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Critics ranging from Jon Stewart to Rick Salutin have been tipping their hats to the U.S. MSM over their aggressive coverage of the botched relief efforts for hurricane Katrina. But in some ways, Iraq is a worse catastrophe because the Bush administration deliberately started that conflict. The bottom-end estimate right now by Iraq Body Count for [...]
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This Washington Post story paints an alarming picture of top managers at FEMA with little experience in disaster management — but who are loyal Republicans and/or Bush campaign workers. An excerpt: Five of eight top Federal Emergency Management Agency officials came to their posts with virtually no experience in handling disasters and now lead an [...]
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Michael Brown, the doofus in charge of the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), has been removed from operational control of hurricane Katrina relief efforts. The headline is in reference to U.S. President George W. Bush's statement of one week ago. Here's CTV.ca's story on Brown's demotion. Question: Is this the first time a high-level Bush appointee [...]
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The Toronto Star’s Antonia Zerbisias wrote on Monday about how cable and online media provided better hurricane Katrina coverage than the major American networks. One thing she didn’t mention — and something I learned the hard way during the T.O. blackout of Aug. 14, 2003 — is the value of having a cheap, battery-operated transistor radio [...]
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You may be asking on what I base the above observation, given that gas in southern Ontario has gone up to $1.33 per litre in recent days. I base it on driving behaviour. I went out for what has become an annual trip to fish Loughborough Lake north of Kingston, which necessitates driving eastward on [...]
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