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- From: William Wagner <PainInAss__williamwag@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2005 07:13:40 -0400
In article <11huvk265u88i31@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Bob (this one)" <Bob@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Subject: The Mind Continues to Boggle
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:47:02 -0400
> From: Josh Hill <usereplyto@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: joshuaphill@xxxxxxxxx
> Newsgroups: misc.writing
>
> 'Others who went out of their way to offer help were turned down, such
> as Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, who told reporters his city had
> offered emergency, medical and technical help as early as last Sunday
> to FEMA but was turned down. Only a single tank truck was requested,
> Daley said. Red tape kept the American Ambulance Association from
> sending 300 emergency vehicles from Florida to the flood zone,
> according to former senator John Breaux (D-La.) They were told to get
> permission from the General Services Administration. "GSA said they
> had to have FEMA ask for it," Breaux told CNN. "As a result they
> weren't sent".
>
> [ . . . ]
>
> ' "It's such an irony I hate to say it, but we have less capability
> today than we did on September 11," said a veteran FEMA official
> involved in the hurricane response. "We are so much less than what we
> were in 2000," added another senior FEMA official. "We've lost a lot
> of what we were able to do then".'
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/03/AR200509030165
> 3_pf.html
Found this hopeful note.
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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L0472355.htm
Alerting humanitarians to emergencies
World lines up to help after Katrina
05 Sep 2005 15:55:46 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Updates with Ireland, Spain)
Sept 5, (Reuters) - Hurricane Katrina has devastated New Orleans and
U.S. Gulf Coast states, killing hundreds of people and possibly
thousands, and drawing support pledges from rich and poor, traditional
friends and foes of the United States.
The United States, a major world donor itself, last week let it be known
it would accept help from a variety of nations.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice decided "no offer that can help
alleviate the suffering of the people in the afflicted area will be
refused."
Some 60 nations have offered help, from longtime American friends such
as Japan, Germany, Canada, France and Britain as well as Cuban President
Fidel Castro, who is willing to donate doctors and medicine. The
Venezuelan government, frequently criticised by the Bush administration,
has also offered help.
Thailand, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, countries that suffered their own
devastation during the tsunami on Dec. 26, also offered support.
International organisations and religious institutions also offered help
ranging from medical teams to tents to cash donations. They include
NATO, the Organization of American States, the U.N. High Commissioner
for Refugees, the World Health Organisation, the International
Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies and Cor Unum, the
Vatican's central charity organisation. The United Nations has offered
to help coordinate international relief.
Following is a list of some of the aid offered.
ASIA
AUSTRALIA: "We're going to provide A$10 million and the bulk of that
money, if not all of it, will go to the American Red Cross," said
Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer.
CHINA: China offered $5 million in aid for victims. If needed, the
government is also prepared to send rescue workers, including medical
experts, officials said. State-controlled CNOOC, the country's top
offshore oil and gas producer which was forced to drop a bid for Unocal
after opposition from U.S. Congress, said it would match donations from
its employees.
JAPAN: Will provide $200,000 to the American Red Cross to assist
victims, the Japanese Foreign Ministry said. Japan will also identify
needs in affected regions via the U.S. government and will provide up to
$300,000 in emergency supplies if it receives requests for such
assistance, the ministry said.
SINGAPORE: The Singapore Armed Forces, responding to requests by the
United States Texas Army National Guard, has sent three Chinook
helicopters to Fort Polk, Louisiana, to help in relief efforts. The
government said the Chinooks will help to ferry supplies and undertake
airlift missions.
THAILAND: Thailand has offered to send 100 doctors and nurses to
hurricane-ravaged New Orleans. "We have made the offer to them and they
have accepted and said thank you," Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra
said.
SOUTH KOREA: Will send $30 million in aid, which includes private
donations. Will dispatch a 50-person rescue team and if the U.S. needs
foreign troops, parliament will discuss whether to send South Korean
soldiers.
BANGLADESH: Offered $1.0 million donation as humanitarian aid, the
foreign ministry said.
SRI LANKA: Will donate $25,000 to the American Red Cross.
AMERICAS
CANADA: Defence Minister Bill Graham has indicated that three warships
and a coast guard vessel are being loaded with relief supplies and 1,000
personnel. They will be ready to travel to Louisiana as required in the
coming days.
CUBA: Cuban President Fidel Castro offered to fly 1,100 doctors to
Houston with 26 tonnes of medicine to treat victims.
MEXICO: Is sending 15 truckloads of water, food and medical supplies via
Texas and the Mexican navy has offered to send two ships, two
helicopters and 15 amphibious vehicles.
VENEZUELA: President Hugo Chavez, a vocal critic of the United States,
offered to send cheap fuel, humanitarian aid and relief workers to the
disaster area.
EUROPE:
BRUSSELS: The European Union and NATO said they had received official
requests from the United States to provide emergency assistance for the
victims of Hurricane Katrina. The United States has asked for first aid
kits, blankets, water trucks, and 500,000 prepared meals, the EU
executive Commission said.
The Commission's Civil Protection Mechanism will coordinate member
states' offers and U.S. needs. An EU field coordinator will be appointed
this week.
AUSTRIA - Crisis team in Houston, Texas. Dirty water pumps, 300 camp
beds.
BELGIUM - Three medical teams, civil engineering team, diving team.
BRITAIN: Britain is sending 500,000 military ration packs to areas hit
by Katrina. Medical experts, marine engineers and high-volume pumps,
various engineers.
DENMARK - Water purification units.
FINLAND - Thirty-member search and rescue team.
FRANCE: Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said France was ready to
offer help. "We have rescue teams based in the Caribbean and we are
naturally ready to provide aid to the Americans, and that is what we
have told them," he said. Paris has readied 300 tents, 980 field beds
and other material.
GERMANY: Over the weekend, Germany sent two German army Airbus planes to
the United States, loaded with a combined 25 tonnes of food rations.
America has asked for logistical specialists, pumps, drinking water,
water filters, generators, emergency dwellings, blankets and medical aid.
IRELAND - Initial assistance of 1 million euros.
ITALY: Has offered to send aid and evacuation specialists, Italy's civil
protection unit said. Authorities have prepared two military transport
planes to fly amphibious vessels, pumps, generators, tents and personnel
to New Orleans and other areas.
LUXEMBOURG - Prepared 1,000 camp beds, 2,000 blankets.
MALTA - Material and cash. No details.
NETHERLANDS: Will provide teams for inspecting dykes and for identifying
victims if there is a formal request from the United States. It will
also send a frigate from Curacao to New Orleans shortly to provide
emergency assistance, the government said.
ROMANIA - Two teams of medical experts.
RUSSIA - Will send three planes on either Monday or Tuesday.
The planes will carry medical dressings, food, tents, blankets, drinking
water and portable electricity generators.
SWEDEN - First aid kits, blankets, meals ready to eat, two water
purification plants plus instructors. Equipment to restore cell phone
net in disaster areas.
SPAIN: Is prepared to grant any formal U.S. request for gasoline stocks,
an Industry Ministry spokesman said. Also organising delivery of items
such as military-type meals, batteries and medicines.
SWEDEN: The Rescue Authority said it was on stand-by to supply water
purifying equipment, healthcare supplies and emergency shelters if
needed.
MIDDLE EAST
IRAN: Offers to send humanitarian aid to a country that has labelled it
part of the "axis of evil." "The victims have complained about the lack
of timely assistance and we are prepared to send our contributions to
the people through the Red Crescent," said Foreign Ministry spokesman
Hamid Reza Asefi.
ISRAEL: Sending health and defence officials to the U.S. to help
coordinate aid.
QATAR: Pledged $100 million in aid to the disaster victims, the official
QNA news agency reported.
SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Refining, a Houston-based subsidiary of state oil
firm Saudi Aramco, will donate $5 million to the American Red Cross to
support relief efforts.
KUWAIT - Wealthy OPEC nation Kuwait is donating $500 million worth of
oil products and other humanitarian aid, news agency KUNA reported.
BAHRAIN - Pledged $5 million to aid hurricane victims.
INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES, ORGANISATIONS
RED CROSS/RED CRESCENT: The Geneva-based International Federation of Red
Cross and Red Crescent Societies is sending some 80 disaster experts
from more than 10 countries in response to a call from the American Red
Cross. They will support volunteers providing food and shelter, the
Federation said.
COR UNUM: Pope Benedict announced he had asked the Vatican's central
charity organisation, Cor Unum, to coordinate Catholic aid for hurricane
victims. "We have all been pained in the last few days by the disaster
caused by the hurricane in the United States of America, particularly in
New Orleans," Benedict said.
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations announced the United States had
accepted its aid offer and said its staff will be based at the USAID
Hurricane Operations Center, where international assistance is being
coordinated. They "are ready to provide emergency staff and a wide
variety of relief supplies as and when necessary," the U.N. statement
said.
(For more news about emergency relief visit Reuters AlertNet
http://www.alertnet.org email: alertnet@xxxxxxxxxxx; +44 207 542 2432)
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