Lots of stories. People are supposed to contact their loved ones online and all that. The people in charge who got a lot of money are still not available.

Still the same picture!

What happened to that federal campaign "September: Preparedness Month" by the way? How much money did you get for that one again?

Red Zac spendet 33 Cent pro abgeschlossenem Handy-Vertrag an die SOS Kinderdörfer. Gemessen an deren Profit eine Frechheit, damit zu werben.

Der staatsmännische Gerd hat im Schlußstatement doch noch geschickt die Ökokarte gezückt ohne New Orleans zu erwähnen. Aber Angie, nee, das war echt nix!

Interaktive Nachberichterstattung auf vier verschiedenen Kanälen, verrückt! Im ZDF sieht es aus wie im "Aktuellen Sportstudio", bei RTL wie nach nem Boxkampf mit "Explosiv"-Einspielern, auf SAT1 macht Frau Rust die Sache ganz ordentlich und in der ARD sind alle sehr fröhlich als wäre schon wieder Karneval. Auf n-tv und CNN weiter live die Apokalypse. "Sin City geht unter" trauen sich die Ami-Zeitungen langsam zu titeln. Sodom und Gomorrah falls in to the sea. Der liebe Gott hat sich sicher was dabei gedacht, sind sich viele Amis einig.

According to the BBC, russian military planes have dropped food in new Orleans early last week already. There were pictures of people holding food-packs with russian letters on it. It's not clear what those planes were doing in the US.

"The image has shocked, sickened and outraged people. But more importantly, it has captured the imagination of young men and women all around the world who don't give much of a shit about anything. The result is a new craze called "doing a Lynndie". If you aren't "doing a Lynndie" now, you soon will be.

So what does doing a Lynndie involve? Here are the basic instructions:

Find a victim who deserves to be "Lynndied". Make sure you have a friend nearby with a camera ready to capture the "Lynndie". Stick a cigarette (or pen) in your mouth and allow it to hang slightly below the horizontal. Face the camera, tilt your upper body slightly forward but lean back on your right leg. Make a hitchhiking gesture with your right hand and extend your right arm so that it's in roughly the same position as if you were holding a rifle. Keeping your left arm slightly bent, point in the direction of the victim and smile. Ideally, you should refrain from telling the victim what you're about to do. Victims who are unaware, bemused or angry make for a Lynddie that is more in keeping with the original." Go here to see some Lynndies

Why isn't the media faster? Where is all this confusion coming from? Where are the refugees going now?

"Diddy was left floored after he tried to crowd surf at a concert and was dropped by his fans.

The rapper, formerly known as P. Diddy, was performing at top Ibiza nightclub Space when the embarrassing mishap took place.

According to revellers, the hip-hop star got so excited during the performance he leapt into the crowd, but instead of catching him they moved out of the way and let him hit the floor." ->monstersandcritics.com

"President George W. Bush pays back the good Christian Americans who elected him despite his illegal act of slaughter in Iraq by sitting in his Texas ranch for two days after the most horrific suffering was visited on the area around New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.

After two hundred billion dollars were spent in destabilising Iraq, slaughtering up to one hundred thousand innocent civilians, blasting the legs and arms off defenceless children and leaving the country and region in utter chaos, the best he can do is a brief flyover of the region and a belated visit, hurriedly put together only because of the protests."

Read the Pravda

"New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the slow pace of federal and state relief efforts in an expletive-laced interview with local radio station WWL-AM: 'They don't have a clue what's going on down here. They flew down here one time two days after the doggone event was over with TV cameras, AP reporters, all kind of goddamn -- excuse my French everybody in America, but I am pissed.'"

Full transcript

Scary! The Metbloggers are better organized than the officials....

"NEW ORLEANS—(BNW) So, a bunch of fools are looting for greed, and as a result, New Orleans’ officials have called off the search-and-rescue mission of tens of thousands of poor people who are dying in their flooded homes in that grief stricken city. It’s obvious that Mayor Ray Nagin is putting white property over Black life, and he's Black!

And, I am sick and tired of the images over and over again of the Nigger who was stealing the plasma TV, and didn’t have electricity to play it. Consider this; when it comes to the Blacks in the country, even in a disaster like this, the press always goes negative on the issue, even when innocent Black people are dying.

The desperation of the poor must not be over looked; it’s immoral to punish good people for the lawlessness of a few thugs when thousands of people are in a live or die situation. People have even been complainting that the cops are doing most of the looting to feed their families. Consider this; if the stuff that is being looted is contaminated in the first place, what is wrong with the poor people taking advantage of it to survive? The insurance companies are going to pay for the shit anyway."

Noble Johns in Black News Weekly

"LOS ANGELES -- At a suburban hotel here, in a windowless conference room called the 'Hollywood' suite, a rapt circle of geeks sings songs about spaceships.

Accompanied by acoustic guitars, clarinets and the quacking of kazoos, the group sounds much like a traditional folk ensemble. But the lyrics and rituals set the music far apart. With its heavy sci-fi themes, this isn't folk -- it's 'filk,' a distinctive genre that took root on folk's fringes about two decades ago and is now gaining broader attention thanks to internet radio and web downloads. 'You want minors on the moon who need a labor union? We got songs about that. You want asteroid truckers with broken-down ships? We got songs about that. If you want cats in space we got that too,' explains Mary Creasey, an organizer, producer, vendor and performer of filk music with her son Richard and her husband, John.

'We write about all the great fantasy topics ... dragons, unicorns, vampires, castles, wizards, witches, what have you,' she continues in a soft voice with a hint of Appalachian drawl."

Xeni Jardin reports for Wired

Watch the american century come to an end live on CNN.

Crime is the only working structure left in New Orleans. The setting seems to be familiar. All this reminds me of "Batman: No Man's Land":

"A 7.6 earthquake rocked Gotham City, wreaking enough destruction to bring the broken, crime-ridden, runt kid-brother of Metropolis and New York to its knees. In the story line's most indulgent liberty, those fat cats in Washington decide to write off Gotham, à la 'Escape from New York', blowing up the connecting bridges, mining the surrounding waterways, and signing into law the Federal Declaration of No Man's Land, which makes it a crime to even set foot in the city. The usual suspects from Arkham Asylum, Two-Face and the Penguin, the Riddler and Dr. Freeze, Poison Ivy and Mr. Zsasz, file out to begin running the show, strong-arming and manipulating the block-by-block turf battles that envelop the now-ultraviolent city. A conflicted Batman shows up fashionably late, only to find that these lunatics are the least of his worries: Lex Luthor, Superman's archfoe, has nefarious designs on Gotham too."

CNN asked senator Mary Landieau about the "death toll". Unfortunately she understood "Gas price" and thanked president Bush and all that.

FEMA-director Mike Brown admits on CNN that the gouvernment dind't know about people being trapped in the convention center in New Orleans until today.

Texas is just next door. Don't they have any television over there?

Check their site! The top-story has got a picture of Bushie with a caption saying:"President George W. Bush meets Maryland Transportation Authority police officers, following his address to an audience Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at the Port of Baltimore in Baltimore, Md., where he encouraged renewal of Patriot Act provisions."

Nothing about Katrina yet! What did they do with all that money after 9/11?

Friends, you need foreign help really soon. Your gouvernment is on vacation while there's a civil war going on.

The European CNN just had an interesting chart to explain that New Orleans was basically just a city of stubborn negroes not accepting the fact that the president couldn't care less.

"Wie vom Erdboden verschluckt ist derzeit die Nationalmannschaft von Botswana. Die Auswahl sollte eigentlich am Dienstag in der spanischen Hauptstadt Madrid ein Testspiel gegen das B-Team Reals absolvieren, erschien aber nicht zum geplanten Termin um 18.30 Uhr und ist seitdem wie vom Erdboden verschluckt. Die Verantwortlichen Reals sind seit dem geplatzten Spiel auf der Suche nach dem 115. der FIFA-Weltrangliste, haben bisher aber keine Spur von der Mannschaft und keinen Kontakt zu Verbands-Offiziellen.

Die Spieler und Betreuer aus Botswana wurden zuletzt wenige Stunden vor der geplanten Partie im Fanshop der 'Königlichen' und beim Besuch des Fußball-Museums von Real gesehen."

© Copyright SID Sport-Informations-Dienst GmbH & Co. KG

"In der Nacht zum 28. August stürmten in Berlin mehr als 300 Polizeibeamte eine Party, zwei Privatwohnungen, zwei Büroetagen sowie den Laden "Fusion". Grund für den Einsatz im "Anti-Terror-Stil" war eine Ankündigung zu einer Party, auf der es für eingesammelte Nazipropaganda an diesem Abend einen Gratis-Cocktail geben sollte. Auf "antifa.de" war zu lesen: "Wahlkampf heißt für uns: NPD Plakate sammeln, Kundgebungen blockieren, und Nazimaterial in blauen Müllsäcken zu entsorgen". Die Polizei stürmte die Party, registrierte und fotografierte mehr als 150 Partygäste als Verdächtige. Bei den sechs weiteren Hausdurchsuchungen beschlagnahmte sie sechs Computer, mehr als 300 CDs und andere Datenträger als Beweismittel, die laut Durchsuchungsbeschluss "Auskunft über die politischen Aktivitäten außerhalb der freiheitlich demokratischen Grundordnung und den übersteigerten Hass der Beschuldigten auf die NPD geben". Offensichtlich ging es um die Durchleuchtung von linken, außerparlamentarischen Aktivitäten und Organisationen. Wir verurteilen die Kriminalisierung von Zivilcourage gegen faschistische und rassistische Propaganda. Wir rufen alle Menschen dazu auf, Nazipropaganda fantasievoll entgegenzutreten - in der Schule, am Arbeitsplatz und auf der Straße.

Wir laden gemeinsam zu einer großen Gala auf der alle nachgewiesenen Anti-Nazi-Aktivitäten mit einem Cocktail prämiert werden."

->antifaschistische-aktion.com

...finden Sie hier! "Bilder", "Klingeltöne", was Ihr wollt, Kids!

"Maybe they should have a toilet paper museum. Would you like that? So we can see all the toilet paper advancements down through the ages. Toilet paper in the Crusades. The development of the perforation. The first six-pack. "

• Jerry Seinfeld

"Two amateur documentary makers say they've infiltrated the UFO cloning sect known as the Raelians and come away with candid videos they hope will further tarnish the group's reputation and even help shut it down.

The Raelians are no strangers to bad press: Brigitte Boisselier, a Raelian bishop and biochemist, created a media furor in December 2002 when she announced the world's first successful cloning of a human. But her credibility, as well as the Raelians', was questioned when she never produced "baby Eve" or 12 other purported clones.

Now, rare video footage of the group taken at one of its Las Vegas seminars has been spun into an as-yet-unreleased documentary that brings a fresh, critical slant to the Raelians -- replete with allegations that the sect uses sex as a recruitment tool, targeting people most likely to sympathize with its message that aliens populated the world: "Trekkies and whatnot," explained Abdullah Hashem, who taped the group in May as part of a broader, personal investigation of the group.

"There are a lot of people (at these seminars) who believe in aliens, and all these beautiful women who will have sex with you even though you're a dork," he said. "And that's why most people were there."

Kristen Philipkoski reports for Wired

What's everyone's favourite president doing these days? Oh, he's still on vacation, I see! Check out these two pictures at boingboing.net

"New Orleans Police Department Status: The situation for the NOPD is critical. This is firsthand information I have from an NOPD officer we're giving shelter to. Their command and control infrastructure is shot. They have limited to no communication whatsoever. He didn't even know the city was under martial law until we told him! His precinct (5th Precinct) is under water! UNDER WATER -- every vehicle under water. They had to commander moving trucks like Ryder and UHaul to get around. The coroner's office is shut down so bodies are being covered in leaves at best or left where they lie at worst.

They don't even know their own rules of engagement. He says the force is impotent right now. They have no idea what's going on, no coordination, virtually no comms, etc. the National Guard is gonna air drop a radio system for them with 200 radios? They are getting very little direction."

From "Interdictor - the Survival of New Orleans blog" reporting live.

List of Blogs dealing with Katrina

The New Orleans blogosphere lives, for now at least

Breaking-news page from the New Orleans Times-Picayune

Stormtrack Forum

hurricanecity.com - Atlantic Hurricane Tracking

Pictures at flickr.com

"Evelyn Turner wept Tuesday as she waited for someone to take away the body of Xavier Bowie in New Orleans, The Associated Press reported.

Bowie, her common-law husband, had lung cancer and couldn't evacuate from the Louisiana city. He died when he ran out of oxygen Tuesday, according to the AP.

Turner wrapped his body and kept a tearful vigil, the AP said, in a devastated city so overwhelmed that rescuers are pushing aside the dead to tend to the living."

CNN has started a folder called "katrina.people/" to keep track of stories like that

Interessante Form von passivem Krisenmanagement "over there". Was hat der Präsident eigentlich die ganze Woche so getrieben? Radfahren mit Lance Armstrong ist jetzt erstmal nicht mehr.

Spreeblick hat da so ein technologisches Schreckgespenst mit Fluxkompensator für live zu bloggen gebastelt und überall findet Wirres' Wahlblog Erwähnung. So kann man wenigstens über Technik und zum wiederholten mal über Weblogs reden statt sich inhaltlich mit dem Unsinn zu beschäftigen, der vor Ort geredet wird. Ganz lustig ist dagegen der Herr vom ZDF auf Provinztour! Geht da mal wieder ein Ruck durchs Land? Zumindest ein virtueller? Brauchen wir nicht viel mehr Akkreditierungen für Schülerzeitungen und Weblogs bei Parteitagen? Sollten Weblogger nicht auch gleich einen Presse-Ausweis umgehängt kriegen und sich in die Reihe der ewigen Schmarotzer einreihen dürfen?

New kids on the blog: die Sueddeutsche bloggt mit

"What is it that we love about the mad scientists in our movies and history? Is it because their probing of the unknown piques our curiosity? Is it their seeming superiority to the common herd? Or is it that they -- at least for a while -- get away with more than we can?"

strangemag.com has all the answers.

She is eleven years old and people like Robert de Niro and Tom Cruise desperately wanted to be in a movie with her; a young actress who can really act! Dakota Fanning is ready to get a solid picture on her own. She was the little girl in "War of the Worlds", the worst movie ever made, but that wasn't her fault. She was so much better than Tom Cruise, the Special Effects and the awful script that I remembered her name and rented "Hide and Seek" also starring Robert de Niro, Famke Janssen and Amy Irving.

Wow, that what I call a really good scary movie and Dakota Fanning is terrific. No spoilers, you might think the premise sounds lame, but it's a great twist for an old story which you love. This is, well, well, I was really really scared and I can't sleep now because of Charlie and all that!

Kids are very good in scary movies. Haley Joel Osment should have gotten an Oscar for "The Sixth Sense" (1999) back then, I thought, but this young lady is even better. Precious Dakota is gonna be big. You got fansites now and all that, Dakota. Don't break, kid! Be brave!