I'm trying to find out who has the contracts to supply water to the National Guard in New Orleans and the water they'd be bringing (when?) to the relief effort, and how much it costs, and who is paying for it. (I am curious (as well as furious) that they did not allow any of the voluntary donations of massive amounts of drinking water in to the City or the stadiums.) But I don't really know where to start. If anyone can help, that would be great.Please return email to me directly at mitchelcohen@...

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The Specialized Information Services Division of the National Library of Medicine has compiled potentially useful information for emergency response teams who are dealing with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The information can be found at
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/hurricane.html.

3.) Hi All, I'm praying for everyone with family & friends in our hard hit hurricane ravaged gulf states. I appreciate all of the words of comfort & offers of support from many countries. Along with help & condolences has come criticism of our president's defiance toward doing anything to help reverse or at least not increase America's share of polluting contributions to global warming. He's a pig. A pro business, anti humanity president. Yes this current hurricane disaster relief effort is a horrible cluster-muck! Of course more could have & should have been done & faster. "Shoot to kill", authorities told police & military forces, there to help keep peace & manage evacuation & rescue efforts! They've been ordered to stop rescue efforts in some areas because it's too dangerous due to a couple of shots having been heard! No one even knows who fired those shots. They have had to force volunteer rescuers to stay out of large areas where people are still waiting for water, food, & medical attention, etc. A cheap way to kill off thousands of sick & poor people don't you agree? Of course crime should be stopped. the beatings & rapes should be stopped. Even looters may be detained if they are stealing televisions, computers, etc. but it's reported that most of the looters are grabbing what they need to survive! They need clothes & shoes as well as food & water. Items that should have been supplied in sufficient amounts by the local & federal agencies. How can you stop desperate people from struggling to survive on their own?? If it's so dangerous for rescuers to go into some areas why can't those in need be sent supplies via air drops? Those planes & helicopters don't have parachutes? What a crock of crap is this whitehouse bully/cowboy president. I've read enough lately to know it's dangerous to outwardly criticize this guy tho. People are said to have disappeared after publicly criticizing him. I don't know this is a fact, but it isn't hard to believe. Another thing, I clicked on one of the links we get daily that led to another link & found a site that claims to have proof (lots of very impressive pictures) that Russia has the technology to make changes in weather. Probably the USA does too. I have seen documentaries explaining how weather systems work showing cool & warm air combining to influence the storm intensity, force & direction. Would it surprise you to know there was a way to use electromagnetic, or whatever, to increase or decrease temperatures around a storm front to get it to increase in intensity? It wouldn't surprise me, but I don't believe Russia would do it now. I believe our own leaders might do it to take the public's mind off of the war & current political hi jinks by this pres.. I think he'd do anything to get off the current hot seat regarding some of his decisions & pushing for supreme court appointees of his own at the dismay of many in congress. Fact is I wouldn't put it past our leader(s) to do a little genocide of their own in our country in getting rid of so many poor folks. It's sad indeed, but America is no longer a democracy or a free country. It's run by big business, corporations & big pharma. If you believe in the Bible you'll probably recognize much of the last decade or so as the "last days". I have faith in God & believe there are still many good people in the world. The massive worldwide suffering of humanity has been caused by the greed & manipulation of a few people with an evil, selfish agenda & no conscience regarding the harm to this & future generations they may be causing. This tragedy in the gulf states has brought out worldw ide criticism of this president's lack of concern about global warming. Many other world leaders claim our bigger more disastrous storms are a result of global warming & the USA's total disregard toward reducing pollution. Lately I've heard on the news that the president has actually been increasing the pollution limit of manufacturers instead of making them pay to reduce it. I pray for all of us. Oh, another thing has shocked me lately. I've been reading things about a possible change in the constitution to allow a president to serve more than two terms. This president probably does want to declare marshal law on the entire country in order to "protect us" from foreign terrorists, so he can remain in control of the country indefinitely. Americans do not need to worry about outside terrorists as much as we need to worry about the terrorist in the whitehouse! I also read somewhere that even if the president did admit to his lies & deceits th ere would still be peple who blindly believe anything he says & would probably not believe he did anything wrong. that's sad but most likely true. Brainwashing isn't a difficult thing to accomplish if you know how to do it convincingly enough. Thank you for allowing a little ranting. I just had to say something. God Bless us all.

... an open letter from Michael Moore to George W. Bush - Friday, September 2nd, 2005 - Dear Mr. Bush:

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. Where on earth could you have misplaced all our military choppers? Do you need help finding them? I once lost my car in a Sears parking lot. Man, was that a drag.  Also, any idea where all our national guard soldiers are? We could really use them right now for the type of thing they signed up to do like helping with national disasters. How come they weren't there to begin with? Last Thursday I was in south Florida and sat outside while the eye of Hurricane Katrina passed over my head. It was only a Category 1 then but it was pretty nasty. Eleven people died and, as of today, there were still homes without power. That night the weatherman said this storm was on its way to New Orleans. That was Thursday! Did anybody tell you? I know you didn't want to interrupt your vacation and I know how you don't like to get bad news. Plus, you had fundraisers to go to and mothers of dead soldiers to ignore and smear. You sure showed her!  I especially like how, the day after the hurricane, instead of flying to Louisiana, you flew to San Diego to party with your business peeps. Don't let people criticize you for this -- after all, the hurricane was over and what the heck could you do, put your finger in the dike?  And don't listen to those who, in the coming days, will reveal how you specifically reduced the Army Corps of Engineers' budget for New Orleans this summer for the third year in a row. You just tell them that even if you hadn't cut the money to fix those levees, there weren't going to be any Army engineers to fix them anyway because you had a much more important construction job for them -- BUILDING DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ!  On Day 3, when you finally left your vacation home, I have to say I was moved by how you had your Air Force One pilot descend from the clouds as you flew over New Orleans so you could catch a quick look of the disaster. Hey, I know you couldn't stop and grab a bullhorn and stand on some rubble and act like a commander in chief. Been there done that. There will be those who will try to politicize this tragedy and try to use it against you. Just have your people keep pointing that out. Respond to nothing. Even those pesky scientists who predicted this would happen because the water in the Gulf of Mexico is getting hotter and hotter making a storm like this inevitable. Ignore them and all their global warming Chicken Littles. There is nothing unusual about a hurricane that was so wide it would be like having one F-4 tornado that stretched from New York to Cleveland. No, Mr. Bush, you just stay the course. It's not your fault that 30 percent of New Orleans lives in poverty or that tens of thousands had no transportation to get out of town. C'mon, they're black! I mean, it's not like this happened to Kennebunkport. Can you imagine leaving white people on their roofs for five days? Don't make me laugh! Race has nothing -- NOTHING -- to do with this! You hang in there, Mr. Bush. Just try to find a few of our Army helicopters and send them there. Pretend the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast are near Tikrit.

Yours, Michael Moore - mmflint@...  http://www.michaelmoore.com