A Cry for Help from Rural Alaska. Is Anyone Listening? 14 01 2009 Four days ago, a cry for help went out via the Bristol Bay Times. Many of us have known that residents of Alaska’s rural villages are having a hard winter. The weather has been unusually cold, and prices of heating oil and gasoline have been astronomical. Add to that a disastrous collapsing salmon fishery in Bristol Bay that left residents in that area heading in to winter with less than usual, and you have the makings (…)
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A Cry for Help from Rural Alaska. Is Anyone Listening?
16 January 2009 par (Open-Publishing)
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Pakistan Earthquake Response
31 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
By Brian McAfee
With now over 300 reported deaths, 500 injured and thousands rendered homeless as a result of the October 29 earthquake that struck Baluchistan in southwest Pakistan a new need for humanitarian assistance presents itself. Many in the area have left their homes because of fear that their homes will collapse due to structural damage from the initial earthquake or the numerous aftershocks that continue to occur.
UNICEF reports that over 70,00o people, 30,000 of them (…) -
Is Gustav Katrina the Second?
31 August 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Is Gustav Katrina the Second?
Scott Stevens
« The Coming Weather Wars Documentary
Aug 30th 2008ScottIn the news
The similarities, at least at this early stage of Gustav’s development, aren’t lost on the Mainstream media either.
After the devastation of Katrina was allowed to happen to New Orleans with this damage occurring mainly after the curious explosive ‘failure’ of the levies, I stated in several interviews that I believed that New Orleans should NOT be rebuilt. Only the (…) -
Food relief line grows long, tense
24 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Food relief line grows long, tense
Frustration rises, officials caught off-guard as thousands turn out for flood assistance
By ANNYSA JOHNSON, LINDA SPICE and GREG J. BOROWSKI
anjohnson@journalsentinel.com
Posted: June 23, 2008
The chaos that erupted outside Milwaukee County’s main welfare office Monday over disaster-related food aid had more to do with a weak economy and crushing poverty in parts of this community than the devastating floods that swept through the state earlier (…) -
Chaos Erupts As Storm Victims Try To Get Food Stamps
22 June 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentChaos Erupts As Storm Victims Try To Get Food Stamps
Dozens Wait For Hours Outside Offices
POSTED: 4:20 pm EDT June 20, 2008 UPDATED: 6:32 pm EDT June 20, 2008
INDIANAPOLIS — Chaos erupted outside Family and Social Services Administration offices in Indianapolis Friday as storm victims lined up to receive emergency food stamps.
The state has been giving out the stamps for the last six days, but police were called to some offices Friday as people waited in line for hours, Call 6’s (…) -
Katrina survivors struggle years after hurricane (video)
25 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
A documentary report from New Orleans presents voices of Katrina survivors still fighting for survival ( Added: May 20, 2008)
Video:
http://internationalnews.over-blog.com/article-19859750.html
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Myanmar Cyclone. U.S. hostility hampers relief, by Sara Flounders
17 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsGlobal Research, May 16, 2008 Workers World Samedi 17 mai 2008
Missing from the media’s lecturing is mention of the disastrous U.S. record in Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans
Is the Bush administration really trying to help the people of Myanmar recover from the natural disaster that struck there? Then why is it insisting that the Pentagon be in charge of its aid? And why did it impose SANCTIONS on the country when it knew the cyclone was about to hit?
One of the severest storms of the (…) -
An Epidemic of Extinctions : Decimation of Life on Earth
17 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Commondreams Published on Friday, May 16, 2008 by The Independent/UK
The world’s species are declining at a rate “unprecedented since the extinction of the dinosaurs”, a census of the animal kingdom has revealed. The Living Planet Index out today shows the devastating impact of humanity as biodiversity has plummeted by almost a third in the 35 years to 2005.
The report, produced by WWF, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and the Global Footprint Network, says land species have (…) -
Quake ’predicted’ 5 years ago
15 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
Quake ’predicted’ 5 years ago
By Zhu Zhe (China Daily) Updated: 2008-05-13 06:49
A seismologist warned more than five years ago that based on historical records and animal studies, a strong earthquake was likely in Sichuan.
"Sichuan is virtually certain to experience an earthquake measuring above 7 in the next few years," Chen Xuezhong, a senior researcher with the geophysics institute of State Seismological Bureau (SSB), wrote in a paper published in December 2002, in the periodical (…) -
Government and Medical Industry Deciding Who Dies in the Event of Pandemic
10 May 2008 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentThe task force members come from prestigious universities, medical groups, the military and government agencies. They include the Department of Homeland Security, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Health and Human Services. The proposed guidelines are designed to be a blueprint for hospitals "so that everybody will be thinking in the same way" when pandemic flu or another widespread health care disaster hits, said Dr. Asha Devereaux. She is a critical care (…)