:: NEWS COCKTAIL aka BlahBlahBlog ::
"Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day - 23 minutes - and that's supposed to be enough." -Walter Cronkite, RE TV news. The Web has changed that for many, however, and here is an extra dose for your daily news cocktail. This prescription tends to include surveillance and now war-related links, along with the occasional pop culture junk and whatever else seizes my attention as I scan online news sites.:: 9.04.2005 ::
:: Katrina: A view from abroad ::
Focus: City of the damned
From The Sunday Times, UK
New Orleans destroyed — yet the world’s superpower reacted as if asleep. Tony Allen-Mills reports from the stricken city on a natural disaster that became a national fiasco
The police cars shot down Royal Street, sirens howling, and drew up at a hotel in the heart of the French Quarter, the fabled New Orleans home of jazz, voodoo and vice.
“Shots fired,” yelled an officer sheltering by a shabby Creole townhouse. Officers sprinted for cover, pistols and shotguns in hand. The citizens of a great American city, devastated by hurricane and flood, were in dire need of rescue; yet armed men were roaming the streets, taking pot shots at emergency workers and helicopters.
“Is it safe here?” asked a startled antiques dealer, hovering by his shuttered shop.
“It ain’t safe anywhere, bud,” an officer snapped. “You should get out of town.”
But like thousands of others still trapped in the city on Friday, the antiques dealer had no obvious way out.
Read more here.
posted by me
:: 10:59:00 AM [+] ::
...
