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Texas Nationalist Movement Satellite Photos of Haiti Before and After the Earthquake | Wire inShare0 The pictures and video from on-the-ground reports in Haiti following the magnitude 7 earthquake Tuesday are truly heartbreaking. But it is difficult to imagine the full extent of the damage to that country and its capital, Port-au-Prince, in particular. These new satellite images released Wednesday by Google and GeoEye show the devastation from above, giving a new view of the severity of this disaster. We’ve posted some of the images here. You can also scan the entire city with Google Earth. The satellite image above, captured by the GeoEye-1 satellite Wednesday morning, shows the National Palace after the quake. Images: Google/Geoeye Pages: 1 2345678910View All

National Earthquake Information Center - NEIC Earthquake Hazards Program National Earthquake Information Center - NEIC The mission of the National Earthquake Information Center (NEIC) is to determine rapidly the location and size of all destructive earthquakes worldwide and to immediately disseminate this information to concerned national and international agencies, scientists, and the general public. The NEIC compiles and maintains an extensive, global seismic database on earthquake parameters and their effects that serves as a solid foundation for basic and applied earth science research. Earthquake Data Available from the NEIC Share this page: U.S. DOI and USGS link policies apply.

What is an Internet Troll? (Posting Guidelines - Netiquette) What is a Forum Troll? What is an Internet Troll? An Internet "troll" is a person who delights in sowing discord on the Internet. He (and it is usually he) tries to start arguments and upset people. Trolls see Internet communications services as convenient venues for their bizarre game. For some reason, they don't "get" that they are hurting real people. Trolls are utterly impervious to criticism (constructive or otherwise). Why does it Matter? Some people -- particularly those who have been online for years -- are not upset by trolls and consider them an inevitable hazard of using the net. It would be nice if everybody was so easy-going, but the sad fact is that trolls do discourage people. Another problem is that the negative emotions stirred up by trolls leak over into other discussions. Finally, trolls create a paranoid environment, such that a casual criticism by a new arrival can elicit a ferocious and inappropriate backlash. <...snip...> The Webmaster's Challenge What about Free Speech? Conclusion

Earthquakes Cause over 1700 Deaths in 2009 (1/8/2010 11 At least 1783 deaths worldwide resulted from earthquake activity in 2009. The deadliest earthquake of the year was a magnitude 7.5 event that killed approximately 1117 people in southern Sumatra, Indonesia on Sept. 30, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and confirmed by the United Nations Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). However, the number of earthquake-related fatalities in 2009 was far less than the 2008 count of over 88,000. Although unrelated, the Sept. 30 Indonesian earthquake occurred a day after the year’s strongest earthquake, a magnitude 8.1 on Sept. 29 in the Samoa Islands region. Overall, earthquakes took the lives of people in 15 countries on four continents during 2009, including Afghanistan, Bhutan, China, Costa Rica, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Honduras, Japan, Malawi, Samoa, South Africa and Tonga, as well as the U.S. territory of American Samoa.

Volcano Hazards Program Gaza Report | Harry Fear's Blog This is the blog of documentary maker and activist, Harry Fear, focussing on the Gaza Strip. Gaza Report Gaza Report syndicates the Gaza-based journalism of Harry Fear and chronicles his times in the Strip. Gaza’s Breaking the Silence Escalation Summary reportage of Gaza’s Breaking the Silence Operation and Israel’s escalation in violence. Mar, 13 Invite Harry Fear for a Talk or Interview Invite Harry Fear for a talk, conference or debate, or invite him for a media or blog interview, on Gaza, the media or another topic. Mar, 01 Armed Resistance with Leila Khaled Harry Fear sits down with iconic airline hijacker Leila Khaled to discuss armed struggle and resolution of the conflict with Israel May, 18 Targeting Haitham Al-Mis’hal – A Video Report Israel has targeted a militant allegedly responsible for rocket attacks, in what’s the first such Gaza targeting since November. Apr, 30 Reading List Harry Fear’s recommend reading list of books about Israel-Palestine, the media, Western society and Gaza. Next

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