9 days ago
nelson : Banksy New Orleans - Famous street artist does his thing in N.O.
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17 month ago
wearehugh : Official Google Blog: About the New Orleans imagery in Google Maps and Earth
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wearehugh : Miss Malaprop - independent, sustainable, eco-friendly shopping, film, art, fashion, crafts & design, from New Orleans with love » Blog Archive » Etsy Upcycle Recycling Contest
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wearehugh : WWLTV.com | News for New Orleans, Louisiana | Local News
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wearehugh : New Orleans Levee Break Before and After
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27 month ago
deusx : Katrina shocks New Orleans visitors 10 months on - Yahoo! News - "If I was the government, I couldn't sleep at night."
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27 month ago
plasticbag : A rogue gang of transvestite shoplifters is terrorising New Orleans - I have to say, I sort of love this story - mainly because the imagery that it conjures in my heads is so glorious, bright and melodramatic
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36 month ago
deusx : Just a Bump in the Beltway: Saving NOLA - "Failure to plan, and train properly has plagued US efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and now that failure has come home to roost in the United States."
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36 month ago
jimray : Operation Eden - Amazing photolog from the aftermath of Karina
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36 month ago
kellan : GW Bush's hurricane response compared with previous presidents. - Compared Nixon, Bush Sr., and Clinton #
deusx : LawGeek: Bush's Response to Katrina sub-par compared to other preisdents - "Bush was on vacation, riding his bike for two hours the day before the hurricane lands. "
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36 month ago
deusx : JohnKerry.com - Senator John Kerry's Speech at Brown University - "The incompetence of Katrina's response is not reserved to a hurricane. There's an enormous gap between Americans' daily expectations and government's daily performance."
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36 month ago
deusx : Bush to Focus on Vision for Reconstruction in Speech - New York Times - What. The. Fuck?! "Republicans said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush's chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort, which reaches across many agencies of government and includes the direct involvemen
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36 month ago
deusx : Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: September 11, 2005 - September 17, 2005 Archives - "President Bush has now put us on notice, the Gulf Coast reconstruction effort is going to be run as a patronage and political operation."
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36 month ago
deusx : Daily Nightly: A trick of the light? - Nightly News with Brian Williams - MSNBC.com - "The motorcade route through the district was partially lit no more than 30 minutes before POTUS drove through. And yet last night, no more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness aga
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36 month ago
deusx : CNN.com - U.S. won't ban mediafrom New Orleans searches - Sep 10, 2005 - "Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans."
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36 month ago
deusx : New FEMA boss is 'Duct Tape Man' - Bloggermann - MSNBC.com - "the man President Bush immediately named to succeed "Brownie," proves to have been the same FEMA official who, two-and-a-half years ago, suggested that Americans stock up on duct tape to protect against a biological or chemical terrorist attack"
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36 month ago
deusx : New Zealand Herald - New Orleans 'unsafe for a decade' - Sunday 11, September 2005 23:47.00 PM - World News - "And, he added, the Bush Administration is covering up the danger. "
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36 month ago
deusx : Bush Takes Responsibility for Blunders - Yahoo! News - "President Bush for the first time took responsibility Tuesday for federal government mistakes in dealing with Hurricane Katrina and suggested the calamity raised broader questions about the government's ability to handle both natural disasters and terror
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36 month ago
deusx : How Bush Blew It - Newsweek Hurricane Katrina Coverage - MSNBC.com - "Repeatedly, the president turned to his aides and said, "Fix it.""
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36 month ago
deusx : BobHarris.com: Bush orders FEMA to protect Upsidedownland - "Welcome to upside-down-land: the areas at risk for Katrina were quite remarkably the areas not included in Bush's declaration of emergency."
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36 month ago
Nelson Minar : Fuck yourself, Cheney - The guy who said that got detained for 20 minutes by guys with big guns
deusx : Physician who told Cheney to go F*ck Himself Lost his Home in Katrina, Detained, Cuffed by Cheney's M-16-carrying Goons - "Had it not been for the media cameras filming the initial scene, I doubt Cheney’s goons would have just let Marble go after 20 minutes."
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37 month ago
plasticbag : Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media? - Fascinating article which suggests that this particular crisis in the States has pushed the media into a position where it can be critical of government again, and interrogate it as it's supposed to. Fascinating stuff. Hopefully won't be an exception from
deusx : BBC NEWS | World | Americas | Viewpoint: Has Katrina saved US media? - "Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back, thanks to Katrina."
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37 month ago
deusx : Condi Returns to D.C. After Bloggers and 'Post' Expose Vacation - "All day Thursday, from the New York Post to several popular blogs, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice came under attack and ridicule for having fun in Manhattan while New Orleans sank and exploded in violence."
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37 month ago
deusx : Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Drowning New Orleans (October 2001) - "A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city"
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37 month ago
kayodeok : Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us. You looked down on us; you dismissed our victims; you dismissed us. You want our Jazz Fest, you want our Mardi Gras, you want our cooking and our music. Then when you saw us in real t
deusx : Do You Know What It Means to Lose New Orleans? - New York Times - By Anne Rice - "But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us."
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