At some point they were talking about sending help??Originally Posted by Figge
What is taking them so long??!! Time is wasting! People are suffering and dying!Send us the cellphones and send them NOW!
At some point they were talking about sending help??
What is taking them so long??!! Time is wasting! People are suffering and dying!
different mayors --
you need to go back and check you understanding of who said what when...
the mayor who cried over the ppl who drowned in that nursing home in St. Bernard was the mayor of Kenner, Broussard
the one who said 10K dead was Nagin of NOLA proper....
At some point they were talking about sending help??
What is taking them so long??!! Time is wasting! People are suffering and dying!
well i guess they are discussing what model they will be shiping over.
Thanks, I gotcha. Here we go, then;
Mayor Nagin is an inept coward who bears MUCH of the blame. BTW, Mayor, where is the 10,000 dead? A$$wipe.
Sept 5, (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina has devastated New Orleans and U.S. Gulf Coast states, killing hundreds of people and possibly thousands, and drawing support pledges from rich and poor, traditional friends and foes of the United States.
The United States, a major world donor itself, last week let it be known it would accept help from a variety of nations.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice decided "no offer that can help alleviate the suffering of the people in the afflicted area will be refused."
Some 60 nations have offered help, from longtime American friends such as Japan, Germany, Canada, France and Britain as well as Cuban President Fidel Castro, who is willing to donate doctors and medicine. The Venezuelan government, frequently criticised by the Bush administration, has also offered help.
Thailand, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, countries that suffered their own devastation during the tsunami on Dec. 26, also offered support.
International organisations and religious institutions also offered help ranging from medical teams to tents to cash donations. They include NATO, the Organization of American States, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Health Organisation, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Cor Unum, the Vatican's central charity organisation. The United Nations has offered to help coordinate international relief.
Following is a list of some of the aid offered.
ASIA
AUSTRALIA: "We're going to provide A$10 million and the bulk of that money, if not all of it, will go to the American Red Cross," said Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.
CHINA: China offered $5 million in aid for victims. If needed, the government is also prepared to send rescue workers, including medical experts, officials said. State-controlled CNOOC, the country's top offshore oil and gas producer which was forced to drop a bid for Unocal after opposition from U.S. Congress, said it would match donations from its employees.
JAPAN: Will provide $200,000 to the American Red Cross to assist victims, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said. Japan will also identify needs in affected regions via the U.S. government and will provide up to $300,000 in emergency supplies if it receives requests for such assistance, the ministry said.
SINGAPORE: The Singapore Armed Forces, responding to requests by the United States Texas Army National Guard, has sent three Chinook helicopters to Fort Polk, Louisiana, to help in relief efforts. The government said the Chinooks will help to ferry supplies and undertake airlift missions.
THAILAND: Thailand has offered to send 100 doctors and nurses to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans. "We have made the offer to them and they have accepted and said thank you," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said.
SOUTH KOREA: Will send $30 million in aid, which includes private donations. Will dispatch a 50-person rescue team and if the U.S. needs foreign troops, parliament will discuss whether to send South Korean soldiers.
BANGLADESH: Offered $1.0 million donation as humanitarian aid, the foreign ministry said.
SRI LANKA: Will donate $25,000 to the American Red Cross.
AMERICAS
CANADA: Defence Minister Bill Graham has indicated that three warships and a coast guard vessel are being loaded with relief supplies and 1,000 personnel. They will be ready to travel to Louisiana as required in the coming days.
CUBA: Cuban President Fidel Castro offered to fly 1,100 doctors to Houston with 26 tonnes of medicine to treat victims.
MEXICO: Is sending 15 truckloads of water, food and medical supplies via Texas and the Mexican navy has offered to send two ships, two helicopters and 15 amphibious vehicles.
VENEZUELA: President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the United States, offered to send cheap fuel, humanitarian aid and relief workers to the disaster area.
EUROPE:
BRUSSELS: The European Union and NATO said they had received official requests from the United States to provide emergency assistance for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The United States has asked for first aid kits, blankets, water trucks, and 500,000 prepared meals, the EU executive Commission said.
The Commission's Civil Protection Mechanism will coordinate member states' offers and U.S. needs. An EU field coordinator will be appointed this week.
AUSTRIA - Crisis team in Houston, Texas. Dirty water pumps, 300 camp beds.
BELGIUM - Three medical teams, civil engineering team, diving team.
BRITAIN: Britain is sending 500,000 military ration packs to areas hit by Katrina. Medical experts, marine engineers and high-volume pumps, various engineers.
DENMARK - Water purification units.
FINLAND - Thirty-member search and rescue team.
FRANCE: Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said France was ready to offer help. "We have rescue teams based in the Caribbean and we are naturally ready to provide aid to the Americans, and that is what we have told them," he said. Paris has readied 300 tents, 980 field beds and other material.
GERMANY: Over the weekend, Germany sent two German army Airbus planes to the United States, loaded with a combined 25 tonnes of food rations. America has asked for logistical specialists, pumps, drinking water, water filters, generators, emergency dwellings, blankets and medical aid.
IRELAND - Initial assistance of 1 million euros.
ITALY: Has offered to send aid and evacuation specialists, Italy's civil protection unit said. Authorities have prepared two military transport planes to fly amphibious vessels, pumps, generators, tents and personnel to New Orleans and other areas.
LUXEMBOURG - Prepared 1,000 camp beds, 2,000 blankets.
MALTA - Material and cash. No details.
NETHERLANDS: Will provide teams for inspecting dykes and for identifying victims if there is a formal request from the United States. It will also send a frigate from Curacao to New Orleans shortly to provide emergency assistance, the government said.
ROMANIA - Two teams of medical experts.
RUSSIA - Will send three planes on either Monday or Tuesday.
The planes will carry medical dressings, food, tents, blankets, drinking water and portable electricity generators.
SWEDEN - First aid kits, blankets, meals ready to eat, two water purification plants plus instructors. Equipment to restore cell phone net in disaster areas.
SPAIN: Is prepared to grant any formal U.S. request for gasoline stocks, an Industry Ministry spokesman said. Also organising delivery of items such as military-type meals, batteries and medicines.
SWEDEN: The Rescue Authority said it was on stand-by to supply water purifying equipment, healthcare supplies and emergency shelters if needed.
MIDDLE EAST
IRAN: Offers to send humanitarian aid to a country that has labelled it part of the "axis of evil." "The victims have complained about the lack of timely assistance and we are prepared to send our contributions to the people through the Red Crescent," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi.
ISRAEL: Sending health and defence officials to the U.S. to help coordinate aid.
QATAR: Pledged $100 million in aid to the disaster victims, the official QNA news agency reported.
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Refining, a Houston-based subsidiary of state oil firm Saudi Aramco, will donate $5 million to the American Red Cross to support relief efforts.
KUWAIT - Wealthy OPEC nation Kuwait is donating $500 million worth of oil products and other humanitarian aid, news agency KUNA reported.
BAHRAIN - Pledged $5 million to aid hurricane victims.
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, ORGANISATIONS
RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT: The Geneva-based International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies is sending some 80 disaster experts from more than 10 countries in response to a call from the American Red Cross. They will support volunteers providing food and shelter, the Federation said.
COR UNUM: Pope Benedict announced he had asked the Vatican's central charity organisation, Cor Unum, to coordinate Catholic aid for hurricane victims. "We have all been pained in the last few days by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America, particularly in New Orleans," Benedict said.
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations announced the United States had accepted its aid offer and said its staff will be based at the USAID Hurricane Operations Center, where international assistance is being coordinated. They "are ready to provide emergency staff and a wide variety of relief supplies as and when necessary," the U.N. statement said.
At some point they were talking about sending help??
What is taking them so long??!! Time is wasting! People are suffering and dying!
Sarcasm aside, a huge pile of telecommunications stuff is coming from Sweden with the intent of restoring mobile communications.
http://www.klfy.com/Global/story.asp?S=3838393
Why now? Why the delay? Well, don't forget that the US declined aid from Sweden early on. The offer was for more than cell phones.
http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?I...&date=20050904
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...090601994.html
http://www.swedenabroad.se/pages/news____39332.asp
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WOW! thats not a bad list! hope it all arrives
Louped, that was PRICELESS and there is WAY TOO MUCH FODDER for jokes in there.....................
p.s. apparently France and Germany have no shame........................and I see where Fidels offer was actually 1100 doctors, OR their weeks combined salary of 1238.00 dollars.
in the spirit of true new orleanians, please make the jokes --- locals down there are KNOWN for making jokes at the most inappropriate times
Oh, alright, then. Fits me anyway, to make a quick rough stab at jokes when inappropriate. (Edit; a few revisions!)in the spirit of true new orleanians, please make the jokes --- locals down there are KNOWN for making jokes at the most inappropriate times
Following is a list of some of the aid offered.
ASIA
AUSTRALIA: "We're going to provide A$10 million and the bulk of that money, if not all of it, will go to the American Red Cross," said Australian Foreign Minister Ian MacKenzie.
CHINA: China offered $5 million in aid for victims. If needed, the government is also prepared to send rescue workers, including medical experts, and well-made but cheap products originally destined for WalMart, officials said. State-controlled CNOOC, the country's top offshore oil and gas producer which was forced to drop a bid for Unocal after opposition from U.S. Congress, said it would match donations from its employees. China has also offered to purchase New Orleans.
JAPAN: Will provide $200,000 to the American Red Cross to assist victims, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said. Japan will also identify needs in affected regions via the U.S. government and will provide up to $300,000 in emergency supplies and really killer squeezable wasabi paste, if it receives requests for such assistance or condiments, the ministry said.
SINGAPORE: The Singapore national Opera, responding to requests by the United States Texas Army National Guard, has sent three hookers to Fort Polk, Louisiana, to help in relief efforts. The government said the hookers will help to "ferry" supplies and undertake "airlift missions".
THAILAND: Thailand has offered to send 100 doctors and nurses to hurricane-ravaged New Orleans. "We have made the offer to them and they have accepted and said thank you," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said. Refugees were also offered vacation discounts to visit Phuket.
SOUTH KOREA: Will send $30 million in aid, which includes private organ donations. Will dispatch a 50-person rescue team and if the U.S. needs foreign troops, parliament will discuss whether to send South Korean soldiers, or those of some other country.
BANGLADESH: Offered $1.0 million donation as humanitarian aid, the foreign ministry said. Must be picked up in Bangladesh, and returned immediately to help Bangladesh.
SRI LANKA: Will donate $25,000 worth of thatched chickees to the American Red Cross.
AMERICAS
CANADA: Defence Minister Bill Graham has indicated that three warships and a coast guard vessel are being prepared to shell Louisiana as required in the coming days.
CUBA: Cuban President Fidel Castro offered to fly 1,100 doctors to Houston with 26 tonnes of medicine to treat victims. (see above post)
MEXICO: Is sending 15 truckloads of water, food and medical supplies via Texas and the Mexican navy has offered to send two ships, two helicopters and 15 amphibious vehicles. (just the phrase Mexican Navy is enough to make one howl)
VENEZUELA: President Hugo Chavez, a noted vocal critic of the United States, says George Bush is the worst tenor he has heard.
EUROPE:
BRUSSELS: The European Union and NATO said they had received official requests from the United States to provide emergency assistance for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The United States has asked for fresh sprouts, blankets, water trucks, and 500,000 tonnes of really good cheese, the EU executive Commission said.
The Commission's Civil Protection Mechanism will coordinate member states' offers and U.S. needs. An EU field coordinator will be appointed this week.
AUSTRIA - Crisis team lost in Houston, Texas. Dirty water pumps, 300 campsites, beds, and some Smores.
BELGIUM - Three medical teams, civil engineering team, diving team, who will entertain the Reliant Center survivors by performing excerpts from their routine, soon to debut at the World Diving Championships.
BRITAIN: Britain is sending 500,000 military ration packs to areas hit by Katrina. Medical experts, marine engineers and high-volume pumps, various semi-succesful recording engineers.
DENMARK - Water purification units, and a 30 year old stash of those fucked up shoes.
FINLAND - Thirty-member reindeer-mounted search and rescue team.
FRANCE: Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said France was ready to offer help. "We have rescue teams based in the Caribbean and we are naturally ready to provide aid to the Americans, and that is what we have told them," ("HA! and they BELIEVE US!! HA HA) he said. Paris has readied 300 tents, 980 teddy bears, and other fissionable material which was never in Iraq. (Upon arrival, however, the rescue teams immediately surrendered to Gov. Blanco. You knew that one was coming)
GERMANY: Over the weekend, Germany sent two German army Airbus planes to the United States, loaded with a combined 25 tonnes of food rations. The food was subsequently judged too inferior tasting even for the poorest NOLA residents, who, afterall, have NO cuisine to compare to, and was therefore used to help damn the levee breach. Has asked America for logistical specialists, pumps, drinking water, water filters, generators, emergency dwellings, blankets and medical aid.
IRELAND - Initial assistance of 1 million euros, whatever the fuck those are worth today.
ITALY: Has offered to send aid and evacuation specialists, Italy's civil protection unit said. Authorities have prepared two military transport planes to fly some really hot-looking but damn unreliable amphibious vessels, attractive leather pumps, test-tone generators, non-filter cigarettes, and personnel to New Orleans, and other areas not colonized by Spain.
LUXEMBOURG - Prepared 1,000 camp beds, 2,000 blankets. Unable to ship as FedEx couldn't find Luxembourg on the map.
MALTA - Material and cash. No details. Piss off. ( I love the specificity)
NETHERLANDS: Will provide teams for inspecting dykes and and other strange Mardi Gras celebrants, and for identifying victims of poor taste if there is a formal request from the United States. It will also send a frigate from Curacao to New Orleans shortly to provide emergency assistance, after the excursion trip is over and the mainsail repaired, the government said.
ROMANIA - Two teams of medical experts, and a guy who bites people for fun.
RUSSIA - Will send three planes on either Monday or Tuesday. Or Wednesday. Or whenever the airline mechanic is sober.
The planes will carry salad dressings, black bread, tents, blankets, drinking "water" and portable electricity generators, which are new and don't work.
SWEDEN - First aid kits, blankets, meals ready to eat, two water purification plants plus instructors. Equipment to restore prepaid cell phone cards to their previous credit amount and bill them to Bush.
SPAIN: Is prepared to grant any reasonablly small, formal U.S. request for gasoline stocks, an Industry Ministry spokesman said. Also organising delivery of items such as military-type batteries and medicines. Wait, someone has blown up a taxi, we change our mind.
SWEDEN: The Rescue Authority said it was on still on hold with Bush' cellphone, to offer to supply water purifying equipment, beauty supplies and emergency ponchos if needed.
MIDDLE EAST
IRAN: Offers to send humanitarian aid to a country that has labelled it part of the "axle of elvis." "The victims have complained about the lack of trim assistants and we are prepared to send our contributions to the people through the Bloody Red Crescent," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi. When pressed for specifics, he mentioned that internal security forces could quickly strike any complaining refugees or media people "so they cannot criticize so much anymore".
ISRAEL: Sending health and defence officials to the U.S. to help coordinate aid. Offers to bulldoze houses, even some good ones.
QATAR: Pledged $100 million in aid to the disaster victims if Tiger Woods will make an appearance at the Al Sharen golf outing, and hit golf balls off their hotel roof, the official QNA news agency reported.
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Refining, a Houston-based subsidiary of state oil firm Saudi Aramco, will donate $5 million to the American Red Cross to support relief efforts, after raising prices overnight to make a quick extra 48 million.
KUWAIT - Wealthy OPEC nation Kuwait is donating $500 million worth of sunflower seed oil products and other humanitarian aid, news agency KUNA reported.
BAHRAIN - Pledged $5 million while watching re-runs of the Jerry Lewis Telethon.
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, ORGANISATIONS
RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT: The Geneva-based International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Socialists is sending some 80 disaster experts from more than 10 countries in response to a call from the American Red Cross. They will support volunteers providing food and shelter, the Federation said.
COR UNUM: Pope Benedict announced he had asked the Vatican's central charity organisation, Cor Unum (Latin for clean underwear), to coordinate Catholic aid for hurricane victims. "We have all been pained in the last few days by the disaster caused by the United States of America, particularly in New Orleans," Benedict said.
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations announced the United States had accepted its "Food for Money" offer and said its staff will be based at the USAID Internatoinal Tennis Operations Center, where internecine assistance is being coordinated. They "are ready to provide emergency staff and a wide variety of relief supplies as and when necessary," the U.N. statement said.
Mikebake wrote in part "AUSTRALIA: "We're going to provide A$10 million and the bulk of that money, if not all of it, will go to the American Red Cross," said Australian Foreign Minister Ian MacKenzie. "
Ian would probably do a better job than the incumbent Alexander Downer. Perhaps you should ask George W to recommend the change to our illustrious Prime Minister
Regards
Ted
PS Think we are have also sent a few relief workers.
BTW Have you read about the young Aussie who refused to leave a New Orleans bar before Katrina (presumably under the weather) and ended up in a Louisana jail after being relocated from a New Orleans lock up (there to sober up). Apparently his credt card got stolen from the secure area after a riot and escape. His family, who were worried about him after his stolen card was recovered from some crims who used it for a Baton Rouge motel room, were relieved when he was located.
Sorry to drag this up again, but this was just too funny....
Widget
Well, yes, he has been just that!
scottyj
Thanks for sharing.
The best gift is one that can be passed on, so I did.
Whether you like the president or not, a gaffe like this from the media is just too hard to pass up, yet easy to pass along.
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