Tag: louisiana
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Music Landmarks Spared From Massive Floods
The Mississippi River rose Monday to levels not seen in Memphis since the 1930s, swamping homes in low-lying neighborhoods and driving hundreds of people from their homes.
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5th anniversary of hurricane katrina: somber ceremonies
flashback: painful lessons of hurricane katrina from buzztab: Hurricane Katrina left 1800 people dead and New Orleans virtually underwater but it was 5 years ago and today US is marking 5th anniversary of the horrible day when Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast. The somber ceremonies commemorated for occasion started on Saturday and in Louisiana…
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men arrested in ‘louisiana watergate’ have intelligence links
senate burglary: cia domestic black-op team arrestedfrom raw story: Two of the three men arrested on Monday along with ‘ACORN pimp’ James O’Keefe for “maliciously tampering” with Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) phones in her New Orleans office have ties to the United States intelligence community. The three accused by the FBI of “aiding and abetting”…
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4 charged in phone scheme at louisiana sen. landrieu’s office
update: men arrested in ‘louisiana watergate’ have intel links from usatoday: The four men accused of trying to tamper with Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu’s office phones share a common experience as young ideologues writing for conservative publications. Federal authorities said two of the men posed as telephone workers wearing hard hats, tool belts and flourescent…
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murder/mayhem: the rage contagion continues
questions remain regarding ft hood massacre*pentagon to probe ‘internal weaknesses’ behind ft hood shooting*covering up cia mind control at ft hood? govt ‘investigates’ itself with ‘independent’ review by ‘ex-cia’ william webster*levin: ‘significant evidence’ ft hood shooting was ‘terrorism’*ft hood suspect hasan paralyzed*video: radical cleric didn’t advocate violence in emails to hasan*agencies reporting to white house…
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army corps of engineers negligent in katrina disaster
katrina victims win $719,698 from US in first trial from raw replay: Michael Grunwald, national correspondent for Time magazine talks with Rachel Maddow about a new ruling against the Army Corps of Engineers for negligence in preventing flooding in New Orleans. This video is from MSNBC’s The Rachel Maddow Show, broadcast Nov. 18, 2009.
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virginia governor clears way for dc sniper’s execution tonight
fittingly, this execution comes as the mass murder contagion is, once again, raging across america… from ap: Gov. Tim Kaine denied clemency Tuesday for sniper John Allen Muhammad, clearing the way for him to be executed for the attacks that terrorized the nation’s capital region for three weeks in 2002. Muhammad is set to die…
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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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nle ’09: fema, foreign troops & private military contractors unite
massive preparation is well under way for national level exercise ’09: fema ‘terror prevention drills’ july 27-31… these drills, formerly known as topoff, are being brought to you in part by “Northrop Grumman and its teammates, which include ICF International, Fairfax, Va., Battelle, Columbus, Ohio, Alutiiq, Anchorage, Alaska, L-3 Communications/MPRI, Alexandria, Va., UNITECH, Centreville, Va.,…
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national level exercise ’09: fema terror prevention drills july27-31
flashback: northrop/fema to run ‘national level exercise’ in 2009 from kurt nimmo: FEMA is preparing to take its martial law exercises to the next level this July. According to a factsheet buried on the FEMA website, the agency will host National Level Exercise 2009 (NLE 09) on July 27 through July 31, 2009. “NLE 09…
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northrop/fema to run ‘national level exercise’ in 2009
from washington technology: Northrop Grumman Corp. will conduct a national preparedness drill for the Federal Emergency Management Agency next year under a two-year, $12 million contract. Northrop Grumman will conduct and evaluate the 2009 Tier 1 National Level Exercise, which is the largest and most complex national disaster drill conducted by FEMA’s National Exercise Division.…



