You will have no food to eat....
All so some rich elites in Illinois won't have their town flooded.
"Judge OK’s plan to break Missouri levee" April 30, 2011|Associated Press
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. — A federal judge yesterday gave the Army Corps of Engineers the go-ahead to break a Mississippi River levee and flood Missouri farmland if the agency deems it necessary to spare a flood-threatened Illinois town upstream....
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"Court OK’s blasting of levee in Missouri" by David Mercer Associated Press / May 1, 2011
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — A federal appeals court cleared the way yesterday for the Army Corps of Engineers to blow a hole through a levee along the Mississippi River in Missouri to try to prevent flooding in a small Illinois town.
The Eighth US Circuit Court of Appeals decided not to overturn a judge’s decision that allows the Corps of Engineers to use explosives to breach the Birds Point levee downstream from Cairo, a town at the southern tip of Illinois near the Missouri border.
The ruling was the second setback in two days for Missouri, which asked the court to block the plan because it could flood about 130,000 acres of farmland. Hundreds of people have already been evacuated from the area.
With HUNGER and FOOD PRICES what they are?
The Corps of Engineers started moving barges containing the explosives closer to the levee yesterday, but was reviewing its options....
The decision would be based on how high the river is expected to get, from new rain that could fall and water backing up in reservoirs upstream.
The barges were being moved to a spot in Kentucky just across from the levee, which would save time in case the agency decides to go through with the blast, spokesman Bill Pogue said....
Translation: they are just waiting to do it.
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You know, there have been stories out there that suggest the government blew up levees in New Orleans to move the poor out -- and here we are six years later and the elite sections have all been rebuilt.
So why weren't the levees repaired, Americans?
Related:
"South reels in aftermath of tornado disaster; Death toll hits 328; rescuers’ efforts stymied" April 30, 2011|By Jay Reeves and Greg Bluestein, Associated Press
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Southerners found their emergency safety net shredded yesterday as they tried to emerge from the nation’s deadliest tornado disaster since the Great Depression.
Emergency buildings are wiped out. Bodies are stored in refrigerated trucks. Authorities are begging for such basics as flashlights. In one neighborhood, the storms even left firefighters to work without a truck.
The death toll from Wednesday’s storms reached 328 across seven states, including 238 in Alabama, making it the deadliest US tornado outbreak since March 1932, when another Alabama storm killed 332 people. Tornadoes that swept across the South and Midwest in April 1974 left 315 people dead....
The scale of the disaster astonished President Obama when he arrived in the state yesterday....
Never seen the rubble from a drone missile strike, sir?
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At least government is getting this one right!
"Government’s disaster response praised by those affected; Help pours in after tornadoes" by Kevin Sack and Timothy Williams, New York Times / May 1, 2011
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — “It ain’t like Katrina,’’ said Darius Rutley, 21, whose house in Alberta was obliterated....
The early moments of this operation suggest that certain logistical and political lessons have been learned.
Stung by criticism that he waited 12 days to tour the Gulf Coast after last year’s BP oil spill, Obama took barely 40 hours to land in Tuscaloosa, the hardest-hit area in the eight Southern states struck by tornadoes last week....
It has been the deadliest natural disaster on American soil since Hurricane Katrina. But the government response to the tornadoes that devastated the South last week has, at least in the first few days, drawn little of the searing criticism aimed at federal agencies back in 2005.
In numerous interviews in the low-income Alberta neighborhood here on Friday, shortly before President Obama and other officials toured what is now an unimaginable wasteland, residents said they had few complaints about the handling of the aftermath by state, local, and federal agencies.
Many expressed mild frustration about limits on their access to damaged homes, the pace of road clearing and power restoration, and traffic jams caused by roadblocks and nonfunctioning signals. But most agreed that government and charitable agencies were coping as effectively as feasible with immediate demands for shelter, food, water, and medical care, along with search and rescue operations....
Maybe Americans are not expecting much anymore. The government's attitude seems to be you are on your own anyway -- unless you are a war needing funding, a Wall Street bank, or Israel.
The death toll stands at 349 people....
And what an interesting cut and omission from the Globe's website pick-up:
“We can’t control when or where a terrible storm may strike,” Mr. Obama said Thursday afternoon, “but we can control how we respond to it..”
Actually, may people would dispute that because they hear HAARPs.
These days I am more prone to believe than in years past. Too many lies and cover-ups for too long now.
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Also see: Obama Drilling For Martial Law Excuse
They are doing that in California of all places?
