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Titolo: New Orleans chaos goes on as blast rattles city (Reuters)

Spero solo che 'sti massacri rivelino l'ignavia e la profonda 
stupidita' di questa amministrazione agli elettori.
Se e' vero che i fondi per il rafforzamento delle dighe erano stati 
richiesti 2 anni fa, e che si era risposto che questi fondi erano stati 
destinati all'Irak, spero che si trovi il modo di mettere termine alla 
carriera di Bush.
Am.
 New Orleans chaos goes on as blast rattles city
By Mark Babineck  59 minutes ago
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) - A mighty explosion rattled the outskirts of New 
Orleans and the ruined city's frayed nerves on Friday as U.S. troops 
finally headed toward the region in a federal aid effort that the mayor 
said was a disaster unto itself.
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Police locked themselves in their own headquarters in fear of the 
spreading anarchy as looters, shooters and gangs roamed the streets 
thrown into chaos in aftermath Hurricane Katrina's deadly attack on the 
U.S. Gulf Coast.
Tens of thousands of people sat helplessly on the streets and sidewalks 
near the city convention center, waiting for help that had not yet come.
Others trudged along flooded and debris-strewn streets toward the 
Superdome football stadium where they hoped to be bused to safety.
They stumbled around bodies that lay rotting and untouched five days 
after deadly Hurricane Katrina struck the U.S. Gulf Coast and left what 
officials said could be thousands of dead.
President George W. Bush left for a tour of the area on Friday amid the 
mounting criticism that his administration was ill-prepared for the 
disaster and slow to respond.
Before leaving Washington for Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, he 
told reporters aid was "surging" in, but acknowledged things were not 
going well.
"The results are not acceptable. I'm heading down there right now. I'm 
looking forward to talking to the people on the ground," he said.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin blasted the federal government as emotions 
spilled over in an angry radio interview, saying he was "pissed" at the 
lack of help the historic city had received.
"I need reinforcements. I need troops, man. I need 500 buses, man," he 
said. "Now get off your asses and fix this. Let's do something and 
let's fix the biggest goddam crisis in the history of this country."
"We authorized $8 billion to go to Iraq, lickety split. After 9/11 we 
gave the president unauthorized powers, lickety split to help New York 
and other places," he said. "You mean to tell me that a place where 
most of your oil is coming through ... that we can't figure out a way 
to authorize the resources that we need," said Nagin.
On Friday, at least one explosion shook the southwestern suburbs, 
touching off a raging fire that sent flames leaping into the sky and 
large cloud black smoke towering over part of the city.
The explosion appeared to be an industrial area hard hit by the storm, 
but its cause was not yet known.
Michael Brown, director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, 
said 14,000 Guard troops along the stricken Gulf coast were on the 
ground and he expected 30,000 there in the coming days.
Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco, who earlier said she was "just furious" 
about the anarchy in New Orleans, said they were going with 
shoot-to-kill orders.
"These troops are battle-tested. They have M-16s and are locked and 
loaded," Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco said.
"These troops know how to shoot and kill and I expect they will."
But Nagin questioned why they had not come much sooner.
"I keep hearing this is coming, that is coming. My answer to that is 
BS. Where is the beef? There is no beef in this city," he said.
"People are dying, people have lost their homes, people have lost their 
jobs. The city of New Orleans will never be the same."
Shell-shocked storm survivors said they were stunned by what had 
happened in their city known as a carefree place of jazz and French 
Quarter bars.
"Call it biblical. Call it apocalyptic. Whatever you want to call it, 
take your pick," said 46-year-old Robert Lewis.
He was rescued as floodwaters invaded his home and endured two days of 
diabolical conditions at a shelter before finally being evacuated to 
Houston.
"There were bodies floating past my front door. I've never seen 
anything like that," he said, near tears from apparent emotional 
exhaustion.
The troubled aftermath of Katrina did not end in New Orleans.
Storm survivors were shipped to the Houston Astrodome where the 
government had hoped to house 25,000 evacuees, but decided the stadium 
could handle no more than 13,000 as conditions inside began to 
deteriorate.
As buses full of evacuees poured in, officials diverted them to other 
shelters, including the Reliant Arena next door to the dome.
Katrina forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes and 
shut refineries along the Gulf Coast shut, sending gasoline prices at 
the pump soaring to new records of well over $3 a gallon in most parts 
of the country.
(Additional reporting by Erwin Seba in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Paul 
Simao in Mobile, Alabama, Peter Cooney in Houston, Marc Serota in 
Pensacola, Florida, Steve Holland and Charles Aldinger in Washington)

 Am.
#_Il fatto che c'e`gente che muore "ora", dopo il disastro, e`"abominevole"
,ma dopo i nefasti dei quattro anni precedenti, c'e`poco da sperare. 'Sto
gatto rognoso cade sempre su quattro zampe.
Giano


Anche se cade su quattro zampe, la sua immagine assomiglia sempre più ad un 
essere grottesco, assolutamente privo di credibilità e dignità.
Fa quasi pena. Francamente provo più schifo per gli alfieri della cosiddetta 
stampa libera, che dopo averlo coperto e sostenuto per 4 anni, ora tentano 
di smarcarsi e rifarsi il trucco...