Al Jazeera's Whodunit, Aid Tsunami-The West-The Gulf States, Charity Racket, Body Snatchers
Al-Jazeera's tsunami conspiracy theories
Al-Jazeera a news channel? Please, be serious. Some people petitioned the CRTC as a channel to bring this ***** to Canada -- and the CRTC did not bar it.
Everyone knows a magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggered the massive tsunamis that have killed more than 150,000 in South Asia, right?
Wrong, reports Al-Jazeera, the popular Arab news service.
Some think the U.S. and Indian militaries deliberately caused the tsunamis with electromagnetic pulse technology. [. . . . ]
You have to read it. I think I have mentioned before that memorizing the Koran and regurgitating it is not exactly a broad education; yet, that is what passes for education in too many schools in the Muslim world. What is most worrying is that this "education" results in people so ignorant they believe this kind of thing.
Attempting to implicate Israel and India? Ridiculous!
Bud Talkinghorn: The UN badmouths US aid for tsunami victims
Here is an organization that did practially nothing while 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered in a few weeks. Their response in Darfur will also go down in the annals of imfamy. And this is with an African at the heln of the organization. Now they feel free to criticize America's response. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. When it is all over the U.S. as a country and individuals will have given more than all the thug nations combined. Algeria is "promising" some miniscule amount to their Muslim brethern in Indonesia. There should be a debt collection agency to hound these nations, as they rarely actually come through with the money promised. But they are very active when it comes to disparaging the Western nations that actually pony up. I'm sure that the Middle Eastern countries have developed a theory that the Israelis caused the tsunami to kill Muslims in Indonesia. With the help of their American puppets no doubt. In reality, only countries like Australia and America would aid a country that passively condones atrocities against them -- the Bali and Jakarta bombings. Indonesia has turned a blind eye also against the continuing persecution of its Christian citizens. I find it ironic that the West has propped up one Indonesian regime after another, yet finds itself the target. How can America 'prove' that they are not anti-Muslim is the demand. It seems to me that this question should be reversed. Considering that almost all the piracy in the Straits of Malacca originated from the Banda Aceh region, I'm certain that the world's marine fleet doesn't want that area's fleet up and running anytime soon. I know that sounds incredably insensitive, but frankly I don't give a d***. It is time to properly reassess a few things.
Disaster strikes a world away
We get the call, what do we say?
We move at once, to ease their plight,
To aid them through their darkest night.
But come shrill cries from carping press,
"That’s not enough to fix this mess."
We know that, fools, but give us room,
To counter Mother Nature’s doom. [. . . . ]
America's first, again -- Whenever and wherever disaster strikes on the globe, the U.S. responds immediately with relief and medical supplies as they have in Asia, writes Peter Worthington -- giving credit where credit is due
A world without the U.S. would be a sorrier world indeed, especially when leadership in humanitarian causes is needed.
Thank goodness for the Americans. What would this world would be like without the U.S.?
Especially in times of natural disasters like the Boxing Day tsunami that killed so many and shocked the world into unprecedented humanitarian generosity.
Such generosity often seems muted. Not this time. The world's people have responded more ardently than their governments, and in case after case governments have taken a cue from their citizens, and increased their initial aid response.
Canada is just one example, but typical of the world. Prime Minister Paul Martin started by pledging $1 million, then $4 million, then $40 million and now $80 million -- not because our government now realizes as it didn't before that the catastrophe was so severe, but because Canadians from every strata of society have opened their hearts and wallets. [. . . . ]
Gulf states providing only a tiny fraction of worldwide aid to tsunami victims
[. . . . ] But as the worldwide aid total reached US$2-billion, the Saudi contribution was still only US$10-million. Kuwait has raised its contribution from US$2-million to US$10-million, Qatar has given US$25-million, and the United Arab Emirates is to give US$20-million. Libya's contribution still stands at US$2-million.
Perhaps, if they were not so occupied with funding terrorists/jihadis, they could help their fellow Muslims, particularly, in Indonesia.
The Americans went into Kuwait to help them fight Saddam Hussein's forces trying to take over their country--the first Gulf War. Now, I understand that there have been Kuwaitis discovered helping to kill Americans in Iraq. Gratitude!
When are Americans going to wake up one day and say, help yourselves, folks. We're not doing any more. The US can't do anything right in the eyes of the world -- and in the eyes of the leftists at home and in Canada.
[. . . . ] FDR warned that welfare was "a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit." Just as it bred dependency, resentment and ingratitude among recipients in America, and moral arrogance in its smug dispensers, the same holds true in the international realm.
As we see the moral superiority of Egeland on parade, so we annually witness the rage and resentment of Third World regimes against America – that we are responsible for their poverty, that we do not give enough to them – in the General Assembly and at U.N. conferences. Recall the one in Durban, South Africa, three years ago, where reparations for slavery were demanded, but only of the West.
One day, Americans will grow weary of this, as they did of welfare, and abolish foreign aid, tell the Third World kakistocrats that the gravy train doesn't stop here anymore and provide aid directly to people, not governments. For the present, President Bush might solve Ian Egeland's moral problem by being more generous with the suffering people of South Asia, and taking the money, dollar for dollar, out of this year's contribution to the United Nations. [. . . . ]
Just before the New Year, the Ayn Rand Institute issued a commentary saying that the United States should not help tsunami victims. "Private organizations and individuals are scrambling to send out money and goods to help the victims. Such help may be entirely proper, especially considering that most of those affected by this tragedy are suffering through no fault of their own. The Unites States government, however, should not give any money to help the tsunami victims. Why? Because the money is not the government's to give."
[. . . . ] If there's an emerging lesson in the aftermath of the tsunami, it is this: Beware of aid efforts that must be trumpeted in press releases and hyped at news conferences. The bulk of world relief to tsunami victims, soaring to hundreds of millions of dollars, had been registered by private agencies collecting donations from individuals who sought no public recognition, issued no media release and made no effort to get their names into the papers. It was only after it became obvious thousands, if not millions, of individuals wanted to help that the world's governments -- in Ottawa and Washington and elsewhere -- suddenly saw an opportunity. Absurdly, Ottawa announced it would "match" the private donations of individual Canadians -- as if Ottawa got the money from some magic fountain behind Parliament Hill rather that from taxes on the same individuals who had already volunteered. [. . . . ]
In Sri Lanka, a 17-year-old girl whose parents drowned was gang-raped by six men just hours after she safely washed ashore. Human rights groups there reported that gangs of rapists were roaming shelters in the capital, Colombo, and attacking young girls.
Young boys in Sri Lanka and Thailand, both notorious playlands for pedophiles, also were in danger.
"We believe two children were sold to traffickers from Colombo," said Tahirih Ayn, a child protection officer with the Save the Children Fund in Sri Lanka. "We fear they will be passed on to pedophiles or sold for some other form of exploitation." [. . . . ]
And Western men will still fly to those countries on sex tours; I understand women have starting to do the same. How could they? They are beneath contempt.
