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Нели
02 Сеп 2005 02:03
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Отварям тази тема за Фани, за която Ню Орленас е вече история, а не бъдеще, и за всички нас, които все още не вярваме на очите си като гледаме репортажите на CNN.
Чичо Фичо
02 Сеп 2005 06:54
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От: United States
oIo
02 Сеп 2005 07:56
Мнения: 8,618
От: Bulgaria
Въобще не съм сигурен дали картинките не биха паснали по-добре в темата за бирата отатък, ама кво да правиш, природни стихии...




Илюстрация на поговорката вода гази жаден ходи.






И на сушата жаждата е голяма. Милър Лайт не е най-доброто, ама каквото намерили, това взели.






И никва българщина. Ще ми отварят суперите с други марки. Алооу, нема ли Балканкар за вас, бе?










Старшината
02 Сеп 2005 14:01
Мнения: 20,650
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Да ви кажа - у новия Орлеанс вече си е ебало мамата .... Ихтиманското е нищо .... 'ного зли тия алабански циганье, бре .... ауууу
Геновева
02 Сеп 2005 15:18
Мнения: 24,361
От: Bulgaria
Всеки природен катаклизъм, стоварил се върху главите на много хора, има страшни лица, различни, предизвиква различни чувства у нас и мащабите на трагедията, и всичко това, което ни свива гърлото, може да бъде много различно.
Като оставям настрана големите глобални дискусии за отговорността, за низките страни на човешката природа, искам тук да прегърна Фани и сладката й дъщеричка (Брайън няма да гушкам, че Фани квато е яка.... ), да погаля спасените й котки, и да споделя какво си помислих първо, като течаха първите съобщения за урагана, не толкова зловещи, колкото се очертават в следващите дни.
Ето тук, преди по-малко от седмица, кажи речи три дни преди нещастието, Фани пусна картинки от чудесната си градина, отглеждана с толкова много любов - и компетентност (последното е и генетично... ) .
Не ми се мисли какво е станало с градинката, макар, че е ясно...
Тази градинка и хоръра, който наблюдаваме в последните дни .......

Редактирано от - Геновева на 02/9/2005 г/ 15:19:33

MGM
02 Сеп 2005 16:10
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От: Bulgaria
Blessings and prayers for victims and survivors!
Чарли Дарвин
02 Сеп 2005 17:31
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Веф,
твойто тук не се отваря, има 4 броя / щото: http:////forum.segabg............


А иначе важна новина по случая:
bTV, 12:00 Новините:
В Ню Орлеанс са командировани 300 командоси,
служили в Ирак, които имат заповед да стрелят на месо!!! [/size=2]

Редактирано от - bot на 02/9/2005 г/ 18:40:22

Геновева
02 Сеп 2005 17:38
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От: Bulgaria
редактирах го, отваря се, пустата Мозила...
Чоки§§
02 Сеп 2005 18:20
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От: Israel
Мэр Нового Орлеана: Они не представляют, что здесь происходит
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Президент США Джордж Буш оказался под напором яростной критики за недостаточную активность в деле ликвидации последствий урагана Катрина.

Рэй Нагин, мэр Нового Орлеана, подвергшегося наиболее серьезным разрушениям из-за урагана, резко отозвался об администрации США: "Они просто не представляют, что здесь происходит!"

Это заявление было сделано за день до планируемой поездки Джорджа Буша в города, пострадавшие от урагана. Буш уже осмотрел разрушенные районы во время своего полета из Техаса в Вашингтон. Напомним, что в связи с ураганом он сократил свой отпуск, который президент проводил на собственном ранчо в Техасе, на два дня.

"Они все прибыли сюда через два дня после того, как весь этот кошмар был показан этими проклятыми телекамерами, этими проклятыми репортерами! – заявил Нагин. – И да простит вся Америка "мой французский", но я просто вне себя!". (Мэр употребил более сильное, но значительно менее цензурное выражение).

Он отметил, что сказал президенту в их недавней беседе: "У нас здесь произошел невероятный кризис, и ваш облет вокруг пострадавшего района совсем не воздает этому должное. Я успел проинспектировать весь город, я вне себя, потому что мы просто не можем рассредоточить необходимые ресурсы, мы просто не справляемся с масштабом случившегося".

Глава федеральной спасательной службы Майкл Браун сообщил, что оказание помощи пострадавшим идет полным ходом. "Я понимаю расстройство мэра, - отметил он. – Мы непрерывно отправляем продукты, воду и предметы первой необходимости пострадавшим, вчера вечером в стадион Superdome доставили пять грузовиков с провизией, чтобы прокормить более 50 человек, находящихся там. Мы столкнулись с беспрецедентным стихийным бедствием".



Чоки§§
02 Сеп 2005 18:21
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От: Israel
Национальная гвардия США получила приказ стрелять в мародеров
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02.09 06:48 | MIGnews.com
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Губернатор штата Луизиана Кэтлин Бланко предупредила мародеров и грабителей, бесчинствующих в пострадавшем от урагана Новом Орлеане, что войска Национальной гвардии получили приказ "стрелять на поражение", чтобы положить конец необузданному насилию и произволу.

Объявляя о прибытии в Новый Орлеан 300 арканзанских гвардейцев, которые недавно проходили службу в Ираке, Бланко сказала: "Эти войска проверены в бою, они вооружены винтовками М-16 и другим боевыми средствами".

"Эти войска знают, как стрелять и как убивать, и я ожидаю, что они будут это делать", - сказала она, имея в виду отстрел мародеров.

По последним данным, в городе царит хаос: на улицах валяются трупы, а банды грабят магазины и дома эвакуированных людей.
Чоки§§
02 Сеп 2005 18:24
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От: Israel
И крадците все чернилки-американски цигани!
`Kaily
02 Сеп 2005 18:59
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От: Bulgaria
Първи важен факт благодарение на Ню Орлиънс/
По крадците се стреля на месо, дори когато са чернилки
Да видим какви още нарушения на демокрацията и човешките свободи и права ще има.

_______________________
"Ако народът не вярва на управниците си, те не могат да останат на власт." Конфуций
Doctora
02 Сеп 2005 19:14
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От: Bulgaria
Надали Фани ни чете..но все пак : Да сте живи и здрави ти, Брайън, майка ти и детенце. Всичко останало все пак се нарежда.
Чичо Фичо
03 Сеп 2005 00:40
Мнения: 24,838
От: United States
Крадците, Кайле, са само черни, както и жертвите, които гледаме по ТВ - в Орлийнс имаше 68% черни, а хората, които не са се евакуирали като Фани, са най-бедните, най-болните, с бебета, инвалидите, наркоманите (които най-вече съставят "криминалния контингент"...) и др. "нелегални".
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Ще напомня, че тези черни са внуци на робите, докарвани насила от Африка и продавани на търг в Орлийнс и другите пристанища на юга.
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Слагам няколко материала от Ню Йорк Таймс.


September 1, 2005
Intricate Flood Protection Long a Focus of Dispute
By ANDREW C. REVKIN and CHRISTOPHER DREW

The 17th Street levee that gave way and led to the flooding of New Orleans was part of an intricate, aging system of barriers and pumps that was so chronically underfinanced that senior regional officials of the Army Corps of Engineers complained about it publicly for years.

Often leading the chorus was Alfred C. Naomi, a senior project manager for the corps and a 30-year veteran of efforts to waterproof a city built on slowly sinking mud, surrounded by water and periodically a target of great storms.

Mr. Naomi grew particularly frustrated this year as the Gulf Coast braced for what forecasters said would be an intense hurricane season and a nearly simultaneous $71 million cut was announced in the New Orleans district budget to guard against such storms.

He called the cut drastic in an article in New Orleans CityBusiness.

In an interview last night, Mr. Naomi said the cuts had made it impossible to complete contracts for vital upgrades that were part of the long-term plan to renovate the system.

This week, amid news of the widening breach in the 17th Street Canal, he realized that the decadeslong string of near misses had ended.

"A breach under these conditions was ultimately not surprising," he said last night. "I had hoped that we had overdesigned it to a point that it would not fail. But you can overdesign only so much, and then a failure has to come."

No one expected that weak spot to be on a canal that, if anything, had received more attention and shoring up than many other spots in the region. It did not have broad berms, but it did have strong concrete walls.

Shea Penland, director of the Pontchartrain Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of New Orleans, said that was particularly surprising because the break was "along a section that was just upgraded."

"It did not have an earthen levee," Dr. Penland said. "It had a vertical concrete wall several feel thick."

Now the corps is scrambling. After failing to close a 300-foot break in the canal through which most of the floodwater entered the city, federal engineers decided last night to take the battle with Lake Pontchartrain to the lakefront.

Starting today, they will prepare to drive corrugated vertical steel plates, called sheet pile, into the mud near where the narrow canal meets the lake, sealing it off so that the big breach farther in can be more methodically attacked, Mr. Naomi said.

The decision was made after a day of fruitless efforts to figure how to drop concrete highway barriers or huge sandbags into the torrent. For the most part, the water between the lake and the filled bowl of the city leveled off as of last night, officials said.

Weaknesses in the levee system were foreshadowed in a report in May on the hurricane protection plan for the region and the budget gap.

The district headquarters said, "The current funding shortfalls in fiscal year 2005 and fiscal year 2006 will prevent the Corps from addressing these pressing needs."

They also meant that there was far too little money to study thoroughly an upgrade of the protections from the existing standard, enough to hold back a hurricane at Category 3 on the five-step intensity scale, to a level to withstand floods and winds from a Category 5 storm.

Hurricane Katrina was on the high end of Category 4 and, despite the extreme flooding, is still seen by many hurricane experts as a near miss for New Orleans.

Since 2001, the Louisiana Congressional delegation had pushed for far more money for storm protection than the Bush administration has accepted. Now, Mr. Naomi said, all the quibbling over the storm budget, or even over full Category 5 protection, which would cost several billion dollars, seemed tragically absurd.

"It would take $2.5 billion to build a Category 5 protection system, and we're talking about tens of billions in losses, all that lost productivity, and so many lost lives and injuries and personal trauma you'll never get over," Mr. Naomi said. "People will be scarred for life by this event."

He said there were still no clear hints why the main breach in the flood barriers occurred along the 17th Street Canal, normally a conduit for vast streams of water pumped out of the perpetually waterlogged city each day and which did not take the main force of the waves roiling the lake. He said that a low spot marked on survey charts of the levees near the spot that ruptured was unrelated and that the depression was where a new bridge crossed the narrow canal near the lakefront.

Some experts studying flood prevention with the corps and other agencies speculated that any dip in the retaining levee or walls there might have allowed water to slop over and start the collapse.

Mr. Naomi said that as the power of the hurricane grew clear over the weekend, he and others who had worked to make the system as strong as it could be, given the design limits, could only hope that it would hold.

But, he said, he knew that the chances were high that the rising waters and crashing waves would find a fatal weak spot in the 350 miles of levees and walls.

As often occurs after a storm, Lake Pontchartrain is sloshing back and forth, sending pulses of water into the city and potentially complicating repairs, Dr. Penland said.

"It's like you have a bowl of water and you shake it, and it sloshes back and forth," he said, describing a phenomenon that geologists call a seiche (pronounced sesh). "Mississippi Sound and Pontchartrain are real prone to seiches when big storms come through. We are seeing the slosh. Water is being flushed through the gaps in the levees."

He said scientists at the United States Geological Survey estimated that the sloshing would gradually diminish in a few days.

Until then, the city will be subject not just to normal variation in the lake, where water levels change about a foot between high and low tide, but also to the variations of the seiche. "You have not just the one-foot tide, you probably have three to four feet of water," Dr. Penland said. "Once we get to an ordinary tidal regime, when it plays out, that will be our opportunity to close those breaks in the levees and start pumping."

Andrew C. Revkin reported from New York for this article and Christopher Drew from Baton Rouge, La. Cornelia Dean contributed reporting from New York.

Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company

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Редактирано от - Чичо Фичо на 03/9/2005 г/ 00:42:51

Чичо Фичо
03 Сеп 2005 00:42
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September 2, 2005
A Can't-Do Government
By PAUL KRUGMAN

Before 9/11 the Federal Emergency Management Agency listed the three most likely catastrophic disasters facing America: a terrorist attack on New York, a major earthquake in San Francisco and a hurricane strike on New Orleans. "The New Orleans hurricane scenario," The Houston Chronicle wrote in December 2001, "may be the deadliest of all." It described a potential catastrophe very much like the one now happening.

So why were New Orleans and the nation so unprepared? After 9/11, hard questions were deferred in the name of national unity, then buried under a thick coat of whitewash. This time, we need accountability.

First question: Why have aid and security taken so long to arrive? Katrina hit five days ago - and it was already clear by last Friday that Katrina could do immense damage along the Gulf Coast. Yet the response you'd expect from an advanced country never happened. Thousands of Americans are dead or dying, not because they refused to evacuate, but because they were too poor or too sick to get out without help - and help wasn't provided. Many have yet to receive any help at all.

There will and should be many questions about the response of state and local governments; in particular, couldn't they have done more to help the poor and sick escape? But the evidence points, above all, to a stunning lack of both preparation and urgency in the federal government's response.

Even military resources in the right place weren't ordered into action. "On Wednesday," said an editorial in The Sun Herald in Biloxi, Miss., "reporters listening to horrific stories of death and survival at the Biloxi Junior High School shelter looked north across Irish Hill Road and saw Air Force personnel playing basketball and performing calisthenics. Playing basketball and performing calisthenics!"

Maybe administration officials believed that the local National Guard could keep order and deliver relief. But many members of the National Guard and much of its equipment - including high-water vehicles - are in Iraq. "The National Guard needs that equipment back home to support the homeland security mission," a Louisiana Guard officer told reporters several weeks ago.

Second question: Why wasn't more preventive action taken? After 2003 the Army Corps of Engineers sharply slowed its flood-control work, including work on sinking levees. "The corps," an Editor and Publisher article says, citing a series of articles in The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, "never tried to hide the fact that the spending pressures of the war in Iraq, as well as homeland security - coming at the same time as federal tax cuts - was the reason for the strain."

In 2002 the corps' chief resigned, reportedly under threat of being fired, after he criticized the administration's proposed cuts in the corps' budget, including flood-control spending.

Third question: Did the Bush administration destroy FEMA's effectiveness? The administration has, by all accounts, treated the emergency management agency like an unwanted stepchild, leading to a mass exodus of experienced professionals.

Last year James Lee Witt, who won bipartisan praise for his leadership of the agency during the Clinton years, said at a Congressional hearing: "I am extremely concerned that the ability of our nation to prepare for and respond to disasters has been sharply eroded. I hear from emergency managers, local and state leaders, and first responders nearly every day that the FEMA they knew and worked well with has now disappeared."

I don't think this is a simple tale of incompetence. The reason the military wasn't rushed in to help along the Gulf Coast is, I believe, the same reason nothing was done to stop looting after the fall of Baghdad. Flood control was neglected for the same reason our troops in Iraq didn't get adequate armor.

At a fundamental level, I'd argue, our current leaders just aren't serious about some of the essential functions of government. They like waging war, but they don't like providing security, rescuing those in need or spending on preventive measures. And they never, ever ask for shared sacrifice.

Yesterday Mr. Bush made an utterly fantastic claim: that nobody expected the breach of the levees. In fact, there had been repeated warnings about exactly that risk.

So America, once famous for its can-do attitude, now has a can't-do government that makes excuses instead of doing its job. And while it makes those excuses, Americans are dying.

E-mail: krugman@nytimes.com

Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
Чичо Фичо
03 Сеп 2005 00:44
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September 1, 2005
The Storm After the Storm
By DAVID BROOKS

Hurricanes come in two waves. First comes the rainstorm, and then comes what the historian John Barry calls the "human storm" - the recriminations, the political conflict and the battle over compensation. Floods wash away the surface of society, the settled way things have been done. They expose the underlying power structures, the injustices, the patterns of corruption and the unacknowledged inequalities. When you look back over the meteorological turbulence in this nation's history, it's striking how often political turbulence followed.

In 1889 in Pennsylvania, a great flood washed away much of Johnstown. The water's crushing destruction sounded to one person like a "lot of horses grinding oats." Witnesses watched hundreds of people trapped on a burning bridge, forced to choose between burning to death or throwing themselves into the churning waters to drown.

The flood was so abnormal that the country seemed to have trouble grasping what had happened. The national media were filled with wild exaggerations and fabrications: stories of rivers dammed with corpses, of children who died while playing ring-around-the-rosy and who were found with their hands still clasped and with smiles still on their faces.

Prejudices were let loose. Hungarians then were akin to today's illegal Mexican immigrants - hard-working people who took jobs no one else wanted. Newspapers carried accounts of gangs of Hungarian men cutting off dead women's fingers to steal their rings. "Drunken Hungarians, Dancing, Singing, Cursing and Fighting Amid the Ruins" a New York Herald headline blared.

Then, as David McCullough notes in "The Johnstown Flood," public fury turned on the Pittsburgh millionaires whose club's fishing pond had emptied on the town. The Chicago Herald depicted the millionaires as Roman aristocrats, seeking pleasure while the poor died like beasts in the Coliseum.

Even before the flood, public resentment was building against the newly rich industrialists. Protests were growing against the trusts, against industrialization and against the new concentrations of wealth. The Johnstown flood crystallized popular anger, for the fishing club was indeed partly to blame. Public reaction to the disaster helped set the stage for the progressive movement and the trust-busting that was to come.

In 1900, another great storm hit the U.S., killing over 6, 000 people in Galveston, Tex. The storm exposed racial animosities, for this time stories (equally false) swept through the press accusing blacks of cutting off the fingers of corpses to steal wedding rings. The devastation ended Galveston's chance to beat out Houston as Texas' leading port.

Then in 1927, the great Mississippi flood rumbled down upon New Orleans. As Barry writes in his account, "Rising Tide," the disaster ripped the veil off the genteel, feudal relations between whites and blacks, and revealed the festering iniquities. Blacks were rounded up into work camps and held by armed guards. They were prevented from leaving as the waters rose. A steamer, the Capitol, played "Bye Bye Blackbird" as it sailed away. The racist violence that followed the floods helped persuade many blacks to move north.

Civic leaders intentionally flooded poor and middle-class areas to ease the water's pressure on the city, and then reneged on promises to compensate those whose homes were destroyed. That helped fuel the populist anger that led to Huey Long's success. Across the country people demanded that the federal government get involved in disaster relief, helping to set the stage for the New Deal. The local civic elite turned insular and reactionary, and New Orleans never really recovered its preflood vibrancy.

We'd like to think that the stories of hurricanes and floods are always stories of people rallying together to give aid and comfort. And, indeed, each of America's great floods has prompted a popular response both generous and inspiring. But floods are also civic examinations. Amid all the stories that recur with every disaster - tales of sudden death and miraculous survival, the displacement and the disease - there is also the testing.

Civic arrangements work or they fail. Leaders are found worthy or wanting. What's happening in New Orleans and Mississippi today is a human tragedy. But take a close look at the people you see wandering, devastated, around New Orleans: they are predominantly black and poor. The political disturbances are still to come.

E-mail: dabrooks@nytimes.com

Copyright 2005 The New York Times Company
`Kaily
03 Сеп 2005 11:34
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И какво искаш да кажеш с това, Фичо, че крадците са само черни?

_______________________
"Ако народът не вярва на управниците си, те не могат да останат на власт." Конфуций
Геновева
03 Сеп 2005 11:35
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От: Bulgaria
Ами да, така се получава, че са само черни. И няма нищо противоестествено в това. Представете си, иде бедствие, предупреждават Пловдив да се евакуира, Столипиново обаче не ще. И после като дойде потопа, какъв цвят ще са и крадците, и пострадалите? Очевидно.
Старшината
03 Сеп 2005 12:48
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В извънредната си емисия на девети т.м. Радио "Абана либре" съобщи, че е създадено обединенито "За По-нови Орлеан". Инициатори са организациите за защита на приматите, регистрирани в Матанза' и Ихтиман. Информацията беше потвърдена от Чукотското представителство на Обединение "Християнренегати".
Геновева
03 Сеп 2005 12:55
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От: Bulgaria
въх, Ню-Орлеанска революционери, значи.... ами нали са им потопени релсите, къде ще полагат морни главици.... , значи нещо като Орлеански деви ли...

Редактирано от - Геновева на 03/9/2005 г/ 12:55:56

Старшината
03 Сеп 2005 12:58
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не знам, нищо не се съобщава. ама може да са по въздушните трасета налягали, американци са това, не са лукови глАви ...
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