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  • NEW WORLD ORDER : The Painful Lessons Of Hurricane Katrina
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Painful Lessons Of Hurricane Katrina Government can’t, won’t protect you
    Paul Joseph Watson/Prison Planet.com | August 31 2006
    http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/august2006/310806katrina.htm
    One year after Hurricane Katrina and the lessons remain painfully clear - the event paved the way for the standard government response to a crisis - sabotage the rescue efforts, dominate and enslave the victims, then reap the windfall from the tragedy.
    Katrina was a trial balloon for (…)

  • RIGHTS-U.S.: The Strongest Survivors
    2 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Katherine Stapp
    NEW YORK, Aug 30 (IPS) - They were the backbone of the U.S. Gulf Coast economy, working the hardest jobs for the lowest pay.
    Now, a year after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita swept through the region, thousands of poor African-American women evacuees have been essentially left to fend for themselves in government trailer parks far from any urban centre, with no buses to get to work or childcare if they do find a job.
    "We wanted to do something to lift the sisters and give (…)

  • Trying to Make It Home New Orleans a Year After Katrina
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By BILL QUIGLEY New Orleans .
    Bernice Mosely is 82 and lives alone in New Orleans in a shotgun double. On August 29, 2005, as Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, the levees constructed by the U.S. Corps of Engineers failed in five places and New Orleans filled with water.
    One year ago Ms. Mosely was on the second floor of her neighborhood church. Days later, she was helicoptered out. She was so dehydrated she spent eight days in a hospital. Her next door neighbor, 89 years old, stayed behind to (…)

  • Katrina’s Victims Of Ideology
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Isaiah J. Poole
    Isaiah J. Poole is the executive editor of TomPaine.com.
    President George W. Bush’s trip to the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast this week brings to mind a 1992 tragicomedy starring his father, President George H.W. Bush. Struggling to connect with voters who felt neglected by the administration in the midst of a recession, Bush clumsily interjected into a New Hampshire campaign speech a margin note an aide intended to keep the elder Bush focused on what he needed (…)

  • THE MAN MADE FLASH FLOOD OF SURAT- GUJARAT- India
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Handling of KATRINA in U.S. has become the model for the ruling class in India.The developments minus human face in the socalled golden age! of Globalisation and liberisation has brought miseries after miseries of the people and opening the gate of all out privatisation of service sectors. The recent man made flood in Surat of Gujarat of India can be an eye opener.
    THE MAN MADE FLASH FLOOD OF SURAT- GUJARAT
    The danger of second flood is lurking. First it was the district of (…)

  • Remembering Katrina and the Need for Climate Justice
    28 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “The lie was that we were ready and that everything was working as a team." - Michael Brown, ex-Director of FEMA
    Silver Springs, MD - On Saturday afternoon, August 26, 2006, a rally was held at the site of the main headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, (NOAA), a federal agency, at 1305 East-West Highway with its intersection with Colesville Ave, just north of the District of Columbia line. The event was cosponsored by the U.S. Climate Emergency Council (…)

  • NEW ORLEANS
    25 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    New Orleans — OIL! & Natural Gas — ought to be able to easily pay for all of its reconstruction ... but, instead we pass record profits in the billions of dollars to Jr.’s OIL!y buddies on top of subsidies and tax breaks.
    OIL! & Gas Fields in and around New Orleans:
    Bayou Segnette Oil Field Avondale Oil Field
    Crown Point Oil Field
    Couba Island Oil Field Westwego Oil and Gas Field
    Bayou Villars Oil Field Alliance Oil and Gas Field Lake Salvador Oil Field
    Good Hope (…)

  • KATRINA SURVIVOR TOWING HIS FEMA TRAILER TO WASHINTON D.C. TO INVITE PRESIDENT BUSH TO DINNER
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    NEW ORLEANS, LA - AUGUST 3, 2006 - St. Bernard Parish resident and Hurricane Katrina survivor Rockey Vaccarella is towing his honorary FEMA trailer to Washington D.C. on August 18, 2006 in hopes of having dinner with President Bush. Rockey is a true survivor who rode out Hurricane Katrina on his roof by holding on to a rope for four hours in one of the most devastated areas of the New Orleans region. He eventually swam to safety then got in a boat to help rescue others. Now Rockey is on a (…)

  • China drought leaves 17 million without water -media
    14 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    China drought leaves 17 million without water -media
    13 Aug 2006 04:03:41 GMT
    Source: Reuters
    BEIJING, Aug 13 (Reuters) - About 17 million people in southwest China don’t have access to clean drinking water due to sustained drought, state media reported on Sunday.
    Crops on large tracts of farmland in Sichuan province and the nearby Chongqing municipality have withered due to the month-long drought, causing economic losses of 9.23 billion yuan ($1.15 billion), the Beijing News and the (…)

  • Nuclear Plant Faced Possible Meltdown In Sweden
    6 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Staff Writers Forsmark, Sweden (UPI) Aug 01, 2006 Last week’s shutdown of the Forsmark nuclear power plant in Sweden, north of Stockholm, reportedly could have resulted in a meltdown. The emergency — called by some the most dangerous international nuclear incident since the destruction of the Russian Chernobyl plant 20 year ago — occurred when two of four generators shut down, officials said.
    "It was pure luck that there was not a meltdown," nuclear expert and former Forsmark director (…)