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From: "dscr22" <dscr22@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:21 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] OT: How big a story (overseas) is the hurricane/New
Orleans flood?


>
> I'm curious, to our friends in UK and elsewhere, how much coverage
> the disaster in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast is getting in your
> media.
>
> Bad thing obviously - not too often you lose an entire major city.

Yeah, pretty big story - front page, anyway.

Andy T.

----- Original Message -----

From: David Jacques

To: jonesalley ; Mellotronists

Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 2:54 PM

Subject: RE: [Mellotronists] Re: OT: How big a story (overseas) is the hurricane/New Orleans flood?

This was true at first, but since this initial "looting" they have graduated to electronics and jewelry. Some have also shot at police.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of jonesalley
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 1:00 AM
To: Mellotronists
Subject: Fw: [Mellotronists] Re: OT: How big a story (overseas) is the hurricane/New Orleans flood?

Not trying to be argumentative, I can only say that watching cable news
coverage of ordinary people trying to cope somehow with the sudden
catastrophe that has befallen them, many of whom have lost everything they
owned with no hope of recoup, I have yet to see anyone carrying a computer
or a television set and I can't help but wonder about a media (I'm sorry,
that should be "liberal media") that films people trudging through
chest-deep water that is filled with agitated displaced wildlife, hidden
obstacles, assorted poisons, dead things, sewage, and who knows what else,
and who are carrying a gym bag packed with loaves of bread, bottled water,
and packages of Pampers, damaged goods which will only end up in a landfill
otherwise, stuff that they scavenged from a washed-out WalMart that they
made it to without dying, and which has enough insurance coverage to
actually profit on the corporate level from this kind of event...

... and refers to them as "looters."



> Unbelievable, the scale of this disaster.
> Unbelievable also, the looting.

----- Original Message -----

From: jonesalley

To: Mellotronists

Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 4:56 PM

Subject: Fw: [Mellotronists] Re: OT: How big a story (overseas) is the hurricane/New Orleans flood?

And I am in no way trying to say that a certain percentage of criminals and scumbags don't exist, but I do debate the "looter's holiday" line of crap that Faux News is pushing.

This was true at first, but since this initial "looting" they have graduated to electronics and jewelry. Some have also shot at police.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of jonesalley
Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2005 1:00 AM
To: Mellotronists
Subject: Fw: [Mellotronists] Re: OT: How big a story (overseas) is the hurricane/New Orleans flood?

Not trying to be argumentative, I can only say that watching cable news
coverage of ordinary people trying to cope somehow with the sudden
catastrophe that has befallen them, many of whom have lost everything they
owned with no hope of recoup, I have yet to see anyone carrying a computer
or a television set and I can't help but wonder about a media (I'm sorry,
that should be "liberal media") that films people trudging through
chest-deep water that is filled with agitated displaced wildlife, hidden
obstacles, assorted poisons, dead things, sewage, and who knows what else,
and who are carrying a gym bag packed with loaves of bread, bottled water,
and packages of Pampers, damaged goods which will only end up in a landfill
otherwise, stuff that they scavenged from a washed-out WalMart that they
made it to without dying, and which has enough insurance coverage to
actually profit on the corporate level from this kind of event...

... and refers to them as "looters."



> Unbelievable, the scale of this disaster.
> Unbelievable also, the looting.