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Willem Malten From The Los Alamos Study Group: ‘Now Monsoon Rains Threaten To Flood Whole Communities With Contaminants Such As Plutonium, Uranium And Mercury’

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– ‘Monsoon rain could flood Los Alamos with contaminants’ (PressTV, July 14, 2011):

Willem Malten from the Los Alamos Study Group says that although the town of Los Alamos which is still one of the United States’ most active nuclear weapons facilities has escaped the threat of a fierce wildfire, a new natural phenomenon is now threatening the local communities.

Now monsoon rains threaten to flood whole communities with contaminants such as plutonium, uranium and mercury, he said in an interview with Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Wednesday.

He said “there is a frantic community effort under way with mainly Native Americans sandbagging their own homelands while the [The Los Alamos National] Laboratory just removed 12,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil from the canyons.”

LA County’s Child Welfare Agency Wastes $514,000 on Cellphones: Audit

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More than 1,400 of the department’s 5,000 phones were not used by employees, yet were activated and incurred $330,000 in service charges. One worker racked up $2,000 in personal international calls.

A quarter of the money spent last year on cellphones by Los Angeles County’s child welfare department was wasted on “unnecessary or inappropriate” charges, according to an audit released Tuesday.

The audit found that $514,000 of the $2.2 million spent in 2009 on the department’s 5,000 cellphones went to devices that were never used, personal calls to foreign countries and other questionable ends.

DOCUMENT: Read the audit

“It is likely that the department paid for inappropriate charges in the prior and current years” as well, Los Angeles County Auditor-Controller Wendy Watanabe wrote in her report.

Trish Ploehn, who was removed last week as director of the Department of Children and Family Services, was given a draft copy of the audit this fall.

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‘9/11 On Steroids’ – LA Dry Run: Urban Nuke Attack ‘A Survivable Event’

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Commentary:

I told you about the  documentary I saw (aired by a BIG German TV station) before: For an unbelievable cheap price you can get a suitcase nuke!

The elite is getting nervous and with another inside job of unprecedented proportions they could get the sheep back on track, declare martial law and find a reason to attack Iran.

The elite has everything in place to completely (The elite already owns the government, the Fed, the media and the big corporations and has bankrupted America and now they want to totally enslave Americans.) take over the United States of America:

– Jesse Ventura Conspiracy Theory: Police State (And FEMA Concentration Camps)

– President Obama Wins The Right to Detain People With No Habeas Review

– US government can execute its own citizens far from a combat zone, with no judicial process and based on secret intelligence!:

“The notion that the government can, in effect, execute one of its own citizens far from a combat zone, with no judicial process and based on secret intelligence, makes some legal authorities deeply uneasy.“ (The New York Times)

– Dylan Ratigan Show: President Obama ‘Has A Hit List Of American Citizens Like YOU targeted For Assassination’

– Rep. Ron Paul on Obama seeking to assassinate ‘US citizens’ he labels as terrorist

– US Government Preparing For Civil Unrest In America

The US…

… is fighting illegal wars

… has a nice CIA rendition and torture program

… has contractor concentration camps or gulags all over the world and floating prison ships on the sea (See this, this, this, this, this and this.),

… has deployed military combat units within the US in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act (See this, this , this, this and this.),

… has its Obama Youth (See this and this, this and this.),

… has everything in place so that their elite puppet of choice can become the absolute dictator that has to answer to no one (See this, this, this, this and this.)

The elitists tried before to install a fascist dictatorship in the US. And it looks like that this time they are coming even closer to reach their goal.

These are the same criminal families that helped and financed Hitler’s rise to power.

What could possibly go wrong?


Computer-simulated fallout over Los Angeles is projected at Operation Golden Phoenix’s command center, where county Health Director Jonathan Fielding, left, monitors possible effects.

Dec. 16 (USA TODAY) — The plotters decided to trigger their bomb in Los Angeles during the morning rush, at a metro station a stone’s throw from Universal Studios and the set where Steven Spielberg filmed scenes from “War of the Worlds.”

This was no ordinary explosive. It was a 10-kiloton nuclear device packing roughly the destructive force of the Hiroshima bomb. A blast of that magnitude could engulf 50,000 to 150,000 people and reduce parts of L.A., Hollywood and Studio City — the historical heart of the movie industry — to radioactive rubble.

Al-Qaeda played no part in planning the July 28 attack. The conspirators were the leaders of a dozen state, local and federal agencies who were taking part in a simulated L.A. County security exercise code-named Operation Golden Phoenix. Their mission: to assure that if a terrorist does detonate a nuke in Los Angeles, first responders will be prepared to wade into the devastation and rescue survivors suffering from traumatic injuries, radiation sickness, shock and flash-blindness.

“This is a survivable event,” says Brendan Applegate, of the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Asymmetric Warfare, who helped design and carry out the exercise. “L.A. isn’t going to fall into the ocean and be gone forever. It will be a really bad day, but we need everyone to show up to work and save lives.”

Operation Golden Phoenix offers a rare public glimpse of the government’s behind-the-scenes effort to bolster national preparedness. Few places take the threat more seriously than Los Angeles and post-9/11 New York.

“We’re working with surrounding states and counties on regional plans that address the threat of an IND (improvised nuclear device),” says Kelly McKinney, New York City’s Deputy Commissioner for Planning and Preparedness from the Office of Emergency Management.

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LAPD Charges Jaywalkers With $191 Fine In New Crackdown

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Pedestrians should think twice before jaywalking in downtown L.A. — or they could walk away with a $191 fine.

During the busy holiday shopping season, the Los Angeles Police Department is ramping up a zero-tolerance policy for jaywalkers downtown, particularly the Historic Core area, as part of an effort to reduce accidents and prevent crime, officials said.

A citation won’t be cheap, now costing $191.

“This is about more than reducing accidents during the holidays,” said LAPD Lt. Paul Vernon. “This is about preventing thefts and robberies. Jaywalking is often done by thieves, purse snatchers and robbery suspects to target their victims.”

Vernon said such criminals often suddenly see a potential target and run across the road mid-block. To be better able to spot such suspects, the department wants to deter law-abiding citizens from such behavior, he said.

“We will be watching; that is the message we want to get out there,” Vernon said. Authorities said officers will paying particular attention to Spring and Main streets.

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Arizona Threatens to Cut Off Electricity Supply to Los Angeles

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Arizona could cut off electricity supplies to Los Angeles in protest at an economic boycott over the state’s controversial immigration law.

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Los Angeles could be plunged into darkness if the threats are realised

Los Angeles receives about 25 per cent of its power from Arizona, meaning a quarter of America’s second largest city could be plunged into darkness.

Politicians in the city voted last week to impose a boycott on Arizona which will affect about $8 million (£5.3 million) worth of contracts with the state. City officials will also stop travelling to Arizona.

In response an Arizona utility commissioner raised the prospect of the state’s utility companies cutting Los Angeles off.

In a letter to the city Arizona Corporation Commission member Gary Pierce said: “If an economic boycott is truly what you desire, I will be happy to encourage Arizona utilities to renegotiate your power agreements so Los Angeles no longer receives any power from Arizona-based generation.

“I am confident that Arizona’s utilities would be happy to take those electrons off your hands.

“If, however, you find that the City Council lacks the strength of its convictions to turn off the lights in Los Angeles and boycott Arizona power, please reconsider the wisdom of attempting to harm Arizona’s economy.” Mr Pierce said if Los Angeles was “serious” about its boycott and not just “posturing” then it would have to consider supplying its own power.

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Los Angeles controller warns that city general fund ‘will be out of money’ by May 5

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Los Angeles Controller Wendy Greuel on Monday said she expects the city’s general fund “will be out of money” by May 5 and that L.A. will likely deplete its reserve funds and be in the red by June 30.

Greuel alerted Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the City Council of the city’s dire financial situation after the head of the Department of Water and Power stated he would oppose sending $73.5 million in utility revenue to the city treasury. Interim General Manager S. David Freeman said the council’s vote to block a proposed electricity rate hike last week threatens to put the utility in a deficit.

Greuel urged the council and mayor to immediately tap the city’s reserve funds so that city has enough cash to cover payroll.

“This is the most urgent fiscal crisis that the city has faced in recent history, and it is imperative that you act now. That is why I am asking you to immediately transfer $90 million from the city’s reserve fund to the general fund so I can continue to pay the city’s bills, and to ensure the fiscal solvency of the city,” Greuel said.

Councilman Greig Smith said the decision by the DWP had put the city in a “very risky” situation.
“Our reserve fund was already very marginal to begin with.  This could push it over the edge,” Smith said. “That would mean we would have nothing in the tank on June 30,” at the end of the fiscal year.

Smith said he could not envision a scenario in which the city could recoup that much money before July 1. Even additional layoffs could not be processed that quickly.
“The question is what are we going to do next? That I don’t know,” Smith said.

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Three wildfires ring Los Angeles

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California wildfires wreak havoc


Aerial footage of fires across northern Los Angeles

Three separate wildfires in southern California have destroyed hundreds of homes and forced thousands of people to flee the fast-moving flames.

The fires, to the north, north-west and south of Los Angeles have burnt through dry brush and forest in the suburban canyonlands around the city.

California’s governor has declared states of emergency in Orange, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties.

A drop in the wind force has given some relief to the hard-pressed fire crews.

The largest of the fires is in the northern Los Angeles suburb of Sylmar, up against the canyons of the Angeles National Forest.

See map of the California fires

Ten-thousand people were ordered to evacuate their homes as the flames raced through the Oakridge Mobile Home Park late on Friday, destroying about 500 of the structures.

Firefighters were braving 50ft flame lengths as they swept across the mobile homes
Los Angeles Fire Captain Steve Ruda
In pictures: Los Angeles wildfire

“We have never lost in recent times anything close to this number [of homes],” said Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa.

He blamed the spread of the fire on “absolutely atrocious” winds of up to 80 mph (130 km/h) that pushed the fire out of the forests and into the suburbs, jumping wide highways in the process.

“It was an absolute firestorm,” said Los Angeles Fire Department Captain Steve Ruda of the Oakridge blaze.

“Firefighters were braving 50ft flame lengths as they swept across the mobile homes,” he told the Reuters news agency, adding that heat from the flames had melted his firefighters’ hoses to the road.

The Sylmar fire has burnt through 8,000 acres (3,200 hectares) since it broke out late on Friday. Fire officials said it was 20% contained as of late Saturday.

About 2,000 firefighters are using aircraft, helicopters and bulldozers to beat the flames back from populated areas.

Pillars of smoke

Meanwhile, more than 12,000 people were ordered to leave their homes in Orange County, in the south of the Los Angeles urban sprawl, as another fire flared up early on Saturday in the communities of Yorba Linda and Corona.

That fire has so far scorched 2,000 acres (800 hectares) and damaged or destroyed about 100 homes or other buildings.

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L.A. seeing more people living out of their cars

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LOS ANGELES: Having lost her job and her three-bedroom house, Darlene Knoll has joined the legions of downwardly mobile who are four wheels away from homelessness.

She is living out of her shabby 1978 RV, and every night she has to look for a place to park where she won’t get hassled by the cops or insulted by residents.

“I’m not a piece of trash,” the former home health-care aide said as she stroked one of five dogs in her cramped quarters parked in the waterfront community of Marina del Rey.

Amid the foreclosure crisis and the shaky economy, some California cities are seeing an increase in the number of people living out of their cars, vans or RVs.

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Los Angeles Eyes Sewage as a Source of Water

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Persistent drought and the threat of tighter water supplies prompted Los Angeles’s plans to begin using heavily cleansed sewage to increase drinking water supplies.

(So what comes out of your faucet is what your neighbor flushed down the toilet, but it’s heavily cleansed, with some extra added highly toxic fluoride, maybe iodine….and of course it’s highly chlorinated too – all for your safety.You can trust the government with your life, or can’t you??? To life then….ohhh shit! Los Angeles, another no-go area.
That’s another reason why I told you that you need your own well. – The Infinite Unknown)

By RANDAL C. ARCHIBOLD
Published: May 16, 2008
Source: The New York Times

Body Scanners at Airports in NYC and LA

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Airports in New York and Los Angeles have become the latest equipped with body scanners that allow security screeners to peer beneath a passenger’s clothing to detect concealed weapons.

The machines, which are about the size of a revolving door, use low-energy electromagnetic waves to produce a computerized image of a traveler’s entire body.

Passengers step in and lift their arms. The scans only take a minute, and Transportation Security Administration officials say the procedure is less invasive than a physical frisk for knives, bombs or guns.

Someday, the “millimeter wave” scans might replace metal detectors, but for now they are being used selectively.

Los Angeles International Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York saw their first scanners installed Thursday, each at a single checkpoint. Phoenix Sky-Harbor International Airport got one of the machines in October.

Modest travelers may have concerns about the images.

The black and white, three-dimensional scans aren’t as vivid as a photograph, but they do reveal some of the more intimate curves of the human form, maybe with as much clarity as an impressionist sculpture by Auguste Rodin.

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