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Titolo: New orleans sotto metri d'acqua

passeranno mesi prima che gli abitanti possano tornare, un duro colpo per il
turismo in usa. Gli americani ora lo sanno cosa vuol dire effetto serra
-- 
You_fuck_with_the_bull-You_gonna_get_the_horns

Perlomeno avrebbero potuto fare qualcosa per migliorare il loro sistema
di dighe ed argini, ma a quanto pare i soldi preferiscono spenderli per
tagliare le tasse ai ricchi.
"No One Can Say they Didn't See it Coming"
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,372455,00.html
In 2001, FEMA warned that a hurricane striking New Orleans was one of
the three most likely disasters in the U.S. But the Bush administration
cut New Orleans flood control funding by 44 percent to pay for the Iraq
war.
Biblical in its uncontrolled rage and scope, Hurricane Katrina has left
millions of Americans to scavenge for food and shelter and hundreds to
thousands reportedly dead. With its main levee broken, the evacuated
city of New Orleans has become part of the Gulf of Mexico. But the
damage wrought by the hurricane may not entirely be the result of an
act of nature.
A year ago the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed to study how New
Orleans could be protected from a catastrophic hurricane, but the Bush
administration ordered that the research not be undertaken. After a
flood killed six people in 1995, Congress created the Southeast
Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, in which the Corps of Engineers
strengthened and renovated levees and pumping stations. In early 2001,
the Federal Emergency Management Agency issued a report stating that a
hurricane striking New Orleans was one of the three most likely
disasters in the U.S., including a terrorist attack on New York City.
But by 2003 the federal funding for the flood control project
essentially dried up as it was drained into the Iraq war. In 2004, the
Bush administration cut funding requested by the New Orleans district
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for holding back the waters of Lake
Pontchartrain by more than 80 percent. Additional cuts at the beginning
of this year (for a total reduction in funding of 44.2 percent since
2001) forced the New Orleans district of the Corps to impose a hiring
freeze. The Senate had debated adding funds for fixing New Orleans'
levees, but it was too late.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which before the hurricane published a
series on the federal funding problem, and whose presses are now
underwater, reported online: "No one can say they didn't see it coming
... Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious questions
are being asked about the lack of preparation."
The Bush administration's policy of turning over wetlands to developers
almost certainly also contributed to the heightened level of the storm
surge. In 1990, a federal task force began restoring lost wetlands
surrounding New Orleans. Every two miles of wetland between the
Crescent City and the Gulf reduces a surge by half a foot. Bush had
promised "no net loss" of wetlands, a policy launched by his father's
administration and bolstered by President Clinton. But he reversed his
approach in 2003, unleashing the developers. The Army Corps of
Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency then announced they
could no longer protect wetlands unless they were somehow related to
interstate commerce.
In response to this potential crisis, four leading environmental groups
conducted a joint expert study, concluding in 2004 that without
wetlands protection New Orleans could be devastated by an ordinary,
much less a Category 4 or 5, hurricane. "There's no way to describe how
mindless a policy that is when it comes to wetlands protection," said
one of the report's authors. The chairman of the White House's Council
on Environmental Quality dismissed the study as "highly questionable,"
and boasted, "Everybody loves what we're doing."
"My administration's climate change policy will be science based,"
President Bush declared in June 2001. But in 2002, when the
Environmental Protection Agency submitted a study on global warming to
the United Nations reflecting its expert research, Bush derided it as
"a report put out by a bureaucracy," and excised the climate change
assessment from the agency's annual report. The next year, when the EPA
issued its first comprehensive "Report on the Environment," stating,
"Climate change has global consequences for human health and the
environment," the White House simply demanded removal of the line and
all similar conclusions. At the G-8 meeting in Scotland this year, Bush
successfully stymied any common action on global warming. Scientists,
meanwhile, have continued to accumulate impressive data on the rising
temperature of the oceans, which has produced more severe hurricanes.
In February 2004, 60 of the nation's leading scientists, including 20
Nobel laureates, warned in a statement, "Restoring Scientific Integrity
in Policymaking": "Successful application of science has played a large
part in the policies that have made the United States of America the
world's most powerful nation and its citizens increasingly prosperous
and healthy ... Indeed, this principle has long been adhered to by
presidents and administrations of both parties in forming and
implementing policies. The administration of George W. Bush has,
however, disregarded this principle ... The distortion of scientific
knowledge for partisan political ends must cease." Bush completely
ignored this statement.
In the two weeks preceding the storm in the Gulf, the trumping of
science by ideology and expertise by special interests accelerated. The
Federal Drug Administration announced that it was postponing sale of
the morning-after contraceptive pill, despite overwhelming scientific
evidence of its safety and its approval by the FDA's scientific
advisory board. The United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
accused the Bush administration of responsibility for a condom shortage
in Uganda -- the result of the administration's evangelical Christian
agenda of "abstinence." When the chief of the Bureau of Justice
Statistics in the Justice Department was ordered by the White House to
delete its study that African-Americans and other minorities are
subject to racial profiling in police traffic stops and he refused to
buckle under, he was forced out of his job. When the Army Corps of
Engineers' chief contracting oversight analyst objected to a $7 billion
no-bid contract awarded for work in Iraq to Halliburton (the firm at
which Vice President Cheney was formerly CEO), she was demoted despite
her superior professional ratings. At the National Park Service, a
former Cheney aide, a political appointee lacking professional
background, drew up a plan to overturn past environmental practices and
prohibit any mention of evolution while allowing sale of religious
materials through the Park Service.
On the day the levees burst in New Orleans, Bush delivered a speech in
Colorado comparing the Iraq war to World War II and himself to Franklin
D. Roosevelt: "And he knew that the best way to bring peace and
stability to the region was by bringing freedom to Japan." Bush had
boarded his very own "Streetcar Named Desire."
Sidney Blumenthal, a former assistant and senior advisor to President
Clinton and the author of "The Clinton Wars," is writing a column for
Salon and the Guardian of London.

 di dighe ed argini,
In effetti! A parte la fissazione di parlare sempre di "effetto serra"
per spiegare il riscaldamento globale, bisogna anche dire che
New Orleans era un postaccio sociale e geografico...tutte cose
da non sottovalutare per le assunzioni di responsabilità.
Sicuramente delle dighe migliori avrebbero potuto evitare i guai più
grossi, ma è anche vero che la città era nata in maniera idiota nel
posto peggiore che si potesse scegliere (in fondo ad un "catino"
con un grande fiume sul bordo, un lago salato e con un mare
chiuso che genera uragani come fosse stato progettato apposta).
Dato che l'uragano ha spazzato via la città, si spera che facciano
come facevano gli antichi...ricoprano i resti diminuendo il dislivello
(in fondo sono 6 metri al massimo), migliorino le dighe poichè
comunque le ondate sollevano il mare e creino un piano
idrogeologico intelligente.
P.S. Il problema è anche che molta gente era rimasta sia per
sciacallare dopo l'uragano che per proteggere le proprie
cose dagli sciacalli. Inoltre nei servizi si vedono anche macchine
costose distrutte...che diavolo hanno aspettato ad andarsene con
quelle?
Ciao! 

 turismo in usa. Gli americani ora lo sanno cosa vuol dire effetto serra
godere delle disgrazie degli altri ti provochera' un ritorno karmiko
impressionante...
filo-islamici teste di cazzo
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 turismo in usa. Gli americani ora lo sanno cosa vuol dire effetto serra
gli americani piu' poveri, visto che in quella zona la stragrande
maggioranza e' di colore e non sono certo loro quelli "consigliano"
l'amministrazione bush.
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o informato, mi mandi la foto anche di altri componenti
dell'amministrazione bush? tanto per vedere se sono pure loro di colore.
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Un controesempio (perfetto, per'altro, in quanto il titolo ufficiale di 
Condolissa e' _Consigliere_ per la sicurezza nazionale, ed e' originaria 
dell'Alabama dove e' cresciuta nel clima della segregazione) e' 
bastevole a mostrare che hai postato una cretinata.
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Ad ogni buon conto:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html
Tre facce scure, due ispanici ed una cinese.
Coglione.
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E' una tragedia.     Una delle citta' piu' belle e culturalmente ricche
degli USA completamente distrutta.  Probabilmente migliaia di morti.
Decine di migliaia di persone che hanno perso tutto.
Ehi, e il capo cosa fa?
http://www.bobharris.com/content/view/627/1
Mi pareva strano.    Visto che l'effetto del disastro e' colpa anche
della sua negligenza.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001051313
Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen? 'Times-Picayune' Had
Repeatedly Raised Federal Spending Issues
By Will Bunch
Published: August 31, 2005 9:00 PM ET
PHILADELPHIAEven though Hurricane Katrina has moved well north of the
city, the waters may still keep rising in New Orleans. That's because
Lake Pontchartrain continues to pour through a two-block-long break in
the main levee, near the city's 17th Street Canal. With much of the
Crescent City some 10 feet below sea level, the rising tide may not
stop until it's level with the massive lake.
New Orleans had long known it was highly vulnerable to flooding and a
direct hit from a hurricane. In fact, the federal government has been
working with state and local officials in the region since the late
1960s on major hurricane and flood relief efforts. When flooding from a
massive rainstorm in May 1995 killed six people, Congress authorized
the Southeast Louisiana Urban Flood Control Project, or SELA.
Over the next 10 years, the Army Corps of Engineers, tasked with
carrying out SELA, spent $430 million on shoring up levees and building
pumping stations, with $50 million in local aid. But at least $250
million in crucial projects remained, even as hurricane activity in the
Atlantic Basin increased dramatically and the levees surrounding New
Orleans continued to subside.
Yet after 2003, the flow of federal dollars toward SELA dropped to a
trickle. The Corps never tried to hide the fact that the spending
pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security -- coming at
the same time as federal tax cuts -- was the reason for the strain. At
least nine articles in the Times-Picayune from 2004 and 2005
specifically cite the cost of Iraq as a reason for the lack of
hurricane- and flood-control dollars.
Newhouse News Service, in an article posted late Tuesday night at The
Times-Picayune Web site, reported: "No one can say they didn't see it
coming. ... Now in the wake of one of the worst storms ever, serious
questions are being asked about the lack of preparation."
In early 2004, as the cost of the conflict in Iraq soared, President
Bush proposed spending less than 20 percent of what the Corps said was
needed for Lake Pontchartrain, according to a Feb. 16, 2004, article,
in New Orleans CityBusiness.
On June 8, 2004, Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for
Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; told the Times-Picayune: "It appears that
the money has been moved in the president's budget to handle homeland
security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that's the price we pay.
Nobody locally is happy that the levees can't be finished, and we are
doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue
for us."
Also that June, with the 2004 hurricane season starting, the Corps'
project manager Al Naomi went before a local agency, the East Jefferson
Levee Authority, and essentially begged for $2 million for urgent work
that Washington was now unable to pay for. From the June 18, 2004
Times-Picayune:
"The system is in great shape, but the levees are sinking. Everything
is sinking, and if we don't get the money fast enough to raise them,
then we can't stay ahead of the settlement," he said. "The problem that
we have isn't that the levee is low, but that the federal funds have
dried up so that we can't raise them."
The panel authorized that money, and on July 1, 2004, it had to pony up
another $250,000 when it learned that stretches of the levee in
Metairie had sunk by four feet. The agency had to pay for the work with
higher property taxes. The levee board noted in October 2004 that the
feds were also now not paying for a hoped-for $15 million project to
better shore up the banks of Lake Pontchartrain.
The 2004 hurricane season was the worst in decades. In spite of that,
the federal government came back this spring with the steepest
reduction in hurricane and flood-control funding for New Orleans in
history. Because of the proposed cuts, the Corps office there imposed a
hiring freeze. Officials said that money targeted for the SELA project
-- $10.4 million, down from $36.5 million -- was not enough to start
any new jobs.
There was, at the same time, a growing recognition that more research
was needed to see what New Orleans must do to protect itself from a
Category 4 or 5 hurricane. But once again, the money was not there. As
the Times-Picayune reported last Sept. 22:
"That second study would take about four years to complete and would
cost about $4 million, said Army Corps of Engineers project manager Al
Naomi. About $300,000 in federal money was proposed for the 2005
fiscal-year budget, and the state had agreed to match that amount. But
the cost of the Iraq war forced the Bush administration to order the
New Orleans district office not to begin any new studies, and the 2005
budget no longer includes the needed money, he said."
The Senate was seeking to restore some of the SELA funding cuts for
2006. But now it's too late.
One project that a contractor had been racing to finish this summer: a
bridge and levee job right at the 17th Street Canal, site of the main
breach on Monday.
The Newhouse News Service article published Tuesday night observed,
"The Louisiana congressional delegation urged Congress earlier this
year to dedicate a stream of federal money to Louisiana's coast, only
to be opposed by the White House. ... In its budget, the Bush
administration proposed a significant reduction in funding for
southeast Louisiana's chief hurricane protection project. Bush proposed
$10.4 million, a sixth of what local officials say they need."
Local officials are now saying, the article reported, that had
Washington heeded their warnings about the dire need for hurricane
protection, including building up levees and repairing barrier islands,
"the damage might not have been nearly as bad as it turned out to be."

 bastevole a mostrare che hai postato una cretinata.
le cretinate le posti tu che pensi che la popolazione di colore sia
influente a tal punto da decidere la politica USA.
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 influente a tal punto da decidere la politica USA.
Dai sergio, mettiamola cosě.
Ti sei pisciato sugli zoccolotti e bon.
Inutile star qui a menarsela per centodiecimilapost.
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 Coglione.
ci sarai tu
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 Ti sei pisciato sugli zoccolotti e bon.
ed ecco il cretino figlioletto di decesari. ale' ...
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 influente a tal punto da decidere la politica USA.
????
Cos'è? Gli hanno tolto il diritto di voto? ;-)
Diciamo che in parte se la cercano
Ciao! 


TB questa volta non ha torto. Solo 3 senatori afroamericani in 150
anni di cui uno solo in carica non portano molta acqua al vostro mulino. 

 filo-islamici teste di cazzo
E questa affermazione generica (che cos'č un "filo-islamico"? "Islamico" =
no bbuono an sich?) come la vedi, dal pdv karmico?
Namib

 Namib
Non e' proprio kosher (parola americana)
::))
Am.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1558796,00.html
Arabs fights for power to save cancer victim
Legal bid to get electricity for Bedouin girl in 'illegal' village
Chris McGreal in Sawa
Tuesday August 30, 2005
The Guardian
The electricity pylons that could mean the difference between life and
death for Ennas al-Atrash are dotted a few hundred yards from the
little girl's village in Israel's Negev desert.
But the residents of Sawa are Bedouin Arabs whose village is deemed
"unrecognised" by the state, and so they are deprived of the basic
services that Ennas's doctors say are essential if the frail
three-year-old is to have a chance of survival.
Ennas was diagnosed with cancer in her chest cavity in January and
subjected to weeks of chemotherapy and two operations. She was sent
home to recover with a daily injection of medicine to boost her
collapsed immune system. The drug has to be stored at a steady
temperature between zero degrees and 4C (32F-39F).
But the Atrash family has no reliable means to do so because the
Israeli government refuses to allow 80,000 Bedouin Arabs to be
connected to the power, water or sewerage infrastructure on the grounds
that their villages are illegal - even though many have stood since
before the modern Israeli state existed.
It has made no difference that Ennas's father, Yusuf, is a doctor in
Israel's state health system who treats other, more fortunate, children
while his own daughter's health is hostage to politics.
"We put her drugs into a plastic bag and pack it with ice cubes to try
to keep it cool. We're not sure it keeps it the right temperature," he
said.
Last week, Ennas, who has lost her hair and is said by her mother to be
terrified of going to hospital, fell victim to secondary infections and
underwent another operation. The doctors say she needs radiotherapy and
more drugs to boost her immune system. But the family still has no
proper refrigeration.
The Atrash family shares a generator with four other homes, but the
cost of running it constantly is so high - about £900 a month, which
is the average monthly wage in Israel - that it is turned on for only
four hours each evening.
The family says its last hope is a petition to Israel's highest court
to be heard on Thursday.
"We're arguing that the right to life and health are among basic human
rights and these cannot be violated on what is basically a planning
issue based on discrimination against the Arab-Bedouin minority," said
the family's lawyer, Sonia Boulos.
Yosef Kaploshnik, the head of paediatric oncology at the Be'er Sheva
hospital where Ennas is treated, has written to the court saying that
electricity is needed not only to store medicines, but to provide
air-conditioning as protection against the sweltering summer heat that
can trigger lethal secondary infections.
"I believe that if we were living in a better situation, my daughter
would be responding in a better way to the treatment," said Dr Atrash.
"Certainly, she wouldn't be suffering from these other infections. They
are making her general condition worse."
Dr Atrash spent months pleading with government departments. Officials
said they were constrained by the law, although this has not stopped
the infrastructure ministry from providing power, water and roads to
Jewish outposts in the West Bank which are also regarded as illegal.
"The electric company told us that, according to the law, we needed all
sorts of permits from the local planning committee, but because they do
not recognise that our village exists there is no local planning
committee," he said.
So Dr Atrash turned to the interior ministry, which is responsible for
implementing the decision that Bedouin villages are "unrecognised". At
first, it recommended that he should move to a "legal" village. But the
doctor, who was born in Sawa and whose family has lived there for
generations, said he relied on his relatives living nearby to care for
his five other children when Ennas was in hospital.
Yesterday, the interior minister, Ofir Pines Paz, told the Guardian he
was "taking care of the case" but could not give details.
His officials said the interior ministry had written to the
infrastructure ministry a month ago, saying that it had legal authority
in the issue and asking it to do something.
A spokeswoman for the infrastructure ministry, Tami Skinkman, said
yesterday: "My minister dealt with the problem. He gave an order to
connect the house to the electricity because he felt it was a matter of
life or death. But, unfortunately, he doesn't have the final authority
so the house hasn't been connected. The law is above him."
Asked who does have the final authority, Ms Skinkman said: "Probably
the courts."
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Per par condicio metto anche la lettera scritta dall'ambasciatore
Israeliano:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,3604,1560173,00.html
Bedouin help
Thursday September 1, 2005
The Guardian
The plight of the Bedouin girl Ennas al-Atrash (Arabs fight for power
to save cancer victim, August 30), is a tragic story and our hearts go
out to her. Indeed, as you reported, the minister of infrastructure,
Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, did attempt to have the girl's house supplied
with electricity.
Israel has long been working for permanent habitation - where desired -
for this traditionally nomadic people. In the region in question alone,
Israel has helped establish seven Bedouin towns, all serviced by modern
medical and education amenities. Since 1948 Israel's Bedouin population
has increased tenfold, and within a single generation, illiteracy has
dropped from 95% to 25%.
However, like every modern state, Israel has a system of planning
permission. When a nomadic group settles illegally on state or
privately owned land, it is simply unrealistic to expect that they be
permanently connected to water and electricity; no modern state can be
expected to provide limitless residential amenities.
Dan Shaham
Embassy of Israel

 no bbuono an sich?) come la vedi, dal pdv karmico?
LOL
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his five other children when Ennas was in hospital.
Cioe' botte piena e moglie ubriaca.
-Stefano

 Namib
affermazione derivata dalla desolante constatazione che gli
anti-amerikani sono
sempre filo-islamici, ammirano cioč una "cultura" oscurantista
anti-sociale e
profondamente contro le donne, mi domando perchč tanto disprezzo per le
donne degli islamici...
che siano tutti un pņ froci? bah...
viva le donne belle e libere dell'occidente! 
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 sempre filo-islamici,
"Sempre" ??
Dai pochi post di Blairosevich che ho visto, e senza voler entrare nel
merito della questione, vedo per esempio che egli e' un fan della Cina
e della Russia.
Di questi due paesi si puo' dire di tutto (mafia russa al potere,
mancanza di trasparenza, capitalismo rampante mischiato a controllo
dello stato su tutto, grossolane violazioni dei diritti umani,
invasione del Tibet, etc..) ma non certo che siano paesi islamici o
filoislamici.

 viva le donne belle e libere dell'occidente!
Viva le belle donne, dovunque siano nate.
Namib

 Namib
Franz
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 non lo sono.
Una prece per la punteggiatura & la sintassi (sono islamiche? è per questo
non le sopporti?). Requiescant in pace.
Namib

 
 
alle altre cazzate che hai detto nemmeno replico, non ne vale la pena. 
questa ultima affermazione mostra chiaramente la tua pochezza
intellettuale, nell'antica roma
e cioè circa DUEMILA anni fa, le donne erano trattate certamente meglio
che nel mondo islamico di OGGI.
quanto al tuo intuito anch'esso vale quanto te, e cioè zero: io sono
nato e vissuto a napoli e sono
orgogliosamente italiano e meridionale. azzecca chestata figura
e'mmerda...
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 e'mmerda...
Azzeccala tu, inferiore. Sei l'unico napoletano (a mia notizia) che ragioni
come un leghista. Vergògnati. O, meglio, trasferìsciti a Bergamo Bassa, e
abbòccati con la cagna di Borghezio (su "la Padania" dicono sia di bocca
buona: la cagna, non Borghezio...).
Namib

con la cagna di Borghezio
...disse la cagna....
-Stefano

 come un leghista.
Dissento: qualche altro idiota simile c'è.
Robaccia parafascistoide in salsa verde, nulla di nuovo.
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Chaos A.D.		|	Raging crowd
Tanks on the streets	|	Burning cars
Confronting police	|	Bloodshed starts
Bleeding the Plebs	|	Who'll be alive?

 Namib
sei inutilmente stronzo...
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 sei inutilmente stronzo...
Hai mancato la battuta, eh? Consòlati: stanotte te ne verrà in mente una...
Namib