Colonial Pipeline back to 100% capacity: Major pipeline that distributes gasoline to the Eastern United States is running at full capacity.NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A major pipeline supplying refined crude products from the Gulf to the East Coast is now running at full capacity and is delivering into all locations along its system.
The Colonial Pipeline, based in Alpharetta, Ga., returned to full operating conditions late Monday and full commercial electrical power has been restored to the pipeline, the company said in a statement.
Colonial Pipeline was one of two pipelines taken off-line by power outages... (more)
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DMORT: expect up to 40,000 bodies in NOLAA co-owner of Shelbyville-based Gowen-Smith Chapel has been deployed to Gulfport, Miss., to help with recovery since Hurricane Katrina, and his business partner here has described the grim task there.
"DMort is telling us to expect up to 40,000 bodies," Dan Buckner said, quoting officials with the Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team, a volunteer arm of Homeland Security.
His partner, Dan Hicks, of Paducah, Ky., was deployed Monday. Buckner, of Dickson, is on... (more)
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Seven killed in Saudi oil city standoffMost of the fighting has been in a busy street where many Western companies have offices after Saudi security forces besieged suspected al-Qaida members holed up in the city's al-Hamra district.
"Three armed men were killed on Monday evening by security forces," a security source said, adding to two other fighters reported killed on Sunday.
Two policemen were also killed, he said.
But managing editor of al-Riyadh newspaper, Salim al-Ghamdi, told Aljaz... (more)
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'Wash Post' Runs A Key Katrina CorrectionNEW YORK In its Sunday edition, the Washington Post quoted a "senior Bush official" who said that "as of Saturday [Louisiana Governor] Blanco still had not declared a state of emergency." This, of course, was meant to make the governor look foolish and spread the blame around for the disastrous response to the disaster, though it was hard to imagine on what grounds the newspaper would quote an unnamed source in this case.
Several hours of blogosphere howling ensued. Later in the d... (more)
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6-year-old becomes a hero to band of toddlers, rescuersBATON ROUGE, LA. - In the chaos that was Causeway Boulevard, this group of evacuees stood out: a 6-year-old boy walking down the road, holding a 5-month-old, surrounded by five toddlers who followed him around as if he were their leader.
They were holding hands. Three of the children were about 2 years old, and one was wearing only diapers. A 3-year-old girl had her 14-month-old brother in tow. The 6-year-old spoke for all of them, and he said his name was Deamonte Love.
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Hundreds Refuse to EvacuateSearch teams pressing to evacuate the living and find the dead after a full week under the high-water sway of Hurricane Katrina found their efforts complicated Monday by the refusal of hundreds of residents to leave the paralyzed city.
President Bush returned Monday for a second tour of the disaster zone, praising emergency workers in Baton Rouge, La., and stressing the work of religious charities during a visit to a church packed with evacuees. Federal officials said relief opera... (more)
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We can force people to leave city, say policePolice warned for the first time yesterday that they had the powers to force an evacuation of New Orleans if residents refused to leave.
Thousands appeared determined to see out the disaster, many living in squalid conditions in attics with flood water lapping against their homes. Police said there was no justification for staying and the threat of disease made their departure imperative.
"There is absolutely no reason to stay. There are no jobs, there are no homes ... (more)
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50,000 troops now in 'Katrina zone' THE number of US military forces in storm-ravaged Gulf Coast states has swelled to more than 50,000 as ground troops and naval vessels continued to stream into Louisiana and Mississippi, military officials said.
"I think we're going to be there a relatively long time. I see it in months, and not weeks," said Admiral Timothy Keating, commander of the US Northern Command.
Admiral Keating said there were now 13,000 active duty military personnel and 38,000 National Gu... (more)
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Blanco resists Bush takeover of GuardGood news as Associated Press reports that Louisiana Governor Kathleen "Blanco has refused to sign over control of the National Guard to the federal government." This is an excellent development as the federal government, via FEMA, continues its war on the people of Southeast Louisiana.
To wit, from WWLtv.com Katrina blog Sept. 5:
"3:32 P.M. Ben Morris, Slidell mayor:... (more)
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US Troops Treat Hurricane Victims as 'Al-Qaeda' MembersReports coming to WMR report that the greater New Orleans area has been turned into a virtual military zone where troops threaten bewildered and hungry survivors who approach them for help. One resident of the unflooded Algiers section of New Orleans on the west bank of the Mississippi River reports that the 65,000 population of the neighborhood has been reduced by forced evacuations to 2000 even though there are relatively undamaged schools, parks, and churches available to house the homeless. ... (more)
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Tech-savvy criminals 'to trump UK ID cards'The Government’s bid to arm every Briton with an identity card has suffered a setback by new research claiming the biometric scheme will fail to stop identity fraud, and potentially lead to an increase in crime.
Researchers at the University of East Anglia say interviews with criminals prove that rather resign from their lifestyle in the face of new technology, fraudsters adopt new ways to use technologies to their advantage.
Emily Finch, the University’... (more)
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Barbara Bush: Things Working Out 'Very Well' for Poor Evacuees from New OrleansNEW YORK Accompanying her husband, former President George H.W.Bush, on a tour of hurricane relief centers in Houston, Barbara Bush said today, referring to the poor who had lost everything back home and evacuated, "This is working very well for them."
The former First Lady's remarks were aired this evening on National Public Radio's "Marketplace" program.
She was part of a group in Houston today at the Astrodome that included her husband and former President Bill C... (more)
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Halliburton Subsidiary Taps Contract For RepairsAn Arlington-based Halliburton Co. subsidiary that has been criticized for its reconstruction work in Iraq has begun tapping a $500 million Navy contract to do emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and Marine facilities damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
The subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc., won the competitive bid contract last July to provide debris removal and other emergency work associated with natural disasters.
Jan Davis, a spokeswoman for the Naval... (more)
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Female survivors urged to flash breasts for help: Rescuers told gals on rooftops to 'show us what you've got'Female survivors of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans were urged by government rescuers to flash their breasts in order to receive help in the immediate aftermath of the storm.
That according to English tourists who are now just returning to the United Kingdom, relating their horror stories to British media.
Ged Scott, 36, of Liverpool, was on his annual vacation at New Orleans' Ramada Hotel with his wife Sandra, 37, and their 7-year-old son, Ronan.
"I... (more)
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Knight Ridder: Soldiers warned again about Internet postingsKnight Ridder reported Monday that soldiers stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan have been warned against posting sensitive information on the web. A similar directive was handed down in a memo dated February, 2005. The piece, by Joseph L. Galloway, states that military sources "expect to see immediate improvement," this time around.
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For the second time in a year, Army leaders have sent a strong warning to all commanders that soldiers are cont... (more)
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Big Brother might watch your laptopPolice and security agencies would be able to surreptitiously track unwitting Canadians via their cellphones, BlackBerrys and laptop computers, even when the devices are turned off or their location features are disabled, under a "creepy" measure contemplated as part of the federal government's planned electronic surveillance bill.
The government made the proposal during consultations this year on a legislative package expected to be unveiled in the fall.
The propos... (more)
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Putin Tells West Not to Interfere in Former Soviet StatesForeign pressure for reform in former Soviet Union states risks turning them into chaotic “banana republics,” Russian President Vladimir Putin said in comments published on Tuesday.
He said Western governments may have been mistaken in backing non-governmental organisations pushing for change during last year’s “Orange Revolution” in Ukraine, Reuters reports.
“We are not against any changes in the former Soviet Union,” Putin... (more)
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No one has really won the Kazaa victory: Aussie decision not as clear as it appearsALTHOUGH the Recording Industry has claimed a victory against the file sharing outfit Kazaa in Australia, its victory is hardly complete.
The Federal Court yesterday found Sharman, the Australian company behind Kazaa, had breached music copyright by authorising its users to swap songs illegally.
It gave Kazaa two months to include filters to prevent the trading of copyrighted music and tossed out record industry claims of contravention of the Trade Practices Act and... (more)
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Iran nuclear weapons 'years away'Iran is still several years away from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability, according to a study published by an influential London-based think tank.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies has assessed Iran's nuclear, chemical, biological and long-range missile activities.
It says a diplomatic showdown with the European Union and the United States could be inevitable.
Iran's political restraint thus far may not last, the report's authors ... (more)
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