Katrina: beachhead of the New World Order

by **Peachtree Pam** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:13 pm

The Siege of New Orleans; a beachhead for the new world order Mike Whitney September 6, 2005 "We have been abandoned by our own country.Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial." Aaron Broussard "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act". George Orwell Neither the Mainstream media nor the alternative-Leftist web sites have told the truth about what really happened in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. For the people of the region it was the greatest natural catastrophe they'd ever faced. For the Bush administration it was just another opportunity to use fear and anarchy to advance their global agenda. The administration intentionally withheld desperately needed aid to force Governor Kathleen Blanco into surrendering control of the National Guard and local police to federal authority. On this point there can be no doubt. This explains why neither FEMA, nor Homeland Security nor the Pentagon lifted a finger to help the distraught townspeople until almost 4 full days later. They were too preoccupied using vital supplies as bargaining chips to bribe the governor into submission. The Bush administration's goal was to dismantle regional defenses and militarize a major port city; an ambition they still have not abandoned. The Katrina disaster provided the cover for the Pentagon to launch military operations against US citizens for the first time in modern history. This is the real story that underscores the negligence and bungling; the rest is just fluff. The strategy that was applied to New Orleans is being used across the country to undermine local preparedness so that Rumsfeld can insert the military into domestic affairs. Within this schema, we can see how the calculated destruction of the National Guard (40% of who are overseas) works perfectly with the goals of the defense establishment and the corporate oligarchy it represents. In the next few days we can expect to see an intensive media campaign to divert attention from what really took place, but the facts are clear. As Mr. Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parrish, LA said on Meet the Press: "We had Wal-mart deliver three trucks of water. Trailer trucks of water. FEMA turned them back, said we didn't need them. This was a week go. We had 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a coast guard vessel docked in my parish. The coast guard said come get the fuel right way. When we got there with our trucks, they got a word, FEMA says don't give you the fuel. Yesterday, yesterday, FEMA comes in and cuts all our emergency communications lines. They cut them without notice." FEMA, which is supposed to work as a federal relief agency for major natural disasters, was functioning entirely as an intermediary for the Defense Dept to subvert relief efforts to force the Governor to capitulate. It is as close to a military-coup as we have ever seen in America. The stories of how FEMA tried to sabotage aid and communications are too numerous to record here, but they will undoubtedly surface over time on the internet. The fact is, however, that FEMA was simply executing a larger plan to undermine operations and pave the way for a military take-over of all relief-related activities. That would serve as a tacit invitation for the first military occupation of an American city. The excuses provided in the New York Times, Washington Post and the other media are all rubbish. The emphasis on looting is a particularly heinous "racist" invention of the Bush administration to shift the blame from their criminal behavior. Even well-meaning liberal pundits and analysts, who have lambasted the administration for "lacking leadership" or for their "ham-fisted methods" of addressing the tragedy, are missing the point. New Orleans was the site of a massive military operation designed to seize and pacify a major port city in the American heartland. The people who needlessly died while the operation was blocked by the Governor give us a good idea of the price the Pentagon is willing to pay to achieve its goals. The Red Cross has already admitted that they were deliberately prevented from going into the city where they could have attended to the sick and hungry. So, too, the National Guard was ordered not to give the city people food or water. One Guardsman who appeared on national TV admitted to giving water to an elderly woman who refused to evacuate her home said on camera, "It's against the rules, but I gave her water". FEMA deliberately withheld water to the people at the convention center because (and I paraphrase the head of the Red Cross) "If we give them water they won't leave." (A note on FEMA: FEMA has been effectively gutted and has neither the ability nor the resources to address major natural catastrophes. It has been subsumed into a bureaucracy that has no intention of saving American lives or property when disaster strikes. The money has been sluiced off into other areas of Homeland Security where it is used to spy on American citizens or pay-off the constituents of the administration. This explains why Bush put an incompetent bungler like Michael Brown in charge. He has no real power. The real authority over disaster-management now falls under the Defense Dept.) The orders from Washington (which were articulated on many of the major TV news feeds) were to "Empty the city, Cut off communications between the citizenry, and Protect private property." Much of this has already been confirmed in the Broussard statement. The zeal with which the Defense Dept approached the siege of New Orleans is truly impressive. Journalist Wayne Madsen reports that the military was involved in jamming New Orleans's communications. "The emitter is an IF (Intermediate Frequency) jammer that is operating south-southwest of New Orleans on board a US Navy ship, according to an anonymous source. The jamming is cross-spectrum and interfering with supereterodyne receiver components, including the emergency radios being used in New Orleans relief efforts." Madsen's report coincides with another report from Democracy Now's Sharif Abdel Kouddous in New Orleans: "Well Amy, Saturday and Sunday, there was a large number of troops here: Marines, U.S. Coast Guard, National Guard, there's hummers everywhere, everyone is armed with assault rifles. And I think that what many people don't realize is that New Orleans has really become a militarized zone. I think this is the fault and the major error that has occurred with many of the relief operations here is that they weren't relief operations. They were militarized -- you know, there's a curfew set at 6:00 p.m. in New Orleans and especially in the poorer neighborhoods. If you walked out after 6:00 p.m., you would get shot." Kouddous report provides a chilling insight into the reality of the New Orleans siege. The operation currently taking place is only slightly different from similar maneuvers in Baghdad or Kabul; the fundamental principles are the same. If we were to see some indication of coordinated rebellion, like an armed uprising of New Orleans drug addicts firing on troops, the situation would quickly degenerate into a Falluja-type scenario, with Rumsfeld closing down the entire region to the media and devastating vast swaths of the city to crush the "indigenous terrorists". There's nothing accidental about the current developments on the ground. The orders are clear: "Empty the city, Cut off communications between the citizenry, and Protect private property." The result is a massive ethnic cleansing operation that will displace tens of thousands of poor, black residents and pave the way for Halliburton and other major Bush contributors to rebuild the city at taxpayer expense. This is the clearest illustration of class-based warfare we have seen to date, but we expect more will follow. The Bush administration has established its first domestic beachhead in the "Big Easy", where 50,000 fully-armed troops now patrol the streets giving us our first unobstructed-view of New World Order.

by **seemslikeadream** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:20 pm

The administration intentionally withheld desperately needed aid to force Governor Kathleen Blanco into surrendering control of the National Guard and local police to federal authority. On this point there can be no doubt. This explains why neither FEMA, nor Homeland Security nor the Pentagon lifted a finger to help the distraught townspeople until almost 4 full days later. They were too preoccupied using vital supplies as bargaining chips to bribe the governor into submission. The Bush administration's goal was to dismantle regional defenses and militarize a major port city; an ambition they still have not abandoned. The Katrina disaster provided the cover for the Pentagon to launch military operations against US citizens for the first time in modern history. This is the real story that underscores the negligence and bungling; the rest is just fluff. ... The Bush administration has established its first domestic beachhead in the "Big Easy", where 50,000 fully-armed troops now patrol the streets giving us our first unobstructed-view of New World Order.

by **Peachtree Pam** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:32 pm

for the emphasis. I was determined to find out the REAL reason for the deliberate effort to kill the people of NO. Now we have it.

by **seemslikeadream** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:33 pm

Dr. Jeff Masters' WunderBlog Last Updated: 1:23 AM GMT on September 05, 2005 <a href="http://www.weatherunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=94&tstamp=200509" target="top">www.weatherunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=94&tstamp=200509</a> In comments on Thursday, Sep. 1, in an interview with Diane Sawyer of ABC News, President George W. Bush said, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm. But these levees got breached." In comments to the press on Sep. 3, Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff remarked, "That 'perfect storm' of a combination of catastrophes exceeded the foresight of the planners, and maybe anybody's foresight", and called the disaster "breathtaking in its surprise." It's not our fault," said Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honore, in charge of the deployment of National Guard troops in New Orleans. "The storm came and flooded the city." In other words, Katrina was an Act of God no one could have foreseen, and the politicians we elected to protect us from disaster are not responsible for the unimaginable horror we have witnessed this week. A horror unimagined by anyone, except by every hurricane scientist and government emergency management official for the past forty years and more. It was a certainty that New Orleans would suffer a catastrophe like this. Every 70 years, on average, the central Gulf Coast has a Category 4 or 5 hurricane pass within 80 miles of a given point. Sometimes you get lucky--for a while. New Orleans had gone over 150 years without a strike by a hurricane capable of overwhelming the levees. Sometimes you get unlucky. There's no guarantee that New Orleans won't get hit by another major hurricane this year. We are in the midst of an extraordinary period of hurricane activity, the likes of which has not been seen in recorded history. Hurricanes Ivan and Dennis, which both had storm surges capable of breaching the levees in New Orleans, smashed into Pensacola in the past year. Either of these storms could have destroyed New Orleans, had they taken a slight wobble westward earlier in their track. Hurricanes are an inescapable part of nature's way on the Gulf Coast. Nature doesn't care about tax cuts and fiscal years and budget crunches. Nature doesn't care that a city of 500,000 people situated below sea level lies in its path. It was certain that New Orleans would sooner or later get hit by a hurricane that would breach the levees. How could the director of Homeland Security not be familiar with this huge threat to the security of this nation? How could the President not know? How could all the presidents and politicians we elected, from Eisenhower to Clinton, not know? The answer is that they all knew. But the politicians we elect don't care about the poor people in New Orleans, because poor people don't have a lobbyist in Washington. The poor people don't make big campaign contributions, and those big campaign contributions are vital to getting elected. In all of the Congressional and Presidential races held over the past ten years, over 90% were won by the candidate that raised the most money. snip ...Our elected officials won't care for the poor, as long as it is the rich who determine who get elected. What can we do to help prevent such a disaster from recurring? Well, I encourage all of you to support election reform initiatives such as public campaign financing and Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) over the coming years. Maybe then I can check a box to vote for a candidate who will actually care for the needs of the poor in New Orleans and elsewhere in this county, instead of the usual "lesser of two evils" from the miserable two-party system that let thousands die and tens of thousands more suffer so unbearably. -- more -- It also includes the fact that the National Weather Service was able to tell New Orleans on FRIDAY that it would hit there on MONDAY -- 60 hours in advance (longer than I myself had remembered, tho it was just a little iffier on Friday than it was on Saturday -- by Saturday they were all pretty darned sure of themselves). Unfortuantely, we know that Mayor Nagin didn't give a mandatory evacuation order until Sunday, just 20 hours before landfall. Masters says that if Katrina had hit NO head on, no one in the SuperDome or Convention Center would have survived. And he spends considerable time talking about the numbers -- what it takes to evacuate 100,000 people. And the fact that NO ordered 10,000 body bags for this disaster.

by **DrDebugDU** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:45 pm

<blockquote>Quote:<hr>"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees. They did anticipate a serious storm. But these levees got breached."<hr></blockquote> There was an official warning to the FEMA mentioning the possibility of levees breach. <blockquote>Quote:<hr> WTNT32 KNHC 282041 TCPAT2 BULLETIN HURRICANE KATRINA ADVISORY NUMBER 24 NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 4 PM CDT SUN AUG 28 2005 ...POTENTIALLY CATASTROPHIC HURRICANE KATRINA HEADED FOR THE NORTHERN GULF COAST... (...) COASTAL STORM SURGE FLOODING OF 18 TO 22 FEET ABOVE NORMAL TIDE LEVELS...LOCALLY AS HIGH AS 28 FEET...ALONG WITH LARGE AND DANGEROUS BATTERING WAVES...CAN BE EXPECTED NEAR AND TO THE EAST OF WHERE THE CENTER MAKES LANDFALL. SOME LEVEES IN THE GREATER NEW ORLEANS AREA COULD BE OVERTOPPED. SIGNIFICANT STORM SURGE FLOODING WILL OCCUR ELSEWHERE ALONG THE CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO COAST.RAINFALL TOTALS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES...WITH ISOLATED MAXIMUM AMOUNTS OF 15 INCHES...ARE POSSIBLE ALONG THE PATH OF KATRINA ACROSS THE GULF COAST AND THE TENNESSEE VALLEY. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 4 TO 8 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY INTO THE EASTERN GREAT LAKES REGION TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. (...) <a href="http://dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/9/6/3840/39445">dailykos.com/storyonly/20...3840/39445</a> <hr></blockquote>

by **seemslikeadream** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:56 pm

<a href="http://www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=1010" target="top">www.informationliberation.com/index.php?id=1010</a> Firefighters not deployed: Told to STAND BESIDE BUSH on his PR tour! As New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin pleaded on national television for firefighters - his own are exhausted after working around the clock for a week - a battalion of highly trained men and women sat idle Sunday in a muggy Sheraton Hotel conference room in Atlanta. Many of the firefighters, assembled from Utah and throughout the United States by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, thought they were going to be deployed as emergency workers. Instead, they have learned they are going to be community-relations officers for FEMA, shuffled throughout the Gulf Coast region to disseminate fliers and a phone number: 1-800-621-FEMA. ...... But as specific orders began arriving to the firefighters in Atlanta, a team of 50 Monday morning quickly was ushered onto a flight headed for Louisiana. The crew's first assignment: to stand beside President Bush as he tours devastated areas.

by **seemslikeadream** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:08 pm

On Oprah's show from Dallas, a doctor told her that they are leaving dying patients in the MORGUE to die. If there's nothing they can do, they just take them to the morgue and leave them to die...alone, no family with them. <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4665839">www.democraticunderground...04x4665839</a>

by **human** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:17 pm

they arent just going to take it.... that wont work. they need to fuck up so badly that people DEMAND that they take it.... but then again, i dont think New Orleans should be looked at as a strategic land grab.... its more like convince people we need MORE homeland security, we need to ease restrictions on domestic military actions, we need to centralize power in the federal government (out of the states hands) and we need a national ID (but since all these medical & lost papers & seperated families, it sure would be easiest to just have a implanted microchip) i dont think this is as drastic as the military wants a port. come on, think rational a little bit..... the military can already use whatever port they want, big business & especially oil, ALREADY has the N.O. port on lock.... definitly capitilize on the opportnity to rid themselves of a few undesireables (poor, black & elderly) and at the same time hype up the race issue, there is a race war brewing (more like we have been in the midst of a race war for years, rich white folks just prefer using "quiet" weapons)... but they didnt "pick" N.O. for this op, it could have been put into effect in any situation, Miami, Los Angeles, New York wherever.... they didnt just fail to plan, they planned to fail... that was part 1 aka problem. reaction is what everyone is bugging about now. solution, i outlined IMO, above. one human?

by **human** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:21 pm

and also, i wouldnt be suprised to see Bush & Co. take the fall for this one.... after months of arguing, they may end up getting tossed out.... but things will procede as planned, and then it will be with the anti war movement's head totally chopped off because they have spent way too much time focusing on Bush. Bush & Co. has always been, and is right now a smokescreen. lets just say the folks running the show are non-partisan....

by **DrDebugDU** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:24 pm

> ALREADY has the N.O. port on lock That's another point which people haven't discussed yet and that is what will the impact be of losing the New Orleans Harbor, because it is the major transport hub for commodities (and especially food) from Central and South America. The problem with commodities is that they need to be transported at the lowest possible costs and that means using ships for international trade. Ports are still very imporant. More goods are transported internationally by ship than by plane. That means that commodities like fruit, coffee etc. will become more expensive...

by **Starman** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:25 pm

Thanks Pam -- An excellant to-the-point conclusion and summation by Whitney. Like many others I suspect, I've come to much of the same realiziation. In my case, I've been trying to identify the basic issues and describe the essence, but Whitney did it so much better than I probably could have. The images of tens of thousands of assualt-rifle-carrying and battle-armoured puppeteer US troops occupying a mostly-abandoned ghost-city that was essentially sabotaged and poisoned by the US Corporate-wealth/Military Death Industry is ominously chilling. Every time I hear the word 'looting' it sets my teeth on edge. The enormous fraud and betrayal perpetrated on the US public by the parasticial, murderous Bush-fronted regime is so utterly horrible I'm at a loss for words that really speak my mind. This MUST be a wake-up call for all of us who have seen the signs and see thru the propaganda BS the masses of domesticated, controlled sheeple are apparently decieved by. New Orleans has become our taste of Fallujah hell -- a legacy of the Bush New World Order killing fields now visited on our shores. I suppose the Bush Gang 'found' and exploited their planned domestic-terrorism weapon of Mass Destruction. Starman

by **human** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:35 pm

starman, i know its a hypothetical, but do you think this would be any less of a disaster with bonesman kerry in the white house? i ask because i really dont see it as a "Bush New World Order"..... and i think thats a spin that will be put on heavy cycle in the near future... we have to always remember to look beyond Bush & Co..... the problem is way bigger than that... one human?

by **human** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 6:40 pm

i just remembered its called the WHITE house.... but word, its not all of a sudden a racist genocide policy of the Bush Administration.... shit is old school like conquistadors...

by **Starman** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 3:33 am

No, that is, I agree -- If anything, I think Kerry was long bought-and-sold -- Bush's 'connection' to the New World Order agenda is (of course) as a functionary front-man -- Wierd that I'd get called onnit (rightly), as I'm quite aware that the REAL 'issue' of institutionalized looting and abuse of power and corruptio and fraud goes waaaay-beyond the figurehead of Bush or of Poppy, they are but the mosre vidual, evident attributes of a thoroughly evil, sick, twisted, bureaucracy of neocon exploitation linked with the military and corporations, International Banks and 'Defense' Industry, Pharma, Security/Intel/smuggling networks, agribusiness and etc. I've often been tempted myself to add remarks on this forum re: to try to make this more explicit or 'correct' the seeming top-billing evidence that is often seen, where Bush is targetted as the 'leader' of the Globalist Concpiracy -- I 'usually' try to be more accurate and qualify my statements, but admit in this instance I used the shorthand convention, I think in some mental/emotional exhaustion. Part of the 'problem' is lacmking a common, well0understood convention to properly identify just *what* we are talking about when we refer to the evident deeply-extended conspiracy of fraud in a parapolitical context. So, I often refer to the Bush Gang or Bush Inc. or, lately, the parasitical corporate/military-robber-baron syndicate -- Do you have a good candidate term for the Internationalist NWO plutocracy? (Is, 'INWOP'?) I'm open to suggestions. I stopped-in today to pay and talked with my French-emigre American-citizen Internet Service Provider owner/manager -- a pretty nice guy, keeps me running with hand-me-down computers, has a cosmopolitan good-natured attitude but is not too savvy about world-events behind-the-scenes, is an Ann Rand-style Free-Market Capitalist subject to pop-culture disinfo-propaganda (useful to know such folks as a bellweather for social-programming) -- while talking to him about some of my thoughts and observations re: our one-world dictatorship and history of American interference around the wortld for 'National Security' to support a corrupt system of super-wealth and power that contradicts basic american principles of social and economic justice, human rights and equitable wealth-participation, I *heard* how strange I must have sounded to him, commenting on the institutionalization of US elite's criminal fraud, on the Bush Dynasty long links to cocaine smuggling, Bush 41 linked to cuban-counterterrorism and mafia/CIA complicity in JFK assassination, Bush Family and some 500 US companies that traded with Hitler's Germany, re: the economic treason that profitted from war, America's history of neocolonial exploitation via Economic Hitmen/UMF/World Bank debt-peonage schemes, keeping third-world in subject dependency with, for instance, 50 percent of Ecuador's GDP going to pay International Banks, keeping the nations' citizens poor and economy depressed -- and yet, the ruinous contracts are illegal because they don't benefit the citizenry, as the contracts were agreed to by illegitimate leaders, coerced and intimidated or replaced by coup/assassination brokered by US and its covert dirty-deal partners -- and so on and so forth. It probably would have helped if I had a convenient, all-encompassing way to refer to the US/global elite conspiracy of fraud that Bush/Clinton/Gore/Kerry are all part of, instead of trying to 'explain' the bits and pieces of how the world works as I'm aware of it -- and still trying to understand it better. Talking with folks like him, I'm often reminded of how enormously screwed-up our 'system' is, as we're now racing towards confronting Russia and China over control of resources -- and on and on. Sorry to ramble ... Best (ennyway!); Starman

by **AnnaLivia** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 5:19 am

who is insane and who is not? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We daily despise and deride the power-hungry, filthy rich for their utter lack of a single moral virtue, yet we as a society place no limit on wealthpower, and expect them to resist temptation. "Oh hell, here comes our funeral. Let us pry, for our missed understandings."

Katrina: beachhead of the New World Order

Katrina: beachhead of the New World Order

Re:50,000 fully-armed troops now patrol

Thanks, SLaD

Re: Re:KATRINA: "The plan was to let them die"

Re: Re:KATRINA: "The plan was to let them die"

Re: Firefighters not deployed: STAND BESIDE BUSH PR TOUR

Re:They are leaving patients in the MORGUE to die.

fail to plan -> plan to fail

and also...

Re: fail to plan -> plan to fail

Re: Katrina: Beachhead of New World Order

but starman...

oops..

one human? re: "Bush New World Order"

Re: one human? re: "Bush New World Order"

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