Published: July 1st, 2011 at 3:59 pm ET
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Levee Intentionally Blown Up Along Missouri River, KETV, July 1, 2011:
[...] Pottawattamie County officials said a half-mile stretch of the Vanmann #30 levee [near Desoto Bend] was mechanically excavated and then lowered by using explosives.
Emergency Management Coordinator Jeff Theulen said he was alerted Friday morning that the levee may have been in the process of being intentionally breached.
About 20 minutes later, officials said they received calls from people wanting to know why levees were being blown up. One caller claimed to have witnessed the explosion.
Authorities said they’re investigating the levee breach. Pottawattamie County officials said no government entity had anything to do with the detonation, and they did not have advance notice from the people responsible for the breach. [...]
h/t anonymous tip
Footage of Desoto Levy from June 30, 2011:
Published: July 1st, 2011 at 3:59 pm ET
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The blowback begins[?]
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My first reaction was:
“Holy [f*-lippin] cow!”
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Ft. Calhoun updates also here
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/nnn.html
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Well, it hasn’t lowered any of the gauge levels at Decatur, Blair or Omaha.
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Government confusion on who has authority here at the biggest flood on this river ever. That’s the moral of the story.
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Here we go, Officer Dave, here we go.
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Yup! game on.
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They are trying to divert the water from FCS. They must know, that the water level will be rising above all protection levels. Too bad, they haven’t informed/consulted the locals.
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I’m guessing more to come as the water comes up.
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So, was that a good strategy or bad?! You never know…
They have to do something!!
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I’d say the guys who are trying to protect the locals have already more than enough to do than to deal with some idiots blowing up levees and putting people even more in danger.
Don’t they?
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Well, I’m trusting my fellow American citizens more than most officials lately!
Exhibit A: the BP/GOM fiasco!
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Where is the Coast Guard on this??
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Hoping the locals don’t learn of their policy of dumping 100s of thousands of used batteries wherever they go on america’s lakes and rivers.
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For weeks, everybody on this site have been slapping others for not DOING something. Looks like somebody might have started DOING something. Right or wrong, it does my heart good to know there might be a set of balls left in America. Blow some more shit up!
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Back in May, the Army Corps of Engineers blew up a levee to relieve pressure on a floodwall downriver.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20110502/NEWS01/705029802/1021
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Now, FEMA is going around and offering to buy up that land from the homeowners/farmers.
For a cut rate price, natch.
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And using money from you, the taxpayer, to buy it, but they’ll keep the land in their federal cabal.
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“Toshiba lobbying U.S. to build nuclear waste repository in Mongolia”
I think we already heard about this a while ago, but the story “sort of disappeared”. Now it’s back, and even on Kyodo News:
http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/07/100574.html
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i noticed that too!!..reason..possibly, so that the nuclear lobby can counter the long/short term nuclear waste problem..its a pr catastrophy…any glimmer of hope and they push the story to the max!! serious bit of media manipulation and the media are falling for it…cant wait for the media whistleblowers to step up and that time is soon coming i think!
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The whole escapade is focused on “perception management” rather than solutions. That’s how things go now. Remember the BP disaster? It was all about perception management too. At one point they threatened the press with $10,000 fines for photographing the beaches. That’s when I started a campaign to FIRE Adm. Chad Allen. They changed their mind quickly. We need to hold someone accountable. Nobody is accountable for Fukushima, have you noticed? Who made the mistake? Who’s going to lose their job?
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if it was no government entity, then who was it…
alCIAda?…
will they now bring in heavily armed thugs like in KATRINA?
I hate to fear monger, but it is nice to write about it since i’m mongering all by my self otherwise…
love you all.
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well the problem is here at fema is are rent period on the storage units has run out.
we got move these 10 million underwater body bags.so we are just helpin things along dats alls.
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People have short memories it seems. We heard about the charges being put near the cracking dam a couple of days ago on another thread. These people were govt. people! You know, the same “innocent, we take care of you like Katrina” govt??
A man put a video on you tube about it, form Omaha. He even said it would be after the (I think) world series of little league or some such thing.. sorry, I’m not sports minded.
Anyhow, this is all documented earlier.
Now, out of the blue, they blow the damn dam, as I said before when I posted about this.
Why can’t people SEE that the govt. could give a damn about you, me or anyone. They have an agenda. PERIOD.
Read stuff people, PLEASE before it is too late to WAKE UP.
@toni wilson: the fema trailers are formaldahyde coffins. We also learned that in Katrina.
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no you aren’t! I’m right there with you.
Now that I am disabled and near 65 and don’t watch TB, I research.. hours and hours a day.
It ain’t pretty, but it’s as good as any Agatha Christie novel.
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One fact we all have to accept: where we gonna put all this devilish trash. We cannot close our eyes, a place of deposition is urgently needed. Only a global effort can answer this urgent question. But not only two gangsters can make that deal, it got to be an international effort!
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how about jettisoning that stuff into the sun?..
not my idea, but how about it?
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or what about far enough out from earth, and then detonate?
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go invent the rocket
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wow..
a rocket full of nuke crap heading towards the sun.
sweet i will pay for the one way rocket ticket for tony liar blair.
the german bitch queen of london.
baron rothchild and barry anyone seen my real birth certificate or my 9 iron otool obama.
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“… far enough out from the earth, and then detonate?”
That wouldn’t be very considerate of the rest of the solar system (and even galaxy) our little planet is in, would it?
In other words, do we really want the karma of contaminating not only the Earth with radioactive poisons, but the solar system (and possibly the galaxy, to whatever extent) as well?!
Radioactive poisons are clearly a problem created by humankind, so we better deal with it “at home” and not make it a problem for anywhere beyond this Earth.
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+10
I agree totally!!
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-10
i disagree totally.
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@fuckyoushima: So, you are fine with contaminating the solar system and beyond? If that is true, then you are expressing the same short-sighted mentality that is behind all of the current destruction on Earth, as it happens. Clearly, it is not at all responsible to blast our toxic problems into space – like all the other foolish and short-sighted acts of humankind, it will surely come back to haunt us later.
For instance, what about the future when we (and/or other beings not from Earth) want to travel through the solar system? What about the radioactive poisons that could pose a huge danger to such exploration if we just blast it all up there in the same short-sighted manner that we do everything else?
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or stick it all into a hole in the ground where it can melt down into the lava?
like a hole where there is lava known to be close under the hole?
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joke?
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no joke, just scrambling for ideas.
if it did not encounter water, would it mix into lava?
isn’t lava already radioactive?
is it better to store it so that in 100,000 years or so, they can deal with it… or have planetary evacuation…
we could store it all and start building spaceships to evac, but won’t we need nuclear power for the ships?
better to mix with lava and have it back in the earth where it really did come from.]
is plutonium found anywhere in nature?
would hot lava have an effect to break down the plutonium?
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The problem with lava is that is comes out of a vulcano erupting here, there or somewhere else, throwing its fumes into the atmosphere.
I’m, personally, not fond of the idea of “burying” nuclear waste, as it can’t be controlled down there.
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then how about we melt it into gold.
we got lots of gold.
gold would not fume as lead would.
but gold would stop the radiation.
if i was on a ship alone and only had gold to plug a hole to prevent sinking, i would use gold.
gold would work.
tell me it would work.
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yes my dear,
gold would work.
It’s so sad, isn’t it?
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you mean gold would work but rich people would rather not use gold to save their babies?
if gold would work then let’s use gold.
we’ve got lots of gold.
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Have a drink.
I already had 2.
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i’m lighting up a joint.
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According to our eminently reliable Ecstatic People Annulment group:
Plutonium (chemical symbol Pu) is a radioactive metal with Atomic Number 94.
Plutonium is considered a man-made element, although scientists have found trace amounts of naturally occurring plutonium produced under highly unusual geologic circumstances.
The most common radioisotopes of plutonium are plutonium-238, plutonium-239, and plutonium-240.
http://www.epa.gov/radiation/radionuclides/plutonium.html
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Let me tell you my friend – after all you FINALLY came up with a good idea!!
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Let’s think outside the box. Maybe, not produce any more radioactive stuff for storage…. And, for God’s sake! Leave the Mongolians alone.
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Yes, it’s a beautiful country with wonderful people. They would have no idea what they got themselves into.
*off to bed
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Pu239 hands larry-andrew-nils a light.
Up against the wall folks.
Smoke ‘em if you got ‘em.
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sad news, america has no gold.
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Plutonium decay products have been found in natural geological formations. example: http://geology.about.com/od/geophysics/a/aaoklo.htm Where natural reactor was found.
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Per Omaha.com: thousands of letters going out re: what to do in the event of catastrophic levee failure. Omaha prolly thinking the nightmare evacuation scenario, wringing hands, scratching head, muttering cuss words.
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Arnie says his nuclear advisors aren’t worth a pile of bat guano.
Arnie knows.
Dear Obama:
Time to get your shit together. Lickety split.
Get rid of those advisors! (For the children. Screw us, we’re done).
Radioactively yours,
Pu239
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i could… i will probably…
ok, i’m crying.
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I feel the same. It’s overwhelming. It’s just too big to handle for us human smallbrainers.
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we could use big-headed aliens, or angels or whatever they really are.
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I need to go to sleep now – I’ll ask the big-headed aliens in a lucid dream to come over and help, ok??
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Good idea.
Maybe do a sweatlodge first.
(natural chelation, on the physical level)
(random link)
http://www.medicationwithdrawal.com/articles/faq-about-natural-detox.html
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if God, or Jesus, or aliens, of Angels had to stop this, would they use gold?
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maybe god created man to use all the things upon the earth (milky way) including nuclear power, but responsibly, and that is god abhors the use of gold for dainty things, because the true purpose of gold in a nuclear based culture is to go hand-in-hand with nuclear power.
now i’ll stop because
a/ i feel better.
b/ i’m getting silly.
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http://www.edwardtbabinski.us/skepticism/universe.html
the above link has a picture which will enable you also to see God’s earth as the milky way.
and i am going to pray.
and i invite you to join me.
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Thought this was mildly interesting:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_transmutation
Nuclear experiments have successfully transmuted lead into gold, but the expense far exceeds any gain.
Gold synthesis in a nuclear reactor
Gold was first synthesized from mercury by neutron bombardment in 1941, but the isotopes of gold produced were all radioactive.[3]
Gold can currently be manufactured in a nuclear reactor by irradiation either of platinum or mercury. Since platinum is more expensive than gold, platinum is economically unsuitable as a raw material.
Only the mercury isotope 196Hg, which occurs with a frequency of 0.15% in natural mercury, can be converted to gold by neutron capture, and following electron capture-decay into 197Au with slow neutrons. Other mercury isotopes are converted when irradiated with slow neutrons into one another or formed mercury isotopes, which beta decay into thallium.
Using fast neutrons, the mercury isotope 198Hg, which composes 9.97% of natural mercury, can be converted by splitting off a neutron and becoming 197Hg, which then disintegrates to stable gold. This reaction, however, possesses a smaller activation cross-section and is feasible only with un-moderated reactors.
It is also possible to eject several neutrons with very high energy into the other mercury isotopes in order to form 197Hg.
However such high-energy neutrons can be produced only by particle accelerators[clarification needed].
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http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2010/magstream/
and this link is the milky way and it looks just like the ancient heberew conception of the bible, yet it is up-side-down, and the sun and moon have moved.
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i wonder. Pu, if there are reactors doing that.. And is it dangerous…
makes me wonder if they may have been manufacturing gold out of mercury at fukushima.
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What if you loaded all this radioactive waste onto a rocket for the sun, and the thing blew up on the launch pad, or just a mile up or something …
Cannot even think about doing that one .
Burying it , I think is the only option.
I sincerely hope the Japanese did not put fuel rods into the ocean to cool, as the electrolysis would eat holes in the zinc casings in no time in salt water …
It’s just one thing after another isn’t it ?
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Unknown Parties Intentionally Blow Up Levee Along Missouri River Near Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant
http://theintelhub.com/2011/07/01/unknown-parties-intentionally-blow-up-levee-along-missouri-river-near-fort-calhoun-nuclear-power-plant/
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Hmmm…The Army Corps, Feds or state, county and local government aren’t the only people who have earth moving equipment and dynamite. Midwest farmers are a pretty independent and self-sufficient bunch.
Perhaps this is the work of a citizen or citizens who, like many of us, are fed up with the bungling, spin, mismanagement and lies from “Officials” and have taken matters into their own hands.
If this breach, which appears to be downstream from the power plant, actually lowers the levels upstream, we may be seeing the first positive actions taken in this whole sorry mess.
It may be desperation borne out of the lack of anything our “Officials” and “Authorities” have been able to accomplish. It may make matters worse, but the old adage “Try anything even if it’s wrong” comes to mind.
I hope we can some day look back at this and raise a glass to what may be some true citizen heroes. That is what America had in 1776. Why not now?
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Hardly anyone remembers the witness that witnessed explosions right before the Katrina inundation
Naw they wouldn’t flood their own people would they? NO NONE OF THEIR PEOPLE DIED IN IT, BELIEVE THAT
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i remember the witness who told of explosions causing katrina.
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Larry,
which witnesses included CBS-5 (not sure, which local station affiliate). I think we can still find the footage on Youtube. Besides this, Halliburton was the first to swoop in, almost as if they were already poised just to the north and west in various locations, almost as if planned. Nah! Halliburton would never do that! Kellogg, Brown and Root? Nah!!! (sarc. teasing)
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nuclearpower:
You never know with U.S. citizens. The government would be my choice of culprit; but I would support them in this if this action and others like it could lower the river level to prevent any more flooding of the Auxilliary bldg. and intake valves at Ft. Calhoun, or whatever at Cooper nuclear power station.
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Army Corps of Engineers and companies connected and/or owned by George Soros and Warren Buffett buying flooded farmland cheap
(This is an investigator posting on a social site. Last I heard “Free Republic” permanently bans all 9/11 truthers to this day)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2739816/posts
Double Red Alert
Posted by Ann Barnhardt – June 24, AD 2011 9:01 AM MST
Two HUGE intel leads in my email box this morning from way-back contacts that I’ve had for years, that are actually somewhat connected concepts.
1. File this one under “Now It All Makes Sense”. A Missouri farming and ranching contact just got off a conference call wherein he was informed that the federal government is sending out letters to all of the flooded out farmers in the Missouri River flood plain and bottoms notifying them that the Army Corps of Engineers will offer to BUY THEIR LAND.
Intentionally flood massive acreage of highly productive farmground. Destroy people’s communities and homes. Catch them while they are desperate and afraid and then swoop in and buy the ground cheap. Those evil sons of bitches.
2. Speaking of evil sons of bitches, George Soros appears to be “investing” in farmground through the same puppet company that he used to get into the grain elevator and fertilizer business. The company is called Ospraie Capital Management and is buying up farmground in a joint venture with Teays River Investments as a partner. Here is that announcement:
Click Here: http://www.absolutereturn-alpha.com/Article/2242566/Ospraie-Launches-JV-Agriculture-Fund.html
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George Soros made his fortune taking the wealth of victims of the Nazis, a period he deems “the best years of his life”
Warren Buffett, connected to both Britain and the USA military petrochemical mass media nukedeath industrial complex, was involved in 9/11 and also owned the company that sold and dumped the toxic and carcinogenic compound Corexit into the Gulf of Mexico. Britain also put all its resources into covering that up including their puppet freemason lying fake president. Google “Matt Simmons” and many others, who tried to tell the truth about BP and the long term massive damage to the environment done by that spill, and were permanently silenced.
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Nuclearpowerisdeath
Yes, the BP Gulf of Mexico event very much could have been an unbelievable (to most) and quite intentional “Disaster Capitalism” event. I also believe that New Orleans hurricane, with one exploded and one barge intentionally knocked over levee with ensuing flood and FEMA forced relocations, was also likely thus.
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Yepers nuclearpowerisdeath,…Ol’e Georgie Boys back at it again!
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Whether or not the levvee was intentionally blown, it might be the right thing to do to prevent clogging of intake valves at either/both Ft. Calhoun or Cooper Nuclear stations. If it is a good idea, legal or not, someone ought be doing it though, if it is “little-people” (regular citizens, non-feds) doing it, I’m sure it’s for property/$$$ preservation and not for larger greater community reasons. Americans of the U.S. are generally far far too selfish for that sort of insightful action-based behavior that I’ve ever seen in the U.S. The government should be blowing up levees upstream if they are not doing it. If blowing up levees did the trick and reduced flooding pressure on nuclear power plants over agricultural interests, of course that would be the SENSIBLE thing to do. I’d rather have pissed off corporate and private farmers than irradiation of everyone on the planet with millions of new cases of cancers, millions of live births and millions of deformities. Screw the farmers!
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I meant…”rather than millions of STILL births”
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Anyone recall the unverified video charging that explosives had been placed on Gavins Point Dam.
“Gavins Point Dam South Dakota Omaha Nebraska Impending Flooding Coming!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WT5245SHCM
Now if you saw that you may recall the guy DID mention COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA in his video…2:55 starting “When you go across river on Interstate 480 into Council Bluffs Iowa there’s a large apt complex on the north side left hand side as you go into town. A VERY BIG COMPLEX. Those people have been evacuated out for a week, week and a half, maybe 2 wks as it is not mandatory yet. Anyway, yesterday (June 25) the National Guard there driving inside the complex, around the complex surveying it. We got National Guard Troops all over levees that are here. They were suppose to blow a levee in Plattsmouth which is south of my position. I do not know if it’s been blown yet, have not been watching news. I have other concerns at this point to make preparations of my own. I’m not personally in the flood plans as it were when I sit on a site of a good sized hill. Effects, we could lose our electric and fresh water 2 maybe 3 months, we don’t know. Employer cleaned up shop things have been relocated in the flood plan before info about the dam being blown (Gavins Pt dam SD) came down the pipe. We could face tremendous losses. Not only will water come down river, the channel is FULL, no channel as it were to hold that water, it’s gonna spread out. Anyways, if you don’t live in the area and you;re watching this video, I’m going to ask you to please pray for Council Bluffs and Omaha.”
So now here is this strange news. There is reporting that authorities believe the levee was blown up by an unknown group of citizens north of Council Bluffs. And that very good question:
The obvious question that has not been asked by the corporate controlled media is that if the group is unknown how do officials know that they are simply local citizens and not terrorists or rogue intelligence agents????
I’m wondering about Council Bluffs still and
what is with that very large apartment complex evacuated and the National Guard Troops surveying such and the unverified video man’s plea asking to please pray for Council Bluffs and Omaha??? Not that I think he had anything to do. He knew something was amiss over there or why did he bother mention this complex and the National Guard Troops?
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bigisland,
this popped out of discussion quickly,
as it may be that they they they could,
begin prosecuting bloggers for terroristic rumors!
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They will blow things to the south and east then work their way north on the east side of the river.
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sounds Tactical, possible, terrible.
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Intentional levee breaks haven’t yet lowered flood levels at either Blair-CALHOUN, unchanged in a week at 32.33, or Omaha, up 1.35 feet from 6/23′s 34.67 to today’s last at 36.02.
And more recently in the last 2 hours Blair and Omaha are rising at .96 and 1.68 feet per day.
Levee protected areas generally are holding their own, but Omaha’s large flood area up 1.35 feet in a week tells me huge amounts of floodwater are accumulating in unprotected areas and that the Missouri River pressure is still building.
1.35 more feet of water coming toward your home or business each week is the death by a thousand ripples.
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THIS GUY PREDICTED THEY WOULD BLOW!!!! THIS CRAP IS UNREAL!!
http://www.youtube.com/user/TerralO3#p/f/8/GnmUQ8M3IVI
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Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x_cr2XA2Ks
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