Tags: Natural Disasters
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"Maximizing Human Death was the Principal Goal"
When the Pentagon pondered plans to weaponize the weather.
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Stop Demonizing Preppers
There’s more to this American subculture than you think.
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Stop Demonizing Preppers
There's more to this subculture than the media stereotypes suggest.
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Russian Meteor Releases "100s of Kilotons" of Energy
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The Relief Disaster
The failure of foreign aid in post-quake Haiti.
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The Problem with Hurricane Sandy Aid
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Robert Moses Dumps Poor People On the Waterfront
How public housing came to the New York coast.
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Hurricane Sandy: A Tale of Two Headlines
The bigger-is-better narrative falls apart.
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Thank Goodness the Feds Are Subsidizing the Development That We Need the Feds to Protect Us From
Hurricane Sandy and the state.
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Occupiers Battle Hurricane, Debt
The Occupy movement ain't dead yet.
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Chuck Schumer Thinks the Deficit Should Pay for Sandy Damage
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FEMA Closes Due To Weather, NYC Buildings Department Preventing People From Returning Home
They're from the government and they're here to help
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Future Storms Like Superstorm Sandy Could Bankrupt States
Some state governments are so far into the insurance business that they could be bankrupted by storm claims
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Life without FEMA?
Elaborate networks of for-profit and nonprofit entities would plan ahead, mitigate damage, and provide assistance.
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Worm Beginning to Turn on Big Apple's Love Affair With Post-Sandy Government
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Did New York's Wonderful Big Government Fail to Plan for a Much-Predicted Disaster?
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Darkhattan at Night: An Almost Lovely Pain in the Ass
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Post-Sandy Price Gouging by Uber?: Econ 101, in Twitter Form
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Only Big Government Can Save Us from Big Storms, Says The New York Times. Ummm ... Really?
The New York Times tells us that Mitt Romney is bad bad bad — and wrong — to suggest that anybody other than ginormous central government has any business responding to storms and tantrum-ish eruptions from Mother Nature.
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New York Times: 'A Big Storm Requires Big Government'
It's not that the GOP nominee thinks that federal disaster mitigation and response is frequently less effective than locally directed efforts. No, it's the opposite--because federal coordination is "vital," this Republican wants to euthanize it, because that's just how venal he and his party are.