Katrina disaster

[alwarpet_andavan]

http://jackofall.blogspot.com/2005/09/katrina.html

http://soonapaana.blogspot.com/2005/...ight-have.html

[nirosha sen]

I'm curious abt something????? I haven't seen a single Indian face througout CNN's coverage of the disaster????? Don't Indian NRIs live out there????

[gaddeswarup]

Nirosha sen wrote:

I haven't seen a single Indian face througout CNN's coverage of the disaster????? Don't Indian NRIs live out there????

I am sure that there are lot of NRIs. About half the motels in the south are owned by people of Indian origin, I heard. There are also many students. I think that most of the people we saw are poor and helpless. It seems that one in six does not have a car. I saw in Telugu site an announcement of a Telugu movie on that Sunday in that area. Here is an URL to a moving account by a doctor of Indian origin, Hemant Vankawala, who participated in the rescue efforts:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=4836926

[a.ratchasi]

....
oopss...did i get the last fact wrong??? Or am I just being proud of being
an INDIAN?

It is sad to note that the sufferings of one is used evaluate the greatness of the other.

[dr#]

the one good thing to have come out of this is that the us media has started to come out of its shell, and ask searching questions of the government. this i suppose has got george bush off his ass, accepting responsibility for the mess up, and actually doing something for the affected population.

if not of the people and by the people, maybe this govt can be for the people and not for the corporations for a change!

[dr#]

the one good thing to have come out of this is that the us media has started to come out of its shell, and ask searching questions of the government. this i suppose has got george bush off his ass, accepting responsibility for the mess up, and actually doing something for the affected population.

if not of the people and by the people, maybe this govt can be for the people and not for the corporations for a change!

[gaddeswarup]

dr# wrote:

if not of the people and by the people, maybe this govt can be for the people and not for the corporations for a change!

From:
http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=21843
"In fact, with Congress already making a $62 billion initial down payment on post-Katrina reconstruction work, the Bush administration has just given out its first 6 reconstruction contracts, five of them -- could anyone be surprised -- to Iraqi reconstructors, including Fluor. Small world indeed. The Bush version of crony capitalism should perhaps be termed predatory capitalism, following as it does so closely in the wake of war and natural disaster much as camp followers used to trail armies, ready, in case of victory, to loot the baggage train of the enemy."
Swarup

[dr#]

shameless

you forgot to mention halliburton......i'm sure they'll make a killing out of this.

[gaddeswarup]

I am beginning to feel that Sri Badri was right and I was hasty. Poor countries go to help and it seems to be business as usual in the US.
Swarup

[dev]

I am wondering Y the highway that goes towards Houston is not open for outbound traffic even after so many ppl r struck in the traffic for hours... The inbound traffic is very very minimal...There is no point in keeping it exclusively for inbound traffic even in case of such an emergency...