Why the oil companies feared Katrina
Part I
Massive compensation risk
The power of Katrina like hurricanes would serve to mix and spread deadly chemicals in floodwater to many cities, towns and communities in the greater New Orleans industrial region putting the oil companies at seroius legal risk of massive compensation payments to mostly African Americans and poor white left behind.
President Bush, the Oval Office and oil lobby knew about the rupture and collapse of the 17th Street levee from before anyone else did from power US military satellites and US intelligence forces above and on the ground in New Orleans. They also knew about the hundreds of toxic chemical and oil spills from Exxon Mobil refinery and ten other major locations.
With the best military communications in the world, President Bush and Vice President Cheney and the Oval Office knew the situation about Katrina better than either the Louisiana Governor or the mayor of New Orleans, and did nothing to help during the critical time when the levees started breaking and the city began flooding.
President Bush not only ordered critical information kept from the state of Louisiana and city first responders forces the fighting the storm; he refused to act on the information he had to save American lives.
Why the Oval Office allowed New Orleans to flood
Oval Office oredered stand-down
The White House ordered the Army Crop of Engineers and US military forces in the New Orleans region to stand-down and allowed the city of New Orleans to be flooded unabated. No US military helicopters were organized or deployed to drop sand bags to close the breach in the 17th Street after it was observed by the US military units in the critcal first hours after the storm. No temporary military modular pontoon bridges were constructed across the 17th Street channel to the eastside that never flood to offer immediate escape routes for the citizens of the 9th ward. No alligator nets were rushed to the city to contain the alligator infestation of the northern New Orleans ghettos.
Oil Business, not ineptitude or white rascism
This was done, not because President does not like African Americans, the city was allowed by the Oval Office to flood in order to create a life and death emotional tragedy to take national media attention away from the massive chemical contamination of the region by chemicals and oil leaking from private oil companies.
Without the human drama the followed the flooding of the city of New Orleans, the biggest story in the region and the nation would have been the compensation from the rich Northern Oil companies to small Southern white businesses, white home owners and poor white victims of chemical burns and infections. The question of the massive clean and who should pay would have had create stage, no the poor struggling Black people of New Orleans dry off from the storm that missed them.
The Oval Office hoped that the rupture of the 17th Street levee and the flooding of the city of New Orleans would forced the Governor of Louisiana to finally agree to allow the federal government to take total control of the rescue and recovery operation in southern Louisiana. Federal control of the crisis would reduce the legal and political risks of the oil companies to massive compensation for chemical contamination cause by leaks and spills from oil and chemical plants.
Flooding as political ruse
The Oval Office also knew that the flooding of New Orleans would server as a political ruse to take the national focus away from the more important and expensive oil companies compensation issue and refocus on the emotionally charged racial issue between southern Blacks and whites.
This critical information about when the US military and White House knew about the 17th street levee was hidden from Congressional analysis or review, the news media, and uninformed public and other federal agencies for over five months.
Black Americans and poor whites as political cannon fodder
The Oval Office knowingly prolonged and then used the pain, suffering and humiliation of the mostly Black flood victims as political cannon fodder to force the white Governor of Louisiana to submit oil companies’ political demands that the National Guard be federalized and information about chemical burns be controlled by the US military. The Oval Office’s failure to seal the deal on federalization of the Louisiana National Guard in a timely manner, not governmental ineptitude or white racism directly led to the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Black American’s citizens. Hundred of thousands of New Orleanains were stranded while the Oval Office in order to forced the federalization issue on the state of Louisiana.
Many of victims were children, from the aftermath of flooding in New Orleans, not the storm itself.
The Oval Office also, hid from the nation, the fact the Louisiana National Guard command center in New Orleans and most city busses were inundated with water when Katrina first struck and were not able to be used in evacuation efforts underway. This reality necessitated immediate federal helicopter help.
The Bush administration knew that only a massive federal helicopter-based rescue was the only remaining option to save the hundred of thousands of stranded and dying Black New Orleanains.
Legal containment
The legal containment of the contamination from the mix of sewage, pesticides, fertilizers, oil and other toxic chemicals in the waters in New Orleans and other communities ravaged by the Katrina was the top priority of New York City legal staff of the major oil companies with facilities in the North Gulf of Mexico.
The Bush administration response to Katrina was framed by the immediate financial and legal needs of the US oil companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico, not the needs of stranded and dying American citizens in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita.
Bush actions were driven not by rascism toward Black Americans, but the imperative to protect the oil companies from paying out hundred of billion of dollars of claims to flood victims, most of whom are African Americans.
This financial matrix reality driving oil company’s policy toward the flood victims and the White House has been totally black out of the mainstream press coverage of the aftermath of Katrina and Rita.
The oil lobby knew and feared for years the financial potential of the hundreds of toxic chemical and oil spilling following a major hurricane strike and flooding of refineries and other major oil and chemical plants. The cost of compensation to third parties, mainly private African American citizens would bankrupt many oil companies.
The compensation to individuals, small businesses and local governments would easy be in the hundred of billion of dollars.
At the core of the financial threat to the oil companies was a trillion dollar potential compensation threat to New York City-based oil companies from personal health damages, cost of repair to homes, schools, hospitals and businesses, clean up from chemical spills.
Long-term mental health costs
Psychologist’s studies of the traumatic after-effects of the 9/11 attacks as well as last year’s tsunami said many hurricane survivors will face months, perhaps years of emotional distress and therapy . Their trauma will be worsened because many spent days, not just hours, fearing for their lives. A key part of trauma recovery is long-treatment from drepression. With many viticms under the age of five, the mental health cost to the oil companies would be in the tens of billion for many years.
The city of New Orleans lost 100 public schools, community centers, housing projects, three public universities and three major city hospitals to chemical contamination by oil and chemical companies. The oil companies would pay a major part of the cost of reconstruction.
With 90 perecent of the Mexico Gulf chemical and oil infrastructure reachable by the new military class hurricanes, oil companies remain at serious financial risk of bankruptcy from the compensation to third parties from Katrina like hurricanes every year until the infrastructure is moved inland.
It would cost the oil and chemical companies tens of billions of dollars to protect oil and chemical infrastructure and near cities, towns and communities against the oil and chemical toxic spills.
The oil companies were in the short-term defenseless against the new class of killer hurrcains.
A political fix with the White House was far cheaper.
The Oval Office and the US military were the cheapest and only sure way for the oil companies to manage this potential horrific legal and public relations crisis. The US military had demonstrated the strategic value of total information control and management in Iraq and 2004 hurricane season in Florida.
The US military and US Department of Environmental Protection (EPA) oil industry support operation would be easily hidden behind National Security political firewalls and kept out of federal courts for years.
As stated above, cost containment and management of the horrific legal and public relation cost of major spills from chemical and oil companies operating in the New Orleans industrial region, not rascism directed toward Black Americans was the primary driving force behind every aspect of the Oval Office policy toward Katrina and Rita.
The oil companies and Oval Office has successfully played the race card to take and keep the American public focus away from the compensation issue.
The New Orleans regional economy is driven by the immedicated political and economic needs and wants (i.e. political economy) of the so-called “American Ruhr”. That is, the political economy of Southern Louisiana is B.F Goodrich, E.I. du Pont, Union Carbide, Reynolds Meals, Shell, Texaco, ExxonMobil, Mosanto, Uniroyal, Georgia-Pacific, Hydrocarbon Industries, Vulcan Materials, Nalco Chemicals, Dow Chemical, Allied Chemical, Stauffer Chemical, Hooker Chemicals, Freeport Chemicals, American Petrofina, and Total SA.
When the oil lobby called the White House in the summer of 2005, the Oval Office crisis team went into action.
Just 500 chemical burn claims at 2 million dollars each would total over one billion dollars. 9/11 made the million dollars level of compensation the moral expectation for most American outside the Deep South. Just 10,000 payable personal claim cases would potential expose the oil companies to 20 billion dollars.
There were over 300,000 people Black and poor white citizens who were forced to walk and drink chemically toxic water in the New Orleans region. Another two million mostly white citizens have homes flooded by oil and chemical toxic water.
A fair and just Katrina compensations potentially would create tens of thousand of Black and poor white first time millionaires paid not by the taxpayers, but the oil companies. Over 100,000 people should get 500,000 dollars of compensation. The cities, towns and communities would easy get over a 125 billion dollar from the oil companies to clean-up the toxic spills and waste. The oil companies would potentially be forced to payout tens of billions of dollars for many years.
The oil industry’s worse nightmare had developed in the early summer of 2004 and again in 2005. Powerful new class hurricanes were forming in the Atlantic Ocean and attacking cities in the Gulf of Mexico. These new classes of killer hurricanes generated 200 mph blastwinds; 35 feet storm surges that each eight miles inland.
Part II
The Princeton NOAA revolt
President Bush and the Oval Office were informed by both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the oil lobby, that the CO2 level in the Gulf of Mexico was dangerously high.
These same CO2 levels had been reached during the previous nine hurricanes, five of which were classified as major, that Florida suffered in 2004. This was the worst hurricane season in 118 years. A small group of researchers studied the CO2 thermal agents building in the land, air and water. New elements like the Mississippi Plume and African dust integrated into the NOAA models for simulation.
Tom Knutson and a small of team at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton had reconfirmed MIT’s Kerry Emanuel, 1987 prediction that CO2 and developed an advanced model that predicted that hurricanes forming in 2005 would be substantially more intense. Robert E. Tuleye of Old Dominion University in Norfolk confirmed the Princeton findings.
The Princeton group documented a new critical mass in C02 in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico that was super charging hurricanes. The NOAA critical information was leaked to Wall Street and the oil industry that the “Big One”(hurricane) was coming in the second half of the 2005 hurricane season. Oil industry, Insurance industry and Wall Street investment firms networked the new reality of the Princeton group and acted.
The New York-based oil lobby quietly moved on the mission critical Princeton NOAA findings and forced the White House to quietly deploy a massive federal military force to the Gulf of Mexico to be ready to contain and protected damage to oil interests. The US military deployment was done under the misinformation campaign of war games for a possible invasion of Northern Venezuela.
The oil- centric architecture of the US military invasion deployment was designed to allow the US NORTH Command and Admiral Keating the military means to take direct controlled of the recovery phase of the any hurricane crisis in order to ensure that all critical and legal information from the crisis would flow through the US military chain of command and the US Department of Environmental Protection. The US Coast Guard and other federal forces would take over the first responder’s roles from the local states and FEMA to ensure total control of critical information.
The NOAA critical information was leaked investment capital moved into position to cash in on the rise in oil and gas options. Oil industry, Insurance industry and Wall Street investment firms networked the new reality of the Princeton group and acted.
The New York-based oil lobby quietly moved on the mission critical Princeton NOAA findings and forced the White House to quietly deploy a massive federal military force to the Gulf of Mexico to be ready to contain and protected damage to oil interests. The deployment was done under the misinformation campaign of war games for a possible invasion of North Venezuela.
The oil- centric architecture of the federal military deployment was designed to allow the US NORTH Command and Admiral Keating the military means to take direct controlled of the recovery phase of the any hurricane crisis in order to ensure that all critical and legal information from the crisis would flow through the US military chain of command and the US Department of Environmental Protection. The US Coast Guard and other federal forces would take over the first responder’s roles from the local states and FEMA.
According to Assistant Secretary of Defense, "The US military has never deployed a larger, better resource civil support capability so rapidly in the history of our country." This deployment was to provide the infrastructure for the US military and EPA cost containment and cover-up operation, not to rescue people.
Key people centric rescue assets like larger numbers of transport helicopter were not propositioning at local military bases and airports for rapid deployment into the crisis areas.
FEMA would not be entrusted to any aspect of this joint oil industrial/US military operation.
Massive compensation risk
The power of Katrina like hurricanes would serve to mix and spread deadly chemicals in floodwater to many cities, towns and communities in the greater New Orleans industrial region putting the oil companies at seroius legal risk of massive compensation payments to mostly African Americans and poor white left behind.
President Bush, the Oval Office and oil lobby knew about the rupture and collapse of the 17th Street levee from before anyone else did from power US military satellites and US intelligence forces above and on the ground in New Orleans. They also knew about the hundreds of toxic chemical and oil spills from Exxon Mobil refinery and ten other major locations.
With the best military communications in the world, President Bush and Vice President Cheney and the Oval Office knew the situation about Katrina better than either the Louisiana Governor or the mayor of New Orleans, and did nothing to help during the critical time when the levees started breaking and the city began flooding.
President Bush not only ordered critical information kept from the state of Louisiana and city first responders forces the fighting the storm; he refused to act on the information he had to save American lives.
Why the Oval Office allowed New Orleans to flood
Oval Office oredered stand-down
The White House ordered the Army Crop of Engineers and US military forces in the New Orleans region to stand-down and allowed the city of New Orleans to be flooded unabated. No US military helicopters were organized or deployed to drop sand bags to close the breach in the 17th Street after it was observed by the US military units in the critcal first hours after the storm. No temporary military modular pontoon bridges were constructed across the 17th Street channel to the eastside that never flood to offer immediate escape routes for the citizens of the 9th ward. No alligator nets were rushed to the city to contain the alligator infestation of the northern New Orleans ghettos.
Oil Business, not ineptitude or white rascism
This was done, not because President does not like African Americans, the city was allowed by the Oval Office to flood in order to create a life and death emotional tragedy to take national media attention away from the massive chemical contamination of the region by chemicals and oil leaking from private oil companies.
Without the human drama the followed the flooding of the city of New Orleans, the biggest story in the region and the nation would have been the compensation from the rich Northern Oil companies to small Southern white businesses, white home owners and poor white victims of chemical burns and infections. The question of the massive clean and who should pay would have had create stage, no the poor struggling Black people of New Orleans dry off from the storm that missed them.
The Oval Office hoped that the rupture of the 17th Street levee and the flooding of the city of New Orleans would forced the Governor of Louisiana to finally agree to allow the federal government to take total control of the rescue and recovery operation in southern Louisiana. Federal control of the crisis would reduce the legal and political risks of the oil companies to massive compensation for chemical contamination cause by leaks and spills from oil and chemical plants.
Flooding as political ruse
The Oval Office also knew that the flooding of New Orleans would server as a political ruse to take the national focus away from the more important and expensive oil companies compensation issue and refocus on the emotionally charged racial issue between southern Blacks and whites.
This critical information about when the US military and White House knew about the 17th street levee was hidden from Congressional analysis or review, the news media, and uninformed public and other federal agencies for over five months.
Black Americans and poor whites as political cannon fodder
The Oval Office knowingly prolonged and then used the pain, suffering and humiliation of the mostly Black flood victims as political cannon fodder to force the white Governor of Louisiana to submit oil companies’ political demands that the National Guard be federalized and information about chemical burns be controlled by the US military. The Oval Office’s failure to seal the deal on federalization of the Louisiana National Guard in a timely manner, not governmental ineptitude or white racism directly led to the unnecessary deaths of thousands of Black American’s citizens. Hundred of thousands of New Orleanains were stranded while the Oval Office in order to forced the federalization issue on the state of Louisiana.
Many of victims were children, from the aftermath of flooding in New Orleans, not the storm itself.
The Oval Office also, hid from the nation, the fact the Louisiana National Guard command center in New Orleans and most city busses were inundated with water when Katrina first struck and were not able to be used in evacuation efforts underway. This reality necessitated immediate federal helicopter help.
The Bush administration knew that only a massive federal helicopter-based rescue was the only remaining option to save the hundred of thousands of stranded and dying Black New Orleanains.
Legal containment
The legal containment of the contamination from the mix of sewage, pesticides, fertilizers, oil and other toxic chemicals in the waters in New Orleans and other communities ravaged by the Katrina was the top priority of New York City legal staff of the major oil companies with facilities in the North Gulf of Mexico.
The Bush administration response to Katrina was framed by the immediate financial and legal needs of the US oil companies operating in the Gulf of Mexico, not the needs of stranded and dying American citizens in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita.
Bush actions were driven not by rascism toward Black Americans, but the imperative to protect the oil companies from paying out hundred of billion of dollars of claims to flood victims, most of whom are African Americans.
This financial matrix reality driving oil company’s policy toward the flood victims and the White House has been totally black out of the mainstream press coverage of the aftermath of Katrina and Rita.
The oil lobby knew and feared for years the financial potential of the hundreds of toxic chemical and oil spilling following a major hurricane strike and flooding of refineries and other major oil and chemical plants. The cost of compensation to third parties, mainly private African American citizens would bankrupt many oil companies.
The compensation to individuals, small businesses and local governments would easy be in the hundred of billion of dollars.
At the core of the financial threat to the oil companies was a trillion dollar potential compensation threat to New York City-based oil companies from personal health damages, cost of repair to homes, schools, hospitals and businesses, clean up from chemical spills.
Long-term mental health costs
Psychologist’s studies of the traumatic after-effects of the 9/11 attacks as well as last year’s tsunami said many hurricane survivors will face months, perhaps years of emotional distress and therapy . Their trauma will be worsened because many spent days, not just hours, fearing for their lives. A key part of trauma recovery is long-treatment from drepression. With many viticms under the age of five, the mental health cost to the oil companies would be in the tens of billion for many years.
The city of New Orleans lost 100 public schools, community centers, housing projects, three public universities and three major city hospitals to chemical contamination by oil and chemical companies. The oil companies would pay a major part of the cost of reconstruction.
With 90 perecent of the Mexico Gulf chemical and oil infrastructure reachable by the new military class hurricanes, oil companies remain at serious financial risk of bankruptcy from the compensation to third parties from Katrina like hurricanes every year until the infrastructure is moved inland.
It would cost the oil and chemical companies tens of billions of dollars to protect oil and chemical infrastructure and near cities, towns and communities against the oil and chemical toxic spills.
The oil companies were in the short-term defenseless against the new class of killer hurrcains.
A political fix with the White House was far cheaper.
The Oval Office and the US military were the cheapest and only sure way for the oil companies to manage this potential horrific legal and public relations crisis. The US military had demonstrated the strategic value of total information control and management in Iraq and 2004 hurricane season in Florida.
The US military and US Department of Environmental Protection (EPA) oil industry support operation would be easily hidden behind National Security political firewalls and kept out of federal courts for years.
As stated above, cost containment and management of the horrific legal and public relation cost of major spills from chemical and oil companies operating in the New Orleans industrial region, not rascism directed toward Black Americans was the primary driving force behind every aspect of the Oval Office policy toward Katrina and Rita.
The oil companies and Oval Office has successfully played the race card to take and keep the American public focus away from the compensation issue.
The New Orleans regional economy is driven by the immedicated political and economic needs and wants (i.e. political economy) of the so-called “American Ruhr”. That is, the political economy of Southern Louisiana is B.F Goodrich, E.I. du Pont, Union Carbide, Reynolds Meals, Shell, Texaco, ExxonMobil, Mosanto, Uniroyal, Georgia-Pacific, Hydrocarbon Industries, Vulcan Materials, Nalco Chemicals, Dow Chemical, Allied Chemical, Stauffer Chemical, Hooker Chemicals, Freeport Chemicals, American Petrofina, and Total SA.
When the oil lobby called the White House in the summer of 2005, the Oval Office crisis team went into action.
Just 500 chemical burn claims at 2 million dollars each would total over one billion dollars. 9/11 made the million dollars level of compensation the moral expectation for most American outside the Deep South. Just 10,000 payable personal claim cases would potential expose the oil companies to 20 billion dollars.
There were over 300,000 people Black and poor white citizens who were forced to walk and drink chemically toxic water in the New Orleans region. Another two million mostly white citizens have homes flooded by oil and chemical toxic water.
A fair and just Katrina compensations potentially would create tens of thousand of Black and poor white first time millionaires paid not by the taxpayers, but the oil companies. Over 100,000 people should get 500,000 dollars of compensation. The cities, towns and communities would easy get over a 125 billion dollar from the oil companies to clean-up the toxic spills and waste. The oil companies would potentially be forced to payout tens of billions of dollars for many years.
The oil industry’s worse nightmare had developed in the early summer of 2004 and again in 2005. Powerful new class hurricanes were forming in the Atlantic Ocean and attacking cities in the Gulf of Mexico. These new classes of killer hurricanes generated 200 mph blastwinds; 35 feet storm surges that each eight miles inland.
Part II
The Princeton NOAA revolt
President Bush and the Oval Office were informed by both the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the oil lobby, that the CO2 level in the Gulf of Mexico was dangerously high.
These same CO2 levels had been reached during the previous nine hurricanes, five of which were classified as major, that Florida suffered in 2004. This was the worst hurricane season in 118 years. A small group of researchers studied the CO2 thermal agents building in the land, air and water. New elements like the Mississippi Plume and African dust integrated into the NOAA models for simulation.
Tom Knutson and a small of team at NOAA’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton had reconfirmed MIT’s Kerry Emanuel, 1987 prediction that CO2 and developed an advanced model that predicted that hurricanes forming in 2005 would be substantially more intense. Robert E. Tuleye of Old Dominion University in Norfolk confirmed the Princeton findings.
The Princeton group documented a new critical mass in C02 in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico that was super charging hurricanes. The NOAA critical information was leaked to Wall Street and the oil industry that the “Big One”(hurricane) was coming in the second half of the 2005 hurricane season. Oil industry, Insurance industry and Wall Street investment firms networked the new reality of the Princeton group and acted.
The New York-based oil lobby quietly moved on the mission critical Princeton NOAA findings and forced the White House to quietly deploy a massive federal military force to the Gulf of Mexico to be ready to contain and protected damage to oil interests. The US military deployment was done under the misinformation campaign of war games for a possible invasion of Northern Venezuela.
The oil- centric architecture of the US military invasion deployment was designed to allow the US NORTH Command and Admiral Keating the military means to take direct controlled of the recovery phase of the any hurricane crisis in order to ensure that all critical and legal information from the crisis would flow through the US military chain of command and the US Department of Environmental Protection. The US Coast Guard and other federal forces would take over the first responder’s roles from the local states and FEMA to ensure total control of critical information.
The NOAA critical information was leaked investment capital moved into position to cash in on the rise in oil and gas options. Oil industry, Insurance industry and Wall Street investment firms networked the new reality of the Princeton group and acted.
The New York-based oil lobby quietly moved on the mission critical Princeton NOAA findings and forced the White House to quietly deploy a massive federal military force to the Gulf of Mexico to be ready to contain and protected damage to oil interests. The deployment was done under the misinformation campaign of war games for a possible invasion of North Venezuela.
The oil- centric architecture of the federal military deployment was designed to allow the US NORTH Command and Admiral Keating the military means to take direct controlled of the recovery phase of the any hurricane crisis in order to ensure that all critical and legal information from the crisis would flow through the US military chain of command and the US Department of Environmental Protection. The US Coast Guard and other federal forces would take over the first responder’s roles from the local states and FEMA.
According to Assistant Secretary of Defense, "The US military has never deployed a larger, better resource civil support capability so rapidly in the history of our country." This deployment was to provide the infrastructure for the US military and EPA cost containment and cover-up operation, not to rescue people.
Key people centric rescue assets like larger numbers of transport helicopter were not propositioning at local military bases and airports for rapid deployment into the crisis areas.
FEMA would not be entrusted to any aspect of this joint oil industrial/US military operation.
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