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Arnold: I'd 'kill' anyone who took daughter for abortion

World Net Daily

September 22, 2005

Addressing a California ballot initiative, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said he would "kill" anyone who took one of his daughters to have an abortion without notifying him.

"I have a daughter," Schwarzenegger said in an interview with the Sacramento Bee. "I wouldn't want to have someone take my daughter to a hospital for an abortion or something and not tell me. I would kill him if they do that."

Katrina has role in fight over environmental law

The Seattle Times

by Ralph Vartabedian and Richard B. Schmitt

September 19, 2005

NEW ORLEANS - A controversial project to build a hurricane barrier for New Orleans 40 years ago and an environmental lawsuit that stopped construction have moved to the center of a political battle to change federal environmental laws.

A House panel has begun examining whether New Orleans' defenses against Hurricane Katrina were compromised by the suit, which resulted in an injunction in 1977. The Army Corps of Engineers dropped the project by 1986 in favor of raising levees in the city.

Stumbling government slows Katrina recovery

The Seattle Times

by Nicole Gaouette, Alan Miller and Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

September 19, 2005

WASHINGTON â€" The federal government's efforts to help victims of Hurricane Katrina have been hobbled by inadequate planning and coordination, troubled computer systems and confusion over who will pay the costs.

Interviews with federal officials indicate recovery difficulties have gone beyond the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and span key agencies in Washington, where top officials are trying to respond to a huge reconstruction problem for which they had no policies or plans. Huge contracts are pouring out of agencies, but the task ahead involves some issues the federal government hasn't thought seriously about since the 1960s.

Weather Manipulation And The Results

greatdreams.com

by Dee Finney

September 14, 2005

Many people have been talking about weather manipulation recently, even more so since Hurricane Katrina came rolling in very strangely.

The question is, did another country manipulate the hurricanes and steer them to hit the U.S. the way they did, OR did our own government do this as a test to see whether our country could use weather as a weapon against other countries. Was New Orleans' Hurricane Katrina disaster another deliberately created "spike" event in the same vein as the Oklahoma City Bombing and NYC's 9-11' Quite a bit of information is starting to point in that direction.

Time for Crack Stamps: Why are Rich AND Poor people so fat?

The Sierra Times

by Anthony C. LoBaido

September 14, 2005

The poor have always been exploited. Jesus said we would always have the poor with us. That's never been more true than the past two weeks.

Katrina, race and poverty bla, bla, bla. It's on the cover of every leftist, secular oriented magazine in the supermarket. Except for the mega funny newspaper which says Hitler is a fry cook in New Orleans. Er, I mean was. First, poor blacks are the majority in New Orleans. They have a black mayor. Don't these people deserve better from themselves, if not from the government?

Leaders Lacking Disaster Experience

Washington Post

by Spencer S. Hsu

September 12, 2005

Five of eight top Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to their posts with virtually no experience in handling disasters and now lead an agency whose ranks of seasoned crisis managers have thinned dramatically.

FEMA's top three leaders -- Director Michael D. Brown, Chief of Staff Patrick J. Rhode and Deputy Chief of Staff Brooks D. Altshuler -- arrived with ties to President Bush's 2000 campaign or to the White House advance operation, according to the agency. Two other senior operational jobs are filled by a former Republican lieutenant governor of Nebraska and a U.S. Chamber of Commerce official who was once a political operative.

Using Genetic Modeling to Assess the Health and Status of Manatee Populations

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

by Elise Cortina

September 10, 2005

Although progress has been made in the protection of manatees against threats from human activities, many populations continue to exhibit limited growth or decline, and so the West Indian manatee remains an endangered species.

Visible threats, such as fatal propeller wounds and habitat depletion, are not the only causes for concern when it comes to protecting the Florida manatee (Trichechus manatus latirostris), a subspecies of the West Indian manatee. Scientists have determined that animals of this subspecies face the additional threat of low genetic diversity, a trait that could make them more susceptible to diseases and more sensitive to climate changes.

New Orleans Ignored Its Own Plans

World and I

by Audrey Hudson and James G. Lakely

September 9, 2005

The city of New Orleans followed virtually no aspect of its own emergency management plan in the disaster caused by Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans officials also failed to implement most federal guidelines, which stated that the Superdome was not a safe shelter for thousands of residents. The official "City of New Orleans Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan" states that the mayor can call for a mandatory citywide evacuation, but the Louisiana governor alone is given the power to carry out the evacuation, which Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco has yet to do.

The real heroes and sheroes of New Orleans

Socialist Worker

by Larry Bradshaw and Lorrie Beth Slonsky

September 9, 2005

Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreens store at the corner of Royal and Iberville Streets in the city’s historic French Quarter remained locked.

They were attending an EMS conference in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck. They spent most of the next week trapped by the flooding--and the martial law cordon around the city. Here, they tell their story.

Across Nation, Storm Victims Crowd Schools

The New York Times [Requires free subscription]

by Sam Dillion

September 7, 2005

Experts said the movement of students from storm-ravaged areas could become the largest student resettlement in the nation's history.

School districts from Maine to Washington State were enrolling thousands of students from New Orleans and other devastated Gulf Coast districts yesterday in what experts said could become the largest student resettlement in the nation's history. Students displaced by Hurricane Katrina were led to their first-grade classroom yesterday at East Houston Intermediate School. Schools welcoming the displaced students must not only provide classrooms, teachers and textbooks, but under the terms of President Bush's education law must also almost immediately begin to raise their scholastic achievement unless some provisions of that law are waived.

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