KATRINA #2: "A DICTATOR WOULD HAVE RESPONDED BETTER."
-stukje kan veranderen van tijd tot tijd-
Opinie - de BBC zegt waar het op staat: "The only difference between [...] New Orleans and a Third World disaster operation [...] was that a foreign dictator would have responded better."
One of the Millions of Hurricane Katrina Stories: blogstukje van een overlevende, en een must-read.
Held van het jaar - Deamonte Love (6) for President
De hel die Superdome heette: "They killed a man here last night"
First Mama (en ex-First Lady) Barbara Bush wil niet nog meer negers in haar staat: "What [...] is sort of scary is they all want to stay in Texas. [...] And so many of the people in the arena here [...] were underprivileged anyway, so this - this [she chuckles slightly] is working very well for them."
Brandweerlui van heinde en verre reizen af naar NO - en delen flyers uit: "There are all of these guys with all of this training and we're sending them out to hand out a phone number."
New Orleans en Bagdad - twee kanten van hetzelfde beleid: "[W]hat can a government that abandons its own people to die in the streets [...] teach anyone about democracy?"
Twee Amerika's en één Cuba
Nee, *nu* is de VN ineens handig
Google Maps: satellietbeelden van na Katrina
Labels: katrina, persspiegel
