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- House panel: Why did Google 'airbrush history?'
  Posted by Jeff from CNN
  Swapping the post-Katrina images and the ruin they revealed for others showing an idyllic city dumbfounded many locals and even sparked suspicions that the company and civic leaders were conspiring to portray the area's recovery progressing better than it really is.
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- Surge in homeless hits New Orleans
  Posted by Jeff from Christian Science Monitor
  Hurricane-ravaged New Orleans faces a major crisis with homelessness. Already taxed to the breaking point on many fronts, the city has a homeless population that is now approximately double what existed before the storm – in a city half its previous size. Facing a severe shortage of affordable housing, displaced residents returning to the city along with an influx of construction trade workers are being forced to sleep in everything from cars to flooded-out houses...
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- Gingrich Blames “Uneducated” Katrina Victims
  Posted by newscloud from Crooks and Liars
  Nicole mentioned this on Sunday, but watching (rather than just hearing) Gingrich say this has a completely different effect. It's also worth posting just for the sake of posterity — and potential campaign fodder. &nbspDownload (6)&nbsp| Play (5) &nb...
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- Newt Blames The Victims of Katrina
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  Blog for our Future: (Newt Gingrich, speaking at CPAC) blamed the residents of New Orleans' 9th Ward for a "failure of citizenship," by being "so uneducated and so unprepared, they literally couldn't get out of the way of a hurricane." And he called for a "deep investiga...
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- Lieberman/Landrieu and the Katrina hearings
  Posted by newscloud from Crooks and Liars
  &nbspDownload (169)&nbsp| Play (187) &nbspDownload (0)&nbsp| Play (0) A protester interrupted briefly, but it's sickening to me that this duo will not investigate the WH for their failings on Katrina. How is the Democratic Party feeling now that...
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- More Katrina Victims Are in Trailers
  Posted by Jeff from Topix
  More than 99,000 families in Louisiana and Mississippi are living in FEMA trailers, compared with about 34,000 last November, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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- Work begins on Martin Luther King memorial
  Posted by Jeff from Guardian UK
  I'm sure I'm not the only one offended by President Bush appearing at the MLK memorial. Bush has done a lot to ignore and hurt African Americans in this country in six years. Hurricane Katrina anyone?
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Hurricane katrina

House panel: Why did Google 'airbrush history?'

Surge in homeless hits New Orleans

Gingrich Blames “Uneducated” Katrina Victims

Newt Blames The Victims of Katrina

Lieberman/Landrieu and the Katrina hearings

More Katrina Victims Are in Trailers

Work begins on Martin Luther King memorial

Damianmann comments on:

Bush: Gulf rebuilding will take time

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