U.N. official slams U.S. as \'stingy\' over aid

We have: Län = County and Kommuner = municipality

Kalmar has a population of 59k , it makes at least me think of how many people are in fact dead.

Anyway, we still dont know how many of my countrymen are dead, only six are confirmed dead, but many more are still missing (1500).
When M/S Estonia went down in 1994, the whole country was effected, we only have a population of 9 million so most people knew of at least one person effected by Estonia (852 died, 501 of them were swedish).

I cant imagine what the effects will be if the figure his higher than 500!

100,000 now and there are over 1000 Americans missing as well.

After watching some of the video of it, some people were just wandering around in the water when it first started to get high... makes you wonder what the people up high who were watching were thinking as opposed to those who just thought it was a "high tide".

From cnn.com:

The United States is offering $35 million, Japan $30 million and the United Kingdom $28 million. Australia and Germany have pledged $27 million, France $20.4 million and Saudi Arabia $10 million.

Spain will approve a $68 million line of credit as emergency aid, the Foreign Ministry announced late Wednesday.

Spain also has sent a plane carrying medical kits and other aid material. Those aboard include representatives of the Spanish government, the Spanish Red Cross and the organizations Doctors of the World and Messenger of Peace.

Many other nations are also reportedly planning to participate in the relief effort.

Mental health would go along with long term aid and rebuilding, which Yvette Stevens of U.N. Emergency Relief, said would likely cost "billions" -- and completing the job "could take years."

-Dan

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I read the French are giving something like 130,000 bucks.

I wonder what that\'s for?

People are giving away money like crazy, I saw a report on the news, the Red Cross people were standing in the streets collecting money for the "Victims of the tsunami" and people were happily putting 500 Kr notes in there.

The Swedish part of the Red Cross usually collects about 400 000 a year, in a few days they have collected 5-6 million!

Also on the radio they are collecting money for "Radiohjälpen" (Radio Help), one car salesman and his firm gave away 150 000 Kr, that\'ll do a lot. Im really happy to see this.

While it sucks, I sure have bigger problems like having no food in the house and no money, I can\'t be worried about some ****ing tourists and foreigners dying.

Oh, and **** the ****ing UN, those ****ers. Tell them to use all those private funds they\'ve collected over the years from being corrupt to fund the relief effort. What\'s that? They wont? That\'s right, because they don\'t give a **** either, this was just a chance to bash America.

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Anyway, more money coming in.

Sverige avsätter inledningsvis 500 miljoner kronor till bistånd i de drabbade länderna i södra Asien, enligt ett pressmeddelande från utrikesdepartementet.

Insatserna hanteras via Sida. I första hand kommer pengar att gå till olika FN-organ, Internationella Röda Korset, Räddningsverket och svenska frivilligorganisationer, uppger TT.

My government is giving 500 million SEK (75,341,063 USD) to help out.

The money will be distributed by SIDA to different UN bodies, International Red Cross, and different volunteer organisations.

EThugg =

lol

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meh to be fair i think the u.s. is the biggest contributor of supplies and aid in the world.... it\'s understandable that they only gave an initial 15 million, then added another 20 million on top of that...the war in iraq is already costing us billions....sheeit and 15 million is nothing to sneeze at....it was wrong for anybody to criticize any amount of contribution....

and in about a year we will see a news report on how money was embezzeled by "insert name of organization here".

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Originally posted by GigaShadow
and in about a year we will see a news report on how money was embezzeled by "insert name of organization here".

heh heh..no doubt!..and can you blame them?...millions are coming in from everywhere,...i\'m sure whoever is in charge of the funds will probably think "they sent us over 500 mil...who\'s gonna miss a mere 100-200 thou..."

Originally posted by Black Samurai
EThugg =

Don\'t hate me because I\'m right.

[Jumpman]

Worst disaster in modern times? I think WW2 has it beat by a long shot, but I guess for natural disasters easily.

Originally posted by EThuggV3
While it sucks, I sure have bigger problems like having no food in the house and no money, I can\'t be worried about some ****ing tourists and foreigners dying.

Oh, and **** the ****ing UN, those ****ers. Tell them to use all those private funds they\'ve collected over the years from being corrupt to fund the relief effort. What\'s that? They wont? That\'s right, because they don\'t give a **** either, this was just a chance to bash America.

Dude will you marry me?

for natural disasters easily.

One thing is for sure. it is going to require the largest help operation that the UN has ever launched.

China is giving 60.5 million USD (Canada 40 Million USD)