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  • New Chernobyl Study Challenges IAEA Report on Chernobyl Consequences
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    APRIL 11, 2006 11:20 AM
    TAKOMA PARK, Maryland - April 11 - A new study being released today in Kiev, Ukraine directly challenges the findings of a widely-criticized International Atomic Energy Agency/World Health Organization report from last September that predicted 4,000 likely cancer deaths as a result of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.
    The study was commissioned by Rebecca Harms, a Green Party member of the European Parliament, on behalf of the Greens/EFA in the European (…)

  • Groups Say Tests Show Contamination Near New Orleans
    8 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/headlines06/0404-07.htm Published on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 by Reuters
    Groups Say Tests Show Contamination Near New Orleans
    HOUSTON - Two environmental groups said on Monday soil samples from an area east of New Orleans hit by an oil spill during Hurricane Katrina last year show high levels of diesel and arsenic contamination.
    Some 25,000 barrels of mixed crude oil spilled in St. Bernard Parish from a storage tank that floated (…)

  • Who Is Killing New Orleans?
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Friday, March 24, 2006 by The Nation
    by Mike Davis
    Afew blocks from the badly flooded and still-closed campus of Dillard University, a wind-bent street sign announces the intersection of Humanity and New Orleans. In the nighttime distance, the downtown skyscrapers on Poydras and Canal Streets are already ablaze with light, but a vast northern and eastern swath of the city, including the Gentilly neighborhood around Dillard, remains shrouded in darkness.
    The lights have (…)

  • Chernobyl Disaster Linked to Higher Rate of Infant Mortality in Britain by Ian Herbert and Deborah
    24 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Thursday, March 23, 2006 by the Independent / UK
    The debate over the health effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in Britain reopens today with research which suggests that infant deaths were higher in areas where rain fell as the plume of fallout passed overhead.
    A study by the epidemiologist John Urquhart, to be presented at a conference at City Hall in London marking the 20th anniversary of the disaster, suggests that infant deaths may have risen by 11 per cent (…)

  • Burst Oil Pipeline Causes ’Catastrophe’ in Alaska by Andrew Gumbel
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Published on Tuesday, March 14, 2006 by the Independent / UK
    A burst pipeline in Alaska’s North Slope has caused the Arctic region’s worst oil spill, spreading more than 250,000 gallons of crude oil over an area used by caribou herds and prompting environmentalists again to question the Bush administration’s drive for more oil exploration there.
    The leak was first spotted by a British Petroleum worker 11 days ago, and was reported to have been plugged a few days later. Initial hopes (…)

  • September 11th and Katrina—They knew something was going to happen and they did not act
    5 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich on House Floor: “A Pattern Of Recklessness, Indifference and Callousness, The Implications of Which Have Been Deadly
    Washington, Mar 2 -
    Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH) gave the following speech today on the House Floor:
    “I would like to call to the attention of the House the juxtaposition of two news stories:
    “One, relating to 9/11, that states, the federal officials were repeatedly warned in the months before the September 11th, 2001 terror attack that Osama bin (…)

  • Urgent warning of imminent cataclysm in Northwest United States
    26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Urgent warning of imminent cataclysm in Northwest United States Posted on February 20, 2006 Email To Friend Print Version
    Urgent warning of imminent cataclysm in Northwest United States
    While Americans are kept distracted with manufactured news of an impending attack on Iran because of supposed nuclear violations and trivia about Dick Cheney shooting a hunting companion, a dedicated campaign of electronic scalar tectonic warfare is ongoing that will soon bring America to the brink (…)

  • Contradictions & LIES: Another Photo Summary about Katrina
    15 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "But let’s be clear about the facts," she [White House homeland security adviser Frances Fragos Townsend] said. "As you know, President Bush was highly engaged in the preparation and response effort, beginning when Katrina was a tropical storm off the coast of Florida."
    "The White House was clearly in a fog," said Rep. Christopher Shays (news, bio, voting record), R-Conn., a member of the committee that produced the report. "The president was clearly misinformed."
    More defiant than (…)

  • Walkin’ to New Orleans Veterans’ and Survivors’ March from Mobile to New Orleans
    13 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    March 19, 2006, is the 3rd anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
    Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, Vietnam Veterans
    Against the War, Military Families Speak Out, Gold Star Families for
    Peace, and hurricane survivors’ organizations are organizing a five-day
    march along Gulf Coast Highway 90 to demand the immediate return of our
    troops from Iraq, and to call for U.S. tax dollars to be spent on human
    priorities and rebuilding of the devastated Gulf Coast, (…)

  • The President KNEW...(a photo-op summary)...and MORE.
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    (Why is this not front-page news at DKos?)
    The President KNEW...
    Katrina was coming.
    The President KNEW...
    that Brownie had phoned...
    ...on the day that the levees had breached to tell him that New Orleans was sinking...
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...that day.
    The President KNEW...
    ...the following day, too.
    The President’s wife KNEW...
    ...the following (…)