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]

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.