Quake disaster
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- slinky0
i believe we are setting up a Q&A on http://www.WhiteHouse.gov for tomorrow morning at 9am (EST) to discuss the Quake/Tsunami... i am waiting for them to give me details so we can post on the website... you should be able to submit questions sometime this evening... everyone should put "NewsToday" as their location... we'll see how many questions get answered from the NT crowd. (do not put Newstoday.com .. we will ahve to delete URLs to prevent peole from promoting a website.) thanks.
- _salisae_0
i've never seen kona mad. :O
anyone else read about the fact that so many dead bodies buried so shallowly will cause rampant diseases that may kill as many as the tsunami did?
- toe_knee0
"*slaps toe knee in face for thinking that man had something to do with this.
pooch
(Dec 29 04, 08:21)"Re-read my post. Idiot.
- Plusone0
Canada coughed up only 7 million? wtf. it's like they only care about shit that effects them.
sorry had to rant!
- robbob0
looking for any videos of the event - on hand and amateur vids of the wave hitting the coastlines - any reference?
- jevad0
quite frankly - I am appauled at how little countries are or have offered. 35million from the US? Bill Gates should be able to afford that himself for fuck's sake
- Plusone0
I agree jevad. You think this would be a time where they would all pull it together. I guess it will take much worse until that day comes. 8 million from France? wtf.
- toe_knee0
Jesus get of Frances back, dont belevie what CNN tell you. I think the first donationa are just the begining. Also looks like Spain are reaching out after the world helped after Madrid. Lets take what good we can from this..
Story:
Spain on Wednesday announced the largest single contribution - $68 million.
Japan has pledged rice and $30 million in emergency aid and sent disaster relief and medical teams to Thailand and the Maldives.
Britain pledged $28.9 million for the relief effort.
"Yesterday we completed the process of purchasing 20,000 tarpaulins, 4,500 cooking sets, 40,000 sleeping mats that we are going to get to the region as soon as we can," said Britain's secretary for international development, Hilary Benn.
The British-based relief agency Oxfam raised $1.2 million in three days from private donors.
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said Britain also sent a planeload of bottled water to the Maldives archipelago, where 37 of the islands have no drinking water.
France announced $20.5 million in aid Wednesday and said it was sending 60 tons of aid to Sri Lanka, Indonesia and the Maldives.
Australia said Wednesday it would give another $19.5 million in aid, increasing its total pledge to $27.6 million. Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said the government could give more if necessary.
"It's going to be a very expensive exercise for Australia but it's also the fact of life that we have very great responsibilities," Downer said. "We should, when it comes to a situation like this, be prepared to use some of our prosperity to help some of our fellow human beings."
Denmark said it will head a Nordic-British-Dutch effort to establish a U.N. disaster coordination center on Indonesia's Sumatra island, which was closest to the epicenter of the earthquake and devastated by tsunami waves. Denmark donated $15.5 million toward that effort. The Czech government said it would send a military plane with more than 10 tons of water and medicines to Phuket on Thursday and return with stranded Czech tourists. Some 263 Czechs remained unaccounted for in the region Wednesday
All in US$ from http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/na…
- Plusone0
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uh sorry toe_knee I didnt know that we can only complain about the US. All the contributions just jumped today so I am sorry for not realizing that every country is spending near 30 million. And how does this make it ok? I am still waiting for a country to step up and spend a billion. Are you just wanting to complain about the US' 30 million or can we complain about the UK spending 30 million too? Isn't the Euro stronger than the dollar? Check your head you nationalist pig.
- jevad0
everybody chill out - there's no need for grade school name-calling
- Plusone0
thank you jevad but it just makes me so angry to hear this guy suggest i watch CNN because I am American. So ignorant.
- toe_knee0
I didnt complain about any amount any country has given, its not for me to judge, nor you. Just trying to show the good in it. Lay off the touchy pills
- Jaline0
Canada increased their donation from $4 million to $40 million too.
That's like 10 cents from each person in the USA and $1 from each Canadian.
- Plusone0
and as if I have a personal problem with France in particular. God forbid i was to say Australia as the example.
Either way - nobody has contributed well into the 100's of millions and we are still in two digit numbers. The Euro is stronger than the dollar so I would assume more would be coming from the European countries right now. But of course not. Nobody gives a hell until it happens to them. it is a sad world.
- ********0
what the hell is $$$ doing good down there now??
what you guys should worry about, is getting the people over there simple things like clean water and food!!!
If that fails, the deathnumbers is gonna double within a week!
- Plusone0
designerror the problem is getting those materials to them takes a long time. Money is easy transferred and can be distributed to them fast and allows the purchase of food and clothes on spot and near by. Money not clothing or food. They need money.
- ********0
they are not gonna see all that goverment money for weeks... counties don't have a regular bankaccount like you and i..
water and food can be dropped from a plane within 24 hours from EU..
- Plusone0
designerror they are reporting from continent to continent that they do not want us to send clothes but send money. All countries are requesting this from everyone across the globe.
I am sure your plan through the EU was assessed but they had made the decision without you. ;-)
- toe_knee0
The Euro is stronger than the dollar so I would assume more would be coming from the European countries right now.
Plusone
(Dec 29 04, 19:39)Maybe read the article, more has come from Europe than America, more has come from Japan than America, More has come from Australia than America. But so what, at least we are all doing something. Its like a contest to you.