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  • Bush Denies Iowa Tornado Relief
    19 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    http://www.whbf.com/global/story.as...
    Bush Denies Iowa Tornado Relief
    June 16, 2006; 10:17 PM EDT
    IOWA CITY, IA - President Bush has denied Iowa Governor Tom Vilsack’s request for federal disaster aid to parts of the state that were hit by severe tornadoes in April.
    Vilsack says he’s extremely disappointed in the president. He requested help for Jones, Muscatine and Johnson Counties.
    Iowa City was one of the worst-hit areas. The storms killed one person and caused tens of (…)

  • We have received from Indonesia calls for solidarity witht the victimes of the earthquake in Java
    6 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Solidarity with Indonesia
    The earthquake that occurred on 27 May 2006 resulted in 6000 deaths, tens of thousands of persons injured and hundreds of thousands rendered homeless. Our association « Europe solidaire sans frontières » (Europe in solidarity without borders), is facilitating financial aid for the victims of this new catastrophe.
    The money gathered will be sent to local people’s organizations who have mobilized themselves in the municipality of Klaten where the districts of (…)

  • Will Louisiana lead the nation?
    4 June 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Rob Richie
    Last year Hurricanes Katrina and Rita pounded Louisiana with a horrible one-two punch of destruction. This year, it’s just possible that Louisiana will send forth its own hurricane: a political hurricane to create a more representative democracy in America.
    On May 10, a Louisiana house committee approved the National Popular Vote plan for presidential elections. If signed into law, it would make Louisiana the first of what promises to be dozens of states entering into an (…)

  • Warehouse fire burning in Brookland- Second case of arson for buildings owned by Joshua Guttman
    3 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    May 2, 2006 - A raging fire laid waste to a complex of seven old warehouses on Brooklyn’s waterfront on Tuesday, sending a huge plume of acrid smoke over Brooklyn that evoked memories of the World Trade Center attacks nearly five years ago.
    Shortly after the walls of one five-story brick warehouse collapsed, Fire Commissioner Nicholas Scoppetta said the cause of the 10-alarm fire would be investigated as possible arson.
    "We’re calling it suspicious in origin," he said in a street news (…)

  • KATRINA : Don’t come back to New Orleans unless you intend to join the fight for justice!’
    1 May 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Eight months after Katrina: ’Don’t come back to New Orleans unless you intend to join the fight for justice!’
    by Bill Quigley Six weeks after Katrina, public housing tenants were evicted from several developments, using storm damage as a pretext. Driving out residents from livable homes made HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson’s prediction of a "whiter New Orleans" a self-fulfilling prophecy. Photo: forestparkresist@gmail.com
    On Monday, April 17, 2006, two bodies were found buried beneath (…)

  • Eight Months After Katrina, there are still nearly 300,000 people who have not returned to New Orlea
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by CommonDreams.org Eight Months After Katrina by Bill Quigley
    On Monday, April 17, 2006, two bodies were found buried beneath what used to be a home in the Lower 9th Ward. Their discovery raised to 17 the number of Hurricane Katrina fatalities that have been discovered in New Orleans in the past month and a half. Katrina is now directly blamed for the deaths of 1,282 Louisiana residents. Eight months after Katrina, the state reports 987 people are (…)

  • CHERNOBYL Kills While Bought ex-Greenpeacer Shills
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by the Freepress (Columbus, Ohio) Chernobyl Kills While Bought ex-Greenpeacer Shills by Harvey Wasserman
    While children continue to die twenty years after the Chernobyl catastrophe, an out-of-touch (and often corrupt) fringe advocates a "rebirth" for the failed technology that is killing them.
    These pro-nuke die-hards seem unable to face the solution to both global warming and our economic future: the exploding revolution in renewable energy and (…)

  • CHERNOBYL : Hell on Earth, the world’s worst environmental disaster in 1986
    26 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Published on Wednesday, April 26, 2006 by the Guardian / UK Hell on Earth Chernobyl was the world’s worst environmental disaster. Twenty years on, John Vidal reports on the clean-up, the false medical records, the communities that refused to leave and the continuing cost to people and planet
    by John Vidal
    Twenty years ago today, Konstantin Tatuyan, a Ukrainian radio engineer, was horrified when Reactor No 4 at Chernobyl nuclear power complex exploded, caught fire, and for the next 10 (…)

  • AGENT ORANGE VIETNAM: Spraying of Agent orange by US Army in Vietnam and its consequences
    15 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Andre Bouny
    1) Historical context - Decision.
    2) Methods - Amounts - Composing - Equivalences.
    3) Stability - Food chain - Entering in the cell.
    4) Visible and invisible consequences - Diseases and photos.
    5) “Redress” - Scientific proof - American Constitution - Multinational companies - Proceedings
    This succinct text enlightened with photos by Alexis Duclos, is the content of the conference by André Bouny for launching of International Support Committee in aid of Agent (…)

  • KATRINA : In Attics and Rubble, More Bodies and Questions
    11 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/printer_041106N.shtml
    In Attics and Rubble, More Bodies and Questions By Shaila Dewan
    Tuesday 11 April 2006
    New Orleans - When August Blanchard returned to New Orleans from Pennsylvania in late December, his mother was still missing. Family members, scattered across the country, had been calling hospitals, the Red Cross and missing persons hot lines, hoping she had been rescued.
    But Mr. Blanchard, 26, had a bad feeling. Twice, he (…)