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Friday, 9. September 2005

PEOPLE:

Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney!! Go fuck yourself!!!

"In Mississippi, during a press conference, after telling the press that what needs to be done, gets done. A resident walked up to the gaggle and said this: 'Go fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney!! Go fuck yourself!!! Cheney looked pissed. Really pissed.'" Crooks and Liars has the video!

"Altogether now:

Go Fuck yourself, Mr. Cheney!"

"Go fuck yourself, Mr. Bush!"

Go fuck yourself!!

Go fuck yourself!!

GO FUCK YOURSELF!!"

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POLITIK:

Schily fordert Aufklärung über Zulassung der APPD

"Berlin (Reuters) - Bundesinnenminister Otto Schily hat die Ausstrahlung eines Werbespots der Anarchistischen Pogo-Partei Deutschlands (APPD) als geschmacklos kritisiert und den Bundeswahlleiter um Aufklärung über die Zulassung der Partei gebeten."

Der Spot wird zur Zeit täglich über 30000 mal runtergeladen!

Der Herr Cursor hat neues: "Während Schily unqualifiziert herumpoltert schwappt die Nummer allmählich ins Ausland über. Der holländische TV-Sender RTL4 sowie mehrere internationale TV-Agenturen haben den APPD-Spot als sendefähiges Material angefordert. Ebenso soll der Spot demnächst im finnischen Fernsehen laufen."

Nagel war bei Polylux, Wendland bei RTL Explosiv usw. Ein amerikanischer Kollege war gestern auch sehr interessiert, aber die Amis haben im Moment andere Sorgen als Pogo-Parteien.

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POLITICS:

Lies, lies, lies

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is reporting that no aircraft over New Orleans has been fired on over New Orleans or anywhere else in the area. Are the reports of shots being fired at aircrafts an attempt by the Bush administration to purposely delay the arrival of relief to the city's homeless and dying poor?

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POLITICS:

Get in the ring!

President Clinton threatened to physically assault House Speaker Dennis Hastert for his comments about bulldozing New Orleans.

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POLITICS:

Right-wing media continues to refer to Americans as "refugees."

"The once respected United Press International (UPI), now owned by the loonie Moonie Unification Church of megalomaniac Korean 'Reverend' and ex-convict Sun Myung Moon, continues to refer to Americans from New Orleans as "refugees." A Sep. 6 story stated, 'troops scouring New Orleans for survivors and victims reported finding at least 40 mutilated bodies in the Convention Center refugee center.' Webster's Dictionary's definition of a refugee: 'one who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution.' So, in other words Louisiana, 'Welcome to America!'" -> waynemadsenreport.com

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PEOPLE:

"Hell No We Ain't Alright" by CHUCK D. (Public Enemy)

New Orleans in the morning, afternoon, and night

Hell No We Ain't Alright

Now all these press conferences breaking news alerts

This just in while your government looks for a war to win

Flames from the blame game, names? Where do I begin?

Walls closing in get some help to my kin

Who cares?While the rest of the Bushnation stares

As the drama unfolds as we the people under the stairs

50% of this Son of a Bush nation

Is like hatin' on Haiti

And setting up assassinations

Ask Pat Robertson- quiz him.... smells like terrorism.

Racism in the news

Still one-sided news

Saying whites find food

prey for the national guard ready to shoot

Cause them blacks loot

New Orleans in the morning, afternoon, and night

Hell No We Ain't Alright

Fires, earthquakes, tsunamis

I don't mean to scare

Wasn't this written somewhere?

Disgraces all I see is black faces moved out to all these places

Emergency state, corpses, alligators and snakes

Big difference between this haze and them diamonds on the VMA's

We better look

What's really important

Under this sun especially if you over 21

This ain't no TV show

this ain't no video

This is really real/ beyond them same ole "keep it real"

Quotes from them TV stars drivin' big rim cars

'Streets be floodin,' B/ no matter where you at, no gas

Driving is a luxury

Urgency

State of emergency

Shows somebody's government

Is far from reality....

New Orleans in the morning, afternoon, and night

Hell No We Ain't Alright

I see here we be the new faces of refugees

Who ain't even overseas but here on our knees

Forget the plasma TV-ain't no electricity

New worlds upside down-and out of order

Shelter? Food? Wasssup, wheres the water?

No answers from disaster/ them masses hurtin'

So who the fuck we call?--Halliburton?

Son of a Bush, how you gonna trust that cat?

To fix shit when help is stuck in Iraq?

Making war plans takin' more stands

In Afghanistan 2000 soldiers dyin' in the sand

But that's over there, right?

Now what's over here is a noise so loud

That some can't hear but on TV I can see

Bunches of people lookin' just like me"

-> Counterpunch.org

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MEDIA:

BANNING all media from entering New Orleans!

"We are in Jefferson Parish, just outside of New Orleans. At the National Guard checkpoint, they are under orders to turn away all media. All of the reporters are turning they’re TV trucks around.

Things are so bad, Bush is now censoring all reporting from NOLA. The First Amendment sank with the city." Operation Flashlight - an independent Blog from Lousiana

"Freedom of the Press Drowns in New Orleans Floodwaters: "If the government is now actively barring members of the press from covering the tragedy in New Orleans, as Williams and others are now claiming, we have reached the point in American history where all our vaunted freedoms—you know, the ones we are trying so hard to export to Iraq and Afghanistan—are nothing more than window-dressing, the remnants of an America that actually believed in its own stated principles. In the new America, the one where everything was changed by 9/11 and where freedom isn’t free, not embarrassing President Photo-Op is more important than keeping the greater population informed about the situation in what used to be New Orleans." 1115.org with a closer look

"Astrodome Radio Station Blocked: HOUSTON -- KAMP 95.3 "Evacuation Radio Services", a low-power FM station for Hurricane Katrina evacuees housed at the Astrodome, is still stuck in limbo. Although the group trying to organize the station has wrangled three 90-day licenses from the FCC, as of Thursday, they were being stymied by a handful of temporary administrators content to maintain radio silence.

While basic needs -- food, water, clothing, shelter -- have been met with remarkable hospitality, the survivors of the hurricane inside the Astrodome complex say they continue to suffer from a lack of information. Parents struggle with paperwork to enroll their children in school while simultaneously attempting to locate housing and employment, not to mention lost family members. Most evacuees sit alone on cots, passing the time playing cards or dominoes. Short blasts of information periodically echo from the Astrodome's " Wired

"Reports continue that communications in and around New Orleans are being purposely jammed (and severed) by the US government. The jamming is having an adverse impact on emergency, disaster recovery, and news media communications. The jamming is even affecting police radio frequencies in Jefferson Parish, according to an Australian news report. The President of Jefferson Parish Aaron Broussard told Meet the Press today that FEMA cut his parish’s emergency communications lines and he had to have his sheriff restore the severed lines and post armed deputies to ensure that FEMA did not try to cut the communications lines again. Broussard’s statement: “Yesterday–yesterday–FEMA comes in and cuts all of our emergency communication lines. They cut them without notice. Our sheriff, Harry Lee, goes back in, he reconnects the line. He posts armed guards on our line and says, ‘No one is getting near these lines.’ UPDATE: We can now report that the jamming of New Orleans' communications is emanating from a pirate radio station in the Caribbean. The noise is continuous and it is jamming frequencies, including emergency high frequency (HF) radios, in the New Orleans area. The radio frequency jammers were heard last night, stopped for a while, and are active again today. The Pentagon must locate the positions of these transmitters and order the Air Force to bomb them immediately.

However, we now have a new unconfirmed report that the culprit may be the Pentagon itself. The emitter is an IF (Intermediate Frequency) jammer that is operating south southwest of New Orleans on board a U.S. Navy ship, according to an anonymous source. The jamming is cross-spectrum and interfering with superheterodyne receiver components, including the emergency radios being used in New Orleans relief efforts. The jammed frequencies are:

72.0MHZ (high end of Channel 4 WWL TV New Orleans)

45.0MHZ (fixed mobile)

10.245MHZ (fixed mobile)

10.240 Mhz (fixed mobile)

11.340 Mhz (aeronautical mobile)

233 MHZ (fixed mobile)

455 IF (jammer)

Read the reports by Wayne Madsen (LT, USN, National Security Agency 1984-85)

Also: azadism.com

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PEOPLE:

Tom Cruise likes to wear womens clothes!

And he sure likes Dorothy from the "Wizard of Oz"! socialitelife.com found this.

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Thursday, 8. September 2005

Comics:

About time for a cartoon

Lots more on the Slate Cartoon Site

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PRODUCTS:

Tofu that tastes like Human Flesh

"Hufu is the name of a tofu-based product designed to resemble the taste of human flesh. Billed as the "Healthy Human Flesh Alternative", it's designed to provide connoisseurs of people-eaters with a legal way to please their palates. The Hufu website provides a variety of recipes that originally called for human flesh, but now uses hufu as a replacement.

So what does human flesh taste like? According to the website: If you've never had human flesh before, think of the taste and texture of beef, except a little sweeter in taste and a little softer in texture. Contrary to popular belief, people do not taste like pork or chicken."

Copied from junkfoodblog.com!

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PRODUCTS:

'GEORGE BUSH DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE'

Get the t-shirt at surrendermartha.com! Lots of other fun designs.

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MEDIA:

The Gawker Family

If you look at Wonkette, Fleshbot or other members of the Gawker Gang from New York City, you will notice how Berlin's over-hyped Spreeblick is lightyears behind when it comes down to some real journalism. Where is the spark, guys?

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MEDIA:

'When you look at who is left behind, it is very disturbing to me.'

Negrophile (Winner of two Black Weblog Awards in 2005) collects the news about the social disaster in the US.

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PEOPLE:

Condi's new boots

"Don't look to see Condoleezza Rice in any "I Love New York" ads anytime soon. After catching a Wednesday night performance of Spamalot (where she was booed when the lights came up), the Secretary of Insensitivity went shopping at Ferragamo on Fifth Avenue. While browsing thousands of dollars in new shoes (replacement dominatrix boots?), a horrified fellow shopper shouted, "How dare you shop for shoes while thousands are dying and homeless!" For being so forward, Condi rewarded her by having her security toss the shopper from the store — and then decided to cut her stay short to, uh, do her job."

From Jossip.com

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PEOPLE:

"Superman soaring in Serbian skies!"

A real-life superhero in the middle of Europe or just another Ufo? Read on....

"London: Authorities in Serbia are investigating reports of a real-life Superman, which was seen flying in the sky by the local people.

Numerous residents in Ljubovija claim that they have seen a cloaked figure flying crazily over their houses.

“As if he had an invisible engine on his back” and changing directions while in mid-air, Fox News quoted a resident as telling local daily Blic.

“It was like something out of Superman or Batman. No one has any rational explanation for what we all saw,” he added.

However, police in the town have refused to give their comments."

Copied from New Kerala, India's Top Online Newspaper

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POLITICS:

"This is our opportunity to reclaim America for Jesus Christ," says evangelist Luis Palau

Have you ever heard of the Presidential Prayer Team? Well, have a look, it helps understand the US-Kompetenzteam!

I like the section called "ADDITIONAL LEADERS TO PRAY FOR THIS WEEK". It includes some folks who might really be grateful for some help from above: Director of FEMA—Michael D. Brown Director of Homeland Security—Michael Chertoff Secretary of State—Condoleezza Rice Deputy Secretary of State—Robert Zoellick

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Comics:

More Marvel Movies

"September 6, 2005 - Marvel Entertainment, formerly Marvel Enterprises, announced Tuesday that it has raised the $525 million needed to begin producing its own movies based on characters in the legendary comic book company's massive catalogue. Marvel had previously been licensing its works to production companies, but now it will have complete creative control over the filmmaking process – not to mention potentially higher profit margins.

According to Marvel chairman and CEO Avi Arad, the studio is primed and ready to begin simultaneous development of 10 new film projects based on Marvel characters. Captain AmericaAvengers, Nick Fury, Black Panther, Ant-Man, Cloak & Dagger, Dr. Strange, Hawkeye, Power Pack and Shang-Chi are all setup and screenwriters will start being attached to the various projects on Wednesday.

The company added that the Marvel-produced projects will complement existing big-screen partnerships and on-going Marvel movie projects licensed to other Hollywood studios (Ghost Rider, X3, Punisher II, etc.).

Paramount Pictures, under its existing deal with Marvel, will distribute and market the newly announced films. The first movie chosen to go into production (not yet known) is expected to make its big-screen debut no later than 2008.

Marvel added that each production could be budgeted as high as $165 million and that the films will be developed with ratings no higher than PG-13 in mind."

Copied from IGN

Bruce Willis might play superagent Nick Fury

But HAWKEYE??????????????

POWER PACK??????????????? You want to make a "Power Pack"-Movie?

At least Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) wants to do an Ant-Man Comedy!

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Medien:

Pressespaß mit der APPD

Ossibär ist schwer empört und beim "Focus" wird die APPD diskutiert. Huber37 findet:"Wenn ich jetzt gemin wäre, könnte ich sagen in manchen Punkten unterscheidet sich das Parteiprogramm doch gar nciht von der CDU/CSU." Erstaunlich viele Analphabeten beim "Focus".

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Wednesday, 7. September 2005

MOVIES:

"Bob Dylan - No Direction Home" by Martin Scorcese

I'm not a fan and it's four hours long, but I really want to see this: "The two-part film, directed by Martin Scorsese, focuses on Dylan’s life and music from 1961-66 and includes never-seen footage from the Bob Dylan Archives and interviews with Allen Ginsberg, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and other artists and musicians whose lives intertwined with Dylan’s during that time. A DVD version of the documentary, featuring additional never-before-seen footage, will be released on September 20. Apple will present the DVD and international version of “No Direction Home: Bob Dylan,” and is the corporate underwriter of the PBS broadcast. The Soundtrack CD will be released by Columbia Records on August 30th."

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HOT:

ebay: Bid on a "10 Man security team for hurricane Katrina" victims

Two more days and zero bids. Is anyone gona pay "$975,000.00" for this: "Lawco Security, Inc. a Missouri based Security corporation is offering for bid,private security services in the form of one ten-man rapid deployment team to establish and maintain control of any commercial or industrial property or business, in the region affected by hurricane Katrina. The security team will contract to the highest bidder for a term of thirty one calendar days. The team will operate 24-hours per day, seven days a week.

The team is comprised of 10 current and or former law enforcement officers and Military personnel with experience in high rish crisis management, special weapons and tactics, hostage negotiation, K-9 tactics, less lethal force application and V.I.P protection. We can and will handle all lock down procedures for your business, control access to your property, protect all assets using only the force necessary to address all threats, escort and protect all employees, coordinate all emergency actions with local, state and federal authorities.

Lawco will provide all necessary personal equipment to include weapons, food, water, shelter, transportation and communications to cover 31 days of deployment.

LawCo will only contract to corporations loyal to the United States.

Interested parties can request our insurance information as well as our FEIN and resumes by contacting us at 816-373-8909 or e-mailing info@lawcosecurity.com"

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3D Design:

What is the Machinima?

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MUSIK:

Das Elend der anderen ist immer gut für ein Comeback

Michael Jackson hat's kapiert!

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POLITIK:

Die Verbrecherpartei

"Mordversuch, Raub, schwere Körperverletzung: Bei der NPD tummeln sich als Kandidaten für den Deutschen Bundestag Bewerber mit krimineller Karriere" Astrid Geisler reportiert für die taz

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POLITICS:

Impeach Bush!

Make him sell the ranch!

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POLITIK:

APPD- Kanzlerkandidat Wolfgang Wendland zeigt BILD wegen Beleidigung an

Die Bild hat sich in unverschämter Weise über den ruhmreichen Wahlkampf der Pogo-Anarchisten ausgelassen und bekommt natürlich sofort eine Klage ins Haus.

Am Wochenende: Strassenschlachten, Rededuelle und Freibier in Berlin Freitag, 9. September 2005

WAF-Salon, 20:00 Uhr (Rigaer Strasse 77 Friedrichshain)

Rededuell der APPD mit der Berg-Partei

Unter anderem wird der Bundesvorsitzende CHRISTO GROSSMANN sich mit dem Bergpartei-Vorsitzenden HAUKE STIEWE duellieren.

Samstag, 10. September 2005

Breitscheidplatz, 13:00 Uhr (S + U Bahnhof Zoologischer Garten)

"Der Reichstag gehört uns!"

Demonstration mit Anfangs- und Endkundgebung

Überflüssig aufzuzählen, wer alles kommen wird. ALLE werden da sein! ES GIBT FREIBIER!!!

Sonntag, 11. September 2005

Oberbaumbrücke, 17:00 Uhr (U Schlesisches Tor - U Warschauer Strasse)

Angemeldete Strassenschlacht

Zur traditionellen Wasserschlacht zwischen Friedrichshain und Kreuzberg sind dieses Mal auch alle Auswärtigen eingeladen, die sie wahlweise auf Friedrichshainer oder Kreuzberger Seite schlagen können.

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Tuesday, 6. September 2005

MUSIC:

Death by Unga Unga

Those funky avangardists Zam and Paul have a website now! Book them !

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Medien:

HDTV- Fernsehen für Reiche

Interessiert mich nicht!

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Medien:

TV Total - Kompetenzteam

"Angie faselt schon die ganze Zeit davon: Die Kanzlerinkandidatin hat sich ein eigenes Kompetenz-Team zusammengestellt. König Lustig kann das auch! Stefan Raab präsentierte sein hauseigenes Kompetenz-Team - eine Debattiergruppe, die ihresgleichen sucht." Brüller!(Sendung von Montag) Am 17. September veranstaltet Herr Raab vorab die Bundestagswahlen für alle. Da sollte die APPD ihr eigenes Kompetenzteam hinschicken.

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POLITIK:

Das Land der Toten

Von allen Fehlern, die der Regierung Bush in der letzten Woche unterlaufen sind, ist einer bisher unbeachtet geblieben. Nach dem Tod des Oberrichters William H. Rehnquis, der vor allem Bush Senior persönlich sehr nah stand, ließ der Präsident verkünden, Washington würde halbmast flaggen. Erst 24 Stunden später verkündete Larry King auf CNN, natürlich würde man auch für die Opfer des Hurrikans halbmast flaggen, aber erst die Intervention von Bush Senior vor seinem Sonntagsinterview schien den Moderator dazu veranlasst zu haben. Gestern stand der Ex-Präsident samt Gattin Barbara Larry King erneut Rede und Antwort. Selbst Vater Bush schließt inzwischen nicht mehr aus, dass da so einiges schief gelaufen ist. Trotzdem hält er den Kopf für seinen nichtsnutzigen Sohn hin, der sich zur gleichen Zeit vermutlich brezelmampfend ein Football-Spiel ansah. Bezeichnenderweise tauchte der Senior gemeinsam mit Bill Clinton bereits in der ersten Pressekonferenz auf, die sein Sohn nach dem Hurrikan einberief. Unsicher schob George W. seinen Vater und Clinton vor sich her. Die beiden Ex-Präsidenten hatten nach dem Tsnunami 2004 Freundschaft geschlossen und kümmern sich seitdem weltweit um Opfer von Naturkatastrophen. Diesbezüglich vermittelt das Team Bush/Clinton tatsächlich Kompetenz und den Amerikanern einen Hauch jener Autorität "in charge", die man zur Zeit so schmerzlich vermisst. Während der Präsident mit platten Sprüchen über das Versagen seiner Monster-Bürokratie hinwegflötet und mit dem obligatorisch dümmlichen Grinsen junge Frauen betatscht, die gerade dem Tod entkommen sind, strengen sich seine Vorgänger an, das Vertrauen in die Bundesregierung wieder herzustellen. Man bemühte sich zu erinnern, dass ein falscher Eindruck entstehen könnte, wenn man im Fernsehen ständig von „Flüchtlingen“ sprechen würde. Die große Herausforderung wird es nun sein, hunderttausende von Menschen zu versorgen. Mit ein paar Happy-Meals wird es da nicht getan sein und aus dieser Verantwortung kann sich auch der Präsident nicht herauswinden.

Es ist nun wirklich kein Geheimnis, dass der aktuelle Präsident nur wenig mit den Regierungsgeschäften zu tun hat und der Vater über seine alte Hintermannschaft weiterhin die Strippen zieht. Daran hat man sich gewöhnt. Aber selbst für Bush Senior scheint das Verhalten der US-Regierung völlig unverständlich. Vize-Präsident Cheney weilt scheinbar immer noch im Urlaub, Condi Rice brach ihren Urlaub erst ab, als sie in den Luxus-Boutiquen von Manhattan auch von ultrareichen Bürgern angespuckt wurde und den Präsidenten selbst hat man an den Ohren nach Washington ziehen müssen, wo er nur höchst widerwillig wieder hinter seinem Schreibtisch Platz nahm. So ein Einsatz ist natürlich teuer und so checkte der Präsident erstmal die Ölpreise und kümmerte sich ums Kerngeschäft. Er rief den Gerd in Berlin an, der als Autokanzler sofort alles mögliche versprach und sich um die Sache mit dem Benzin zu kümmern versprach. Um Zelte oder die Ernährung der Evakuierten mochte Bush sich nicht kümmern. Sowas ist teuer, wie gesagt. Ein Konjunkturprogramm zum Wiederaufbau des Sündenpfuhls New Orleans ist dagegen lukrativer. Und man konnte „Sin City“ endlich gezielt in ein neues Disneyland verwandeln. Rassismus spielte bei diesen Entscheidungen keine Rolle. Fanatischer Glaube und blindes Vertrauen in den totalitären Kapitalismus schon eher.

Statt einer Verstärkung der Rettungsmannschaften beschloss Bush einen groß angelegten Militäreinsatz und machte die Situation für die Überlebenden im Krisengebiet noch schlimmer. Statt eines Teams von Medizinern schickte man eine Horde schwer bewaffneter Hooligans, die lediglich ein Widerherstellen von „Law & Order“ suggerieren sollten. Tatsächlich hatte es letzte Woche erstaunlich wenig Verbrechen in New Orleans gegeben und die Gefahr von Plünderungen wurde unverhältnismäßig aufgeblasen weil man keinen Plan hatte. Etwas anderes fiel der „Law & Order“-Regierung halt nicht ein, aber in diesem Falle gibt es keinen Gegner, den man militärisch besiegen kann. Das Auftauchen von Rettungstrupps mit schweren Waffen steigert nur das Entsetzen der Überlebenden und das Kompetenzgerangel geht jetzt erst richtig los.

Statt mit geeigneten „high-wheeled trucks“ rückte das Militär mit Jeeps und Pick-Ups an, die in den Wasserfluten nicht weit kamen. Statt Krankenschwestern brachte man noch mehr Soldaten, die sinnlos zerstörte Gebäude bewachten oder in einer entvölkerten Geisterstadt patroullierten. Erklären kann es sich niemand. „Well, Larry,“ sagen sie dann alle und betonen, es sei jetzt nicht die Zeit um Schuld zu verteilen etc. Glaubhaft in diesem Wirrwarr von Talking Heads scheinen inzwischen nur noch Bill Clinton, der seine Wut nur schwer verbergen kann, und natürlich General Russel „John Wayne“ Honore, der nun leicht zum größten Helden der amerikanischen Geschichte aufsteigen kann. Honore, der manchen als „politisch unkorrekt“ gilt, ist die perfekte Besetzung für die Lichtgestalt in dieser düsteren Geschichte, die uns seit einer Woche im Fernsehen verfolgt. Der wortkarge Kettenraucher scheint zumindest seinen Job zu machen und dem Zusammenbruch von Kommunikation im Zweifelsfall zu Fuß zu begegnen. Der General verteilt keine Schuld und vermittelt den Eindruck, jedem, der seine Operation weiterhin stört, persönlich was auf die Glocke zu geben.

Überhaupt ist es interessant, dass auch Senatoren dem Präsidenten mit physischer Gewalt über die Ohrfeige, die er auch nach Meinung vieler Republikaner längst verdient hat, hinaus, drohen. In Houston und anderswo kaufen die Bürger eifrig Waffen und rüsten sich gegen die Armee von ausgehungerten Obdachlosen, die nun in die bürgerlichsten der bürgerlichen Gegenden von Amerika vordringt. In anderen Krisengebieten halten die Menschen zusammen, wenn sie alles verloren haben. In Amerika schießen sie aufeinander was das Zeug hält.

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POLITICS:

"After Failures, Government Officials Play Blame Game"

The talking heads on CNN have become little rebels here and there! The New York Times has a look at the political fallout while it looks like a good possibility for a new civil rights movement in the US.

"We wanted soldiers, helicopters, food and water,' said Denise Bottcher, press secretary for Gov. Kathleen Babineaux Blanco of Louisiana. 'They wanted to negotiate an organizational chart.'

Mayor C. Ray Nagin of New Orleans expressed similar frustrations. "We're still fighting over authority," he told reporters on Saturday. "A bunch of people are the boss. The state and federal government are doing a two-step dance." (...) 'Why did it happen? Who needs to be fired?' asked Aaron Broussard, president of Jefferson Parish, south of New Orleans.

Far from deferring to state or local officials, FEMA asserted its authority and made things worse, Mr. Broussard complained on "Meet the Press."

When Wal-Mart sent three trailer trucks loaded with water, FEMA officials turned them away, he said. Agency workers prevented the Coast Guard from delivering 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel, and on Saturday they cut the parish's emergency communications line, leading the sheriff to restore it and post armed guards to protect it from FEMA, Mr. Broussard said.

Nearly every emergency worker told agonizing stories of communications failures, some of them most likely fatal to victims. Police officers called Senator Landrieu's Washington office because they could not reach commanders on the ground in New Orleans, Mr. Sharp said. (...) Dr. Ross Judice, chief medical officer for a large ambulance company, recounted how on Tuesday, unable to find out when helicopters would land to pick up critically ill patients at the Superdome, he walked outside and discovered that two helicopters, donated by an oil services company, had been waiting in the parking lot. (...) Mayor Nagin said the root of the breakdown was the failure of the federal government to deliver relief supplies and personnel quickly. 'They kept promising and saying things would happen," he said. "I was getting excited and telling people that. They kept making promises and promises."

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