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  • Hostility Greets Katrina Recovery Plan. Residents Assail Eminent Domain and Other Facets of New Orleans Proposal
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Manuel Roig-Franzia
    NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 11 — Angry homeowners screamed and City Council members seethed Wednesday as this city’s recovery commission recommended imposing a four-month building moratorium on most of New Orleans and creating a powerful new authority that could use eminent domain to seize homes in neighborhoods that will not be rebuilt.
    Hundreds of residents packed into a hotel ballroom interrupted the presentation of the long-awaited proposal with shouts and taunts, booed (…)

  • We Will Educate Our Colleagues, the Policy Community, the Media, and Our Patients
    14 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Physicians for a National Health Program Meet in Philadelphia
    by Andy Coates
    Physicians for a National Health Program held its annual meeting on December 10, 2005. Originally planned for New Orleans, it was relocated to Philadelphia after Hurricane Katrina. Founded in 1987, the organization has over 14,000 members nationally. PNHP advocates and educates for a single national health insurance plan: in the words of PNHP National Coordinator Quentin Young, MD, "everybody in, nobody out." (…)

  • Detained, Not Rescued: Katrina Survivors Testimony to Congress (AUDIO)
    11 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Katrina Survivors
    to Congress
    128k mp3s: rt-click -> save as 1. Why all the M-16s? 2. Concentration Camps 3. They Blew it 4. Show Us The Levee 5. Martial Law or
    or Stream 64k or 128k (except #5)
    or even more options at archive.org
    On Dec 6, 2005 several Katrina Survivors testified before Congress- their testimony should have been headline news across America... You can still watch the testimony at C-span (12/6/05), but if you don’t have 4 hours, (…)

  • Coal mine blast gives industry black eye
    9 January 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Steve James
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - The blast that killed 12 miners in a West Virginia mine has given coal mining a black eye just as the long-stagnant industry had begun turning a profit after decades of red ink.
    Analysts and industry experts said on Wednesday that the disaster, in which the 12 missing men were at first mistakenly reported alive, could have a negative impact on recruitment at a time when the industry is short of skilled workers.
    However, they did not believe the (…)

  • The Coming Meltdown (A Review)
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Bill McKibben
    The year 2005 has been the hottest year on record for the planet, hotter than 1998, 2002, 2004, and 2003. More importantly, perhaps, this has been the autumn when the planet has shown more clearly than before just what that extra heat means. Consider just a few of the findings published in the major scientific journals during the last three months: Arctic sea ice is melting fast. There was 20 percent less of it than normal this summer, and as Dr. Mark Serreze, one of the (…)

  • 50 indicted for stealing hundreds thousands of dollars from Red Cross Fund for Katrina Victims
    27 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fraud Alleged at Red Cross Call Centers Contract Workers in Calif. Stole From Katrina Aid Program, Indictments Say
    By Jacqueline L. Salmon Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, December 27, 2005; A02
    Nearly 50 people have been indicted in connection with a scheme that bilked hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Red Cross program to put cash into the hands of Hurricane Katrina victims, according to federal authorities.
    Seventeen of the accused worked at the Red Cross claim center in (…)

  • Arlo, Katrina and a musical trail to New Orleans
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    The son of Woody Guthrie knew exactly how to revive the musical heritage of the Big Easy. He took a train ride from Chicago all the way down south.
    By Andrew Buncombe
    But all the towns and people seem to fade into a bad dream, And the steel rail still ’ain’t heard the news. The conductor sings his song again, The passengers will please refrain: This train has got the disappearin’ railroad blues.
    More than 30 years ago Arlo Guthrie, son of the late folk legend Woody, sat in a now (…)

  • Beyond Relief and Recovery
    22 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Philanthropy’s biggest challenge in the wake of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is to move past just doing the familiar.
    by Emmett D. Carson
    man handing over FEMA envelope. Every so often, an event occurs that changes how a society views itself. Ideas and beliefs that were universally accepted before the event are sharply questioned afterward. Hurricane Katrina is likely to be such an event. The hurricane affected a 90,000-square mile land mass (the size of England), taking the lives of more (…)

  • Katrina Survivors Tell Congress Levees Were Blown On Purpose
    13 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Victim’s anger: Dyan French, who stayed in New Orleans during the hurricane and its aftermath, gives evidence to the congressional committee. She claimed the city’s levees were purposely bombed.
    By Eunice Moscoso, Washington December 8, 2005
    VICTIMS of hurricane Katrina have told a US congressional bipartisan select committee that they were held at gunpoint, treated like criminals and left to sleep next to dead bodies.
    They said the Government at all levels failed to protect them as (…)

  • Flashback: Two Earthquakes on Christmas Day, EXACTLY one year apart- to the hour
    12 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Incredible Coincidence: A massive earthquake in Asia unleashed tsunamis killing thousands, exactly one year to the hour after the Bam, Iran earthquake killed 26,000. What are the odds of two of the most destructive earthquakes in decades occuring exactly one year apart- almost to the minute!
    December 26, 2003 - Bam, Iran, only 6.6 on the richter scale, but quake is centered directly under the city- 26,000 dead.
    December 26, 2004 - Centered off the Indonesian island of Sumatra, the (…)