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	<title>The Homeland Security Blog &#187; Planning and Communications</title>
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		<title>Should DHS Take the Lead in All Gulf Efforts?</title>
		<link>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/07/15/should-dhs-take-the-lead-in-all-gulf-efforts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bob Greenberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On July 7 the Homeland Security Policy Institute released a commentary co-authored by the former Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) C. David Paulison and HSPI’s Deputy Director David Kaniewski entitled “The Gulf Oil Spill Disaster: Three Steps to Federal Leadership,” which I think is worth reading. In essence, the authors call on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on Haiti: Part III, Can&#8217;t We All Just Get Along?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Thomas</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[interoperability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nope. That is why there is a need for courageous leaders to break down the silos and agree to discover how to better share information amongst stakeholders and identify ways to work together and improve coordination efforts. There is a subsequent need for pre-negotiated memoranda of understanding to manage the interaction of all key players [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Not Your Typical CERT Team (Thank goodness!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:54:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Smalley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From what I can tell from reading public comments and reactions on Bossier Parish’s (Louisiana) newest emergency protection plan, the next step for the parish officials may be to secede and form their own perfect union.
Introducing “Operation Exodus” on February 20th, the official press release alludes to the inclusion of citizen volunteers helping law enforcement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communications is Harder than Rocket Science</title>
		<link>http://www.thehomelandsecurityblog.com/2010/02/23/communications-is-harder-than-rocket-science/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:01:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Smalley</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[winter storms]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps my awareness on communications is up simply as the result of two coincidental events. One, the Boston Sunday Globe “Ideas” section featured an article entitled “Attack of the Light Drizzle: How Weather Was Taken Over by the Hype Machine.” In short, author Robert David Sullivan gives an account of how recent storms (i.e., one [...]]]></description>
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