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— Post #1161
MARCH 1, 2012 | BY KNEWS | FILED UNDER NEWS
City Mayor, Hamilton Green, has blamed continuous heavy rainfall, non-functional drainage structures and clogged drains for flooding in and around Georgetown yesterday, (February 29).
Green held an emergency press briefing at City Hall where he said that even if all the drainage structures were operational Georgetown would have still experienced flooding because of the City’s capacity to drain only one inch of rainfall in a 24-hour period.
He stressed that during the course of the rainfall Georgetown experienced 5.15 inches of rainfall which is unusual but added that with unpredictable weather patterns anything is possible.
Green emphasized that visits to the various drainage facilities across the Capital City, Georgetown earlier during the day revealed that the relief structures at Kingston, Princes Street, and Lamaha Street were non-functional. Continue reading
Mar 3rd 2012 | The Economist Magazine
THE point of elections is that their outcome should be uncertain. But everybody in Russia knows that Vladimir Putin, who is now prime minister, will be elected president on March 4th. This is not because he is overwhelmingly popular, but because his support will be supplemented by a potent mixture of vote-rigging and the debarring of all plausible alternative candidates.
The uncertainty will come after the election, not before. Developments in the past few months have shown that Mr Putin cannot rule his country indefinitely.
The beginning of the end of his reign has begun ..(see article below). Whether it is a good end or a bad one is up to him. [more]
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Mar 3rd 2012 | CHEREPOVETS, MOSCOW AND VOLOGDA
— Post #1159
| http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/21/us/politics/21family.html?pagewanted=all—
This is a old piece on President Obama that was written by Judi Kantor (NYT), in January 2009. You should find it quite interesting |
