The Saints Are Coming

I've been shamelessly promoting this video/song for a long time now. It's a collaboration between two bands that I like, and it really speaks to me. The lyrics were originally written for a dead soldier in Northern Ireland, but have been transposed to this situation to speak about the Hurricane Katrina disaster. The song is good, but I think the video makes it so much better: it's called "The Saints Are Coming" and is performed by Green Day and U2. You can find it at

http://youtube.com/watch?v=seGhTWE98DU

Fast fact: the United States government turned down $1 million, 1,100 doctors, 26.4 metric tons of medicine, two mobile hospitals, 10 water purifying plants, 18 generators, 20 tons of bottled water, 50 tons of canned food and 66,000 barrels of heating oil from Venezuela and Cuba. This is undoubtedly ideological in nature, but they accepted approximately $5 billion in aid from human rights abusing China. Venezuela and Cuba were the first countries to offer this aid, and it would have been of immense importance in the early stages.