Tag: katrina
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4 years after katrina, a mix of progress & inertia
from usatoday: Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast four years ago, was an eye-opener for all Americans. The inability of New Orleans to cope was shocking. The levees built to protect the city were failures. The follies of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were maddening. Surely a tragedy of this scale (more than 1,600…
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warwhores: alcohol, ambitions & future combat systems
alcohol abuse by soldiers soars since ’03*neo-nazis are in the army now*video: corps of engineers used internet to attack katrina critics*it’s official: fcs cancelled*pilot in utah f16 crash dies*stars & stripes embed booted by army*US army corps of engineers awards $10m contract to saic*US lawmakers pass $550b pentagon budget, ignore veto threat*prince william hints at…
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bush’s final press conference: ‘things didn’t go according to plan’
from raw replay: President Bush answered questions asked by the White House press corps for the final time today. RAW STORY has more details here. This video is from CNN.com, broadcast Jan. 12, 2009. farewell to bush, the president and the manbush’s last press conference: full of disappointment bush: 9/11, 2 wars, katrina: ‘we had…
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40,000 swarm farm to gather free food
and the panic grows, this time in platteville, colorado…from washington post: A farm couple got a huge surprise when they opened their fields to anyone who wanted to pick up free vegetables left over after the harvest – 40,000 people showed up. Joe and Chris Miller’s fields were picked so clean Saturday that a second…
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we remember what happened in new orleans
from brasscheck tv: In the chaos and trauma that accompanied the levee collapses in New Orleans in 2005, a few basic facts were obscured: 1. Katrina was not a natural disaster. It was an engineering disaster caused by the federally funded U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 2. Far from performing incompetently, the Bush administration and…
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collateral 51: courting disaster
from collateral news: If there’s another Katrina-like disaster, says John McCain, he’ll use the private sector as a model to make sure emergency supplies get where they’re needed. Why not privatize disaster relief altogether, John?
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fetuses, fema, pharma & freemasons
study says antidepressants ok for fetusesfrom wnbc: Expectant mothers can safely use prescribed antidepressants during their first trimester, according to a new study from the Université de Montréal and Ste. Justine Hospital. “This is the first study to investigate the impact of antidepressant use during the first trimester of pregnancy in mothers with psychiatric disorders,”…
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ny priest caught stealing from collection plate
from ap: A parish priest was arrested and charged on Friday with stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from church accounts, including a fund for victims of Hurricane Katrina. The priest, the Rev. Patrick Dunne, 63, was arraigned on a grand larceny charge, Janet DiFiore, the Westchester district attorney, said. If convicted, he could be…
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leaky new orleans levee alarms experts
from ap: Despite more than $22 million in repairs, a levee that broke with catastrophic effect during Hurricane Katrina is leaking again because of the mushy ground on which New Orleans was built, raising serious questions about the reliability of the city’s flood defenses. Outside engineering experts who have studied the project told The AP…
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the three amigos in ‘the trojan taco’
from bloomberg: President George W. Bush and the leaders of Canada and Mexico are using a summit meeting today in New Orleans to defend free trade and $930 billion in cross-border commerce against a political backlash. It won’t be easy. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon have each made lowering trade…
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taser, fema, deutsche, scotus, guinea pigs & spooks
deputy tasers student against direct ordersfrom raw story: Outside a Maryland high school gym last Wednesday, sophomore Brandon Bennett got into a small altercation with a fellow student. It was after a basketball game and tempers were high, but the the two were separated by officials and students without much problem. Only then did things…
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Shooter, Spy Sat Cover, DHS Death, Buffet, Blackwater, Beijing
shooter did time in mental health facilityfrom washington times: A former employee at a Chicago psychiatric treatment center said Kazmierczak had been placed there after high school by his parents. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications, she said. Kazmierczak spent more than a year at the Thresholds-Mary Hill House in…
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fema cancer, aspartame, fluoride, vaccines & coal
fema covered up cancer risks to katrina victimsfrom salon: Last summer, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was publicly shamed when lawmakers revealed the agency, to avoid lawsuits, put off testing trailers used to house Hurricane Katrina victims for formaldehyde, a toxic chemical. Now, documents obtained by Salon show that FEMA also pressured scientists to water…
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police & protesters clash in new orleans
from usa today: There is a protest underway at New Orleans City Hall as the City Council decides whether to demolish 4,500 public housing units damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The AP says police have used stun guns and chemical spray to repel protesters, and that “a scuffle” occurred in the City Council chambers. The New…