Here's a photo of a working-group planning Operation Overlord. Who voted for these people? /sarc
Posted on 09/09/2006 8:39:48 AM PDT by hedgetrimmer
.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has launched a review of disaster planning for the financial markets, the Financial Times reported on Saturday.
The move was prompted by concerns about Wall Street's ability to withstand a terrorist attack, natural disaster or flu pandemic, the newspaper said.
In one of his first acts in the post, the FT said Paulson had asked the president's working group on financial markets to assess the improvements made since the September 11 attacks on the United States five years ago.
The FT said there was continued Wall Street concern about the resilience of power and telecommunications services, adding the attacks exposed weaknesses in the industry's disaster planning and closed the equity market for four days.
Experts say financial services companies have improved the resilience of their operations, the FT said. But some senior Wall Street figures are concerned that the utilities, on which financial markets are highly dependent, have made less progress, it added.
U.S. Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Scott Parsons was quoted as saying the utilities had made "tremendous improvements."
But, he added: "We remain concerned about how to provide better resilience in telecommunications, which is the financial sector's single biggest dependency."
A Treasury Department spokesperson was not immediately available for comment on the FT report.
According to the kooks, it's inside the circle called the plunge protection team.
Where are the studies of the market's ability to withstand the Shanghai Cooperation Organization / The Axis of Evil? I've never seen such a study by either any "working groups" or official government. When I read the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal, I find that this topic of "what if the globalist utopia, like all past such utopias, reaches its bloody end?" is taboo. Like all others in denial, those addicted to the energy of this current utopia cannot form the ugly thought. That's sad. Real capitalists look harsh reality, history and futurity straight in the eye. We don't deny that war and human nature have not been retired, we don't claim to be past some mythical end of history, we don't claim the world is flat!! :)
That's not much weirder than planning for flu pandemic. The answer to that one is faceless trading, aka, Nasdaq.
Here's a photo of a working-group planning Operation Overlord. Who voted for these people? /sarc
What do they know that the rest of us should?? Why are they doing this now?? The timing is rather interesting.
They have been going to meetings on 'diaster preparation and harmonization' for the past several years. In fact disaster planning across the three countries has been a feature of the plan to integrate Canada, Mexico and the USA into the NAU. You remember the Mexican marines coming to 'our' rescue during Hurricane Katrina's aftermath, don't you? All part of the plan to harmonize our countries and finish off the unique experiment in self government by the American people.
It was sickening...clearly unwarranted...and enfuriating. Idiot boy won't reply to that situation's reminder. Won't touch it with a ten foot pole.
All part of the plan to harmonize our countries and finish off the unique experiment in self government by the American people.
Sure looks likely to me.
Who is "idiot boy?" If you are referring to me, then I'd wish you'd have the balls to insult me to my face. Stop being such a chick.
U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton, Calif., Mexican marines from ARM Papaloapan (A 411), Sailors on board USS Bataan (LPD 5) and Dutch sailors on board HMS Van Amstel (F 831), participated in one of the first international humanitarian efforts here, repairing D'Iberville Elementary School just outside of Biloxi.Marine Corps. News (www.usmc.mil) Marines join international effort to aid victims of Katrina, Sept. 10, 2005.The elementary school is currently being used as both a shelter and a food and water distribution center.
The Marines were not the only ones to come to the city's rescue. Help also came from across the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. The Dutch Navy and the Mexican Marines also lent a hand to help rebuild two public schools in the community here.Also, from the following source (please note that links are available to other press reports here, as well as the mailing addresses for the Ambassadors of Mexico and Netherlands in case you wish to send a thank-you note):A detachment of representatives from the U.S. Marines and the international military contingent were performing similar work a few miles down the road at D'Iberville Elementary School.
Mexico's contributions to Katrina relief include (but are not limited to) the following:[]
- An Army convoy carrying relief supplies and almost 200 personnel arrived in San Antonio, Texas, on September 9. The supplies it brought include 2 mobile kitchens, each capable of feeding up to 21,000 people a day; mobile water treatment plants; and 15 trailers of drinking water.
- A Mexican Navy ship carrying approximately 75 Marines and half a dozen doctors and nurses is in Biloxi, where its personnel are helping the crew of the USS Bataan with recovery and relief operations in southern Mississippi.
The Netherlands has provided a range of support for Katrina recovery, including (but not limited to):_____
- Three water pumps to help drain flooded areas, with personnel to operate them
- Water control experts to help inspect New Orleans' levees
- A Navy frigate and approximately 200 crew, including medical personnel and rescue crews, is in Biloxi. The Dutch are working in cooperation with personnel of the USS Bataan and Mexico's ARM Papaloapan to deliver food and water to hurricane victims, provide security, and conduct recovery operations. Helicopter crews from the HNLMS Van Amstel have conducted a number of flights in support of these operations.
Another source known to Alex Jones called the Austin Police Department and they said that they knew about the armed troops. The police asked if the troops had threatened the caller. The caller said they threaten the sovereignty of the country and the police laughed and hung up.Don't mess with Texas. [chuckle]
Zowee! Like we really need THEM! And no rejection by the U.S. and the State Dept. either, apparently?
Of course some Globalist apologist will say this is all black-helicopter stuff.
Ping.
"The amount of energy being expended in shepherding and handling the Mexican troops is greater than any aid they can render. We don't need their help.Bizarre. Anyone debunk any of the claims as to FEMA cutting emergency phone lines? FEMA turning back the WalMart shipment of waters? The Coast Guard heating oil sitting in a ship at the port? The 600-bed hospital ship? FEMA is inept beyond words. To have done this stuff deliberately strikes me as above its level of organizational capability.The very notion that these troops are entering Texas to provide aid directly contradicts the fact that Alex Jones personally visited Austin Convention Center and saw piles of food and clothes lined up for refugees.
In other areas, aid is desperately required because FEMA has been deliberately sabotaging relief efforts. The LA Times reported today that "scores of police and volunteer firefighters from around the nation, as well as trucks loaded with donated water, were even now being prevented from entering New Orleans while troops conduct house-to-house searches."
FEMA has also been cutting communication lines. Sheriffs in several counties of New Orleans have set up armed guard patrols to prevent FEMA from further actions of sabotage.
FEMA has therefore intentionally created the climate for the justification of foreign troops entering the US."
That being said...it was just insane to have foreign aid. With piles of our own relief supplies piled high...and waiting.
Especially egregious is the UN Human Rights monitors. Eeeeew!
"Work of Mexican Marines May Score Political Points,"Uh, how many of those "prescription medications" from Mexico were even legal here?
by Edwin Garcia (in Biloxi, Miss.) - Knight Ridder, 15 Sept 2005The Mexican marines who landed on the Mississippi coast as part of an unprecedented hurricane relief effort brought 300 specialized troops eager to rescue victims, administer medical treatment and even help locals recover the dead.
Instead, the camouflage-clothed marines, wearing blue vests with the word "MARINA" printed in white letters across their chests, spent most of their five days here handing out water bottles, clearing up debris from a school and moving supply boxes.
Their voyage to the Gulf Coast nonetheless could score much-needed political points for Mexican President Vicente Fox, who's spent years trying to get the attention of President Bush and Congress in his persistent push for immigration laws favorable to Mexicans in the United States....
But politics was furthest from the minds of the marines, who worked side by side with the U.S. Navy before departing for home.
At Biloxi's First Baptist Church, which is doubling as a massive Red Cross relief center, two physicians sorted boxes of prescription medicine, a radio specialist helped load boxes onto pushcarts, and several marines distributed plastic water bottles to motorists in a drive-through lane formed by boxes of supplies....
Marine Lamberto Escobar, who worked the aftermath of the Asian tsunami, gripped the wheelchair of 75-year-old Betty Price, waiting in a shady area to push her to her car.
"This time the job has been easy," Escobar said. "But on other occasions we've had a very difficult assignment, digging for bodies and transporting the injured...."
Agreed. That is a reasonable working hypothesis. But my focus was on the actual utility. Did even their special expertise in pumping water really have any impact? Once the levee was sufficiently plugged, we immediately fired up our own pumping stations... Remember how the disaster-mongers claimed that it could be what, months before the city was pumped out?
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