown at this time whether Lee will broach the sabotage issue in his film.

From HBO.com:


"When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts

As the world watched in horror, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans on August 29, 2005. Like many who watched the unfolding drama on television news, director Spike Lee was shocked not only by the scale of the disaster, but by the slow, inept and disorganized response of the emergency and recovery effort. Lee was moved to document this modern American tragedy, a morality play witnessed by people all around the world. The result is WHEN THE LEVEES BROKE: A REQUIEM IN FOUR ACTS. The film is structured in four acts, each dealing with a different aspect of the events that preceded and followed Katrina's catastrophic passage through New Orleans. Acts I and II premiere Monday, August 21 at 9pm (ET/PT), followed by Acts III and IV on Tuesday, August 22 at 9pm. All four acts will be seen Tuesday, Aug. 29 (8:00 p.m.-midnight), the first anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Read more.
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Sunday, July 16, 2006

Update from author Webster Tarpley:

"US STATE DEPARTMENT, ARMED FORCES AWOL FOR AMERICANS TRAPPED BY ISRAEL IN LEBANON

OTHER NATIONALS ALREADY EVACUATED WHILE AMERICANS ARE LEFT AS SITTING DUCKS FOR FALSE FLAG WAR PROVOCATIONS

Washington DC, July 15 – (11 PM EDT) The below hypothesis has received further corroboration from Fox News Saturday evening. According to Silva Boghossian, a US citizen stuck in Lebanon interviewed by Greta van Susteren at 10:25 Eastern Daylight Time, "the US has no plan" for an effective evacuation of American citizens in Lebanon. According to Ms. Boghossian, Italian and South African citizens staying in her hotel were evacuated “two days ago,” meaning on Thursday, one day after the Israeli bombi9ng began on Wednesday morning. Ms. Boghossian said that she has registered with US consular authorities, but that “nothing had happened so far.” She added that the persons she spoke with were of undetermined nationality. The hotel where she is staying is now “full of Americans,” Ms. Boghossian told Fox.

All parts of Lebanon are within easy flying distance by helicopter from sovereign British bases on the nearby island of Cyprus (Larnaka, etc.) Nothing would be easier than to set up a speedy airlift which could bring all Americans in Lebanon quickly to safety. Bush, despite his constant demagogy about protecting the lives of Americans, is pursuing a policy of flagrant indifference to what happens to these 25,000 American citizens. They are being hung out to dry, left as sitting ducks for whatever bloody false flag operation may be cooked up by the Israeli intelligence services. This is criminal negligence infinitely worse than Katrina, in that any mass casualties among these Americans will represent a one-way ticket for this entire nation to World War III, a war which sooner or later will be fought with nuclear and thermonuclear weapons. A real US president would right now be warning Israel that it will be held responsible for the lives and safety of every American in Lebanon. The feckless Bush, totally isolated in St. Petersburg, is instead focused on showing his subservience to Olmert. It is therefore up to US public opinion to demand effective security measures for Americans stranded in Lebanon, with immediate evacuation to Cyprus or other safe areas. – WGT
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Friday, July 14, 2006

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, the U.S. Congress passed as part of its "aid" package money to build giant floodgates at the base of New Orleans' drainage canals. This move was based on the idea that the concrete floodwalls of the canals collapsed due to the storm surge brought in to the canals from Lake Pontchartrani. The problem with this theory, of course, is that the storm surge was well within the capacities of the canals -- and all evidence indicates the levees and floodwalls along New Orleans' drainage canals were sabotaged by explosives under the cover of the storm.

Now, with these "floodgates" closing off the canals every time a storm threatens, New Orleans will be compromised in its ability to keep the city dry. The Army Corps, who built the exploding floodwalls, will now hold the ability to flood the city with a flick of a switch. Regular floods induced by this engineering boondoggle will be a huge hindrance on the ability of the city to grow. This will drive up insurance rates and pave the way for greater depopulation of New Orleans, in tune with the United Nations' Malthusian Agenda 21 plan.

More from Times-Picayune July 7:

"The new floodgates and pumps in the 17th Street Canal won’t be functional by Sunday as the Army Corps of Engineers had predicted, and the corps says it can’t set a new target date.

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Congress funded construction of the multimillion-dollar floodgates in late December to keep storm surges out of the canals and reduce pressure on their suspect floodwalls. As it stands now, the corps won’t allow more than five feet of surge into the 17th Street Canal. If a tropical system threatens before the floodgates and the corps’ pumps are operable, sheetpile will be used to block surge at the Old Hammond Highway bridge.

The London and Orleans canals are in better shape. There, St. Germain said, the gates already can be closed and the temporary pumps operated if tropical weather threatens.

At the Orleans Canal, which carries substantially less water than the London and 17th canals, the corps already can match the pumping capacity normally provided by the Orleans Sewerage & Water Board: 2,200 cubic feet per second of water moving out of the canal around the closed gates and into Lake Pontchartrain.

At London, however, the temporary pumping capacity is only 2,800 cfs, a significant decline from the 8,000 cfs that S&WB pumps can provide when all are operational. Corps officials have said they will try to supplement that figure with portable pumps.,

An even greater loss of capacity is occurring at 17th Street, where the S&WB’s Pump Station No. 6, located along Orpheum Avenue, can move water at the rate of 10,000 cfs when all of its giant pumps are operating.That won’t happen when the floodgates are closed because city pumps will only be allowed to move the volume of water that the smaller, corps pumps downstream can handle.
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The corps new plan, the one now being examined by Boh Brothers and the pump supply company, calls for adding another two pumps on the east side for another 450 cfs, and 23 portable pumps on the floodgate deck capable of adding another 1,000 cfs.

Previously, the corps had planned to station a gargantuan crane on the floodgate deck to lower the gates against a surge this season, a temporary measure that will be discarded once hydraulically powered winches are added before the start of next storm season.

The deck will instead be used to house portable pumps that can’t be placed on the ground . . .

Engineers are currently designing for four more temporary pumps on the canal’s west side to add another 900 cfs to the mix, but that will come in a later contract modification when it the plan is complete.

In all, the corps has plans for pumps that total 5,150 cfs for this storm season, which ends Nov. 30. But just how much of capacity will be provided at any one time — and whether it will be on-line during the height of the season from mid-August until late September - remains a mystery
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Friday, May 19, 2006

(Total411.info) -- Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu and the man he is challenging for the New Orleans Mayoralty, incumbent Ray Nagin, have one major difference in their plans for rebuilding New Orleans. Landrieu is endorsing the anti-human nonbinding FEMA directives that would make it prohibitively expensive for New Orleanians to rebuild.

Landrieu would force New Orleanians to raise their homes three feet off of the 100-yr flood plain. This would seriously reduce the ability of poor and middle-class homeowners to rebuild their homes and lives. It would reduce the size of the city -- right in line with the UN Agenda 21 plan to turn settled land back to wilderness and crowd people into dense urban areas. This isn't surprising as his sister, U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu has been in league with the "sustainable development" crowd for a long time. "Sustainable development" is code for penning mankind into crowded urban area where they are easier to control and ultimately kill when the planned 80% population reduction comes.

The flooding problem that came with Katrina was the result of bombs placed inside concrete canal floodwalls throughout the city, floodwalls that had been "refurbished" by federal contractors in the last 10 years. Those contractors were hired by the Army Corps of Engineers. Contracting by the Corps has been very corrupt for several years, and one whistleblower, a Louisiana native named Bunatine Greenhouse, was fired for blowing the whistle on the corps' sweetheart deals with Halliburton.

Nagin, who tipped off Rev. Farrakhan that the levees were bombed, is too scared to speak publicly about the levee sabotage, having received several CIA death threats in the days following the levee bombing. But at least he has enough conscience not to sell out the city to the genocidal FEMA "recommendations" backed by Mitch Landrieu.

Vote Nagin.

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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Kudos to Senator Lott for leading the charge on this. You'd think these insurance scumbags would have enough sense not to scam a sitting U.S. Senator if they wanted to get away with such big criminal conspiracy.

Exceprted from Associated Press Mon Apr 10:

"A lawyer for U.S. Sen. Trent Lott said Monday that State Farm Insurance Co. is destroying documents that could show the insurer has fraudulently denied thousands of claims by Lott and other policyholders whose homes were destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

Zach Scruggs, one of Lott's attorneys, says his client has a "good faith belief" that several State Farm employees in Biloxi are destroying engineering reports that gave conflicting conclusions about whether wind or water was responsible for storm damage.

Like thousands of Gulf Coast homeowners, Lott's claim was denied because State Farm concluded that Katrina's flood water demolished his beach-front Pascagoula home. State Farm says its policies do not cover damage from rising water, including wind-driven water.

But lawyers for the Mississippi Republican claim Bloomington, Ill.-based State Farm has routinely pressured its engineers to alter "favorable" reports that initially blamed damage on hurricane's wind, which the company's policies cover.[...]

Lott's allegations come on the heels of a lawsuit filed by Kiln, Miss., couple who claimed they had obtained copies of conflicting reports prepared by State Farm's engineers on what damaged their home. They said one report traced the destruction to Katrina's winds while a later report said flooding was the culprit.

[...]Corporate "whistleblowers" who are cooperating with Lott's attorneys have provided evidence that State Farm employees are destroying or moving those "initial favorable" engineering reports.

"We believe that this is a systematic practice," said Scruggs, who is Lott's nephew by marriage.

Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood also says he is investigating allegations that State Farm manipulated engineering reports to deny claims after the Aug. 29 hurricane.

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Thursday, March 02, 2006

The Presidential Katrina briefing video leaked to Associated Press and now making the rounds hides the truth about what happened to New Orleans' levees in plain sight. The National Weather Center's Max Mayfield tell George W. Bush and Michael Brown in the video "I don't think anyone can tell you with any confidence right now whether the levees will be topped or not, but that is obviously a very very grave concern "

So Bush was right when he said "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." The fear was always that a large storm surge could possibly go over the top of the levees on Lake Ponchartrain and fill the city up with water. No one (outside the black-ops community) expected that in the midst of a storm surge three feet beneath the levee tops, virtually every canal wall inside the city would crumble -- "breached" by obvious use of explosives.

This briefing video was almost certainly leaked to AP by former FEMA Director Brown. Brown is making the case that he was not a wholly incompetent boob, but rather a semi-competent boob stripped of all real authority and hung out to dry by Michael Chertoff.

But who was Chertoff's superior? Not Bush, who was incurious and reading off a script during this briefing. Maybe it was the guy ordering oil pipeline repairs in the middle of the night following the storm -- Dick "Fudd" Cheney.

Brown's remark that the Louisiana Superdome roof may not hold up could seem to be prescient -- a slick leak by the Brown team. Until you realize that Brown was talking about the Superdome roof in a Category 5 storm -- not the Category 2 winds that the Superdome and the canal wall levees actually did receive.

See also:


• EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Earwitness tells ABC explosives blew Industrial Canal levee
  
  
• EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Congressional hearing on levee bombs

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Saturday, February 25, 2006

Deutsche Presse-Agentur:

" "Buy us back, Chirac," pleads a facetious mime in the satirical Krewe de Vieux parade in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood of New Orleans February 11, 2006. Many of the parades' irreverent subgroups took jabs at the sluggish federal response to the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when New Orleans levees collapsed, flooding 80 percent of the city. The irreverant and often raunchy Krewe de Vieux parade, marking its 20th year, winds through the city's downtown to kick off the Carnival season. Fat Tuesday is February 28. (UPI Photo/A.J. Sisco)
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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

From MyPetGoat.tv:

"In Feeding the Goat Volume 20, Rox and August are joined by James from Total Information Analysis to discuss 9-11, Hurricane Katrina, Papal hopeful Cardinal Ratzinger's Nazi Youth background, the Paul is Dead thing, Podcasting, Jeff Gannon's pimp, JFK and a smattering of other topics.

The show opens with a hilarious and groovin' edit from Roxdog utilizing some of our favorite clips of Bush skirting around 9-11 questions.

Feeding the Goat Volume 20 ran on Revere Radio Network on February 8, 2006. Please distribute freely!

Click here to play.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006

One thing folks have been able to take away from Katrina -- you can't rely on the state for help.

From Times-Picayune Feb 19:

" More than 1,000 people flocked to the Northshore Harbor Center to attend the show, which was nearly twice as large as one staged by the same group a month before the hurricane.

Dealers at the 225-table show said firearm sales have surged throughout the New Orleans area as residents replace guns that were destroyed or stolen during the storm. They also reported a spike in sales to first-time gun owners.

"Everyone keeps saying that a gun in the hand is better than being on the phone trying to reach the police or a 911 dispatcher," said Alan Reese, manager of Elliot's Gun Shop in Jefferson.

Bill Stadler, a gun dealer who hosts the Slidell gun show three times a year, said the increase in sales appears evenly divided between people buying replacement weapons and those seeking extra protection.

"A lot of people who have never owned a gun before are thinking, 'Hey, maybe I ought to have one in the house just in case,' " he said.
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Monday, January 30, 2006

Katrina relief: Money for Halliburton, not homeowners.

From RingsidePolitics.com January 25, 2006:

"Yesterday, Louisiana received the bad news that the White House will not support the Baker Bill, a plan to help hurricane destroyed areas in which a government agency would buy the unlivable homes for at least 60% of the equity, fulfill the mortgage commitments and then either resell them or redevelop the area. Almost all Louisiana leaders believed that this bill was the best one to help the hurricane ravaged state recover. It was the most comprehensive, but involved creating a federal agency costing taxpayers billions of dollars. The expensive price tag was too much for Bush officials who advocated yesterday that the state use part of their block grant money to help uninsured homeowners.

The problem with the Bush strategy is that Louisiana did not receive enough block grant money. Although Louisiana had three times more property damage than any other area, it received only 54% of the block grants funds. Whether it was the limited influence of our congressional delegation or a federal bias against a state with a corrupt past, it does not negate the fact that not enough funds were allocated to Louisiana. Now with the additional bad news that the Baker bill has been killed, our state remains in a world of hurt.

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Since Katrina, many prominent people have become disillusioned, lost hope and taken their own lives. It makes a tragic situation worse. We have also seen little help from Washington.[...]
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Wednesday, January 18, 2006

New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin is taking a lot of flack for comments he made on Monday. Prefacing his remarks by admitting he was suffering a bit of post-traumatic stress disorder in the wake of Katrina, Nagin asked if the destruction of New Orleans wasn't proof that "God is mad" at America for many things, including the slaughter in Iraq, or that "God is mad" at black families for the abysmal way their children have been reared the past 30 or 40 years.

Let's get real here for a minute. Nagin's remarks were coming from a place much more real than that allowed for by the screaming faces on television. It was Nagin, after all, who tipped off Rev. Louis Farrakhan to the evidence that New Orleans' levees were intentionally sabotaged. It was Nagin who hinted four times in the days following storm that he had to watch his words concerning the federal government lest he be dispatched with by vengeful black-ops hitmen.

So, Nagin knows the levees were sabotaged, and knows the federal government abandoned New Orleans to watch it rot. And he's now had more than five months to figure out the degree to which both Katrina and Rita themselves were manipulated and steered by black-ops technology.

Considering all of this, Nagin's comments about "God" should probably be taken largely metaphorically. America as a nation is now so self-absorbed and slothful that it has permitted an insane criminal cabal to seize almost complete control of the reigns of government. So what has been happening as of late to America at the hands of that same criminal cabal can be seen as divine retribution in a certain sense. As the poet said, "karma's gonna get you / Gonna look you right in the face."

Nagin is also taking flack for saying that New Orleans will be a majority-black city again, that "God wanted it that way." This can be seen as a statement in opposition to the plans of everyone from the UNESCO biosphere goons to local real estate landsharks who want to remake New Orleans into a boutique theme park for adults surrounded by swamps built over the homes bulldozed at gunpoint. Nagin has been working with some of these "visionaries" to some degree, but his MLK-Day statements indicated the reservations he has.

Nagin's remarks have been seized upon political opponents nationwide. Also critical: other local leaders afraid that so baldly criticizing the Iraq war will undermine the Bush-bootlicking necessary to ensure a sufficient flow of federal dollars. In the wake of the federal levees exploding, most New Orleanians see little hope for rebuilding without a massive influx of federal dollars -- despite the fact that most of the federal dollars spent so far have gone into the black hole of FEMA or the coffers of crony corporations like Halliburton.

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Sunday, January 15, 2006

New Orleans resident Prof. Douglas Brinkley, a reliably establishment court historian, bared his teeth ever so slightly at the criminal Bush administration on MSNBC in late December. Crooks and Liars has the video:

"BRINKLEY: He gave a very powerful speech in Jackson Square. The blue lights were behind him, and, if you read that speech, it was wonderful.

But the reality is, the speech is—was phony. And we are not getting the funding. We are not getting the federal attention, and I think that it's tragic. And if President Bush wants to ignore New Orleans, then just say so. Let us know. Let us know not to come back, there are never going to be levees built, that we are not going to be—there isn't going to be a massive public works project.

You know, there are people where I'm at, in Houston, that want to work. They are looking to go back to New Orleans.
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But MSNBC is still covering for the official story on Katrina, that precludes questions about engineered weather (and sabotaged leveees). YourBBsucks.com got this screengrab below and points out, "according to this article released on 12/21/2005, MSNBC said, "Researchers say Hurricane Katrina was a weaker storm than first thought when it slammed the Gulf Coast, with the strength of a Category 3 storm instead of a Category 4." The levee system of course, was designed to withstand a direct hit by a Category 3 storm.


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Sunday, January 08, 2006

Could the assassinated corpses in the floodwaters been witnesses to levee sabotage?

From Real Time with Bill Maher October 14 2005:

"FORMER U.S. SENATOR MAX CLELAND: Yeah. [laughter] Hazardous duty. But I think New Orleans has a real challenge on its hands, not just in recovering from the disaster, the natural disaster, but what has happened to the police department there and what has happened in the wake of lawlessness breaking out after the hurricane came through. I understand that about half of the New Orleans Police Department evaporated as the hurricane came through; that about 25% of that police department went on a rampage and looting.

And then, of course, in the Charity Hospital there, the trauma center a few days after the hurricane went through, a number of bodies wound up there, assassinated with bullets in the back of their head. Those corpses are over in a warehouse now, and nobody's really seen them but the pathologist who told a friend of mine, who told me.

So we have a massive cover-up here, I think, that has to be investigated independently. That's why the Attorney General of Louisiana has now called for what I think is needed, and that is an independent investigation of exactly what – of exactly what's needed.

MAHER: [overlapping] So this guy on the [police brutality] tape got – this guy on the tape got off easy, is what you're saying. [laughter]

CLELAND: In a strange, perverse way, yeah. Because a lot more has gone on than what you saw here on the tape.
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Former NBC producer Daniel Hopsicker's MadCowMorningNews Jan. 3 2006:

"Everything you need to know to understand the way things are in America today was starkly visible on Chris Matthews’ year-end review on MSNBC’s HARDBALL last weekend.

The show featured a recap from New Orleans of the major unpleasantness of Hurricane Katrina, and an interview with a local "restauranteur" named Finis Shellnut, crowing about the blow the disaster had struck to the city’s poor people…

The name rang a bell. We couldn’t quite place it, though. Then we found another hurricane interview he’d done. An accompanying picture shows him sitting at a table with a bottle of champagne…

"Finis Shellnut is wealthy and he isn't hiding it, even in the difficult times following the Katrina disaster. The 53-year-old real estate magnate sits in front of one of his buildings in the French Quarter, enjoying a chilled bottle of French champagne," Der Spiegel reported.

"The man is a walking glitz machine, from the diamonds on his Rolex to his gold-framed glasses to the silver cross dangling on his chest under his half-open shirt. Shellnut is doing well these days, extremely well. He senses a lot of post-Katrina business coming his way."

Shellnut wasn't particularly hard-hit by the storm and the flooding in New Orleans.

"My real estate is in the city's better neighborhoods," he told Der Spiegel, clearly pleased with himself, "a tree fell down here and there, but otherwise everything's just fine."
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"Despite all the chaos and destruction, the storm and the floods came with a silver lining for people like Shellnut. "Most importantly, the hurricane drove poor people and criminals out of the city," he says, "and we hope they don't come back."

We found two separate FOX NEWS reports seeming to indicate that the loathsome Shellnut may have been responsible for some of the reports about atrocities being committed in the days after the hurricane... atrocities which later turned out to have no basis in fact, but which may have helped depress real estate prices later.

"Finis Shellnut stuck in French Quarter on phone, surrounded by looters," FOX NEWS reported. Then, later: "Finis Shellnut reports looters shot police officer in head."

Who is Finis Shellnut? . . .

The financially oh-so-lucky Shellnut is the former brother-in-law of Bill Clinton’s close personal and political friend, former Asst U.S. Attorney General Webster Hubbell (who went to federal prison for a Whitewater-related conviction), as well as a former law partner of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

But his real claim on notoriety came when he was identified as the man who picked up the duffel bags filled with cash dropped by CIA Drug Pilot Barry Seal at the Triple S Ranch near Hot Springs, Arkansas. An estimated $9 million per week fell out of the sky.
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Wednesday, December 28, 2005

New Orleans resident Prof. Douglas Brinkley, a reliably establishment court historian, bared his teeth ever so slightly at the criminal Bush administration on MSNBC in late December. Crooks and Liars has the video:

"BRINKLEY: He gave a very powerful speech in Jackson Square. The blue lights were behind him, and, if you read that speech, it was wonderful.

But the reality is, the speech is—was phony. And we are not getting the funding. We are not getting the federal attention, and I think that it's tragic. And if President Bush wants to ignore New Orleans, then just say so. Let us know. Let us know not to come back, there are never going to be levees built, that we are not going to be—there isn't going to be a massive public works project.

You know, there are people where I'm at, in Houston, that want to work. They are looking to go back to New Orleans.
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But MSNBC is still covering for the official story on Katrina, that precludes questions about engineered weather (and sabotaged leveees). YourBBsucks.com got this screengrab and points out, "according to this article released on 12/21/2005, MSNBC said, "Researchers say Hurricane Katrina was a weaker storm than first thought when it slammed the Gulf Coast, with the strength of a Category 3 storm instead of a Category 4." The levee system of course, was designed to withstand a direct hit by a Category 3 storm.


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Sunday, December 18, 2005

More outrageous shenanigans from FEMA. They've been intentionally sitting on billions of apporpriated dollars and refusing to give people trailers to put ont heir property whle they rebuild -- but they're more than happy to pay for them to leave. This is another component in the calculated federal genocide on the people and culture of New Orleans and Louisiana.

From Associated Press 12/17/2005:

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency is encouraging hurricane victims living in hotels to consider moving out of state — even temporarily — until more housing becomes available in southern Louisiana.

FEMA said it has a housing locator service that can help people find apartments or other housing but the agency's spokesman, James McIntyre, acknowledged that much of the available housing is located outside of Louisiana.

He said the federal agency has worked with real-estate agents and housing associations across the country, as well as governmental entities, to develop a list of available properties.

One of FEMA's challenges, McIntyre said, is to make people understand that housing in Louisiana is limited. "They have to accept the fact that there is not available housing stock in the areas where they came from."
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Meanwhile, in Arkansas...
From KTHV 12/13:

"Arkansas Congressman Mike Ross says thousands of mobile homes ordered for Hurricane Katrina now sit empty in Arkansas. Ross says the empty homes represent a waste of taxpayer money. The Congressman added the homes will become worse as the trailers become mired in mud.

Ross sent a letter to acting Federal Emergency Management Agency director David Paulison. The letter said it's unacceptable for people to still be sleeping in tents and living in hotel rooms nearly four months after the tragedy, when more than 10,000 new and empty manufactured homes are waiting.

Thousands of empty mobile homes that FEMA ordered to house refugees in the wake of the August 29th Gulf Coast storm now sit empty at sites near Texarkana and Hope. Ross, whose district includes Hope, wrote that staging areas are overflowing with trailers. He described the Hope Municipal Airport's runways and tarmacs as overloaded with manufactured homes. Ross added extra homes are being put on surrounding fields and pastures.

According to Ross, these pastures and fields were not effectively prepared by FEMA, and when winter rains hit the 'gumbo' soil will cause the trailers carrying the manufactured homes to sink.
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

The second cover story for the sabotaged levees and floodwalls in New Orleans has in part focused on the depth of the metal sheet pilings. Supposedly, they had not been driven deep enough into the ground, and for this reason, the levees spontaneously combusted hours after the eye of Category-3 Katrina passed tens of miles to the East of the city.

This supposed "defect" in the Army Corps' levees was repeated ad nauseam with the insinuation that those corrupt Louisianans had something to with it. This "fact' was even presented in the hastily-thrown together "scientific" documentary aired on PBS' Nova program last month. This has now been proven false, though the misinformation is indelibly imprinted on the sagging minds of self-impressed yuppies who watch PBS and consider themselves informed intellectuals.

From Times-Picayune Wednesday, December 14, 2005:

"Measurements of sheet pilings pulled Tuesday from the 17th Street Canal confirmed that the foundation had been driven to the depths required by the Army Corps of Engineers. . .

The pilings removed from beneath four wall segments on the north and south side of the break averaged 23.5 feet long, corps officials said. That means they extended to about 17 feet below sea level, as described in corps design documents.

The measurements, however, were somewhat surprising because recent seismic/sonar testing by the corps had predicted that the sheet piles just north and south of the breach reached to only about 10 feet below sea level. That's the same depth found by a testing company hired by Team Louisiana, a group of six Louisiana State University professors and three independent engineers investigating the levee failures for the state Department of Transportation and Development.

That depth raised questions about possible malfeasance in the construction and prompted the corps to spend Monday and Tuesday pulling sections of the floodwall for examination by forensic experts. Corps officials said they plan to measure sheet piling at the ruptured London Avenue and Industrial Canal for measurements as repairs there proceed.

While the hands-on measurements seem to reduce the possibility of criminal conduct, corps officials and independent engineers said serious questions remain about how the wall failed during the Aug. 29 storm.

"The investigation will be ongoing until we find out exactly why, the scientific and engineering reasons why some levee parts of the system were able to withstand the forces of this hurricane and others did not," said Brig. Gen. Robert Crear, commander of Task Force Hope, which is assisting in the recovery of the New Orleans area.

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Sunday, December 11, 2005

• UPDATE: Thanks to WebFairy for converting this 19-minute highlight video to a Shockwave Flash file for the Real-phobics out there. This is a MUST-SEE!
  
  
• TOTAL411.INFO VIDEO.
  
  The U.S. House's Select Committee on Hurricane Katrina had some very interesting sessions on Tuesday. Over two sessions and more than four hours, evacuees and community leaders from New Orleans testified in hearings designed to highlight racial issues raised by the storm.
  
  Amazingly, nearly half an hour of this time was spent discussing whether or not the levees and floodwalls surrounding New Orleans were sabotaged. Many witnesses before the committee said they heard the levees being bombed and had several interviews taped with other witnesses.
  
  Later witnesses raised the historical context of levees being sabotaged before. And most stunningly, Henry Alford, the President of the National Black Chamber of Commerce challenged the federal government to allow the National Association of Black Engineers to access the evidence to conduct an independent, privately-financed investigation.
  
  There was a lot of other important testimony regarding the concentration-camp-like conditions evacuees were forced into and the grossly underestimated body count. For the time being, C-SPAN has archived both sessions in full, here are the links to
  
  
• PART ONE and
  
• PART TWO
  
  For about 18 minutes of highlights from the discussions involving sabotage of the levees, check out this VIDEO.
  
  This is a very important development, but it is important that the focus in the levee sabotage not be exclusively racial. The 17th St. Canal breach which flooded the entire city is just as suspicious as the breach on the Industrial Canal. New Orleanians of all races were victims of levee sabotage.
  
  
• SEE ALSO: VIDEO of earwitness to levee sabotage on ABC News
  
  (All files RealMedia).

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Saturday, December 03, 2005

Great Family Guy clip found via CrooksAndLiars.com:

"Brian, from the Family Guy had a small monologue about President Bush

Video-WMP Video-QT (hat tip Jesse for the clip and dialogue)

Brian: "Don't worry Lois, I'm good at finding people. I was the one who found Bush after Hurricane Katrina."

Brian: "Uh, Mr. President, are you up there?"

Bush: (face half hidden in treehouse window) "Go away!"

Brian: "Sir, there's a disaster in New Orleans."

Bush: "I'm readin' Superfudge!"

Brian: "You gotta come down and deal with this."

Bush: (lowers further in window) "Don't make me do stuff!"


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Friday, November 18, 2005

PBS, aka government television, is about to run a documentary on the "science" behind Katrina as part of their Nova series. A skim of the accompanying website reveals it will be the same kind of nonsensical claptrap fed to PBS' pseudo-intellectual viewers as the Nova special on "How the Towers Fell."



PBS' conclusions are already drawn before its "investigation" even begins. The answer is in the title of the program, "The Storm That Drowned a City." The question of whether any of the levees were sabotaged is not broached (not to mentionthe possibility the storm was manipulated by military technology).

The timeline for Nova's "Storm That Drowned A City" asserts Katrina was "a Category 4 storm when it makes landfall." No mention that the city proper got Category 1 and 2 winds -- not to mention the latest data that Katrina was only Category 3 when it made landfall several miles away, as reported in the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. (See chart below.)

Following the "scientific" program Nova in most markets, PBS' "investigative" program, Frontline, will air a program asserting that those nice governemnt just folks just plumb screwed up. No genocide to see here; move along, move along.


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Tuesday, November 15, 2005

I never did post this September 12 appearance of your humble webmaster on Jack Blood's "Deadline Live" program on the GCN radio network. The chief topic is Hurricane Katrina.


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Monday, November 14, 2005

So abysmal was the federal performance in Katrina, even White House lapdog Davis has to put up a show of conducting oversight of the "failures."

From The Hill Nov 10 2005:

"House Government Reform Committee Chairman Tom Davis (R-Va.) yesterday threatened to subpoena three members of the Bush Cabinet and White House counsel Harriet Miers if they do not comply with document requests issued by his select committee on Hurricane Katrina response.

During a committee hearing yesterday, Davis decried the failure of White House officials to release e-mails and other communication records related to the hurricane and its aftermath. Davis set a hard deadline of Nov. 18 for all federal agencies to comply with his requests.

“If documents aren’t produced by that date, I’m ready to proceed with subpoenas,” Davis said.

Davis chairs the special committee investigating the emergency response to Hurricane Katrina and the resulting flooding of New Orleans.

[Louisiana Congressman Charlie] Melancon also placed copies of the individual draft subpoenas mentioning Cabinet members by name in the committee’s record. Most recently, the independent commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks also was forced to subpoena Bush administration documents.

In addition to the White House, Davis’s investigative committee has asked for documents from the secretaries of defense, homeland security and health and human services and from Miers.

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Sunday, November 06, 2005

The newest twist being peddled is that a contractor here or there used inferior materials, which then apparently spontaneously combusted and "heaved" in the hours following the Category 2 winds Katrina brought down upon the canal levees in New Orleans proper.

From Los Angles Times November 3, 2005:

"The New Orleans levees that ruptured during Hurricane Katrina's storm surges two months ago were weakened by widespread structural flaws, and the construction of several floodwalls may have been undermined by possible corruption, engineering experts told a Senate committee Wednesday.

"We're receiving disturbing reports that there may have been some conscious human error involved. There may have been some malfeasance," said Raymond B. Seed, a civil engineering professor at UC Berkeley who is heading an inquiry financed by the National Science Foundation. "We're pursuing evidence of those stories."

Seed would not detail the allegations....

The officials declined to be identified because the investigation was still in an early stage and the allegations had not been verified.

"These levees should have been expected to perform adequately if they had been designed and constructed properly," Seed said.
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A few weeks before, it was the native peat soil which spontaneously combusted. This Seed was pushing this angle.

From Washington Post Sat, Oct. 08, 2005:

"At the 17th Street Canal, they said, a section of the levee embankment moved back 35 feet. There is evidence of a similar "soil mass movement" at one of two London Avenue sites. The engineers speculate that either the pressure on the walls pushed them back against the soft soil or water seeping beneath the walls softened the soil, weakening the wall's support.

"The soil moved," said Paul Mlakar of the Army Corps of Engineers. "The exact mechanism is not known at this time."

The soil in the area, composed of sand, silt, clay and peat, is "compressible and not very strong," said Raymond Seed, a professor of civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Seed has been spinning like a top with these undetailed, mysterious allegations, because there is simply no reasonable explanation for these "mass soil movements" beyond placed charges. It's no wonder that Seed's carefully-preared testimony to Congress avoided mentioning the explosive behavior of the soil, suddenly "heaving" up to 35 feet..

Why would a scientist make his case on innuendo instead of basic physics?

Follow the money. According to the UC-Berkely's Berkeleyan newspaper Oct. 20, Seed's team at Berkeley received "funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the campus's Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) [and] joined teams mobilized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)."

9/11 researchers know ASCE for its comical report on the destruction of the Pentagon.

But what of this CITRIS. CITRIS has led the way in designing "smart dust," to track everything everywhere. And according to the academia watchdogs at UT Watch :

"CITRIS is administrated by UC Berkeley,and supports research on the Berkeley campus, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and the new UC Merced. Aside from the research conducted through CITRIS that actually does benefit society, there is a good deal which benefits the warfare state and its allies. In addition to the funding support CITRIS receives from DARPA and the ONR, the majority of support comes from corporations including weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Rockwell, TRW, Raytheon, SRI, Hughes Aircraft, United Technologies, etc. One of the major focuses of the CITRIS center will now be "Homeland Defense." Homeland Defense research will revolve around surveillance and police technologies
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DARPA, of course, is the Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Project Agency.

The UC Berkely team went in with a mision statement to find "why the levees failed," not whether or not the levees were sabotaged, as witness testimony and the physical evidence indicate.

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Thursday, October 13, 2005

This tidbit reported by Associated Press has been totally overlooked in cablenews and all other media coverage of this event. Who are these violent feds and why have they walked scot-free?

From AP Oct 10, 8:22 AM (ET):

" Three New Orleans police officers are facing battery charges after investigators reviewed a videotape showing two patrolmen repeatedly punching a 64-year-old man accused of public intoxication and a third officer grabbing and shoving an Associated Press Television News producer who helped capture the confrontation on tape.

After being questioned and arrested, the three officers were suspended without pay Sunday, police spokesman Marlon Defillo said. The police promised a criminal investigation.

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Two of the officers in the video appeared to be federal officers. Numerous agencies have sent police to help with patrols in the aftermath of Katrina, and Defillo said it would be up to their commanders to decide if they would face charges.

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Another question not broached by the media -- were any of these violent police officers on any SSRI drugs such as Prozac? Red Cross has a history of pushing these dangerous psychosis-inducing drugs on people who have just undergone trauma.


• Video of beating here

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