Now's the time for you to head for Texas and Florida to get rich quick.

It helps if you've contributed to Republican campaigns, but first things first.

Start a company that has "disaster relief" in its name, launch a website and start selling. It's amazing how much money you can score if you're not a government agency. (Everybody knows that for-profit corporations can do anything better than any government bureaucracy, right?)

You can file a cheap corporation here on the High Desert Plantation, tax-free and deregulated. Just pay a small state fee and swing your project.

After Hurricane Katrina devastated much of New Orleans in 2005, the administration of Bush the Lesser sprang into inaction.

"The companies that snatched the biggest contracts were the familiar Baghdad gang," reported the awesome Naomi Klein.

"As in Iraq, no opportunity for profit was left untapped," she noted in her highly honored 2007 tour-de-force The Shock Doctrine — The Rise of Disaster Capitalism.

It's a primer on how Wall Street and corrupt governments have turned political, economic and natural holocausts into marketing opportunities worldwide.

A major Bush donor averaged $12,500 per New Orleans dead body retrieved, missed many over a year and actually barred non-profits and community groups from searching because of contractual exclusivity.

My favorite is Lighthouse Disaster Relief, "paid $5.2 million to perform the crucial role to construct a base camp for emergency workers." Lighthouse was a religious outfit with zero qualifications.

"About the closest thing I've done to this is just organize a youth camp with my church," said the dimbulb preacher guiding the Lighthouse for fun and profit. Heckuva job, Brownie!

"After all the layers of subcontractors had taken their cut, there was next to nothing left for the people doing the work," Klein reported.

Locals were rarely hired. Imports, many undocumented, were paid below area-standard wages or not at all. That won't be an issue today with El Presidente deporting Latino communities, making way for new hotels and such.

Joe Arpaio is available to supervise.

President Trump is already praising himself for the government's response, but muy credit goes to former Obama Secretary of Energy Dr. Ernest Moniz who ordered research preparing for a Level 3 hurricane hitting Galveston, Houston's seaport. (Vanity Fair, Sept. '17)

Tsar Donaldov appointed former Texas Gov. Rick Perry to succeed the eminent MIT nuclear physicist at DOE. Perry advocated eliminating the department during his presidential campaign. Trump has recommended hemorrhagic budget cuts for the agency protecting the nation's nukes and power grids.

OILOGOPOLY OOZES. Speaking of disaster capitalism, even before Harvey hit, I was informed by a resident on the northern fringe of the hurricane path that gasoline was already $5.00 a gallon.

Go to the NevadaLabor.com Oilogopoly Archive to see how BigOil jacks up retail prices on news of any disaster large or small.

A fire in a wastebasket at a refinery? Christmastime! A tugboat denting a tanker? Buy stock!

Prices ratchet down very slowly afterward.

The majors don't have to worry about conspiring to fix prices.

The floor is always set by whatever local ARCO stations post.

The pirates hide in plain sight

SLAVE LABOR DAY. Go to Barbwire.US to read Virginia City celebrates Slave Labor Day, my exposé detailing how freedom-loving racists have morphed the traditional Comstock Labor Day Parade into "Civil War Days."

The south has risen again in Tesla County, Mississippi West Nevada, USA.

Be well. Raise hell. / Esté bien. Haga infierno. (Pardon my Spanglish.)

ONLINE EXTRAS —>

NVEnergy SECURITY BREACH? After I paid my July power bill, I awaited the usual confirmation. Just before it arrived to an unpublished e-mail address, I got two pieces of spam to that same address.

The subject lines stated "Second Attempt Your July Electric bill is zero" and "Study Reveals The #1 Tiny Device SAVES Electricity Bills In Your Home."

Too close for coincidence. I contacted NVE. Stay tuned.

FIRE METER UPDATES: THE NEVADA FIRE MARSHALL'S INVESTIGATION concluded "don't worry, be happy." I'm still worried and will continue fondling NVE's precious equipment —> If your smart meter feels very hot, not just from sunshine, call 911. In its Sunday 21 Dec. 2014 front page headline major story, the Reno Gazette-Journal published results of the NVEnergy-commissioned "don't worry, be happy" echo study. On 1-27-2015, the RGJ published an analysis based on veteran reporter Anjeanette Damon's review of more than 1,000 pages of documents.

Barbwire bottom line: NVE handles this like auto manufacturers handle defects —> It's cheaper to pay legal settlements after people are injured or killed than to fix the problem.

Don'tcha worry 'bout a thing! If you can't trust your power company, whom can you trust?

Smoking guns: Rooftop solar assassination — NevadaLabor.com Energy War Room

DIDN'T THEY MAKE A MOVIE CALLED "THE INCREDIBLES"? On 2-6-2015, the RGJ reported that the Public Utilities Commission has ordered NVE to hire an independent laboratory to review the material.

UPDATE: The report said all is well. I still recommend feeling up your fire meter on a regular basis.

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