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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Saturday, September 03, 2005

Governments that have offered assistance.

Despite trouncing on the UN, attempting to engineer the assassination of Chavez, the embargo of Cuba, the imminent threats on Iran, and all the other stuff, the rest of the world has stepped up.

Governments line up to help after Katrina

Australia

Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahamas, Belgium.

Canada

China, Columbia, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Greece, Guyana, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland.

India

Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jamaica.

Japan

Jordan, Lithuania, Luxembourg.

Mexico

The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Paraguay.

Philippines

Portugal, South Korea.

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Singapore, Slovakia.

Spain

Sri Lanka

Switzerland, Sweden.

Taiwan

Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and
Venezuela.

Two quick additions, one positive, the amir of Qatar has pledged a hundred million from his own pile.

And one negative. Where the hell is Kuwait in all these lists? If there's one gov't who I feel we can claim owes us something, it's Kuwait, and they haven't stepped up.

UPDATE: At 10:45 AM Sunday, a story finally appeared saying that Kuwait is offering $500 million in oil.

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