LAKE DELTON - Engineers and National Guard teams examined dams across this storm-deluged state yesterday looking for signs of damage from high water that led to the major collapse that nearly emptied Lake Delton. The weekend's storm displaced thousands and was blamed for 15 deaths in the Midwest and elsewhere. Governor Jim Doyle said the Federal Emergency Management Agency would have teams in the state today and would seek a federal disaster declaration (AP)."
Gee, from a lead to a brief. Not trying to hide anything, are you, MSM?
Also see: Shifting Waters and Censored Press
Yeah, let's just bury you with China stuff instead (pun intended):
"China drains half of earthquake lake; Crisis, flood threat declared over in a 'decisive victory'" by Audra Ang, Associated Press | June 11, 2008
CHENGDU, China - Water churned through a drainage channel and engulfed empty towns yesterday after Chinese soldiers blasted away the debris that kept an earthquake-formed lake threatening more than a million people downstream.
Sichuan Province's Communist Party chief, Liu Qibao, declared "decisive victory" after more than half the 66 billion gallons of water drained off by early evening, easing pressure on a dam formed when the quake triggered a landslide of mud, rocks, and other debris, the official Xinhua News Agency reported....
One crisis averted anyway -- for now.
Also see: Did HAARP Cause China Earthquake?
Fearful that the possible deluge would endanger refugees and residents, China ordered soldiers and police to work nonstop for four days to dig a diversion channel and blast away the debris with dynamite, bazookas, and recoilless guns.
Too bad AmeriKa doesn't get that same effort from our government.
State broadcaster CCTV showed water flowing quickly out of the lake, flooding low-lying areas of the devastated town of Beichuan just below.... The swirl of muddy water roaring past towns and villages swept along trees, barrels, televisions, refrigerators "and the occasional dead bodies of quake victims," Xinhua reported....
The 7.9 magnitude quake on May 12 killed 69,146 people, and 17,516 are still missing, the government said yesterday. About 5 million people are homeless.
Earlier, China's security czar emphasized the need to maintain order amid a struggle to shelter millions left homeless by the quake and scattered protests over alleged corruption linked to shoddy school construction.
Here they go again!
Covering CHINESE PROTESTS and BASHING the government!
Yup, look OVER THERE, 'murkns, not at the U.S. BRIEF!!!
Not that China's government doesn't deserve to be bashed (all governments suck); however, I (for one) am SICK and TIRED of the SELECTIVE DEMONIZATION and COVERAGE by my AmeriKan War Daily press while expressing nothing but ELITE EXCEPTIONALISM for THEIR SHIT SCREEDS!!!!!
That's why I NO LONGER BELIEVE the AGENDA-PUSHING SHITTERS!!!!
Zhou Yongkang demanded police and legal staff "solve disputes and help maintain social stability," the Communist Party's official newspaper, The People's Daily, said in a front-page report yesterday.
Zhou, a member of the party's powerful nine-member Politburo Standing Committee, visited hard-hit regions for five days, according to the reports.
While there have been no reports of major unrest, refugees have rioted on at least one occasion over misused aid. Parents of children killed in schools have demanded officials answer for alleged corruption in the buildings' construction.
At least 15 Sichuan officials have also been removed from their posts for mishandling relief work. Another 13 received other forms of administrative punishment...."
Gee, China is BETTER than the U.S.!
NO ONE was held accountable for our governments failures and negligence.
And please don't tell me Brownie got fired!!
And look, I love animals and bears as much as the next guy because I LOVE ALL LIFE!!!!!!
But readers, why all the space for the panda's while American PEOPLE get a BRIEF?
"Marking another loss from quake; Panda center buries Mao Mao" by Cara Anna, Associated Press | June 11, 2008
WOLONG, China - The remains of Mao Mao the panda were gently laid in a wooden crate yesterday and wheeled to a patch of ground in China's famed Wolong Nature Reserve where a freshly dug grave awaited.
The center's director stood cap in hand and shoveled in a few spades of dirt. Then Mao Mao's keeper stepped forward crying, and arranged two apples and a piece of bread by the grave. Three minutes of silence followed as workers gathered around the grave.
Nearly a month after she was crushed to death when China's devastating earthquake collapsed the wall of her enclosure, 9-year-old Mao Mao was laid to rest in a quiet corner of the Wolong panda breeding center.
The facility was badly damaged by the May 12 quake but officials initially thought all 64 pandas had survived. Then they discovered two were missing. Mao Mao's body was discovered Monday, buried under debris.
As He Changgui, Mao Mao's keeper, turned away red-eyed after the burial, the director of US-based Pandas International, Suzanne Braden, put her arm around him.
"You must look after her babies, OK?" said Braden, who had arrived a day earlier to survey the quake damage and help in the recovery. "And their babies."
He nodded. "I will go back to see her everyday," he said.
The loss of the panda, a mother of five, was a blow to the breeding program at Wolong, which continues to struggle to recover. The quake was centered just 20 miles away in the heart of Sichuan Province's mountainous panda country, and five Wolong staff members were killed.
The endangered panda is revered as a national symbol in China, where about 1,600 pandas live in the wild, mostly in Sichuan and the neighboring province of Shaanxi. Another 180 have been bred in captivity.
For the staff at Wolong, Mao Mao's loss was all the more acute because she was killed in her prime, said David Wildt, who heads the Center for Species Survival at the Smithsonian's National Zoo in Washington.
"I don't think it's surprising there's a great deal of concern over the loss of this animal," said Wildt, who has worked closely with the Chinese panda program for more than a decade.
Wedged in a narrow valley a few hours drive from the capital of Sichuan Province, Wolong was pummeled by landslides on both sides. Panda enclosures were smashed, and the entry gate for visitors was buried under stones.
Wolong's baby pandas, 14 of them, played outdoors yesterday, less than 30 yards from a huge pile of debris left by a landslide. They had been at the same spot when the earthquake hit.
"They were so nervous when it happened," said Huang Yan, the deputy director of research. "I found seven of them huddled together."
The center remains closed to visitors, and Huang said it might not open again until next year.
With the funeral over, the center turned quiet yesterday.
Mao Mao's keeper, He, had cared for the panda since she was 3, speaking to her in the local Sichuan dialect.
"It's like you could say something and she would understand," he said. "If you were happy, she was happy too."Yeah, they are closer to us than most people realize.
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