While this summary from C4 News doesn't achieve quite the same stylistic
heights as Michael Moore's missive, it makes several similar points in a
way that some might find more easily digestible :-)
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Sent: 01 September 2005 17:53
Subject: Anarchy hits US storm relief
Krishnan Guru-Murthy here with the latest from the newsroom.
Anarchy hits US storm relief
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The news out of New Orleans is getting harder to believe every hour. The
world's only superpower seems to have lost control of the situation.
Thousands of people are still stranded without food, water or medicine.
Tens of thousands more homeless.
Lawlessness is spreading around the city with police and national guard
trying to control things but ambulances and rescue helicopters have been
shot at by armed thugs. Those stranded at centres like the sports
stadium are in appalling conditions with grim sanitation and supplies.
There are attempts to get a few thousand people a day out of the city as
the Mayor has ordered the forced evacuation of everyone, but it is
pitifully slow and the people have little or nothing to go to. As for
the bodies - there is still no reliable estimate of those dead. But now
the Mayor and a senator have put it in the thousands.
People are starting to ask whether or not the warning and evacuation was
mishandled. If people are being forced to leave now then why not at the
weekend before Katrina struck? And there are increasing voices emerging
about the warnings that were ignored.
Federal funds were denied to strengthen the levees. Was America so
obsessed with fighting terror that it forgot what homeland security
really means? And does the demographic breakdown of those worst hit -
predominantly poor and black have anything to do with how little was
done to help them? Tonight we have teams on the ground and in the air.
Jon Snow is on his way to anchor our ongoing coverage from there from
tomorrow. We'll be talking to the journalist who wrote a piece
predicting this exact outcome three months ago. And back here in London
we are talking to scientists around the world about whether and how New
Orleans can recover.
We'll also be looking at the effect on petrol supply and prices. Plus
Nick Glass will be doing the obituary to New Orleans. It is worth noting
that George Bush's new chief of Homeland Security was out launching
September as National Preparedness Month. You couldn't make it up.
Clarke's battle cry over the war ===================================
We'll also be talking to Ken Clarke, who it turns out has not stepped
down from British American tobacco after all. He says he will, but only
if he wins the leadership contest. Today he launched his campaign
properly with a speech about foreign police. Iraq was a disastrous
decision that made Britain a target for Islamic terror he says.
I'll be talking to him about that and things more domestic. By the way -
did people like the countdown clock on Messrs Letwin and Bercow
yesterday? We gave them 30 seconds each for their first answer and it
worked a treat - they came in concise and clear. Should we do more of
this or does it trivialise the conversation?
Beslan, One year on
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Beslan one year on. Horrific memories and more blame being piled on
Putin's doorstep by the families who lost children. We'll be looking at
where the Chechen powder keg is now, and what Beslan's enduring impact
on Russia has been.
Loads more, got to go I'm afraid - but see you at seven
best wishes
Krishnan
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