New World Orleans: Microcosm for the "New America"
Special report on the elite police state takeover
Steve Watson | September 5 2005
http://infowars.net/Pages/Sept05/050905New_World_Orleans.htm
Imagine an America where everyone is displaced. It's survival of the
fittest as all law and order has broken down. Martial law has been
declared with 24 hr curfews, Posse Comitatus has been overturned and
there are troops on the streets shooting anyone who disobeys their
orders. Thousands and thousands of people are starving but the
authorities will not allow aid in any significant amounts. Large
crowds are quelled with the use of sonic lasers, whilst overhead
drone aircraft monitor the area, checking for any anomalous activity.
Any form of Local and State government has been abandoned and
officials have been forcibly removed against their wills. The elite
infiltrators of the Federal Government watch on from afar, in control
of everything, answering to no one and getting fat off the profits of
their own corrupt inactivity which brought about the situation in the
first instance. They like it that way, it suits them down to the
ground, why should they do anything to improve the situation?
This is the nightmare situation of a New World Order takeover in
America. It is what we have been warning the world about for years.
It is no longer some distant possibility on the horizon that our
children may have to endure and fight against, it is here, it is now.
New Orleans is a testing ground for this exact scenario, all this is
going on there now. We are witnessing in New Orleans, the
construction of a microcosm for a "New America" and a New World Order.
The overriding issue that is simply being ignored by the mainstream
media is that it was the federal government itself that lowered the
guard in cutting off key funding to protect Louisiana from natural disasters.
The New Orleans district of the US Army Corps of Engineers bore the
brunt of a record $71.2 million reduction in federal funding for
fiscal year 2006.
The Army Corps of Engineers sought $105 million for hurricane and
flood programs in New Orleans, while the White House slashed the
request to about $40 million. Congress finally approved $42.2
million, less than half of the agency's request
The Bush administration has been cutting funding for federal disaster
relief funds since 2001 while doubling funding in other areas to pump
up the biggest growth in government for decades, easily outstripping
that of Bill Clinton.
A report from the Best of New Orleans news website outlines the details.
"...Among emergency specialists, 'mitigation' -- the measures taken
in advance to minimize the damage caused by natural disasters -- is a
crucial part of the strategy to save lives and cut recovery costs.
But since 2001, key federal disaster mitigation programs, developed
over many years, have been slashed and tossed aside. FEMA's Project
Impact, a model mitigation program created by the Clinton
administration, has been canceled outright. Federal funding of
post-disaster mitigation efforts designed to protect people and
property from the next disaster has been cut in half. Communities
across the country must now compete for pre-disaster mitigation dollars."
The Bush administration's move to merge FEMA with Homeland Security
meant that the two had to compete for funding. Straightforward
projects that would have massively reduced the devastation we are now
seeing, such as raising houses, were cast aside in favor of
anti-terrorism measures.
In early 2001, FEMA issued a report stating that a hurricane striking
New Orleans was one of the three most likely disasters in U.S.,
including a terrorist attack on New York City!. "The New Orleans
hurricane scenario," The Houston Chronicle wrote in December 2001,
"may be the deadliest of all." But by 2003 the federal funding for
the flood control project essentially dried up as it was drained into
the Iraq war.
Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish,
Louisiana was quoted on June 8, 2004 in the New Orleans
Times-Picayune, as saying "It appears that the money has been moved
in the president's budget to handle homeland security and the war in
Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy
that the levees can't be finished, and we are doing everything we can
to make the case that this is a security issue for us".
Ultimately, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is directed, along with
15 other agencies, by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. "It is
FEMA who is really calling the shots and setting priorities here,"
Lt. Gen. Carl A. Strock, commander of the corps has said.
Much of the Netherlands lies below sea level and after the 1953 flood
which killed 1,800 people, the Dutch launched a major flood
prevention program called the Delta Plan. Engineers fortified dykes
and bolstered other water defenses against a future disaster and
there hasn't been one since. Had a similar project been in place for
New Orleans and had Bush not cut the funding, the misery and turmoil
being visited on that area would have been avoided.
Not only is the Bush Administration directly responsible for the
ferocity of this disaster, the blame also lies with Clinton. 10 years
ago, the Clinton administration cut 98 flood control projects,
including one in New Orleans, saying such efforts should be local
projects, not national.
A $120 million hurricane project, approved and financed annually from
1965 was killed by the Clinton administration after being approved by
the Army Corps of Engineers. It was designed to protect more than
140,000 West Bank residents east of the Harvey Canal.
The New York Times has reported that there were vivid reasons to push
for the greatest level of protection. One was Hurricane Betsy, a
midgrade storm that swamped much of New Orleans in 1965. In 1969,
Hurricane Camille, the second-most-powerful Atlantic storm recorded,
passed within 60 miles and demolished the Mississippi coast.
Bob Sheets, a meteorologist who directed the National Hurricane
Center until retiring in 1995, has said that he and other federal
forecasters gave hundreds of talks about storm risks, and New Orleans
was always the case study for catastrophe since the 1970s. He has
said of the city officials: "Essentially they did nothing."
Despite all this, In an interview on Thursday the 1st September, on
"Good Morning America," President Bush said, "I don't think anyone
anticipated the breach of the levees."
Furthermore, the mainstream media, despite several reports emerging
to the contrary, republished Bush's comments. The New York Times
declared that "The response will be dissected for years. But on
Thursday, disaster experts and frustrated officials said a crucial
shortcoming may have been the failure to predict that the levees
keeping Lake Pontchartrain out of the city would be breached, not
just overflow."
This April 2005 article in Popular Science proves that Bush's
comments were grossly inaccurate. "At 20 feet below sea level, new
Orleans is a prime target. An ambitious new levee system would
decrease the risk."
As World Net Daily reported, a year ago, New Orleans reviewed its
hurricane disaster plans after Hurricane Ivan gave the city a major
scare forcing the evacuation of nearly 1 million people from the
area. Governor Kathleen Blanco and Mayor Ray Nagin both acknowledged
after the Ivan near miss they needed a better evacuation plan.
Even the AP noted at the time, "New Orleans dodged the knockout punch
many feared from the hurricane, but the storm exposed what some say
are significant flaws in the Big Easy's civil disaster plans." The
big flaws were that there simply were no civil disaster plans and
FEMA had no intention of developing any.
So it is clear that Officials at the Army Corps of Engineers and
emergency managers and hurricane experts knew for years, that the
levees surrounding the New Orleans area were built to withstand only
a relatively weak Category 3 hurricane. Hurricane Katrina, a Category
4 mega-storm, thus had devastating consequences. Still funding was
slashed and the disaster was allowed to happen.
When The Levee Breaks I'll have no place to stay
In the aftermath of the disaster it has become obvious that the
Government has no interest in alleviating the suffering and helping
to restore civility in the region.
In particular FEMA, which has endlessly drilled for such situations,
has been a key hindrance. After the authorities in Baton Rouge had
prepared a field hospital for victims of the storm, FEMA sent its
first batch of supplies, all of which were designed for use against
chemical attack, including drugs such as Cipro, which is designed for
use against anthrax. The London Guardian reported, "We called them up
and asked them: 'Why did you send that, and they said that's what it
says in the book'," said a Baton Rouge official.
Yet don't think for one second that FEMA is simply incompetent. FEMA
is criminally negligent. FEMA has done nothing to aid the situation,
in fact according to Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard,
Federal bureaucrats have 'Murdered' the Flood Victims in New Orleans.
Broussard stated on Meet The Press that " We have been abandoned by
our own country." He broke down in tears as he described how FEMA has
cut emergency communication lines and has been turning back fuel and
water supplies being sent by outside agencies such as Wal Mart. This
is because the Federal Government wants complete control over the
situation. Broussard, speaking through his tears re-iterated
"nobody's coming to get us, nobody's coming...for God's sake shut up
and send somebody."
Even American Red Cross officials have said that FEMA authorities
would not allow them to deliver aid. "The Homeland Security
Department has requested and continues to request that the American
Red Cross not come back into New Orleans," said Renita Hosler,
spokeswoman for the Red Cross.
Even Jack Cafferty, the CNN anchor known for his straight-talking,
has declared: "I remember the riots in Watts. I remember the
earthquake in San Francisco. I remember a lot of things. I have never
seen anything as badly handled as this situation in New Orleans.
Where the hell is the water for these people? Why can't sandwiches be
dropped to those people in that Superdome down there? It's a
disgrace. And don't think the world isn't watching."
Former FEMA officials have admitted that Government disaster
officials had an action plan if a major hurricane hit New Orleans.
They simply didn't execute it when Hurricane Katrina struck. Ronald
Castleman, the former regional director for the Federal Emergency
Management Agency and John Copenhaver, a former FEMA regional
director during the Clinton administration who led the response to
Hurricane Floyd in 1999, said they were bewildered by the slow FEMA response.
We even have blogs from former New Orleans residents who have managed
to get to safety. One exclaiming that:
"There are supplies sitting in Baton Rouge for the folks in New
Orleans, but the National Guard has the city surrounded and is not
letting anyone in or out. They are turning away people with
s[QUOTE]upplies, claiming it is too dangerous...Our goverment is
KILLING the people of New Orleans. This is the message I am now
sending to all major media sources, national and worldwide, as well
as posting to email lists, blogs, etc. The story is getting out that
the people there are not getting supplies, but the truth of WHY is not. "
The LA Times interviewed a survivor who said, "The only thing the
authorities have given us is a bunch of false hope,". she had
survived Tuesday through Friday on scavenged scraps of food inside
the cavernous hall. "They just left us here to die."
The Federal response was further criticised by New Orleans deputy
police commander W.S. Riley who reported to AFP that Guardsmen
'played cards' as the chaos unfolded and many were dying. He stated
that for three days there was no assistance. "The guard arrived 48
hours after the hurricane with 40 trucks. They drove their trucks in
and went to sleep."
There have also been suggestions that part of the levee around N.O.
was dynamited after the first section broke in an attempt to prevent
Uptown (the rich part of town) from being flooded. Apparently they
used too much dynamite, thus flooding part of the Bywater.
Reports and comments from officials today have indicated that
President Bush's visit is nothing more than a staged photo op.
ZDF News reported that the president's visit was a completely staged
event. Their crew witnessed how the open air food distribution point
Bush visited in front of the cameras was torn down immediately after
the president and the herd of 'news people' had left and that others
which were allegedly being set up were abandoned at the same time.
The people in the area were once again left to fend for themselves,
said ZDF. [War And Piece]
"2 minutes ago the President drove past in his convoy. But what has
happened in Biloxi all day long is truly unbelievable. Suddenly
recovery units appeared, suddenly bulldozers were there, those hadn't
been seen here all the days before, and this in an area, in which it
really wouldn't be necessary to do a big clean up, because far and
wide nobody lives here anymore, the people are more inland in the
city...The extent of the natural disaster shocked me, but the extent
of the staging is shocking me at least the same way. With that back
to Hamburg." [Daily Kos]
White House officials do not deny that they craft elaborate events to
showcase Bush, but they maintain that these events are designed to
accurately dramatize his policies and to convey qualities about him
that are real.
The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has called for the firing of FEMA
director Michael Brown and has heavily criticized the government for
its awful response.
Jefferson Parish President Aaron Broussard, despite his break down on
Meet The Press, also stated that "FEMA needs more congressional
funding. It needs more presidential support . . . FEMA needs to be
empowered to do the things it was created to do."
FEMA is now simply a federalized front group for the corrupt money
hoarding Department of Homeland Security, the Orwellian titled agency
that has nothing to do with security and everything to do with
limiting the freedoms of people all over the country. Local officials
no longer have any authority and have been forcibly evacuated, even
despite the fact that they wished to stay and oversee the recovery efforts.
Mayor Nagin has also said that the National Guard's Blackhawk
helicopter carrying the sandbags to plug the hole in the levee on
17th St. Canal was intentionally diverted away. Nagin was quoted as
demanding to federal officials "Get Off Your Asses And Do Something".
Nagin is clearly paranoid about the whole situation, is running
around playing the part of the good cop to FEMA's bad cop. This sets
the table for FEMA to sweep in and heroically save the day at a later
date. Nagin has also warned "If the CIA slips me something and next
week you don't see me, you'll all know what happened."
Martial law was declared in New Orleans midday Tuesday 30th August.
Posse Comitatus has been overturned and the National Guard has
authorization to shoot and kill anyone they deem to be "hoodlums".
Governor Kathleen Blanco has declared that "These troops are fresh
back from Iraq, well trained, experienced, battle tested and under my
orders to restore order in the streets,".
This is a microcosm of the New America. The LA Times reported that
"their mission simply, is to turn New Orleans into a police State -
to "regain the city" as 1st Sgt. John Jewell has said. Police have
been ordered to stop saving lives and start saving property by
shooting anyone who attempt to get food and water. The police are
looting themselves to stay alive whilst the ordinary people are
starving. This is the new police state America.
Some of the most sophisticated military equipment used in the Iraq
war to quell the insurgency is now being used in New Orleans. We have
continually highlighted how such equipment was developed specifically
for domestic use and now this has come to pass. Five Silver Fox
"unmanned aerial vehicles," or UAVs, equipped with thermal imaging
technology to detect the body heat of storm survivors, have been
deployed in New Orleans.
Also being deployed are acoustic devices for crowd control and
disaster communications, sonic Laser equipment that is currently in
use in Iraq. The device uses magnets approximately 6 inches tall and
9.25 inches wide to convert electrical pulses into sound waves, and
is capable of aiming sound precisely for thousands of feet. This
allows for the ability to blast out orders that can be heard for
miles and allows for crowds to be fired upon and dispersed by soundwaves.
Those who fall in line with the curfews and the orders are still
treated like criminals in this New America. Footage has shown that
men women and even children are being separated and thoroughly
frisked and searched before being rescued. It seems that survival
comes second to being a civilian subject.
The ground troops have begun "combat operations" "to take this city
back" in the aftermath
from those they have termed "insurgents". These are terms also being
used in Iraq, but now they fit perfectly here to describe anyone who
disobeys or does not fall in line in the New America. The troops have
declared their shock at having to shoot at US citizens and being shot
back at, yet the majority of these people are deliberately being
deprived of food and water by the federal authorities, they are
desperate and have been forced into this situation.
Those who were grabbed in the immediate aftermath were shipped into
the Superdome and simply left there without any aid. This represents
nothing more than a concentration camp as starving and thirsty
refugees were not allowed to leave, trapped until the authorities
deemed it appropriate to move them.
The media covering the event have been appalled by this activity and
the reality of the New America it seems is sinking in in some
instances. Fox reporter Geraldo Rivera was filled with tears in his
eyes and his voice fluttered with sorrow as he made an on-air plea to
authorities to allow the estimated 30,000 storm victims at the center
to be allowed to move to a safer, cleaner area. "Let them walk out of
here, let them walk the hell out of here!"
Checkpoints have been set up throughout the area to make sure no one
leaves and no one gets in without the say so of the federal
authorities. It is clear that an emergency response should not be
conducted this way. It is also clear that this is no ordinary
emergency response. This is a blueprint, a litmus test for the New
America, the police state, the New World Order.
Whilst the disaster evolves it has already been decided who will
restore order and who will reap the profits of the lucrative cleanup
contracts. Dick Cheney affiliated Halliburton have again been
rewarded that task as they have so many times. After 9/11, in
Afghanistan and in Iraq Halliburton and the elite government
infiltrators reap the rewards again and again. Last week Alex Jones
joked on his how that Halliburton may get the contract to clean up -
the sad reality is that even the things we joke about are now coming
to pass every time.
The agenda is clear, they allow the disaster to happen, or they
manufacture the disaster in the case of 9/11, and then they reap the
financial rewards first and the control mechanism rewards that
categorize their New America a little later.
It has also emerged that FEMA Outsourced the disaster plans to
political cronies and major donors. They outsourced the hurricane
recovery planning to the Baton Rouge-based consulting firm Innovative
Emergency Management (IEM), Inc. IEM's team partners for the more
than $500,000 contract are Dewberry of Arlington, VA, URS Corporation
of San Francisco, and James Lee Witt Associates. Witt was FEMA
Director under Bill Clinton. IEM's president is Madhu Beriwal. The
company was founded in 1985. Dewberry and URS are engineering firms.
IEM is also a Defense Department contractor and has contracts with
the U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) along with team
members Booz Allen Hamilton and Lockheed Martin.
These people all have their hands in the honey pot, they benefit from
such tragic events, wars and disasters every time
We have seen recently the precedent being set for the eventuality we
now see unfolding. The constant ratcheting up of fear based control
through the exploitation of terror attacks and terror alerts. The
technology that we have monitored through its development stages is
now being put into place.
Everything we have covered over the last few years is becoming an
actuality in New Orleans at this time. We can only report it further
and get the important information out in place of controlled
mainstream media that refuse to or are prevented from reporting the
real issues.
This is a major event in the agenda for a New America and a New World
Order and it may be a make or break one.
This New America is being controlled by corrupt elite criminals who
seek to achieve the degradation and enslavement of humanity through
war, "revolution," sickness, starvation, depression, and now
"natural" disaster. A disaster has been turned into a drill for
martial law. This is not an accident. It is part of a relentless
process of demoralization designed to make the people accept tyranny
and excessive control over their lives.
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