Black Ops in New Orleans?

[Thought@Work]

<font size="4">The witness didn't <u>see</u> anything; and doesn't know <u>what</u> he heard. There may have been an explosion; it could have been a fuel tank, natural gas, something colliding with something, could have been a transformer. To some people, however, it was someone blowing a whole in the levee - with or without an iota of proof.

QueEx

Its probably the barge that hit the wall; adrift and with the force of the waves, etcetera We need to look at what is not going on down there rignt now, it's as if time stood still. A large part of our Black History has been wiped out! I even read that Nagin and the Lady Govenor been threatened with abandonment if they continue to speak out about their discontent. Nagin even stating that he is afraid to be "taken out" by the CIA. All the government do is Lies, lies & more lies.

 

[QueEx]

We need to look at what is not going on down there rignt now, it's as if time stood still ... I even read that Nagin and the Lady Govenor been threatened with abandonment if they continue to speak out about their discontent.

Bro, I hate to criticize Black mayors; they usually have enough problems to begin with. But Nagin needs to spend less time waffling between what the feds didn't do; whether NOLA will be a chocolate city at the end of the day; and otherwise coming up with shit-for-brains reconstruction plans. I can't blame the people for being angry with Nagin and deer-in-the-headlights Blanco too because too often it appears she doesn't have a real clue.

When Katrina struck and those levees broke, New Orleans was a changed city. The politics of the past no longer held water - water was every damn where. The name of the game for NOLA at this point is PLAN. Somebody has got to come up with some damn plans, yesterday. Is it safe to rebuild the 9th Ward (one of the lowest places in NOLA, some 8 to 10 feet below sea level)??? Can the coastal erosion be stopped - because the coastal wetlands stand somewhat as a barrier to hurricanes and they've been damn near eaten away??? What will be the new building standards???

If Nagin keeps bumbling around about whether NOLA will be chocolate at the end of the day, instead of taking the LEADERSHIP to get NOLA towards reconstruction (of that which realistically can be rebuilt), his ass will be at home trying to self-install new sheet rock - still casting blame.

It helps to understand what is going on in N.O. if you have lived through at least one major hurricane. I've gone through a few and I can tell you that hurricanes <u>make</u> time stand still, especially in areas that have not been hit by even a moderate cane in recent years. My experience tells me that to endure a hurricane requires good preparedness, before one strikes; and good post hurricane preparedness, BEFORE one strikes. I think its fairly plain that N.O. (as much as I love it and its people), did neither.

Now, they have one more chance. Get a solid post destruction plan and start kicking some ass to make it work. The feds have promised billions. Get a solid plan to spend it and put foot up Bush's ass until it arrives. With all thats happened, I honestly don't believe that Washington wants to run the risk of fucking up, again. But Washington doesn't have to worry about it, if the locals can't get their shit in one sock.

QueEx

 

[Thought@Work]

You a fine example of how Black people can't get along to move along. Stick to what you know

assholes and elbows

 

[QueEx]

You a fine example of how Black people can't get along to move along. Stick to what you know

assholes and elbows

Which is it: you can't handle the truth; or, you wouldn't know it if it bit you ?
What part of what I said equates in your mind to disunity ?

Please be sure to read the rules before you reply.

QueEx

 

[QueEx]

<font size="4">While some debate "Black-Ops" ... White-Ops
may be well underway. While Nagin flaunders
along -- others may be PLANNING the future.

Try reading through and weeding out the political
biases in the article below and see if you can get
an understanding of what the future may soon behold
and how it can be manipulated to our advantage.

This is not a time for emotionalism, but a time for
well rounded Black thinkers/politicians to show
their mettle. Black people: Think; Be smart; and,
stop crying over spilled milk. The past is done;
wrest control over tomorrow.

QueEx
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<font size="7"><center>Who Is Killing New Orleans? </font size></center><font size="4">

The Nation
Mike Davis
posted March 23, 2006 (April 10, 2006 issue)

Afew blocks from the badly flooded and still-closed campus of Dillard University, a wind-bent street sign announces the intersection of Humanity and New Orleans. In the nighttime distance, the downtown skyscrapers on Poydras and Canal Streets are already ablaze with light, but a vast northern and eastern swath of the city, including the Gentilly neighborhood around Dillard, remains shrouded in darkness.

The lights have been out for six months now, and no one seems to know when, if ever, they will be turned back on. In greater New Orleans about 125,000 homes remain damaged and unoccupied, a vast ghost city that rots in darkness while les bon temps return to a guilty strip of unflooded and mostly affluent neighborhoods near the river. Such a large portion of the black population is gone that some radio stations are now switching their formats from funk and rap to soft rock.

Mayor Ray Nagin likes to boast that "New Orleans is back," pointing to the tourists who again prowl the French Quarter and the Tulane students who crowd Magazine Street bistros; but the current population of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi is about the same as that of Disney World on a normal day. More than 60 percent of Nagin's constituents--including an estimated 80 percent of the African-Americans--are still scattered in exile with no obvious way home.

In their absence, local business elites, advised by conservative think tanks, "New Urbanists" and neo-Democrats, have usurped almost every function of elected government. With the City Council largely shut out of their deliberations, mayor-appointed commissions and outside experts, mostly white and Republican, propose to radically shrink and reshape a majority-black and Democratic city. Without any mandate from local voters, the public-school system has already been virtually abolished, along with the jobs of unionized teachers and school employees. Thousands of other unionized jobs have been lost with the closure of Charity Hospital, formerly the flagship of public medicine in Louisiana. And a proposed oversight board, dominated by appointees of President Bush and Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco, would end local control over city finances.

Meanwhile, Bush's pledge to "get the work done quickly" and mount "one of the largest reconstruction efforts the world has ever seen" has proved to be the same fool's gold as his earlier guarantee to rebuild Iraq's bombed-out infrastructure. Instead, the Administration has left the residents of neighborhoods like Gentilly in limbo: largely without jobs, emergency housing, flood protection, mortgage relief, small-business loans or a coordinated plan for reconstruction.

With each passing week of neglect--what Representative Barney Frank has labeled "a policy of ethnic cleansing by inaction"--the likelihood increases that most black Orleanians will never be able to return.

Lie and Stall

After his bungling initial response to Katrina, Bush impersonated FDR and Lyndon Johnson when he reassured the nation in his September 15 Jackson Square speech that "we have a duty to confront [New Orleans's] poverty with bold action.... We will do what it takes, we will stay as long as it takes to help citizens rebuild their communities and their lives."

In the event, the White House sat on its pledges all autumn, mumbling homilies about the limits of government, while its conservative attack dogs in Congress offset Gulf relief with $40 billion worth of cutbacks in Medicaid, food stamps and student loans. Republicans also rebelled against aid for a state that was depicted as a venal Third World society, a failed state like Haiti, out of step with national values. "Louisiana and New Orleans," according to Idaho Senator Larry Craig, "are the most corrupt governments in our country and they always have been.... Fraud is in the culture of Iraqis. I believe that is true in the state of Louisiana as well."

Democrats, apart from the Congressional Black Caucus, did pathetically little to counter this backlash or to hold Bush's feet to the fire over his Jackson Square pledge. The promised national debate about urban poverty never took place; instead, New Orleans, like a great derelict ship, drifted helplessly in the treacherous currents of White House hypocrisy and conservative contempt.

An early, deadly blow was Treasury Secretary John Snow's refusal to guarantee New Orleans municipal bonds, forcing Mayor Nagin to lay off 3,000 city employees on top of the thousands of education and medical workers already jobless. The Bush Administration also blocked bipartisan measures to increase Medicaid coverage for Katrina evacuees and to give the State of Louisiana--facing an estimated $8 billion in lost revenues over the next few years--a share of the income generated by its offshore oil and gas leases.

Even more egregious was the flagrant redlining of black neighborhoods by the Small Business Administration (SBA), which rejected a majority of loan applications by local businesses and homeowners. At the same time, a bipartisan Senate bill to save small businesses with emergency bridge loans was sabotaged by Bush officials, leaving thousands to face bankruptcy and foreclosure. As a result, the economic foundations of the city's African-American middle class (public-sector jobs and small businesses) have been swept away by deliberate decisions made in the White House. Meanwhile, in the absence of federal or state initiatives to employ locals, low-income blacks are losing their niches in the construction and service sectors to more mobile outsiders.

In stark contrast to its neglect of neighborhood relief, the White House has made herculean efforts to reward its own base of large corporations and political insiders. Representative Nydia Velazquez, who sits on the House Small Business Committee, pointed out that the SBA has allowed large corporations to get $2 billion in federal contracts while excluding local minority contractors.

The paramount beneficiaries of Katrina relief aid have been the giant engineering firms KBR (a Halliburton subsidiary) and the Shaw Group, which enjoy the services of lobbyist Joe Allbaugh (a former FEMA director and Bush's 2000 campaign manager). FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers, while unable to explain to Governor Blanco last fall exactly how they were spending money in Louisiana, have tolerated levels of profiteering that would raise eyebrows even on the war-torn Euphrates. (Some of this largesse, of course, is guaranteed to be recycled as GOP campaign contributions.) FEMA, for example, has paid the Shaw Group $175 per square (100 square feet) to install tarps on storm-damaged roofs in New Orleans. Yet the actual installers earn as little as $2 per square, and the tarps are provided by FEMA. Similarly, the Army Corps pays prime contractors about $20 per cubic yard of storm debris removed, yet some bulldozer operators receive only $1. Every level of the contracting food chain, in other words, is grotesquely overfed except the bottom rung, where the actual work is carried out. While the Friends of Bush mine gold from the wreckage of New Orleans, many disappointed recovery workers--often Mexican or Salvadoran immigrants camped out in city parks and derelict shopping centers--can barely make ends meet.

The Big Kiss-Off

In the fractious, take-no-prisoners world of Louisiana politics, broad solidarity of interest is normally as rare as a boulder in a bayou. Yet Katrina created an unprecedented bipartisan consensus around twin demands for Category 5 hurricane protection and mortgage relief for damaged homes. From conservative Republicans to liberal Democrats, there has been unanimity that the region's recovery depends on federal investment in new levees and coastal restoration, as well as financial rescue of the estimated 200,000 homeowners whose insurance coverage has failed to cover their actual damage. (There has been no equivalent consensus and little concern for the right of renters--who constituted 53 percent of the population before Katrina--and of public-housing tenants to return to their city.)

Yet by early November it was clear that saving New Orleans was no longer high on the Bush agenda, if it had ever been. As Congress headed toward its Christmas adjournment, the Louisiana delegation was in panic mode: A Category 5 plan had disappeared from serious discussion, and there were doubts about whether the damaged levees would be repaired before hurricane season returned. (In early March engineers monitoring the progress of the Army Corps's work complained that the use of weak, sandy soils and the lack of concrete "armoring" insured that the levees would again fail in a major storm.)

Congress ultimately voted to provide $29 billion for Gulf Coast relief. Yet as the Washington Post reported, "All but $6 billion of the measure merely reshuffled some of the $62 billion in previously approved Hurricane Katrina aid. The rest was funded by a 1 percent across-the-board cut of non-emergency, discretionary programs." The Pentagon won approval for a whopping $4.4 billion in base repairs and other professed Katrina-related needs, but Congress cut out the $250 million allocated to combat coastal erosion. Meanwhile, Mississippi's powerful Republican troika--Governor Haley Barbour and Senators Trent Lott and Thad Cochran--persuaded fellow Republicans to support $6.2 billion in discretionary housing aid for Louisiana and $5.3 billion for Mississippi, with red-state Mississippi getting five times as much aid per distressed household as pink-state Louisiana.

Louisiana received another blow on January 23, when Bush rejected GOP Representative Richard Baker's plan calling for a federally guaranteed Louisiana Reconstruction Corporation, which would bail out homeowners by buying distressed properties and packaging them in larger parcels for resale to developers. Local Republicans as well as Democrats howled in rage, and the future of southern Louisiana was again thrown into chaos. Although the Administration eventually promised an additional $4.2 billion in housing aid, the appropriation continues to be fought over by Texas and other jealous states.

The Republican hostility to New Orleans, of course, runs deeper and is nastier than mere concern with civic probity (America's most corrupt city, after all, is located on the Potomac, not the Mississippi). Underlying all the circumlocutions are the same antediluvian prejudices and stereotypes that were used to justify the violent overthrow of Reconstruction 130 years ago. Usually it is the poor who are invisible in the aftermath of urban disasters, but in the case of New Orleans it has been the African-American professional middle class and skilled working class. In the confusion and suffering of Katrina--a Rorschach test of the American racial unconscious--most white politicians and media pundits have chosen to see only the demons of their prejudices. The city's complex history and social geography have been reduced to a cartoon of a vast slum inhabited by an alternately criminal or helpless underclass, whose salvation is the kindness of strangers in other, whiter cities. Inconvenient realities like Gentilly's red-brick normalcy--or, for that matter, the pride of homeownership and the exuberance of civic activism in the blue-collar Lower Ninth Ward--have not been allowed to interfere with the belief, embraced by New Democrats as well as old Republicans, that black urban culture is inherently pathological.

Such calumnies reproduce ancient caricatures--blacks running amok, incapable of honest self-government--that were evoked by the murderous White League when it plotted against Reconstruction in New Orleans in the 1870s. Indeed, some civil rights veterans fear that the 1874 Battle of Canal Street, a bloody League-organized insurrection against a Republican administration elected by black suffrage, is being refought--perhaps without pikes and guns, but with the same fundamental aim of dispossessing black New Orleans of economic and political power. Certainly, a sweeping transformation of the racial balance-of-power within the city has been on some people's agenda for a long time.

The Krewe of Canizaro

Power and status in New Orleans have always been defined by membership in secretive Mardi Gras "krewes" and social clubs. In the early 1990s civil rights activists, led by feisty Councilmember Dorothy Mae Taylor, forced the token desegregation of Mardi Gras, and some of the clubs reluctantly admitted a few African-American millionaires. Despite some old-guard holdouts, Uptown seemed to be adjusting, however grudgingly, to the reality of black political clout.

But as post-Katrina events have brutally clarified, if the oligarchy is dead, then long live the oligarchy. While elected black officials protest impotently from the sidelines, <u>a largely white elite has wrested control over the debate</U> about how to rebuild the city. This de facto ruling krewe includes Jim Amoss, editor of the New Orleans Times-Picayune; Pres Kabacoff, developer-gentrifier and local patron of the New Urbanism; Donald Bollinger, shipyard owner and prominent Bushite; James Reiss, real estate investor and chair of the Regional Transit Authority (i.e., the man responsible for the buses that didn't evacuate people); Alden McDonald Jr., CEO of one of the largest black-owned banks; Janet Howard of the Bureau of Government Research (originally established by Uptown elites to oppose the populism of Huey Long); and Scott Cowen, the aggressively ambitious president of Tulane University.

But the dominating figure and kingpin is Joseph Canizaro, a wealthy property developer who is a leading Bush supporter with close personal ties to the White House inner circle. He is also the power behind the throne of Mayor Nagin, a nominal Democrat (he supported Bush in 2000) who was elected in 2002 with 85 percent of the white vote. Finally, as the former president of the Urban Land Institute, Canizaro mobilizes the support of some of the nation's most powerful developers and prestigious master planners.

In a city where old money is often as reclusive as Anne Rice's vampires, Canizaro poses as a brave civic leader unafraid to speak bitter but necessary truths. As he told the Associated Press about the Katrina diaspora last October: "As a practical matter, these poor folks don't have the resources to go back to our city just like they didn't have the resources to get out of our city. So we won't get all those folks back. That's just a fact."

Indeed, it is a "fact" that Canizaro has helped shape into reigning dogma. The number of displaced residents returning to the city is obviously a highly variable function of the resources and opportunities provided for them, yet the rebuilding debate has been premised on suspicious projections--provided by the RAND Corporation and endlessly repeated by Nagin and Canizaro--that in three years the city would recover only half of its August 2005 population. Many Orleanians cynically wonder whether such projections aren't actually goals. For years Reiss, Kabacoff and others have complained that New Orleans has too many poor people. Faced with the dire fiscal consequences of white flight to the suburbs, as well as three decades of deindustrialization (which has given New Orleans an economic profile closer to Newark than to Houston or Atlanta), they argue that the city has become a soul-destroying warehouse for underemployed and poorly educated African-Americans, whose real interests--it is claimed--might be better served by a Greyhound ticket to another town.

Kabacoff's 2003 redevelopment of the St. Thomas public housing project as River Garden, a largely market-rate faux Creole subdivision, has become the prototype for the smaller, wealthier, whiter city that Mayor Nagin's Bring New Orleans Back commission (with Canizaro as head of the crucial urban planning committee) proposes to build. BNOB is perhaps the most important elite initiative in New Orleans since the famous "Cold Water Committee" (which included Kabacoff's father) mobilized in 1946 to overthrow the "Old Regulars" and elect reformer deLesseps Morrison as mayor. BNOB grew out of a notorious meeting between Mayor Nagin and New Orleans business leaders (dubbed by some "the forty thieves") that Reiss organized in Dallas twelve days after Katrina devastated the city. The summit excluded most of New Orleans's elected black representatives and, according to Reiss as characterized in the Wall Street Journal, focused on the opportunity to rebuild the city "with better services and fewer poor people."

Fears that a municipal coup d'etat was in progress were scarcely mollified when at the end of September the mayor charged BNOB with preparing a master plan to rebuild the city. Although the seventeen-member commission was racially balanced and included City Council president Oliver Thomas as well as jazz musician Wynton Marsalis (telecommuting from Manhattan), the real clout was exercised by committee chairs, especially Canizaro (urban planning), Cowen (education) and Howard (finance), who lunched privately with the mayor before the group's weekly meeting. This inner sanctum was reportedly necessary because the full-panel meetings did not allow a frank discussion of "tough issues of race and class."

BNOB might have quickly imploded but for a shrewd outflanking movement by Canizaro, who persuaded Nagin to invite the Urban Land Institute to work with the commission. Although the ULI is the self-interested national voice of corporate land developers, Nagin and Canizaro welcomed the delegation of developers, architects and ex-mayors as a heroic cavalry of expertise riding to the city's rescue. In a nutshell, the ULI's recommendations reframed the historic elite desire to shrink the city's socioeconomic footprint of black poverty (and black political power) as a crusade to reduce its physical footprint to contours commensurate with public safety and a fiscally viable urban infrastructure.

Upon these suspect premises, the outside "experts" (including representatives of some of the country's largest property firms and corporate architects) proposed an unprecedented triage of an American city, in which low-lying neighborhoods would be targeted for mass buyouts and future conversion into a greenbelt to protect New Orleans from flooding. As a visiting developer told BNOB: "Your housing is now a public resource. You can't think of it as private property anymore."

Keenly aware of inevitable popular resistance, the ULI also proposed a Crescent City Rebuilding Corporation, armed with eminent domain, that would bypass the City Council, as well as an oversight board with power over the city's finances. With control of New Orleans schools already usurped by the state, the ULI's proposed dictatorship of experts and elite appointees would effectively overthrow representative democracy and annul the right of local people to make decisions about their lives. For veterans of the 1960s civil rights movement, especially, it reeked of disenfranchisement pure and simple, a return to the paternalism of plantation days.

The City Council, supported by a surprising number of white homeowners and their representatives, angrily rejected the ULI plan. Mayor Nagin--truly a cat on a hot tin roof--danced anxiously back and forth between the two camps, disavowing abandonment of any area while at the same time warning that the city could not afford to service every neighborhood. But state and national officials, including HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson, applauded the ULI scheme, as did the editorial page of the Times-Picayune and the influential Bureau of Government Research.

The BNOB recommendations presented by Canizaro in January faithfully hewed to the ULI framework: They included an appointed redevelopment corporation, outside the control of the City Council, that would act as a land bank to buy out heavily damaged homes and neighborhoods with federal funds, wielding eminent domain as needed to retire low-lying areas to greenbelt ("black people's neighborhoods into white people's parks," someone commented) or to assemble "in-fill" tracts for mixed-income development a la River Garden. Other committees recommended a radical diminution of the power of elected government.

On the crucial question of how to decide which neighborhoods would be allowed to rebuild and which would be bulldozed, BNOB endorsed the concept of forced buyouts but equivocated over process. Instead of the ruthless map that the Bureau of Government Research wanted, Canizaro and colleagues proposed a Rube Goldberg-like temporary building moratorium in tandem with neighborhood planning meetings that would poll homeowners about their intentions. Only those neighborhoods where at least half of the pre-Katrina residents had made a committment to return would be considered serious candidates for Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs) and other financial aid.

Canizaro presented the report to Nagin in front of a public audience on January 11. The mayor said, "I like the plan," and he complimented the commissioners for "a job well done." But most locals found little charm in the Canizaro report. "I will sit in my front door with my shotgun," one resident warned at a jammed meeting in the Council chambers on January 14, while another demanded, "Are we going to allow some developers, some hustlers, some land thieves to grab our land, grab our homes, to make this a Disney World version of our homes, our lives?" Predictably, Nagin panicked and eventually disavowed the building moratorium. Soon afterward the White House torpedoed the Baker plan and left BNOB with only the state-controlled CDBG appropriation to finance its ambitious vision of New Orleans regrouped around a dozen new River Gardens linked by a high-speed light-rail line.

But Canizaro doesn't seem unduly worried. He has reassured supporters that the ULI/BNOB plan can go forward with CDBGs alone if necessary; in addition, he knows that independent of the local political weather, there are powerful external forces--lack of insurance coverage, new FEMA flood maps, refusal of lenders to refinance mortgages and so on--that can make permanent the exodus from redlined neighborhoods. Moreover, as anyone versed in the realpolitik of modern Louisiana knows, nothing is finally decided in New Orleans until some good ol' boys (and girls) in Baton Rouge have their say.


On the crucial question of how to decide which neighborhoods would be allowed to rebuild and which would be bulldozed, BNOB endorsed the concept of forced buyouts but equivocated over process. Instead of the ruthless map that the Bureau of Government Research wanted, Canizaro and colleagues proposed a Rube Goldberg-like temporary building moratorium in tandem with neighborhood planning meetings that would poll homeowners about their intentions. Only those neighborhoods where at least half of the pre-Katrina residents had made a committment to return would be considered serious candidates for Community Development Block Grants (CDBGs) and other financial aid.

Canizaro presented the report to Nagin in front of a public audience on January 11. The mayor said, "I like the plan," and he complimented the commissioners for "a job well done." But most locals found little charm in the Canizaro report. "I will sit in my front door with my shotgun," one resident warned at a jammed meeting in the Council chambers on January 14, while another demanded, "Are we going to allow some developers, some hustlers, some land thieves to grab our land, grab our homes, to make this a Disney World version of our homes, our lives?" Predictably, Nagin panicked and eventually disavowed the building moratorium. Soon afterward the White House torpedoed the Baker plan and left BNOB with only the state-controlled CDBG appropriation to finance its ambitious vision of New Orleans regrouped around a dozen new River Gardens linked by a high-speed light-rail line.

But Canizaro doesn't seem unduly worried. He has reassured supporters that the ULI/BNOB plan can go forward with CDBGs alone if necessary; in addition, he knows that independent of the local political weather, there are powerful external forces--lack of insurance coverage, new FEMA flood maps, refusal of lenders to refinance mortgages and so on--that can make permanent the exodus from redlined neighborhoods. Moreover, as anyone versed in the realpolitik of modern Louisiana knows, nothing is finally decided in New Orleans until some good ol' boys (and girls) in Baton Rouge have their say.





Power Shift

Even before the last bloated body had been fished out of the fetid waters, conservative political analysts were writing gleeful obituaries for black Democratic power in Louisiana. "The Democrats' margin of victory," said Ronald Utt of the Heritage Foundation, is "living in the Astrodome in Houston." Thanks to the Army Corps's defective levees, the Republicans stand to gain another Senate seat, two Congressional seats and probably the governorship. The Democrats would also find it impossible to reproduce Bill Clinton's 1992 feat, when he carried Louisiana by almost exactly his margin of victory in New Orleans. With a ruthless psephologist like Karl Rove in the White House, it is inconceivable that such considerations haven't influenced the shameless Bush response to the city's distress.


New Orleans has always vied with Detroit when it comes to the violent antipathy of white-flight suburbs toward its black central city, so it is not surprising that representatives from Jefferson Parish (which elected Klan leader David Duke to the state legislature in 1989) and St. Tammany Parish have particularly relished the post-Katrina shift in metropolitan population and electoral power. Both parishes are in the midst of housing booms that may consolidate the hollowing out and decline of New Orleans.

For her part, Governor Blanco, a Democrat, has expressed little concern about this fundamental reconfiguration of Louisiana's major metropolitan area. Indeed, her immediate, Bush-like responses to Katrina were to help engineer a state takeover of New Orleans schools and to slash $500 million in state spending while sponsoring tax breaks (in the name of economic recovery) for oil companies awash in profits. The Legislative Black Caucus was outraged at Blanco's "complete lack of vision and leadership" and went to court to challenge her right to make cuts without consulting lawmakers. But Blanco, supported by rural conservatives and corporate lobbyists, remained intransigent, even openly hostile, to black Democrats whose support she had previously courted.

Poor people have no voice inside the Louisiana Recovery Authority, whose gaggle of university presidents and corporate types appointed by Blanco is even less beholden to black New Orleans voters and their representatives than the Canizaro krewe. The twenty-nine-member LRA board, dominated by representatives of big business, has only one trade unionist and not a single grassroots black representative. Moreover, in contrast to Nagin's commission, the LRA has the power to decide, not merely advise: It controls the allocation of the FEMA funds and CDBGs that Congress has provided for reconstruction.

According to interviews in the Times-Picayune, leading members of the LRA believe that the sheer force of economic disincentives will shrink the city around the contours proposed by the Urban Land Institute. The authority has thus refused to disburse any of its hazard mitigation funds to areas considered unsafe, and presumably will be equally hardheaded in the allocation of CDBG spending. At a special session of the legislature Governor Blanco emphasized that the state, not local government or neighborhood planning committees, will retain control over where grants and loans go.

But Blanco and the elites may have overlooked the Fats Domino factor.

'No Bulldozing!'

Like hundreds of other flood-damaged but structurally sound homes, Fats Domino's house wears a defiant sign: Save Our Neighborhood: No Bulldozing! The r&b icon, who has always stayed close to his roots in working-class Holy Cross, knows his riverside neighborhood and the rest of the Lower Ninth Ward are prime targets of the city-shrinkers. Indeed, on Christmas Day the Times-Picayune--declaring that "before a community can rebuild, it must dream"--published a vision of what a smaller-but-better New Orleans might look like: "Tourists and schoolchildren tour a living museum that includes the former home of Fats Domino and Holy Cross High School, a multiblock memorial to Katrina that spans the devastated neighborhood."

"Living museum" (or "holocaust museum," as a black friend bitterly observed) sounds like a bad joke, but it is the elite view of what African-American New Orleans should become. In the brave New Urbanist world of Canizaro and Kabacoff, blacks (along with that other colorful minority group, Cajuns) will reign only as entertainers and self-caricatures. The high-voltage energy that once rocked juke joints, housing projects and second-line parades will now be safely embalmed for tourists in a proposed Louisiana Music Experience in the Central Business District.

But this minstrel-show version of the future must first defeat a remarkable local history of grassroots organization. The Crescent City's best-kept secret--in the mainstream press, at least--has been the resurgence of trade-union and community organizing since the mid-1990s. Indeed, New Orleans, the only Southern city in which labor was ever powerful enough to call a general strike, has become an important crucible of new social movements. In particular, it has become the home base of ACORN, a national organization of working-class homeowners and tenants that counts more than 9,000 New Orleans member-families, mostly in triage-threatened black neighborhoods. ACORN's membership has been the engine behind the tumultuous, decade-long struggle to unionize downtown hotels as well as the successful 2002 referendum to legislate the nation's first municipal minimum wage (later overthrown by a right-wing state Supreme Court). Since Katrina, ACORN has emerged as the major opponent of the ULI/BNOB plan for shrinking the city. Its members find themselves again fighting many of the same elite figures who were opponents of hotel unionization and a living wage.

ACORN founder Wade Rathke scoffs at the RAND Corporation projections that portray most blacks abandoning the city. "Don't believe those phony figures," he told me over beignets at Cafe du Monde in January. "We have polled our displaced members in Houston and Atlanta. Folks overwhelmingly want to return. But they realize that this is a tough struggle, since we have to fight simultaneously on two fronts: to restore people's homes and to bring back their jobs. It is also a race against time. The challenge is, You make it, you take it. So our members are voting with their feet."

Not waiting for CDBGs, FEMA flood maps or permission from Canizaro, ACORN crews and volunteers from across the country are working night and day to repair the homes of 1,000 member-families in some of the most threatened areas. The strategy is to confront the city-shrinkers with the incontestable fact of reoccupied, viable neighborhood cores.

ACORN has allied with the AFL-CIO and the NAACP to defend worker rights and press for the hiring of locals in the recovery effort. Rathke points out that Katrina has become the pretext for the most vicious government-supported attack on unions since President Reagan fired striking air-traffic controllers in 1981. "First, suspension of Davis-Bacon [federal prevailing wage law], then the state takeover of the schools and the destruction of the teachers' union, and now this." He points to a beat-up green garbage truck rattling by Jackson Square. "Trash collection in the French Quarter used to be a unionized city job, SEIU members. Now FEMA has contracted the work to a scab company from out of state. Is this what Bring New Orleans Back means?"

ACORN also went to court to insure that New Orleans's displaced, largely black population would have access to out-of-state polling places, especially in Atlanta and Houston, for the scheduled April 22 city elections. When a federal judge rejected the demand, ACORN organizer Stephen Bradberry said it's "so obvious that there's a concerted plan to make this a whiter city." The NAACP agrees, but the Justice Department denied its request to block an election that is likely to transfer power to the artificial white majority created by Katrina.

It would be inspiring to see in this latest battle of New Orleans the birth pangs of a new or renewed civil rights movement, but gritty local activism has yet to be echoed in meaningful solidarity by the labor movement, so-called progressive Democrats or even the Congressional Black Caucus. Pledges, press statements and occasional delegations, yes; but not the unfaltering national outrage and sense of urgency that should attend the attempted murder of New Orleans on the fortieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act. In 1874, as historian Ted Tunnell has pointed out, the failure of Northern Radicals to launch a militant, armed riposte to the white insurrection in New Orleans helped to doom the first Reconstruction. Will our feeble response to Hurricane Katrina now lead to the rollback of the second?</font size>

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060410/davis

 

[Makeherhappy]

Was Katrina a Military Op?

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[BUMBAY DA DOGG]

Re: Was Katrina a Military Op?

With whitey at the wheel we are surely headed for a crash and possible distruction!

 

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Cronyism​

May 9, 2006

Through a partnership with a smaller, minority-owned company, a multinational firm with ties to the Federal Emergency Management Agency has landed four rebid deals that could be worth $400 million, federal records show. The Times-Picayune reports that the contracts were awarded to PRI/DJI, a joint venture between Del-Jen Industries and the Asian-American-owned PRI Inc., therefore qualifying under the terms of a federal program for disadvantaged businesses. However, Del-Jen is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fluor Corp., which held a mammoth FEMA disaster relief work contract that was up for rebidding when Katrina hit. FEMA then broke that contract up and awarded four $500 million deals for temporary housing work, but later agreed under pressure to rebid them. PRI/DJI’s success has angered competitors who say it’s outrageous that one partnership — especially one linked to the disaster relief giant — would win four of the 36 contracts awarded when no other company appears to have landed two. FEMA insists the process has been aboveboard.

SOURCE: http://www.publicintegrity.org/katrina/filter.aspx?cat=4

 

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OWNING THE WEATHER
45 MIN

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[Makeherhappy]

I've made statements about weather control before, you should go back and research the clueless comments.

 

[Fuckallyall]

I've made statements about weather control before, you should go back and research the clueless comments.

We cannot own what we cannot even accurately predict. Cloud seeding is old and can only be done on a very small scale, the amount of microwaves we can put up is an infinitessimal amout compared to what the earth is exposed to from the sun, etc, etc.
But like I said over on the main board, have fn with your rantings.

 

[Makeherhappy]

We cannot own what we cannot even accurately predict. Cloud seeding is old and can only be done on a very small scale, the amount of microwaves we can put up is an infinitessimal amout compared to what the earth is exposed to from the sun, etc, etc.
But like I said over on the main board, have fn with your rantings.

Small scale, interesting. Have you seen the chem trails that blankett the sky. Any given day you can have a web pattern in the sky. Small scale, I doubt it. I just came back from ATL, sat next to an US Army Airborne dude. I ask him about that question of the chemtrails, since we were passing some in the air. Trust me, they are not small scale.

Again, you are thinking with a mind of what you have been taught by others. Again I say, you have no idea what type of power we have, so to say what you continue to say about the sun and the power is very irresponsible. Now, if you do have that Above Top Secret clearance to get that information, that's a different story. But since you are talking on this board like the rest of us, I doubt you do.

Think bigger than this small planet we are on.

 

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Were U.S. Government Saboteurs Involved In A Fatal Shootout With New Orleans Police Officers On Sept. 4 At The Danziger Bridge?

Conflicting news and police reports leave a host of questions to be answered about what really happened between police and suspected U.S. government agents.

11 Jan 2006
By Greg Szymanski


The Sept. 4 gun battle, first killing five and now two on the Danziger Bridge between what was first reported as New Orleans police and U.S. military agents, has turned into a hodge-podge of conflicting reports, misstatements or outright official lies.

An initial report by the Associated Press (AP) claimed five Department of Defense (DOD) personnel were killed by officers at the bridge located on the 5800 block of Chef Menteur Highway near Downman Rd.

The original AP report, however, has since been sanitized with the only copies of the original story kept for posterity at a United Kingdom paper at http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlate and a foreign internet service, La Voz de Aztlan, at http://www.aztlan.net/police_kill_f .

**But a quick check of both sites reveals The Guardian link has been deleted and Lo Voz had to provide through email today the original AP story after their link was also inaccessible.

The original AP story since taken down reads in part:

"NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police shot eight people carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or six, a deputy chief said. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said the victims were contractors on their way to repair a canal.

"The contractors were walking across a bridge on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to fix the 17th Street Canal, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Corps.

"Earlier Sunday, New Orleans Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people, killing five or six.

"The shootings took place on the Danziger Bridge, which spans a canal connecting Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi River."

But what now exists from AP is a changed version of the story, either indicating reporter error or more likely an intentional switch since no reference to the original story or even a correction remains.

Notice the huge difference of how the sanitized version of the AP story now reads, saying none of the contractors were killed:

"NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Police shot and killed at least five people Sunday after gunmen opened fire on a group of contractors traveling across a bridge on their way to make repairs, authorities said.

"Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people carrying guns, killing five or six.

"Fourteen contractors were traveling across the Danziger Bridge under police escort when they came under fire, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers.

"They were on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to help plug the breech in the 17th Street Canal, Hall said.

"None of the contractors was injured, Mike Rogers, a disaster relief coordinator with the Army Corps of Engineers, told reporters in Baton Rouge."

And before looking at the official New Orleans police report and public release of the incident, released Tuesday to the Arctic Beacon, serious questions have to be asked regarding what has turned out to be huge discrepancies in all the existing reports or fabrications of the incident.

First, who were the "military agents" originally reported killed while making their way to the 17th Street Canal levee break? What were they doing there and why did police open fire on federal personnel, as originally reported?

And even more sinister questions have been asked by La Voz after covering the story last September:

"No one is saying anything and it appears that the news story has now been swept under the rug. Were these US Department of Defense personnel a Special Forces group or Navy Seals with top secret orders to sabotaged the levee? There are verifiable reports that at least 100 New Orleans police officers have disappeared from the face of the earth and that two have committed suicide. Could these be policemen that died defending the levee against sabotage by "federal contractors?"

Further, why was it reported that it was necessary to shoot and kill five or six DOD personnel when now the following official report released by the New Orleans police indicates only two civilians were killed and no defense contractors injured.


What makes this even stranger is that for at least two months after the story was released no one was talking about the incident, as it was swept under the rug by AP and not followed up by any major news outlets.


Although reporters make errors, i is hard to believe professionals can make this big an error, as they first report five to six government personnel killed, which has now been reduced to only two civilians.

The following is the most up-to-date release by the New Orleans Police Department's Public Affairs Office, telling a completely different story than reported in the initial days of the shoot-out:

"New Orleans, La. --This morning members of the New Orleans Police Department issued an update regarding the attempted murder of a Deputy Sheriff with the St. Landry Parish Sheriff's Office, as well is seven members of the New Orleans Police Dept. The incident culminated into the shooting of six people, two of which were fatal. The ordeal occurred September 4, 2001, at approximately 9:00 a.m., on the Danziger Bridge, located in the 5800 block of Chef Menteur Highway near Downman Road.

"New Orleans Police Officers, Sergeant Robert Gisevius and Kenneth Bowen, along with Officers Robert Faulcon, Robert Barrios, AnthonyVillavaso, Michael Hunter and Ignatius Hills, all responded to a call for assistance, two officers 'down" under the Danziger Bridge.

"Simultaneously, Deputy Sheriff David Ryder of the St. I.andry Parish Sheriff's Office requested immediate help from the New Orleans Police Department because he and volunteer rescue personnel (with boats) were receiving gunfire from several persons on the same bridge.

"As the officers drove into the area they were met with gunfire from, at least four suspects at the base of the bridge. The officers positioned themselves and began an exchange of gunfire. The gunmen, along with three other persons, totaling seven, jumped over the side of the concrete barrier onto a walkway, approximately three feet high, and continued the exchange of gunfire, when five persons were shot by officers.

"They are believed to be New Orleans residents and identified as: an unidentified gunman who sustained a gunshot wound to his body and died cm die scene; 19 year-old gunman Jose Holmes who sustained gunshot wounds to his body and is listed in stable condition at nearby hospital; 44-year-old Leonard Bartholomew sustained gunshot wounds to his heel and head and has been released from the hospital; 39-year-old Susan Bartholomew sustained * gunshot wound to her right arm and leg and has been released from the hospital; 17- year-old Leisha Bartholomew was wounded in the abdomen and leg and was treated and released from the hospital.

"Forty-nine-year-old Lance Madison was one of the suspects who ran across the Danziger Bridge along with a second unidentified gunman Madison was seen discarding his handgun into the Industrial Canal. The second suspect continued running to a neaiby mote and was confronted by a New Orleans Police Officer. The suspect reached into his waist and turned toward the officer who fired one shot fatally wounding him. Lance Madison was apprehended a short time later in the same area by the Louisiana State Police.

"When Jose Holmes is released from the hospital, he will be arrested on eight counts of attempted murder of police officers, along with Lance Madison, Leonard Bartholomew, Susan Bartholomew and Leisha Bartholomew were not arrested pending further review as to their involvement; however, the District Attorney is being consulted.

"There is no confirmation that the families of the two decreased suspects were notified. Orleans Parish Coroner's chief investigator John Gagliano will release their names once the families are notified.

"There were separate reports to the police department of sniper fire in the same area. Members of the Louisiana State Police were assisting and were in the process of responding to those reports when the exchange of gunfire began."

For more informative articles, go to www.arcticbeacon.com

Editor's Note: CORRECTION. In the Jan 9, 2006, article about the possibility of the levees being blown, we inadvertently put in the 17th St. Canal levee when we meant the Industrial Canal. The change has been made an we apologize for the error.

Greg Szymanski

 

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INDICATIONS THE HURRICANE KATRINA DISASTER WAS PURPOSELY ALLOWED TO HAPPEN
Monday, January 30, 2006

http://fpidocument.blogspot.com/2006/01/indications-hurricane-katrina-disaster.html

 

[Fuckallyall]

Small scale, interesting. Have you seen the chem trails that blankett the sky. Any given day you can have a web pattern in the sky. Small scale, I doubt it. I just came back from ATL, sat next to an US Army Airborne dude. I ask him about that question of the chemtrails, since we were passing some in the air. Trust me, they are not small scale.

Again, you are thinking with a mind of what you have been taught by others. Again I say, you have no idea what type of power we have, so to say what you continue to say about the sun and the power is very irresponsible. Now, if you do have that Above Top Secret clearance to get that information, that's a different story. But since you are talking on this board like the rest of us, I doubt you do.

Think bigger than this small planet we are on.

The opinion you express is totally illogical, but so is the thinking of most conspiricy theorists.

The "chemtrails" you talk of are no more than exhaust from airplanes. The reason they have become a problem is that air in the Stratosphere moves at a much more stable speed (which makes it take longer to dissapate) & that Stratosheric air does not mingle that much with air from the lower levels of the atmosphere (which make it take longer to come out of the sky). What you are talking about once again is cloud seeding, which is old old news. And speaking to an airborne ranger is not by itself anything. Because if he has his Super-Duper clearance, he aint telling you shit.

And where is your Super-dee-dupper clearance that makes you sooooooo sure your rantings have merit ? I actually do have a Top Secret clearance (SCI) with a few endorsements. That is one of the reasons I don't believe the bullshit you and the other fanticy folks spit from keyboards.

And to call me irresponsible is sheer lunacy when you so often go off on tangents with nothing but your mistrust and paranoia to fuel you !

Also, where are your "original" thoughts. You are doing the exact same thing I and most others do. You observe the research you have done and drawn your own conclusions. To criticize me for what you do as well makes you emotional at best and hypocritical at worst.

Anyway, exhaust has nothing to do with radiation, so unlike you and the Aluminum-Foil-Around-The-Baseball helmet crew, I'm going to go back on topic. Try to follow:

According to what you posted, the microwave arrays that make up HAARP put out 3600 kW. In comparison, the amount of energy the sun puts out is 41,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 kW. The amount the energy the earth gets hit with is 6 THOUSAND TIMES ALL OF THE ENERGY MANKIND HAS PRODUCED !!!. I have read the works of several authors who propose to control the weather. And while I admire thier thinking, we are several quantum leaps away from even trying this bullshit.

Holla back when you get some facts. I don't often disprove negatives.

 

[GET YOU HOT]

Weather control/chem trails have been used and documentation of its use is available...since the 70s and maybe before. It's when things go awray and "they" can't fully contol their manipulation of mother nature that we see enormous amounts of disasters, like last year.

HAARP PATENT OWNER SAYS THEY HAVE ABILITY TO CONTROL THE WEATHER...http://fpiarticle.blogspot.com/2006/01/haarp-patent-owner-says-haarp-has.html

Blacked out area close to HAARP area map

 

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The "chemtrails" you talk of are no more than exhaust from airplanes. The reason they have become a problem is that air in the Stratosphere moves at a much more stable speed (which makes it take longer to dissapate) & that Stratosheric air does not mingle that much with air from the lower levels of the atmosphere (which make it take longer to come out of the sky). What you are talking about once again is cloud seeding, which is old old news. And speaking to an airborne ranger is not by itself anything. Because if he has his Super-Duper clearance, he aint telling you shit.

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[Makeherhappy]

The opinion you express is totally illogical, but so is the thinking of most conspiricy theorists.

The "chemtrails" you talk of are no more than exhaust from airplanes. The reason they have become a problem is that air in the Stratosphere moves at a much more stable speed (which makes it take longer to dissapate) & that Stratosheric air does not mingle that much with air from the lower levels of the atmosphere (which make it take longer to come out of the sky). What you are talking about once again is cloud seeding, which is old old news. And speaking to an airborne ranger is not by itself anything. Because if he has his Super-Duper clearance, he aint telling you shit.

And where is your Super-dee-dupper clearance that makes you sooooooo sure your rantings have merit ? I actually do have a Top Secret clearance (SCI) with a few endorsements. That is one of the reasons I don't believe the bullshit you and the other fanticy folks spit from keyboards.

And to call me irresponsible is sheer lunacy when you so often go off on tangents with nothing but your mistrust and paranoia to fuel you !

Also, where are your "original" thoughts. You are doing the exact same thing I and most others do. You observe the research you have done and drawn your own conclusions. To criticize me for what you do as well makes you emotional at best and hypocritical at worst.

Anyway, exhaust has nothing to do with radiation, so unlike you and the Aluminum-Foil-Around-The-Baseball helmet crew, I'm going to go back on topic. Try to follow:

According to what you posted, the microwave arrays that make up HAARP put out 3600 kW. In comparison, the amount of energy the sun puts out is 41,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 kW. The amount the energy the earth gets hit with is 6 THOUSAND TIMES ALL OF THE ENERGY MANKIND HAS PRODUCED !!!. I have read the works of several authors who propose to control the weather. And while I admire thier thinking, we are several quantum leaps away from even trying this bullshit.

Holla back when you get some facts. I don't often disprove negatives.

It has been researched over and over, but you still say they don't have the technology. YOU ARE IN A SMALL WORLD. A person with a supposed Top Secret clearance, would think a lot larger, than you are thinking.

So I understand, we also designed stealth technology?

 

[Fuckallyall]

It has been researched over and over, but you still say they don't have the technology. YOU ARE IN A SMALL WORLD. A person with a supposed Top Secret clearance, would think a lot larger, than you are thinking.

So I understand, we also designed stealth technology?

By this (il)logic, we also have:
Faster than light transport,
A perpetual motion machine,
The ability to stop aging, cure all cancer, etc.

Research does not always translate into new technology. Shit, sometimes it shows us how far away we actually are from solving a problem.

And as for stealth technology;

A: the concept and some ability, has been around since the early 50's (a russian aerospace engineer wrote the first paper on it)

B: the first sealthy airplane was actually the SR-71 Blackbird in 1963 (I think). And that was a byproduct of it's design, not a desire of design

C: All stealth does is evade a piece of equipment, not alter nature. Don't confuse the two.

And stop with the bullshit pseudo-psychoanalysis. Just because I don't go along with your crackpot theories, doesn't mean I don't think. I was the first person to post shit about bio-diesel on this board, as well as mention that the diesel engine was meant to run on non-petroleum fuels. That was couple of sites ago. You make the very common and mainstream mistake by equating a lack of agreement with a lack of understanding. Especially when I base my opinions on verifiable fact and you base yours on half truths, theory and advertizing.

 

[Makeherhappy]

By this (il)logic, we also have:
Faster than light transport,
A perpetual motion machine,
The ability to stop aging, cure all cancer, etc.

Research does not always translate into new technology. Shit, sometimes it shows us how far away we actually are from solving a problem.

And as for stealth technology;

A: the concept and some ability, has been around since the early 50's (a russian aerospace engineer wrote the first paper on it)

B: the first sealthy airplane was actually the SR-71 Blackbird in 1963 (I think). And that was a byproduct of it's design, not a desire of design

C: All stealth does is evade a piece of equipment, not alter nature. Don't confuse the two.

And stop with the bullshit pseudo-psychoanalysis. Just because I don't go along with your crackpot theories, doesn't mean I don't think. I was the first person to post shit about bio-diesel on this board, as well as mention that the diesel engine was meant to run on non-petroleum fuels. That was couple of sites ago. You make the very common and mainstream mistake by equating a lack of agreement with a lack of understanding. Especially when I base my opinions on verifiable fact and you base yours on half truths, theory and advertizing.

Your answer has summed up everything. I posed the question about stealth technology to see your answer.

YOU ARE A DISINFORMER!!!

 

[Fuckallyall]

Your answer has summed up everything. I posed the question about stealth technology to see your answer.

YOU ARE A DISINFORMER!!!

Actually I try to be a dis-disinformer. Don't get mad, get educated.

 

[Makeherhappy]

Actually I try to be a dis-disinformer. Don't get mad, get educated.

 

[GET YOU HOT]

F.Y.I. THE LAST LINE OF THE BILL'S STATUS:

Status: Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from DOD. (DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE)

DOCUMENT:

Space Preservation Act of 2001 (Introduced in House)

HR 2977 IH


107th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 2977
To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.


IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

October 2, 2001


(III) by expelling chemical or biological agents in the vicinity of a person.

(B) Such terms include exotic weapons systems such as--

(i) electronic, psychotronic, or information weapons;

(ii) chemtrails;

(iii) high altitude ultra low frequency weapons systems;

(iv) plasma, electromagnetic, sonic, or ultrasonic weapons;

(v) laser weapons systems;

(vi) strategic, theater, tactical, or extraterrestrial weapons; and

(vii) chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons.

(C) The term `exotic weapons systems' includes weapons designed to damage space or natural ecosystems (such as the ionosphere and upper atmosphere) or climate, weather, and tectonic systems with the purpose of inducing damage or destruction upon a target population or region on earth or in space.


STATUS:
H.R.2977
Title: To preserve the cooperative, peaceful uses of space for the benefit of all humankind by permanently prohibiting the basing of weapons in space by the United States, and to require the President to take action to adopt and implement a world treaty banning space-based weapons.

Sponsor: Rep Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] (introduced 10/2/2001) Cosponsors (None)

Latest Major Action: 4/19/2002 House committee/subcommittee actions.

Status: Unfavorable Executive Comment Received from DOD.



SOURCE: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?c107:chemtrails

 

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9th Ward

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Ok, now i have read the thread fuckyou tried to associate me with, Chinese Marfia cause Hurricane Katrina, so funny i had never read it or seen it before today, ill stick to my theory

 

[the_ghost917]

w o w

 

[QueEx]

Bumped on 2nd Anniversary

 

[orange roughy]

Bumped on 2nd Anniversary

man, I forgot about this post. I think it went awry from the original intent, but lots of good discussions since.

I spoke with a firend here in Detroit, which is under the federal order regarding the DEtroit Police, and there was a similar order in NOLA at the time. I don't think the gov't necessarily had something to do with the Hurricane, but used it as a cover to "clean up" some of what they perceived as corrupt folks. Unfortunately the NOLA police might ahve been better prepared and ready for 'em.

Hae not looked into this for a while, will try to beat this drum again soon...

OR

 

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Blackwater Operations in New Orleans...

 

[Crank_It_Up]

Katakana must be right, he uses the largest fonts

After I retired from the FBI, I've been having trouble with my guilty conscious. Now I realize I shouldn't have helped the CIA smuggle all that coke into the country to destroy all non-whites. I guess I shouldn't have blown up the towers to get the insurance money, or rigged the computers to elect Bush, or bribed all those state officials to use blacktop instead of concrete (it's a white thing, we just love to walk on blacktop), but you probably never heard of that conspiracy, but now you have. If you don't believe me I'll just keep posting it in a larger font until you do.

It all started back in elementary school, we were given mind altering drugs that had been slipped into the cafeteria food. It made us hate blacks. Later, we were recruited by the government to help them implement their schemes to keep the black man down.

But after reading Katakana's posts, I just can't keep silent any longer. Forgive me Katakana, the devil made me do it.

 

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^^ENGORGED^^

we all make mistakes, yet not all learn from them,
everyone lies, everyone makes bad disicions,
you have to learn from them, and deal with your decisions,
thats such an important skill you have to have in life,
because people who don't have that all ways make the same mistake over, and over again,
it's for the worlds own good.
and the ones who always falter,
are the ones looked down upon by the rest,
the ones who make nothing of themselves,
the ones who will never prevail and live life to the fullest.

I wish we would all learn from the past,
everything about it, maybe then life would be more filling,
everyone would deal with shit,
learn from it and become bigger stronger independent people.

lets start a chain.
ready, go.

Posted by mowwy at 7:00 PM

 

[orange roughy]

what's been going on with the new governor and how's the reconstruction going for black folks?

 

[Imhotep]

damn.............