Obama ordered Oil Spill Commission 32 days later, not 84 days, or 5 years later

For 8 months, I have been going around saying over and over that President Obama signed an executive order 84 days after the BP oil spill establishing a bipartisan national commission. No one pointed out that I was wrong. The fact is, the President signed the executive order just 32 days later. The commission – […]

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Katrina: The Tap That’s a Kick in the Crotch

The message below was just sent to me from Harry Shearer’s Team dedicated to Phase Two of the Release of The Big Uneasy documentary. ———– THE BIG UNEASY – WHAT THIS FILM IS “NOT” Media coverage of tragedies can become so pervasive that we no longer remember the tragedy anymore, we only remember the coverage. […]

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New Details Emerge in Lawsuit Against Army Corps for New Orleans Flooding

Coastal scientist Ivor van Heerden recently spoke before an international group of stakeholders and scholars at the Tulane University’s 4th Annual Disaster Management Workshop on The Use of Computer Models to Understand the Man Made Katrina Catastrophe. We enjoyed the brush-up on important details about the New Orleans Flood. We also heard some new interesting […]

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