Flooding in Pakistan. Is Project Popeye Back?

[conspiracy analyst]

[conspiracy analyst]

We have had a near continuous heatwave in Moscow for at least one month when the temperatures in the same parallel are at least 15c less.

We have had massive floods that have now also hit China making millions homeless.

They both must have the technology to stop these events if they are indeed the work of foreign secret services using weather modification technology.

So it must be done by themselves. A section of their ruling elites wants a seat in any future one world 'green' government. There can be no other explanation...

We have had Haiti and BP in the West. They have had heatwaves, floods and fires in the East.

[TonyGosling]

Don't forget worse floods than this occurred naturally only 80 years ago. Zardari is of course in a perfect position in first world London to talk to the world's real power-brokers and get help for his stricken nation

Zardari Says Opponents Shouldn't Politicize Pakistan's Flooding Disaster
By Paul Tighe and Khurrum Anis - Aug 8, 2010 1:32 AM GMT+0100
Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari called on his opponents to avoid playing politics over the “calamity of floods” that have struck the country, submerging villages and leaving more than four million people stranded.
The international community and political parties at home should come together to help victims of the disaster, Zardari told a meeting late yesterday in Birmingham, U.K., the official Associated Press of Pakistan reported on its website.....
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-08/zardari-says-opponents-should n-t-politicize-pakistan-s-flooding-disaster.html

[conspiracy analyst]

[conspiracy analyst]

US military is sending many choppers into Northern Pakistan under the guise of aid.
This model of state intervention was first tried out in the USA ie Katrina, used successfully against Haiti and is now being rolled over to Pakistan.

A US popstar is now running for 'president' of Haiti.


US military flood aid choppers in Pakista
http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2010/08/us_militarys_flood_ai d_chopper.html

At the same time all media outlets are selling the floods in Pakistan as evidence of 'climate change' One is therefore asked to believe Mr Al Gores theories (of depleted uranium fame in ex-Yugoslavia) regarding ...climate change.

These policies are now going global and are replacing the fake 'terrorist threat'...

[outsider]

Slightly off-topic, but extremely important from a humanitarian point of view; please sign this petition, and spread it about as much as pos.
I've put it on 'campaigns':

http://www.justiceforaafia.org/take-action/act-now/596-a-unique-petiti on-repatriate-dr-aafia-siddiqui-to-her-home-in-pakistan

[conspiracy analyst]

Initial steps towards a world government under the guise of weather events/climate change ie the return of Project Popeye... The PM of Pakistan has declared this emergency worse than the partition of Pakistan!


France's Sarkozy calls for European natural disaster force

German rescuers helping out after the South Asia earthquake
Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: The proposed force would draw on each nation's resources
French President Nicolas Sarkozy wants the EU to set up a rapid reaction force for natural disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires and floods. France has also pledged immediate aid to Pakistani flood victims.


French President Nicolas Sarkozy is calling on the European Union to establish a unified rapid reaction force to deal with natural disasters.

Sarkozy addressed the issue in light of devastating flooding in Pakistan - but made reference to other natural disasters such as recent wildfires in Russia and the Haiti earthquake.

"We must take the necessary measures and build a real EU reaction force ... that draws on the resources of the member states," the president said in the letter, made public on Sunday, to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso.

French President Nicolas SarkozyBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Sarkozy called for Europe to completely engage with the situation in Pakistan Sarkozy said that France would make proposals for the reaction force to other member states in the near future.

Military mobilized

The French president said his country was mobilizing military units to help Pakistan deal with massive flooding in the country and urged Europe to "completely engage" with the situation.

"It strikes me as essential, for obvious humanitarian and political reasons," Sarkozy said in the letter, "that Europe shows it solidarity with the Pakistani population in a visible manner."

The French foreign ministry said in a statement that it would begin by sending a plane carrying 60 metric tons of food aid to the country, where some 20 million people have been hit by the floods.

Pakistani villagers make their way through floodwaterBildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Some 20 million people have been hit by flooding in PakistanFrance has also offered the services of its military equipment to help transport aid within Pakistan. The aircraft is set to leave France on Wednesday, and arrive in Islamabad on Thursday.

More money needed

Previously, France had allocated one million euros in financial aid for Pakistan to help the country deal with the flooding.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday said more money was needed to help deal with the Pakistan situation, with a United Nations' special aid fund still around 75 percent shy of its 360 million euros ($460 million) target.

The German government has said that it has answered the call, having donated 15 million euros, although civilian donations from the country have been low.

Author: Mark Hallam, Richard Connor (AFP/dpa/Reuters)

Editor: Sarah Harman

[Disco_Destroyer]

Humanitarian Crisis in Pakistan: Saving US airbase at the cost of ...
21 Aug 2010 ... Humanitarian Crisis in Pakistan: Saving US airbase at the cost of the displacement of thousands. by Asian Human Rights Commission ...
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20726

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PAKISTAN: Minister tasked with saving US airbase at the cost of the ... tasked with saving US airbase at the cost of the displacement of thousands :2010-08-20 ... A three-part study on the crisis in institutions for administration of ...
www.ahrchk.net/

http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=486233364837&id=680962281

Did The US Flood Jacobabad To Save Shahbaz Airbase?
by Jeff Prager on Sunday, 22 August 2010 at 02:31
Humanitarian Crisis in Pakistan: Saving US Airbase At The Cost of the Displacement of Thousands
August 20, 2010
A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission

The presence of Pakistan army personnel speaks to the fact that the breach of Jamali bypass was intentional and ordered from above.

It has been reported earlier that the US Air Force has denied the relief agencies use of the Shahbaz airbase for the distribution of aid and assistance. Soldiers of the Pakistan army, a federal minister and the administration of Sindh province are blamed for the incident involving Shahbaz Airbase at Jacobabad district in Sindh province in which it has been reported that flood waters were diverted in order to save the airbase.

The diversion of the floodwaters is blamed for inundating hundreds of houses and the displacement of 800,000 people. According to the media reports, the Federal Minister of Sports along with soldiers from the army and a contingent of officials from the Sindh provincial government breached the Jamali Bypass in Jafferabad district of Balochistan province during the night between August 13 and 14 to divert the water entering the airbase which has remained in US Air Force hands since the war on terror started in 2001.

Mr. Ejaz Jakhrani, the Minister of Sports, while explaining the situation to the media said that if the water was not diverted the Shahbaz Airbase would have been inundated. Mr. Jakhrani himself was present along with the district coordination officer of the Jacobabad district, district police officer and other officials when the breach was made. It is reported in the media that Mr. Jakhrani was assigned to protect the air base by officials at the Pakistan army's headquarter as he was elected from Jacobabad district.

A former prime minister, Mr. Mir Zafar Ullah Khan Jamali said that in order to save Shahbaz Air Base, Jamali bypass was demolished and the town of Dera Allahyar was drowned. Mr. Jamali said that if the airbase was so important, then what priority might be given to the citizens. He blamed minister Jakhrani, DPO and DCO Jacobabad for deliberately diverting the course of the floodwaters towards Balochistan.

In the meantime, during the discussion in the standing committee of the Senate the federal secretary of health has revealed that health relief operations are not possible in the flood-affected areas of Jacobabad because the airbase is under the control of the US Air Force. The coordinator of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Centre, Dr Jahanzeb Aurakzai, told the committee that foreign health teams could not start relief operations in remote areas because there are no airstrips close to several areas, including Jacobabad.

The electronic media has also reported that since 2001 the government of Pakistan, during the regime of general Musharraf, turned over Shahbaz Airport to US forces fighting against terrorism on a lease so it the responsibility of the government and the Pakistan armed forces to protect the agreement done in favour of US forces. The discussions in the media have also pointed out that the presence of army soldiers during the breach of Jamali bypass is a clear indication that the Pakistan army has been ordered to save the airbase from the floodwaters.

In the end, after the seven days of controversy surrounding the air base, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said that the Shahbaz Airbase was under the complete operational control of the PAF and brushed aside reports that floodwaters had been diverted to save the base. Air Vice Marshal, Mr. Abdul Quddus, hurriedly arranged a visit of journalists to Shahbaz Airbase and asked them as to whether they could see any Americans? He told journalists that there are no drones and no Americans; seeing, he said, is believing!

However, there was no reasonable answer to the question raised that when almost the whole of Jacobabad district of Sindh and its adjoining district of Jafferabad of Balochistan province were under floodwaters why the airbase was not affected. This could only be due to the intentional breach of the Jamali bypass. The media was also very critical of the arrangement of the visit to Shahbaz airbase at a time when much more attention is needed to focus all efforts for the relief of the affected people. The visit by the journalists has been seen as a scripted stage play as when journalists were present a C130 cargo plane landed with 200 tons of relief goods which the people of that particular affected area badly needed. Such a plane has not been seen landing there in recent times so this was too much of a coincidence.

The federal minister and former prime minister have not retracted their statements that the floodwater was intentionally diverted to Dera Allahyar, Balochistan to save the air base.

There is rough estimation by the media about the displacement of 800,000 people by the divergence of the waters to the poorer areas. Over 150,000 people have been evacuated from Dera Allahyar and other areas. 350,000 people of Jafferabad district have been shifted to Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi and Quetta, parts of Balochistan, and over 300,000 people had earlier moved to Dera Murad Jamali and Sibi from the Sindh province particularly from Jacobabad.

There can be no doubt that the presence of the Pakistan army personnel at the breach of Jamali bypass indicates the fact that this was an intentional breach. This must be investigated along in order to ascertain who gave the orders. Those giving the orders must be prosecuted. The government of Pakistan must also probe the allegations of deliberate breaches; not only in the incident involving Shahbaz airbase but also those reported earlier where the agricultural lands belonging to senior ministers was protected from the floodwaters also by intentional breaches.

It is a gross contradiction that the United States of America is now one of the biggest donors of relief to Pakistan and it is therefore unacceptable that they are allegedly refusing permission to use Shahbaz airbase for the distribution of that relief.
The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation monitoring and lobbying human rights issues in Asia. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984. 

[Thermate911]

Hang on a minute! Shouldn't this thread, which does everything but mention HAARP by name, be relegated to 'other controversies', or are the moderators finally waking up to the underlying realities that are battering their perceptions daily?

Meanwhile, blessed be the meek (or 'little people' in BP-speak) for they shall inherit devastation of their lives at every juncture deemed necessary by the 'big people'.

So, are we, finally, quite convinced here that world depopulation plans are accelerating rapidly now?

Do you want the 'big people', in reality a minute percentage of the global population (by my own estimate, under 1,000 'movers & shakers'), to continue their oppression and projected mass murder of nearly 6,000,000,000 'little people'?

Is it time to get your heads out of your books & researches, and into fight back mode? It was too late a decade ago and every day we continue to prevaricate is another day for the psychopaths to continue destroying everything that is beautiful on this planet, and its people, too...

And it's not predominantly 'natural disasters', either - are we fully aware of the real ingredients of Monsatan's herbicides, now prevalent throughout the world? Fast death, slow death, any deaths, so long as people don't catch on that they are sovereign souls, beholden to no man, woman or creed?

eg: http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20675
"Genetically Manipulated Crops: The GMO Catastrophe in the USA. A Lesson for the World"

[conspiracy analyst]

[conspiracy analyst]

Taliban issues threat to 'foreign horde' of aid workers in Pakistan helping flood relief

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1306597/Taliban-thre at-foreign-aid-workers-Pakistan.html#ixzz0xnnXYAf2


So the Haiti model has now gone global. They will be sending the NGO's in to occupy northern Pakistan for their war aims


One now realises why the started re-newed propaganda against the Taliban in this edition of Time

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2007238,00.html

During June the Soros foundation in Kabul was working overtime as well

http://blog.soros.org/2010/08/an-oprah-moment-in-afghanistan/


They way I now look at it. Americas last true war was Vietnam where it had a small slither of a chance of winning. Since then it has known only defeats and it is defeated in Afghanistan and Iraq, they just haven't announced it publically

[TonyGosling]

International aid for Pakistan flood victims grossly inadequate
By Tom Peters
24 September 2010

Six weeks after Pakistan was first hit by the most devastating floods in its history, the United Nations held a high-level ministerial meeting on Sunday to discuss its latest call for $2 billion in international aid. The appeal, described as “urgent” by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, followed a previous UN call in August for $460 million. As of last Friday, $434 million in aid had been actually provided.


The representatives of the major powers used the gathering to posture as champions of the suffering Pakistani people, but the $2 billion appeal, even if fully funded, would constitute only a tiny fraction of what is needed. Pakistan’s government estimates the damage to crops and infrastructure alone at $43 billion—almost one quarter of the country’s gross domestic product.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/sep2010/paki-s24.shtml

[conspiracy analyst]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/oct/04/pakistan-floods-plight-sin dh-province


Still marooned: plight of flood-stricken villagers in Pakistan's Sindh province

Plagued by bandits, threatened by malaria: island-villages remain desperate for aid as floods refuse to go away. Declan Walsh reports in the third of a four-part series

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pakistan floods: sindh province The emergency caused by August's floods continues in Sindh province, Pakistan. Photograph: Declan Walsh for the Guardian

The helicopter triggers pandemonium on the newly formed island village, a cluster of mud houses poking over the surface of the sprawling inland sea in southern Pakistan. Villagers scramble towards the aircraft, arms aloft in supplication and eyes scrunched against the tornado whipped up by the rotor blades. Rope beds fly through the air, small children are blown to the ground. Yet they keep coming.

A Pakistani soldier hefts bags of relief aid from the chopper door. If the villagers are lucky one may land in their arms. But sometimes the bags are flimsily packed and explode on impact with the ground, or the aid tumbles into the water. Either way, seconds later the chopper is gone, skimming over the water towards the next village-island. It may not return for days.

These images of desperation were common in the early days of Pakistan's flood when it started in August. But, two months later, in southern Sindh province they continue every day. The emergency continues. While the waters have receded in the mountains of the north and the plains of Punjab, in Sindh they stubbornly refuse to go away. The crisis is most severe in Dadu and Jamshoro districts. Here, a vast ocean dotted with small village-islands stretches to the horizon. Most are still inhabited. In Bachal Chana, south of Dadu, a couple of dozen teenagers and their fathers stand guard over their mud-walled homes. Before the floods this part of Sindh had a formidable problem with dacoits, highway bandits who rob traffic at gunpoint. Now the dacoits have taken to the water. "They have guns and boats, and if we go they'll steal whatever we've got left," said Ali Hassan, a 22-year-old farmer, pointing to the tiles on his roof.

Conditions for the marooned villagers are miserable. Mangy dogs scuttle through deserted alleys; men lounge listlessly in courtyards, seeking shade from the oppressive heat. "Even the dogs are feeling the sorrow," says one. Green, putrid water laps against the walls of the rainbow-coloured village mosque. The men complain of being bitten by swarms of mosquitoes that rise from the festering ponds. "We didn't have mosquitoes here before," says Yar Muhammad, a burly 40-year-old.

This worries aid workers who predict 2 million cases of malaria in the coming months. The biggest problem, though, is drinking water. The UN has recorded 800,000 cases of waterborne disease, mostly diarrhoea, affecting infants and women. An army commander has started to distribute filtration systems. But so far he's only got a few dozen.

The only way to escape Bachal Chana is on one of the military boats that shuttle between the village and Sehwan Sharif, the nearest town. With its glittering shrines, labyrinthine alleys and dreadlocked, often doped-out fakirs – holy men – Sehwan is the largest centre of pilgrimage for Pakistan's Sufi Muslims. Now it is a hub of flood relief.

Floodwater surrounds Sehwan on three sides; the town airport is still underwater. "All you can see is the control tower," said an army officer. Refugee camps crowd around a giant, gold-roofed shrine over the tomb of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a 13th-century saint. Rehmat Chutto, a 50-year-old grandmother with creased skin and gleaming eyes, sat elegantly in a crowded tent she shares with 20 relatives. They had lost everything – house, crops and, most preciously of all, livestock. "Nobody deserves what has happened to us," she said. Chutto had 12 children, most of whom are now married with offspring of their own. She was lucky to have survived: rural Sindh has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in Pakistan, a country that in turn has of the worst rates in the world. Terrible as these conditions are, rural Sindh was a chronically neglected area long before the Indus crashed through its banks. Large tracts of land are in the hands of feudal landlords and, unlike the northern provinces, it does not have a history of labour migration to the building sites of the Gulf states. Sindh also has a history of political isolation: its people are generally seen as hostile to the army, whose top generals largely hail from more prosperous Punjab.

Since the floods, that sense of marginalisation runs deeper than ever. The tented refugees offered scathing criticism of their local parliamentarian, who they said did nothing to help, and the government in general. Their main source of strength was Qalandar, the saint, several said. "If it wasn't for him, we wouldn't have survived," said Chutto, who said she makes a short pilgrimage to his shrine every night.

Sehwan's army commander sits on a hill with a sweeping view over the Indus and the gleaming shrines. The army has burnished its reputation during the floods, a fact that may have inspired the former military dictator, Pervez Musharraf, to launch his political party in London last week. "There is a sense of despondency spreading in Pakistan … So who is the saviour? The army can do it," he said. The commander in Sehwan, though, was more judicious with his words. "We are acting in support of the civil authorities, in accordance with our constitutional duty," he said carefully. Even in this holy town, it is impossible to escape the political ramifications of the floods. Sehwan Sharif is a hotbed of support for the Bhutto family, which comes from nearby Larkana. At the Father of the Nation restaurant, a dusty saloon in the central bazaar, every wall is covered in posters of Benazir Bhutto and her father Zulfikar.

Smaller images show Benazir's husband, Asif Ali Zardari, the current president. In the early days of the flood, Zardari brought scorn upon himself with an ill-advised visit to the family chateau in France. Since then criticism of his leadership, driven by a hostile media, has intensified, leading to a flurry of speculation this month of an army intervention in politics. That hasn't happened – less excitable analysts wonder why anyone would want to seize power in Pakistan's present state – but the speculation continues, and diplomats say that the army chief, General Ashfaq Kayani, has demanded Zardari sack some of the more egregiously corrupt ministers within his cabinet.

His aides deny this is true, arguing that no country, no matter how rich, could cope with a crisis on this scale. The US wants the government to impose a flood tax on the rich – Pakistan's taxation rates are the lowest in the region. So far nothing has happened. At Karachi's Sind Club, stomping ground of the province's elite, landlord Hamir Soomro said he had been touched by the plight of his 7,000 tenants. "Even the relatively well-off ones are queuing for food. That shocked me," he said. In the worst-hit areas little can be done until the water recedes. Nobody is sure how long that will take. There are several variables – the land is lower than the river, a thick layer of floodwater silt is preventing drainage – and expert estimates range from one to three months.

"It will probably take natural evaporation to get rid of most of it," said John Long of Ocha, the UN humanitarian agency. Only then can reconstruction being. The scale is daunting, and resources are limited. "We're going to have to make some tough choices," said Long. "We've never seen anything this big before."

[conspiracy analyst]

Discussion on another forum on the issue with some interesting new facts...

http://www.funenclave.com/chit-chat/check-indian-afghan-dams-floods-pa kistan-43929-2.html