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Flirting With Disaster
By John Fund The GOP's 2006 wipeout may prove a mere foretaste of this November.
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China quake victims fear burst of lake bank
http://chinaview.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ china-quake-victims-fear-burst-of-…BBC News, 17 May 2008- There has been panic in the quake-hit Chinese city of Beichuan after reports the entire city could be flooded by a river bursting its banks. The BBC’s Paul Danahar in Beichuan says there was a stampede as thousands of people fled to higher ground.
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Using Disasters for Systemic Change
http://rs.resalliance.org/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ using-disasters-for-systemic-change/The adaptive cycle concept propose that crisis is followed by a period of reorganization that looks for new forms of organization. Often these periods rely of plans developed prior to crisis, and are helped by links to areas unaffected by crisis and legacies of past systems that preserve resources
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His head was as big as a VW
http://bowlofcheese.com/ ?p=1096According to a report moments ago on Boston.com, Ted Kennedy is in dire circumstances and is being rushed to a Boston-area hospital. Here’s that link - though I suspect it will change in the next few minutes and hours, so let me know if this link goes awry.
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China Backs Up the Burmese Leadership
http://www.redstate.com/ stories/ foreign_affairs/ china_backs_up_the_burmese_le…China Backs Up the Burmese Leadership Intransigence By blackhedd China backs up the Burma leadership’s refusals to allow foreign aid workers to enter the country. The Burmese generals want our food and our equipment, but not our people. Obviously, because they don’t want their own people to have any contact with the outside world.
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Burma: Waiting for Godot
http://www.ruthgroup.org/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ burma-waiting-for-godot/Burma: Waiting for Godot Writing in the Guardian, Thaung Htun lays out some of the hypocrises of the international community’s response to Burma: “In the case of Burma, such meek and ill-founded opinions have cost lives. Worse, they have cost future lives as the military regime remains in place and in control.
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The DHS Follies
http://bluegirlredmissouri.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ dhs-follies.htmlNoted without comment: Ending speculation about the fate of the Rio Grande Valley's undocumented immigrants during a hurricane evacuation, U.S. Customs and Border Protection has confirmed it will check the citizenship both of people boarding buses to leave the Valley and at inland traffic checkpoints.
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DONATES RMB 1 MILLION TO EARTHQUAKE DISASTER RELIEF IN SICHUAN PROVINCE
http://germancarscene.com/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ donates-rmb-1-million-to-earthquake-dis…The powerful earthquake which hit Sichuan Province with a magnitude of 7.8 caused severe damage in the area and BMW China and BMW Brilliance have responded with prompt action
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US losing even on defense contracts.
http://weazlsrevenge.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ us-losing-even-on-defense-contracts…Russia forces USA out from its traditional arms markets Russia forces the USA out from the traditional arms market. Russia has won a 4-billion-dollar contract with Saudi Arabia in a competition with the USA and France.
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Internet based systems for emergency warning, Seminar, Turkey, 23 May 2008
http://www.tomw.net.au/ blog/ 2008/ 05/ internet-based-systems-for-emergency.htm…I will be giving a seminar on Internet based systems, for emergency warning and disaster recovery, at Kandilli Observatory and Earthquake Reseach Institute, Bogazici University, Turkey on 23 May 2008. The institute is the tsunami watch center for the Eastern Meditarrenean region, as a part of ICG/North East Atlantic and connecting seas tsunani warning system.
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BURMA 'GUILTY OF INHUMAN ACTION' !
http://flametree.blog-city.com/ burma_guilty_of_inhuman_action_.htmBurma is becoming a 'man made catastrophe' says U.K.'s Gordon Brown.
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