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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Waffle on September 02, 2005, 12:30:55 AM
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Was just wondering if anyone has heard anything or seen anything about other countries sending funds / workers to help with the Gulf Coast disaster...
Might make an interesting list.
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What do you think would be interesting about it?
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Out of all the countries that we send aid to, it would be interesting to see what ones contribute help for a disaster.
I'm not talking purely financial either.
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Hugo chavez is there to help too! (http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N01481437.htm)
What do you think would be interesting about it?
Point out how many countries are not running for help?
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I posted this in another thread:
Offers have been received from Russia, Japan, Canada, France, Honduras, Germany, Venezuela, Jamaica, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, China, South Korea, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, NATO and the Organization of American States, the spokesman said.
Rice: All Foreign Aid Offers Will Be Accepted
Thursday, September 01, 2005
WASHINGTON — In a turnabout, the United States is now on the receiving end of help from around the world as some two dozen countries offer post-hurricane assistance.
Venezuela, a target of frequent criticism by the Bush administration, offered humanitarian aid and fuel. Venezuela's Citgo Petroleum Corp. (search) pledged a $1 million donation for hurricane aid.
The United Nations informed U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton (search) it was prepared to support the relief effort "in any way possible." Under Secretary-General Jan Egeland (search) said his office had offered the services of the U.N.'s disaster assistance and coordination teams to the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (search) sent a letter to President Bush offering hundreds of doctors, nurses, technicians and other experts in trauma, natural disasters and public health.
"We also offer field hospitals, medical kits and equipment for temporary housing, reinforcement for hospitals, or any assistance that you may require," Sharon wrote.
He said the teams and equipment could be ready in 24 hours.
With offers from the four corners of the globe pouring in, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (search) has decided "no offer that can help alleviate the suffering of the people in the afflicted area will be refused," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said Thursday.
However, in Moscow, a Russian official said the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency had rejected a Russian offer to dispatch rescue teams and other aid.
On Tuesday, President Vladimir Putin sent condolences to Bush and said Russia was prepared to help if asked.
Boats, aircraft, tents, blankets, generators, cash assistance and medical teams have been offered to the U.S. government in Washington or in embassies overseas.
Offers have been received from Russia, Japan, Canada, France, Honduras, Germany, Venezuela, Jamaica, Australia, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, China, South Korea, Israel, the United Arab Emirates, NATO and the Organization of American States, the spokesman said.
Also, the Singapore embassy said the Southeast Asian country was sending three Chinook helicopters with 38 air force personnel from military exercises in Texas, to Louisiana to support relief efforts by the Texas National Guard.
President Chandrika Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, in China on a state visit, sent messages of sympathy to Washington while her government contributed $25,000 through the American Red Cross.
Still, Bush told ABC-TV: "I'm not expecting much from foreign nations because we hadn't asked for it. I do expect a lot of sympathy and perhaps some will send cash dollars. But this country's going to rise up and take care of it."
"You know," he said, "we would love help, but we're going to take care of our own business as well, and there's no doubt in my mind we'll succeed. And there's no doubt in my mind, as I sit here talking to you, that New Orleans is going to rise up again as a great city."
Historically, the United States provides assistance to other countries experiencing earthquakes, floods and other disasters.
Germany, which was rebuilt after World War II largely by the U.S. Marshall Plan, offered its help in a telephone call to Rice.
"The German Government is prepared to do all that is humanly possible," the German embassy said. In his call, German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer assured Rice of Germany's solidarity with its American friends in a difficult time, the embassy said.
Israeli Ambassador Daniel Ayalon called Wednesday at the State Department to offer condolences and assistance. Israel is the largest recipient of U.S. aid, about $2.2 billion a year.
"The hearts and prayers of Israel's people are with the people of the United States and the many millions who are suffering in the regional devastation resulting from hurricane Katrina," the Israeli embassy said in a statement.
It's really heart warming when you think about it. THANKS to all those furiners that sent help
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Just remember fellas....bull**** rolls downhill. Dont expect a reacharound except maybe from isreal or, god willing, saudi arabia.
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The two bottles of Vodka from Russia will be very well accepted.
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Norway and the Norwegian Red Cross offered before it hit but it has not been accepted. They are standing by.
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Originally posted by Jackal1
The two bottles of Vodka from Russia will be very well accepted.
Both bottles have 4 turbojet engines and are loaded with medicines, generators and a portable field hospital. Two days ago they were on 1-hour alert at Ramenskoe airfield.
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Now thats a bottle of vodka...
Tronsky
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Originally posted by Boroda
Both bottles have 4 turbojet engines and are loaded with medicines, generators and a portable field hospital. Two days ago they were on 1-hour alert at Ramenskoe airfield.
EMERCON right?
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Yes, Emercom.
IIRC they also have small helicopters aboard.
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Originally posted by -tronski-
Now thats a bottle of vodka...
Tronsky
I was thinking the same thing hehe
Boroda for a guy whos primary language is not English, you have a way with words :)
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Originally posted by Boroda
Yes, Emercom.
IIRC they also have small helicopters aboard.
Hokums are fine for keeping the people in order :)
Heh if Stalin would be alive he would propably offer a helping hand in a form of couple million men with their tanks and aircrafts...
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Originally posted by Staga
Hokums are fine for keeping the people in order :)
Heh if Stalin would be alive he would propably offer a helping hand in a form of couple million men with their tanks and aircrafts...
Man, I dunno about you - but thats 1 heli i'd love to get my feet wet on. ****ing hotrod.
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Boroda,
For what its worth I hope that our government opens up their little mind and accepts your nations help. Just because some nation isn't on the best of terms with another nation should not come into play when lives are at stake.
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America is the richest most powerful country in the world. You don't need help from the rest of us. But I hope that any offer of aid is taken in the spirit it was offered and no stupid pride or arrogance should interfere with it reaching the people who need it.
This is an enormous disaster and all help should be taken.
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Condoleeza Rice:
"Today, we are seeing a similar urgent, warm and compassionate reaction from the international community in response to Katrina," Rice told a news conference.
Rice said no aid had been turned down and she was particularly moved by an offer from Sri Lanka, itself recovering from last year's Indian Ocean tsunami.
"Every contribution is important," said Rice, who plans to visit some of the stricken areas over the weekend in Alabama, where her own family comes from.
Embassies in the U.S. capital have swamped the department with offers, ranging from cash donations to helicopters, tents and medical teams.
While help has come from longtime American friends such as Japan, Germany, Canada, France and Britain, offers have also been made by critics of the U.S. government, including Cuba and Venezuela.
Cuban President Fidel Castro, calling a "truce" in Havana's ideological enmity with Washington, offered to fly 1,100 doctors to Houston with 26 tons of medicine to treat people in the disaster area.
Castro's leftist ally, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez offered to send cheap fuel but the State Department said a decision had not been made on whether to accept this offer.
In Mexico City, a Foreign Ministry official told reporters Mexico was sending 15 truckloads of water, food and medical supplies via Texas, and the Mexican navy had offered to send two ships, two helicopters and 15 amphibious vehicles
The department said offers of help had been received from: Australia, Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, the European Union, France, Germany, Guatemala, Greece, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Mexico, NATO, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Organization of American States, Paraguay, Philippines, Portugal, South Korea, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Venezuela, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the World Health Organization.
http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyID=uri:2005-09-02T235528Z_01_BAU271501_RTRIDST_0_USREPORT-WEATHER-KATRINA-FOREIGN-DC.XML&pageNumber=1&summit=
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it's amazing the amount of help that has been offered. It blows my mind that CUBA of all places has offered to send help.
I think the command section of the releif effort has to be overwhelmed. You can't just bring in all this help in an un-organized fasion, that would create a logistical nightmare worse than trying to get supplies to thug infested flooded city.
I HOPE they take the help, even as a gesture of good relations.
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Yes, no wonder I'm disgusted by the semantics displayed by some members of this forum.
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Originally posted by FalconSix
Yes, no wonder I'm disgusted by the semantics displayed by some members of this forum.
Because they don't agree with what you think should be going on or is it more of a moral or ethical digust?
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
I think the command section of the releif effort has to be overwhelmed. You can't just bring in all this help in an un-organized fasion, that would create a logistical nightmare worse than trying to get supplies to thug infested flooded city.
That's why Red Cross and UN are existing; they have plans, command structures and ways to take care of logistics in this kind of situations.
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Originally posted by Staga
That's why Red Cross and UN are existing; they have plans, command structures and ways to take care of logistics in this kind of situations.
yes and that makes all the differents when their strings are pulled by 300 corrrupt polliticians all with a different agenda.
Even planning cant help when logistics go wrong.
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I think among other things Germany offered to send a MedEvac Airbus.. but I'm not sure what became out of that.
Anyway I hope it'll help. I donated what I could spare.
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Originally posted by Reschke
Boroda,
For what its worth I hope that our government opens up their little mind and accepts your nations help. Just because some nation isn't on the best of terms with another nation should not come into play when lives are at stake.
Who cares about politics when someone is in trouble?
Using foreign emergency crews can help solving some serious problems that are not a matter of availible resources.
BTW, Russian Emercom crews are quite professional, and they can work in the field without any local supplies and support. All they need is a grass field big enough to land their IL-76s.
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it would seem waffle's syrup would be egypt.
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France is sending Mimes.
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as long as they don't send jerry lewis...
mimes would be welcome replacements for the media anchorweenies.
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can we say France's donation is too meager? (thinking back to what France said after the tsunami)
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No we can't. We would be wrong. They were right.
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Originally posted by Gunslinger
it's amazing the amount of help that has been offered. It blows my mind that CUBA of all places has offered to send help.
Maybe there are cigars in our future. :)
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Swedes were sending a Hercules loaded with medical equipments but US officials informed that they're having logistical problems and Swedes had to postpone the flight.
There are also reports of cargoplanes sitting around europe just waiting a word from Americans if they can take off... maybe some day.
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Wow this is awsome :aok
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The United States has asked the European Union and NATO (search) for emergency assistance, requesting blankets, first aid kits, water trucks and food for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, the two organizations said Sunday.
EU Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said the 25-nation bloc was "ready to contribute to the U.S. efforts aimed at alleviating the humanitarian crisis" in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama — the states hardest hit by Katrina (search).
The 26-nation NATO alliance said it too had received a request for aid from Washington (search). The United States has asked for NATO relief support in the form of food rations for the thousands of people evacuated from New Orleans and other areas, the alliance said in a statement.
It added that a liaison officer was being dispatched to Washington to work with the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
"NATO stands ready to continue to support the United States as it recovers from this natural disaster," the alliance said.
NATO's Euro-Atlantic Disaster Response Coordination Center was coordinating the alliance's pledges to the American request.
The European Commission said its aid coordination office would manage the aid from European countries and already has drafted a preliminary list of materials, team and equipment being pledged by EU member states.
It said U.S. authorities had requested 500,000 prepared meals, thousands of blankets, first aid kits and several water trucks to provide clean drinking water.
So far, Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Luxembourg, Finland, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia Sweden, Spain, The Netherlands and Nilsenland have pledged aid.
"Specialist teams from several member states are on standby and ready for immediate deployment," the Commission said in a statement
KUWAIT CITY — The oil-rich Persian Gulf state of Kuwait (search) said Sunday it will donate $500 million in aid to U.S. relief efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
The offer is the largest known put forward since the hurricane ravaged Louisiana, Mississippi (search) and Alabama and follows a $100 million aid donation from the emir of a Mideast neighbor, Qatar.
Kuwait's energy minister said his country would provide "oil products that the disaster-stricken states need in addition to other humanitarian aid."
"It's our duty as Kuwaitis to stand by our friends to lighten the humanitarian misery and as a payback for the many situations during which Washington helped us through the significant relations between the two friendly countries," Sheik Ahmed Fahd Al Ahmed Al Sabah said in a statement carried by Kuwait's official news agency, KUNA (search).
Kuwait is one of America's closest Mideast allies and owes its 1991 liberation from Iraqi occupation forces to a U.S.-led coalition that drove Saddam Hussein's army out.
Kuwait and Qatar's donations came as the Egypt-based 22-member Arab League called on Arab nations to provide relief to the U.S.
The Arab League said that its secretary-general, Amr Moussa, sent a cable of "deep condolences and regret to the U.S. administration over the effect of Hurricane Katrina ... and called on all Arab countries to extend aid to the United States to face the exceptional humane circumstances."
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Missing a few names on the list of nations but still :aok
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Originally posted by Nilsen
Missing a few names on the list of nations but still :aok
Edited just for you ;)
I had another article earlier in this thread that had a bunch more countrys on it.
Again from one arrogant Yankee......Thanks
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Rofl Guns :D
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There were some saying that we deserved this for not signing the global warming thingamajig. Nice to see all the help offered.Nice to see karma come back to the US for all the aid we've provided.kudos to the world.:aok
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A huge :) to all of the countries sending,or offering aid.