From: Michael Moore
To: America
Subject: A Letter to All Who Voted for George W. Bush from Michael Moore
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 03:36:34 -0400
To All My Fellow Americans Who Voted for George W. Bush:
An open letter from Michael Moore
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Sep 112005
DirectNIC live webcam
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Sep 082005
And the patronage begins anew
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Sep 082005
Halliburton’s KBR unit gets contract to repair Gulf Coast facilities
Halliburton Co.’s Kellogg Brown & Root
subsidiary has begun work on a $500 million U.S. Navy contract for
emergency repairs at Gulf Coast naval and marine facilities that were
damaged by Hurricane Katrina, according to an Associated Press report
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Another NOLA horror story
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Sep 072005
"You know that we’re too damn poor to keep you from the gallows pole…" A close friend of mine is in New Orleans helping with the relief effort. He managed to send me an eye-witness account of what exactly is going on there. It’s incredibly disheartening, unbelievable. (found at : http://www.livejournal.com/users/entropicalia/50016.html) Continue reading »
Sep 072005
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2005 10:13 AM Subject: a survivor’s story: Katrina in New Orleans I heard from my aunt last night that my cousin Denise made it out of New Orleans; she’s at her brother’s in Baton Rouge. from what she told me: Continue reading »
Trapped In New Orleans
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(note: Bradshaw and Slonsky are paramedics frorm California that were attending the EMS conference in New Orleans. Larry Bradsahw is the chief shop steward, Paramedic Chapter, SEIU Local 790; and Lorrie Beth Slonsky is steward, Paramedic Chapter, SEIU Local 790.[California] Original article at: http://www.emsnetwork.org/artman/publish/article_18337.shtml) Trapped in New Orleans By LARRY BRADSHAW and LORRIE BETH SLONSKY
Two days after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the Walgreens store at the corner of Royal and Iberville Streets in the city’s historic French Quarter remained locked. The dairy display case was clearly visible through the widows. It was now 48 hours without electricity, running water, plumbing, and the milk, yogurt, and cheeses were beginning to spoil in the 90-degree heat.
The owners and managers had locked up the food, water, pampers and prescriptions, and fled the city. Outside Walgreens’ windows, residents and tourists grew increasingly thirsty and hungry. The much-promised federal, state and local aid never materialized, and the windows at Walgreens gave way to the looters.
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Wednesday, August 31st, 2005
THE BOWL
When the Levee Breaks:
“It appears that the money has been moved in the president’s budget to handle homeland security and the war in Iraq, and I suppose that’s the price we pay. Nobody locally is happy that the levees can’t be finished, and we are doing everything we can to make the case that this is a security issue for us.”
— Walter Maestri, emergency management chief for Jefferson Parish, Louisiana; New Orleans Times-Picayune, June 8, 2004.
Here’s the Story of a Hurricane:
The Gulf Coast wetlands form a “natural buffer that helps protect New Orleans from storms,” slowing hurricanes down as they approach from sea. When he came into office, President Bush pledged to uphold the “no net loss” wetland policy his father initiated. He didn’t keep his word. Bush rolled back tough wetland policies set by the Clinton administration, ordering federal agencies “to stop protecting as many as 20 million acres of wetlands and an untold number of waterways nationwide.” Last year, four environmental groups issued a joint report showing that administration policies had allowed “developers to drain thousands of acres of wetlands.”
Flood Control:
Decades of flood-control efforts to protect New Orleans and other places, combined with the region’s huge oil and gas investments, have contributed heavily to the destruction of coastal wetlands that can help tame the fury of storms like Hurricane Katrina, say scientists and government officials.
Louisiana’s governor says everyone must leave New Orleans as Day Two gets worse. The refugees currently in the Superdome will be sent temporarily to Houston’s Astrodome.
President Bush — who is almost done with his vacation (he’ll be back at the White House late this afternoon) — will release oil from America’s strategic reserves.
The Mayor of New Orleans says there are too many people giving orders. The levee breach that allowed the lake to spill into the city’s business district was supposed to be sandbagged yesterday but it never happened:
According to the mayor, Black Hawk helicopters were scheduled to pick up and drop massive 3,000-pound sandbags in the 17th Street Canal breach, but were diverted on rescue missions. Nagin said neglecting to fix the problem has set the city behind by at least a month.
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