Massive fire engulfs Paris Notre Dame Cathedral

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Cue fringe right wingers trying to find a Muslim connection. Maybe the electrician was named Mohammed.

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Surprised this hasn't been posted:  https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/billionaires-raced-to-pledge-money-to-rebuild-notre-dame-then-came-the-backlash/2019/04/18/7133f9a2-617c-11e9-bf24-db4b9fb62aa2_story.html?utm_term=.4bebeed9d0a8

 

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“In just a few hours today, 650 million euros was donated to rebuild Notre Dame,” South Africa-based journalist Simon Allison tweeted. “In six months, just 15 million euros has been pledged to restore Brazil’s National Museum. I think this is what they call white privilege.”

Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum was incinerated in a fire in September.

[Before and after: Iconic Notre Dame scorched by blaze]

Inside and outside of France, the unease has centered on a perceived disparity between concern for the fate of beautiful monuments and concern for the struggles of real people, which can be more difficult to sell to donors.

In February, for instance, the United Nations launched a record call for $4 billion in aid for Yemen, in the midst of a humanitarian crisis. “Almost 10 million are just one step away from famine,” Secretary General António Guterres said in his pitch at a donor conference in Geneva. In the hours after his call, roughly $2.6 billion in pledges came in — a feat in itself. But still well short of the goal.

 

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lol... why don’t brazils businessmen donate more money to the museum? Or.... maybe some of the drug runners down there will help pay for the museum.  

 

A 200 year old museum isn’t that same type of landmark has an 800 year old church. it has nothing to do with white privilege. Thats rediculous.

Edited April 19, 2019 by CousinsCowgirl84

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I absolutely hate how a symbol of Paris like this has been seized by political groups to make a statement. This isn't about politics. It's about NOTRE DAME. Keep your heads on straight

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1 minute ago, LD0506 said:

Exactly how I feel. Don’t forget that the drinking water ain’t safe in Flint, Michigan also. But please, donate to some Cathedral in Paris.

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3 minutes ago, BenningRoadSkin said:

Exactly how I feel. Don’t forget that the drinking water ain’t safe in Flint, Michigan also. But please, donate to some Cathedral in Paris.

 

Hey, they need to boost all the donations they can, that army of lawyers defending the pedo priests isn't cheap yanno.....................

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4 minutes ago, LD0506 said:

 

Hey, they need to boost all the donations they can, that army of lawyers defending the pedo priests isn't cheap yanno.....................

Shoot, they could have donated to the churches down in New Orleans that got burned down by that racist sherriff’s son. Nope!

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On 4/19/2019 at 1:36 PM, ixcuincle said:

I absolutely hate how a symbol of Paris like this has been seized by political groups to make a statement. This isn't about politics. It's about NOTRE DAME. Keep your heads on straight

I found out that many of those who are criticizing the donations/pledges in favor of Notre Dame are the one who never make a donation nor a pledge for anything themselves.

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/nyregion/want-an-old-piece-of-the-statue-of-liberty-this-is-the-man-to-see.html

Edited April 21, 2019 by FrFan

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Small donors, not French tycoons, help pay Notre Dame works

 

The billionaire French donors who publicly proclaimed they would give hundreds of millions to rebuild Notre Dame have not yet paid a penny toward the restoration of the French national monument, according to church and business officials.

 

Instead, it's mainly American and French individuals, via Notre Dame charitable foundations, that are behind the first donations paying the bills and salaries for up to 150 workers employed by the cathedral since the April 15 fire that devastated its roof and caused its masterpiece spire to collapse. This month they are handing over the first private payment for the cathedral's reconstruction of 3.6 million euros ($4 million).

 

"The big donors haven't paid. Not a cent," said Andre Finot, senior press official at Notre Dame. 

 

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13 hours ago, China said:

Small donors, not French tycoons, help pay Notre Dame works

 

The billionaire French donors who publicly proclaimed they would give hundreds of millions to rebuild Notre Dame have not yet paid a penny toward the restoration of the French national monument, according to church and business officials.

 

Instead, it's mainly American and French individuals, via Notre Dame charitable foundations, that are behind the first donations paying the bills and salaries for up to 150 workers employed by the cathedral since the April 15 fire that devastated its roof and caused its masterpiece spire to collapse. This month they are handing over the first private payment for the cathedral's reconstruction of 3.6 million euros ($4 million).

 

"The big donors haven't paid. Not a cent," said Andre Finot, senior press official at Notre Dame. 

 

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American people have always been there for us, I remember they helped us after a storm put down 18000 trees in Versailles, one of them was a 200 years old tulip tree from Virginia

"More than 2.5 million euros were collected, coming from individuals (5 000 French and foreign individuals, mainly Americans) as well as companies and foundations:"

 

Thank you so much for that, God Bless America !

 

Only 9% of the pledges for Notre Dame have been honored for the moment. But for Célia Vérot, Executive Director of the Heritage Foundation, "it's normal".

Of the $850 million, how much did the Heritage Foundation collect and how much did you receive?
CÉLIA VÉROT. The pledges we received amounted to $ 221 million, and $ 54.5 million has already been confirmed, almost 25%. This represents 100% of small private donations collected from 233,000 individuals. It lacks the sponsorship money of big companies.

Edited June 15, 2019 by FrFan

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Notre Dame rector: Fragile cathedral might not be saved

 

PARIS (AP) — The rector of Notre Dame Cathedral says the Paris landmark is still so fragile that there’s a “50% chance” the structure might not be saved, because scaffolding installed before this year’s fire is threatening the vaults of the Gothic monument.

 

Monsignor Patrick Chauvet said restoration work isn’t likely to begin until 2021 — and described his “heartache” that Notre Dame couldn’t hold Christmas services this year, for the first time since the French Revolution.

 

“Today it is not out of danger,” he told The Associated Press on the sidelines of Christmas Eve midnight Mass in a nearby church. “It will be out of danger when we take out the remaining scaffolding.”

 

“Today we can say that there is maybe a 50% chance that it will be saved. There is also 50% chance of scaffolding falling onto the three vaults, so as you can see the building is still very fragile,” he said.

 

The 12th-century cathedral was under renovation at the time of the accidental April fire, which destroyed its roof and collapsed its spire. With no more roof to keep the massive stone structure stable, the cathedral’s surviving vaults are crucial to keeping it standing, but they are vulnerable.

 

Some 50,000 tubes of scaffolding crisscrossed the back of the edifice at the time of the fire, and some were damaged. Removing them without causing further problems is one of the toughest parts of the cleanup effort.

 

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