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The Hypocrisy of the Republicans Rides Again

Callous Conservatives: Gulf State Republicans’ Sandy Shame by John Avlon Jan 5,... more

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Goldman Sachs Building Is Bright, but Occupy Shines

Hi all. Greetings from Lower Manhattan. Without power, access to the Internet or any kind of phone service, my news is nowhere near as interesting or as useful as my cousin’s (below).

In a nutshell, what I’ve learned amounts to this: support and keep alive your local independent radio station. Never, ever, throw away that old bag of camping gear. As soon as you can, purchase a lightweight flashlight/headlamp. Share cowboy coffee with your neighbors if you’re lucky enough to have it (and them). All are invaluable. Also, love any local library that will let you in, anyone with a wireless router who leaves their network open and be glad of a toilet tank which you can access.

I’m fine, this is not about me, but most of the hospitals in lower Manhattan have now been evacuated, except for Beth Israel (which seems to be open). Those who need hospital services are spending hours each day commuting. When downtown New Yorkers come out of this, we need to fight like hell for a full-service hospital in our community.

Finally, one last thing from me:

Dear Lloyd Blankfein, Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs: The global headquarters of your firm is situated in Battery Park City. The well-to-do community built on landfill west of the World Trade Center, connects, I am told, to a different grid from the rest of lower Manhattan. Still, 200 Water Street seems to have kept every light on every floor illuminated since Sunday. Are you trying to send a message to the rest of us about your power? From our very dark, increasingly quiet and cold apartments we see you through our windows and we get it.

And now to cousin Chloe. She reports from Wiliamsburg:

Thursday, Nov 1. 12.35 am

I am writing this from my dining room table in my well-lit apartment with chips and avocado by my side and a glass of fresh, cold, clean water. My cellphone is charged and my house is warm. Williamsburg came through the storm almost completely unscathed. Hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers were not so lucky. If you want to know how you can help, go here.

Today I volunteered from 11am to 9 pm at the Red Hook Initiative, a youth services organization serving the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn, whose incredible staff (who live in public housing) opened their doors today to operate as an impromptu center for receiving and distributing supplies, cooking and serving a ton of food for something like 200 people, and giving out information to comfort to the community. They are the only thing going in that area so far (I heard reports of some other places maybe starting up but not sure whether they are really up and running yet). The local community center owned and run by NYCHA (Housing Authority) was closed. People are very stressed, frustrated and scared to be living in the dark. There are robberies happening at night. People can’t see in the stairwell. They are afraid to leave their homes but they have no supplies. There are diabetics who need to refrigerate their medicine. There are elderly people who can’t walk down stairs. There are mothers with small children who can’t get diapers—all the stores are closed. People can’t shower or cook or wash anything. I was told that 70 percent of people living in public housing down there, which someone estimated was 15,000–20,000 people, are without power. Keep in mind that this community is already highly marginalized—far from services, with peeling paint and poor management, where people in at least one building last year went three months without stoves and were told to cook on hot plates instead. Nevertheless, when people came to us today they were calm, polite and grateful. People lined up for batteries, candles, clothing and food, and I didn’t hear any tense words all day.

The woman in charge today was a middle-aged African-American lady named Cheryl with a big voice, a lot of energy, a lot of organizational drive, and anger at city government for constantly turning its back on Red Hook. Also a key presence was Tony, a large, loving, Muslim woman who had a gentle word for everyone in the whole place and who seemed to have every teenager in the projects under her thumb. Cheryl was assisted by a squadron of young women and a few young men who organized people to come charge their phones, printed flyers, entertained children, brought word to the people out in the projects about what was going on, sorted and distributed clothes and a ton of other tasks. (more at link)Hi all. Greetings from Lower Manhattan. Without power, access to the Internet or any... more

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Waking Up in a City Without Newspapers | Media - Advertising Age

Waking Up in a City Without Newspapers
While Papers Never Made it to Many Parts of Manhattan, News Coverage Was Plentiful
By: Matthew Flamm Published: October 30, 2012

For a media-saturated, always-connected city, the aftermath of Sandy has in some ways been stranger than the storm.

There were no newspapers on newsstands -- if newsstands were open -- across large portions of the city on Tuesday, reported Crain's New York Business. (New York1's Pat Kiernan had to read from the website of Washington, D.C.'s Newseum for his popular "In the Papers" segment.) And mainly because of power outages in parts of Brooklyn and most of lower Manhattan, there were some 245,000 Time Warner Cable customers without service, according to a spokesman.

On Queens and Long Island, there were "widespread service interruptions " for Cablevision subscribers, according to the company.

Some prominent New York-based websites, including Gawker Media and The Huffington Post, went down because of damage to their servers. Both continued limited operations, however, and Huff Post was back up by early Tuesday afternoon.

Even radio, normally the surest bet for keeping in touch during a disaster, suffered from the storm. WNYC's AM transmitter, located in Kearney, N.J., got knocked out of commission Monday evening when the region flooded, and it was still not functioning on Tuesday (the station's FM transmitter, atop the Empire State Building, was fine).

Like everything else with Sandy, the media disruption was uneven. Bridge and tunnel closures blocked delivery of The New York Times in Manhattan, the Bronx and Staten Island, a spokeswoman said. But trucks were able to get through to parts of Queens, Long Island and Brooklyn from the paper's printing plant in College Point, Queens.

Time Warner Cable also surprised customers in western Brooklyn by restoring service to that region early Tuesday morning. They had lost power Monday night when massive flooding hit a cable hub, but workers gained access to the site sometime after four a.m., and were able to activate backup generators.

"We were already positioned in the boroughs and New Jersey, because we knew we wouldn't be able to move around" after the storm hit, a spokesman explained.
Residents in neighborhoods without power had their own ways to keep up with the news and stay connected. David Katz, a paralegal whose home on East 6th Street and Avenue D went dark Monday night, has been listening to 1010 WINS and CBS News 880 -- on his iPhone.

"I have a radio somewhere," he said during a telephone interview as he headed to his car. He was planning to recharge his phone's fading battery.Waking Up in a City Without Newspapers While Papers Never Made it to Many Parts of... more

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President of the Good Guys | www.thepoliticus.com

Our nation is reeling from a catastrophic storm on the East Coast that is of historic... more

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Obama’s Undreamed Of “Endorsement” : Chris Christie, From “‘Cause I Hate You” To Ebony

Good on ya, Guv http://latestbloomer.uskoa.com/?p=1645

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Tuesday, August 28, Day 2: Republican National Convention Pic Of The Day

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Republican National Convention Organizers Plans For Escape From Storm Include Federally Funded Cruise Ship With "Posh Accommodations"

Indeed. http://mytinyspot.blogspot.com/2012/08/republican-national-convention.html

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Weather In A San Francisco Summer

Summer is here and it’s time for weird weather. San Francisco has four distinct... more

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Upsurge; Through the Storm

Anakbayan New Jersey and CUDA Culture (Community for Urban Dance and Art ) are joining... more

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Through the Storm

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Tornado Season On The Sun?

For a 30 hour spell (Feb 7-8, 2012) the Solar Dynamics Observatory captured plasma... more

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Autism vs. The iPad: Part II

As you read before we had a little mishap with the iPad and it was replaced for free... more

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Tsunami’s vs. San Francisco

I was watching tv last night and the topics of tsunami's came up again as it has... more

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Digital Storm Pushes ODE to the Next Level with ODE Level 4

Digital Storm ramps up the gaming PC a few notches with the new ODE Level 4 gaming rig... more

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RAW, Huge Arizona dust storm swallows family home 04.10.2011

Huge Arizona dust storm swallows family home 04.10.2011

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RAW, Arizona dust storm, massive car pile up, one killed many injured 04.10.2011

Arizona dust storm, massive car pile up, one killed many injured

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WHACKO-TV GOODNIGHT IRENE

Within a week, Mother Nature delivered an earthquake and a major hurricane to the... more

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10 URBAN Hurricane Tips: Great article READ AND SHARE!

“The biggest threat in an urban high-density area is the stuff that’s... more

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Richard Branson's Necker Island Home Burns Down Hurricane Irene's Lightning To Blame (VIDEO)

Monday Aug. 22, 2011 by Virgin Limited Edition shows British entrepreneur's Sir... more

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Tropical storm Irene heads towards Dominican Republic

The Dominican Republic has issued a hurricane alert as a tropical storm closes in on... more

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