This is an update. Within the text you will find a link to the chart so many readers liked so much. The chart, according to the press release, is updated regularly. Here is what Hillary Clinton’s State Department is doing to help control and repair the assault on our precious beaches, wetlands, and estuaries. (Editorial note: You know I just cannot resist that picture of the SOS. It is iconic.)
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: International Offers of Assistance
Office of the SpokesmanWashington, DCJune 29, 2010
The National Incident Command and the Federal On Scene Coordinator have determined that there is a resource need for boom and skimmers that can be met by offers of assistance from foreign governments and international bodies.
The United States will accept 22 offers of assistance from 12 countries and international bodies, including two high speed skimmers and fire containment boom from Japan. We are currently working out the particular modalities of delivering the offered assistance. Further details will be forthcoming once these arrangements are complete.
The Unified Area Command (UAC) under the direction of the Coast Guard, is coordinating the oil spill response in the Gulf. It includes representatives of the responsible parties, affected states and other Departments and agencies of the U.S. Government. The National Incident Command (NIC), headed by the U.S. Coast Guard, is working with the Department of State to support the UAC as it sources equipment, supplies and expertise.
The 27 countries which have offered the U.S. Government assistance are: the Governments of Belgium, Canada, China, Croatia, Denmark, El Salvador, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam.
The international bodies offering assistance are: the European Maritime Safety Agency, the European Commission’s Monitoring and Information Centre, the International Maritime Organization, and the Environment Unit of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the United Nations Environment Program.
The Department has released a chart of offers of assistance that the U.S. has received from other governments and international bodies. The chart is updated as necessary to include any additional offers of assistance and decisions on accepting the offers. The chart is posted on the State Department Web site at: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/143488.pdf
Please note: P.J. Crowley issued the follwing clarification on July 1, 2010.
Clarification of Media Note: Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: International Offers of Assistance
Philip J. Crowley
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Public AffairsWashington, DCJuly 1, 2010
To be clear, the acceptance of international assistance we announced today did not mean to imply that international help was arriving only now. In fact, before today, there were 24 foreign vessels operating in the region and 9 countries had provided boom, skimmers and other assistance. As early as May 11th boom arrived from Mexico, Norway and Brazil. Yesterday, additional assistance was announced.
Thank you so much for this! I needed it,by me being bored I went the confluence and got comments of palin praise because she gave a speech about how she would be better for the oil spill then the administration which includes hillary. So talking about what you might do is showing more leadership than Hillary actually doing something. The same thing they hate obama for is exactly what palin does all the time. But it is okay if palin does it. I left a comment over their but I am not sure they will post it,because it told the truth about palin and hillary and you know saying the truth about palin is sexist.
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That’s why I don’t go there. In fact, some of what was happening there in 08/08 is what made me curl up into my own blogs. Yes, Hillary is actually doing something. As usual! That’s why, now, I just try to keep a record of what she does.
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I was just bored and was like what the hell. Last I was over there I got in an arguement with one of the main regulars because I dared to suggest hillary is loving being SOS and may flirt a little and her counterparts flirt back. One of the main regulars said that was disrespectful to hillary. Yet the same person said palin would do better than obama on the oil spill with a little picture of hillary by her name.
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I had a similar experience a few weekends ago. There was nothing left to post. It was dead out there and I was bored. Once you start to get into it over there, it’s hard to extract yourself. Better off just getting out.
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I don’t think I will ever understand the whole Clinton supporter to Palin supporter conversion. The only thing the two have in common is that their both women. If that’s all they’re looking for they’d support half the population in a presidential election even though there’s a hell of a lot to running a country and anatomy has nothing to do with it.
I just don’t get it.
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I never got it. If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit! Meaning, they were never Hillary supporters. They were like the people Glenn Beck encouraged to vote for Hillary because she would be easy for a Republican to beat (they wished). Infiltrators and manipulators. Dirty tricksters in the ancient tradition of Donald Segretti (who trained Karl Rove).
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… to sit, stay, and fetch, right?
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Exactly!
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The reason the conflune supports her from what I read is that she is a centerist and sort of like big dawg. They say she wants oversight of the oil industry and the obama admnistration which includes hillary does not want that. The real liberals would support palin. They support all women including bachman,heck the link to the new agenda. If you do not support palin then you are not a real liberal because liberals support all women. They had one of their posters say fiorna and whitman may be better than boxer and brown. The confluence likes to think of themselves as the real liberals.
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OMG! What a twisted web we weave! Of course all of that works provided you do not apply the rules of logic. Palin is like Bill Clinton? I would take that on in a debate. When did Palin EVER want oversight of oil? NEVER! The day McCain nominated her, I already knew who she was from having signed countless petitions to her regarding her agenda for Arctic drilling.
Just the logic of “liberals supporting all women” cries for refutation. Phyllis Schafly? Let’s be real!
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OMG! Identity crisis in progress! For years I’ve thought I was liberal, but I find it impossible to support Palin based on her policies and general view of things. I’ve been lying to myself all this time.
*Places hand on forehead in a dramatic gesture*
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… and faints! Is caught by Carlos Bocanegra who administers smelling salts.
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Makes mental note to consult the Hillary Clinton Guide to Flirtation.
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FLIRTATION!!!!????? Cardinal SIN!
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They won’t debate you,they just say you are a kool-aid drinker. I think they actually might like schafley,they believe in that 51 percent bs. They quoted michelle malkin. What hillary supporter would get mad because someone says she flirts, wonk the vote did. They want her to quit like palin did. They could careless if she is happy being SOS or not. Her quitting would make them happy. They got upset with bill because he said positive things about obama. Anyone who says anything positive about obama they hate.
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Well, that’s been the problem I could not cope with. And I LIKE Wonk. She used to come here. But there are agendas and manipulations I will not abide.
Anyhow, Hillary is not a quitter – at least not without a really powerful reason. But I mean NUCLEAR!
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I will stick to the widdershins. I still don’t know why hillary flirting is disrespectful. Some suppporters forget she is a human. They brought up 2008 today and 2008 did hurt,but move on. Yet say Hillary 2012 and they say no way right away. What bugs me about hillbuzz,hillaryis44,the new agenda and the confluence is they use the love people have for hillary and sometimes her name to get people to their blogs then say to support all women,even the women who have said the most hurtful things about her. How can a so called hillary supporter say it was okay for palin to say for hillary to stop whining when hillary was defending chelsea from being called a whore by msnbc’s shuster.
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Jill! You just channeled me! At every one of those places, that was my problem and you hit the nail on the head! That’s why I don’t go to any of them.
Yes, we ARE looking forward – to 2012! Anyone who says no to that was NEVER in Hillary’s camp.
“You can’t go ahead looking in the rearview mirror.” – HRC
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Don’t use hillary or big dawg like that. FDL,crooks and liars,DU did not get where they are by saying come here we believe this and then change when you go to their blog. Hillary and bill might not like obama,but a republican goes after him they will defend obama right away.
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You are so incisive! Yes, Jill of Arc! You are so right! You are like Joan of Arc! We need to get the Dauphine (Hillary) onto the throne. All of these people are making tripotage for Palin and the GOP in the Court.
There IS an Army for Hillary. Those people are out to destroy it. But they can’t.
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Still, we are all just waiting.
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I will never understand anyone who supported Hillary, then turned around and backed Palin. The issues that Hillary cares the most about, are the same issues that Palin is always speaking against. I just don’t get it, and probably never will.
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They support all women. Anytime anyone questions palin they say criticze her on the issues but you do and they still call it sexist. They think any bad comments about palin is sexist and she is a victim all the time because we are all jealous of her.
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If flirting is a cardinal sin,what is talking about half naked soccer player drinking beers with hillary and showing the pictures? The confluence I think believes hillary should be the good little wife and worker and just work. They probably had a heart attack when hillary showed clevage in the senate. Hillary is supposed to know her place and should be smart to those people and leave the human side to the new feminists like palin.
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Do you think they know that being a good little wife means she .. um … MORE THAN flirts … with Bill?
I know – this is what I ran into last year when she broke her elbow. I knew it hurt a lot. Even in pressers P.J. Crowley was saying she was in a lot of pain, but those people thought she should just suck it up. The truth is she actually never missed a day of work. She worked from home over the weekend right after the surgery. Geez, I was saying! Cut her a little slack. She’s not a machine! But I think they want her to be a machine. Less than human. Because women should not show weakness. No, for some reason they seem to think Hillary Clinton does not have the right to be a real flesh, bone, and blood woman.
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Exactly still,they do not want hillary the woman they want hillary the man and the complain all day about men. Hillary has always worked,they hate that she is not their little robot wife but an independent women. They think a little good wife means do whatever bill did and don’t be yourself,be what they want you to be.
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When I was arguing with wonk the vote she called when we talk of hillary the woman that it is just a fangirl meme.
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Well, I will admit that something of the fangirl is in me now, but that developed relatively recently. She appealed to my head for a long, long time before she wormed her way into my heart. But what is wrong with fangirls?
I think there is something wrong with a narrow view of Hillary. What’s wrong with liking her ideas and her as a person? I don’t get that. As I said, she is not a machine. I appreciate the whole woman. She’s a wonderful human being!
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Ok, the truth is we do take some dramatic license with her on occasion, but I don’t see it as disrespectful. We theorize about her romantic life with her husband when in truth we have no real concrete evidence that any passion, romance, or feelings exists between them at all. We choose to believe they’re a happy, loving couple. We see photos that look like she’s charming the bejeesuz out of her counterparts from around the world, so we joke about her being flirtatious. We could be entirely wrong, but we’d like to think that she’s enjoying the company she has to keep given the nature of her job and, maybe, having some innocent, good-natured fun. There’s no disrespect in hoping someone’s happy. We don’t know if she is, but we’d like to think so.
To call me a fan, let alone a fangirl, is stretching the term a bit. I like the job she has and I think she’s doing a better job than her predecessor, but I have my issues with her as I do with any other politician. Still, I believe that, buried under a granite-hard and fathoms-deep layer of finely crafted public persona, there might be real feelings and emotions that have survived the last two decades. That makes her no more or less than human and gender has nothing to do with that.
A woman without feelings or emotions isn’t a man, they’re a robot. I have seen no evidence that she isn’t a human being, so she should be treated and thought of like on.
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I am an avid Hillary supporter and not a huge fan of Palin, however, I understand why Hillary supporters came out in favor of Palin after McCain nominated her.
From what I saw, it was because of how abused Hillary AND her supporters were by a mysogynistic Obama and Democratic party. Many of us had spent a lifetime believing that Democrats supported the rights of women and the rule and bylaws committee decision to take hillary votes and give them to obama was too much to bear. Plus, the whole meme that he’d won was ridiculous and any “real” democrat would’ve understood that she had far greater support than he did. (I live in a caucus state…I know.)
Then when the democrats start viciously attacking Palin on appearance, being stupid and equating being governor of alaska to having tea parties in the white house…well, it made many former dems want to come to her defense.
Lastly, it was impossible to get the truth on her since the media was obama biased. And, while politically I would never support her over Hillary, when I listen to her speak I don’t get that she’s a whacko the way she’s been portrayed. Honestly, so much has been made of her hunting moose when that’s actually a powerful image for a woman of Alaska, when Kerry supposedly shot a couple of geese but wasn’t strong enough to carry them no one said anything.
Sorry…I’m angry about the way I was treated by democrats and so-called liberals during 2008. I’m angry about the way women were treated.
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Don’t be sorry! I’m glad you came and made your comment, and anger can be a productive emotion, especially when it is justified. I do not live in a caucus state, but I saw my governer shred my vote on the convention floor directly prior to seeing a candidate walk onto the convention floor – something I had never seen in my life. I hear ya!
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Still, They don’t understand her like we do. She is a human being, yes she make mistakes , we all do from time to time. I did not like her as much when she was first lady. When she ran and completed all her contests in the primarys is where I really got to know her. She is driven by fairness in the work place and human rights which is the so in her heart. What ever anyone else feels about her, I know that deep in my heart she is giving her all for our country and we are so blessed to have her among us. As Secretary of State, we have come to know her even more. In a way we are the lucky ones, we found that she is the most amazing women we have ever witnessed in our lifetime. That said, wherever her journey takes her, please know I will follow. God Bless and keep her safe during her travels abroad.
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Everytime they bring up hillary they bring up bill and say we need a clinton. They never wanted hillary,they want bill and believe hillary would be exactly like him. I wanted hillary as president not bill 2. I agree with chelsea and bill that hillary would have been a better president than him.
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I also am a HILLARY Clinton Democrat. I like Bill. I like more that I really think he wanted her to be POTUS, and remember Hillary disagreeing with his policies in the debates. She was her own candidate – and mine. She still is. (Oh! That’s my name!)
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Jill, I agree.
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Ann, I have a couple of questions for you.
If I disagree with what palin’s policies and what she belives and just go after her on that,is that sexist?
Palin attacked hillary for hillary defending chelsea from being called a whore,what do you think of that? Is it sexist or does it show palin as a hypocrite and why do you think that so called hillary supporters like those at the conflunce make excuses for palin and those that did not support hillary defend hillary?
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Wow. Ok. For the record…
jillforhill dropped this comment at TC:
and here’s my reply, it was the ONLY comment from me on the topic :
jilforhill, I don’t know why it can’t just be a difference of opinion and that’s it? I didn’t fight with you or get mad, I just put my POV out there. Just because we all agree that Hillary is amazing doesn’t mean we are going to see eye to eye on everything about her.
Also? You’re way off base if you think I don’t understand Hillary or I only wanted Bill. Sorry, but that is just straight up bull. (Go ahead, click on the link, you’ll see there’s no legitimacy whatsover to the idea that I wasn’t in the fight for Hillary and her 18 million).
You obviously don’t know where I stand on Hillary, on Bill, on Palin, or anyone else. A lot of the stuff above that you’ve atribbuted to me or implied about my positions is completely false.
I’ve criticized Palin at TC plenty and I have zero confusion about the difference between Palin and Hillary. Just recently I respectfully disagreed with some people’s comment at TC that Palin is a “centrist” — I firmly and repeatedly said Palin is a rightwinger populist, I don’t think she’s earned the label centrist, and furthermore the Clintons are where the political center was last seen for me and that is where I would like to see it restored.
Yes, I also defend Palin quite a bit from people who try to tear down her womanhood in place of actually tearing down her ideas. A lot of her haters, just like a lot of Hillary’s haters, don’t even know what they’re disagreeing with, they just reflexively hate or fear her, and I’m sorry, I don’t like it when it’s coming from the left any more than I like it when it comes from the right.
When I was younger, I was stupider and I didn’t fully get this. I got it on some levels, to a partial degree, but I didn’t 100% get it until seeing what happened to Hillary– that it’s not just about defending women I support, it’s about defending all women. Seeing the hatefest in 2008 opened my eyes, because a lot of what was thrown at Hillary was pure hate, it wasn’t people disagreeing with her for who SHE was pr what she was saying. It was all just hate and fear of a caricature of Hillary, one that had NO bearing on reality. So when I now defend women who are being dehumanized and torn down–I don’t do it out of support for their politics. I do it out of support for MINE. Standing up for women when they are up against a barrage of reflexive hate/fear is part of my politics and what being a liberal means to me. It doesn’t mean I’d vote for them or campaign for them or fight for them the way I’d fight for Hill. Frankly Hill is the only pol, left or right, that has *earned* that kind of support from me so far.
p.s. Still4hill, Hi! None of this comment is directed toward you. I just had to set some things straight.
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Understood. Everybody sees Hillary from a personal POV, and these will differ. There are so many factors involved.
This is what happens when you get a strong, passionate, beautiful, brilliant woman in a position of prominence. People get passionate about her.
Hope everyone has a safe and Happy 4th of July! Peace!
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