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Archive for September 25, 2008
Ike, Gustav Hearing Highlights FEMA Improvements
September 25, 2008 by Tim McDowell.
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| by Chris Bedford | |
| Wednesday, 24 September 2008 | |
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Agency praised for better responsiveness, but bureaucratic red tape still a problem.The federal government’s response to the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Ike and Gustav shows a dramatic improvement over its handling of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, but there is still much room for improvement, according to officials and representatives from all levels of the government, who attended Tuesday’s hearing by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Recovery.
Media coverage of the hurricanes did not last after they failed to cause the massive death toll that Katrina and Rita had in 2005, and so their effects on the states of Texas and Louisiana, according to senators representing both states, have gone largely unnoticed in the rest of the country. “It seems as though the second these storms did not result in catastrophic death tolls, although hundreds of people lost their lives,” subcommittee chair Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-La.) said in her opening statement, “the national cameras went off and there is a sense outside the Gulf Coast and particularly here in Washington that things went pretty well.” |
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North Korea (Country threat level - 3)
September 25, 2008 by Tim McDowell.
North Korea expelled U.N. monitors from the reprocessing plant at its Yongbon nuclear facility, the latest setback in the international community’s attempts to convince Pyongyang to discontinue its nuclear weapons program. A spokesman for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) stated that North Korea could resume production of weapons-grade plutonium at the facility as soon as next week. North Korea stated last month that it would restart the plant because the United States did not remove the country from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
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USS George Washington arrives in Japan
September 25, 2008 by Tim McDowell.
Hundreds of local residents in Yokosuka, located 30 mi/50 km south of Tokyo, staged protests on 25 September 2008 against the arrival to the port city of the U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington. The locals expressed concern about possible radiation pollution and an increase in crime due to the presence of the carrier’s crew. Meanwhile, approximately 2,000 U.S. military personnel and their families turned out to welcome the new vessel.
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