Talk about your political diatribe...
Offers of assistance CAME from Canada and a dozen or more other nations -
voluntary OFFERS of assistance.
A number of those offers - Venezuela's included - have political overtones
not even worthy of discussion.
Your last paragraph is outrageous on its face and does little to further the
discussion of natural hazards and disasters to which this list is ostensibly
dedicated.
Be well, stay safe.
Charles
C. S. Thomas
Managing Director
CACH International Ltd Co
"Planning to Keep You in Business"sm
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Subject: Day by day graphics, chrono of Katrina & New Orleans
Dear colleagues,
I am not sure how many of you have seen the New York Times online section
that provides day by day satellite images, maps of New Orleans with
flooding, fires, etc. marked, and notes on response.
See
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/national/2005_HURRICANEKATRINA_GRAPHIC/
index_02.html .
Humans are good at ordering disorder, or, at least, going through the ritual
motions. This slick graphical display -- and there is no denying it's
usefulness -- seems somehow rather futile nonetheless. The city is now
almost empty except for occupying troops and stray animals and the dead (no
doubt now in the thousands). The genie is out of the bottle.
The U.S. has finally asked Canada, the EU, and NATO for assistance: disaster
diplomacy, as Ilan Kelman would say. Cuban doctors are standing buy, and
there is an offer of more Venezuelan oil, but that is probably too much for
the Bush administration.
Condoleza Rice has vehemently denied that racism played any role in the lack
of plans for evacuating New Orleans' poor, predominantly Black population
(some 112,000 households known from the U.S. Census to be without private
automobiles) and slow response. Well, that's her job in the WHITE house,
isn't it?
Ben Wisner
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