Japan to Offer 10,000 Free Trips to Foreign Visitors in a Bid to Bump Its Moribund Tourist Trade, But It May Not Help How Japanese Really Feel About Nuclear Power and Their Government
• October 31, 2011 • 2 CommentsPosted in Asians/Asian Pacific/Asian Americans, Class, Food, Health, History, Japan, Natural Disasters, New Orleans, Political Malfeasance, Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, The Mainstream Media (MSM), World History
Tags: Aftermath of World War II, Bailout, Bilingual, Billions, Collusion, Compensation, Confidence, Distrust, Duplicity, Fukushima Daiichi, Homelessness, Japan, Japan Tourism Agency, Japanese, Japanese Politics, Kyushu Electric Power Company, Lies, Lying, New Orleans, Ninth Ward of New Orleans, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Power Plants, Radiation Exposure, Radiation Fears, Rick Steves, Sendai, Soka Gakkai, Tepco, The Katrina Diaspora, Tohoku Earthquake, Tourism, Trust, United States, Utility Companies, Yen, Yomiuri Shimbun
Gimme Shelter: An 8.8 Earthquake Jars Chile, But the Rains Are Closing In on Haiti
• March 1, 2010 • Comments Off on Gimme Shelter: An 8.8 Earthquake Jars Chile, But the Rains Are Closing In on HaitiPosted in American Foreign Policy, American Politics, Black People, Class, Haiti, History, Hurricanes, Obama Administration, People of Color, Race, The Clintons, The Economy, The Mainstream Media (MSM), The Rest of the World
Tags: Aristide, Chile, Chileans, Concepcion, Fanmi Lavalas, Flooding, Free Trade, General Augusto Pinochet, Haiti, Hunger, Hurricanes, Infectious Diseases, Infrastructure, Interim Cooperation Framework, Large Shelters, Medicine, Neo-Colonialism, Occupation, Pétionville, Pinochet, Port au Prince, President Bill Clinton, President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, President Michelle Bachelet, President Sebastian Piñera, Preval, Rainy Season, Santiago, Scavenging, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Terrorism, Sweatshop, Tourism, U.N. Secretary Ban Ki Moon, U.S. Geological Survey, USAID, World Bank
This Was Our House
• August 26, 2009 • 3 CommentsPosted in Black People, Class, Crime, Drug Culture/Industry, History, Hurricanes, Love, Memoir, Murder/Manslaughter, New Orleans, Race, Religion, Who I Am
Tags: 2632 Peniston Street, Black Indians, Booman Tribune, Canal Villerie, Chauffeur, Chicken Coops, Cicadas, Daily Kos, Drugs, Easter Lilies, Fig Trees, Geraniums, Hurricane Betsy, Hurricane Katrina, Katrina, Magnolia Street, Mardi Gras, Mardi Gras Indians, Mosquito Hawks, Napoleon Avenue, Peniston STreet, RC Cola, Schwegmann's, Shrimp Boil, St. James Parish, St. Luke's, The Magnolia Projects, The Spiritual Church of New Orleans, The Twelfth Ward, Tourism, Trainer, Winn-Dixie
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