<DrumBeat: May 14, 2006 The Oil Drum A short-term closure of a theme perhaps, and a song?>

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Don in Colorado on May 14, 2006 - 5:19pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I agree with you, Cherenkov. There needs to be a plan. But like Simmons said, there is no Plan B.

FEMA needs to be building large agricultural work camps so that people who lose their homes in suburbia will have a place to go ... for them and their children.

It would be the height of irresponsibility not to have something like this in place. People can't ALL move out to live on Uncle Pete's old farmstead.

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Reed on May 14, 2006 - 6:30pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Seems your idea has already been thought of. I'm sure some labor in the fields can be worked into this program.
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Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps
News Analysis/Commentary, Peter Dale Scott,
New America Media, Feb 08, 2006

Editor's Note: A little-known $385 million contract for Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build detention facilities for "an emergency influx of immigrants" is another step down the Bush administration's road toward martial law, the writer says.

BERKELEY, Calif.--A Halliburton subsidiary has just received a $385 million contract from the Department of Homeland Security to provide "temporary detention and processing capabilities.....
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http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77

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Don in Colorado on May 14, 2006 - 7:29pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Well, thank God they have a plan ...
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Triffin on May 15, 2006 - 11:44am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top

FEMA needs to be building large agricultural work camps so that people who lose their homes in suburbia will have a place to go ... for them and their children.

Maybe that's why the government is promoting
bio-fuels .. They know the EREOI is low and
when the fuel supply gets constrained lots
of manual labor is going to be required to
tend/harvest/process/transport the bio-crops

Triff @ tongue-in-cheek.com

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