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Saturday, September 17, 2005
Wednesday, September 14, 2005
PORK, THE OTHER WHITE MEAT
"At least two major corporate clients of Bush's former campaign manager (and a former head of the FEMA), have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast. One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root.
(COMMON DREAMS)
"At least two major corporate clients of Bush's former campaign manager (and a former head of the FEMA), have already been tapped to start recovery work along the battered Gulf Coast. One is Shaw Group Inc. and the other is Halliburton Co. subsidiary Kellogg Brown and Root.
(COMMON DREAMS)
THIS IS WHY THEY CALL IT THE BIG EASY
Attention shoplifters, Attention shoplifters, the cops are over at aisle three. Don't worry, though, they're helping themselves to the contents of an abandoned Wal-Mart store.
(MSNBC, unearthed by Gary L. Blume)
Attention shoplifters, Attention shoplifters, the cops are over at aisle three. Don't worry, though, they're helping themselves to the contents of an abandoned Wal-Mart store.
(MSNBC, unearthed by Gary L. Blume)
NOLA DOCTORS KILLED THEIR PATIENTS
The Daily Mail, a British newspaper (credibility unknown by me) claims that "Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leave them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, administering overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive," the story claims.
"One New Orleans doctor told how she 'prayed for God to have mercy on her soul' after she ignored every tenet of medical ethics and ended the lives of patients she had earlier fought to save."
(COMMON DREAMS)
The Daily Mail, a British newspaper (credibility unknown by me) claims that "Doctors working in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans killed critically ill patients rather than leave them to die in agony as they evacuated hospitals, administering overdoses of morphine to those they believed could not make it out alive," the story claims.
"One New Orleans doctor told how she 'prayed for God to have mercy on her soul' after she ignored every tenet of medical ethics and ended the lives of patients she had earlier fought to save."
(COMMON DREAMS)
BUT, CLICK HERE TO SEE THIS INTERESTING ARTICLE ON SUSPICIOUS NATURE OF THIS REPORT
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
KATRINA MEDIA PORTAL CREATED
Webcasters.org now serves as a streaming aggregation and information portal that provides the latest links to live Katrina Relief broadcasts and Gulf Coast radio and TV station, web audio and video feeds from news outlets, ham radio operators, and citizen journalists, as well as podcasts and even videoblogs covering the relief efforts in the Gulf of Mexico.
There are some nifty things on there.
e.g. CHECK THIS ONE OUT!
(Suggested by Ben Walls)
Webcasters.org now serves as a streaming aggregation and information portal that provides the latest links to live Katrina Relief broadcasts and Gulf Coast radio and TV station, web audio and video feeds from news outlets, ham radio operators, and citizen journalists, as well as podcasts and even videoblogs covering the relief efforts in the Gulf of Mexico.
There are some nifty things on there.
e.g. CHECK THIS ONE OUT!
(Suggested by Ben Walls)
NEW ORLEANS' JUSTICE CENTER ISSUES PLEA FOR HELP
“The Justice Center” is a three-story building that previously stood – and we hope still stands – at 636 Baronne Street in New Orleans. It has served the Louisiana’s indigent community for over a decade. It
houses four not-for-profit criminal justice organizations, three of which are attempting to set up temporary shop in Houston, Texas.
They have lost most of the office equipment and personal belongings. "In many cases we were able to escape with little more than the clothes on our backs. We need help establishing a temporary office in Houston, so that we can continue to represent our clients. Many of our clients have trial dates and post-conviction filing deadlines pending and we must be able to resume work as quickly as possible in order to protect their interests. In addition, our staff, who have dedicated themselves to serving the indigent community for many years, now find themselves in need of assistance."
(Suggested by Paul Whitehurst)
“The Justice Center” is a three-story building that previously stood – and we hope still stands – at 636 Baronne Street in New Orleans. It has served the Louisiana’s indigent community for over a decade. It
houses four not-for-profit criminal justice organizations, three of which are attempting to set up temporary shop in Houston, Texas.
Those organizations are:
• LOUISIANA CAPITAL ASSISTANCE CENTER,
a non-profit death penalty trial
office
representing clients in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas;
• A FIGHTING CHANCE,
a non-profit organization of capital defense investigators;
• INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS,
a non-profit law office fighting to exonerate
the wrongfully convicted.
They have lost most of the office equipment and personal belongings. "In many cases we were able to escape with little more than the clothes on our backs. We need help establishing a temporary office in Houston, so that we can continue to represent our clients. Many of our clients have trial dates and post-conviction filing deadlines pending and we must be able to resume work as quickly as possible in order to protect their interests. In addition, our staff, who have dedicated themselves to serving the indigent community for many years, now find themselves in need of assistance."
Included in this memo is a list of the Immediate Recovery Needs
OR
CLICK HERE TO MAKE AN ONLINE DONATION
(Suggested by Paul Whitehurst)
Monday, September 12, 2005
REPORT ON KATHRYN'S RELIEF EFFORT
Hello everyone. I just wanted to let you all know how your money and supplies are being expended. With the help of the ladies at Christian Ministries, Emerald Coast RV's and LOTS of their people, together with some of the money and supplies that you all have sent, I set up a hot meal service this weekend in Pearlington, Miss. (As you may know from other e-mails from me and phone calls, Pearlington is a little fishing villlage on the Pearl River on the Miss/La border. They are part of "ground zero".
My dear friends, James Amerson and Jeff Griffey, together with some volunteer help and a Pensacola News Journal reporter, and I were able to cook and serve between 500/600 hot meals to floks in Pearlington. The home-cooked red beans and rice, grilled sausage, fresh fruit, and cookies were a big hit on Saturday. Saturday night, James, Jeff and I camped out in Diamondhead, Ms at the United Methodist Church parking lot. We cooked chicken and rice and green beans for sunday. We also served breakfast on sunday morning (sausage biscuits, pb and j sandwiches, cookies, fruit, juice and coffee). Again, everything was a big hit as Pearlington had not had hot meals service until this weekend. I must tell you that the frech iced tea was our biggest hit....folks in the south NEED their iced tea.
We coordinated with the Diamonhead United Methodists and with FEMA (who is now on the ground in Pearlington) and hot meals service will continue daily. There is a shelter being set up by FEMA. There are a group of fine volunteer nurses on the ground and a hell of a vet running animal aide and fostering. The FEMA man in charge is doing a great job. We donated all of our equipment (grills, fish cookers, generator, supplies, groceries and fans) to various folks there that needed them. Christian Ministries spoke with me last night and are sending in a load of clean-up equipment today.
I will go back with more euipment later this week. Your donations all went to people that needed them and were so deeply appreciated. We come empty handed except for a small yellow tabby kitten fished out of the flood and now adopted by Kim at the Copper Possum.
Thank you everyone.
(Kathryn Runco Miller)
Hello everyone. I just wanted to let you all know how your money and supplies are being expended. With the help of the ladies at Christian Ministries, Emerald Coast RV's and LOTS of their people, together with some of the money and supplies that you all have sent, I set up a hot meal service this weekend in Pearlington, Miss. (As you may know from other e-mails from me and phone calls, Pearlington is a little fishing villlage on the Pearl River on the Miss/La border. They are part of "ground zero".
My dear friends, James Amerson and Jeff Griffey, together with some volunteer help and a Pensacola News Journal reporter, and I were able to cook and serve between 500/600 hot meals to floks in Pearlington. The home-cooked red beans and rice, grilled sausage, fresh fruit, and cookies were a big hit on Saturday. Saturday night, James, Jeff and I camped out in Diamondhead, Ms at the United Methodist Church parking lot. We cooked chicken and rice and green beans for sunday. We also served breakfast on sunday morning (sausage biscuits, pb and j sandwiches, cookies, fruit, juice and coffee). Again, everything was a big hit as Pearlington had not had hot meals service until this weekend. I must tell you that the frech iced tea was our biggest hit....folks in the south NEED their iced tea.
We coordinated with the Diamonhead United Methodists and with FEMA (who is now on the ground in Pearlington) and hot meals service will continue daily. There is a shelter being set up by FEMA. There are a group of fine volunteer nurses on the ground and a hell of a vet running animal aide and fostering. The FEMA man in charge is doing a great job. We donated all of our equipment (grills, fish cookers, generator, supplies, groceries and fans) to various folks there that needed them. Christian Ministries spoke with me last night and are sending in a load of clean-up equipment today.
I will go back with more euipment later this week. Your donations all went to people that needed them and were so deeply appreciated. We come empty handed except for a small yellow tabby kitten fished out of the flood and now adopted by Kim at the Copper Possum.
Thank you everyone.
(Kathryn Runco Miller)
REPORT FROM CAMP KATRINA
There was an article on the front page of the Living Section today about Camp Katrina you might want to read. It will give you a pretty clear indication of how dire the situation is there.
We left the office a little before 7:30 and got there a little before 10. The functioning entity down there is the Christian Life Church in Orange Beach, along with some help from 2 other churches, I believe which are also from Baldwin County. There was no Red Cross presence that I saw and virtually no real FEMA assistance. There were some FEMA reps walking around and there was a lengthy line to file forms for assistance, but nothing being done by either organization to feed, house or supply people. That is what the Christian Life Church is doing.
We had a 26' foot truck from Flowerwood nursery substantially filled with supplies we bought based on the shopping list they gave us. I had been in touch with them on the ground there, and they told us exactly what was needed. Needless to say, we were very well received. We had tents, sleeping bags, air matresses, pillows, new clothing, radios, batteries, personal supplies, a ton of large cans of vegetables, beans, fruits, gatorade etc It went straight from our truck to the CL tent and then distributed to those in need. No wasted effort and no wasted time. In fact, all the tents,bags etc were gone almost by the time we finished unpacking. I can promise you there was and will not be a waste of assets or money in what we sent down there. On most of the stuff we also go very good discounts. For example, the Coleman outlet gave us 30% off on almost everything we bought.
When we finished unloading (and even some of our staff while the unloading was taken place) started assisting in unpacking and organizing supplies. It took us a little over an hour to unload the truck with about 8 of us doing it. Then we manned the kitchen for lunch from about 11 to 2:30. There were about 8 of us helping there out of 10 or 12 folks. Obviously they also need volunteers. If we had not been there today to help they would have been overwhelmed. The people we fed and gave drinks to were very thankful for our help. It was a very good, rewarding experience.
(FORWARDED BY RICHARD DORMAN, Cunningham, Bounds)
There was an article on the front page of the Living Section today about Camp Katrina you might want to read. It will give you a pretty clear indication of how dire the situation is there.
We left the office a little before 7:30 and got there a little before 10. The functioning entity down there is the Christian Life Church in Orange Beach, along with some help from 2 other churches, I believe which are also from Baldwin County. There was no Red Cross presence that I saw and virtually no real FEMA assistance. There were some FEMA reps walking around and there was a lengthy line to file forms for assistance, but nothing being done by either organization to feed, house or supply people. That is what the Christian Life Church is doing.
We had a 26' foot truck from Flowerwood nursery substantially filled with supplies we bought based on the shopping list they gave us. I had been in touch with them on the ground there, and they told us exactly what was needed. Needless to say, we were very well received. We had tents, sleeping bags, air matresses, pillows, new clothing, radios, batteries, personal supplies, a ton of large cans of vegetables, beans, fruits, gatorade etc It went straight from our truck to the CL tent and then distributed to those in need. No wasted effort and no wasted time. In fact, all the tents,bags etc were gone almost by the time we finished unpacking. I can promise you there was and will not be a waste of assets or money in what we sent down there. On most of the stuff we also go very good discounts. For example, the Coleman outlet gave us 30% off on almost everything we bought.
When we finished unloading (and even some of our staff while the unloading was taken place) started assisting in unpacking and organizing supplies. It took us a little over an hour to unload the truck with about 8 of us doing it. Then we manned the kitchen for lunch from about 11 to 2:30. There were about 8 of us helping there out of 10 or 12 folks. Obviously they also need volunteers. If we had not been there today to help they would have been overwhelmed. The people we fed and gave drinks to were very thankful for our help. It was a very good, rewarding experience.
(FORWARDED BY RICHARD DORMAN, Cunningham, Bounds)
Sunday, September 11, 2005
ARE MERCENARIES PATROLLING NEW ORLEANS?
A report on Truthout claims that: "Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they have been 'deputized' by the Louisiana governor; indeed some are wearing gold Louisiana state law enforcement badges on their chests and Blackwater photo identification cards on their arms. " Can this be true?
(TRUTHOUT, unearthed by Mira Walker)
A report on Truthout claims that: "Heavily armed paramilitary mercenaries from the Blackwater private security firm, infamous for their work in Iraq, are openly patrolling the streets of New Orleans. Some of the mercenaries say they have been 'deputized' by the Louisiana governor; indeed some are wearing gold Louisiana state law enforcement badges on their chests and Blackwater photo identification cards on their arms. " Can this be true?
(TRUTHOUT, unearthed by Mira Walker)
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