posted 07-20-2002 10:08 PM            

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FEMA Preparing for Mass Destruction Attacks on Cities

John O. Edwards
Monday, July 15, 2002

FEMA, the federal agency charged with disaster preparedness, is engaged in a crash effort to prepare for multiple mass destruction attacks on U.S. cities - including the creation of sprawling temporary cities to handle millions of displaced persons. FEMA is readying for nuclear, biological and chemical attacks against U.S. cities, including the possibility of multiple attacks with mass destruction weapons.

The agency has already notified vendors, contractors and consultants that it needs to be prepared to handle the logistics of aiding millions of displaced Americans who will flee from urban areas that may be attacked.

The agency plans to create emergency, makeshift cities that could house hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Americans who may have to flee their urban homes if their cities are attacked. Ominously, FEMA has been given a deadline of having the cities ready to go by January 2003 – in about six months.

A source familiar with the deadline believes the effort is related to making the U.S. prepared for counterattacks if the U.S. invades Iraq sometime next year. FEMA is currently seeking bids from major real estate management firms, and plans to name three firms in the near future to handle the logistics and planning for these temporary cities.

FEMA officials have told these firms they already have tents and trailers ordered. The tents and trailers would provide shelter for displaced populations. The real estate firms are expected to provide engineers and architects to lay the plans for emergency infrastructure needs, such as sewage and electricity.

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Mock battle in SoCal and Nevada
NATO and FEMA

By SETH HETTENA Associated Press Writer
Published 3:10 p.m. PDT Thursday, July 18, 2002
SAN DIEGO (AP) - Preparations are underway in Southern California and Nevada for the largest military experiment in U.S. history.

The Millennium Challenge 2002, which begins next week, was mandated by Congress to help U.S. forces prepare for future wars.About 13,500 troops from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines will use the latest in military hardware in a simulation of what planners believe the battlefield could look like in five years.

Over three weeks, troops will play out a scenario that echoes real-world events involving simulated weapons of mass destruction, urban warfare, the United Nations and humanitarian relief (FEMA).The Joint Forces Command, operating in Suffolk, Va., is coordinating the experiments from July 24 through Aug. 15 off the coast of San Diego and at bases in Southern California and Nevada. Top military brass, including the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the chief of Naval operations, will attend.

The experiments are the fruits of a drive to transform the military from a heavy, mechanized force designed to fight the Soviet Union into mobile, high-tech troops that can deliver swift hammer blows to a different kind of enemy. US.

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posted 07-21-2002 12:58 AM               

I used to spend a lot of time outdoors before the spray campaign started up and even re-introduced quite a few people to nature so there will be quite a few of us sneaking through the woods if it becomes necessary. And we've got hundreds of acres of woods to hide in too.

posted 07-24-2002 06:00 PM               

I've also scoped out a cave on Maui that's got my name all over it. Right after mile sign 112. On the right hand side. Fourth cave up, a little to the left of the falls.

On a more serious note, I'm very afraid for my children. What kind of a future do they have in a world that is so bent on destruction? Living in a cave? Or in a foreign country? I'm finding myself feeling worse all the time for even having children. I find myself envying my parents. They've lived great lives, made their contributions to the world and soon they'll be checking out of here. I envy them that. My father even wants us to leave the country. He's beginning to see the destructive path the world is heading and is very concerned for his grandchildren.

posted 07-24-2002 06:06 PM            

I can completely relate to your feelings about your children. I don't have any kids, but it has always been my intention to have kids eventually. Whenever I think about it I find myself asking the same questions as you. I feel it would be more of an atrocity to bring a new soul into the world at this point. Sometimes I also think about my parents in the same regard you mentioned, realizing that I will not have the same opportunity to raise my own children in a somewhat stable enviroment.

posted 07-24-2002 07:35 PM               

I sure could use a bowl of vegetable soup right now.

posted 07-24-2002 10:14 PM               

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The real estate firms are expected to provide engineers and architects to lay the plans for emergency infrastructure needs, such as sewage and electricity.

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Tents, trailers, sewage (probably plenty of that }and electricity. That probably means that the camps will be set up at sewage treatment plants or toxic waste dumps. Maybe they'll convenientely set one up right in the shadow of Yucca mountain whhich turns out to be a dormant volcano as well as a potentially active fault.

posted 07-24-2002 10:51 PM               

Thursday, 18 July, 2002, 08:01 GMT 09:01 UK

Dung power station fires up

The UK's first dung-fired power station began production of electricity on Thursday. The pioneering £7m plant at Holsworthy in Devon will process 146,000 tonnes of slurry from 30 local farms every year. Methane gas from the fermented slurry will power the plant, Holsworthy Biogas, to produce electricity for the national grid. The process will also provide hot water for low-cost heating around Holsworthy, and organic manure for farmers to use on their land.

'Very safe'

The German company behind the plant, Farmatic UK, is hoping it could be the first of a network of "green" energy plants in the UK. Managing director of Farmatic and the man behind the new plant, Jorgen Fink, from Denmark, said that it would take up to two months for the operation to reach full capacity.

He said: "We are commissioning the gas engine and testing it at full capacity today, and electricity is going to be produced. "I would say that the plant in Devon can actually produce enough energy to cover the whole of Holsworthy. "We are planning to start power production and sell to the National grid now." He added: "What we are doing is very safe and a lot of people have shown an interest in the UK but they are waiting to see this one up and running first.

Pasteurised process

"We hope to build at least 100 farms in the UK." The processed material which eventually leaves the plant is safe for farmers to spread on their fields because it goes through a pasteurisation process to remove the risk of disease.

Charles Clarke, owner of the plant, said local residents had nothing to fear about smells. "There was some worry about the smell but the process we use takes it out," he said. "I don't think people realise that we have already started production because there is no smell."

Nigel Furrs is one of 30 farmers who will be providing slurry to the new power station. He told the BBC News 24: "I'm quite looking forward to it. "The PH levels in the bio-fertiliser we will be getting are a lot better than what we normally use so this should be a good thing for farmers and the countryside." Dung-fuelled power stations are popular in Germany and Denmark, with each operating about 20 large-scale plants.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/england/2135431.stm

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Fermented slurry (FS) sometimes called bio-slurry, as a by-product of the anaerobic fermentation of animal excrements in the biogas digester, is an excellent organic fertilizer which can make and important contribution to better crop yield and lasting soil fertility.

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posted 07-31-2002 08:54 PM               

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Originally posted by Dan Rockwell:
Maybe they'll convenientely set one up right in the shadow of Yucca mountain whhich turns out to be a dormant volcano as well as a potentially active fault.

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Now you're starting to get me just a little bit worried Dan.

Today: July 31, 2002 at 17:00:11 PDT

Study Warns of Volcanoes at Yucca

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON- A volcanic eruption at Yucca Mountain could do more damage than previously thought, possibly forcing radioactive waste from its burial site to the surface, according to a new study.

If long-dormant volcanoes near the prospective high-level nuclear waste dump sprang back to life, molten rock traveling at speeds up to 600 miles an hour could fill the repository deep beneath the Nevada desert within hours, said an article in the July issue of Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union.

Intense heat and pressure could cause some canisters of spent nuclear fuel that are to be buried at Yucca to rupture and allow radioactive material to flow toward the surface, the article said.

"It can potentially affect a large number of waste canisters," wrote a team of English, Dutch and American scientists that developed computer models to assess the risk of a volcanic eruption.

Seven dead volcanoes are within 27 miles but the last eruption was 80,000 years ago. Yucca project scientists calculate that the chance of one occurring within the waste repository over the next 10,000 years is one in 70 million.

Previous government studies have said volcanic eruptions would do little damage to the site. But project scientists who commented on a draft of the new study said it presents a potentially useful model for evaluating what could happen if an eruption were to occur.

President Bush last week designated Yucca as the nation's lone long-term waste repository. It is scheduled to open in 2010, but the government first must obtain a license from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

The NRC will consider potential volcanic activity during its review of the license application.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nat-gen/2002/jul/31/073106320.html

posted 08-01-2002 12:33 AM               

That's really nice of them to think about putting all that radioactive material in a dormant volcano isn't it?

posted 08-01-2002 10:29 PM               

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Recent pronouncements from the Bush Administration and national security initiatives put in place in the Reagan era could see internment camps and martial law in the United States.

When president Ronald Reagan was considering invading Nicaragua he issued a series of executive orders that provided the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with broad powers in the event of a "crisis" such as "violent and widespread internal dissent or national opposition against a US military invasion abroad". They were never used.

But with the looming possibility of a US invasion of Iraq, recent pronouncements by President George Bush's domestic security chief, Tom Ridge, and an official with the US Civil Rights Commission should fire concerns that these powers could be employed or a de facto drift into their deployment could occur.

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posted 10-13-2002 02:17 AM            

Thought I would "bump" this topic to the fore.

Highly important read in light of recent events.

I have been seeing a lot of FEMA in the news lately.