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In 2005 I explained exactly how #NewOrleans drowned and would drown again, maybe in the next few days... gregpalast.com/new-orleans-wi… #Louisiana #HurricaneKatrina #Barry #BigOil
I hope you don’t think #Trump and his army corps of engineers gives a damn about a black city sinking. #Katrina turned #Louisiana from blue to red, a form of voter purging that includes murder in its method. gregpalast.com/new-orleans-wi… #Barry
But DON’T blame the Lady. #Katrina killed no one. In fact, she missed the city of #NewOrleans completely, going wide to the east. It wasn’t Mother Nature that drowned, suffocated, de-hydrated and starved nearly 2,000 people in 2005. This is the real story. gregpalast.com/how-mother-nat…
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Greg Palast
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For two decades now, I've been on the vote theft beat, originally for The Guardian and BBC Television out of London and later for Rolling Stone, The Nation and, of course, @Buzzflash. buzzflash.com/articles/we-ta…

#VoterSuppression = #ElectionFraud
It started in 2000, when I cracked the code and found out something that should have shocked people who cared about democracy — and the real winner of the Bush v. Gore election. buzzflash.com/articles/we-ta…

#VoterSuppression = #ElectionFraud
Unfortunately, nearly 20 years later, the same racist vote-purging is going on all over this country and almost no one is standing in the way to stop it. buzzflash.com/articles/we-ta…

#VoterSuppression = #ElectionFraud
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Greg Palast
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It wasn’t an Act of God. It was an Act of Chevron. An Act of Exxon. An Act of Big Oil. gregpalast.com/new-orleans-wi… #NewOrleans #Louisiana #HurricaneKatrina #Barry #BigOil #Pollution #Environment #ClimateChange
Take a look at these numbers dug out of #Louisiana state records:

Conoco 3.3 million acres
Exxon Mobil 2.1 million acres
Chevron 2.7 million acres
Shell 1.3 million acres

These are the total acres of wetlands removed by just four oil companies over two decades.
#NewOrleans used be to a long, swampy way from the Gulf of Mexico. #Hurricanes & storm surges had to cross a protective mangrove forest nearly a 100 miles thick. Then Standard Oil, Exxon’s prior alias, began channeling pipelines & tanker routes thu the soft delta prairie grass.
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Greg Palast
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In my confidential report commissioned by the Governor of #Ohio, Dick Celeste, I warned that Ohio #nuclear plants would impoverish bill payers and cause industry to flee the state. The year was 1985. And so it went. wsj.com/articles/ohio-… #Environment #GreenEnergy #Pollution
This week, the #Ohio GOP toadies to the power industry will try to pass another billion dollar bailout to throw down the radioactive rathole. Three decades of bankrupting #nuclear plant operation in the shadow of #Fukushima shows the politicos have gone from dumb to dumber.
And for those who believe #nuclear energy is green & clean, I invite you to visit uranium mines in Niger, the Congo, and the Acoma pueblo in New Mexico. The only thing green about nuclear power is the plume of dollars flying out the cooling towers! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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1) Now that #Barry has formed in the Gulf of Mexico, let's talk about how the forecast has evolved from a few days ago.

First, it appears the GFS handled Barry's initial structure better, with a low-level circulation removed from the mid-level vortex.
2) This is a result of continued northerly shear & dry air advection, which is both from the upper-level ridge poleward of Barry & also a dangling PV Streamer which folded under the ridge off the eastern coast.
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Our paper: "Ultra-deep, long-read nanopore sequencing of mock microbial community standards", is out today! Featuring some seriously juicy @nanopore sequencing from @Scalene, and some cool assembly and analyses from me and @pathogenomenick.
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"Changeover" -- May 6, 2019

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