Update on KBR relocation and detention centers..says for migrant

[DemInDistress]

and refugees in case of natural disasters. H'm !

The stated intentions of the contract and acquisition plan do not include those features. Linda Eadie explained that KBR's work could prevent a humanitarian catastrophe in the event of natural disasters such as floods, plagues, tidal waves, hurricanes, earthquakes or a political crisis abroad, like "the fall of a current or future government." USACE maintains it's money well spent on a de facto insurance plan against a humanitarian disaster, offering public shelter for evacuees from a variety of storms, natural disasters, human-induced events.

Each of the four detention centers would accommodate a single male population consisting of 40 percent of the total detainees, 10 percent single female, 40 percent families with children, and 10 percent criminal and sick. Each location will have three different checkpoints: a temporary staging facility where up to 5,000 can be housed and fed for up to 72 hours, and 1,800 can be processed a day; a transfer point holding up to 600 migrants for up to three months before relocation; and to accommodate longer stays for criminal and sick detainees, a temporary detention center where potential terrorist threats can be processed for "rendition" to a site outside the continental United States. Notable among the specifications for KBR is the Department of Defense security requirement for "secret" classification of assigned personnel.


more here.. http://www.alternet.org/story/33295/

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. Do they include "showers" and ovens?

[CountAllVotes]

2. no

but they steal the gold out of your mouth should you happen to have any. :sarcasm:

:kick:

[rpgamerd00d]

3. I think these were made because they had no place for Katrina victims.

Just thinking out loud.

[DemInDistress]

4. Something BIG is gonna happen? On March 26 2006

the Iranian Oil Bourse will open for business. Some say that will destroy the US.Dollar and a crash of the economy will then be upon us. A crash so severe it would make 1929 seem like a bad weekend. I still predict that we/israel will bomb Iran before then and the King of all Imbeciles will impose Martial Law. KBR has cotss ready for many DU-ers.

[rpgamerd00d]

5. OK, but I still think its for nat disasters/immigrant holding like it says

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Bourse delayed; rollout of trading will be gradual

Launch of Iranian oil trading hits wall
Oil exchange unlikely to begin till at least midyear

Despite repeated reports over the past 18 months or so that the planned bourse would finally open for business on March 20, 2006 -- and go head to head with the New York Mercantile Exchange and the ICE Futures Exchange in London -- the start date has been postponed by at least several months and maybe more than a year.

"In the middle of 2006, we are able to start the bourse," Mohammad Asemipur, special adviser on the project to Iran's Oil Minister, said when reached in Tehran. The plan is to trade petrochemical products first, with a crude oil contract coming last, a rollout that likely will take three years, he said.

"Oh, crikey, it's at a much earlier stage than people would think," said British consultant Chris Cook, who claims credit for coming up with the idea for the exchange in the first place and is a member of the consortium headed by the Tehran Stock Exchange that is charged with bringing the project to life.

"You can rest assured, there will not be a crude oil contract, Gulf-based, in my opinion, within a year -- and that would be really pushing it," Mr. Cook, a former director of ICE's predecessor, the International Petroleum Exchange, said when reached in Scotland.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060314.RIRAN14/TPStory/Business

[mom cat]

6. a political crisis abroad, like "the fall of a current or future governmen

This is frightening. They can't provide housing for the Katrina/Rita survivors, but they can build "detention centers" for some hypothetical emergency? I'm not buying it one bit.