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  • VENEZUELA HIT BY 5.3 MAGNITUDE QUAKE, NO IMMEDIATE REPORTS OF DA (Alternet)
    21 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    VENEZUELA HIT BY 5.3 MAGNITUDE QUAKE, NO IMMEDIATE REPORTS OF DA 20 Jun 2007 20:13:27 GMT http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N20283111.htm Source: Reuters
    CARACAS, June 20 (Reuters) - A 5.3 magnitude quake hit Venezuela on Wednesday but there were no immediate reports of damage in the OPEC nation, including to any of the state oil company’s operations, officials said.
    The quake, which also hit Colombia, should not produce any significant damage because of its size and depth, (…)

  • New Orleans turns to international aid
    16 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Posted on Fri, Jun. 15, 2007 New Orleans turns to international aid By BECKY BOHRER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/77475.html
    NEW ORLEANS — The cash-strapped city of New Orleans is turning to foreign countries for help to rebuild as federal hurricane-recovery dollars remain slow to flow.
    Kenya Smith, director of intergovernmental relations for Mayor Ray Nagin, said city leaders are talking with more than five countries. He wouldn’t identify the countries, (…)

  • Second Disaster to Strike Kansas
    9 May 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The deadly tornado that struck Greensburg Kansas last Friday was but the first affliction soon will come the second. As certainly as thunder follows lightning after a disaster of this magnitude comes the Bush full Monty stump speech full of euphemisms and faux promises of assistance. Coming soon to a disaster near you! George of the bungle will set up his standard kiss and consolation photo op offering kisses kind words and consolation but not much else. The administration learned (…)

  • State of emergency in Solomon Islands
    3 April 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    State of emergency in Solomon Islands 11:40AM Tuesday April 03, 2007 By James Ihaka and Maggie McNaughton and David Eames The Solomon Islands declared a state of emergency after an earthquake and a tsunami struck, flattening villages causing widespread panic and killing at least 20 people with the toll expected to rise.
    A powerful magnitude 8.1 earthquake and tsunami hit the Solomons yesterday, and people from Honiara to Australia fled for the safety of higher ground.
    Kevin McCue, (…)

  • Massive Tsunami Hits Somalia After Giant 7.9 Indian Ocean Quake
    27 March 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 26, 2007
    Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers
    Russia’s Kamchatka Branch for Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Science are reporting today that the India Ocean Region has been hit with a massive earthquake that they have measured as being of 7.9 Magnitude and which has caused a giant tsunami that has hit many regions of the African Continents Eastern coastal areas.
    One such report from this region we can read as reported by the Malaysian National (…)

  • San Francisco Radio Station Accidentally Plays Political Ad Over Emergency Broadcast System
    7 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    This is a test of the Emergency Alert System: Vote for Dick Mountjoy!
    In an apparent violation of FCC rules, conservative talk radio station KFBK 1530 AM in Sacramento transmitted a paid political advertisement to an unknown number of other stations in the area, using the federal Emergency Alert System (EAS), thus automatically forcing the ad onto the stations’ airwaves. This is according to a press release issued today by KDVS-FM, a non-commercial community station in Davis that (…)

  • Saints and the Superdome
    1 October 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Dave Zirin
    New Orleans is a city that suffers in silence. These days, it feels like a city being strangled in slow motion, a city whose current condition makes a lie of every political platitude preached over the past year. Yet ESPN spent four hours Monday trying to make us believe that the Crescent City—through the magic of sports and the return of the New Orleans Saints—is on the verge of resurrection.
    The symbol of deliverance, we were told repeatedly during the broadcast, was the (…)

  • Play Fair.
    26 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Is there any other way that New Orleans could have spent $130,000,000 rather than on a football stadium?Just wondering.

  • The Issue Is Not National Security But Image Security
    16 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Issue Is Not National Security But Image Security By Greg Palast September 14, 2006 Forget the orange suit. Exxon Mobil Corporation, which admits it was behind the criminal complaint brought by Homeland Security against me and television producer Matt Pascarella, has informed me that the oil company will no longer push charges that Pascarella and I threatened "critical infrastructure."
    The allegedly criminal act, which put us on the wrong side of post-9/11 anti-terror law, was our (…)

  • Spike Lee’s film recalls When the Levees Broke
    4 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    “It’s like they let it happen”;
    by Cindy Beringer
    When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, directed by Spike Lee, a two-part HBO documentary.
    AS THE anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approached, the usual media barrage of retrospectives interrupted celebrity murder stories and filled the tube with images of the haphazard fury of nature.
    As Tropical Storm Ernesto passed over Jamaica and headed for the Gulf of Mexico, politicians and engineers nervously insisted that there was a (…)