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Sep. 1st, 2005 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingNew Orleans has been destroyed. After the initial mention of "bodies everywhere" and thousands dead - and after FEMA stopped saying that their projections predicted 30% casualties for the 30,000 people trapped in New Orleans - the dead have stopped being mentioned. They're *gone* from the coverage.
That's disturbing. Non-US news agencies are covering the death tolls, still, but they're using numbers pulled out of their asses because nobody on the ground will give any kind of an estimate.
Here's the scary part:
The Canadian government offered any help it could give, including the best disaster response team on the planet, kept ready to go on a moment's notice to anywhere in the world - and the US government won't answer the phone to let them across the border.
The Russians offered their own disaster relief team. The US turned it down, refusing to allow it to enter the USA.
The UN offered any help it could arrange. Unlike Canada, they got an answer: "Thank you for your offer" - but all further questions like "what do you need, and where" have been ignored.
Venezuela offered assistance. Turned down.
The Swiss? The French? The Germans? The English? The Austrians? Same deal.
Extra-scary: The massive right-wing spin machine, that fought in court for it's right to falsify the news, is focusing *all* reporting on looting, violence... and how the world is never there to help the USA.
Meanwhile, the area is in complete chaos, with nobody in charge, no disaster preparation done, completely inadequate organisation - and no help coming, because the US Government is refusing it.
That's disturbing. Non-US news agencies are covering the death tolls, still, but they're using numbers pulled out of their asses because nobody on the ground will give any kind of an estimate.
Here's the scary part:
The Canadian government offered any help it could give, including the best disaster response team on the planet, kept ready to go on a moment's notice to anywhere in the world - and the US government won't answer the phone to let them across the border.
The Russians offered their own disaster relief team. The US turned it down, refusing to allow it to enter the USA.
The UN offered any help it could arrange. Unlike Canada, they got an answer: "Thank you for your offer" - but all further questions like "what do you need, and where" have been ignored.
Venezuela offered assistance. Turned down.
The Swiss? The French? The Germans? The English? The Austrians? Same deal.
Extra-scary: The massive right-wing spin machine, that fought in court for it's right to falsify the news, is focusing *all* reporting on looting, violence... and how the world is never there to help the USA.
Meanwhile, the area is in complete chaos, with nobody in charge, no disaster preparation done, completely inadequate organisation - and no help coming, because the US Government is refusing it.