August 2011
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Survival Tips from stories of Irene refugees →
US flood refugees swap water for food
The shelter, which Williams said was about five or six miles from Prattsville’s main street, had power generators and enough water for those there to swap it for food from nearby residents. People from the neighboring town of Windham brought food and clothes for those at the shelter, Williams said.
Be sure your bug-out location is better than where...
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Why being Prepared is important - Rescuers race... →
Rescue workers rushed Tuesday to get aid into flooded communities in New Jersey and Vermont, where many residents remain stranded in the aftermath of Hurricane Irene.
Marc Leibowitz, a New Yorker, went to Vermont over the weekend to get married. The wedding went off without a hitch, he said, but now he is stranded in the town of Pittsfield, with no roads to get him and his guests out. [72 hour...
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Time for the jobless to march on Washington →
It’s time for the left to get off its duff and turn the tables on the radical right. And our history reveals that there’s an excellent method for accomplishing precisely that: a great march of the unemployed on Washington.
Recent polls reveal that Americans are decisively more concerned about the crisis of unemployment than the issue of our national debt. But as many ...
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U.S. sent Google 8,888 requests for user-data in... →
(CNN) — Governments have come knocking on Google’s door more frequently seeking people’s private usage information.
Google fielded 8,888 requests from the United States government last year asking for information on people using its services, the company wrote in a report on Monday. The total number is likely higher because the Google statistics only cover criminal...
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Cleveland Mayor bans social media for assembling... →
CNN) — This summer Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson has wrestled with one of his biggest challenges since taking office five years ago.
Worried that flash mob violence would overrun city streets as it had elsewhere, the Cleveland City Council unanimously passed legislation that would criminalize the use of Facebook, Twitter and other social media for assembling unruly crowds or...
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2011: Year of billion-dollar weather disasters -... →
The United States has already seen nine weather disasters this year that have caused $1 billion or more in damage, tying the record set in 2008. The total for all the disasters is about $35 billion.
“The year 2011 has already established itself in the record books as a historic year for weather-related disasters, and it is not over — in fact, hurricane season is just getting...
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Pattern Recognition - Governments worldwide... →
It’s happening all over these days - and not just in the Middle East. This is a trend. It’s starting in the US now.
San Francisco California - Aug 13, 2011 - link
In a controversial move that has riled up free speech advocates, San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) subway system said it cut off cellphone signals at “select” stations in response to a planned protest...
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S.F. subway system admits cutting cellphone... →
In a controversial move that has riled up free speech advocates, San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) subway system said it cut off cellphone signals at “select” stations in response to a planned protest this week.
“BART temporarily interrupted service at select BART stations as one of many tactics to ensure the safety of everyone on the platform,” the transit agency said in a...
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Thousands protest against Chinese chemical plant |... →
(Reuters) - Thousands of people demonstrated in northeastern China on Sunday, demanding the relocation of a petrochemical plant at the center of a toxic spill scare, state media said.
Demonstrators in the port city of Dalian, in Liaoning province, faced down a wall of police in riot gear in front of the municipal government office and minor scuffles broke out, although there was no report of...
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Stocks: Worst week since 2008 financial crisis -... →
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — It was a wild ride on Wall Street.
Stocks ended Friday on a mixed note after violently whipsawing throughout the day. The Dow had a massive trading range of 400 points as investors scrambled to make sense of a whirlwind of news.
Deep investor concerns about the U.S. economy and the European debt crisis caused heavy damage to U.S. stocks this week. All three indexes...
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Recent solar flare may disrupt your GPS - CNN.com →
We’re the peak of the 11-year solar cycle, so double-check your GPS, and watch where you’re going.
On Thursday, the sun unleashed a massive solar flare (see video ofthe flare and how its effects have been moving toward Earth). Solar flares can disrupt radio communications, including devices that use Global Positioning System technology, such as cell phones, airplanes and car...
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China Looks to Undermine U.S. Power, With... →
EMP is also falls under this category.
Could China wipe out an American military advantage with a simple black box? Joshua Cooper Ramo’s thought-provoking book The Age of the Unthinkable challenges all kinds of conventional thinking about everything from venture capital to military strategy. One section caught my eye in particular, about how the Chinese might neutralize American air superiority,...
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Record heat spell continues →
Not only are temperatures high in Texas, but the state climatologist said Thursday that Texas in the midst of the most severe one-year drought on record. Records started being kept in 1895.
July was also the hottest month ever on record in Texas and the third driest July, climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said.
“Never before has so little rain been recorded prior to and during the primary...
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Perspective on the Global Food Crisis
Until we fix this
And this…
and no more people have to deal with THIS..
I don’t want to hear any more of this…
Or this…
The United Nations says it expects famine to spread to all regions of southern Somalia within the coming weeks. This grim assessment comes barely two weeks after the United Nations officially declared famine in two regions of southern...
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Record percentage of United States experiences... →
Exceptional drought conditions spread across nearly 12% of the United States last month, a record number that shows the widespread impact of the dry weather conditions, according to a report released Monday.
Officials at the National Drought Mitigation Center said the July percentage is the highest recorded level of drought since the monitor began documenting conditions 12 years ago.
More than...
