22 month ago
wearehugh : Official Google Blog: About the New Orleans imagery in Google Maps and Earth
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29 month ago
deusx : Gov't fulfills few Katrina promises - Yahoo! News - "A year after the storm, the federal government has proven slow and unreliable in keeping the president's promises."
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wearehugh : WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Local News
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wearehugh : New Orleans Levee Break Before and After
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31 month ago
deusx : Katrina shocks New Orleans visitors 10 months on - Yahoo! News - "If I was the government, I couldn't sleep at night."
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39 month ago
deusx : CBS News | FEMA Extends Ex-Chief's Contract | October 26, 2005Â 20:30:06 - Doesn't resignation mean... er... "I quit" and then you find a new job? "The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday defended the agency's decision to keep him on the job another 30 days as a "completely legitimate thing to d
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40 month ago
kellan : GW Bush's hurricane response compared with previous presidents. - Compared Nixon, Bush Sr., and Clinton #
deusx : LawGeek: Bush's Response to Katrina sub-par compared to other preisdents - "Bush was on vacation, riding his bike for two hours the day before the hurricane lands. "
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40 month ago
plasticbag : The Guardian's report: Blair attacks BBC for 'anti-US bias' - "The comments threatened a new rift between the government and the BBC following the Andrew Gilligan affair over events leading to the Iraq war and recent criticisms of ministers Today presenter John Humphrys, which were controversially leaked to the pres
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40 month ago
plasticbag : The Independent's coverage of the alleged comments by Tony Blair to Rupert Murdoch - Greg Dyke's comment: "It may not come as a great surprise that the Prime Minister aims to please Murdoch but it comes as a bit of a shock he goes this far."
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40 month ago
deusx : Bush to Focus on Vision for Reconstruction in Speech - New York Times - What. The. Fuck?! "Republicans said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush's chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort, which reaches across many agencies of government and includes the direct involvemen
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40 month ago
deusx : BobHarris.com: Bush orders FEMA to protect Upsidedownland - "Welcome to upside-down-land: the areas at risk for Katrina were quite remarkably the areas not included in Bush's declaration of emergency."
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41 month ago
kellan : Is FEMA New Orlean's punishment for the sin of voting overwhelmingly (78%) for Kerry? - Whiskey Bar: Where There's a Will #
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41 month ago
plasticbag : Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media? - Fascinating article which suggests that this particular crisis in the States has pushed the media into a position where it can be critical of government again, and interrogate it as it's supposed to. Fascinating stuff. Hopefully won't be an exception from
deusx : BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media? - "Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back, thanks to Katrina."
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41 month ago
deusx : Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Drowning New Orleans (October 2001) - "A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city"
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41 month ago
kayodeok : Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real t
deusx : Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - New York Times - By Anne Rice - "But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us."
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41 month ago
kellan : "According to them, America's Second Harvest (ASH) is a foodbank and *98%* of funds donated go to program." - Nice mention of 2nd Harvest on Boing Boing; the org my father has worked for for most of the last 20 years. #
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41 month ago
Nelson Minar : New Orleans flooded - Best photo I've seen so far
deusx : Hurricanes & Tropical Storms on Yahoo! News Photos - "Floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina surround homes near downtown New Orleans, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2005."
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41 month ago
wearehugh : WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Local News
Nelson Minar : Hurricane updates - Bits of news as they happen
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