“Why are you so afraid of us?” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi called out, taunting the military government of Burma as thousands of rapturous supporters listened in the rain, whistling and cheering from under a sea of black umbrellas.That was 13 years ago, during a temporary period of freedom from house arrest, and Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi was putting into words the dynamic that has kept her under detention for most of the past two decades. The seemingly all-powerful junta, which jails its opponents and crushes popular uprisings by force,
is afraid of Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi, 63, the country’s pro-democracy opposition leader, and of the continuing undercurrent of support she commands among the people.
~Was Yettawa Pawn of Burma’s Generals?
Gen. Russel Honore says Louisiana should drop appeal and pay for new hospital itself
~Jonathan Tilove
Comments on Proposed VA Medical Center Designs
~PreservationNation
MRGO flooding trial ends!
Verdict now in judge's hands
~Mark Schleifstein
Going, going, MR-Go is gone
(for now)~slabbed ~Worry not if you’re feeling hopelessly lost trying to understand MRGO and the rest of the Canal Breaches litigation. Starting this weekend, SLABBED will be publishing a series of post that put MRGO in the context of the Consolidated Litigation.
Trial Against Corps of Engineers for Katrina Flooding Goes to Judge~Courthouse News Service
~Editilla Notellas~ We will post different articles on MRGO as we find them around the nets, apart from the AP media shotgun that most outlets simply repost <--which in this case unfortunately quotes the wrong, misleading and uninformed ASCECORPS mouthpiece. We also shall leave the wayward journalist nameless, since Editilla has decided to lay off journalists who can't seem to do their homework. Hell, what's the point anymore as ASCECORPS seems to have most journalists charmed like bugs on truck grill anyway.
Landrieu Leads Second CODEL To Netherlands to Study Dutch World-Class Flood Protection
Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., will this month lead the second Congressional Delegation to the Netherlands to study the Dutch integrated water management system. Louisiana and administration officials, including EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, will join Sen. Landrieu to study the world-class water management and flood protection system in the Netherlands, which shares many of Louisiana’s challenges in protecting populations and economic infrastructure below sea level.
In early 2006, Sen. Landrieu along with the Royal Netherlands Embassy led an initial Codel to the Netherlands. Since 2006, Louisiana has made progress in protecting coastal communities, including 100-year flood protection for the New Orleans region to be completed by 2011, but this trip will help the state assess remaining challenges. Sen. Landrieu will also explore policies, which may include innovative Dutch technologies and practices, that can reduce the persistent delays and cost overruns of Army Corps of Engineers projects.
Also joining the CODEL:
New Orleans City Council President Jackie Clarkson;
Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East Regional Director Bob Turner; Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet; U.S. Army Corps of Engineers representatives from Corps headquarters and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army; Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works Staff Director Bettina Poirier; New Orleans Director of Disaster Mitigation Dr. Earthea Nance; American Planning Association Executive Director/CEO Paul Farmer; Levees.Org Executive Director Sandy Rosenthal; American Society of Civil Engineers President Wayne Klotz; Center for Planning Excellence, Camille Manning-Broome; Louisiana Speaks, Lee Einsweiler; LSU Hurricane Center Interim Director Joseph Suhayda.
CODEL SCHEDULE:
Tuesday, May 26: AMSTERDAM
Site visit and briefings include: Amsterdam WaterNet, the city water management and supply agency, on living with water: flood control, ground and surface water levels, water quality and ecosystem health; Amsterdam City Architect Ton Schaap briefing and tour of the Eastern Docks and Ijburg: discussion of successful redevelopment projects, as well as water management, flood safety and economic vitality working in tandem.
Wednesday, May 27: THE HAGUE
Briefings include: Association of Dutch Water Boards; Netherlands Parliament, Committee on Water Management; Cees Veerman, Chairman of the Delta Committee; Tineke Huizinga,Vice Minister of Transport, Public Works and Water Management.
Thursday, May 28, 2009: ROTTERDAM and DELFT
Site visit and briefings include: Rotterdam city architects on Rotterdam Waterplan and the city’s climate-proof initiatives; Delft Technical University briefing on Delta Urbanism; Deltares, the leading research/scientific organization on water, soil, modeling, climate change.
Friday, May 29: KAMPEN
Site visit and briefings include: Officials from Kampen on projects under construction, river diversion for flood safety, flood safety created by dredged material, ecosystem restoration and urban flood risk mitigation efforts.
Rally For Coastal Restoration
June 1st
~Caffin @ Florida, on the water - Lower 9th WardJune 1 - Rally for Restoration
Noon - 1pm
Bayou Bienvenue Wetlands Platform, Lower Ninth Ward
~Despite congressional mandates, the Army Corps is years behind deadline to restore the decimated wetlands along the MRGO. Join your neighbors to ask the Corps to make the protection of our communities a priority! View Flyer [pdf]
Corps of Engineers or SHINOLA? Re-Branding, Re-Marketing
the Re-Branding Re-Marketing
of the Corps~WWL
~Stacy Mendoza, employee of Outreach Process Partners, said the polling graph, showing what she calls a "case study," <-(Oh My! How bloody rich!) was "misguided,” "too boastful" and "a mistake."“I understand the confusion we've created over our role, which is a support role to the Army Corps and I'm sorry that there is that confusion,” said Mendoza.
~Editilla Rotellas~Like a self-cleaning outhouse,
da'Corps' $5 Million PR Firm OPP says its own PR is Aaaaalllll just a Big Misunderstanding! A Mistake! Yeah, that's the Ticket!
Sniffle... those poor poor Girls of OPPsee. But, they are sorry!
But...BUT, are they smoking Crack? Strung out on Xanex?
Are they Out of their ad-addled, idiot'wind blown minds?
Genteel'rillas are crying to know. Who's on First?
We are paying this Band of Miss'Fits to fork us around like this?
These are 7 women working for this increasingly hysterical Miscommunications Company, fey Piraterixes of the Word.
Now, we gotta figure the Corps buys the Ads, rents the meeting spaces, pays for all the supplies and sundry fetishes these ghastly haints must have to weave their haintly spells --even down to the Dixie Cups into which they pour their red Happy Corps Cool Aid.
Soooo one wonders how this $5 Million take is split amongst the Malevolent 7... Mrs. Mendoza... I really feel your pain.
Really, heavy sigh... poor misguided marketeers...
Hence I will post this as often as it takes so you know we know
You Know that We Hear Your Mouf'Talkin:
OPP provides media support for print, broadcast and Internet media on local, national and international levels including outlets such as the Times-Picayune, WWL-TV CBS New Orleans, Associated Press, USA Today, The Weather Channel, The Today Show, French TV Channel 5, and Engineering News Record on issues such as Hurricane Gustav, “paper in the floodwalls” and other investigative responses, seepage, peer review and the state of the hurricane and storm damage risk reduction system.That looks pretty clear does it not, Gentle'rillas?
As part of this cause <-(W'everTF that means?), OPP fosters strategic relationships with media outlets that result in more accurate and balanced stories.
Results: OPP's media support has been a fundamental part of the transition from typically negative news coverage to more neutral and positive news coverage.
Does the above marketing assessment sound like it comes from a company who is in the business of mistaking communications? Pretty goddamn expensive Mistakes if you ask dumb'ol Editilla. What is not so clear is OPP's other, lucrative, neoconcon'ethical
cross-lobbying, inter-agency "Strategic Partnerships".
And just to make sure y'all don't miss this salient information:
[Curiously, I missed one job Janice held in-between GSIPT and OPP; that of VP Marketing for eTelemetry, a company that can “Find the person behind an IP in real time and historically. Track VoIP phones automatically. Monitor bandwidth usage, sites surfed, and chat times by person and department. Know how your network is being used.” Sounds like they’d be perfect for teaching people how to fake blog posts, eh?] Rut'Row, Astro!
The Corps own spokesman is just a few weeks on the Job, the latest Instant Press Officer Perp (IPOP) and doesn't seem to know the difference between a Contract and a Contract.
He will not be missed. Y'all remember PO Cephus?
Your New Orleans Ladder was first on these Ho's on May 5th.
Here is that entire week as Levees.org took the story national.
Editilla recommends y'all go to the bottom of the week, scroll'up.
Budget votes
~Michelle Millhollon
~Coastal Restoration Funds Survive
Assessor sues oil company for millions in taxes~Robert Zullo
Tidewater seeks compensation for seized assets
~Stephen Maloney
Sandra Bullock To Be Honored By New Orleans School ~WDSU
Small-batch beers take center stage this week in New Orleans
~Todd A. Price
New Orleans Food and Wine Experience: It's wines. It's food. It's an education~Lolis Eric Elie
New Orleans Modern Jazz Pioneer Mike Serpas Dies at 77
~all about Jazz
ALAMAAILMAN VASARAT:
Vasaraasia~Prog Archives
~"It is almost inconceivable to me than anyone wouldn't love this band. Imagine a Bar Mitzvah played by Apocalyptica...or Finntroll with 60% less Black Metal and 80% more authentic instruments...or even John Zorn with a Gypsy fetish. How about Tom Waits' backing band doing Univers Zero cover tunes?
What's not to love?"
Better Than Ezra new album out! "Paper Empire" Tour starts 29th at House of Blues, New Orleans
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