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Quote from: Mauzip a.k.a. Your Great Example on January 07, 2005, 04:10:15 PMso you do care?No. I don't care how much money any of these countries give. I'm pointing out reality. The U.S. is not the most generous. I don't think its really good or bad, but i think its definitely obvious that republicans refuse to accept reality. Of course the fact that some of y'all are republicans and hip-hop supporters at the same time, shoulda been the first give away that a few of you are a lil out of sych with whats real.
so you do care?
i consider myself a rapper.
Funny how a thread about the 150.000+ tsunami victims & donations, turns into pro-America propaganda vs. Anti-American propaganda.
i like men
Quote from: Ant on January 08, 2005, 12:22:49 PMQuote from: Mauzip a.k.a. Your Great Example on January 07, 2005, 04:10:15 PMso you do care?No. I don't care how much money any of these countries give. I'm pointing out reality. The U.S. is not the most generous. I don't think its really good or bad, but i think its definitely obvious that republicans refuse to accept reality. Of course the fact that some of y'all are republicans and hip-hop supporters at the same time, shoulda been the first give away that a few of you are a lil out of sych with whats real. i knew i smelled an anit-republican thread.i consider myself a conseritive and i'm a minority who is a rapper. why does that make me out of sych with whats real? if you beleave the republican stereotype, or that the current admin. represents all republicans, your out of sych. all i see is liberal propaganda on this board attacking conseritives.
I don't attack conservatives. In fact I refuse to call modern republicans conservatives, because they aren't. Conservatives believe in equal rights. Republicans have no problem running racist candidates, and giving racist senators high ranking positions in their party. The republican party is no longer conservative. That synoymn is out of date.
Conservatives believe in equal rights. Republicans have no problem running racist candidates, and giving racist senators high ranking positions in their party.
Mate...Australia holdin' it down!
Quote from: Don Rizzle on May 10, 2006, 03:16:12 AMiraq would just get annexed by iranThat would be a great solution. If Iran and the majority of Iraqi's are pleased with it, then why shouldn't they do it?
iraq would just get annexed by iran
my turn to join in i been away. american goverment is very stingy in aid and most things that don't concern them, however the private institutions and citizens may pladge alot but you would hope that from the richest country with a population of 300 million or whatever it is. i will congratualte them for sending the marines to help out i hope our goverment will follow suit and this is the time to act we are doing some in that area but not enough. after a slow start our government have pledged a good amount of money.to see whose sent what read below.QuoteTsunami aid: Who's giving what Donations have been pouring in from governments and individuals in the wake of the Asian tsunami disaster. The UN says it has received between US$3-4bn (£1.6-2.1bn) in pledges and has called for $1bn in cash to be released immediately. Here is a breakdown of what has been pledged so far: Germany - $1.1bn Berlin has raised its government aid to $674m. Germany is also sending a mobile hospital to Aceh and a military ship with two helicopters, aid supplies, water treatment equipment and an operating theatre on board. The public has donated an estimated $431m. IMF - $1bn The IMF has offered up to $1bn in financial assistance to afflicted countries. Australia - $903m The government has raised its offer of aid to $815 million over a five-year period. Half of this sum is in bilateral loans. Prime Minister, John Howard has been sceptical about supporting the debt relief initiative being pushed by other wealthy countries. Donations from the Australian public total $88m. About 350 military staff, four military helicopters, a troop transport ship, a military health support team and a water purification plant are being sent to Indonesia, as well as a team of volunteer medical professionals. European Union - $628m $628 million in reconstruction and humanitarian funds, of which $130m is humanitarian aid. This brings the total sum donated by the bloc (EC+ EU member states) to roughly $2bn. US - $550m $350m in government donations, plus military assistance involving 12,600 personnel, 21 ships, 14 cargo planes and more than 90 helicopters. Around $200m of private donations are also pouring in, with $120m donated to the US branches of the Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children, and to Catholic Relief Services. Japan - $500m $500m (£264m) in government donations, half of which Tokyo has promised to make available immediately in direct grants. Some 120 civilian emergency workers were sent to tsunami-hit countries. The government has also offered to help set up a tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean. FROM THE WORLD'S POOREST Russian town of Beslan - scene of a bloody school siege last year - pledged 1m roubles ($36,000) from the fund set up after the mass hostage-taking Mozambique - one of the world's poorest nations - has donated $100,000 Nepal and East Timor have also pledged donations Britain - $285m $96m in government donations, plus $189m in private donations which the government has pledged to match. Two RAF planes, a C-17 and a Tristar, are helping to deliver aid to the region. Tony Blair has also offered to send 120 Ghurkas to Indonesia but this was rejected by Jakarta. Chancellor Gordon Brown is pushing a proposal for the debts of the affected nations to be frozen. World Bank - $250m The banks has diverted $250m from existing programmes to cover emergency needs while longer-term reconstruction needs are assessed. Norway - $212m Pledged $182m in government donations, plus $30m raised in private donations. Asian Development Bank - $175m An amount of $175m has been diverted from existing programmes in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. The bank says up to $150m more could be made available in new loans. Sweden - $140m Pledged $80m in government donations, plus $60m in private donations, including money raised during two telethons. Italy - $115m Donated $95m in government aid. Six to eight police forensics specialists have been sent to Thailand to help to identify bodies. Public donations totalling $20m had been collected by New Year's Day. France - $115m Pledged $66m in government donations, plus an estimated $49m raised in private donations. A medical team has been sent to Sri Lanka. Canada - $348m Prime Minister Paul Martin announced a five-fold increase in initial Canadian pledges, with a package worth almost $350m over five years. Private donations have so far reached $123m, the prime minister added. Canada is deploying its highly-specialised Disaster Assistance Response Team to Sri Lanka. Denmark - $75m Some $75m in government aid. Copenhagen has sent a field hospital, transport vehicles and a ship to the UN aid effort, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said. Netherlands - $69m Donated $34m by the government and aid groups say a further $35m has been raised in private donations. A Dutch police identification team has been sent to Thailand. Spain - $68m Given $68m in government donations, and a medical team has been sent to Sri Lanka. China - $65.1m Pledged$63.1m in government donations, plus $1.8m donated to the Chinese Red Cross. South Korea - $63m Pledged $50m in government aid. The prime minister's office said the funds would be spend for rehabilitation of the devastated areas over the next three years. Private donations have reached nearly $13m, the South Korean foreign ministry says. Qatar - £25m Has given $25m in government aid. Qatar is also sending food, medical and logistical supplies to affected countries. Russia - $2m Around $2m in aid but the government is sending additional aid, including grain and water purifiers. North Korea North Korea has pledged $150,000 to aid the effort in Indonesia. Countries in the region India The Indian military is staging its biggest relief operation ever in Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Indonesia. This involves at least 16,000 troops, 32 navy ships, 41 aircraft including at least 16 helicopters, several medical teams and a mobile hospital. The air force has so far lifted 10,000 tonnes of relief supplies. Bangladesh Bangladesh has dispatched 111 soldiers to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, with a further 46 expected to join them. Two planes and two helicopters will carry the troops together with aid supplies. Pakistan Pakistan plans to send 500 military staff in medical and engineering teams to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan Afghanistan has pledged to send around a dozen medics and a planeload of medicine and equipment to India and Sri Lanka. Citizens have also donated blood. Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4145259.stmQuoteNations meet UN swift cash appeal The UN official co-ordinating aid for tsunami survivors has said concrete commitments worth $717m (£382m) have been secured from donor countries. Speaking after an international meeting in Geneva, Jan Egeland said he was very encouraged by the swift response. He said the governments had promised to release the cash to help the disaster victims over the next six months. But he also warned that donor nations must not neglect other humanitarian crises around the world. Mr Egeland said it was the first time the UN had collected so much money in such a short space of time after a disaster, calling it an "extraordinary effort". Urgent aid Japan, the biggest donor, is to contribute $250m (£133m) in cash within the next few days, he said, half the total pledge already made by the Japanese government. Mr Egeland had earlier urged donor countries to release funds more quickly for the relief effort, saying only one-tenth of aid promised had so far been received. In other developments in the Indian Ocean region: The Indonesian army tells foreign aid workers in Aceh to register to travel outside Banda Aceh and Meulaboh Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga wants to adopt a Tamil child orphaned by the tsunami as a gesture of goodwill towards the Tamil community, an aide says An Acehnese man is rescued by an Arab container ship after two weeks drifting at sea following the tsunami International police agency Interpol sets up what is thought to be the biggest disaster victim identification centre in history, in the Thai resort of Phuket. Tuesday's Geneva meeting came five days after UN Secretary General Kofi Annan chaired a donor conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he issued a call for urgent aid. Massive effort The amount now promised over the next six months is equivalent to 73% of the $977m (£520m) that Mr Annan requested. We're seeing humanity at its very best in the beginning of 2005 Jan Egeland UN relief co-ordinator Watch all of Jan Egeland's briefing The delegates, representing governments and aid agencies, included US aid chief Andrew Natsios, EU development commissioner Louis Michel and senior ministers from Britain, France and Germany. Mr Egeland, who chaired the 81-nation meeting, said as it opened that about $300m had been committed to projects on the ground in the tsunami-hit region, out of $3.4bn in formally recorded aid pledges. "We need very quickly more signed contracts, more cash, more concrete commitments to help keep this massive effort going in the next six months," he said. But he said that the outbreak of disease and starvation that the UN had feared in the wake of the tsunami disaster, in which more than 150,000 people died, did not seem to be happening. Yearly shortfall The UN co-ordinator listed at least a dozen regions where UN agencies are struggling to meet the basic needs of millions of people. He pointed out that the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 1,000 people die daily of preventable diseases or because of the conflict there, suffered the equivalent of a tsunami every five months. Each year, Mr Egeland said, the UN launches an appeal for aid work but actual funds always fall well short of pledges. Phil Bloomer, head of UK-based charity Oxfam, said this was "crunch time" to make sure the pledges were realised. "This is not the time for empty rhetoric," he said, quoted by AFP news agency. "The eyes of the world are on this meeting and we want guarantees that the aid will not be diverted from other disasters and other suffering people." Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4163655.stm
Tsunami aid: Who's giving what Donations have been pouring in from governments and individuals in the wake of the Asian tsunami disaster. The UN says it has received between US$3-4bn (£1.6-2.1bn) in pledges and has called for $1bn in cash to be released immediately. Here is a breakdown of what has been pledged so far: Germany - $1.1bn Berlin has raised its government aid to $674m. Germany is also sending a mobile hospital to Aceh and a military ship with two helicopters, aid supplies, water treatment equipment and an operating theatre on board. The public has donated an estimated $431m. IMF - $1bn The IMF has offered up to $1bn in financial assistance to afflicted countries. Australia - $903m The government has raised its offer of aid to $815 million over a five-year period. Half of this sum is in bilateral loans. Prime Minister, John Howard has been sceptical about supporting the debt relief initiative being pushed by other wealthy countries. Donations from the Australian public total $88m. About 350 military staff, four military helicopters, a troop transport ship, a military health support team and a water purification plant are being sent to Indonesia, as well as a team of volunteer medical professionals. European Union - $628m $628 million in reconstruction and humanitarian funds, of which $130m is humanitarian aid. This brings the total sum donated by the bloc (EC+ EU member states) to roughly $2bn. US - $550m $350m in government donations, plus military assistance involving 12,600 personnel, 21 ships, 14 cargo planes and more than 90 helicopters. Around $200m of private donations are also pouring in, with $120m donated to the US branches of the Red Cross, Oxfam and Save the Children, and to Catholic Relief Services. Japan - $500m $500m (£264m) in government donations, half of which Tokyo has promised to make available immediately in direct grants. Some 120 civilian emergency workers were sent to tsunami-hit countries. The government has also offered to help set up a tsunami early warning system in the Indian Ocean. FROM THE WORLD'S POOREST Russian town of Beslan - scene of a bloody school siege last year - pledged 1m roubles ($36,000) from the fund set up after the mass hostage-taking Mozambique - one of the world's poorest nations - has donated $100,000 Nepal and East Timor have also pledged donations Britain - $285m $96m in government donations, plus $189m in private donations which the government has pledged to match. Two RAF planes, a C-17 and a Tristar, are helping to deliver aid to the region. Tony Blair has also offered to send 120 Ghurkas to Indonesia but this was rejected by Jakarta. Chancellor Gordon Brown is pushing a proposal for the debts of the affected nations to be frozen. World Bank - $250m The banks has diverted $250m from existing programmes to cover emergency needs while longer-term reconstruction needs are assessed. Norway - $212m Pledged $182m in government donations, plus $30m raised in private donations. Asian Development Bank - $175m An amount of $175m has been diverted from existing programmes in Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. The bank says up to $150m more could be made available in new loans. Sweden - $140m Pledged $80m in government donations, plus $60m in private donations, including money raised during two telethons. Italy - $115m Donated $95m in government aid. Six to eight police forensics specialists have been sent to Thailand to help to identify bodies. Public donations totalling $20m had been collected by New Year's Day. France - $115m Pledged $66m in government donations, plus an estimated $49m raised in private donations. A medical team has been sent to Sri Lanka. Canada - $348m Prime Minister Paul Martin announced a five-fold increase in initial Canadian pledges, with a package worth almost $350m over five years. Private donations have so far reached $123m, the prime minister added. Canada is deploying its highly-specialised Disaster Assistance Response Team to Sri Lanka. Denmark - $75m Some $75m in government aid. Copenhagen has sent a field hospital, transport vehicles and a ship to the UN aid effort, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen has said. Netherlands - $69m Donated $34m by the government and aid groups say a further $35m has been raised in private donations. A Dutch police identification team has been sent to Thailand. Spain - $68m Given $68m in government donations, and a medical team has been sent to Sri Lanka. China - $65.1m Pledged$63.1m in government donations, plus $1.8m donated to the Chinese Red Cross. South Korea - $63m Pledged $50m in government aid. The prime minister's office said the funds would be spend for rehabilitation of the devastated areas over the next three years. Private donations have reached nearly $13m, the South Korean foreign ministry says. Qatar - £25m Has given $25m in government aid. Qatar is also sending food, medical and logistical supplies to affected countries. Russia - $2m Around $2m in aid but the government is sending additional aid, including grain and water purifiers. North Korea North Korea has pledged $150,000 to aid the effort in Indonesia. Countries in the region India The Indian military is staging its biggest relief operation ever in Sri Lanka, the Maldives and Indonesia. This involves at least 16,000 troops, 32 navy ships, 41 aircraft including at least 16 helicopters, several medical teams and a mobile hospital. The air force has so far lifted 10,000 tonnes of relief supplies. Bangladesh Bangladesh has dispatched 111 soldiers to Sri Lanka and the Maldives, with a further 46 expected to join them. Two planes and two helicopters will carry the troops together with aid supplies. Pakistan Pakistan plans to send 500 military staff in medical and engineering teams to Indonesia and Sri Lanka. Afghanistan Afghanistan has pledged to send around a dozen medics and a planeload of medicine and equipment to India and Sri Lanka. Citizens have also donated blood. Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4145259.stm
Nations meet UN swift cash appeal The UN official co-ordinating aid for tsunami survivors has said concrete commitments worth $717m (£382m) have been secured from donor countries. Speaking after an international meeting in Geneva, Jan Egeland said he was very encouraged by the swift response. He said the governments had promised to release the cash to help the disaster victims over the next six months. But he also warned that donor nations must not neglect other humanitarian crises around the world. Mr Egeland said it was the first time the UN had collected so much money in such a short space of time after a disaster, calling it an "extraordinary effort". Urgent aid Japan, the biggest donor, is to contribute $250m (£133m) in cash within the next few days, he said, half the total pledge already made by the Japanese government. Mr Egeland had earlier urged donor countries to release funds more quickly for the relief effort, saying only one-tenth of aid promised had so far been received. In other developments in the Indian Ocean region: The Indonesian army tells foreign aid workers in Aceh to register to travel outside Banda Aceh and Meulaboh Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga wants to adopt a Tamil child orphaned by the tsunami as a gesture of goodwill towards the Tamil community, an aide says An Acehnese man is rescued by an Arab container ship after two weeks drifting at sea following the tsunami International police agency Interpol sets up what is thought to be the biggest disaster victim identification centre in history, in the Thai resort of Phuket. Tuesday's Geneva meeting came five days after UN Secretary General Kofi Annan chaired a donor conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, where he issued a call for urgent aid. Massive effort The amount now promised over the next six months is equivalent to 73% of the $977m (£520m) that Mr Annan requested. We're seeing humanity at its very best in the beginning of 2005 Jan Egeland UN relief co-ordinator Watch all of Jan Egeland's briefing The delegates, representing governments and aid agencies, included US aid chief Andrew Natsios, EU development commissioner Louis Michel and senior ministers from Britain, France and Germany. Mr Egeland, who chaired the 81-nation meeting, said as it opened that about $300m had been committed to projects on the ground in the tsunami-hit region, out of $3.4bn in formally recorded aid pledges. "We need very quickly more signed contracts, more cash, more concrete commitments to help keep this massive effort going in the next six months," he said. But he said that the outbreak of disease and starvation that the UN had feared in the wake of the tsunami disaster, in which more than 150,000 people died, did not seem to be happening. Yearly shortfall The UN co-ordinator listed at least a dozen regions where UN agencies are struggling to meet the basic needs of millions of people. He pointed out that the Democratic Republic of Congo, where 1,000 people die daily of preventable diseases or because of the conflict there, suffered the equivalent of a tsunami every five months. Each year, Mr Egeland said, the UN launches an appeal for aid work but actual funds always fall well short of pledges. Phil Bloomer, head of UK-based charity Oxfam, said this was "crunch time" to make sure the pledges were realised. "This is not the time for empty rhetoric," he said, quoted by AFP news agency. "The eyes of the world are on this meeting and we want guarantees that the aid will not be diverted from other disasters and other suffering people." Story from BBC NEWS:http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4163655.stm
figures as of 11/1/05http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4163655.stm
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