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FEMA's identity complex worsened after 9/11, when the newly created DHS swallowed it whole. Two months ago, DHS chief Michael Chertoff proposed that FEMA only respond to disasters, not prepare for them. State officials have complained that FEMA is neglecting natural disasters in favor of terrorism. Nearly 75¢ of every dollar that the Federal Government has given to local and state disaster units has been earmarked for terrorism...
...more albums before it could compound that Boston frenzy worldwide and come up with the first song that could stand as its anthem. That was Sunday Bloody Sunday from 1983's War, a tune about the divisive heat and blind violence of modern Ireland that curried no favor on either side. War was U2's best work until The Joshua Tree; the year after its release, Island, detecting seismic vibrations, renegotiated the band's contract with McGuinness. "Now U2's in an absolutely unique position," he reports. "They own outright every song they ever wrote, and they always will...
...video and audio recordings. The report cited instances in which police directed voters to local offices of Mubarak?s NDP to receive fake voter cards. The report noted instances in which security forces or election officials destroyed ballots marked for opposition candidates, AND issued ballots already marked in favor of Mubarak. Mubarak supporters, the ICEM added, were campaigning for the President outside and even inside polling stations. The ICEM said that NDP organizers intimidated some voters, including government employees who were allowed to believe they could be fired from their jobs if they did not vote for the president...
...there are strong arguments--beyond the sentimental ones--in favor of keeping New Orleans where it is. In a piece posted online in the Stratfor Geopolitical Intelligence Report, Stratfor chairman George Friedman points out that the Mississippi River is the centerpiece of the nation's internal-waterway transit system and that the ports around New Orleans are the "key exit" of North America. They are located as far north as they can be and still be accessed by oceangoing vessels. And those essential ports require a skilled force--a city--to make them work. "New Orleans is not optional...
...have be more reminiscent of Saddam Hussein than of Thomas Jefferson, but Egypt's presidential election on Wednesday may yet signal the twilight of the country's age of dynasties. Nobody expects Mubarak to lose the vote, whether the balloting is honest or has to be rigged in his favor. Despite the inevitability of the result, however, many Egyptians feel the election has breathed new life into Egyptian politics after decades of autocratic rule...