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CITRIS: Military--industrial complex lies about levees' controlled demolition
Total Information Awareness | November 7, 2005
 The
newest twist being peddled is that a contractor here or there used
inferior materials, which then apparently spontaneously combusted and "heaved" in the hours following the Category 2 winds Katrina brought down upon the canal levees in New Orleans proper.
From Los Angles Times November 3, 2005: "The
New Orleans levees that ruptured during Hurricane Katrina's storm
surges two months ago were weakened by widespread structural flaws, and
the construction of several floodwalls may have been undermined by
possible corruption, engineering experts told a Senate committee
Wednesday.
"We're receiving disturbing reports that there may
have been some conscious human error involved. There may have been some
malfeasance," said Raymond B. Seed, a civil engineering professor at UC
Berkeley who is heading an inquiry financed by the National Science
Foundation. "We're pursuing evidence of those stories."
Seed would not detail the allegations....
The
officials declined to be identified because the investigation was still
in an early stage and the allegations had not been verified.
"These levees should have been expected to perform adequately if they had been designed and constructed properly," Seed said.
[...]
----- A few weeks before, it was the native peat soil which spontaneously combusted. This Seed was pushing this angle.
From Washington Post Sat, Oct. 08, 2005: "At
the 17th Street Canal, they said, a section of the levee embankment
moved back 35 feet. There is evidence of a similar "soil mass movement"
at one of two London Avenue sites. The engineers speculate that either
the pressure on the walls pushed them back against the soft soil or
water seeping beneath the walls softened the soil, weakening the wall's
support.
"The soil moved," said Paul Mlakar of the Army Corps of Engineers. "The exact mechanism is not known at this time."
The
soil in the area, composed of sand, silt, clay and peat, is
"compressible and not very strong," said Raymond Seed, a professor of
civil engineering at the University of California at Berkeley.
[...]
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Seed has been spinning like a top with these undetailed, mysterious
allegations, because there is simply no reasonable explanation for
these "mass soil movements" beyond placed charges. It's no wonder that
Seed's carefully-preared testimony to Congress avoided mentioning the explosive behavior of the soil, suddenly "heaving" up to 35 feet..
Why would a scientist make his case on innuendo instead of basic physics?
Follow the money. According to the UC-Berkely's Berkeleyan newspaper Oct. 20,
Seed's team at Berkeley received "funding from the National Science
Foundation (NSF) and the campus's Center for Information Technology
Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) [and] joined teams
mobilized by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)."
9/11 researchers know ASCE for its comical report on the destruction of the Pentagon.
But
what of this CITRIS. CITRIS has led the way in designing "smart dust,"
to track everything everywhere. And according to the academia watchdogs
at UT Watch : "CITRIS
is administrated by UC Berkeley,and supports research on the Berkeley
campus, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz, and the new UC Merced. Aside from the
research conducted through CITRIS that actually does benefit society,
there is a good deal which benefits the
warfare state and its allies. In addition to the funding support CITRIS
receives from DARPA and the ONR, the majority of support comes from
corporations including weapons manufacturers like Lockheed Martin,
Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Rockwell, TRW, Raytheon, SRI, Hughes
Aircraft, United Technologies, etc. One of the major focuses of
the CITRIS center will now be "Homeland Defense." Homeland Defense
research will revolve around surveillance and police technologies
----- DARPA, of course, is the Pentagon's Defense Advance Research Project Agency.
The
UC Berkely team went in with a mision statement to find "why the levees
failed," not whether or not the levees were sabotaged, as witness testimony and the physical evidence indicate.
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