About to fly to Perth, Prosper, Katrina.
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tcpipAbout to hop on the big silver bird and fly to Perth for a week or so. Finished most of my data for my presentation at the SAGE-AU conference. On Saturday at 7pm there will be a eating, drinking and talking fest which I'm hosting at:
Oxford Hotel
368 Oxford St Leederville WA 6007
ph: (08) 9444 2193 Hotels--Accommodation
So leave an el-jay comment if you expect to turn up, so myself and the hotel have some sort of idea of numbers. Expected activities, apart from SAGE-AU, include a visit to Murdoch University where the lovely people at MARS are holding a "How to Host a Murder" eve. Add that to two days of the conference and possibly a journey down south and all shall be good.
Presentation at Prosper Australia went extremely well. There were a few surprises in the audience, including the Herald Sun reporter who interviewed me on the notorious tram-ticket case and Greg T. Both were their due to their respective fathers being members of the organisation.
Here's a prediction: The Liberal Party may self-destruct in a very messy manner. The rise of the extreme religious right in the party, is marginalising the more centrist liberals. The latter of course don't have the numbers and the former don't care about party unity. They have an agenda of fire and brimstone. Shame we're the one's who have to receive their "inspired" governance.
So, hurrican Katrina. Kill those who try to get food and water. When is a looter not a looter? This is a disaster of epic proportions. Not surprisingly many are having a go at the Bush administration as up to 10,000 are feared dead. Time to face the awful questions of responsibility. This guy is a hero. How did Cuba cope? With decentralised administration and social capital of course.
Oxford Hotel
368 Oxford St Leederville WA 6007
ph: (08) 9444 2193 Hotels--Accommodation
So leave an el-jay comment if you expect to turn up, so myself and the hotel have some sort of idea of numbers. Expected activities, apart from SAGE-AU, include a visit to Murdoch University where the lovely people at MARS are holding a "How to Host a Murder" eve. Add that to two days of the conference and possibly a journey down south and all shall be good.
Presentation at Prosper Australia went extremely well. There were a few surprises in the audience, including the Herald Sun reporter who interviewed me on the notorious tram-ticket case and Greg T. Both were their due to their respective fathers being members of the organisation.
Here's a prediction: The Liberal Party may self-destruct in a very messy manner. The rise of the extreme religious right in the party, is marginalising the more centrist liberals. The latter of course don't have the numbers and the former don't care about party unity. They have an agenda of fire and brimstone. Shame we're the one's who have to receive their "inspired" governance.
So, hurrican Katrina. Kill those who try to get food and water. When is a looter not a looter? This is a disaster of epic proportions. Not surprisingly many are having a go at the Bush administration as up to 10,000 are feared dead. Time to face the awful questions of responsibility. This guy is a hero. How did Cuba cope? With decentralised administration and social capital of course.
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Date: 2005-09-06 10:15 pm (UTC)I certainly don't intend to criticise anybody for grabbing survival supplies that wouldn't be saleable afterwards anyway. In their place, I'd be doing the same thing.
I have my doubts if others (i.e., non-"blacks" were engaing in the same activity that it would receive the same caption.
AP gallery 'Floodwaters', picture 8. Caption: "With much of New Orleans emptied by Hurricane Katrina, some opportunists took advantage by looting stores." The 'looter' in the foreground, looking at the camera and clutching an armful of clothes, certainly isn't black (though he might well be Asian or Latino - picking ethnicity is not my strong suit).
Certainly, there aren't a lot of photos of non-blacks 'looting'. But I think that's at least partly due to the nature of the disaster - most of those who couldn't get out of NOLA were black, and that's going to be reflected in what follows. If 80-90% of those remaining are black (which is about what I'd estimate from footage of refugees at the Superdome etc), I'd expect 80-90% of 'looters' to be black.