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McCain's Pander Bus stops in New Orleans, lies to the Lower 9th

Thursday, April 24, 2008 11:14 PM
John McCain's "Pander To Anyone I Can Think Of" tour has made a particularly shameless stop in New Orleans. In the still-devastated Lower Ninth Ward, the poorest and most heavily damaged area of the city, McCain had the gall to say this : "Never again
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The ongoing environmental impact of Katrina and Rita

Thursday, November 15, 2007 9:17 PM
This is astonishing : New satellite imaging has revealed that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita produced the largest single forestry disaster on record in America -- an essentially unreported ecological catastrophe that killed or severely damaged some 320 million
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Drowning New Orleans again

Monday, April 30, 2007 10:18 PM
First, the rigged bid : A review of documents by The Associated Press found that when the Army Corps of Engineers solicited bids for drainage pumps for New Orleans, it copied the specifications -- typos and all -- from the catalog of the manufacturer
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