REBUILDING NEW ORLEANS - in light of EDGAR CAYCE'S PREDICTIONS...?
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In light of his predictions...Yes it should be built elsewhere..but you know, people are not smart.
252692
I live in New Orleans, and I just can't support Nagin anymore. I can almost excuse some of the incompetence that occurred immediately before and after Katrina, but some of his actions since then (Chocolate City, anybody?) are incomprehensible.\n\nI will have to say that I am for Forman simply because I don't like Landrieu or any of the others. And, besides, Forman already knows how to run a zoo.\n\nAnd, by the way, StevenVest, you really have no idea what you're talking about.
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Well, it depends on your idea of accurate.  Have people found events to tie his predictions to?  Yes, they have.  But if I write down a bunch of vague generalities, in a few hundred years, I'm sure most of them will have come "true" as well.
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No.  If government does anything, it should help to make more rental properties available to increase the supply.  This will reduce rents and help restore the city.  The city owns/holds many properties considered blighted.  This is from before Katrina.  Sell these off or clean them up and rent them out.\n\nTake other abandoned homes and do the same.  Encourage small business contractors to renovate rental units with grants, SBA loans, etc.  New Orleans banking is unique and steeped in history.  Maybe these local businesses can also help with easy loans and expedited processes.\n\nHow about take some of the empty projects (which are neat buildings) and partner with developers to renovate them into mixed-use housing?\n\nNew Orleans cannot afford any more government handouts, as they take decades to identify much less remove.
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I think eventually public opinion will come down on poor roadway construction and a better way to design highways will come about. \n\nBut the real opportunities will be in the older metropolitan areas where infrastructure is either aging or overwhelmed by traffic volume or both.\n\nThere have been huge projects in the Boston (the Dig) and Washington D.C. areas (Mixing Bowl and Wilson Bridge).\n\nImagine projects like a new or replacement Brooklyn Bridge, or maybe a new "Giuliani Tunnel" to Manhatten.  \n\nThese same older cities also have aging water/sewer systems.  I think Baltimore still has some water mains made of wood dating from the 1800's.  I know Washington D.C. has water mains from the 1800's (I'm looking at such a plan right now).\n\nSo I think civil engineering will do just fine.
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Edgar cayce was a fraud. Why would anyone take any notice of what he said?\n\nHis diagnoses were about as well-informed as his suggested cures. For example, we have his reading for psoriasis as, "The conditions that exist through the thinning of the walls of the intestines allow the poisons to find expressions in the lymph circulation; thus producing the irritation to and through the epidermis itself" (The Edgar Cayce Website, ecayce.tripod.com, from reading #2455-2, May 21, 1941). Funny, I have psoriasis and my doctor never mentioned thinning intestinal walls to me--nor do any of the medical websites I've consulted.\n\nCayce supporters probably don't like to talk about his failures in healing members of his own family. According to Beyerstein, Cayce's cousin, Ike, appealed to him for help but died. And one of Cayce's own sons died as a baby in 1911.\n\nAs if these weren't bad enough, we have several documented cases of Cayce advising how to cure dead people, in connection with readings using letters they sent to him. In these cases, the letters had been written while the person was still alive, but by the time he made his psychic "diagnosis," they were dead. Whoops! Of course, his followers have excuses for this type of thing, but it seems to me if he's getting his information through magical means, he should know this particular person is beyond help.\n\nThose excuses apparently followed every obvious screw-up. Mind you, most of his failures weren't so obvious. As James Randi notes in Flim Flam: "The rationalizations that Cayce and his supporters used to explain his numerous and notable failures are prime examples of the art of evasion."\n\nHe later notes, "Cayce was fond of expressions like 'I feel that' and 'perhaps'--qualifying words used to avoid positive declarations. It is a common tool in the psychic trade. Many of the letters he received--in fact, most--contained specific details about the illnesses for which readings were required, and there was nothing to stop Cayce from knowing the contents of the letters and presenting that information as if it were a divine revelation. To one who has been through dozens of similar diagnoses, as I have, the methods are obvious. It is merely a specialized version of the 'generalization' technique of fortune-tellers."\n\nLet's move on briefly to some other areas where Cayce tried to use his vast psychic powers. One example discussed in detail by Randi is Cayce's extraordinary failure in divining information about the Lindbergh kidnapping case. I bet you won't find too many Cayce supporters talking about that one.\n\nAnother failure was his attempt to find buried treasure. After several weeks of trying, with the additional help of a well-known dowser, he found nothing. The only thing they had to show for their work was excuses. Some of these are hysterical, such as the one about ghosts of Native Americans and pirates playing tricks with the psychic energy, or the claim that the treasure had been there but was already dug up by somebody else, or maybe it would be buried there at some future date. It's amazing that his magical powers could supposedly diagnose somebody from across the country, but couldn't tell the difference between the past, present, and future.\n\nAnother amusing prediction was that the U.S. would discover an Atlantean death ray (as in, one from Atlantis) in 1958. I suppose his supporters might claim the government actually did find it, but it's hidden away with the aliens from Roswell due to its dangerous nature.\n\nThe point is that, as with every other well-known "psychic" I've seen/heard about/read about, the claims simply don't stand up to scrutiny.
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There is no assurance that New Orleans will be hit by another hurricane, just as there is no assurance they won't be.  While I'm not a psychic, from previous years and studies of hurricanes, it's very unlikely that another hurricane will hit them this year and even more unlikely that a large hurricane will hit.\n\nMany younger adults, mostly people in their twenties, are taking advantage of the large amount of homes available for sale.  While the homes need much repair, a recent college graduate who was looking at a small house in another large city can afford to buy a big house in New Orleans and then renovate it for the same price.  While home insurance is expensive in the city, the price of the home, repair, and insurance still doesn't meet what you'd pay somewhere like California.\n\nThere's also the fact that many people don't have a choice to live somewhere else.  While many people have moved out of the city, most of the people that were displaced by the storm are extremely poor.  They didn't own their homes, many didn't have insurance, and Fema has drastically cut the amount of aid they are giving to people.  However, many of the cities they have been living with are also cutting off aid and so they are forced to return to their broken homes, the only thing they own, and attempt to rebuild (they certainly can't sell their homes in the state in which they are in). \n\nFinally, New Orleans is still a major shipping and oil port and people are needed to work the jobs to get things on and off ships.  My mother's oil company has actually offered large amounts of money and incentives to get people from her KY office to move down there and work.  Hope this helps explain things.
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They maybe about as good as it gets, or needs to get.  Some models say if you had an enormous amount of information all over the world and somehow hooked it all up to computers, maybe instead of one week prediction, 3 week prediction. Notice we all watched Katrina for 2 weeks and the early prediction was it could be very sever. Several years ago a storm on the computer simulated predicted similar devastation to the area and once again funding was cut to 10%. \nDo you remember Bill Clinton canceling meetings in Europe and coming back for a #4 storm in Carolinas. FEMA waiting close to the storm and moving in? Congress criticized the amount of money. Of coarse it was very small compared to anything this administration does today. \nWhat we need is political will.
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cyanne2ak: I'm glad to hear that destroying a city is a laughing matter to you\n\nThis city must be rebuilt\n\nAnd to clarify, New Orleans was not below sea level when it was first built in the 18th century - subsidence over the centuries caused most areas to sink below sea level.
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The people of New Orleans!! I want to say up front I have nothing to do with that cespool of sucmbags. Save the money, & let the "Chocolate City" turn into Atlantis......\n\n6/27/06 The lawlessness, the disfunction, the looters, killers. Hell now they need the National Guard to protect a city with fewer people than before. The Mayor is useless and the football team sucks. Do I need more?
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hello, i am from louisiana, 30 minutes south of new orleans. i am not exactly sure what the answer is. you are probably talking about the 9th ward (which is one of the hardest hit areas), it is not one of the best neighborhoods and that could be why they do not want to rebuild. i heard something about it becomming a rich neighborhood. but honestly who would want to rebuild there. the entire area is protected by a levee. the other area that was hard hit was chalmette, the entire parish flooded and the water was up to the roofs of the homes. i personally would not live in an area protected by a levee. also i am sure that most of the people in the 9th ward area can not afford to rebuild. the insurance companies aren't exactly being fair. i hope i helped you understand a little bit better, if not feel free to contact me.
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I think you should. New Orleans might just get hit again and then you'd be worse off than before. You should do a little research, don't just get set on Phoenix, there are list of "Best and Worst" cities, and maybe you can find one nearer to Cali.
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#1 The city of New Orleans was allocted the $$ years ago to fix the lEVEE's. Their corrupt goverment spent it elsewhere.\nThe mayor did a crappy job during Katrina. He should of had the city evacuated. He had plenty of notice. We all knew! The governor was too busy crying about it. Literally crying and then when all was said and done she blamed who else? The President of course. But as the mayor said it will be a chocolate city again! I wouldn't live there if you paid my rent and fed me!
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I think these Bible codes are very interesting and look to be very accurate. It was very good of you to find this. I want to look at this website more often to see other revelations other than the New Orleans/Katrina one which I thought was really neat. Thanks!!!!
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Ask the spirit of Edgar Cayce
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God didn't.  Mother Earth is trying to restore balance to the ecosystem in New Orleans.  I have nothing against New Orleans or the people that live there, but the measures we've taken to make a swampland habitable has left the area with basically no natural protection against the elements.  What happened with Hurricane Katrina is entirely mankind's fault.\n\nBright blessings!\n)O(
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First, let me say that if you lived on the other side of the canal, you are NOT from New Orleans, you are in fact a Metairian from Jefferson Parish.\n\nSecond, the politics are so bad b/c of the political framework that has developed primarily since Huey P. Long which supports patronage and a welfare state.  These two components have been in place and supported by the electorate for so long, no one knows how to think differently.  This is obvious by the #2 vote winner in last week's mayoral election.\n\nTrue change cannot come overnight and will be very painful for those who most gain from the existing system.  This includes the politicians, their buddies in the businesses which are required to keep government going, the poor who depend on the state to help them by giving out money and equivalents, the list goes on . . .\n\nYou can fix it by doing two things: First, move into Orleans Parish.  If Orleans Parish does not succeed, your precious sheltered life in Metairie will quickly follow.  Second, get involved on city politics. You don't have to run for office,  but be informed and participate where you can.\n\nThe greater New Orleans area will recover but everyone has to make some sacrifice and also participate in the rebuilding of the arguably greatest city in the country.\n\nFollow Up: Point well taken!  I believe that the interconnectedness of the area still has its centerpoint in the economic health of Orleans Parish.  More power to you if you support Orleans with your actions, as you mentioned.  But,  your vote only counts if you live in the parish.  If you want to fix the politics, you must live in the parish so you can vote there.  Thanks for being someone who is committed to the rebuilding of the city, even if you won't live in it.