#disaster

A large-scale clean-up operation was launched after a tanker carrying more than 20 tonnes of yeast extract - believed to be Marmite - overturned on the busy M1 motorway in South Yorkshire near Sheffield.

"Japan finds itself in crisis, with our society and culture temporarily reverting to a pre-cyberunification era"

"A year after the storm, the federal government has proven slow and unreliable in keeping the president's promises."

Doesn't resignation mean... er... "I quit" and then you find a new job? "The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday defended the agency's decision to keep him on the job another 30 days as a "completely legitimate thing to d

"Failure to plan, and train properly has plagued US efforts in Afghanistan, Iraq and now that failure has come home to roost in the United States."

"Bush was on vacation, riding his bike for two hours the day before the hurricane lands. "

"The motorcade route through the district was partially lit no more than 30 minutes before POTUS drove through. And yet last night, no more than an hour after the President departed, the lights went out. The entire area was plunged into total darkness aga

"President Bush has now put us on notice, the Gulf Coast reconstruction effort is going to be run as a patronage and political operation."

What. The. Fuck?! "Republicans said Karl Rove, the White House deputy chief of staff and Mr. Bush's chief political adviser, was in charge of the reconstruction effort, which reaches across many agencies of government and includes the direct involvemen

"And, he added, the Bush Administration is covering up the danger. "

"the man President Bush immediately named to succeed "Brownie," proves to have been the same FEMA official who, two-and-a-half years ago, suggested that Americans stock up on duct tape to protect against a biological or chemical terrorist attack"

"Repeatedly, the president turned to his aides and said, "Fix it.""

"Welcome to upside-down-land: the areas at risk for Katrina were quite remarkably the areas not included in Bush's declaration of emergency."

"Amidst the horror, American broadcast journalism just might have grown its spine back, thanks to Katrina."

"But to my country I want to say this: During this crisis you failed us."

"A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of southeastern Louisiana can save the city"

"All day Thursday, from the New York Post to several popular blogs, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice came under attack and ridicule for having fun in Manhattan while New Orleans sank and exploded in violence."

"Any idea where all our helicopters are? It's Day 5 of Hurricane Katrina and thousands remain stranded in New Orleans and need to be airlifted."

"On the day the levees burst in New Orleans, Bush delivered a speech in Colorado comparing the Iraq war to World War II and himself to Franklin D. Roosevelt"

'Six year old Leide das Neves Ferreira "rubbed the powder on her body so that she glowed and sparkled."'

"Several families remain evacuated and a stretch of 15 Mile Road remains closed Monday as a massive sinkhole continues to grow at more than one foot per hour, according to Local 4 reports." Holy crap. I used to live pretty close by there...

"The climate could change radically, and fast. That would be the mother of all national security issues."