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2007-12-27 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by Fred 2007-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Traditional Asian culture embraces sutti and honor killings. It promotes the spread of bird flu. It keeps people in poverty so that tribal leaders and petty bureaucrats can enrich themselves.

The vast majority of the money spent by NGO's has gone to actual relief and rebuilding. If the paper had wanted a story, they should have pursued the lack of monetary support for the pledges by governments to the effort.

The Australian government's relief offer consisted of low interst loans to buy Australian products.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-12-27 12:01|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-12-27 12:01|| Front Page Top

#2 And...
Caritas funds a center for Islamic learning. Would you rather the Saudis did? We know how that turns out.

Programs to promote democracy. That's a bad thing?

The donations totaled A$400 million and the sole listed amount in question was for A$18,000. BFD!

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2007-12-27 12:04|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2007-12-27 12:04|| Front Page Top

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