From Nov. 15 came this Newsmax summary of a Der Spiegel article on illegal aliens doing rebuilding in New Orleans:
…Tracing the responsibility for the clean up job is a similar to solving an alphabetic puzzle. UDR, it seems, was retained by KBR (formerly Kellogg, Brown & Root), which in turn is a subsidiary of Halliburton. […]
Le Monde said the following on Sep 8:
Katrina’s devastation points the finger at Bush’s system… Issues forgotten for years are back to the fore: poverty, the state’s absence, latent racism…
Even worse:
Just below was a cartoon showing the American president watching TV footage of black corpses floating in the water. “But, what country is this?” the […]
He'll be hitting all the touristy spots:
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, will visit hurricane-hit New Orleans on their first official overseas jaunt since marrying in April, the prince's office confirmed Monday.
Charles' Clarence House office would not reveal the exact timing or itinerary for the flying visit, although the couple are expected […]
From U.S. rejects Katrina meals, offers them to others:
The United States on Friday offered needy countries more than 330,000 packaged meals donated by Britain to feed Hurricane Katrina victims but rejected due to a U.S. ban on British beef.
State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said the "Meals Ready to Eat," or MREs, had been held in […]
It would be nice if the FDA or FEMA would provide a statement on the Mirror UK report "Tons of British aid donated to help Hurricane Katrina victims to be BURNED by Americans".
Britain has donated 400,000 MREs, aka "Nato ration packs". Those are the same packs British troops eat in Iraq and, since the U.S. […]
John O'Sullivan:
Two narratives of Hurricane Katrina dominated the news media of Europe over the last weeks. One was the story of the hurricane tearing its way through the Gulf shores of Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana, especially New Orleans…
In Europe these human stories stimulated sympathy for Katrina's victims. Governments there have now sent considerable aid. But […]
On the prestigious pages of the Times of London, Martin Samuel and a Mr J. R. Dunn from America are duking it out, rhetorically speaking.
First, Samuel offers "This diseased city was sunk by benign neglect" (also here):
…The satirical magazine The Onion once published a mocking travelogue. “Woman who ‘loves Brazil’ has only seen four square […]
WaPo:
Offers of foreign aid worth tens of millions of dollars — including a Swedish water purification system, a German cellular telephone network and two Canadian rescue ships — have been delayed for days awaiting review by backlogged federal agencies, according to European diplomats and information collected by the State Department.
Since Hurricane Katrina, more than 90 […]
