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URGENT INTERNATIONAL APPEAL |
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by Wayne Madsen
September 2, 2005 -- Hurricane Katrina may be Bush's and the GOP's "Chernobyl." The anger of the American people over the lack of planning for Hurricane Katrina, the diversion of troops, equipment, and money (including $250 million in New Orleans flood control money to Halliburton) to a quagmire in Iraq, and price gouging and fuel shortages engineered by oil companies are being talked about by Washington's punditocracy as Bush's Chernobyl, a reference to the 1986 meltdown at the Soviet nuclear reactor and the cover-up of news and lack of government response that hastened the fall of the Soviet Communist Party. Bush continues to show that he is channeling the spirit of Emperor Nero. He told Americans who are seeing gas prices rise as fast as the New Orleans flood waters, " If you don't need gas, don't buy any." This man is mentally incapable of serving as President. Would you fly in an airplane piloted by a suicidal, mentally deranged man? New Orleans: Bush's "Chernobyl" -- Will the bloated elephant go the way of the hammer and sickle? We can only hope. September 2, 2005 -- Who is jamming communications in New Orleans? Ham radio operators are reporting that communications in and around New Orleans are being jammed. In addition, perplexed ham radio operators who were enlisted by the Federal government in 911 are not being used for hurricane Katrina Federal relief efforts. There is some misinformation circulating on the web that the jamming is the result of solar flares. Ham radio operators report that the flares are not the source of the communications jamming. If anyone at the National Security Agency is aware of the source of the jamming, from direction finding or satellite intelligence, please discretely contact me at waynemadsendc@hotmail.com (from a private or temporary email account). In this case, the Bush administration cannot hide behind national security and it is the duty of every patriotic American to report such criminal activity to the press. Even though the information on the jamming may be considered classified -- it is in the public interest to disclose it. Also, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reporting that no aircraft over New Orleans have been fired on over New Orleans or anywhere else in the area. Are the reports of shots being fired at aircraft an attempt by the Bush administration to purposely delay the arrival of relief to the city's homeless and dying poor? The neocons have turned New Orleans into Baghdad on the Mississippi. New Orleans: Who is jamming communications and why? UPDATE: We can now report that the jamming of New Orleans' communications is emanating from a pirate radio station in the Caribbean. The noise is continuous and it is jamming frequencies, including emergency high frequency (HF) radios, in the New Orleans area. The radio frequency jammers were heard last night, stopped for a while, and are active again today. The Pentagon must locate the positions of these transmitters and order the Air Force to bomb them immediately. However, we now have a new unconfirmed report that the culprit may be the Pentagon itself. The emitter is an IF (Intermediate Frequency) jammer that is operating south southwest of New Orleans on board a U.S. Navy ship, according to an anonymous source. The jamming is cross-spectrum and interfering with superheterodyne receiver components, including the emergency radios being used in New Orleans relief efforts. The jammed frequencies are: 72.0MHZ (high end of Channel 4 WWL TV New
Orleans) A former DoD source says the U.S. Army uses a portable jammer, known as WARLOCK, in Iraq and this jammer may be similar to the one that is jamming the emergency frequencies. UPDATE Sep. 3 -- A Vancouver, British Columbia Urban Search & Rescue Team deployed to New Orleans reported that their satellite phones were not working and they had to obtain other satellite phones to keep in touch with their headquarters and other emergency agencies in British Columbia. There is a report on a ham radio web site that jamming is adversely affecting the New Orleans emergency net on 14.265 Mhz. If a U.S. Navy ship is, in fact, jamming New Orleans communications, the crew must immediately shut down the jammer and take action against the Commanding Officer. *** We have just learned from a journalist in Mobile that yesterday, Sprint blocked all cell phone calls from the Gulf Coast region to points north and west. Calls were permitted between Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida but no calls could be made to Washington, New York, or Los Angeles. September 4, 2005 -- Reports continue that communications in and around New Orleans are being purposely jammed (and severed) by the US government (see Sep. 2 article below). The jamming is having an adverse impact on emergency, disaster recovery, and news media communications. The jamming is even affecting police radio frequencies in Jefferson Parish, according to an Australian news report. The President of Jefferson Parish Aaron Broussard told Meet the Press today that FEMA cut his parish's emergency communications lines and he had to have his sheriff restore the severed lines and post armed deputies to ensure that FEMA did not try to cut the communications lines again. Broussard's statement: "Yesterday--yesterday--FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on our line and says, 'No one is getting near these lines.'" Jamming radio and other communications such as television signals is part of a Pentagon tactic called "information blockade" or "technology blockade." The tactic is one of a number of such operations that are part of the doctrine of "information warfare" and is one of the psychological operations (PSYOPS) methods used by the US Special Operations Command. Jamming is currently being used by US forces in Iraq and was used by the US Navy in the botched coup attempt against President Hugo Chavez in April 2002. US Navy ships off the Venezuelan coast jammed diplomatic, military, emergency services, police, and even taxi cab frequencies in Caracas and other large cities. September 4, 2005 -- Bush the "Uniter" in
action. Meanwhile, 200 New Orleans policemen have resigned after two in their ranks committed suicide. The death toll may far exceed 10,000. However, FEMA is already restricting the news media from reporting on the number of dead bodies in the hurricane ravaged areas of Louisiana and Mississippi. This may also have something to do with the radio jamming reportedly originating from a US Navy ship off the coast of New Orleans. Bodies are stacked up like cordwood around the Superdome and the so-called "Christians" (as well as rabbinical son Michael Chertoff) in the Bush administration are making plans for mass burials of the dead. Karl Rove, whose very adept at subtracting votes of African-Americans, will certainly begin subtracting numbers from the total dead so Bush will not go down in history as the President who was responsible for the greatest death toll from a natural disaster in the United States. President Jimmy Carter and Vice President Al Gore, real Christians, should be put in charge of the sad inter-agency task of the recovery of bodies, notification of next-of-kin, and arranging proper burials. Sadly, some bodies will never be recovered due to the carnivorous marine life that now swims through the streets of New Orleans and Southeast Louisiana. But a team led by President Carter and Vice President Gore could have immediate access to intact government records or their backups to determine who was lost in the catastrophe and prevent White House spinmeisters like Rove from tinkering with the overall death count. When the leadership of a nation fails, it is common practice to look to past capable leaders to pick up the pieces and carry the nation forward. Forget after action reports Chertoff and Bush, just do it now! September 5, 2005 -- Urgent International Appeal. U.S. troops in New Orleans are treating hurricane victims as members of "Al Qaeda." Reports coming to WMR report that the greater New Orleans area has been turned into a virtual military zone where troops threaten bewildered and hungry survivors who approach them for help. One resident of the unflooded Algiers section of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River reports that the 65,000 population of the neighborhood has been reduced by forced evacuations to 2000 even though there are relatively undamaged schools, parks, and churches available to house the homeless. The remaining population of Algiers is in urgent need of medical supplies. The same situation exists in Jefferson Parish and other areas in the greater New Orleans area. U.S. troops are treating the remaining people in New Orleans and its suburbs as "suicide bombers," according to the Algiers resident. FEMA's operations are nothing more than a ruse to depopulate the poor African-American and whites from the metropolitan area. A natural disaster has now turned into a human rights catastrophe in the making. Our corporate news media is totally controlled by the Bush administration with an information embargo now in force from the Gulf coasts of Louisiana and Mississippi. Thecable news channels are now praising the White House's response. This is a blatant lie from a dictatorship that controls the media through financial control and intimidation. The web is our only way to get the news out to the rest of the world. As a U.S. human rights activist who has reported on genocide in Rwanda, Sudan, West Papua and other parts of the world, I am appealing to my human rights and civil liberties contacts around the world -- Africa, Europe, Latin America, Australia, Canada, Asia and the Pacific -- to immediately bring this humanitarian crisis to the attention of your elected representatives, your governments, and international organizations. They must make immediate demarches to the American diplomatic embassies and offices in your countries. The United States is under the control of a despotic regime that is permitting American citizens and legal residents to die from starvation and disease. This is why the Bush regime refused offers of international assistance -- they are depopulating an entire city that before the storm was 70 percent African American, with the remaining 30 percent largely comprised of those of Creole, French Acadian, and American Indian descent. The United Nations must take this up as an urgent unfolding crisis that has an international impact. Please help our people. Meanwhile, the communications jamming in the New Orleans continues. it is now being reported as affecting the Citizens' Band (CB) frequencies by truck drivers on Interstate-10. |
