Tag Archives: disaster

Electoral cleansing

By m3t00 | Published: 08-11-05
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the WP’s Dan Froomkin wrote (“Who’s in Charge? Karl Rove!”, 15 Sep ’05): Rove’s leadership role suggests quite strikingly that any and all White House decisions and pronouncements regarding the recovery from the storm are being made with their political consequences as the primary consideration. More specifically: With an [...]
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Life during wartime

By m3t00 | Published: 08-09-13
Dr. Irwin Redlener, director of the National Center for Disaster Preparedness, in Newsweek (Skipp, “The Holdouts,” 12 Sep ’08): We just did a study on evacuations under scenarios of disasters without warnings. We are very concerned about disasters that occur without warning when we have to do evacuations in real-time—in essence, immediate—for example, an earthquake [...]
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