Author: postMigrator

Extreme weather to increase with climate change
RANDOLPH E. SCHMID Published: 06.19.2008

WASHINGTON – Droughts will get dryer, storms will get stormier and floods will get deeper with changing climate, a government research report said Thursday.
Events that have seemed relatively rare will become commonplace, said the latest report from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program, a joint effort of more than a dozen government agencies.

There has been an increase in the frequency of heavy downpours, especially over northern states, and these are likely to continue in the future, Thomas R. Karl, director of the National Climatic Data Center, said in a briefing.

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Iowa Flooding May Have Been Worsened By Man

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/19/9741/

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Subject: [Jericho Boston] Mohawk Kahentinetha Horn beaten and hospitalized
at border
From:    jericho_boston@yahoo.com
Date:    Wed, June 18, 2008 5:57 pm
To:      jericho_boston_announce@lists.riseup.net
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Mohawk Kahentinetha Horn beaten and hospitalized at border

Posted by
<http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/brenda-norrell/2008/06//users/brenda-norrell>Brenda
Norrell – June 16, 2008 at 9:36 pm

By Brenda Norrell

Kahentinetha Horn, publisher of Mohawk Nation News, was beaten by
special forces at the US/Canadian border. Kahentinetha suffered a
heart attack and is currently hospitalized in Canada. Katenies, who
was accompanying her, was taken to prison at an undisclosed location.
Please read the following message, which has been confirmed as true,
and contact the leaders of Canada and demand both women be released
and justice served to the perpetrators.

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