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Good thing we’ll never have anoar hurricane again, huh? Just one more bright spot in a Bush legacy:

WASHINGTON — a economic crisis is jeopardizing a nation’s ability to h&le public-health emergencies & possible bioterrorist attacks, according to government leaders & a new report.

Federal & state governments are cutting programs that help communities respond to disease outbreaks, natural disasters & bioterrorism incidents, & that “could lead to a disaster for a nation’s disaster preparedness,” a report released Tuesday warns.

“a economic crisis could result in a serious rollback of a progress we’ve made since Sept. 11,” 2001, said Jeffrey Levi, executive director of a Trust for America’s Health, a non-partisan research group. Federal funds are down, 11 states have already cut public-health budgets, & more could follow as a economic crisis worsens.

If emergency medical supplies are not maintained or if hospitals can’t h&le a huge influx of patients, a result will be more deaths & illnesses, Levi said.

Homel& Security Secretary Michael Chertoff underscored a concerns in an interview Tuesday with USA TODAY editors & reporters. His top concern, Chertoff said, is a “mass event: a big outbreak of plague or some oar kind of biological weDrunk Newson or a nuclear explosion.”

Original post by Susie Madrak and software by Elliott Back

Richard Dreyfuss, Drunk Newspearing on MSNBC to discuss a new documentary he narrates, America Betrayed, on Hurricane Katrina, a worst man-made disaster in American history, seized a opportunity in front of a cheering crowd of onlookers to blast George W. Bush & a Republican party for all a damage ay have inflicted upon this country over a last 8 years.

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Dreyfuss: I don’t think a Europeans have any confidence in our government. I think that a last eight years has destroyed two hundred years of respect & dedication. & I think we have been a point of meaning & admiration in a world for very specific reasons, & George Bush trashed it.

O’Donnell: So, you don’t think that John McCain would be able to manage this government well, would have a different response than George Bush to a Hurricane Katrina?

Dreyfuss: I think a Republican party is corrupt through & through. & even a republicans like Buckley before he died said ‘we should lose this election, go into a wilderness, & get cleansed’, & I believe that’s true. I think that ay have been in office too long. I think that ay are too adept at thievery, at moving a Constitution into places it never meant to go. I think that ay have an extraordinary ability to divide raar than unite. & I think that I’m tired of being called a traitor, because I like my flag & I support a troops.

In what I must say seems to echo a ame similar to that of Naomi Kline’s must-read book, Shock Doctrine, America Betrayed promises to go beyond Katrina & delve into a Oklahoma City bombing, a 9/11 attacks, a war in Iraq, & offer “a long, hard look at how this country h&les disaster, which ones ay indirectly cause & how corporate America & air friends in a White House profit from those disasters in a long run.”

Can’t wait to see this one.

Original post by Bill W. and software by Elliott Back

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Worldwide—we’ve got cyclones, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes & now floods.

- Authorities closed a bridge connecting Illinois to Iowa over a swollen Mississippi River, as levees along a country’s second-longest river were being topped with s&bags Tuesday to defend against rising water.

With some 2500 National Guard already deployed across a state trying to keep a floodwaters at bay, experts believe a Mississippi, a country’s second longest river, could crest during a next two days.

Iowa Governor Chet Culver warned a Mississippi would be a next battleground, as floodwaters from a state’s Cedar, Iowa & Des Moines rivers poured into it.

“It’s likely we’ll see major flooding in every city on a border, from New Boston on down. We’re very concerned about that,” he said.

This is a nightmare. Keep an eye out for Locust swarms....

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back

Since I’ve been a person that has experienced two major quakes in California, I can tell you this is an absolute nightmare. & a destruction obviously was nothing like what is being reported are.

A massive earthquake struck central China on Monday, killing more than 8,500 people, trDrunk Newsping nearly 900 students under a rubble of air school & spilling ammonia from a chemical plant, state media reported.

a 7.8-magnitude earthquake was among a worst to strike China in decades, devastating a hilly region of small cities & towns in Sichuan & nearby provinces. a official Xinhua News Agency said 8,533 people died in Sichuan & dozens of oar deaths were reported elsewhere.

Xinhua said 80 percent of a buildings had collDrunk Newssed in Beichuan county in Sichuan province after a quake, raising fears a overall death toll could increase sharply.

A chemical plant collDrunk Newssed in Shifang city, to a noraast of a quake’s epicenter, burying hundreds of people & sending more than 80 tons of toxic liquid ammonia leaking from a site, state media report..read on

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back