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• * HR 646: U.S. Preparing for Civil Unrest?

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 442
  In their quest for the truth ~ over 60,000 infuriated Greek citizens take to the streets in central Athens because the cash strapped government faces a financial reckoning. The Obama administration has prepared itself for eventually the same demands for the truth with HR 645 which is, in essence, militarized FEMA ...
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• And still

  
  Letters in Bottles — Authority: 551
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• Katrina’s Toxic Trailers Are No Bargain

  
  Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — Authority: 734
  By Eugene Robinson FEMA is selling more than 100,000 contaminated trailers and mobile homes that are toxic enough to make people very sick. Related Entries March 15, 2010 Obama Looks for Votes, Support in Ohio March 14, 2010 Chavez’s Latest Nemesis: The Internet
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• Gillibrand Seeks FEMA Aid For Storm Victims

  
  North Country Gazette — Authority: 446
  NEW YORK—After a weekend of extreme weather that killed at least nine people and left more than half a million New Yorkers without power, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to provide federal assistance to conduct a Preliminary Damage Assessment for Suffolk, Nassau, ...
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• Mike Spano urges disaster declaration

  
  Politics on the Hudson — Authority: 608
  Assemblyman Mike Spano, D-Yonkers, has asked Gov. David Paterson for  for a disaster zone declaration in response to this weekend’s wild storm. “If Yonkers is declared a disaster zone, the city could apply to receive needed aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to ease the devastating affects of this ...
  2 days ago

• What to do if youre a tourist in a natural disaster

  
  Gadling — Authority: 711
  Filed under: Travel Health Natural disasters can strike anywhere at any time. Mother nature doesnt care who you are, how much money you spent on your vacation, or whether you bought travel insurance. Mother nature is kind of a jerk like that. So, what exactly do you do if youre lying on a Chilean beach one day ...
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• FDI in sensitive sector under automatic approval route may be under post-investment surveillance

  
  LEGAL & FINANCIAL UPDATES FROM TAX GURU — Authority: 542
  The Committee of Secretaries (CoS) set up to formulate changes in the foreign direct investment (FDI) policy in sensitive sectors that are now under the automatic approval route has added a rider subjecting them to post-investment surveillance.The department of legal affairs, under the law ministry, has been asked to ...
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• Developer Stewart Juneau requests “temporary suspension” of Municipal Auditorium deal

  
  Best Of New Orleans Blog — Authority: 582
  Stewart Juneau , owner of the Baton Rouge-based development company LeTriomphe Property Group , was selected last November by Mayor Ray Nagin ’s administration to redevelop the Morris F.X. Jeff Sr. Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park. At the time, the proposed professional services agreement drew controversy, ...
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• FEMA’s Sale of Katrina Trailers Sparks Criticism

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 630
  Spencer S. Hsu writes in the Washington Post : In a giant auction, the federal government has agreed to sell for pennies on the dollar most of the 120,000 formaldehyde-tainted trailers it bought nearly five years ago for Hurricane Katrina victims. But the sale of the units, perhaps the most visible symbol of the ...
  4 days ago

• HUD Secretary announced federal disaster assistance to counties in California

  
  California Fire News - Structure, Wildland, EMS — Authority: 438
  Foreclosure protection offered to displaced families in six counties - Disaster declaration for Calaveras, Imperial, Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Siskiyou Counties will speed federal disaster assistance. WASHINGTON, DC - March 11, 2010 - (RealEstateRama) — U.S. Housing and Urban Development ...
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• Shorter Question Everything

  
  Question Everything — Authority: 440
  IranSaudi Arabia has dismissed US claims that Riyadh would use its leverage to pressure China to approve new sanctions against Iran.According to the Saudi official news agency, SPA, an official in Riadh rejected a claim by US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on the issue of pressuring China to support fresh sanctions ...
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• Tainted auction: Git your FEMA death trailer...CHEAP!

  
  The Bayou — Authority: 140
  As if living in the frothy air of Southeast Texas aint bad enough, you can now purchase the "world famous" carcinogenic FEMA trailers for cheap!"In a giant auction, the federal government has agreed to sell for pennies on the dollar most of the 120,000 formaldehyde-tainted trailers it bought nearly five years ago for ...
  5 days ago

• FEMA sells off Hurricane Katrina trailers tainted with formaldehyde

  
  The Washington Post — Authority: 959
  In a giant auction, the federal government has agreed to sell for pennies on the dollar most of the 120,000 formaldehyde-tainted trailers it bought nearly five years ago for Hurricane Katrina victims. But the sale of the units, perhaps the most visible symbol of the governments bungled response to the hurricane, has ...
  5 days ago

• Tri-Town Gets Federal Grant Money

  
  1490 NewsBlog — Authority: 446
  U.S. Representative Glenn `GT’ Thompson, R-Howard, today announced a $53,913 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) to the Tri-Town volunteer Fire Company. The grant comes under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Tri-Town Fire Captain Mike Healy said, “We will use the money for personal protective ...
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• Wyoming Joins Phony “Sovereignty Movement”

  
  The Proud Political Junkie's Gazette — Authority: 438
  According to an article on the Tenth Amendment Center website, Wyoming’s governor Dave Freudenthal has just signed Wyoming’s Joint Resolution 2 (HJ0002), claiming “sovereignty on behalf of the State of Wyoming and for its citizens under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers ...
  6 days ago

• Homeowner aftershock: Insurers jack up earthquake insurance rates

  
  WalletPop Blog — Authority: 709
  Filed under: Insurance , Insurance - Home Insurance Following the devastating earthquakes that hit Chile and Haiti, some insurance companies are hiking rates on earthquake insurance by as much as 200%. A recent Los Angeles Times article reported that California-based GeoVera Insurance Company nearly tripled ...
  6 days ago

• Next U.S. disaster: Is private sector prepared? Sort of, maybe - and no

  
  ZDNet Government — Authority: 137
  Recent natural disasters in Haiti and Chile have brought back memories of Hurricane Katrina before members of the Senate Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration.
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• 9/11 Truthers Could Be Locked Up For Life Under Proposed U.S. Law

  
  Disinformation — Authority: 630
  A new bill quietly introduced by Congress last week is causing quite a stir among civil liberties groups. The brainchild of senators John McCain and Joe Lieberman, the bill would give the United States government the power to indefinitely detain terror suspects without charge or trial. It would also allow the ...
  1 week ago

• HOW TO: Prepare for Disasters Using Social Media

  
  Yada Yada Marketing — Authority: 150
  Mollie Vandor is the Product Manager for Ranker.com and Media Director for Girls in Tech LA. You can find her on Twitter and on her blog, where she writes about the web, the world and what it’s like to be a geek chic chick.Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes — lately, it seems like there’s a new natural [...]
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• Desastres Naturales y Deberes Nacionales: El Terremoto de Chile en una Perspectiva Internacional

  
  The Kaufmann Governance Post — Authority: 405
    Un enfoque amplio de gobernabilidad comparativa conlleva a nuestra conclusión de que Chile ha respondido relativamente bien al megaterremoto, a pesar de errores serios en la etapa inicial.  Identificamos logros, errores, y desafíos en la reacción frente al terremoto, los cuales constituyen una oportunidad ...
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