Tag: natural disaster
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: Belgians Hunt Books, Not Bulbasaurs (Video)
Studies show being good is hot; A teacher started a book hunters club where kids capture, read and release; Community disaster relief saves NOLA before the state tries.
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#GoodNewsNextWeek: Attractive Altruism, Books Hunters, Community Relief (Audio)
Studies show being good is hot; A teacher started a book hunters club where kids capture, read and release; Community disaster relief saves NOLA before the state tries.
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‘Forecasting The End’ – New Weather Channel Series
The Weather Channel sees how “Doomsday Scenarios Play Out in New Show.”
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Ham Radio Operators Nationwide Hold 24-Hour ‘Field Day’ Drill
Using slingshots and a crossbow, ham radio operators strung wires through a tree in the parking lot of Beaufort Memorial Hospital on Saturday to fire up a portable radio station and keep it going for 24 hours.
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fema/dhs running ‘national level exercise 2011’ may16-20
is the new madrid seismic risk real?… from continuity central: Facilitated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the National Level Exercise 2011 (NLE 2011) has been scheduled for 16 to 20 May. The purpose of the exercise is to prepare and coordinate a multiple-jurisdictional integrated response to a national catastrophic event, with focus on response…
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japan elite hiding secret weapons program in nuclear plants?
Environmental writer Yoichi Shimatsu provides keen insight on Japan’s disaster in article, “Is Japan’s Elite Hiding a Weapons Program Inside Nuclear Plants?” A casual observer of the calamity cannot help but compare Japan’s inept response to US government’s similar ineffective efforts in 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster? Shimatsu comments, “Inexplicable delays and half-baked explanations from Tokyo…
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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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powerful solar storm could shut down US for months
from fox news: A new study from the National Academy of Sciences outlines grim possibilities on Earth for a worst-case scenario solar storm. Damage to power grids and other communications systems could be catastrophic, the scientists conclude, with effects leading to a potential loss of governmental control of the situation. The prediction is based in…
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500 million gallons of toxic sludge spill in tennessee
from tennessean: Millions of yards of ashy sludge broke through a dike at TVA’s Kingston coal-fired plant Monday, covering hundreds of acres, knocking one home off its foundation and putting environmentalists on edge about toxic chemicals that may be seeping into the ground and flowing downriver. One neighboring family said the disaster was no surprise…
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ground zero lounge: the parable of the acorns
from clyde lewis: While science incessantly debates global warming, perhaps it is time to debate global cleansing. Mother Nature is ready to purge herself of all of the toxins, radioactive materials and chemicals used by the elite to render the population ineffective and malleable, caught in the crossfire between nature and puppetmaster. stream (part1/part2)download (part1/part2)…
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geopolitiks: georgia, israel, thailand, india, pakistan, mexico & more
darth cheney visits georgia in show of solidarityfrom guardian: The US vice-president arrived in Tbilisi today, in a show of political backing for the nation and its pro-Western Georgian president. Dick Cheney’s visit comes a day after the White House announced a $1bn (£500m) economic aid package for the country, which was ravaged by last…
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US & china to hold disaster drills
from reuters: The United States hopes to conduct its first ever humanitarian disaster relief drills with the Chinese military in late 2009 or 2010, the head of the U.S. Pacific Command said on Wednesday. Admiral Timothy Keating said he and Lt. Gen. Zhang Qinsheng, a senior commander of the People’s Liberation Army, had agreed to…
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Bush Tours America to Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency
President Bush will seek to comfort victims of his presidency as they try to make sense of the destruction he has caused.
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is everything seemingly spinning out of control?
from ap: Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end rage in Iraq, Afghanistan and against terrorism.Horatio Alger, twist in your grave. The can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in the American psyche is under assault.…
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news on the march
in ron paul coins, federal agents don’t trustfrom the trail: As if Ron Paul’s supporters needed any more motivation to storm the battlements and wreak havoc on the Republican presidential primary, now comes this: the feds are trying to take away their money. Federal agents on Wednesday raided the Evansville, Indiana headquarters of the National…