Cempaka Belanda: Dutch-US water defences keep New Orleans dry

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Dutch-US water defences keep New Orleans dry

RNW, 28 August 2010 - 8:00am | By Klaas den Tek

(Photo: ANP)

Five years after Hurricane Katrina struck, a ring of water defences is rising round New Orleans. The system of levees and barriers is being constructed in record time thanks to Dutch expertise and American effort.

Boarded-up homes. Car wrecks piled on top of each other like dominoes. The stench of refuse. Piet Dircke from the Dutch engineering company Arcadis remembers it as if it were yesterday. He visited New Orleans in the autumn of 2005. Arcadis started work just months later.

The United States government commissioned Arcadis to join efforts to protect New Orleans from future disasters. The result was a whopping 200-million-dollar contract. Construction of the city’s ‘defensive ring’ is in full swing.

“The countless cranes mark where a massive array of levees, dams, storm surge barriers and pumps is being constructed. It’s all got to be finished by June 2011. We’ll have built an enormous delta defence system in just four years. It’s never been done before,” says Mr Dircke, confident it will all be finished on time.

Chaos and shortages

On 29 August 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans with winds of up to 233 kilometres an hour. The levees gave way and 80 percent of the city was soon under metres of water. The result was chaos: people had to be rescued from roofs, the relief effort was inadequate, there were shortages of food and clean drinking water. Residents were ordered to evacuate the city to prevent outbreaks of disease. Over 1800 people were killed as a result of the disaster.

New Orleans quickly became a gloomy ghost town. Major work had to be done to make the city habitable again. And to prevent such a thing happening again. A huge system of water defences was needed to keep the sea at bay.

Tradition

The Netherlands experienced its own sea flood disaster in 1953, so that’s where the Americans went looking for expertise. The Dutch have learned a lot through building dykes, reclaiming land and constructing their Delta Works system of sea defences.

Another Dutch firm, Royal Haskoning, is also working in New Orleans.

“The Dutch are known all over the world for this sort of work. The American press and US politicians quickly homed in on how we do things. We Dutch have had centuries of experience of dealing with water,” René Zijlstra of Haskoning points out.

The combination of Dutch know-how and American endeavour has produced results. The system of sea defences round New Orleans will have taken just a few years to build whereas the Dutch ‘Delta Works’ took decades.

Let down

Despite all the progress, New Orleans has still not completely recovered from Hurricane Katrina. Some victims feel they have been let down by the US government. Many are still living in temporary housing outside the city. Mr Dircke explains:

”There are neighbourhoods which were badly hit by Katrina where, for the most part, poor black Americans lived. Those areas have still not seen proper reconstruction. They haven’t really bounced back yet.”

Is it enough?

Dutch expertise might be in demand in New Orleans, but the flood defences there won’t match the high standards of the Delta Works, warns Professor Bart Schultz of the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education in Delft.
The Delta Works protect against floods that are likely to occur once in 10,000 years. New Orleans’ new flood defences are only designed to cope with flooding that happens once in a 100 years – no better than the pre-Katrina criterion.
After the disaster, the US Army Corp of Engineers was allocated 16 billion dollars to take flood defence measures. By way of comparison, the Oosterschelde storm surge barrier, which spans just one of the inlets in the southern Dutch province of Zeeland, cost an equivalent of around four billion dollars.
The New Orleans defences are being repaired, says Prof Schultz, but there is no attempt to raise the degree of protection. The reason? “New Orleans is a poor area. In the Netherlands, the great flood of 1953 also threatened the heart of the country."
The ring of defences now being constructed by Arcadis and Haskoning are designed to withstand hurricanes of up to category 3. Katrina was between 3 and 4.