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Bob Morris @ Sep 12th 2005 17:54 - Category: Unfiled ;
Archive for September 12th, 2005
Been a long time coming, a long time overdue
Bob Morris @ Sep 12th 2005 13:57 - Category: Unfiled ;
But it’s finally happening
NBC’s Williams: Journalists’ gloves off
NBC’s Brian Williams says the lasting legacy of Hurricane Katrina for journalists may be the end of an unusual four-year period of deference to people in power.
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.
FEMA Chief Mike Brown resigns
Bob Morris @ Sep 12th 2005 13:53 - Category: Unfiled ;
Major power outages in LA
Bob Morris @ Sep 12th 2005 13:48 - Category: Unfiled ;
Sue trapped in elevator for an hour, rescued by LAFD! Might make Channel 4 News. Still no power. More later!
When reporters asked what it was like, she said, “Dark. And no Diet Coke.”
And here’s Sue’s 15 seconds of fame —
“It was completely dark — we had no air conditioning,” said Sue Morris, who was trapped in an elevator for 45 minutes.
Tragically, they cut her line about the Diet Coke.
Update: Sue made the national news! NBC national news and website ran video of her walking out of the elevator after LAFD, LAPD, and elevator repair pried the door open after carefully lowering the car manually first. Her comment, “the worst thing that could of happened was I died of boredom.”
Turning inward, doing nothing, is no solution
Bob Morris @ Sep 12th 2005 07:25 - Category: Unfiled ;
The Dalai Lama, Tibet’s spiritual leader, urged victims of the Sept. 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina on Sunday to turn their tragedies into something that makes them stronger.
“Your sadness, your anger will not solve the problem,” the 70-year old monk told a crowd of about 10,000. “More sadness, more frustration only brings more suffering for yourself.”
His counsel is almost directly contradicted by modern psychology. He is not allowing survivors of catastrophes to feel the pain, to go through the quite normal - and needed - process of anger and grieving. Without going through the process, there can be no real healing.
Worse, this really is almost blame the victim. If you are upset, there must be something wrong with you. Look inward. Do not enter the political arena, there could be anger and tumult there. But by this refusal, one cedes the ground to oppressors without a struggle.
“Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.” — Saul Alinsky
Global warming: Adapting to a new reality
Bob Morris @ Sep 12th 2005 07:19 - Category: Unfiled ;
From the hysterical tree huggers at that dangerously radical publication, the International Herald Tribune.
The early warning signs of global warming are apparent: an increase in summer deaths due to heat waves in Europe; the northern migration of toxic algae and tropical fish to the Mediterranean; the spread of disease-carrying ticks into previously inhospitable parts of Sweden and the Czech Republic.
The 1990s was the warmest decade in history. The years 1998, 2002 and 2003 were the hottest ever. By 2080, according to the Hadley Center for Climate Prediction and Research, in Britain, every second summer will be as hot or hotter than the scorching summer of 2003, when Europe recorded 20,000 excess deaths.
From the land of the insane
Bob Morris @ Sep 12th 2005 07:18 - Category: Unfiled ;
A new draft US defense paper calls for preventive nuclear strikes against state and non-state adversaries in order to deter them from using weapons of mass destruction and urges US troops to “prepare to use nuclear weapons effectively.”
Let’s get in the streets on Sept. 24, they can be stopped, they MUST be stopped.
Mercenaries guard homes of the rich in New Orleans
Bob Morris @ Sep 12th 2005 07:17 - Category: Unfiled ;
It’s like a banana republic, isn’t it?
Hundreds of mercenaries have descended on New Orleans to guard the property of the city’s millionaires from looters.
The heavily armed men, employed by private military companies including Blackwater and ISI, are part of the militarisation of a city which had a reputation for being one of the most relaxed and easy-going in America.
Steve Jobs: "Podcasting is taking off like a rocket"
Bob Morris @ Sep 12th 2005 07:16 - Category: Unfiled ;
After offering podcasts on iTunes for two months, it has 7 million podcast subscriptions.
30% of cars will offer iPod connectivity in the US in 2006. This is HUGE for podcasting.
