While BP has distanced itself from responsibility for last spring's oil rig disaster, anonymous sources say the company is considering changing its stance since learning that TheGreenGrok has chosen BP for the "2010 Accidental Earth Experiment Award" in recognition of its starring role in the disaster.
The day after the disaster, official sources estimated that more than half a million homes were destroyed and countless thousands damaged.
Open image in new window Fig. 3 Post-disaster funding sources and resources gap.
During a disaster, these trusted sources are the outlets that should be targeted when disseminating health messages to the public to ensure that no group misses the message.
The French daily Le Monde reported that the jet was flying too slowly before the disaster, citing a source close to the investigation.
It's ironic that income inequality, Trumpism, and the risk of natural disasters are chief sources of worry among Osnos's subjects, considering that many of these people have been instrumental in the rise of all three.
After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, the Google.org Crisis Response Team begin to look at the process of gathering and sharing data about natural disasters from official sources.
What Smith didn't note, somewhat surprisingly, is that his argument is very close to Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine, with its argument that elites systematically exploit disasters to push through neoliberal policies even if these policies are essentially irrelevant to the sources of disaster.
With Hanukkah and Christmas lights, fires in the hearth and colorful candles around the house, there are worries that these seasonal delights might also be sources of disaster.
Above all, Cadman demanded – but never received – an explanation for why, on 24 December 1988, three days after the Lockerbie disaster, $10m from Iranian sources was paid into the coffers of the General Command of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
