bust Posted May 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 No my point exactly. But they did provide $1M in aid... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogueyam Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 No my point exactly. But they did provide $1M in aid... Chump change. And how many boots on the ground are they supplying, ferrying supplies and rescuing and treating the survivors? Commies suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Australia has committed 3 Million ...to start with.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Bangkok Post reports on typical SNAFU ... Rangoon - [color:red]The military junta has appealed for international aid to cyclone victims, but five days after the storm experts cannot even reach victims. In Bangkok, the embassy simply took Monday off for a holiday rather than issue visas, further frustrating would-be aid teams.[/color] Thailand plans to ship 40 tonnes of food and medical supplies on Wednesday, but there is no sign the aid can be delivered from the airport to the needy. Nine tonnes of food and medicine were loaded on a Royal Thai Air Force C-130 cargo plane which flew to Rangoon yesterday. It was the first international aid to reach Burma - four days after the storm. Hundreds of thousands have been left homeless and without basic utilities by the cyclone, which killed at least an estimated 15,000 people and left up to a million Burmese homeless and without basic water, food and electricity supplies. [color:red]Efforts to send urgently needed aid teams into the disaster-torn country were being hampered as the regime stalled over granting visas, the UN said in Geneva on Tuesday.[/color] The ruling junta has said it welcomed international aid. "We need aid from both local and foreign sources," Information Minister Kyaw Hsan told a press conference again on Tuesday. "It is welcome." Perhaps so, but the United Nations is facing "enormous difficulties" making an assessment of the disaster wrought by Cyclone Nargis on central Burma, which is likely to hamper any emergency aid programme in the devastated countryside. The UN had around 40 people from its Burma office on the ground inside the country, said a spokesman, but its special five-man disaster assessment team (UNDAC) was in Thailand awaiting visas. So were staff from other humanitarian agencies. So were workers from Unicef. "We are facing enormous difficulties right now in getting out there and unless there is an assessment ... the first thing you need is an assessment and then you can gauge your response on that," said Aye Win, spokesman for the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) in Rangoon. The International Federation of the Red Cross said it had around 60 full time staff and 18,000 volunteers providing front-line emergency aid in addition to the staff from the UN and other aid agencies. The Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said at a briefing in Geneva, it could not predict what impact the delays might have on the eventual death toll. Instead of going to Burma, most workers of UN agencies and international aid agencies gathered in Bangkok Tuesday morning to prepare emergency aid plans for the country, where the cyclone claimed more than 15,000 lives and has left hundreds of thousands homeless. Even the meeting went poorly, stalled by the lack of a proper assessment of the situation, sources said. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USVirgin Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Sitting in a bar last night, watching Laura Bush, on the news, criticize the junta's lack of warning about and response to the cyclone. My buddy, who's not a political animal at all, says, "Tell that to New Orleans." I know that the situations are not at all funny, but I had to laugh. Pot/kettle and all that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torneyboy Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Efforts to send urgently needed aid teams into the disaster-torn country were being hampered as the regime stalled over granting visas, the UN said in Geneva on Tuesday. Do they want help or not... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Hope this horrible cyclone have one thing positive; the Junta is under big pressure. That's why the stone-age regime welcomes aid but no helpers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogueyam Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Sitting in a bar last night, watching Laura Bush, on the news, criticize the junta's lack of warning about and response to the cyclone. My buddy, who's not a political animal at all, says, "Tell that to New Orleans." I know that the situations are not at all funny, but I had to laugh. Pot/kettle and all that... I said it before, I'll say it again: Advanced warning simply was not an issue in New Orleans. They had decades of warning to develop plans and then there were days of highly accurate tracking of Katrina to indicate it was time to implement those plans. The Federal government did moderately well, the city and State screwed the pooch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.. Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 LOL, the Feds did fine. Can I have some of those drugs? That's some good shit you got there. It was all the Feds fault, beginning at the poorly built/designed levee walls all the way to the clusterfuck that was the FEMA response! Remember, the issue was NOT the hurricane winds. The city weathered that just fine. It was the levee failure that killed the town. Regards, SD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hugh_Hoy Posted May 7, 2008 Report Share Posted May 7, 2008 Yes, but those were only "niggers." If the majority of losses were white middle class folks, they'd be canonized for "standing their ground and protecting their property." That meme has been played many times over the years... That's what makes Katrina so disgusting. Not to take away from this event, but RY is so easy to score on I can't resist. Regards, SD -- living in 2008, NOT 1948 RY...I've recently read a report that the Burmese Government was warned of the potential by India's meteorlogical service two days before the cyclone hit. SD...what makes Katrina "so disgusting" was that the local "leadership" in N.O. and the State of Louisiana didn't know whether to shit or go blind. Then. the locals go and re-elect the same dumbshit who helped nature maximize the losses. That is really, really disgusting. HH Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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