Dear DK, thanks for posting this report, I have been seeing this story on the news, and it has triggered memories of Katrina.

Although I am safe and sound, in Canada; I cannot help but feel the loss of sense of peace...all those in the paths of hurricanes must be enduring.

Let us hope, that another Katrina is NOT in the making.

What is causing these super-storms this past 2 years, to reach such a high magnitude of strength?

Is global warming, in large part, responsible? Are bomb-testing "still" being done in the oceans?

Many still consider the tsunami; was in fact, an Indian bomb, tested in the Indian Ocean!! Rumours of course.... are they true?

North

Great interview DK, which indeed, answered my questions, thankyou very much!!

North

US National Hurricane Center:

www.nhc.noaa.gov

Latest storm watches and bulletins, plus satellite imagery updated several times a day.

Covers all sectors, not just the western hemisphere.

Hey DK I sent you an email, to intelligence@ never heard back.

The way it works everyone at least in some situations, is that offshore underwriters a necessary expense, insure the domestic insurance companies. This way if expenses equal revenue there is no taxable profit. All the profit is funneled offshore where it is not taxed. Pretty slick operation. I am sure the Global Insurance has plenty of profit tucked away to cover everything.

Here is another secret you might find beneficial, if you buy insurance from smaller insurers that don't cover high risk area's you can get better rates. In other words stay away from the big ones. Since a couple of them perturbed me, I am launching an awareness campaign so that the nation's people are aware of this cost saver. Also some of the games played during Katrina created the Karma for the dissolution of such companies. I am thinking we the people are going to pick the companies that become Self realized and they will get all the business.

The additional advantage is the huge advertising costs of the big ones will not be added to your premiums.

I have hurricane proof dome housing formed from a new material. It costs 15 % less then conventional construction and can survive catastrophic weather. It will even float.

I can even make it so it shields electromagnetic radiation, and high energy particles.

Hey DK you intelligence group, do you study the weather on Mars? It can lead to some insight about what is going on.]

Solutions to all the worlds’ problems are always a phone call away.

Truth is the world must love it's problems and the academics are lacking in intelligence, corporate profit distortion, are impaired by fear, or suffer interference from the ego.

I join in the prayers for all.
Love,
Donatella

Well, I will try one more time, if it doesn't work we will just assume it is not in divine order, and leave it at that.

Dear DK,
A year ago today, Aug. 28th, I was leaving Mobile, Alabama on a mandatory order. The hurricane, labeled by a name my grandfather from Scotland called me, Katrina.

The roads were overwhelmed. It took hours to go just a few miles.

Nature has a force and a way, that has not yet been harnessed - and perhaps can never fully be.

So here I am, on the west coast of Florida, and seeing another storm looming its way, closer.

With love,
~ Kate

Dearest Kate,
You are in my thoughts. Am keeping myself up to date through several websites amongst others at floridadisaster.org.

Thank you DK for the visual update.

With love,

Dear Kate... we are all walking with you and everyone that comes in harms way, to this hurricane. Please know, that we are praying, have candles lit; that it will not be catastrophic like Katrina; and that not one life will be lost.

AS global warming heats up, so do the sea's and ocean's... how frightening this is becoming!

Strength and courage to you, Angel Kate!

much love,
North

Gosh Richard, you are a brilliant mind!!

Can this new housing material be converted to cool in summer, and heat like solar, in winter? Now, wouldn't that be effective!! I ask, b/c if you can make it electromagnetic-free..I figured you can do just about anything!(wink.)

Do you have a pic of a house with this dome-cap on it?

North

dear Kate

our prayers are with you. Ernesto has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but it's still a very powerful system. please keep safe, and may all you love keep safe, as well

love, heather

Hi Everyone,

I have been listening to different news media play their special shows on one year after Katrina.

I just watched the History Channel special on it and it was all about the military, and what great job they did. But they overlooked that it took them four days to get down there and start being effective.

As in Iraq, I am sure most individual soldiers were doing the best they could under the curcumstances. But where was the plan for rapid response?

For a view including facts and viewpoints of people you will NOT EVER see interviewed on either FOX or CNN or any of the big three networks, go here:

www.democracynow.org/index.pl

There's extensive reporting from the Ninth Ward, the very poorest black neighborhood in New Orleans. Over 20,000 families were displaced. Only 1000 have come back (that's 5%). One year later there is still no water service, no electrical service, and no sewer service. The main roads have been cleared of debris, but almost all the destruction is still there. One year later, bodies are still unrecovered from Katrina.

Many of the areas residents are poor, and a high percentage were renters. Renters, of course, are not covered at all in the reconstruction plan.

People who lived in public housing have not been able to move back into their housing. There's a story of a new housing project, undamaged by the flood, that the city has simply closed off because some private developers want to buy the property and build high-end condos to sale there.
There's stories of people standing outside their house, undamaged by the flood, one year later, and their house is roped off and they will be charged with trespassing if they try to enter.

Anderson Cooper won't tell you that, will he?

There is an organization called IEM - Innovative Emergency Solutions. A reporter discovered that the Bush Administraion had given the company $500,000 to put together a plan for disaster for New Orleans in the months before Katrina. The Bush Administration passed by LSU, which had assembled the largest and most knowledgable team of experts, as well as the most detailed datbase of New Orleans, in the country, and awarded IEM, a small new comnpany, the contract.

It turns out that IEM had made big contributions to the Bush Campaign. The reporter went to FEMA, who had given the contract to IEM (under Mr. "Heck of a job" Brown) to ask to see the plan. FEMA had never received the plan, and referred the reporter to IEM, so he went there. IEM could not produce the plan either, and in fact would only grant an anonymous interview with the reporter from behind a glass barrier 12 feet away from the reporter. Once it had been established that the plan was never done, the reporter mentioned the contributions to the Bush campaign, at which point IEM had the guards called and physically removed the reporter from the property.

Think Bill O'Reilly is going to tell you that?

One wonders what LSU could have accomplished with a $500,000 grant to produce a plan.

But that's not all about IEM, because the Bush Administration has, in hindsight decided to do a thorough investigation to find out what could have been improved in the FEMA response. Who was awarded that study? You guessed it - Innovative Emergency Management, Inc.

It must be nice to be able to cough up the kind of money it takes to get no-bid government contracts, eh?

Here's some choice quotes from the Ninth Ward in the days immediately following the storm:

"HURRICANE KATRINA SURVIVOR: There is nobody in charge. The National Guard, the police, there is nobody. Somebody needs to come take charge and put organization and get these people to safety, to get them clothes, the basic things that they need to live from day to day.

HENRY ALEXANDER: Nobody here but us. And we just have to look out for one another. All your politicians, they want to get on TV and talking about feeding this person and feeding that person. We ain't seen nothing over here yet.

AMY GOODMAN: Federal relief officials have played almost no role. The head of FEMA, Michael Brown, admitted on CNN last night his agency didn't even know that thousands of hungry refugees were inside the Convention Center. Residents continue to break into stores in search of everything from food and water to guns to luxury items.

KANYE WEST: I hate the way they portray us in the media. If you see a Black family, it says they're looting. See a white family, it says they're looking for food… George Bush doesn't care about Black people.

AMY GOODMAN: In Biloxi, Mississippi, the first federal aid arrived only yesterday, three full days after the storm wiped out entire sections of the city. In smaller towns in Mississippi, help has still not arrived.

JED HORNE (editor of the New Orleans Times Picayune, and whose staff continued to report the news during the catastrophe, and who housed, in his own home, members of his staff who had lost their homes, as well as family members) :The shocking thing was how complete and abject the failure of the federal response turned out to be, that it should take the better part of a week for the richest country in the world to get some buses a few miles into a flood plain, indeed into the parts of it that hadn't even flooded, which were fully accessible as the media demonstrated day after day after day. For some reason, the feds couldn't quite get that together. And that was different, because I’ll tell you the truth: here in the South, where we're prone to a sense of federal oppression and federal meddling and this kind of omnipotent federal presence, it was startling to realize how completely incompetent the Bush administration was in this instance. "

Does insurance figure into their equations that if victims are poor, black, or both, the federal government will put them at the end of the list of people to be helped?

Just want to be "fair and balanced"...

Baghdad Burning - A Blog, by a Girl, in OCCUPIED Iraq.

http://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com/

Sadly, she has not reported since August 5th.

North

Thanks North, I am not really the cause of a brilliant mind, I am just open to letting it happen, all I do is put my attention in the right places, I suppose. The brilliance actually comes from playing with light. I am like a diamond, without light I am simply an abrasive.

I just wish ... I could be unleashed and fully realized, to the worlds benefit. That is all I want.

Oh and actually you pointed out one of the chief advantages over other materials. It has superior insulative qualities, for both hot and cold.

Get this I can coat it in a Solar Panel, it can produce it’s own energy.

It is also not so much the material, but the manufacturing process....

Dear Richard, if I had the power to release you to the world.. I would! The world needs brilliant new inovative ways to house/heat/cool our homes, in these volatile, nature-changing times....such as you have invented.

I cannot fathome, why you are not already, a recognised inventor of your awesome housing inventions!!

We are all diamonds in the rough, I suppose; but, I doubt Richard, you were ever a plain pebble.

North

North,

It actually isn't my invention. I am trying to help get it on the market, but I did invent enhancements like the addition of electromagnetic shielding (techology borrowed/licensed from NASA) and the addition of integrated solar energy collection (new technology). Thing is for it to be cost effective it must be manufactured local to the installation, and there must be a initial commitment of 100 or so units to make it cost justifiable.

Inventing is sometimes the easy part, making something a reality and actual implementation is the hard part.

All in all, it may be the home-wave of the future Richard, which would in large part; slow down the process of fuel consumption at a wasteful rate, and perhaps save our environmental impacts from fuel-heated houses.

All the best, in this endeavour Richard... perhaps Katrina's rebuilding would be a great place to manufacture a floating compartment...

North