And the world wakes up from history...

[strredwolf]

or, Disproven Wrong.

Neil Cavuto will have to shut up now:  International aid is comming to the US.

The gist is:  Austrailia to send $7.7 million (all figures US dollars) to the American Red Cross, Japan $200,000 with $300,000 in supplies (tents, power generators, etc).  Sri Lanka, one of the countries affected in last year's tsunami, is pledging $25,000 to the Red Cross.  EU countries will be sending aid where needed, as well as NATO.

Comments

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

Don't forget our friends from Canada who are sending some urban rescue teams and various other aid supplies. :)

[xaviusarchangel.livejournal.com]

Actually from what I hear on the news, the U.S. government is refusing most of what help is being offered from Canada, with president Bush saying (moreorless quoted), "The United States will take care of itself."

Reminds me of during the flu epidemic last year. The U.S. was desperately short of vaccine while Canada had built up stocks of it. Canada offered to send the U.S. - for free - a few hundred thousand vials of vaccine, and the U.S. government graciously refused.

What the hell!? Whenever Canada offers help to the Unites States for whatever reason it's always refused. Meanwhile they'll take monetary donations from other countries without batting an eyelash.

Like the Bush administration would be ashamed to accept our help or something like that, though I can't possibly wonder why. They take everything else from us with an exuberant joy...

(Sorry if this got a bit too political, Red.)

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

It seems like every post is political these days. It also seems like many of them, especially ones from foreign countries, have a bone to pick with Bush. I'm getting rather used to that by now. It seems the hatred of this one guy seems to overwhelm everyone's rational thought processes.

It's also funny that these statements don't seem to mesh with what Canada's own news media is reporting. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050831_katrina_template_050831?s_name=&no_ads=

"She added that on Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Human Health Services contacted Canada's public health agency, asking for an inventory of emergency supplies that Canada could send at a moment's notice.

That inventory was completed Wednesday."

It'd be interesting to see your sources for this "moreorless quote" and see if it even says anything about the other donations being accepted or not.

[xaviusarchangel.livejournal.com]

Hmm... well I distinctly remember watching news reports that was giving hints that Canadian aid was being refused, however I'm seeing reports now that Canada is even sending 4 ships loaded with supplies and relief towards Louisiana.

It seems I have been mistaken, and in this case I'm glad I'm being proven wrong.

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

I did track down where one other person said the same thing, It turns out that one of the first search and rescue teams was turned away because of a bureaucratic mixup. Once they got that straightened out, it appears that they're letting them all in again.

There seems to be a good deal of bureaucratic mixups going on in this case. Lots of stuffed suits that don't want to be the one who didn't follow the rules and let something bad happen, so they fail to let something good happen. One teenager actually hotwired a schoolbus and took a busload of trapped people to the astrodome. The bureaucrats there turned him away because he wasn't on their schedule. Guess I shouldn't expect better.

[kesarra.livejournal.com]

The governments of the EU are always giving aid to the International Red Cross Red Crescent. You will not find the US gov't on many aid lists. The last one I saw was a pidlin amount to Iraq from back at the beginning of the war. Nothing to Palestine or the tsunami struck countries. You'll even find Russia on more lists than the US. Canada has given all over. Thank you, Canada.

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

Have you ever thought that it might be because the US tends to send their own teams into these zones to help out instead of throwing money at the problem? I suspect that their lists also do not list private contributions by citizens of each country...

[kesarra.livejournal.com]

Like the missionaries that required conversion before giving food to people in the tsunami zone? That's a common tactic of the US.

[kazriko.livejournal.com]

I'm confused, what does that have to do with the post before it?

Has that even happened? I hadn't heard a single thing about that even on international news. Unless you're talking about Christian aid organizations instead of the military aid organizations, then we're definitely talking about something unrelated to the previous two posts.