CBS: Oxfam in Biloxi

[Nikki Stone 1]

So an international aid society had to come because FEMA was AWOL.

Tell the freepers that. Oxfam's last crisis was the tsunami.


CBS: Disaster in the Delta

[Field Of Dreams]

1. Doctors without Borders: I'm waiting for them as well! n/t

[BrightKnight]

5. I sent an email message to MSF.

I have not heard back yet. They do not receive donations from governments and therefore don't have to avoid stepping on anyone's toes.

A token response might be helpful. I would not want them to cut back on famine relief or vaccination programs for this. I donate to them because the money is well spent.

[BrightKnight]

6. MSF sent a team down on Friday 9/2...

MSF works primarily in the developing world providing assistance to people affected by war and disease, as well as natural disasters. Other than a modest psychosocial support program for first-responders after 9/11, we've never worked in the United States and therefore have limited logistical capacity and expertise here. Given the resources and response capacity in the United States, we initially did not anticipate that there would be a need for the limited role we could play in responding to unmet emergency medical needs. Nevertheless, after watching the horrible impact of Hurricane Katrina and the relief response unfold, we decided to carry out an assessment mission in the state of Louisiana, and particularly in New Orleans

http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/news/2005/09-06-2005.cfm

[ananda]

2. apparently..

.. Oxfam saw a need and took action.

Some guys in Minnesota got truck and collected supplies on a trip down to MS.

An official from FEMA was quoted as saying that they didn't want to go into disaster areas early on because they didn't want to tax the infrastructure.. meaning use gasoline because the people needed it and it was in short supply. Huh?

Just when you think it can't get crazier, it does...

So, exactly when are FEMA and the Red Cross going to do their jobs on site and give real victims real help where they are?

I swear.. there must be some kind of sinister agenda going on here. Is it that the government wants individuals and charities to do the jobs?

The mayor of Gulfport was going on and on about not wanting to depend on big brother, pulling themselves out of the well, not blaming the government because it was a big catastrophe, etc. He's really bought that social darwinist, everybody for self meme. Ugghh.

NO is in very bad shape. I worry about Lake Pontchartrain and the ecology of the soil as well, with all that toxic water and sludge being moved. Once it's relatively liveable again, it sounds as if it will be something of a poisonous miasma, kind of like living over a very toxic waste dump. This is not good.

Anyway, I'm not sure whether the poor evacuees will ever move back there. The media is saying that they will probably assimilate into pockets in other cities, mostly slums. That's probably why those in charge of transporting evacuees are moving them to so many places without giving them much choice. They don't want to have too many Dems in one place.

Sue

[Nikki Stone 1]

3. The only thing that makes sense is that FEMA and the RC were told to

stand down. And those orders had to come from the top.

Nothing else makes any sense here.

[Psyop Samurai]

7. That's correct...

Now watch who goes into overdrive selling "incompetence".

[riverwalker]

4. heck, send the Red Crescent n/t