http://www.alternet.org/story/71400/
By Naomi Klein, Huffington Post
Posted on December 22, 2007, Printed on July 24, 2008
Readers of my book The Shock Doctrine know that one of the most shameless examples of disaster capitalism has been the attempt to exploit the disastrous flooding of New Orleans to close down that city’s public housing projects, some of the only [...]

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Published on 16-07-2008
Source: CNN
The agency that regulates Mississippi’s casinos got pillows, stoves, dinnerware and other items meant for Hurricane Katrina victims, according to state records obtained by CNN.

http://www.africanamericanopinion.com/…
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Thu Jul 10, 2008 at 09:13:39 AM EDT
We can never escape the ravages of Katrina, even 3 years after the storm.

Today we find out that the trailers, such as these that were used to house Katrina survivors throughout the Gulf Coast, had dangerously high levels of Formaldehyde, a preservative once used for dead bodies. Formaldehyde [...]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/…
By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 30, 2008; A05
The Mediterranean Sea, says Francesco Ferretti, is “a very dangerous place for a shark.”
So dangerous that in the past two centuries, the shark population there has plummeted by more than 97 percent, both in relative numbers and collective weight, according to a study by the graduate [...]

http://www.fas.org/…
Monday, June 30 marks the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska incident in 1908, in which a meteor or comet fragment entered the atmosphere over Tunguska in Siberia producing an enormous explosion.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com…
Can-do, bootstrap approach embedded in American psyche is under assault
The Associated Press
updated 4:34 a.m. PT, Sun., June. 22, 2008
WASHINGTON - Is everything spinning out of control? Midwestern levees are bursting. Polar bears are adrift. Gas prices are skyrocketing. Home values are abysmal. Air fares, college tuition and health care border on unaffordable. Wars without end [...]

http://www.sunherald.com/…
By MICHAEL NEWSOM
mmnewsom@sunherald.com
– A Pentagon investigative report alleges the firm KBR Inc. held an illegal contract, overcharged millions to the Navy and produced shoddy workmanship on its South Mississippi jobs after Katrina.

http://news.yahoo.com/…
By Tabassum Zakaria
President George W. Bush got a close-up view of damage from the worst Midwest flooding in 15 years on Thursday as his administration promised funding from a multibillion-dollar disaster relief fund.

http://www.cbc.ca/…
CBC News

This rare albino crow was one of two recently spotted in East Vancouver.This rare albino crow was one of two recently spotted in East Vancouver. (Pat Brand)

http://www.upi.com/…
Published: June 11, 2008 at 7:55 PM
About $85 million in household goods meant for Hurricane Katrina victims was given away by the U.S. government, an investigation found.