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English: Front view of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, in the Hague, the Netherlands. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)US and Allies lie together on claim that Syria used chemical weapons
What We DO Know About Chemical Weapons In Syria - Moon of Alabama
Late last year the insurgents in Syria threatened to produce and use chemical weapons. They uploaded videos in which they demonstrated the use of gas to kill animals while threatening to do the same with their enemies in Syria.
In March 2013 16 Syrian army soldiers guarding a barrier were killed when they were attacked by insurgents with Chlorine gas. According to Alex Thomsen of the British Channel 4 insurgents had sourced the gas from an earlier captured factory near Aleppo.
Carla Del Ponte, a former Swiss attorney-general and prosecutor with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), is a member of the UN's Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria. On May 6 shedeclared that according to investigations she had seen insurgents in Syria had used the nerve gas Sarin:
Testimony from victims of the conflict in Syria suggests rebels have used the nerve agent, sarin, a leading member of a UN commission of inquiry has said.Carla Del Ponte told Swiss TV that there were "strong, concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof".
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg Proposes $20 Billion Plan to Protect New York City From Threat of Climate Change [VIDEO]
New York City's Mayor Michael Bloomberg unveiled a $20 billion-plus plan on June 11 designed not only to address the continued aftermath of areas affected by Hurricane Sandy, but increase the city's ability to withstand increasingly variable and extreme weather as a result of global warming.
The city, cut by the Hudson, Harlem and East Rivers and hard against both the Long Island and New York Harbors, has a snaking 520 miles (837 km) of exposed coastline, much of it just a foot or two above sea level. And the juxtaposition of the various waterways makes things more perilous still.
“The two harbors are like funnels pointed at Manhattan,” says Strauss. “They’re connected by the East River, and when a storm surge pushes in, the river overflows its banks. That’s why the lower east side [of Manhattan] was hurt so badly by Sandy.”
You’d think a city like New York would have been designed around such risks. Its earliest founders, after all, were the Dutch, who know a thing or two about building dikes, levees and sea walls. But Manhattan in the 17th century wasn’t like the Low Countries in Europe, because the ocean along the Atlantic coast was stable and predictable. Those couple of feet the city sits above sea level were enough.
Read more: http://science.time.com/2012/11/02/manhattan-goes-dutch-building-levees-in-gotham/#ixzz2WLaZV4Ez
Levees.org
Lee Zurik on Levees.org’s Quest to Expose Online Attacks by Individuals in Position of Public Trust
In December 2008, using back end tools available to any amateur blogger, we discovered that employees with the Army Corps of Engineers were using government computers to viciously attack the leaders of Levees.org by leaving anonymous comments on nola.com articles.
Our objection is to people in a position of public trust doing this: 1) disguising their identity, 2) pretending to be impartial uninvolved observers, and 3) using community features of media – like the comments on nola.com – to attack a person or group.
We object to the behavior because we believe it could frighten and silence people who might have spoken out for the public good. We believe it could intimidate people who might have taken a stand on an important issue.
We are in a good position to comment on the behavior because H.J. Bosworth Jr, lead researcher for Levees.org and I have both been the targets of such activity while Levees.org was still a fledgling group.
Head of Army Corps Responds to Levees.org’s Demand for Locations of Faulty Levees
17th Street Canal breach site. Photo/Matt Ewalt
Late last summer, civil engineer Matt McBride (Fix the Pumps) brought important information to our attention.
The ever vigilant Mr. McBride had discovered that the Army Corps of Engineers had issued an Engineering Technical Letter (ETL 1110-2-575) stating that the Corps had identified over 50 levee projects nationwide with potential performance concerns.
But the Corps did not reveal the 50 locations. Furthermore, sources to Levees.org indicated the number is actually more than 80 locations.
Believing that residents have a right to know that they may be in danger, Levees.org created a petition demanding that the head of the Army Corps release the locations of the levee systems with performance concerns. We presented the signatures (numbering over 1,100) to Ms. Jo-Ellen Darcy at the Pentagon on February 13, 2013.
Clever Website Tells Story of New Orleans Flood of 2005
We think everyone should check out this handy-dandy website that gives an excellent ‘short take’ on New Orleans and the Great Flood of 2005.
Professor Stephen Nelson, Assoc Professor in Earth & Env Sciences at Tulane University created the site for his students.
Appropriately so, it starts out with a Myth Buster section and a geologic and human history of the city.
But, we think the best part is the section on The Hurricane Protection System. Using clear bullet points, it does a great job telling the story about the worst civil engineering disaster on U.S. soil. It provides an accurate description of the mistakes of those primarily responsible, the Army Corps of Engineers.
Check it out! Be sure to scroll about half way down.
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