Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Mardi


Above: A young man climbs "Freedom Tower" in Azadi Square in Tehran.
<~Left: A demonstrator wears a mask in the party's color of green, due to fears of being identified. (AP) ~Huffington Post

~Iran Updates (VIDEO):
Live-Blogging The Uprising
~Nico Pitney

~9:31 AM ET -- Rallying for punishment: "In downtown Tehran, thousands of people gathered Tuesday in a state-organized rally that Iran's state media said was designed to demand punishment for the rioters from Monday's clashes.

~Photo above by Flickr users iran09
~Live-Tweeting the Revolution~Daily Dish
~Editilla Greens da'Ladda for the People of Iran.
We hope They Win Their Election!

Red Tape and Sniping Leave
New Orleans in Danger
~Patricia Murphy

~Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh, the commander of the Army Corps' Mississippi Valley Division, which has oversight of work in New Orleans, appeared Tuesday before the Senate's Committee on Environment and Public Works. Besides Walsh, the hearing featured state officials, Jeff Jacobs --an expert with the National Research Council-- and Tom Jackson -engineer and member of the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority East. As well, Pump to the River and Louisiana's two senators, Mary Landrieu and David Vitter, testified.

Revised flood-risk maps to be presented for New Orleans
~Newly revised Preliminary Digital Flood Insurance Rate Maps showing the potential for flooding caused by a 100-year rainfall and hurricane-strength surge for New Orleans will be available for review and discussion at a Wednesday open house in City Park.
Adoption of new maps by the city of New Orleans is voluntary, but it is normally a requirement for property owners in the city to participate in the National Flood Insurance Program.

Brief? Not if it’s 125 pages
– a MRGO post-trial update ~slabbed


Proposal puts roadway, cargo dock at Bonne Carre spillway
~Matt Scallan


New Orleans City Park wins $50,000 grant to restore forest
~Sheila Stroup


Bloomsday~Toulouse Street

Incoming~American Zombie

Even More Press!
~New Orleans Craft Mafia


Louisiana Governor JIndal:
The Toilet Paper Man
~Stephen Sabludowsky

~But does he really give a sheet about Louisiana?
Hey it worked for that Idiot Bastard Son George Bush, eh?
Just look what he did with our US Constitution!

Personal, powerful Katrina stories preserved forever
~David Elliot


The human levee music project
~H/T~Urban Music 2000

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