| Hurricane Hugo - Luquillo, Puerto Rico - September 18, 1989 |
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This is my Hurricane Hugo chase video. The
footage was taken during Hugo's landfall on
the northeast tip of Puerto Rico at Luquillo.
In my 25 years of hurricane chasing, this
remains, overall, the best footage I have
ever been fortunate enough to capture. Though
I have been in stronger hurricanes, given
that Hugo was a Category Four and the
strongest portion of the eyewall passed
directly over my location (during daylight
hours), I had the rare opportunity to
document the full force of an intense
hurricane at a direct coastal location.
Though significant damage begins about 8
minutes into the video, the peak winds occur
between 10 through 21 minutes in, and are
sustained near 135mph with gusts to
160-170mph. An anemometer on the island of
Culebra (just offshore Eastern Puerto Rico)
reported a peak gust of 170mph when the same
portion of the eyewall passed over that
location a couple of hours prior to reaching
Luquillo.
Tags : Hurricane Hugo Severe Weather Storms Tropical Cyclone Typhoon Puerto Rico Hurricanes 1989 Extreme Wind Disaster |
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Durée : 1697 s |
| PR Firms = Propaganda |
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The tip of th e iceberg that we call the
American media. It's not what it once was
(if it EVER was, to begin with)... John
Stauber is a left-wing American writer and
political activist who co-authored five books
about propaganda by governments, private
interests and the PR industry. They include
one book about industry manipulating science,
Trust Us, We're Experts, one about the
history and current scope of the public
relations industry (Toxic Sludge is Good for
You), and one about mad cow disease (Mad Cow
USA), which predicted the surfacing of the
disease within the United States. In July
2003 he and Sheldon Rampton wrote Weapons of
Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in
Bush's War on Iraq, that argued that the Bush
administration deceived the US into
supporting the war. In 2004, the two wrote
Banana Republicans, which argued that the
Republican Party is turning the U.S. into a
one-party state. The book argues that the
far-right and its functionaries in the media,
lobbying establishment and electoral system
are undermining dissent and squelching
pluralistic politics in the United States.
Stauber is the founder and executive director
of the The Center for Media & Democracy,
which sponsors PR Watch and SourceWatch.
Since the 1960s, he has worked with public
interest, consumer, family farm,
environmental and community organizations at
the local, state and national level. He edits
and writes for the Center's quarterly
newsmagazine, PR Watch.
Tags : media propaganda public relations |
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Affichage : 19251
Durée : 185 s |
| Puerto Rico |
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song-Michael Sembello
Bobby Caldwell/Marisela/Wilkins/Mongo
Satamaria/Charlie Palmieri/Edwin Hawkins
Salsa1988 Robi Rosa Angela Alvarado
Tags : Salsa1988 Robi Rosa Angela Alvarado |
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Affichage : 346714
Durée : 301 s |
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