It is in the appalling aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, that we can see how U.S. corporations and vested interests of the Bush administrations truly excelled in profiting from the death and destruction of innocents. Indeed, there is substantial evidence to suggest this destruction and opportunism was purposely orchestrated to both maximize profits for the Bush’s hold on power and to use New Orleans as a test model for further police state powers.
In 2005, after the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress legislation allowed the government to seize private land and to pass it to hungry developers looking for easy money, it proved to be suspiciously opportune for the few. Rather like the financial transactions resulting in massive selling of airline industry stock options a few weeks before the September 11 attacks.21 The magnitude of this disaster stems not merely from the tragic loss of life, but the realization that much of the deaths may have been intentionally created.
Why, after many hours when the hurricane had left New Orleans did these so called “breeches” and flooding in the poorest parts of the city take place? Not to mention the fact that the pumping system had an unprecedented but highly convenient breakdown to complement such an operation. These details are ahead of the many eye-witness and extremely disturbing actions of the Department Homeland Security and FEMA who actively prevented aid, assistance, food, emergency supplies and response units from saving lives. This is no sensationalist proclamation but factual data that can even be found from many mainstream sources.22 One particular report from Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, La. who had added to the rising indication the across American media:
‘…the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina will go down as one of the worst abandonments of Americans on American soil ever in U.S. history … Bureaucracy has committed murder here in the greater New Orleans area, and bureaucracy has to stand trial before Congress now … Let me give you just three quick examples. We had Wal-Mart deliver three trucks of water, trailer trucks of water. FEMA turned them back. They said we didn’t need them. This was a week ago. FEMA – 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 away.’ 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 of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on our line and says, ‘No one is getting near these lines.’” 23
Sadly, it was bureaucracy and incompetence that were used to funnel blame away from the real instigators of the operation. The scapegoat sacking of the former chief of the CIA George Tenet for so called “intelligence failures” which were in reality, intentional failures, the resignation of FEMA chief Michael Brown followed a similar script. He blamed Homeland Security rather than FEMA for the “listless response” to Hurricane Katrina.24 Both these pantomimes were staged with various parties aware or oblivious to the tried and tested formula. From the wealth of eye witness reports the tragedy as a whole overwhelmingly suggests that the official line was to prohibit any coherent response to the crisis.
The results of this government sanctioned criminal behaviour led to an official death toll of 1,300 25 in Louisiana and Mississippi, with estimates of over 6,644 still missing, 1,000 of which are children.26 It represented a social disaster visited primarily upon African-Americans who were effectively left for dead. Those families that survived and if their homes had not been claimed “unsafe” by the government, had to leave their communities only to be broken up and scattered across the U.S. still unsure if some members of their families are alive or dead.
So, what possible motives could the U.S. government have had in harming its citizens in such an obvious and calculated way? Perhaps the same reason they had in suggesting 12 Arabs hijacked some jet airliners with box-cutters and were able to just slip through the most technologically advanced systems of air defence in the world. Naturally, we can all be relied on to not worry about such little wrinkles in the “official” theories. Perhaps a more realistic appraisal of the motives were the following:
1. To acclimate the American people to the presence of armed troops on American soil, which will soon be a familiar sight not just in southern Louisiana, but throughout the country. Even as you read this, the White House and Congress are hard at work drafting legislation and executive orders that will normalize the use of combat personnel to deal with any contrived situation.
2. To allow the city of New Orleans to be rebuilt and refashioned into what our fearless leaders no doubt see as a city of the future – a city that is much richer, and much whiter, than the city that stood before.
3. To solidify control over the Gulf Coast oil and gas industry, since a key goal of the perpetrators of the ‘Peak Oil’ charade, as I’ve noted before, is to achieve total control over all the world’s major oil and gas taps. 27
‘Peak oil’ being a major weapon of disinformation designed to give factions within the military industrial complex further leverage for unilateral demarcation and consumption of resources.
It will come as no surprise by now to learn that U.S., U.K. and Israeli security companies including Dyncorp, Intercon, American Security Group, Blackhawk, Wackenhut, Instinctive Shooting International (ISI) and Uncle Tom mercenary and all, descended on the remains of New Orleans to make a further killing much as it did in Iraq. For reconstruction and humanitarian relief one does wonder why the presence of these specialist companies were anywhere near the city, not for the milk of human kindness – of that we can be sure.
The outsourcing since 9/11 has doubled as part of a global trend toward the creation of multinational organizations which act as protectors and police for the world’s rich executives and affluent communities. Meanwhile, another sideline offers training programs, troops and intelligence for right-wing armies across the world. The reason these companies are so effective and so damaging is that they enforce the status quo and help to sustain conflict by the neo-con principle of endless regime changes and the transplantation of power for those that can pay for it. In other words, those with links to the Pathocracy. In the post 9/11 century of total propaganda they are the de facto arm of U.S. foreign policy.
21 “Huge surges in purchases of put options on stocks of the two airlines used in the attack -- United Airlines and American Airlines; Surges in purchases of put options on stocks of reinsurance companies expected to pay out billions to cover losses from the attack -- Munich Re and the AXA Group; Surges in purchases of put options on stocks of financial services companies hurt by the attack -- Merrill Lynch & Co., and Morgan Stanley and Bank of America; Huge surge in purchases of call options of stock of a weapons manufacturer expected to gain from the attack – Raytheon; Huge surges in purchases of 5-Year US Treasury Notes.” - Insider Trading: ‘Pre-9/11 Put Options on Companies Hurt by Attack Indicates Foreknowledge.’ 911 research.net.
22 ‘Daley ‘Shocked’ at Federal Snub of Offers to Help,’ Chicago Tribune, September 2, 2005 / ‘Homeland Security Won’t Let Red Cross Deliver Food,’ by Ann Rodgers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 3, 2005 / ‘Airboaters Stalled by FEMA,’by Nancy Imperiale Sun Sentinel, September 2, 2005.
23 ‘Storm and Crisis: The Fallout,’ by Scott Shane New York Times, September 5, 2005
24 ‘Brown blames Homeland for Katrina response’ Ex-FEMA chief says he's a scapegoat: ‘I feel somewhat abandoned’ AP, Feb. 10, 2006.
25 ‘Death toll from Katrina likely higher than 1,300’ - Number of bodies found offers only partial indicator of deaths, experts say, MSNBC, February 10, 2006.
26 6,644 are still missing after Katrina; toll may rise’By Kevin Johnson, USA Today, November 2005.
27 “Katrina, Eugenics and 'Peak Oil,'” Part II, By David McGowan, Newsletter #74 October 23, 2005.
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