Updated: Looting, PM MIA? UN?, Cellucci's Book, Katrina Donation Fund? CA Response? US NVOAD, Global warming storm surge is bunk

Update 2:

Paul Martin, MIA on the Katrina Disaster

Statement by the Government of Canada in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- words from Deputy PM Anne McLellan, Minister of Health, Ujjal Dosanjh, and Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew -- hot air but nothing specific -- via Newsbeat1, Aug. 31, 05

When a family member needs help, you just go. You see what needs to be done and you do it. You don't simply talk or offer your sympathy. In this traumatic situation, those in the midst of it hardly know what they need and cannot help themselves right now. Just do what is right and needed, PM! Maybe Mo Strong could send some Zenon bottled water? Via Kofi? Maybe you could fly down for a photo op.

Speaking of the UN, where is it on a US disaster? Jawing, as usual? Planning? Hosting an exquisitely expensive conference--including the requisite and politically correct feminist/NGO groups--to discuss plans for what someone might do . . . conferring in Paris or Beijing?

I know; that wasn't sweet, but I don't feel sweet about the UN nor about ur government's anti-Americanism, evident to the point where our PM says and, ostensibly, does nothing to help right now. NJC




Newsbeat1 has some ideas about how to help. Scroll down the site or search "Ducks" which is part of the article.



The Looting is Going Nuts

The compact of civil society August 31st, 2005
Rick Moran is the proprietor of the blog Rightwing Nuthouse

Hour by torturous hour, the news grows ever grimmer.[. . . . ] But the Noahic flood that now engulfs more than 80% the Crescent City has subsumed not just buildings and people, it has washed away the thin veneer of civilization and brought to the surface behaviors and emotions more suited to the African savannas where modern Homo Sapiens first began to dominate the planet rather than the city streets where until just a few days ago, people were laughing, walking, singing, playing music – living. [. . . . ]

For photos of a few of the looters in action, check Katrina: photos pdf nola.com via Newsbeat1



FEMA: Cash Sought To Help Hurricane Victims, Volunteers Should Not Self-Dispatch -- "Here is a list of phone numbers set up solely for cash donations and/or volunteers."




US: Cellucci's tell-all book bound to make waves at writers festival -- The former U.S. ambassador to Canada still has a few things he'd like to get off his chest, writes Paul Gessell in the Ottawa Citizen Aug. 30, 05

His Key Porter book, Unquiet Diplomacy, testifies to that. It is due to hit stores Sept. 24 and is bound to make waves as Mr. Cellucci offers his take on everyone from former Liberal MP Carolyn ("Americans: I hate those bastards") Parrish to a certain writer-philosopher resident at Rideau Hall and prime ministers past and present.

Both Chretien and Martin have done our relationship with the US no good. Maybe PM should offer concrete help right now.


Paul Cellucci former US Ambassador to Canada: Unquiet Diplomacy ISBN: 1552637069 · Published by Key Porter Books, Due September 2005




Update 1: I forgot to include these for more information.

Newsbeat1 links to Katrina disaster information and Jack's Newswatch for other links



Does anyone have a Canadian address for donations that will go to the Katrina Disaster Victims and not into a general disaster fund which could go anywhere in the world?

Canada: I checked the Red Cross 2005 -- but nothing is earmarked for the United States Katrina disaster victims

I have seen no offer of help from our Prime Minister. Has anyone else? Has our DART team been dispatched? It has, for example, the water purifying capability needed in emergencies. Is the government matching donations as it said it would do with the tsnumai funds?



US: National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disasters (NVOAD)

A large list. In Canada, check with your church, synagogue and the Salvation Army. Ask the Red Cross whether there is a specific fund for helping US victims of Katrina.




RE: Dictator Paul best be careful! -- on the Katrina Disaster gillanders64

This now famous "The Americans" was by Gordon Sinclair, during another US crisis.

"LET'S BE PERSONAL"
Broadcast June 5, 1973
CFRB, Toronto, Ontario
Topic: "The Americans" [. . . . ]

Before Katrina is attributed to global warming, check this.

Global warming storm surge is bunk

A review of studies of the data over several years.

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