1.0 link 94872 <![CDATA[Government Floods City, Then Poisons Survivors]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/harry-shearer/government-floods-city-th_b_94872.html That would be the tabloid, but not entirely inaccurate, version of the New Orleans story to date.

The first half--the city being flooded by the poor design and construction of the Corps of Engineers' "flood control system", should be well-known to Americans by now, if we lived in an alternative universe. In that same universe, the unfolding scandal of the FEMA trailers would be front-page news (Instead, the Tribune Compay's new "innovation guru" is busy making front pages the...

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