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Scientist: Japan earthquake, nuke “accident” are tectonic nuclear warfare; by Alfred Lambremont Webre Independent scientist Leuren Moret, whose 2004 landmark article in the Japan Times unmasked lies and distortions by government and company officials that led to the construction of nuclear power plants in seismically dangerous areas, has declared in an exclusive 65-minute video interview with Alfred Lambremont Webre that the “Japan earthquake and “accidents” at the Fukushima’s 6 nuclear power plant units starting March 11, 2011 are in fact deliberate acts of tectonic nuclear warfare, carried out against the populations ecology of Japan and the nations of the Northern Hemisphere, including the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. In her May 23, 2004 Japan Times article, Japan's deadly game of nuclear roulette, Ms. Leuren predicted, “It is not a question of whether or not a nuclear disaster will occur in Japan; it is a question of when it will occur. Like the former Soviet Union after Chernobyl, Japan will become a country suffering from radiation sickness destroying future generations, and widespread contamination of agricultural areas will ensure a public-health disaster. Its economy may never recover.” Japan earthquake triggered by HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails plasma weapon, to cause nuclear radiation mega leaks Now, in an exclusive interview released March 20, 2011, independent scientist has set out the multiple reasons why the Japan earthquake was most plausibly conditioned and triggered by a HAARP-aerosol/chemtrails plasma weapon, to cause Chernobyl-like nuclear radiation mega leaks that, according to a report by the Swedish government, will be distributed over the entire Northern hemisphere of the planet. Among the various aspects of the Japan earthquake discussed by Ms. Moret that fit the profile of a HAARP-triggered earthquake system are: • The earthquake intensity and characteristics; the deliberate confusion by the U.S. around the scale of the earthquake; • The foreshadowing sale of Japan Westinghouse (controlled by Rockefeller interests) in 2006 to Hitachi and other interests; • The use of the Stuxnet virus in the Fukushima plant to cause the malfunctions of the cooling pumps and valves, thereby creating the dangerous radiation releases; • The creation of HAARP-related vortex clouds over the San Francisco, CA Bay Area on March 18, 2011 to trigger a heavy rain out of the radiation from the first Fukushima plant explosion onto the population, food and ecology of the Bay area. (Examiner) | |||
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| 9/6/2010 |
BP spill: White House says oil has gone, but Gulf's fishermen are not so sure Counsellors and lawyers are busier than seafarers in Louisiana, as some experts warn that fishing industry will never recover High tide, and the remains of a late summer storm, and it is hard to tell on this strip of land between the Mississippi and the marsh where land ends and water begins. It was here – in the most southerly reaches of Louisiana on terrain that is slowly sliding into the sea – that oil from BP's Macondo well first started coming ashore, about a week after the 20 April explosion on the Deepwater Horizon. Eleven men were killed when the drilling platform blew up. And it is here where local people will take the most convincing that the worst of the oil spill is behind them and that recovery is under way. Barack Obama's point man on the spill, the US Coast Guard's former commander, Thad Allen, said at the weekend that the well no longer posed any threat to the Gulf. Crews will begin the last few remaining operations needed to abandon the well this week. People here live and die by the water. On a fine day the docks in Venice empty out, with seaworthy boats and able-bodied crew off to look for oil contamination, at sea and in the marsh grass. No one, it seems, believes the assurances from the White House or government scientists that the oil is largely gone. And no one really believes BP when oil company executives say they will stay in Louisiana for the long haul. (London Guardian) | |||
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| 5/27/2010 |
Obama cancels Gulf drilling projects Takes responsibility for response, works to clean up mineral agency Mr. Obama said his administration has been trying to clean up that agency, the Minerals Management Service. MMS' chief, Elizabeth Birnbaum, an Obama nominee, quit her post Thursday just before Mr. Obama held a press conference. Mr. Obama was not sure whether Ms. Birnbaum resigned or was asked to leave. (Washington Times) | |||
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| 5/27/2010 |
President Obama under fire for BP spill response President Barack Obama is on the defensive over his presidential multitasking, for refusing to scrub his schedule of events that seem peripheral — even trivial — compared with the unfolding catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. As oozing oil fouls Louisiana’s marshes, Obama has committed to maintaining the semblance of a regular schedule, adhering to his walk-and-chew-gum style of crisis management even as criticism of his administration mounts. (Politico) | |||
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| 5/5/2010 |
Former Vice President Dick Cheney and Halliburton are implicated in the British Petroleum Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The ever-growing spill may become known as Dick Cheneys Katrina. Fail-safe acoustic switches considered too costly (MSNBC) | |||
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| 4/27/2010 |
Curry: The Backstory By now, many people must be wondering of Judith Curry: what’s her story? How did the respected Georgia Tech climate scientist go from global warming = more intense hurricanes to darling of climate skeptics? How did she go from staunch IPCC booster to harsh IPCC critic? And why, in heaven’s name, is Curry engaging in multiple conversations about the credibility of climate science on a blog? Well, the quick answer to that last one is that it all started last week, when Curry agreed to a Q & A for this site, which then morphed into a rollicking dialogue that is still going on. (Collide-a-Scape) | |||
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| 2/10/2010 |
Climate-Change Debate Is Heating Up in Deep Freeze Climate scientists say that no individual episode of severe weather can be attributed to global climate trends, though there is evidence that such events will probably become more frequent as global temperatures rise. (New York Times) | |||
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| 6/15/2009 |
New Orleans Program Links Green Jobs, Youth Development New Orleans resident Jordan Walters quit his sales job this year to join a youth service program that would allow him to explore a field he believes will be recession-proof, renewable energy (New York Times) | |||
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| 6/3/2009 |
FEMA might place storm victims in foreclosed homes If a major hurricane strikes Florida, authorities may take advantage of the foreclosure crisis to place displaced residents in vacant homes seized by banks (South Florida Sun Sentinel) | |||
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| 5/6/2009 |
Naomi Klein, columnist for The Nation, author of "The Shock Doctrine", and joins Rachel Maddow to analyze the financial sector bailouts as "disaster capitalism" (MSNBC) | |||
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| 5/4/2009 |
The CDC's Dr. Richard E. Besser Saying the threat of a swine flu pandemic had caught the Obama White House unprepared would be an understatement (Time Magazine) | |||
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| 4/19/2009 |
'Civic generation' rolls up sleeves in record numbers Young adults who grew up in the shadow of the 9/11 attacks and saw the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina are volunteering at home and abroad in record numbers (USA Today) | |||
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| 3/18/2009 | From high above the Earth, the U.S. intelligence community is using satellites to track the activities of drug cartels operating along the U.S.-Mexican border (Associated Press) | |||
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| 1/1/2009 |
Top 25 of 2009: # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA Leaders of Canada, the US, and Mexico have been meeting to secretly expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) with “deep integration” of a more militarized tri-national Homeland Security force. Taking shape under the radar of the respective governments and without public knowledge or consideration, the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP)—headquartered in Washington—aims to integrate the three nations into a single political, economic, and security bloc. The SPP was launched at a meeting of Presidents George W. Bush and Vicente Fox, and Prime Minister Paul Martin, in Waco, Texas, on March 31, 2005. The official US web page describes the SPP as “. . . a White House-led initiative among the United States and Canada and Mexico to increase security and to enhance prosperity . . .” The SPP is not a law, or a treaty, or even a signed agreement. All these would require public debate and participation of Congress. The SPP was born in the “war on terror” era and reflects an inordinate emphasis on US security as interpreted by the Department of Homeland Security. Its accords mandate border actions, military and police training, modernization of equipment, and adoption of new technologies, all under the logic of the US counter-terrorism campaign. Head of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff, along with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Finance Carlos Gutierrez, are the three officials charged with attending SPP ministerial conferences. (Project Censored) | |||
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| 12/1/2008 |
Pentagon Plans To Keep 20,000 Troops Inside US To Bolster Domestic Security The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials. The long-planned shift in the Defense Department's role in homeland security was recently backed with funding and troop commitments after years of prodding by Congress and outside experts, defense analysts said. There are critics of the change, in the military and among civil liberties groups and libertarians who express concern that the new homeland emphasis threatens to strain the military and possibly undermine the Posse Comitatus Act, a 130-year-old federal law restricting the military's role in domestic law enforcement. But the Bush administration and some in Congress have pushed for a heightened homeland military role since the middle of this decade, saying the greatest domestic threat is terrorists exploiting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. (Washington Post) | |||
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| 12/1/2008 |
Pentagon to Detail Troops to Bolster Domestic Security The U.S. military expects to have 20,000 uniformed troops inside the United States by 2011 trained to help state and local officials respond to a nuclear terrorist attack or other domestic catastrophe, according to Pentagon officials (Washington Post) | |||
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| 11/19/2008 |
Inhofe: Paulson Used Scare Tactics to Force Bailout Legislation Oklahoma senator reveals details of conference call and is set to push legislation to make bailout spending transparent. “He said, ‘This is going to be far worse than the Great Depression in the ’30s,’” Inhofe said. “And all these things – he was very descriptive of exactly what would happen if, if we didn’t buy out these toxic assets which he abandoned the day after he got the money.” (Business and Media Institute) | |||
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| 9/30/2008 |
Brigade homeland tours start Oct. 1 3rd Infantry’s 1st BCT trains for a new dwell-time mission. Helping ‘people at home’ may become a permanent part of the active Army The 3rd Infantry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team has spent 35 of the last 60 months in Iraq patrolling in full battle rattle, helping restore essential services and escorting supply convoys. Now they’re training for the same mission — with a twist — at home. Beginning Oct. 1 for 12 months, the 1st BCT will be under the day-to-day control of U.S. Army North, the Army service component of Northern Command, as an on-call federal response force for natural or manmade emergencies and disasters, including terrorist attacks. It is not the first time an active-duty unit has been tapped to help at home. In August 2005, for example, when Hurricane Katrina unleashed hell in Mississippi and Louisiana, several active-duty units were pulled from various posts and mobilized to those areas. But this new mission marks the first time an active unit has been given a dedicated assignment to NorthCom, a joint command established in 2002 to provide command and control for federal homeland defense efforts and coordinate defense support of civil authorities. (Army Times) | |||
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| 4/20/2008 |
Trade the talk of summit, but controversy looms: Bush meets with North American leaders this week in New Orleans With free trade issues looming large in the race to replace him, President Bush this week convenes his final North American Leaders' Summit, focusing on trade, economic and security issues with counterparts from Mexico and Canada. Bush is hosting Mexican President Felipe Calderon and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper in New Orleans for a two-day conference starting today. It is the fourth annual meeting of a summit that first convened in 2005 in Waco. "We'd like to enhance and strengthen an already dynamic and strong relationship, to deepen the cooperation by building on the common interests of our citizens," said Dan Fisk, senior director of Western Hemisphere Affairs for the National Security Council. "The North American relationship works; we believe it works well for all three countries, but we also believe we can make it work better." (Houston Chronicle) | |||
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| 4/13/2008 |
Global Warming Researchers Reverse Stance on Storm Intensity The research -- the first to mesh global climate models with small-scale high-resolution simulations of individual storms -- found that while storm strength rises slightly in some areas, it falls in others -- and the total number of worldwide storms actually declines slightly (Daily Tech) | |||
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| 4/12/2008 |
Hurricane expert reconsiders global warming's impact The new work suggests that, even in a dramatically warming world, hurricane frequency and intensity may not substantially rise during the next two centuries. (Houston Chronicle) | |||
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| 11/16/2007 |
Katrina Update: Poor People Lose Again When Hurricane Katrina hit, poor people in Louisiana and Mississippi bore the brunt of it — they lived in the most vulnerable areas and structures, and they were in the worst position to escape the storm and deal with the aftermath. When Congress voted relief money, it specified that half of it was to go to help low-income victims. Guess what? As Leslie Eaton reports in today’s Times, Mississippi has spent $1.7 billion in federal grant money, and most of that has gone to programs that have benefited big businesses and well-off individuals. Only $167 million, or about 10 percent, so far has gone on programs dedicated to the poor. It’s a scandal, or it should be. (New York Times) | |||
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| 10/9/2007 |
Court Identifies Eleven Inaccuracies in Al Gore’s 'An Inconvenient Truth' The Film is a political work and promotes only one side of the argument. 2.) If teachers present the Film without making this plain they may be in breach of section 406 of the Education Act 1996 and guilty of political indoctrination. 3.) Eleven inaccuracies have to be specifically drawn to the attention of school children. (News Busters) | |||
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| 8/17/2007 |
Feds Train Clergy To "Quell Dissent," turn in guns and split up families (KSLA 12) | |||
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| 3/7/2007 |
NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina (National Rifle Association) | |||
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| 2/9/2007 |
No change in political climate Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers, though one denies the past and the other denies the present and future. (Boston Globe) | |||
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| 8/26/2006 |
Profiting from Disaster Fraud, Scandal and Greed Has Crippled the Gulf Coast's Recovery, But Made Some Very, Very Rich (Counter Punch) | |||
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| 8/20/2006 |
Rex 84: FEMA's Blueprint for Martial Law in America We are dangerously close to a situation where ~ if the American people took to the streets in righteous indignation or if there were another 9/11 ~ a mechanism for martial law could be quickly implemented and carried out under REX 84 (Salon) | |||
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| 6/16/2006 |
An Inconvenient Truth Gore as climate exaggerator Gore claims to be presenting the "scientific consensus" on global warming. But is that so? (Reason) | |||
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| 3/21/2006 |
Defenseless Decision Why were guns taken from law-abiding citizens in New Orleans? (National Review) | |||
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| 2/2/2006 |
Cold Front: Hurricane Debate Shatters Civility Of Weather Science --
Worsened by Global Warming? Spats Are So Tempestuous, Sides Are Barely Talking
-- Charge of 'Brain Fossilization' The 2,000-plus scientists at this week's annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society had plenty to talk about, from last year's droughts to flash floods and wildfires. But the biggest question at the meeting in Atlanta -- why last hurricane season was the worst since recordkeeping began 151 years ago -- was almost too hot to handle. William Gray, America's most prominent hurricane scientist and an ardent foe of the belief that global warming has worsened hurricanes, was supposed to join a panel discussing the storms. So was Greg Holland of the National Center on Atmospheric Research -- who disagrees with Dr. Gray. But the organizers withdrew the invitations after deciding the dispute had grown so nasty it was too risky to put the two in the same room. "It was looking like it would totally dominate everything else," says Joe Schaefer, a planner and the director of the National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center. (Wall Street Journal) | |||
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| 1/24/2006 |
White House Received Dire Warnings Pre-Katrina Newly released documents show the White House and other officials received more dire warnings than previously thought about Hurricane Katrina's potential impact. One Homeland Security report predicted hours before the storm hit that New Orleans would likely be submerged by flooding for weeks, and even months. Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairwoman Susan Collins said today that one failure was a lack of follow up to a 2004 government exercise in Louisiana involving a make-believe storm called Hurricane Pam. That exercise exposed many of the problems that eventually occurred during Hurricane Katrina. But Collins noted that the drill was repeatedly delayed. Still other witnesses said the Hurricane Pam exercise, which projected more than 60,000 deaths from the storm, added to the urgency with which officials responded to Katrina, encouraging far more people to evacuate than had been predicted. The committee hopes to finish its investigation in March. (National Public Radio) | |||
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| 12/14/2005 |
Air Marshals Expand Beyond Planes The so-called "Visible Intermodal Protection and Response" teams, or VIPER teams, will patrol Amtrak's Northeast Corridor and Los Angeles rail lines; ferries in Washington state; bus stations in Houston; and mass transit systems in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore. (Associated Press) | |||
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| 10/23/2005 |
Natural Disasters and the Militarization of America Both the Avian Flu threat, which has taken on a political twist, and the hurricane disasters are being used by the Bush White House to justify a greater role for the Military in the country's civilian affairs (Global Research) | |||
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| 10/11/2005 |
Mystery still surrounds Earth’s oil supply Scientists trade theories on how petroleum arises If abiogenic petroleum sources are indeed found to be abundant, it would mean Earth contains vast reserves of untapped petroleum and, since other rocky objects formed from the same raw material as Earth, that crude oil might exist on other planets or moons in the solar system, scientists say. Both processes for making petroleum likely require thousands of years. Even if Earth does contain far more oil than currently thought, it's inevitable that reserves will one day run out. Scientists disagree sharply, however, on when that will occur. And some say a global crisis could begin as soon as increasing demand is greater than supply. Some analysts argue that such a scenario might play out in years rather than decades. (MSNBC) | |||
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| 10/5/2005 |
Bush wants troops to enforce bird flu quarantines President Bush, stirring debate on the worrisome possibility of a bird flu pandemic, suggested dispatching American troops to enforce quarantines in any areas with outbreaks of the killer virus (Associated Press) | |||
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| 10/4/2005 |
Governors shun Bush military plan Survey finds most believe disaster relief is local job (World Net Daily) | |||
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| 10/4/2005 |
Martial Law and the Avian Flu Pandemic Why all of a sudden is avian flu on the presidential agenda? (Global Research) | |||
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| 10/3/2005 |
If You Can't Take the Heat Get Out of the West Wing The thermostats were turned up two degrees throughout the West Wing last week, and staff members willing to relinquish their coveted White House parking passes were promised free fare on the Metro subway system (New York Times) | |||
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| 10/2/2005 |
Gas prices may last six months The nation's energy chief says it will take six months for U.S. energy production and prices to return to pre-hurricane levels, and he hints at energy shortages in the interim (USA Today) | |||
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| 9/26/2005 |
Bush offers Pentagon as 'lead agency' in disasters "Is there a circumstance in which the Department of Defense becomes the lead agency?" Mr. Bush asked members of a military task force participating in Hurricane Rita relief efforts (Washington Times) | |||
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| 9/24/2005 |
US Northern Command and Hurricane Rita There are indications that the Bush Administration is preparing to enact far-reaching emergency procedures in response to Hurricane Rita, which could potentially lead the country into a situation of Martial Law (Global Research) | |||
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| 9/20/2005 |
Opec to increase oil production Oil cartel Opec will release an extra two million barrels a day, some of the last spare oil production it has, in an effort to ease crude price pressures (BBC) | |||
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| 9/19/2005 |
Disaster relief? Call in the Marines Bush suggests a broader domestic role for the military (Christian Science Monitor) | |||
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| 9/17/2005 |
Branson hopes to build refinery Sir Richard Branson plans to hold talks with the government about paying for a new oil refinery (BBC) | |||
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| 9/17/2005 |
Historic changes possible in military's role in domestic emergencies Bush's push to give the military a bigger role in responding to major disasters like Hurricane Katrina could lead to a loosening of legal limits on the use of federal troops on U.S. soil (USA Today) | |||
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| 9/15/2005 |
Federal troops should be first responders to natural disasters, experts say Pentagon officials and military experts are war-gaming future domestic catastrophes with the full-time military playing an integral first-responder role possibly as a police force which is now illegal (Gannet News Service) | |||
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| 9/13/2005 |
FEMA, La. outsource Katrina body count to firm implicated in body-dumping scandals Kenyon is a subsidiary of Service Corporation International (SCI), a scandal-ridden Texas-based company operated by a friend of the Bush family (The Raw Story) | |||
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| 9/12/2005 |
Doctors Euthanized Katrina Victims With gangs of rapists and looters rampaging through wards in the flooded city, senior doctors took the harrowing decision to give massive overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive (Australian Daily Telegraph) | |||
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| 9/12/2005 |
Mercenaries guard homes of the rich in New Orleans After scenes of looting and lawlessness in the days immediately after Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans has turned into an armed camp, patrolled by thousands of local, state and federal law enforcement officers, as well as 70,000 national guard troops and active-duty soldiers now based in the region (London Guardian) | |||
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