Category: Disasters
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Murdering The Future
<a href="http://in.today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-12-14T230956Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-280322-1.xml" >India has killed 10 mln girls in 20 years</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Ten million girls have been killed by their parents in India in the past 20 years, either before they were born or immediately after, a government minister said on Thursday, describing it as a "national crisis".<br />n<br />nA UNICEF report released this week…
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Which Road Will They Take
It's been decided finally. <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/11/29/news/state/25-republicans.txt">Republicans have gained control</a> of the Montana House after the Laurel recount. So which road will they take? Will they hold true to traditional Republican values of less government and lower taxes or will they just try to outspend the Democrats in an all out bid to win the elections…
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Evil Americans
Those Evil Americans are at it again, polluting the planet.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_re_as/china_river_pollution" >Chinese river mysteriously turns red</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>A half-mile section of China's Yellow River turned "red and smelly" after an unknown discharge was poured into it from a sewage pipe, state media said Monday.<br />n<br />nThe incident in Lanzhou, a city of 2…
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A Crop In Itself
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/14/AR2006101400807.html?nav=rss_politics">Aid Is a Bumper Crop for Farmers</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>In the spring of 2000, Congress decided to do something about its costly and politically driven practice of giving farmers a disaster payment each time a storm damaged their crops.<br />n<br />nThe lawmakers voted to use $8 billion in new taxpayer subsidies to help farmers buy…
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Is This Any Surprise?
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/10/05/news/state/30-feds.txt" >Feds consider grazing ban in fire area</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>The thousands of cattle that ordinarily graze on federal and private land south of Big Timber should not be there next year, because they'd be too hard on the land as it rebounds from the big Derby Mountain fire, a federal report says.<br />n<br />nIts…
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Just Goes To Show You
<a href="http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060929/NEWS01/609290325/1002" >Rehberg opts out of signing House drought petition</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Montana's lone congressman is refusing to buck Republican leaders and join with Democrats to force a vote on drought assistance for the nation's farmers and ranchers.<br />n<br />nRep. Dennis Rehberg will not sign the House Democrats' petition that seeks to bring the matter to…
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Disaster Aid Update
The Democrats in the House are coming out swinging full guns on this one.<br />n<br />n<blockquote> September 12, 2006<br />n<br />nThe Honorable Dennis Hastert The Honorable John Boehner<br />nSpeaker Majority Leader<br />nU.S. House of Representatives U.S. House of Representatives<br />nWashington DC 20515 Washington DC 20515<br />n<br />nDear Speaker Hastert and Majority Leader Boehner:<br />n<br />nWe…
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Disaster Relief Going Nowhere
<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/11/news/state/50-billions.txt" >Billions for drought a tough sell</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>Penny Altendorf isn't a farmer, but the ongoing drought is affecting her family nonetheless.<br />n<br />nShe and her husband Richard own an aerial sprayer company, a business that is dependent on the weather in eastern North Dakota where they live. And it's been so dry this…
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Not Over Yet
With the cooler weather so far over the weekend they made some progress on the Derby Fire but it looks like that is in Jeporady now.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/09/04/news/state/30-derby_g.txt" >Fire officials order more evacuations</a><br />n<br />n<blockquote>More than 200 homes were being evacuated Sunday night on the western flank of the fast-growing Derby Mountain fire.<br />n<br…
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Derby Fire
A really bad fire near Big Timber/Columbus.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/31/news/state/20-derby_g.txt" >Residents scramble to get out of Derby fire path</a><br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2006/08/31/news/state/21-fire.txt" >Towns of Fishtail, Nye under evacuation order</a><br />n<br />nI note the map in the paper appears to be a little out of date. The reading I have been doing is that there is…