Halliburton, Brown & Root etc soon swooping in for the kill / US$250m

[Tinoire]

Place close attention to the bolded words. You can bet your life and home on this.

Richest nations pledge more than US$250m tsunami victims

(snip)

Egeland said one of the biggest challenges would be sheltering all those displaced by the disaster.

"These are ranging from the villages that were wiped out in Somalia on the horn of Africa - Somalia has been largely forgotten because we have only accessed really these areas over the last 48 hours - to all the people displaced in Sri Lanka to the growing number we are now aware of in Indonesia.''

The World Food Programme (WFP), said at least 1 million people have been displaced in Sri Lanka. Approximately one million people in Sumatra are homeless, according to Unicef.

About 45,000 victims of the quake and flooding are living in camps in India. And in the Maldives 14,000 people from 20 islands have been displaced with 1000 evacuated to the capital, Male.

The world's richest nations have pledged more than US$250 million (euro184 million) in emergency aid for the victims and people around the globe have contributed millions more.

Egeland said US$220 million had been received in cash and pledges, but his list did not include several large pledges.

He said an equal amount had been promised in relief goods and equipment, and military and defense assistance.

(snip)

U.S. President George W. Bush said Wednesday the United States, India, Australia and Japan have formed an international coalition to coordinate worldwide relief and reconstruction efforts.

He pledged a multifaceted response that goes far beyond the initial U.S. pledge of US$35 million (euro26 million), including U.S. military manpower and damage surveillance teams in the short term and long-term rebuilding assistance.

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http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2004/12/30/latest/20443Richestna&sec=latest

[GetTheRightVote]

1. Oh, Oh, now he is going to use this event to make money, that is

what they were doing planning on how to capture the whole money making side of this, that is why he is calling it a coilation ....
scum ball big time scum ball.
:kick:

[eleonora]

2. wow, this is becoming about saving face

:tinfoilhat:

[shance]

3. Halliburton: We create destruction so we can rebuild it.

This is becoming so unbelievable.

[Nadienne]

4. Couldn't've worked out better for Bush'n'Co

Oh, how they love tragedy...

[Tinoire]

5. Jesus. Bush is talking about "cash flow" now... Air America. SICK!

Just when you think he can sink no lower!

Pig!

He won't even touch the question of "WILL THE US FORGIVE THE DEBT OF THOSE DEVASTATED NATIONS". :MAD: Compassionate Christianity at its best.

[Ilsa]

6. Unearned MBA Mentality.

If he had earned his degrees, he might actually think and behave differently, maybe with a long term approach for the good of mankind. As it is, he is a privileged sociopath, and it shows.

[Octafish]

7. Your diagnosis is correct, Doctor.

The crazy moron is a spoiled coward. Those who know him best from college pegged him flat:

Former HBS Prof Blasts Bush
Business scholar says president was 'shallow,' 'flippant' in 1970s class

By SIMON W. VOZICK-LEVINSON
Crimson Staff Writer
Published on Friday, July 16, 2004

EXCERPT...

{Yoshihiro) Tsurumi—now a professor of international business at Baruch College in the City University of New York—said he remembers the future president as scoring in the bottom 10 percent of students in the class.

Thirty years after teaching the class, Tsurumi said the twenty-something Bush’s statements and behavior—“always very shallow”—still stand out in his mind.

“Whenever just bumped into me, he had some flippant statement to make,” said Tsurumi when reached at his home in Scarsdale, N.Y. “The comments he made were revealing of his prejudice.”

SNIP...

Tsurumi said he particularly recalls Bush’s right-wing extremism at the time, which he said was reflected in off-hand comments equating the New Deal of the 1930s with socialism and the corporation-regulating Securities and Exchange Commission with “an enemy of capitalism.”

“I vividly remember that he made a comment saying that people are poor because they’re lazy,” Tsurumi said.

SNIP...

Tsurumi said that the younger Bush boasted that his father’s political string-pulling had gotten him to the top of the waiting list for the Texas National Guard instead of serving in Vietnam. When other students were frantically scrambling for summer jobs, Tsurumi said, Bush explained that he was planning instead for a visit to his father in Beijing, where the senior Bush was serving at the time as the special U.S. envoy to China.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=503181

Doc, what's the prognosis?

[SharonAnn]

10. No, MBA only teaches the tools. Most execs I know only use them

to manipulate the nubmers (short-term) to maximize their bonuses and get themselves promoted. They won't be there to clean up with the feces hits the fan.

I haven't seen long-range planning in business for many years now.

Oh, and I have an MBA myself. But I had a lot of business experience before I got it, so I had seen the games played. I just wanted to know what I was dealing with so I went and got one myself.

[goforit]

8. And these countries will have to return favors at high cost !!!1

Like India.....these countries should refuse payment.

[Tinoire]

9. And the pot even bigger now. Japan alone is up to $500 million

Japan Offers Most Tsunami Aid: $500M

Japan is pledging to give up to $500 million in aid to tsunami victims, making it the largest donor so far, and pushes the total money pledged to help those affected by last weekend's disaster to more than $1 billion.

Japan had pledged to give $30 million to the relief effort, but Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said the country is determined to "extend the maximum possible assistance" -- proportionate with its responsibilities as a fellow Asian country. Japan hasn't decided how to disperse the money.

Japan also said it will help build a tsunami warning system for the countries bordering the Indian Ocean.

http://www.wral.com/news/4039558/detail.html