"“We have lent a huge amount of money to the U.S. Of course we are concerned about the safety of our assets. To be honest, I am definitely a little worried.” "


Chinese premier Wen Jiabao 12th March 2009


""We have a financial system that is run by private shareholders, managed by private institutions, and we'd like to do our best to preserve that system."


Timothy Geithner US Secretary of the Treasury, previously President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.1/3/2009

Thursday, September 15, 2005

NOLA Times Picayune back in business

Operating from a college dorm the New Orleans based Times Picayune are publishing on line. Take a look they have some amazing stories.

Here is one of 1,000's of pictures covering, before / during / after Katrina passed through.

A Texas Game Warden at the ready.

Amazingly Picayune (Pronunciation: pik"ē-yOOn'), means trivial, petty, trifling from the Provencal Fr. for a small coin. (Webster)

2 comments:

Nur-al-Cubicle said...

Ha! They deployed US Customs and Immigration police to hunt snipers because the US military was not permitted to do so!

ziz said...

..and that is why of course that the ex Iraq Blackwater etc., guards have been drafted in as well. Posse Comitatus etc.,

doh!

(C) Very Seriously Disorganised Criminals 2002/3/4/5/6/7/8/9 - copy anything you wish