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There likely will be a lot of damage from Hurricane Gustav. To donate funds for the victims of Hurricane Gustav, call 1 800 Red Cross. They are there in Louisiana on the ground taking care of those hurricane victims.

Unfortunately, in an election year, it is difficult to keep politics out of anything. That includes Hurricane Gustav.

President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney did the right thing by not going to Louisiana during this hurricane and the evacuation. Anytime a president goes to a city, local government and police resources are strained because of security and other matters. Officials in Louisiana were using those resources to prepare for Hurricane Gustav and did not need the distraction.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama said the same thing and stayed away from Louisiana during Hurricane Gustav. He knew they did not need the distraction and that there is nothing he can do anyway.

John McCain is not at his convention because of Hurricane Gustav supposedly. John, let me reassure you. They do not need you in or around Louisiana with a concerned look on your face because you think it will win you votes. You are running for President. You are not President. There is nothing you can do.

They had to evacuate the nursing homes in Louisiana. Don’t distract them by showing up. They might think you belong in one of those evacuation buses. Go back to your convention. Have your party.

More than $15 million in federal disaster grants and loans has been approved so far by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) for Illinois residents who suffered damages and losses from the severe storms and flooding June 1 through July 22.

The new James Bond (Daniel Craig ) is helping a group of Diasaster Victims in Pyin-kha-yaing town a small fishing village in the country of Myanmar, with fishing boats after they where destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in May. Mr. Craig is handing over around 13,000 Dollars so he can purchase kayaks for this group of Disaster victims when there small fishing vessels were destroyed by cyclone Nargis.

His representative came to Myanmar and said he will pay for 25 fishing boats, and our committee brought the representative to that village,” a member from the fishery rehabilitation committee told the publication.

It will cost about 15 million kyats (about 12,345 dollars) for the fishing boats made locally, he said.

After having personally seen what an air disaster can do to a country and a people the 153 victims of the Spainair disaster are mourned not only in Spain but though out the world. Victims of this disaster will be remembered by there families for years to come, and victims families will and still need some closer after this disaster. We the people of the world mourn with you for your loss.

Spain is grieving for the 153 victims of the air crash in Madrid. The country’s prime minister has visited some of the 19 survivors and the King and Queen have been to the scene.

In the first amateur video footage taken just moments after the plane crashed, aviation fuel spills from its cracked and broken body, igniting into a raging inferno.

A Spanair flight departing Barajas Airport in Madrid, Spain for the Canary Islands crashed and burned, killing many of the 167 passengers onboard. Of the disaster victims, most were vacationers. Eyewitnesses stated that the crashe was extremely violent in nature, presumably catching fire shortly after leaving the runway, then exploding in flames and a thousand pieces.

So far there is no determination as to what went wrong and certainly far too early in the process to arrive at any conclusion. However, what IS known is that the plane aborted its first takeoff attempt for reasons that were not identified, save for the fact it was technical in nature. On the second attempt, Spanair flight JK5022 failed to clear the runway and crashed into a wooded area at the end of the runway at Terminal 4.

Yang Wei is fast becoming an icon in China. After waiting eight long years, he finally won the gold medal in the all-around gymnastics competition. Now that he has achieved that goal, he wishes to accomplish another by helping disaster vicitms of the Sichuan Province earthquake where nearly 70,000 people lost their lives.

Chinese Olympic Medalist Wang Wei who is a national icon and crowd favorite ignited the torch at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and had the support of 1.3 billion countrymen behind him at the opening ceremonies. Wang Wei also took time to remember the disaster victims of the earthquakes that devasted much of China’s Sichuan Province.

“The crowd was very enthusiastic,” said Yang. “It’s tremendous and that’s the feeling I have now.”

But Yang remembered the victims of the many disasters that China has suffered this year.

He said: “I think the Chinese team is responsible for a lot of the Chinese people’s dreams. We have not had a great year in China. We have seen a lot of disasters.”

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared August 13th a day of mourning as Georgian Armed Forces invaded South Ossetia and killed civilian populations. Russia has also declared this “genocide” a humanitarian disaster which qualified as an act of aggression and will be dealt with accordingly.

Katrina Aid Today is a national case management consortium which will provide disaster case management services to disaster vicitms. It was created by The United Methodist Committee on Relief. They just received $24.5M in federal funding to add to the more than $66M they received from foreign nations and non-profit agencies.