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Argentina sends humanitarian aid to hurricane ravaged Santa Lucia Island
Argentina has sent an expert in storage and humanitarian aid to the Caribbean island of Santa Lucia, recently ravaged by hurricane Tomas. The expert and 20 boxes containing sufficient pills to supply 600.000 litres of drinking water was expected to arrive in the island this week. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnd the UK Super Power couldn’t bring some help to this people?
Nov 18th, 2010 - 10:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Ah! sure they don’t have oil, diamond or something to steal.
Trolls abstain to make comments on post please.
Have a nice day.
I have no doubt UK is supplying assistance and will continue to do so.Big difference is that UK supplies humanitarian assistance WITHOUT political strings and political thankyous!
Nov 18th, 2010 - 10:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Nico, the Royal Navy was the first people to reach the island to give aid and rescue people stranded by the hurricane.
Nov 18th, 2010 - 11:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0HMS Manchester was the first to arrive.
Any connection to the fact that St Lucia currently hold the Chair of the C 24 - surely not ??
Nov 18th, 2010 - 11:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Oh yes, and the Chairman recently visited Argentina on a “private visit” and didn't come to the Falklands. So he will be very well informed......
ONCE AGAIN HE OPENS HIS MOUTH BEFORE HE PUTS HIS BRAIN IN GEAR, but hey ? Is he not Argentinian
Nov 18th, 2010 - 12:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0briton: He makes it almost too easy to make him look stupid.
Nov 18th, 2010 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Agreed lolol
Nov 18th, 2010 - 01:01 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is just a humanitarian assistance like many provided by Argentina to many countries as Haiti.
Nov 18th, 2010 - 01:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Political second thoughts are just repugnant on this matter and shows not care about people on disgrace.
Trolls abstain to make comments on my post please.
Have a nice day.
If you don't want people to comment then dont post.
Nov 18th, 2010 - 02:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No more thoughts on “And the UK Super Power couldn’t bring some help to this people?”
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Suppose it's easier to avoid a problem when you've been proven wrong than admit you was wrong.
Argies do a lot for charity, but dont like to mention it
Nov 18th, 2010 - 02:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAIWTLal9e4
Nico: Those pills cost about 50-75K! Oooh so generous! Isn't that the same amount as CFK is paying per vote on her budget? I think so....
Nov 18th, 2010 - 02:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 01 NicoDin (#)
Nov 18th, 2010 - 03:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“ And the UK Super Power couldn’t bring some help to this people?”
They are very busy preparing for a single wedding, they can do two things at the same time :-)
Tories plan shakeup of £9.1bn overseas aid budget to boost Commonwealth
Nov 18th, 2010 - 04:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jan/01/development-international-aid-and-development
Saint Lucia is a member of the Commonwealth and recognizes Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state, represented on the island by a Governor General.
Argentina does not need to send humanitarian aid to a member of the Commonwealth. There are communities within Argentina itself which are in need of help right now. Still, Argentina chooses to aid Santa Lucia.
Nov 18th, 2010 - 06:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Facts speak louder than words and lies will collapse by themselves.
Kelpers, you should learn something out of this.
No nation needs to send aid to anyone, and aid shouldn't be used as a political tool, yaghan.
Nov 18th, 2010 - 07:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Aid is always politically motivated.
Nov 18th, 2010 - 08:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Aid is always politically motivated.
Nov 18th, 2010 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_Aid_(band)
@16 When it's from Argentina.
Nov 18th, 2010 - 09:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_Aid ” lol what a joke, like they've changed the world haha
Nov 18th, 2010 - 11:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@fredbdc
Nov 19th, 2010 - 01:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina also send humanitarian aid, food, medicines to US when hurricane katrina & others devastated the south of USA.
And also we send the White Helmet and Engineers from the army.
so your comment its very irrelevant from someone that perhaps will need our help again.
“so your comment its very irrelevant from someone that perhaps will need our help again.”
Nov 19th, 2010 - 03:53 am - Link - Report abuse 0You really just can't comprehend what aid is and how it works, can you?
@18
Nov 19th, 2010 - 11:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0Aid, by any and all countries, is always politically motivated. All countries act in self-interest, there are no exceptions.
And aiding other countries help to advance a self-interested agenda because it boosts soft power.
Nico: Yet more lies from your government. You may have tried to send aid but we didn't accept it. I think you eventually sent some bi-lingual psychiatrists in the aftermath and they are probably still living here illegally.
Nov 19th, 2010 - 12:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_hur_kat_int_aid_res-hurricane-katrina-international-aid-response
Here is but one of many examples where the citizens of the USA are trying to lift Argentinians out of poverty:
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/dis_hur_kat_int_aid_res-hurricane-katrina-international-aid-response
The richest country in the world doesn't take aid from one of the poorest, how does that make any sense?
What in the world do you think The USA would need from Argentina? Our production numbers blow your country away. Do some research before you post.
What a Turnip.....
Nov 19th, 2010 - 01:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0New York, Friday November 19, 2010
Citgo, the U.S. subsidiary of state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA, renewed a program under which it has provided cheap heating oil to hundreds of thousands of U.S. low-income households in the USA since Katrina in 2005.
The goal this year is to benefit 200,000 American families, the same number as last year.
http://laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=350513&CategoryId=10717
Citgo is incorporated in the USA, like many US companies they give to poor Americans.
Nov 19th, 2010 - 02:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Try again.
#15: Would you please be more specific by telling us how is aid used as a political tool in this case?
Nov 19th, 2010 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a Turnip.....
Nov 19th, 2010 - 03:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One word :...“Incorporated”... and suddenly Venezuelan charity is OK....
What a Turnip.....
All politics aside, sending aid to a country that's been pretty well battered by a natural disaster is a good thing.
Nov 19th, 2010 - 04:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Even if it's taken them more than a fortnight to ship 600,000 puritabs and an expert, I'm sure that they can find a use for them as they must be running low as RFA Wave Ruler could only leave them what purification systems they had spare (and 150 tonnes of potable water) on the 4th...
Maybe you don't understand the word incorporated and what it means. Do you need me to explain it to you?
Nov 19th, 2010 - 05:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I know legal contracts etc are not respected in your country but they are in mine.
One word make all the difference, don't you agree?
What a Rutabaga!
Yaghan,
Nov 19th, 2010 - 11:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0'Kelpers, you should learn something out of this'???
What would you like us to learn? Be specific.
@fredbdc
Nov 20th, 2010 - 12:35 am - Link - Report abuse 0“The richest country in the world doesn't take aid from one of the poorest, how does that make any sense?
What in the world do you think The USA would need from Argentina? Our production numbers blow your country away. Do some research before you post.”
We also sent engineers and tons of food, medicines and mineral water.
http://argentina.usembassy.gov/whitehelmets_event.html
http://argentina.usembassy.gov/whitehelmets_event.html
Cascos Blancos = White helmets in English
Argentina humanitarian org that works collaborating with UN. OEA (American Estates Organization) Headquarters in Buenos Aires Chief office Gabril Fuks
“Bush praised Kirchner for his skillful handling of the Argentine economy, and expressed gratitude for Argentina's assistance to the United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. The hurricane, which struck the U.S. Gulf Coast at the end of August, caused widespread devastation.
Argentina's willingness to aid U.S. hurricane victims “was a gesture of grand friendship,” said Bush.”
http://argentina.usembassy.gov/whitehelmets_event.html
We have passed for this before Fred and we will do the same in the next hurricane may be you will suffer.
We will not deny assistance to people suffering just for some stupid arrogant without motive like you mate.
And by the way you are not so rich just take a look of your debt http://argentina.usembassy.gov/whitehelmets_event.html
You are all in read rich people don’t live in red poor yes.
Yeah mate, accept the truth. You are a negative equity, you are just broke living still a fantasy with money borrowing abroad.
“Maybe you don't understand the word incorporated and what it means. Do you need me to explain it to you? I know legal contracts etc are not respected in your country but they are in mine..”
An ignorant like you cannot explains anything to Argentineans mate I don’t understand how you survive in this world cuz you brain seems like a chicken one.
23 fredbdc ,“ The richest country in the world doesn't take aid from one of the poorest, how does that make any sense?”
Nov 20th, 2010 - 03:24 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina
When thousands were starving or dying in New Orleans Mr Bush was praising the director of FEMA in charge of helping these people, help that arrived later than any response in a “third world country”
“Brownie you're doing a heck of a job”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_response_to_Hurricane_Katrina
Only in America!
I am pretty sure you two are too stupid to understand that The Katrina disaster actually presented a constitutional crisis to the Bush Administration and instead seeing it as a failure of the Federal Govt it was actually a failure of the state government. Which is why Republicans now control the state instead of Democrats.
Nov 20th, 2010 - 12:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/archive/index.php/t-70227.html
Nico: You are like a dumb dog, willingness to aid is not the same as aiding. Do you need me to explain it to you further? Argentina did not do anything in Katrina no matter what lies your govt is telling you.
ZETHE:
Nov 20th, 2010 - 01:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have an answer for you in the articule of 12 of november, the link is, argentina is a country cut in two.
“George W. Bush: Screwup-in-Chief, 2001-2008”
Nov 20th, 2010 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://capitalgainsandgames.com/blog/bruce-bartlett/1865/george-w-bush-screwup-chief-2001-2008
“The Bush years were an unmitigated disaster. Here is a quick list of his screw-ups”
“The total failure to deal with Katrina”
Brownie you're doing a heck of a job
Only in America!
Argentina sends humanitarian aid, and all the haters have a tantrum and smash their laptops haha
Nov 20th, 2010 - 11:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No-one had a tantrum, i think if you read the start of the thread this started by Nico complaining that we didn't send aid. When infact we was the first to help.
Nov 21st, 2010 - 12:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0@fredbdc
Nov 21st, 2010 - 12:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The only stupid is you here see the photo of your ambassador saluting volunteer to be sent even though post Katrina rescue.
http://argentina.usembassy.gov/whitehelmets_event.html
“Ambassador Lino Gutierrez and Deputy Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana officiated at a departure ceremony for a volunteer Argentine mental health team of 18 “White Helmets” and Health Ministry workers, September 23. In his remarks, Ambassador Gutierrez emphasized bilateral cooperation at a time of adversity. Also in attendance were Gabriel Fuks, head of the White Helmets, and Anibal Gutierrez, Foreign Ministry Chief of Cabinet. The team departed September 27 to provide post-disaster psychological attention to victims in and around the city of Jefferson Parish, one of the most battered districts of Louisiana.”
Now are you going to tell me that I wrote this on the US embassy website too?
What do you want now a photo of Bush personally downloading Argentina’s containers in the Airport?
I confirmed that in post #23, and I bet they are still living here illegally! Plus I remember reading it in the newspapers, it was kind of a joke because there were very few Spanish speakers living there at that time and they wondered what they were actually doing.
Nov 21st, 2010 - 02:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Are you sure they made it home or are they in Miami now?
fredbdc , Hey dude! Nico kick you rear end with picture at#38. Fred you are like a Mexican piñata, you are getting beaten in every way by the Argentinians...including those in Recoleta.
Nov 22nd, 2010 - 05:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos, my little cartenero, are you back? Nice to see you! You never have told me how much cardboard you need to collect to keep posting so much? Maybe you make all the extra money in the bathrooms of the Constitution train station. Which is it? Please let us know we are all curious!
Nov 22nd, 2010 - 12:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Still out of work Freddie Piñata? Running out of unemployment benefits or food stamps are not filling your belly anymore?
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 03:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0@Fredbdc
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 12:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Message for you Fred
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhwjIzJOfRU
American escaping to Argentina for the crisis in USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhwjIzJOfRU
Not yet but thanks for asking! I probably have to go to BA in Jan or Feb to see family, which corner in Rosedal do you work Marcos I will come and check you out.
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 01:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh I see freddie, the“ladies” in Rosedal are your family members.
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 06:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No, my family is in San Isidro.
Nov 23rd, 2010 - 09:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I just figured that is where you would be...either that or one of the bathrooms in Constitution trying to make a buck
una pesito, por favor una pesito
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Nov 23rd, 2010 - 11:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0My my what a filthy mouth you have, where has it been? I can guess but why don't you tell us.
Nov 24th, 2010 - 12:11 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's always the low class and poorly educated that must resort to foul language to get a point across.
That last note must have really struck a chord though. I told you before I can usually peg people pretty close to their reality just by reading their messages.
Freddie, You're very sensitive today, that's a common word used in your country...now I know why you enjoyed to travel to Buenos Aires...more specifically to the Rosedal area...is ok to love women only like me, or not like you ...come out of the closet Fred is ok..
Nov 24th, 2010 - 02:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZd1SmwsyUc
Actually it is not a common word and only used by the low born or uneducated like you.
Nov 24th, 2010 - 11:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have heard it is very common in Argentina for men to have sex with transvestites. Many guys in BA told me as long as they have long hair and look like a women, who cares! That is not very common in the USA.
How do you think the world knows about Rosedal? It is pretty well known like the Red Light district in Amsterdam! It is not a secret known only to portenos or taxi drivers.
How do you think the world knows about Craiglist and Backpage DC? It's not common here but very common in DC..AND IF YOU WERE OFENDED BY THAT WORD IS BECAUSE MOST LIKELY YOU ARE THAT.
Nov 24th, 2010 - 04:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Who says I was offended? I think it is very rude though and not appropriate in adult discussions.
Nov 24th, 2010 - 04:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Both of those pages offer services and goods like a newspaper classifieds. I live in DC and I have never heard of backpages until you posted it. It seems like another craigslist though, and that is one of the most popular web sites in the world. I am sure a lot of people know about it and not just for the sexual advertisements. You might be surprised to know that not everyone needs to hunt for sex on the internet.
I think you are just a poor dumb guy trying to have a voice outside of your lonely forgotten country. I feel sorry for you.
“ I am sure a lot of people know about it and not just for the sexual advertisements.” Didn't they(Craiglist, under pressure) shutdown sexual section after the murderer of that girl in Boston?
Nov 24th, 2010 - 05:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Forgotten country? Who said we were that well known. Fred put in your head, US is falling apart in every possible way you can imagine(thank Bush for me). I know your country much better than you know mine, believe me.
”I'm proud to be an American where at least I know I'm free...(are you?)
Marcos, yes I am free, and if you think Argentina is in better shape than the USA you must be smoking a lot of paco. How would a dirty cartenero know anything about the greatest country in the world? It's pretty hard to get much reliable info while on the ghost train.
Nov 24th, 2010 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@fredbdc
Nov 24th, 2010 - 11:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0When will you stop to play the “posh” American?
You are not well educated, you are not well informed and I really doubt that you have a middle income to start with. In fact I think you are a machote Mexican for the way you write.
You are lying especially about the Rosedal what its a park http://www.revistaelabasto.com.ar/El%20Abasto_archivos/Rosedal.jpg and the only one that knows so much about the sexual activity there are people living here trough the media or those who go at night to hunt for sex. So you are not a permanent resident of Argentina (as you live in Washington as you said) so where you there hunting for sex, mate?. Who do you want to cheat?
And who are those who looks for paying for sex in everywhere and drugs? Yes Americans.
You are famous here for that I have American friends so shut up. American women are also sex hunters down here especially in between 25 to 50 years old.
You go to Thailand to get easy sex with teen girls, Brazil, Mexico, etc. You don’t get sex without paying mate. 3% of adult Americans males pays for sex and 1% Americans women pay for sex and according with your own figures (National Survey of Sexual Health and Behavior) US only counts with 1% of population working as prostitutes. You have a 3% deficit my friend and that make you to travel a lot for sex.
Americans are use to pay for everything its part of your culture mate you say 2 words and 1 its about money.
So sex tourism its your perfect vacation for you mate and now you want to give us a class about your high moral?
So stop to be hypocrite mate.
American travesty hunters in Bangkok http://www.revistaelabasto.com.ar/El%20Abasto_archivos/Rosedal.jpg
Hypocrite Americans having a debate about ITS WRONG TO PAY FOR SEX DEBATE?
Who the hell have this type of debates if has not a problem whit it?
http://www.revistaelabasto.com.ar/El%20Abasto_archivos/Rosedal.jpg
I hope the puritan here don't report the post just in case...
“In god we trust” ha ha
54 fredbdc , “Marcos, yes I am free”.....Unfurtanetly
Nov 25th, 2010 - 12:17 am - Link - Report abuse 0“How would a dirty cartenero know anything about the greatest country in the world?”
I know, I know
http://losangeles.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel09/la083109.htm
'The first three defendants to be charged under an international law enforcement initiative targeting Americans who travel to Cambodia to sexually exploit children ....
“Three American Men Accused of Traveling to Cambodia to Have Sex with Children Now En Route to United States to Face Prosecution on Federal ‘Sex Tourism’ Charges”
I think you are both mentally and morally deficient. Sickos.
Nov 25th, 2010 - 01:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0@ fredbdc
Nov 25th, 2010 - 02:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0See your moral examples like religious Bush sending kids to kill children in Iraq and Afghanistan talks for itself. And the majority of Americans supporting that kind of actions.
The only nation in the world to use a weapon of Mass Destruction in the Wold.
The only nation that used tactical anti tanks weapons with raw uranium just for testing purposes in Iraq in 1992.
Are you the typical American fanatic religious like the guys of the Italian Mafia that after a good killing go to church to confess all their sins looking for relief.
And you call as “morally deficient”?
Ha ha you are in the bottom of the scale of evolution mate only animals behave that way.
I will add, not even animals behave that way :-)
Nov 25th, 2010 - 03:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0Why people believe Americans are stupid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw603tH6YqM&feature=related
Nico, I don't even know where you are trying to take this debate? Plus your statements are not true, lots of countries have used weapons of mass destruction, mafia is all over the world especially in Argentina, so I am not sure what you point is or what you are trying to debate. I am pretty sure I have said it before EVERYONE on this board thinks you are retarded. Everything you post can be debunked if anyone wanted to waste their time.
Nov 25th, 2010 - 12:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Marcos, you should read the posts you are agreeing with before you join in. It makes you look really stupid to support Nico's posts and I know you are not as dumb as he is. Come on I was having fun now you went and ruined it by posting stuff so inane I can't even respond. Come up with something good so we can keep this going my little cartenero.
Important news!! Fred was pardon by Mr Obama....
Nov 25th, 2010 - 07:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Hey, you grew some feathers on top of your head...Bosley?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/worldnews/3527475/What-really-happens-to-the-turkey-that-the-president-pardons-at-Thanksgiving.html
@fredbdc
Nov 26th, 2010 - 12:01 am - Link - Report abuse 0Since when you are concerned about my reputation?
Well wiki does not make you any favor.
“The United States was the first country to develop weapons of mass destruction, and remains the only country to have used them in warfare. The United States dropped two weapons of mass destruction on Japan from American B-29 bombers in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It had secretly developed the earliest form of the atomic weapon during the 1940s under the title “Manhattan”
And I add to civilians.
”In Got we Trust” haha
U.S. is most religious in industrialized world
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/faith/2009/12/united_states_is_most_religiou.html
USA Mafia http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/faith/2009/12/united_states_is_most_religiou.html
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/faith/2009/12/united_states_is_most_religiou.html
Wow
Marcos, Are you the blond? Now that the nights are warm business should pick up! Good Luck!
Nov 26th, 2010 - 12:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HOpPnXwwTE&feature=related
Freddie,I told you only women for me. Hey you don't need to travel that far for that, let's take a look at your neighbourhood.
Nov 26th, 2010 - 05:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG0BRd03Kck
Ick, that's not my neighborhood, I live in NW DC.
Nov 26th, 2010 - 08:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Did you know you were famous...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmPHbqhfqfI&feature=related
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