Hanya orang sinting yang menyamakan ratakan Bencana Alam akibat angin ribut Katrina di Selatan USA dengan peritiwa bidab Mei 1998 di Jakarta.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Holy Uncle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[email protected]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 02, 2005 11:24 AM Subject: [proletar] Ugly scenes in New Orleans as relief efforts lag > ***Krisis selalu diikuti anarki. Media massa negara2 Barat senang > mem-besar2-kan kejadian penjarahan di Indonesia, tapi melaporkan kejadian > penjarahan di New Orleans dengan nada adem ayem. Yang ditonjolkan cuma > tindakan pihak keamanan. > > ***Vacuum of power mencetuskan tranjedi May 98 di Indonesia. SBY belum > pegang penuh kekuasaan, maka tidak berani segera naikkan harga bensin, > sangat merugikan negara... > > Friday 2nd September, 2005 > > Ugly scenes in New Orleans as relief efforts lag > > Big News Network.com Thursday 1st September, 2005 > > State, local and federal authorities are grappling with the immense scope > of > the Hurricane Katrina disaster. > > The situation is particularly acute in New Orleans, where desperation and > anger have contributed to a growing climate of lawlessness. > > National Guard troops streamed into New Orleans Thursday as the once-proud > city slipped further into chaos in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. > > Gunfire and looting broke out at points around the city as residents who > stayed behind to ride out the storm found themselves in increasingly > desperate straits. Acute shortages of such basic commodities as food and > drinking water strained people to the breaking point. > > Hurricane Katrina cut a deadly path across Louisiana, Mississippi, and > Alabama as it came ashore Monday morning. Whole coastal communities were > wiped out. The breadth of the destruction has caused some commentators to > dub it the "American tsunami" because of its resemblance to the terrible > havoc of last year's disaster in Asia. > > The situation was underscored at the New Orleans Superdome, the sports > complex where some 25,000 people who took refuge from the storm wait in > deteriorating conditions to be evacuated to Houston, Texas. Keith Simon of > Acadia Ambulance, which is handling medical aspects of the evacuation, > told > VOA its medical personnel asked to be airlifted out because the mood in > the > Superdome had turned ugly. > > "Our 20 medics, doctors, and nurses, that were at the Superdome felt very > uncomfortable about the situation and asked to be removed," he said. "So > we > moved our people out of the Superdome." > > He said they will return when additional National Guard troops arrive and > restore order. An additional 10,000 Guardsmen are being deployed to New > Orleans and other storm-afflicted areas in addition to the 18,000 already > in > place. > > President Bush expressed sharp anger over the growing lawlessness. In an > interview on ABC-TV's Good Morning America, Mr. Bush said there should be > what he called "zero tolerance" for looting and price-gouging by people > trying to capitalize on others' misfortune. The president plans to visit > the > hurricane-afflicted areas Friday. > > Convoys bearing emergency supplies were moving into New Orleans, a city > that > is now 80 per cent under water. But the city's remaining residents > complained supplies were not reaching them fast enough. > > Homeland Secretary Michael Chertoff said Thursday the federal government > was > working to rescue people stranded in the flooding and provide emergency > relief. > > "The Department of Homeland Security will continue to work with federal, > state, and local partners to support efforts on the ground in Alabama, > Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida," said Chertoff. "We are working > tirelessly to make sure that federal resources are being applied where > they > are needed all across the Gulf [of Mexico]." > > The New Orleans flooding occurred when sections of levees holding back the > waters that surround the city broke. Hugh Kaufman, a senior policy analyst > at the Environmental Protection Agency with long experience in > environmental > disaster response, says the fetid water presents a major health and > enviromental hazard. > > "You have a tremendous amount of water that contains sewage, industrial > wastewater, hazardous materials, oil, gas, a whole host of hazardous > materials that has inundated the whole New Orleans area that has to be > dealt > with," said Hugh Kaufman. > > Officials say they cannot even begin to calculate the human and property > damage until the water is removed. > > Donations for victims of Hurricane Katrina can be made by accessing > www.redcross.org or telephoning 1800 Help Now. > > http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=226e378e1fbc1178 > > > > > > Post message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List owner : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/ > Yahoo! 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