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ADVANCING WORLD GOVERNMENT GLOBAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS
THROUGH NATURAL DISASTERS
BY
JOAN M. VEON
THE WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL MEDIA GROUP, INC.
301/371-0541

HURRICANE KATRINA:
FURTHERING GLOBAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS
THROUGH NATURAL DISASTERS
A White Paper in Progress
Joan M. Veon
The Women's International Media Group, Inc.
301/371-0541
www.womensgroup.org

It used to be that a country was taken over by the strongest general or warlord, but in the age of high technology and weather modification, natural disasters are the equivalent to war, without the required armies. War and natural disaster do the same thing: they are an economic stimulus and they transfer wealth from the common man to the unscrupulous. Today our need to protect our sovereignty is not only from a national level but from the international level where the United Nations operates. At the economic and natural disaster level, but also at the global level with the entrenchment of the United Nations.

America has been the strongest country in the world but as we begin the third millennium, it is apparent that we have been greatly economically weakened economically through. Our dependence on $2B in foreign investments which funds our daily federal deficit to keep us afloat and from our dependence on foreign oil does not bode well for continuing our unparalleled strength. Because of our financial short-fall, parts of our government are being sold through public-private partnerships while the cost of energy will substantially raise the cost of living. The first has given rise to a buy-out of government by business which is also known as public-private partnership while the second will raise the cost of living exponentially.

There are those who say that Hurricane Katrina, and now Hurricane Rita are God's judgment on a modern day American Sodom and Gomorrah. This paper is written from the viewpoint that while others say it was planned and managed to further global interconnectedness. Furthermore, it was the Vietnam War that prompted our government to find ways to modify the weather so as to help our troops fight in unfamiliar terrain. In the 1970s, our government along with Britain perfected "Tsunami Bombs" using the top secret South Seas base, Diego Garcia. Is it impossible to think that they can either create or help hurricanes along? Is God reaching down from heaven to remind us of eternal truths or are unscrupulous men looking to benefit for their own greedy purposes? The following is written for you to decide.

Over the last eleven years while covering high level global conferences, I have often observed how many financial, political, and natural disasters have occurred before a particular meeting or around the time of a new global report is being unveiled that helps to "set precedence" for major policy changes on the global level. This is written from the understanding I have gained as a result of reading thousands of pages of global documents, attending key meetings, and interviewing many, many individuals in positions of knowledge and power.

Proud and powerful America is facing a multitude of problems in a changing world. Up until the last ten years, America was the only super-power in need of securing large amounts of oil reserves worldwide. However, with the rise of China and India, all that has changed. A month before Hurricane Katrina, Congress passed three important bills: the Central American Free Trade Act-CAFTA, the Energy Bill, and the Transportation Bill. As result of our growing federal and trade deficits, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan has been warning us on a continual basis of our folly. The Bank for International Settlements, the central bank'sters bank, and Mr. Greenspan have been warning for the last two years about the housing bubble and about America's growing deficits. Are all these things related?

From a global perspective, all the barriers between countries are down and the world is moving very fast towards a global currency and a global tax. Although the barriers are down, the world still is not acting as one. The final interconnectedness between the world's inhabitants has not yet happened.
But through man-made natural disasters such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, the earthquake in Pakistan and the mudslides in Guatemala, the people of the world will be united in their sympathy and compassion through an outpouring of gifts which has already been evident. According to a world expert in hurricanes, Dr. William Gray, Katrina was called, "This paper is written with the thesis that Hurricane Katrina and now Hurricane Rita which is now predicted as being "An unusual storm and one of the worst storms" in our country's history, according to a world expert in hurricanes, Dr. William Gray, are man-made storms. Because there is an evolutionary process at work in the world today, what we are seeing is a changing world which then demands changing structures. Furthermore, with weather modification, it is now possible to use natural disasters for greedy purposes in order to change the economical and political landscape.

INTRODUCTION
Growing Need for Energy
We have seen in the last few years the unprecedented rise in China's economic power. No longer is she Napoleon's "sleeping giant" as China needs to find jobs for over 200 million people. Because of its cheap slave labor market, American corporations have been forced out of their own country as a result of U.S. regulations and have been moved much of their manufacturing to China in order to escape our labor laws, unions, retirement provisions, and mandatory health benefits because of their cheap labor. As such, China's growth has pushed the price of all commodities-from copper, aluminum, to gold, to coal, and to oil-to new highs. Bill Ridley in his extensive report on energy quoted Gale Luft, executive director of the Institute of the Analysis of Global Security, "Without a comprehensive strategy designed to prevent China from becoming an oil consumer on par with the US, a superpower collision is in the cards." He wrote, "The final war for the planet's resources has already started. You name the commodity and China's buying it and consuming it in HUGE quantities. Last year [2004] they consumed nearly half of the world's cement, twice the world's consumption of copper and nearly a third of the world's coal, 90% of the world's steel plus nearly every other commodity you can think of has been in greater demand in China" (Internet: 321energy, article by Bill Ridley).

China is currently on a major buying spree for oil. In 2004, the Chinese government signed important investment and trade agreements with Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru, Jamaica, Mexico, and Venezuela. From Russia they are buying advanced military equipment and are thinking of lending Russia's State owned oil company, Rosneft, $6B in exchange for a long-term oil contract. In the Sudan, the Chinese National Petroleum Corporation holds the largest oil concession there. Both China and India have been working together in the Sudan where China National Petroleum operates Sudan's Greater Nile oil field. Deals have also been made with Angola, Burma, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Yemen (321energy, Bill Ridley).

Currently China consumes almost 7.2 million barrels a day, which is up from 4.8M bbl. in 2000. This is much less than the 20 million barrels a day that the US consumes. By 2010, they will need up to 9.2 million barrels. In January, 2005, China and Canada signed agreements to cooperate in the fields of minerals, metals and earth sciences. The two countries identified oil/gas, nuclear energy and cleaner energy as priority areas. In August, Chinese government-owned CNOOC, gave up its bid for California's Unocal. Instead the China National Petroleum Corporation purchased PetroKazakhstan in Asia. It is clear to see that energy has become the most important commodity on the face of the earth, next to water.

The Federal Reserve and Alan Greenspan
The week before Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave a speech at the Jackson Hole Federal Reserve conference where he issued a few veiled warnings for : the economy, investors, and homeowners. Greenspan said "asset values may seem permanent but warns that what investors see "as newly abundant liquidity can readily disappear." Greenspan stated that "The housing boom will inevitably simmer down." Housing prices are on the average up over the past five years by 50%.

Greenspan explained that the Fed now looks at changes in the balance sheet and that "policy is becoming increasingly driven by asset price changes." The Federal Reserve Chairman also pointed to broad economic forces which are "continuously at work, shaping the environment in which the Federal Reserve makes monetary policy." He noted globalization and innovation spurred by competition which has nurtured the "continual scrapping of old technologies to make way for the new." He talked about the resilience and flexibility of the US economy, weathering the October 19, 1987 decline which took 20% of the market value of US equities, the credit crunch of the early 1980s and the bursting of the stock market bubble in 2000, along with the economic fallout from September 11. He commended the US economy which has "weather[ed] reasonably well the steep rise in spot and futures prices for crude oil and natural gas". Was he prepping us for Katrina and Rita? Are Katrina and now Rita, the new forces to bring America down?

In short, if you want to slow the economy, raise the cost of living by raising the price of oil and commodities. Can you imagine the problem builders will have based on higher costs of the increase in wood and overall building materials and any current contracts that they are locked into? kind of price they are locked into? What about the cost to build in the future? The Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the 11th time to 3 ¾% in September citing the strength of the economy to deal with the hurricanes next year or so? Because the cost of living is going to go up as a result of higher energy, the Fed will then state they need to reduce inflation by raising interest rates. While many wanted the Fed to skip the interest rate increase they just made, they did not. Since September 19, inflation is what they are concerned about, it all goes hand in hand. The Fed raised interest rates for the 11th time to 3 ¾%, a four year high.

Global Tax and Currency
During the 1990s, the world has witnessed the falling away of the final barriers whichthat had separated the individual nation-states:. Those barriers included 1994 the North America Free Trade Agreement-NAFTA and the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs-GATT which led to the World Trade Organization were passed in 1994; 1998 the International Criminal Court was established which has authority to transcend national boundaries to arrest alleged international criminals was established in 1998; 2001 with the Attack on America where the final barriers were torn down--the military and the intelligence barriers in 2001. Today Oour CIA today works closely with the intelligence agencies from Britain, Russia, France, Italy and many other countries.

A global currency and tax goes hand in had with falling barriers. Apart from falling barriers, I have tracked over the last 11 years, the rise of both a global currency and a global tax. At the 75th annual meeting of the Bank for International Settlements in June, 2005, their annual report discussed the need to establish a single international currency, or perhaps movinge to regional currency blocks such as the dollar, euro, and renimbi/yen. Currently regional currencies include the European Union's euro and America's dollar. In addition, Recently China and Malaysia recently abandoned their dollar-linked currencies in favor of a basket of currencies which may well be the pre-cursor to a renimbi/yen regional currency.

There are those who contend that the reason why the U.S. went into Iraq is because Saddam Hussein said he was going to only trade oil in euros instead of dollars. The dollar has been the world reserve currency since the fall of the British pound earlier in the 20th century which means all commodities are traded in dollars. Therefore, if the oil industry, i.e. OPEC, decides to sell oil in euros, it would be devastating for the U.S. economy which relies on foreign monies to make ends finance our massive budget deficit. meet.

At the July, 2005 Group of Eight-G8 meeting in Gleneagles, Scotland the G8 leaders approved the idea of a global tax on airline tickets presented by French President Jacques Chirac as a way of finding additional monies for the United Nations to meet the Millennium Development Goals which will cost $124B a year by 2015. At the recent 60th session of the UN, French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin announced that 66 countries have already signed onto the idea of a global tax with a number ready to put it into place. Furthermore he called for a meeting in 2006 to solidify the global tax.

At every turn, our government is accommodating a world governmental structure through the United Nations by giving it more power and position in world affairs. Thus, the world is being interconnected through the UN, through agreement with international treaties, and through changing our national laws to accommodate globalization and interconnected. The passage of the CAFTA bill and the energy bill in late August are just some examples.

The Passage of CAFTA, Transportation, and Energy
In July before Congress recessed for the summer, lawmakers passed three major pieces of legislation: The Central American Free Trade Agreement-CAFTA, the Transportation Bill, and Energy Bills.

CAFTA is an extension of the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement-NAFTA which erased the barriers between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. . The Central American Free Trade Agreement-CAFTA expands this regional form of government through Central America. With the passage of CAFTA, the Free Trade Areas of the Americas, which will encompass all 35 countries in the Western Hemisphere, is only a step away. Because of the opposition to CAFTA, President Bush made a special trip to Capitaol Hill to twist arms through by granting of over 6,000 pork barrel promises which were fulfilled in funded by the Transportation Bill.

The $286B Transportation Bill contains not only spending for highways, bridges and mass transit but the pork barrel spending to appease blind Americans to the fact that they will eventually lose their American sovereignty and currency. Senator John McCain referred to the pork-barrel in the bill as "No Lobbyist Left Behind." Interestingly enough, this bill was passed is jjust in time to help rebuild the Gulf States. and at this moment, perhaps Galveston as well.

The Energy Bill meanwhile provides $85B in tax breaks and subsidies to encourage new nuclear plants, cleaner-burning coal facilities and production of more oil and natural gas, ethanol and electricity. It offers incentives to produce energy from alternatives like wind and other renewable sources. The Petroleum industry also received new incentives to drill in the Gulf of Mexico while ethanol received a federal mandate to double its output by 2012. Tom Delay inserted a provision worth $500 million in subsidies for research into deep water oil and gas drilling. More importantly with regard to globalization and the integration of the world, Tthe Energy Bill also repeals ed the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 which now aallows for the deregulation of the eastern seaboard electrical grid, subsequently andopening our electrical grid to for foreign purchasesbuyers which could transfer and for as much as $1T in utility assets into the global marketplace. Again, this furthers global integration. The Petroleum industry received new incentives to drill in the Gulf of Mexico while ethanol received a federal mandate to double its output by 2012. Lastly, Tom Delay inserted a provision worth $500 million in subsidies for research into deep water oil and gas drilling.
How convenient it is that these bills came at just the "right time."
Sadly, America cannot afford to lose any more oil refineries than the four that are now off line in the Gulf. We had a wake-up call in the 1970's with the oil embargo and the fall of the Shah of Iran, but unfortunately Congress did not make preparations. Instead, as a result of environmental rules and regulations, more oil refineries have gone off line.Today, with our dependence on foreign oil and our inability to refine the amount we need, debt-ridden America finds itself at a crossroads. There are no more barriers between the nation-states, therefore an understanding of the role and position of the United Nations is needed.

The United Nations
My research over the last 11 years has concentrated on the structure of world government, global tax, global currency, sustainable development, and public-private partnership. Once you understand these, you will then understand a very vast and complex agenda of radical change which is in tthe modus operandi process for the people of the world. It appears that this change is being orchestrated by a very diabolical power too great for most to even agree to its existence. in addition to other related issues to those enumerated.

The United Nations held its 60th General Assembly in September 15-18. While much of this report was finished before then, Much of this report was finished before the three day General Assembly that has just concluded at the United Nations from September 15 - September 18. Ththe agenda of the 60th General Assembly fit in with America's natural disasters Hurricane Katrina like "hand and glove". The 35-page document that world leaders agreed to before the opening of the 60th General Assembly containsed embellishments that will finish the current integration of the world's nation-states.

Thisat document addsgave new teeth to the power and structure of the United Nations. New reforms agreed to included: a new Peacebuilding Commission, a new Human Rights Council, establishing a UN Policing Unit to keep peace in countries emerging from war, global tax schemes, and an overall review of every UN commission, agency, and organ.

Furthermore, there was great emphasis on the interconnectedness of all countries. OurThey framed the world as being world is now framed in words like "interdependent." The document reaffirmed "the universality, indivisibility, interdependence, and interrelatedness of all human rights." It reaffirmed "our commitment to the global partnership for development in the Millennium Declaration [2000], the Monterrey Consensus [2002], and the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation [2002]." In other words, these three documents sew complete the integration all the countries together as one. The 60th General Assembly document was described by UN Undersecretary Bob Carr as a "substantive and broad package."

The document agreed to a "contribution" instead of tax on airline tickets [I was told the UN is not a government and therefore, they did not use the word "tax"]], going into the capital markets to raise money for the Millennium Development Goals agreed to five years ago, and increasing Overseas Development Assistance from 0.2% of GNP to 0.7%. For the U.S., the increase in ODA from 0.2% to 0.7% would raise our contribution to well over $255B a year from its current level of $16.2B in addition to the other monies mentioned. Furthermore, there was document had aa great emphasis on sustainable development and public-private partnerships.

Sustainable development was adopted in 1992 at the Rio "Earth Summit" where the environment became the focus of how the world should be ordered. Agenda 21 is a perversion of Genesis 1 where God gave man dominance over the earth. According to Agenda 21, the earth now has dominance over man. As such, sustainable development maintains that the world has too many people and that you and I will "eat up and use up" the resources of the world. I personally heard Jacques Cousteau explain that he figures in order to get the world's population down, about 300,000 people would have to die daily. Others maintain that 6B of the world's population of 8B will have to be eliminated. If population reduction is the foundation of sustainable development, then war, abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, plagues like HIV/AIDS and now the Avian bird flu, and natural disasters are ways to achieve it.

Public-private partnerships will be addressed later on in this report.

While the reUN was given many other rights, are many other rights the UN was given,the following describes additional rightsthe new focal point of the UN: the document in #155 (d) says,

Support and complement international efforts aimed at addressing humanitarian
Eemergencies, including natural disasters, in order to promote an improved,
coordinated response from the United Nations.

It should be noted that George Bush has put the UN at the center of humanitarian relief. Lastly, mild mannered UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan opened the 60th session by giving world leaders the following demands: "You WILL condemn terrorism, You WILL pledge to seek agreement, You WILL accept, You WILL agree, you WILL put in place…"

Lastly Back in 2000, the United Nations in 2000, opened a way for civil society and business to speak their minds in the General Assembly. Now a representative from each, giaive a speech in the General Assembly which is part of the UN minutes as if they were world leaders! Furthermore, business held a two and a half- day plus meeting that paralleled the General Assembly, explaining their part in world affairs. At every turn, the United Nations, as well as the work of Prince Charles, has transferred great political power to business through public-private partnerships.
There they discussed the desire to form public-private partnerships. In other words, business has become entrenched with government which constitutes "global fascism."

THE EVOLVING ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
In order for us to fully understand the "beauty" of natural disasters and war, we must understand twohree very important economic concepts: "PacMan" Capitalism, Creative Destruction and the Permanent Revolution.

Pac-Man Capitalism
Pac Man Capitalism is my description for the goals and objectives of capitalism. In the game of Pac Man, you must eat your enemy before your enemy eats you! Just like the game of Pac Man which means you must eat at much of consume your enemy before you are eaten. So too, the goal of capitalism is to get the consumer to continue buying to continue demand so the economy does not fallslow down. It is business and the flow and movement of business, i.e. money, that determines economic strength. Part of this strength is buildt on the idea of a constant flow of new and innovative products. Capitalism needs a stream of not only new products but new markets and new buyers. In the last fifteen years, the Berlin Wall has fallen providing new markets in Russia and the Comecom countries as well as China. Capitalism cannot afford a slow period. as Iit must have the continual movement and production. Furthermore, bBehind the Iraqi wWar are new markets:: the Muslim countries!

Creative Destruction
Economist Joseph Schumpeter in his work, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, coined thise phrase, "Creative Destruction" in 1942 to denote a "process of industrial mutation that incessantly revolutionizes the economic structure from within, incessantly destroying the old one, incessantly creating a new one" (Answers.com). He writes

The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with Capitalism, we are dealing with an evolutionary process…Capitalism, then, is by nature a form or method of economic change and not only never is but never can be stationary…this fact is important and these changes (war, revolutions and so on) often condition industrial change.

The idea comes from the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and from economist Werner Sombart. However, Schumpeter said he gained much of his understanding of competition and the essence of creative destruction from Karl Marx. The idea that "something new kills an old thing is seen in marketing. You always need a new widget and that is why the new item should be purchased. Consider what technology does to computers or new products to old products or new ways to old ways, etc. But also let us apply this to wars and natural disasters. In both, we have "creative destruction." Hence, there is the need to rebuild, which the provides an advantage to those with money, and serves as thean economic stimulus to the economy. Do hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disaster provide this opportunity? Yes. Does war? Yes. Hence, if there is a greater agenda, man-made disasters come in handy.

The Permanent Revolution
Now, let's merge these two ideas. Geo-political expert Terry Hayfield defines "The Permanent Revolution" as

A continual process of war, revolution, and terrorism [creative destruction], removing major impediments for the global establishment of a unique and unified America/British capitalism based on the political, economic and social precepts of Fabian Socialism. Free trade requires the complete destruction of national sovereignty and is a cornerstone of the Fabian Socialism. In the end, it is an international form of socialism that will control all the economic, political, and social activities of this planet. The United Nations and its many agencies are assisting in helping to establish this reality. Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism are all integral parts of the same process…The Permanent Revolution.

I am sure Mr. Hayfield would also include natural disaster in his definition of The Permanent Revolution. In other words, Pac Man Capitalism which means we need new products, markets, and consumers while Schumpeter says that creative destruction is good because it continues the economic cycle and the Permanent Revolution says continual war, revolution, and terrorism also spur the economy with the goal of creating Fabian Socialism, which is total control of the world economy.

HURRICANE KATRINA
It is Iinto this economic and political situation, came that Hurricane Katrina turned up. Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said in a press briefing at the UN that his friend Castro said he had never seen a storm with such fury and that. Castro said the force of the storm was diabolical.

In a world where the barriers between the nation-states have been torn down, every problem is global, interconnectedness is being achieved. and tTherefore behind every global problem is a new opportunity to integrate and further their agenda of world domination. Hurricane's Katrina, and now Hurricane Rita, fit into the goals and objectives of world government.

We are now hearing that Rita will be much more deadly than Katrina. News reporters awere incredulous with regard to the kind of statistics that would be needed to calculate two major storms back to back, both of which affecteding America's oil refineries, thus .affecting the price of the energy worldwide, increasing the cost to live for all.

Perhaps we could ask if this is a test run for "the really big one?" Texas has 26 refineries, 18 are located near the Gulf of Mexico. The combined crude oil distillation capacity of these refineries totals 4.0 million barrels per day, about 23% of the nation's crude oil refining capacity. The "Chairman and Chief Executive of Valero Energy, Bill Greehey said Rita's impact on U.S. crude oil production and refining could be a 'national disaster'" (moneycentral.msn.com, 9/21/05).

The Gulf States
Enter the Gulf States, particularly Louisiana, and New Orleans and all that they represent. The Gulf States account for 17% of the country's refining capacity and 25% of its daily crude output. Much of the oil imported from Saudi Arabia passes through Louisiana. The Mississippi and its river Delta is about 40 miles wide and broadens in the south to form the fertile but low and swampy delta. Since the area around New Orleans is below sea level, the Mississippi, and other rivers are flanked by a system of levees.

From the refineries in New Orleans there are two major pipelines, the 5,500 mile Colonial and the Plantation, which run from the Gulf Coast to the Midwest and up the East Coast, providing necessary home heating oil and gas and oil to those areas. In other words, based on logistics, the movement of agriculture and the refining of oil, New Orleans amounts to an Achilles' heel by way of being in the vital interests of America.

Service industries account for about two-thirds of the total value of all the goods and services Louisiana produces in a year. After Texas, Louisiana is second in mineral production and is a leading producer of petroleum and natural gas. Soybeans are its leading farm products.

The State of Louisiana has adopted Vision 2020 to improve the state's social, educational, and economic. The state has a high poverty rate and poor rankings in adult literacy, high school dropout rates, teen pregnancies, violent crime, and drug abuse. In short, it has a high welfare mentality. Goal 3 One of the goals of Vision 2020 states that by 2020 Louisiana will "rank among the top ten states in the nation in standard of living indicators as a result of increasing personal income, eliminating poverty, and a higher quality of health care with safe homes, schools, and streets. It states, "Promote positive state image-portray Louisiana as modernizing, forward thinking, progressive, and moving in the right direction." To accomplish their goals Vision 2020 states, "Government should attend to infrastructure needs: education public sector, research and development. In many cases, strong, effective public-private partnerships should be utilized to achieve economic development objectives."

For our purposes, we will concentrate on both the port and the city of New Orleans.

The Port of New Orleans
The City of New Orleans is one of the world's great ports and the business and financial capital of the South. The city is surrounded by oil and natural gas deposits. It also is a center of aerospace, shipbuilding, oil and chemical industries and has many manufacturing and processing plants. It is also known as the birthplace of jazz.

According to the Port of New Orleans web page and their magazine, "Port Review", New Orleans has been a "center for international trade since 1718 when it was founded by the French. Today, the port is at the center of the world's busiest port complex, the Louisiana Lower Mississippi River." It has a 14,500 mile inland waterway system that makes New Orleans a key port for the movement of steel, grain, containers, coffee, rubber, forest products, metals, and manufactured goods. About ten cruise lines call at the Port. Because the Mississippi River and New Orleans intersect, it is a key waterway for the movement of agricultural products across America and overseas. The Mississippi River and its tributaries give Central American countries access to 62% of the U.S. consumer spending.

The Port is not only key because of the movement up and down the Mississippi and for exporting American grain products, but it is a major port for the distribution of drugs. It is widely known that the drug cartels use the casinos to launder their money. As a result, there were reports that 50-75,000 heroine addicts were let lose on the city in the middle of withdrawal and were storming the hospitals.
New Orleans and the levies

The City of New Orleans Levees
New Orleans is surrounded by 350 miles of levees that were built soon after the city was founded in 1718. The levee at the 17th street Canal is where the crucial breach took place and was particularly vulnerable. For years the levees had a natural defense system comprised of marsh or wetlands. Every four miles of marsh would shrink a storms surge by one foot. Over time, the amount of marsh vanished at a rate of 25 square miles a year--that's one football field every quarter of an hour (Serrano/Gaouette). The end result was the loss of 1,900 square miles of land since the 1930s which destroyed Louisiana's first line of defense against hurricanes (www.en.wikipedia.org). The oil and gas industry has caused much of this loss as the levees themselves by flushing silt out to the sea that used to replenish the Mississippi delta. The result is that the city has sunk two feet in the past sixty years.

The Financial Times reported that in early 2001, "shortly after President Bush was inaugurated and before 9/11, FEMA warned of the three most devastating disasters that could strike the US: a terrorist attack on New York City, a hurricane flooding New Orleans and a San Francisco earthquake. The Bush administration was focused on its priority: Iraq" (Financial Times-FT, 9/6/05, 17).

According to the Los Angeles Times (9/4/05), Richard A. Serrano and Nicole Gaouette write that Washington was warned about the levees and that the White House and Congress dickered over just how much money to pour into shoring up the century-old dikes along with newer flood control projects. As early as May of this year, the New Orleans district of the Army Corps of Engineers formally notified Washington that hurricane storm surges could knock out two of the big pumping stations that must operate 24 hours a day under normal conditions to keep the city dry. It warned that the levees needed to be raised.

Lt. General Carl Strock, the Corps Commander conceded on September 2 that the government had known the New Orleans levees could not withstand a hurricane higher than a Category 3. Since October 2001 with the publication of an article by Mark Fishnets called "Drowning New Orleans", in Scientific American, seven other major articles were published including the five part series in the June 2002 The Times-Picayune that predicted a future disaster of epic proportions. A ten-year plan to strengthen the levees after a 1965 hurricane was never completed. Federal spending to strengthen the levees was severely reduced as a result of September 11 and diverted to the war in Iraq. Sort of makes you think of the Titanic doesn't it?

THE EFFECTS OF HURRICANE KATRINA
As we all know, those who could leave New Orleans did. Those who stayed behind were mostly the poor, the druggies, and the criminals along with fearful tourists. Reports of rapes, violence and vandalism as a result of them being pent up in the Superdome for a week were horrific. A stunned British TV anchor spoke his mind on the air, "I'm having trouble believing that we're watching the continental United States of America. I mean, it looks like Rwanda!"

A friend of mine called to say he heard a very frustrated city worker testify on major television that the city was prepared with 300 pound sandbags waiting to be dropped into the broken levees. FEMA told them 300 pounds was not enough and that they needed 500 pound bags. Then when then had the 500 pound bags ready to go, FEMA told them they need 5,000 pound bags. When they got those bags, they did not have the equipment to drop them. FEMA then changed their mind again and told them they need 10000 pound bags. By that time, the damage was done. Now there are rumors that the levees were blown up.

Compounding the sewerage waters is something called the Agriculture Street Landfill-ASL which is located in a 95-acre site in central New Orleans. Instead of removing the mass of toxic waste 50 years ago, the site was covered with clean soil, houses and a school was built on top. ASL not only contained municipal garbage, but it also contained industrial wastes from service stations, manufacturers, and chemical facilities. While some of it was removed in 1962, according to the editor of Hazardous Waste magazine, the ASL site will almost inevitably leak toxic chemicals into the floodwaters with the potential of inflicting unpredictable damage on the cost and those that live there (Peter Worthington, Toronto Sun, 9/5/05). The reason for evacuation is the toxic sediment left behind. EPA Administrator Steve Johnson was quoted as say, "The water is unsafe."

Two weeks after the flooding occurred, the water is in the process of being pumped into Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi where they will make their way into the rest of the Mississippi Delta and the Gulf of Mexico. The water contains pesticides, herbicides, household chemicals, gasoline from cars and at least two large oil spills, asbestos from building materials, heavy metals from batteries, and whatever has leadked out of the local toxic waste dumps and Superfund sites, bacteria from corpses and animal carcasses, and dirt containing unusually high levels of lead (WP, 9/10/05, A22).

The flooded city has beenwas flooded and evacuated. Those left behind, faced federal agents identifying themselves as U.S. marshals. Said bar owner Joann Guidos, "When you get 15 M-16s pointed at you and they line you up against the wall, it's kind of scary." All guns were confiscated with only law enforcement with guns. Another citizen who lives in a dry part of New Orleans that was hardly affected said, "Where are we going to go? You think your' living in America and nobody is going to make you leave your home." The entire city is under now being protected by the New Orleans Police Department, police, the National Guard, Active-duty U.S. troops such as the 82nd Airborne, and by mercenaries.

With 24 hours after the hurricane hit, New Orleans took on the look of Rwanda, Iraq, or Afghanistan. George Friedman, chairman of Strategic Forecasting Inc., said, "It seems almost as if a nuclear weapon went off in New Orleans. The displacement of the population is the crisis that New Orleans faces. It is also a national crisis, because the largest port in the U.S. cannot function without a city around it. The physical and business processes of a port cannot occur in a ghost town and right now, that is what New Orleans is." (Washington Post-WP, 9/3/05, D1).

Breaching the Posse Comitatus Act
Has the Posse Comitatus Act been breached? The Posse Comitatus Act was passed in 1878 to remove the Army from civilian law enforcement and to return it to its role of defending the borders of the U.S. The Act does not apply to the National Guard or the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard was deployed to the region as well as Homeland Security via FEMA and other agencies. The Posse Comitatus is a law and can be circumvented with support from Congress according to Major Craig T. Trebilcock of the U.S. Army Reserve. Over the past 25 years, Posse Comitatus has been undermined in several ways: (1) the Reagan Administration deployed the Navy and Air Force domestically in the War on Drugs, (2) Congress passed the Civil Disturbance Statutes which permits the President to use military forces to restore order but only after a 'state has requested assistance." The Stafford Act also permits the use of the military upon the request of a state governor and it permits the president to declare a major disaster and send in military forces on an emergency basis for up to ten days to preserve life and property. After 9/11, the Homeland Security Act gave new power to the president to pre-designate scheduled events of "Natural Interest" such as the Super Bowl and to post-designate in the wake of a terrorist attack or other "National Emergency" (National Debate).

New Orleans is now under military occupation. According to The Financial Times, "As in a war zone, military bases are being established in a city divided into sectors, while the navy has moved warships up the Mississippi for helicopter operations. Martial law and curfews are in force. [There has been an] enormous influx from across the US of National Guards, reservists, units of the federal army and marines, the coastguard, airmen, firefighters from Los Angeles and even Texas game wardens in boats" (FT, 9/7/05, 6). Furthermore, the September 8 Washington Post wrote that a Mexican army convoy of nearly 200 people crossed the border into the U.S. to bring aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina, becoming the first Mexican military unit to operate on U.S. soil since 1846. It will be sending another 12 vehicle aid convoy this week and has already sent a naval ship with rescue vehicles and helicopters (WP, 9/8/05). Radio talk show host Alex Jones has reported that while one convoy had no arms, others are armed with Heckler & Koch German assault rifles. The troops were wearing body armor, helmets, and rifles. Those troops in jeeps were wearing holstered hand guns. Basically New Orleans is setting precedence for future action. After a few more of these kinds of occurrences, the Posse Comitatus Act will be in shreds. Furthermore, foreign assistance is in accordance with the UN World Conference on Disaster Reduction, the World Summit on the Information Society, and the World Summit on Sustainable Development.

THE THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY-FEMA
There has been much that FEMA did wrong. Even though they trained and prepared for this kind of emergency, it appears they were totally unprepared and may have even harmed New Orleans instead of helping. Michael Chertoff, secretary of homeland security and a terrorism expert said, "There is nobody who has ever seen or dealt with a catastrophe on this scale in this country. It has never happened before. No matter what the planning was in advance, we were presented with an unprecedented situation."

The re-assignment of FEMA Director Michael D. Brown to Washington and his subsequent resignation was a result of overall bad decisions. They included blocking the delivery of three Wal-Mart trailer trucks of water to Jefferson parish as well as refusing 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel on a Coast Guard vessel docked there, refusing to allow the Red Cross from sending supplies and medical personnel into New Orleans, and refusing help from Chicago's mayor Richard Daley (FT, 9/7/05, 15). Perhaps we need to take a close look at what FEMA is. I find it fascinating that our government would allow such a key position to be filled by a novice. In short, was Mr. Brown a fall-guy for a hidden agenda?

What is FEMA?
FEMA is an independent agency reporting to the president, with the task of responding to, planning for, recovering from, and mitigating against disaster. Begun in 1803, FEMA has evolved in the last two hundred plus years as a result of Hurricane Carla in 1962, Hurricane Betsy in 1965, Hurricane Camille in 1969, the Alaskan earthquake in 1964, and the San Fernando earthquake in 1971. In 1979 President Carter issued an executive order that merged many of the separate disaster-related agencies into FEMA. FEMA has ten regional offices across AMERICA and a training center at Emmitsburg, Maryland which trains local, county, and city officials from across the U.S. to prepare their communities. In 1989 the National urban Search and Research Response System was added to create a framework for structuring local emergency services personnel into integrated disaster response task forces. FEMA works on the global level through the Global Emergency Management System. In 1996, a partnership between FEMA and the Ministry of Civil Defense, Emergencies and the Elimination of the Consequences of Natural Disaster (EMERCOM) of Russia began. Called the United States-Russian Federation Cooperation on Natural and Technological Disaster Prevention and Response, it began as a result of their common objectives to save lives and protect property from the effects of natural and technological disasters. Since then, there have been many joint training exercises between the two countries.

Because of the extensive powers that FEMA has been given, they are called, "The Secret Government." It is not an elected body, it does not improve itself in public disclosures, and it has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars. It has more power than the President or the Congress as it has the power to suspend laws, move entire populations, arrest and detain citizens without a warrant and hold them without trial, it can seize property, food supplies, transportation systems, and it can suspend the Constitution (Martin/Caul).

The following is a partial list of executive orders empowering FEMA: EO 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control highways and seaports, EO 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media, EO 10997 allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum fuels and minerals, EO 10998 allows the government to take over all goods resources and farms, EO 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision, EO 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft, and EO 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.

What came out of all of the above is that FEMA is spending 12 times more on "black operation" than for disaster relief. It spent $1.3B building secret bunkers throughout the U.S. in anticipation of government disruption by foreign or domestic upheaval. Only members of Congress with top level security clearance know of the $1.3B expenditure by FEMA for non-natural disaster operations (martin/Caul).

Presidential Directive No. 54 allowed FEMA to engage in a secret national "readiness exercise" under the Code name of REX84. It was designed to test FEMA's readiness to assume military authority in the event of a "State of Domestic National Emergency" concurrent with the launching of a direct U.S. military operation in Central America. The plan called for the deputation of U.S. military and National Guard units so they could be legally used for domestic law enforcement by conducting sweeps and taking into custody an estimated 400,000 undocumented Central American immigrants in the U.S. The immigrants would be interned at ten detention centers to be set up at military bases throughout the country. Lt. Col. Ollie North was responsible for drawing up the emergency plan. The plan called for the suspension of the Constitution, turning control of the government over to FEMA and the appointment of military commanders to run state and local government with the declaration of Martial Law (Martin/Caul). In 1996, President Clinton made FEMA part of his Cabinet. "He attributed it to the unusually high number of disasters in recent years. Clinton noted that floods, blizzards and wildfires the nation has experienced in the past six weeks far exceed the number of disasters 'at this same period in the past 20 years'" (Washington Times-WT, 2/27/96, A4).

America's Unpreparedness
What we all heard within the first few days of the New Orleans disaster and the people left to rot in the Superdome is that government did not work. According to Dr. Irwin E. Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, "The country is really just not prepared for a major catastrophic event. Whatever it is-the Big One in San Francisco, a terrorist attack-it doesn't matter. The unfortunate truth is our ability to imagine and plan for catastrophic disasters is woefully inadequate (BusinessWeek, 9/19/05, 36). BusinessWeek is suggesting that perhaps the next disasters may be "The Next Big One in the form of an earthquake in California, an avian flu pandemic starting in Chicago, or a dirty bomb in Washington or Manhattan" (ibid).

Based on the UN documents I have read and the fact that the U.S. has a disaster preparedness plan that needs some help, one of the key focuses of the September United Nations Summit will be on greater coordination and interconnectedness with regard to preparations. Furthermore, it fuels the public-private partnership mantra, opening the door to less representative government and more transfer of government.

I wrote in Global Straitjacket which was published in 2000, "Just think, with all the natural disasters, the world automatically needs to be integrated from the local police/fire/rescue/emergency to the global level which also includes terrorism. Natural disaster preparedness provides a wonderful opportunity to integrate these agencies which could be considered an "international police force."

POSSE COMITATUS
Has the Posse Comitatus Act been breached as a result of the evacuation of New Orleans? The Posse Comitatus Act was passed in 1878 to remove the Army from civilian law enforcement and to return it to its role of defending the borders of the U.S. The Act does not apply to the National Guard or the Coast Guard. The Coast Guard was deployed to the region as well as Homeland Security via FEMA and other agencies. The Posse Comitatus is a law and can be circumvented with support from Congress according to Major Craig T. Trebilcock of the U.S. Army Reserve. Over the past 25 years, Posse Comitatus has been undermined in several ways: (1) the Reagan Administration deployed the Navy and Air Force domestically in the War on Drugs, (2) Congress passed the Civil Disturbance Statutes which permits the President to use military forces to restore order but only after a 'state has requested assistance." The Stafford Act also permits the use of the military upon the request of a state governor and it permits the president to declare a major disaster and send in military forces on an emergency basis for up to ten days to preserve life and property. After 9/11, the Homeland Security Act gave new power to the president to pre-designate scheduled events of "Natural Interest" such as the Super Bowl and to post-designate in the wake of a terrorist attack or other "National Emergency" (National Debate).

New Orleans is now under military occupation. According to The Financial Times, "As in a war zone, military bases are being established in a city divided into sectors, while the navy has moved warships up the Mississippi for helicopter operations. Martial law and curfews are in force. [There has been an] enormous influx from across the US of National Guards, reservists, units of the federal army and marines, the coastguard, airmen, firefighters from Los Angeles and even Texas game wardens in boats" (FT, 9/7/05, 6). Furthermore, the September 8 Washington Post wrote that a Mexican army convoy of nearly 200 people crossed the border into the U.S. to bring aid to victims of Hurricane Katrina, becoming the first Mexican military unit to operate on U.S. soil since 1846. It will be sending another 12 vehicle aid convoy this week and has already sent a naval ship with rescue vehicles and helicopters (WP, 9/8/05). Radio talk show host Alex Jones has reported that while one convoy had no arms, others are armed with Heckler & Koch German assault rifles. The troops were wearing body armor, helmets, and rifles. Those troops in jeeps were wearing holstered hand guns. Basically New Orleans is setting precedence for future action.

With every new occurrence that sets precedence, the repeal of the Posse Comitatus gets closer. The fact that non-governmental troops provided by the private security firm, Blackwater USA, have been hired to patrol New Orleans continues to set precedence. Reportedly the troops from Blackwater were hired by Homeland Security and the governor of Louisiana, the are being paid $350 a day. Other groups include DynCorp, Intercon, American Security Group, Wackenhut and an Israeli company called Instinctive Shooting International (ISI). They are protecting private businesses, homes, government projects and institutions. The Israeli mercenaries are armed with M-16s and dressed in black. President of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, said "This vigilantism demonstrates the utter breakdown of the government. These private security forces have behaved brutally, with impunity, in Iraq. To have them on the streets of New Orleans is frightening and possibly illegal" (The Nation, 10/15/05, Scahill). According to one Blackwater mercenary, "This is a trend. You're going to see a lot more guys like us in these situations (ibid).

In my book, The United Nations' Global Straitjacket, published in 2000 with subsequent updates, I wrote about natural disasters and the global structure that was being put in place to accommodate these tragedies. At an international global disaster meeting in Mexico, I interviewed a high level U.S. military officer who told me that our military was on standby for emergency relief should a natural disaster occur. I was amazed for I had not heard about our troops being used for emergency relief in foreign countries. Looks like they have already had on the job training.

President Bush continues to push the envelope as he announced on September 26 that he wanted to ask Congress to consider shifting federal responsibility for major natural disasters from Homeland Security to the military. In light of the Avian flu that is moving around the world, he has also gone on record by saying that he would militarize the vaccination process and any type of quarantine needed. It appears that President Bush is looking to repeal Posse Comitatus at every turn. Is America now to be defended by mercenaries and foreign troops?

NATURAL DISASTERS

Natural Disasters on the Rise
Interestingly enough, from AD 79 until 1950, there were 35 recorded earthquakes. From 1960
untito l the present, there were 36 earthquakes. From 1228 until 1959, there were 9 major floods, avalanches and tidal waves in the world. From 1962 until the present, there have been 28 major floods, avalanches, and tidal waves. From 1776 until 1960, there were 18 hurricanes in the U.S. and from 1961 until the present, there have been 19 hurricanes in the U.S. (source: Infoplease.com).

Planned Aand Managed Natural Disasters
Is it possible to create hurricanes, rain, cyclones, earthquakes and other natural disasters? The answer is yes. The following is from a newsletter that James McKeever published. In the July, 1983 issue entitled, "Weather Goest Thou?" he wrote,

Russia now appears to be attempting to control the jet stream and the weather. Much of their efforts are based on the work of Nikola Tesla. Around 1900 he devised a system to transmit power which involved the use of Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) electromagnetic frequencies. By the using of ELF transmissions, Tesla demonstrated that it is possible to create gigantic electromagnetic standing waves, which could be used to light light bulbs across 50 miles without any wires and could also be used to modify weather patterns. The Carter Administration sold to the Soviet Union the world's largest electromagnet, capable of generating a magnetic field 250,000 times greater than the earth itself. Dr. Andrew Michrowski and a group of scientists with the Canadian State Department have been monitoring the Soviet ELF transmissions. In a February 1978 letter he wrote describing how the U.S.S.R. set up giant standing waves,

In the case of the winter of 1976-1977, the Soviets have managed to establish terrestrial electrical resonance and then to learn how to establish relatively stable and localized ELF magnetic fields, which were able to hamper or divert the jet stream flow in the Northern Hemisphere. In the case of the Winter of 1977-1978…the Soviet scientists involved had the ingenious idea of setting up one series of standing columnar waves that extended from the westernly tip of Alaska, all the way to Valpariso, Chile. This columnar wave front was projected from near Angarsk, Siberia. It created worldwide weather modification and east of the formation, the weather was drier and west of it, "precipitation was enhanced."

The U.S. government has also gotten into ELF transmissions. Supplement IV to The application of Tesla's Technology in Today's World, issued October 15, 1980, by Lafferty and Harwood stated,

The American ELF transmitter is located in the extreme northwest portion of the US in the near vicinity of the U.S. naval Base at Seattle. The magnetic waves that accompany these radio-transmissions have some striking similarities to naturally-occurring geo-magnetic waves that have a fundamental frequency resonating at 7.83 Hertz…the net result has been that the Soviet signals and the American signals both individually and in combination have produced vertically or in extending waves across the Pacific Coast of the U.S."

James McKeever goes on to quote from February, 1981 The Youth Action News:

In February, 1980, ELF researcher J. Morrison compiled a massive bibliography titled, Extremely Low Frequency Fields, which reviewed 700 books and publications on the subject. The bibliography compiled scientific ELF articles from all over the world, including a number published in official Soviet scientific journals. Morrison's list covered the entire field: the effects of ELF on human biology, behavior, weapons, earthquakes, weather modification, etc.

Morrison wrote, 'In the brain, electrical activity ranges from .01-40 Hertz…Thus, it is easy to see why Soviet ELF signals, transmitted to America in the 6 Hertz to 12 Hertz range, can cause great harm to U.S. Citizens [as] [b]iological systems (humans included) are very susceptible to small changes in ELF.

An example of the threat from Soviet ELF mind-zapping was described in Dr. Andrija Puharich's research paper, "Global Magnetic Warfare:"

There is no question that the Soviet system can do any one of, or all of the things that Tesla claimed for his transmission of energy through the earth system-the Tesla Magnifying Transmitter. These functions would include:

(1)A directed beam defense weapon; (2) a global monitoring system for the movement of submarines, missiles, aircraft, etc; (3) A climate control system-global; (4) A controlled-earthquake system with global reach; (5) Spectacular sky illumination over specific areas of the planet with attendant disruption of electric power systems, radio, and telephone systems, (6) Most dreaded of all-psychoactive and biological effects on all living things in the air, water, and land; and (7) Ultimate potential to exercise brain, mind, and mood control over human beings by magnetic means-anywhere on the planet earth. As of now-there is no way to hide from the effects of this weak magnetic ELF signal.

Was McKeever exaggerating? No. In 1997, According to Wall Street journalist, Chen May Yee, she reported that the government of Malaysia wanted to create man-made cyclones to scrub away the haze that plagued Malaysia in 1997. Their Minister for science, technology and the environment told her, "We will use special technology to create an artificial cyclone to clean the air." The plan called for using new Russian technology to create cyclones (also known as typhoons and hurricanes) to cause torrential rains to wash the smoke out of the air (WSJ 11/13/97, A19). According to other researchers, the ability to manipulate the weather has been perfected. The following is from John Christian and his book, The Hidden Secrets of the Alpha Course:

In 1996, Dr. Nick Begich and Jeanne Manning, Canadian authors published a book and produced a video entitled Angels Don't Play this Haarp about the top secret Russian/U.S. government High-Frequency active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). In his book and video, Begich explained how the HAARP Project was being developed as a military weather- control and mind -control weapon by the U.S. Pentagon, Department of Justice, NASA, FEMA, and the CIA linked together around the Ground-based/Space-based Star-Wars Weapons System with Russia.

Through a sophisticated series a giant radio antenna transmission bases located at Gakona in Laaska; Tromso, Norway and Arecibo, Puerto Rico, linked with similar secret bases in Russia, the system was designed to transmit high-frequency radio energy at up to 100 billion watts or more into the ionosphere 32-620 miles above the earth, to create huge, extremely low frequency (ELF) ionospheric lenses or mirrors which could be refocused over the horizon thousands of miles away from the transmitters and used to heat up and manipulate the ionosphere thereby controlling the world's weather, melt the ice-caps at the north and south poles, create storms, cyclones, hurricanes, tidal waves, and destabilize the magnetic field of the earth and thereby create earthquakes and volcanoes, and upset the magnetically-based migratory pattern of birds and fish.

It is not just mere coincidence that the abnormal, massive increase in killer storms, floods and hurricanes during 2004 affecting the West Indies and Florida have emanated from the precise area of the Caribbean that is in the optimum transmission range of the Arecibo HAARP base in Puerto Rico. Mt. St. Helens and the entire U.S. mainland also come under the immediate range of Gakona and others in Alaska. The devastating earthquake and tsunami epi-centered off Sumatra on Sunday, December 26, 2004, was in the optimum range of Russia's Nizhny- Novgorod and Dushanbe bases.

It should also be noted that the transmitters at Tomso, Norway operated by Germany's Max Planck Institute; Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia, and Dushanbe, Tadzhikistan, are all manned largely by Russian scientists. Russians are involved with US bases as well. Zhirinovsky, the controversial RRussian politician, has derisively spoken about how Russian has taken control of these bases for many years

According to Bob Fitrakis and Fritz Chess of ColumbusAlive.com, "The HAARP program has been confirmed by William Thomas writing in the November-December 2001 issue of NEXUS New Times magazine, "Wright-Patterson Air Force Base has also long been deeply engaged in HAARP's electromagnetic warfare program." Professor Gordon J. F. MacDonald, serving on the Presidents Science Advisory Committee in 1966 frequently published papers on the military use of weather modification. In his book, Unless Peace Comes, MacDonald described the military applications of weather modification including climate change, melting the polar ice caps, techniques for depleting the ozone layer over the enemy, engineering earthquakes, manipulating ocean waves, and using the earth's energy fields for brain wave manipulation.

In April 1997, it was reported that U.S. Defense Secretary Cohen said, "Others are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes, remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves…So there are plenty of ingenious minds that are finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations. It's real and that is why we have to intensify our [counter-terrorism] efforts." Interestingly enough, it is in this understanding that we now turn to the efforts of the United Nations on disaster relief. I refer you to my book, The United Nations' Global Straitjacket, chapter 8 for more information. Available by calling 301/371-0541).
Lastly, aAt the World Conference on Disaster Reduction held in Kobe, Hyogo, Japan in January, 2005, the report of Group B was, "In Africa, we need to warn people about both natural disasters as well as man-induced disasters." Furthermore at that meeting, participating countries, including the U.S. presented national reports on what they are doing to put the "Framework for disaster risk reduction for guidance and monitoring" into place which conforms to the UN agenda on disaster relief.

DISASTER RELIEF AND THE UNITED NATIONS
According to The Commission on Global Governance, "Military, political, development, and humanitarian work should be seen as complementary and mutually supportive." So what is the UN agenda on disaster relief? At its core, you will find that it is based on sustainable development as found in Agenda 21 and the need for countries to be integrated. In Our Global Neighborhood, A Report of The Commission on Global Governance, released in 1995, they commission admonished, "There is a compelling need for a holistic approach to disasters and humanitarian assistance that cuts across traditional boundaries" (p.205).

There is an ongoing philosophical evolution of what the role and position of the United Nations is in the world today. Let us first look at what it is doing in the areas of disaster relief and then the evolving philosophy behind the UN's growing role in world affairs.

The United Nations and Natural Disaster Relief
In my book, The United Nations' Global Straitjacket, published in 2000 with subsequent updates, I wrote about natural disasters and the global structure that was being put in place to accommodate these tragedies. At an international global disaster meeting in Mexico, I interviewed a high level officer who told me that our military was on standby for emergency relief should a natural disaster occur. I was amazed. On September 21, President Bush is now talking about "getting the military involved." This will violate the Posse Comitatus Act and set precedence for the future. With our troops stretched very thin, exactly whose troops will be used? We already have Mexican troops here and Germany occupies our air force base in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

A GLOBAL TSUNAMI WARNING SYSTEM
In 1987 the United Nations General Assembly voted to designate the 1990s as a decade in which the international community, under UN auspices would pay special attention to fostering international cooperation in the areas of natural disaster reduction. Proclaiming the 1990s as the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, it adopted an International Framework of Action for the Decade (resolution 44/236 of 12/22/87). Throughout the 1990s, the United Nations and its member nations worked on creating a vast framework for humanitarianism. To discuss all of the conferences, conventions, papers, speeches and meetings around disaster reduction and humanitarian relief would not be possible.

However, we will single out the 2002 white paper produced by the Commission on Sustainable Development acting as the Preparatory Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. The UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (www.unisdr.org) took the lead with United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Environment Programme, the UN High Commission for Refugees, and several others. The paper, "Natural Disasters and Sustainable Development: Understanding the Links between Development, Environment and Natural Disasters" recognized "the increase in natural hazards such as earthquakes, droughts, floods, storms, and tropical cyclones, wild land fires, and volcanic eruptions have caused major loss of human lives and livelihood, the destruction of economic and social infrastructure as well as environmental damages."

As a result, it led to the adoption of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction-ISDR by governments to succeed as a recommendation emanating from the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction-IDNRD 1990-1999. The goal is to

Mobilize governments, UN agencies, regional bodies, the private sector, and civil society to united efforts in building resilient societies by development of a culture of prevention preparedness. The escalation of severe disaster events triggered by natural hazards and related ttechnological and environmental disasters are increasing posing a substantive threat to both sustainable development and poverty-reduction initiatives. Intensity of extreme hydrometeorological events, [is] due in to particular to climate change.

The paper states that 100,000 lives are lost each year due to natural hazards, with the global cost of $300B by 2050 if the impact of climate change is not countered-which they connect to natural disasters. In other words, if they are using HAARP technology to create natural disasters, they are now using it to adopt climate change policies. Furthermore, they state that

There is a close correlation between the trends of increased demographic pressure especially in developing countries and in particularly, in least developed countries, escalated environmental degdegradation, increased human vulnerability and the intensity of the impact of disaster.

Lastly, the paper explains that the services provided by government, including transportation, water, electric, gas, drainage, storage facilities and communication networks are at stake. Furthermore, they state that sustainable development cuts across the social, economic, environmental and humanitarian sectors. Their solutions all revolveinclude around public-private partnerships. Their goals include: "Partnering with regional agencies, national government and local community stakeholders, partnering with national and regional agencies, partnering with national institutions, academia and the private sector, partnering with governments, UN agencies, professional associations and other relevant groups, partnering with international organizations, partnering with libraries and religious leaders and institutions."

After the tsunami in the South Seas in December 2005, the UN convened a Special ASEAN leaders' meeting which emphasized the role of the UN system in coordinating immediate global activities related to relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction programs. On January 20, 2005, the World Conference on Disaster Reduction held a special session on the South Seas earthquake and tsunami. There 160 governments called for the development of a South Seas tsunami early warning system.

The March 2005 Meeting
The International Coordination Meeting for the Development of a Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System for the Indian Ocean within a Global Framework was held at UNESCO Headquarters between March 3-8, 2005. Attended by nearly 300 participants from 21 countries in the Indian Ocean region and 25 from IOC countries and more than 24 organizations, the meeting adopted a warning system for the Indian Ocean. UNESCO Director-General Mr. Koichiro Matsuura said in his opening speech that the Indian Ocean System is just "the first step in building a Global Tsunami Warning System that will be fully embedded in the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission-IOC global, operational ocean observing system." He outlined that the "soon-to-be-established Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) that will aim at integrating space-based and 'insitu' observations covering the land, the ocean, the atmosphere and ecosystems." GEOSS will be built within the next ten years.

UNESCAP
The UN Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific-UNESCAP met in January 28, 2005. As a result, the General Assembly adopted a Resolution to Strengthen Emergency Relief, Rehabilitation, Reconstruction and Prevention in the Aftermath of the Indian Ocean Tsunami Disaster. The result was that the tsunami wreaked havoc in Indian Ocean rim countries and revealed the urgent need for countries to step up regional cooperation in a number of areas, including trade and investment as well as a regional early warning system.

One of the UNESCAP papers that came out of the January meeting recognized the need for "Financing for development" which refers to the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development which focused on finding ways for the UN to increase their income. The paper "Global and Regional Mechanisms for Promoting Trade and Investment in Tsunami Affected Countries" was published in the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Review magazine. It argued that "the tsunami, while an isolated event, can ACT AS A CATALYST FOR MORE RAPID GLOBAL AND REGIONAL TRADE AND INVESTMENT LIBERALIZATION WHICH WOULD ACT AS AN ENGINE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH.

Trade and investment not only generate financial resources for disaster relief and economic rehabilitation, but also contribute directly to poverty reduction through employment income generation." The paper pointed out that those most affected were "NOT PART OF THE MAINSTREAM FORMAL ECONOMY AND LACKED THE IMMEDIATE TO MEDIUM-TERM MEANS TO PROVIDE FOR THEMSELVES." This paper again concluded that regional integration was one of the key answers.

A Global Tsunami Warning System
Furthermore at the UN 60th Anniversary meeting, there was discussion of both a regional Indian Ocean early warning system and a global early warning system. I asked Robert Carr, a UN Undersecretary-General about the global early warning system. He told me

Early warning means for all types of natural disaster where seismic readings could be
Uused or meteorological information-that there be a system that could be communicated
to every country. Essentially, we could have stayed ahead of shock waves coming out
of Indonesia and warned the other countries before it hit but it is not set up now. Currently we have seismic sensors in the bottom of the Indian Ocean but they are used for other purposes: for non-proliferation monitoring and the explosions. Currently we have an agreement to create a global warning system. A lot of it exists technically now but they need the political agreement for how to fuse these pieces together.

I then asked Jan Egeland, UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator about a global system.

Our aim is to have an early warning system across the globe against all major natural disasters: hurricanes, tsunami, droughts, etc. These early warning systems are slowly getting in place in more places and are much more developed in rich countries like the United States, North America and Europe than elsewhere. The Tsunami Early Warning system for Indian Ocean will be fully operational in 2006 and it is already greatly improved in many parts of the Indian Ocean. If we would have had this system, everyone knows that tens of thousands, not just a couple of hundred lives would have been saved.

I asked him if it would include the Law of the Sea and anything in outer space. He replied:

System of monitoring seismic activities or monitoring which way the tsunami wave is going which is special measures of the sea level associated with earthquakes. The most challenging thing is however to warn the people and it would be a combination from sirens, to radio to SMS, to all sorts of methods so that the poorest fishing village would be informed of the threat.

Lastly, I asked him if once it was put in place, if it would constitute a "global FBI of the seas." He refused to answer my question. By the end of 2005, the UN will have held 44 global meetings on natural disaster. What is a public-private partnership? Why does business want to take over the role of government?

THE BUSINESS RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTER
The Business Roundtable
In April, 2005, The Business Roundtable hosted a one day meeting at the United Nations along with international relief organizations with the purpose to work together to improve their joint response to global disasters. According to the UN, this gathering was "unprecedented as they began to outline ways to respond more effectively to global disaster and emergencies in the future." Earlier in December, 2004 the corporations contributed more than $450M in aid for the South Seas tsunami. Taking that disaster as their mandate, they are now looking to re-build the region through public-private partnerships. Former President Bill Clinton who has been appointed UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, told the participants,

You were there on the ground bringing clean water, shelter and other life-saving materials to those who suffered unspeakable loss in the tsunami. Now the challenge is to use this momentum to help us build the region back better-with less poverty, more economic diversification and greater security. If we achieve this in the tsunami region, we will have an inspiring model for action for other countries in crisis.

The Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Hank McKinnell, who also serves as The Business Roundtable Chairman told participants that American businesses have thousands of highly trained people who are skilled in all the critical services. He added

We know that public-private partnerships work. The tsunami disaster demonstrated the importance and value of expertise from business working in a public-private partnership model.
The massive and sudden devastation led us all to rewrite the rule book on how we could work more purposefully together.

Pfizer's goal is to turn on the tap of cash and medicine as quickly as possible when there is a disaster and to work with the World Health Organization, the United Nation's Children's Fund and others to cut through bureaucracy and streamline the donation process. McKinnell went on to say,

Commitments such as the United Nations Global Compact have shown that private and public organizations could move together towards both stronger partnerships and positive change. Working together as partners we can bring more help and more hope to those thrust suddenly into a vortex of misery. Along the way, we can help fulfill the vision of the United Nations.

At the April meeting, Jan Egeland told participants that the international response to the tsunami disaster should serve as a model for all humanitarian crises, both natural disasters and human conflicts.

Other Business Arrangements
There are many other business organizations that are forming branches to deal with disaster relief such as the Center for Corporate Citizenship-Business Disaster Assistance Program through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

There is great integration between the corporations and non-governmental organizations and disaster relief organizations. The Center for Corporate Citizenship works with The Business Roundtable, Center for International Disaster Information, Council on Foundations, FEMA, the Fritz Institute, Gifts in Kind International, the Red Cross and the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum. So what does it mean that corporations have crossed over from their former role of just being involved in business? What is a public-private partnership? Why does business want to take over the role of government?

Public Private Partnerships
The first time I heard the phrase, "public-private partnership" was when I was covering the Habitat II conference in 1995 in Istanbul, Turkey. I had completely missed the phrase in the conference programme of action. That document stated, "There is an urgent need to REDEFINE and RESUSCITATE the existing processes and structure of cooperation and to evolve new and innovative forms of cooperation with a view to enabling humankind to face the challenges posed by the development of rural and urban areas. Thus there is a need for the political will of all States…to establish and inspire new forms of cooperation, partnership, coordination, and investment, including with the local private sector" (Item No. 143).

It should be noted that five years earlier the Prince of Wales formed a non-profit organization called the Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, now the International Business Leaders Forum for the sole purpose of starting partnerships between corporations and post-Communist country governments. Charles said, "Business is at a crossroad. Does it enter new markets like cowboys on the frontiers? Or does it take a more sophisticated approach?" He asked how business could tackle the challenges of population, poverty, hunger, and conflicts over natural resources. He concluded, "Government can't do it by themselves."

A public-private partnership is exactly what it says it is. It is a business partnership with the goal of making a profit and NOT providing a service like government. A formal business agreement or contract seals the partnership. The business form of partnership provides the most flexibility for operating business as it can be expanded and more partners can be added in the future. Secondly, there are public and private partners. The public partners are all levels of government, from local, to county, state, regional and federal as well as foreign and international, such as the United Nations. The private partners include corporations-those with the deepest pockets and non-governmental organizations like Planned Parenthood, The nature Conservancy, Sierra Club, Red Cross, or the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation. Examples of public-private partnerships include sewer systems, power plants, water facilities, charter schools, etc.

Because all levels of government are broke, the fact that business comes in to "help" is really a transfer of the responsibilities that government use to provide for its citizens as a service to corporations. The corporations want to make a profit. The little lady who receives a 30% increase in her sewer or water bill is not going to understand that the sewer system that use to belong to the city where she lives has now been transferred into a business arrangement that still includes the City as a partner but also has new financial resources with the corporate partner. Who has the real power? Whoever has the money. All across the country and globe, at every level of government, assets are being transferred from government and the citizenry to a new business arrangement in which the goal is a profit.

The term "fascism" comes from the Latin fasces meaning "a bundle of rods with an axe." It is the symbol of state power carried ahead of the counsels in ancient Rome. Fascism began on March 23, 1919 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. Mussolini was funded primarily by business groups and individuals such as Cornelius Vanderbilt, Thomas Lamont, and many other newspaper and magazines publishers as well as by American bankers.

I was able to interview Dr. Wally N'Dow in March, 1997 at the Rio+5 meeting in Rio de Janeiro which was the five year follow-up to the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Since he was in charge of the Habitat II conference, I asked him how the 1996 meeting differed from the first Habitat meeting in 1976. He replied,

In 1976, there were subjects that were taboo in the United Nations. One could not discuss subjects such as the role of the private sector because we were still in the grips of the Cold War; with ideologies contending over what was capitalist, socialist, what was acceptable in the U.N. fora, and what could not be discussed-[like the] private sector and law-who owns it, how it is managed -these things that could not be discussed.

Since 1996, I have seen nothing less than constant movement of government and business. There has been a constant stream of meetings between government and business with some of them at the United Nations. It appears to me that if the humanitarian/disaster relief is "made to order" and will provide the corporations with a constant stream of new economic re-development projects designed to not only "improve" the city or area that has been destroyed, but also provide them with the ability to change the structure of government from one that represents the people to one thatis for their benefit alone.

I remember in the early 1970's, I was flying from Tel Aviv to Rome via a stop over in Beirut. I was amazed at its beauty from the air. It looked just like Chicago to me. Then it went through years of war and was destroyed. When I was at the Habitat II conference in Istanbul, they had a "Best Practices" display. There I saw a model city of the new Beirut. The person in charge of the display explained how the whole city had been rebuilt using public-private partnerships. Is it too far to make a connection between disaster relief and creative destruction. Is the world being re-molded and restructured in front of our eyes under the excuse of disaster relief?

THE BUSINESS RESPONSE TO NATURAL DISASTER
In April, 2005, The Business Roundtable hosted a one day meeting at the United Nations along with international relief organizations with the purpose to work together to improve their joint response to global disasters. According to the UN, this gathering was "unprecedented as they began to outline ways to respond more effectively to global disaster and emergencies in the future." Earlier in December, 2004 the corporations contributed more than $450M in aid for the South Seas tsunami. Taking that disaster as their mandate, they are now looking to re-build the region through public-private partnerships. Former President Bill Clinton who was appointed UN Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, told the participants,

You were there on the ground bringing clean water, shelter and other life-saving materials to those who suffered unspeakable loss in the tsunami. Now the challenge is to use this momentum to help us build the region back better-with less poverty, more economic diversification and greater security. If we achieve this in the tsunami region, we will have an inspiring model for action for other countries in crisis.

The Chairman and CEO of Pfizer, Hank McKinnell, who also serves as The Business Roundtable Chairman told participants that American businesses have thousands of highly trained people who are skilled in all the critical services. He added

We know that public-private partnerships work. The tsunami disaster demonstrated the importance and value of expertise from business working in a public-private partnership model. The massive and sudden devastation led us all to rewrite the rule book on how we could work more purposefully together.

Pfizer's goal is to turn on the tap of cash and medicine as quickly as possible when there is a disaster and to work with the World Health Organization, the United Nation's Children's Fund and others to cut through bureaucracy and streamline the donation process. McKinnell went on to say,

Commitments such as the United Nations Global Compact have shown that private and public organizations could move together towards both stronger partnerships and positive change. Working together as partners we can bring more help and more hope to those thrust suddenly into a vortex of misery. Along the way, we can help fulfill the vision of the United Nations.

At the April meeting, Jan Egeland told participants that the international response to the tsunami disaster should serve as a model for all humanitarian crises, both natural disasters and human conflicts.

Other Business Arrangements
There are many other business organizations that are forming branches to deal with disaster relief such as the Center for Corporate Citizenship-Business Disaster Assistance Program through the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.

There is great integration between the corporations and non-governmental organizations and disaster relief organizations. The Center for Corporate Citizenship works with The Business Roundtable, Center for International Disaster Information, Council on Foundations, FEMA, the Fritz Institute, Gifts in Kind International, the Red Cross and the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum. So what does it mean that corporations have crossed over from their former role of just being involved in business?

A NEW FORM OF GOVERNMENT - Regional or Metro Government
Furthermore, public-private partnerships facilitate regional or metro government. Regionalism or metropolitan government was put into place in the United States by Richard Nixon in 1969. Using Executive Order No. 11647, President Nixon reorganized the powers of national government to subordinate the American people when he divided the United State into ten regions with ten new regional capitals, each ruled by its own federal director who reports directly to the president. He then moved five federal agencies-Housing and Urban Development-HUD, Health, Education and Welfare-HHEW, OEO, Small Business Administration-SBA and Labor as being part of the new structure of government. This new structure fits in with the regions that the United Nations has divided the world into. A White House spokesman said that "if you broke these regions up and put them in the United Nations Gazetteer, they would be the '8th…12th…14 biggest and richest countries in the world" ( Jo Hindman Jo, The Metrocrats, Caxton Printers, Ltd., 1974, p.14).

Let us be real clear about regional or metropolitan government, it is an additional layer of government that Nixon put over elected government in order to change the power structure that our Constitution put in place: a small federal government with a strong state government. This is no longer as our States send all their tax money to Washington which then re-appropriates those monies to the metro level of government! it is an APPOINTED FORM OF GOVERNMENT! T In other words, those in hose in leadership over us who have access to money and who are given power are not elected, they are appointed, thus, reducing the power of which is REPRESENTATIVE GOVERNMENT. , they are appointed.

If you Just look at the UN system, everyone in any kind of power position is appointed, from the secretary-general down to the UN ambassadors. even the Secretary-General is appointed (behind closed doors). Everyone in the UN system is APPOINTED. If you look Look at the European Union, -mmost of those serving in key functions are APPOINTED NOT ELECTED. Add to appointed government, public private partnership, and you have just allowed the rich to real license to buy your agenda.buy their agenda without any The bureaucrat has no one to answer toaccountability.

THE GLOBALIZATION OF GIVING
There are many ways to "America's Unpreparedness
What we all heard within the first few days of the New Orleans disaster and the people left to rot in the Superdome is that government did not work. According to Dr. Irwin E. Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster preparedness at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, "The country is really just not prepared for a major catastrophic event. Whatever it is-the Big One in San Francisco, a terrorist attack-it doesn't matter. The unfortunate truth is our ability to imagine and plan for catastrophic disasters is woefully inadequate (BusinessWeek, 9/19/05, 36). BusinessWeek is suggesting that perhaps the next disasters may be "The Next Big One in the form of an earthquake in California, an avian flue pandemic starting in Chicago, or a dirty bomb in Washington or Manhattan" (ibid).

Based on the UN documents I have read and the fact that the U.S. has a disaster preparedness plan that needs some help, one of the key focuses of the September United Nations Summit will be on greater coordination and interconnectedness with regard to preparations. Furthermore, it fuels the public-private partnership mantra, opening the door to less representative government and more transfer of government.

I wrote in Global Straitjacket which was published in 2000,

Just think, with all the natural disasters, the world automatically needs to be integrated from the local police/fire/rescue/emergency to the global level which also includes terrorism. Natural disaster preparedness provides a wonderful opportunity to integrate these agencies which could be considered an "international police force.

The Era of Giving
You know, ttransfer of wealth." takes many forms. While the higher cost of living through higher oil prices is one from of transferring wealth through inflation, One is inflation-the cost of living as we are seeing right now at the gas pumps. The increased cost of energy has yet to work its way through the economy to the grocery store and to prescriptions. Another is tanother common form is taxation by government. However I suggest to you the "globalization of giving" which I believe is Another is taking money from people in times of distress by tugging on their heart strings and not their "purse strings."

The Indian Ocean tsunami resulted in $1B in gifts and donations from the United States alone. Of that amount, $750M was collected from private relief sources. The UN received over $5B for victims. The Red Cross received $150M and Amazon.com collected $3M from 53,000 people who clicked on. Relief was not limited to government and private individuals, but corporations as well. Many companies set up funds for their employees to respond to the disaster. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in response to the massive outpouring, "The past 11 days have been among the darkest in our lifetime. But they have also allowed us to see a new kind of light. We have seen the world coming together" (FT, 1/7/05).

With regard to the outpouring of charity to America, at the UN, George Bush thanked the 115 countries of the world and nearly a dozen international organizations for all their outpouring of gifts. Again, we are being united and integrated through disaster and humanitarianism.

because to help government out in times of emergency. While Americans are known for giving out of the out of the goodness of their hearts, let us take a look at what is happening from a governmental level. The charitable gifts of people are really a new form of taxation as the government does not have to pay for the expenses that have helped all those who hcharity is paying for. ave lost their homes, it is a cost that government does not have to worry about. Think about that. Am I saying we should do nothing? No., Tthat is not Christian, but there are those who take advantage of exploit goodness. From a global perspective, this outpouring from the heart now constitutes the "globalization of giving." The world is being integrated in a new way: through disaster
relief as people come together from all parts of the world to help those in need. This is a new facet in global interconnectedness: the final integration is tying the world together through the heart.

A portion of the money flowing into certain organizations will never get to the poor. It will be used for administrative expenses. Think about former presidents Bush I and Clinton forming a foundation for disaster relief for Hurricane Katrina. How much do you think will get to the people? Don't they have to be paid? If they did not have to be paid, there would be no need to form a foundation. They could have collected it on behalf of the government or FEMA.

Let us look further at the Indian Ocean tsunami. The tragedy resulted in $1B in gifts and donations from the United States alone. Of that amount, $750M were from private relief sources. The UN received over $5B for victims. The Red Cross received $150M and Amazon.com collected $3M from 53,000 people who clicked on. Relief was not limited to government and private individuals but corporations as well. Many companies set up funds for their employees to respond to the disaster. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said in response to the massive outpouring, "The past 11 days have been among the darkest in our lifetime. But they have also allowed us to see a new kind of light. We have seen the world coming together" (FT, 1/7/05).

Currently we are seeing a duplication of what happened in the South Seas just NINE MONTHS LATER! While I am grateful to see the outpouring of REAL LOVE AND CONCERN by ALL AMERICANS AND ORGNANIZATIONS, SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, ETC., look at the monies that are covering expenses that governments use to do. Does not these heart-felt contributions constitute a "charitable type of tax" but given from the heart voluntarily versus demanded by governments?

SUMMARY
As the saga of New Orleans Orleans and Galveston evolves, we will see the complete picture. We know that as a result of the massive rebuilding that it will stimulate the economy. Is this part of "creative destruction"? Yes. Do I think it is part of creative destruction? Yes. Were these hurricanes planned? Do I think Hurricanes Katrina and Rita isare planned? Yes. I believe they were and that it is only the beginning of the catastrophic events we will see on American soil. Just as 9/11 was the impetus to tear down the remaining barriers between the nation-states, these hurricanes are the impetus to finalize the interconnectedness of the world. Were the Gulf States chosen? Do I believe that the area was chosen? Yes. Do I believe that it will further UN goals? Yes. The above speaks for itself. The research undertaken in order to put this newsletter together has been overwhelming. It took six weeks to write this report. I have already outlined a number of the ways the world will be further integrated as a result of the hurricanes. The following will examine domestically the changes that are and will occur. Let me enumerate all the ways At every turn, world government will be empowered.
Katrina has affected us.
1.
While
Ggasoline prices were rising before Katrina, Katrina and Rita have exacerbated America's "Achilles' Heel". and were exacerbated because of Katrina. Our government had many opportunities to shore up our energy dependence and our refining capacities but did nothing. The higher cost of living as a result of the higher costs of energy will be felt in every sector of the economy.

A number of years ago, I asked Sam Johnson, CEO of S.C. Johnson Wax & Company what he would like to see in America. He told me that he would like to get every housewife out of her SUV and into a car driven by alternative energy. Higher energy prices will do that. Given the fact that most Americans are barely making ends meet, when it comes to doubling the amount they pay for gas, they will sell their SUV and economize. This is great news for companies that have high gas mileage vehicles. Congress just passed the Energy Bill which provides great incentives and subsidies to corporations to develop these cars. Again, is this a better idea over a bad idea or creative destruction and/or economic stimulus? It will take years before the Energy Bill really kicks in. Until then we are in a tough position.

As of October 4, the sale of trucks and SUVs in September had fallen substantially while big Japanese automakers posted an increase in sales of 10-12% for high mileage vehicles. Sales of Ford's large SUVs, including the Ford Explorer and Expedition and the Lincoln Navigator sank by more than 55% each with GM sales of trucks, minivans and SUV's dropping by 30% (WP, 10/4/05, D1, Freeman). Needless to say, owners of these vehicles have also suffered huge losses, especially when they go to trade them in.

Ever since the crash of the NASDAQ, Americans have been taken on a ride by the Federal Reserve. In an effort to cover up the loss of $7T as a result of the Nasdaq crash, the Fed dropped long-term interest rates to 45 year lows. With this kind of financial stimulus, Americans did what seemed reasonable: trade up to the dream home since they could afford to finance more with lower mortgage rates. This has had a huge effect as housing prices have doubled over the last five years in many parts of the country. Now with much higher energy prices and home heating fuels projected to rise by 30% to 50% during the winter months, Americans are being fed to the lions economically. What will those do who are living close to the line? Between the SUV and the 5,000+ sq. foot home, they will be put between a rock and hard place.

There are a number of varying reports as to the damage caused by the two hurricanes. In September, the Financial Times reported Hurricane Rita caused more damage to oil rigs than any other storm in history. With Texas being home to about 27% of U.S. refinery capacity, there are reports that four refineries would be shut down for up to a month. Furthermore, two oil drilling platforms had visible damage, and 38 mobile drilling units were uprooted. As a result of Rita, 100% of Gulf of Mexico crude oil output and 80% of the area's natural gas production has been shut down as a precaution ahead of the storm. All facilities will have to be inspected and repaired as needed before being returned to service (FT, 9/27/05, 4 Hoyos). As of October, Reuters reports that 7 oil refineries are still off line. They represent 11% of total U.S. refining capacity.

With regard to oil refineries, no refinery has been built in the U.S. for about 30 years as a result of the industry being concerned about regulatory barriers and profitability. While there was a surplus of capacity in the early 1980s, profit margins for refiners fell and many facilities where shut. Today with increased demand, refinery capacity has not kept pace as the U.S. now relies on imported gasoline for 40 million gallons of its 380 million-gallon daily needs. Katrina hit in an area where U.S. oil operations are concentrated with the deep water wells located in the Gulf of Mexico, right in the path of the hurricanes (FT, 9/21/05, D1, Blum).

In response to the tight refinery capacity that the U.S. has, the House passed an energy-industry-backed bill that would encourage construction of new refineries. The measure would provide subsidies to small refiners and make some federal land available for new refineries. It also aims to encourage the construction of more pipelines. The swing votes were from Congressmen who received assurances that taxpayers would not have to cover a refinery's legal bills if it was sued by environmentalists. The bill could cost taxpayers $3.5B through 2015 according to the Congressional Budget Office (WP, 10/8/05, A7, Blum/Weisman).

With regard to oil rigs, which are moveable and used for oil exploration and development, there was a shortage before the hurricanes. Rigs cost between $90M-$550M and take three to four years to build, depending on their sophistication and how deep the waters are where they will be located (FT, 9/28/05, 1 McNulty). Many foreigners blame America for not have the proper infrastructure in place to handle our needs: refineries and rigs.

4. There are between 500,000 to 900,000 people who are homeless as a result of the hurricanes with FEMA paying $8.3M a day in hotel bills for them.

On September 15, President Bush proposed a number of far reaching recommendations to aid the Gulf Coast. These recommendations will cost Americans up to $150B or more. They include:
Providing funding to school districts enrolling large numbers of displaced children
Covering evacuees with health care by issuing waivers to reimburse states for extra Medicaid and uncompensated care expenses through January 31, 2006
c. Offering short-term housing for first responders and workers.
d. Working with state governors and other officials as they plan their communities and look to make the flood protection system stronger which will involve changing zoning laws and building codes.
e. Providing Worker Recovery Accounts of $5,000 to those who need help finding a job. Many victims are eligible for state unemployment benefits for 26 weeks.
f. The president has asked USA Freedom Corps to create an information Clearing House for Relief efforts which will allow families anywhere to find opportunities to help Gulf Coast region families.
g. The President proposed an "Urban Homesteading Initiative" to provide a new beginning for low income evacuees. They will be allowed to occupy a government-owned home at a low interest rate in exchange for their personal sweat equity in the property. The government will identify property in regions owned by the federal government and provide building sites to low-income citizens free of charge through a lottery. They can build on the lot or get help from a charitable organization like Habitat for Humanity.
h. The Gulf Coast Opportunity Zone-GO Zone to spur economic growth. These benefits would be available through 2007.

5. It appears that many of the governmental solutions involve non-profit organizations and are thus a public-private partnership. It also appears that the Gulf Opportunity Zone is part of the economic structure of regional government which is appointed government. 2. Let us take a deeper look at the economics. For the last four years, interest rates have lured people from the smaller home to the larger dream home with the fatter mortgage. Everyone has the SUV which is now worth 50% of its original value. The higher oil/gas prices go, the lower SUV's and the big dream homes will go. In California, a great majority of mortgages are interest only because of the high prices there. Americans are being fed to the lions economically, politically, and emotionally.

3 As Alan Greenspan wished, Americans will slow down their spending which will slow the economy. However, the cost of energy and related products will act as an additional tax. on Americans. Greenspan is going to continue to raise interest rates. I would imagine in order to keep foreign money here, that it is necessary to lure them with higher interest rates. Higher rates will also pour cold water on a hot housing market, thus bringing prices down for a short period of time. When we had the oil embargoes in the 1970s, America had just gotten off the gold standard. Today, we have great amounts of debt at every level. We are not in the place of economic power like we were in the 1970s.

4. For the first time, we saw scenes on the television that should be been elsewhere but America. We saw destruction that might be been from a bomb if we did not know it was Katrina. We have refugees and make-shift camps. WEe have American and foreign armies patrolling. We have been recipients of foreign aid instead of giving it. At the UN, George Bush thanked the 115 countries of the world and nearly a dozen international organizations for all their outpouring of gifts. Again, we are being united and integrated through disaster and humanitarianism.

The new tools of world government are public-private partnerships and regional government. Bush has already announced that he is going to "propose the creation of a Gulf Opportunity Zone, encompassing the region of the disaster in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama." He says he will listen to everyone, including the private sector. Just as the United Nations has made public-private partnership an integral part of their activities, so too is our government. It is called "reinventing America." Please see chapter 3 of my book, The United Nations Global Straitjacket. Furthermore, public-private partnership is a cornerstone of the Louisiana 2020 Vision. Public-private partnership is fascism. It is a structural change in the form of government. It is not representative government!

6. Christian organizations and churches currently partner with the government under "faith-based initiatives." Instead of government partnering with business which is fascism, government is partnering with churches which make them "government sponsored churches." Just as public-private-partnerships has become the cornerstone of the UN, so too it has it also become the cornerstone of the U.S. government. I believe that this is the open door for churches to become part of the global activities. They will be enveloped into the humanitarian agenda and world government without ever understanding what has been written above.

The Gulf Opportunity Zone will be part of the economic structure of regional government. The m The monies given to rebuild will not be given directly to the State or local government but to the regional government which has responsibility for the sewer, water, transportation, etc.

Recently Freddie Mac said they plan to put $1B into mortgages and home-repair loans in areas damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Freddie Mac plans to buy $1B worth of bonds from state and local housing finance agencies. Both Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae buy mortgages from banks and other lenders and repackage them into securities to sell to investors (WP, 10/13/05, D1, Shin). Many of the investors are foreign.

Former House Speaker, Newt Gingrich said this with regard to the Hurricanes, "This is a very exciting period about what is effective government in the 21st Century. Either he [Bush] will be FDR and lead a dramatic change of government or he will be defender of a failed system. The biggest political challenge for the next two years is to re-center the government" (FT, 9/23/05, 6, Daniel). New Gingrich is a "New Republican" which means he agrees with public-private partnership and changing the structure of government. What Gingrich is basically supporting is the interconnectedness of the nation-states.

6.
Again, it will not be elected government that benefits, it will be appointed government.

The president is also recommending an Urban Homesteading Act in which the federal government will provide building sites to low income on a lottery basis and then they can get Habitat for Humanity to help build homes. This is public-private partnership. The title to the home, if I am correct, will be held by Habitat. They can live there for the time they are alive, then the house reverts to Habitat.

47. The whole agenda of disaster relief and humanitarianism wreakssmells of fostering the agenda of of world government! Now that the economic, political, trade, legal, military and intelligence barriers between the nation-states are down, it is public-private partnership, disaster relief and humanitarianism that are the tools for final interconnectedness. Humanitarianism is the new cry of the globalists. Governments no longer work like they did in the past and we now need "innovative forms of governance," the public-private partnership. Watch very closely the whole idea of "human beings being at the center for sustainable development" and at the center of the UN focus. It is no longer governments.

58. What did Katrina show us on a massive level? Where FEMA needs to shore up. Bush is now demanding that every city/state have an emergency plan to deal with to "have a clear and up-to-date plan for responding to natural disaster, and disease outbreaks, or a terrorist attack, for evacuating large numbers of people in an emergency, and for providing the food and water and security they would need" (9/18/05, White House web site). This is something the UN is also calling for.

69. Years ago, at a UN meeting, they made it quite clear that everyone in the future had a role to play. We are now seeing humanity come together. Disaster, death, and war tug at all our hearts. I believe in helping our fellow man in times of distress. However, the government is now asking for a bailout which will replace asking for a tax. Our gifts really constitute a "voluntary tax." I find it interesting that Bush 1 and Clinton formed a foundation to collect monies for victims. You don't need a foundation. A foundation takes office space, office help, television time, and salaries for those raising the funds. They have already received $100M in pledges. I just can't help but wonder what their take will be. The Red Cross was accused and rightly so of collecting money for victims and then keeping it for their operating expenses.

10.7. BBecause of all those who have been left homeless and without any identity, I believe it will cause a new call for identity cards or the micro-chip in the hand.

There are many ways in which Hurricanes Katrina and Rita will facilitate the goals and agenda of world government. President Bush basically agreed to the total UN agenda of integration, global tax, reform, first strike to confront terrorism, eliminating agricultural tariffs and barriers, for a freer world, and funding the United Nations Millennium Development goals.


It is God who overrides the evil deeds of men. For my part, I pray that America will see the largest spiritual revival in history! New Orleans has been a center of drugs, prostitution, gambling, orgies, and witchcraft. My prayer is that the people of that region will turn to the God who is there and that Americans will cling to Him so that in times of trouble, they may be comforted. And in the future, should America have more "natural disasters", I pray that it will lead to an America that returns to holiness, integrity, righteousness, and a new humbleness before the Lord God Almighty. Let us remember that it is God who uses both good and evil to accomplish His purposes in the world.