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    How The Sinking Titanic Upstaged Opening Day at Fenway Park

    APRIL 15, 2012 4:26PM

    By a hedge fund sinner


    Topics: movies, news, travel, fiction, sports, books, open call, southhampton, boston, 1912, launch, baseball, disasters, red sox, fenway park, titanic

    • 2 Ratings
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    Something about a run of ones...

    NOVEMBER 11, 2011 1:13PM

    By thefuddler


    Topics: legends, fantasies, fears, myths, mathematics, binary, doomsday, terrorism, pinochet, politics, disasters, news, coincidence, superstition, numerology, numbers, armistice day, november 11 2011, 11/11/11, 11

    • 4 Ratings
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    Disaster Capitalism or Capitalist Disasters?

    OCTOBER 17, 2011 3:20PM

    By Dennis Loo


    Topics: bp deepwater horizon, financial crisis of 2008, occupy wall street, nathan frier, disasters, dennis loo, neoliberalism, shock doctrine, naomi klein

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    AUGUST 20, 2011 5:17PM

    By Pocket Prose


    Topics: missouri river, floods, disasters, politics, environment, economy

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    AUGUST 20, 2011 5:04PM

    By Pocket Prose


    Topics: usace, floods, disasters, politics, environment, economy

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    AUGUST 20, 2011 5:01PM

    By Pocket Prose


    Topics: usace, floods, disasters, politics, environment, economy

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    AUGUST 20, 2011 4:55PM

    By Pocket Prose


    Topics: economy, environment, politics, disasters, floods, usace

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    AUGUST 20, 2011 4:51PM

    By Pocket Prose


    Topics: usace, floods, disasters, politics, environment, economy

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    2011-06-01-001

    AUGUST 20, 2011 4:47PM

    By Pocket Prose


    Topics: economy, environment, politics, disasters, missouri river, floods

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    AUGUST 20, 2011 4:43PM

    By Pocket Prose


    Topics: missouri river, floods, disasters, politics, environment, economy

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    2011-05-29-001

    AUGUST 20, 2011 4:24PM

    By Pocket Prose


    Topics: economy, environment, politics, usace, missouri river, floods, disasters

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    2011-05-26-001

    AUGUST 20, 2011 4:18PM

    By Pocket Prose


    Topics: disasters, missouri river, floods, politics, environment, economy

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    Engineered Flooding of The Mighty Mo

    MAY 31, 2011 4:35PM

    By Pocket Prose


    Topics: oahe dam, disasters, environment, business, flooding, missouri river, news, first alert, open call

    • 15 Ratings
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    BP Wants To Resume Drilling in the Gulf: ?s for Americans

    APRIL 4, 2011 2:11PM

    By Jonathan Wolfman


    Topics: british petroleum, spills, explosions, gulf of mexico, louisiana, future generations, politics, environment, news, disasters, economy, health

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    Tsunami + Wishful Thinking Spell Disaster in Japan

    MARCH 31, 2011 8:25AM

    By Steve Klingaman


    Topics: interplate megathrust earthquakes and tsunamis along japan trench offshore northeast japan, nuclear energy industry, nuclear energy, nuclear power, nuclear energy safety, finance, business, environment, disasters, fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant, nuclear safety commission of japan, tokyo electric power company, 1605 keicho earthquake and tsunami, nuclear safety research forum 2008, hideki nariai, japan nuclear energy safety organization (jnes), soteigai, masataka shimizu, hideaki shiroyama, 869 jogan tsunami, koji okumura, nuclear rules in japan relied on old science, black swan, satoru ikeuchi, fukushima tsunami, tsunamis, nassim nicholas taleb, world nuclear association, nuclear safety commission, nuclear reactor partial meltdown, nuclear disaster

    • 5 Ratings
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    If the Japanese didn't panic, why should we?

    MARCH 28, 2011 2:11PM

    By Mark Pritchard


    Topics: economy, disasters, terrorism, news, dystopia, collapse

    • 24 Ratings
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    • 26 Comments
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    Are we tough enough?

    MARCH 24, 2011 10:41AM

    By Matt Paust


    Topics: the answer my friends is blowing in the winds of uncertainty and experience, have we gotten too soft to withstand the kind of catastrophe the japanese are experiencing?, adaptation, survival, disasters

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    Japan's Lesson From Three Mile Island, Lower FUBAR Levels

    MARCH 18, 2011 1:19PM

    By Sally Swift


    Topics: japan, earthquakes, disasters, nuclear accident, not nuculor, open call, true story, three mile island, i barely passed chemistry, good thing our president was a nuclear engineer, reactions and reactors, meltdown

    • 28 Ratings
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    SIXTY-TWO TEARS.

    MARCH 16, 2011 9:28AM

    By BuffyW


    Topics: television, news, family, environment, sympathy, sadness, art by sheila, earthquakes, tsunami, nuclear, disasters, japan

    • 8 Ratings
    • 358 Views
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    Among the First Responders of the Christchurch Earthquake

    FEBRUARY 24, 2011 1:00PM

    By Catherine Forsythe


    Topics: search and rescue, google, red cross, scams, internet, first responders, disasters, earthquake, christchurch

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