← Autodidact Archive · Original Dissent · londo
Thread ID: 16135 | Posts: 18 | Started: 2004-12-31
2004-12-31 18:33 | User Profile
WHERE IS THE EXPENSE REPORT?
By: Robert Sentry
When four hurricanes hit us Floridians during this past summer, the United Nations never showed up to help. Perhaps they were simply gathering their resources to help the victims of the next disaster somewhere other than on U.S. soil. Then again, maybe not, since they are now screaming for money to help the tsunami victims and going so far as to call the United States "stingy" in our response.
In addition, President Bush never sent direct monetary aid to those individuals affected in Florida. At best, some low interest loans may have been made available once FEMA did what it could. Have you ever wondered why we do not offer low interest loans to those affected in foreign disasters? Why do foreigners always get our tax dollars--in cash--when U.S. citizens after an American disaster are offered low interest loans?
Here is a press release from the Small Business Association just a few days ago regarding Florida:
The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved more than $1 billion in low-interest disaster loans to about 33,600 residents and business owners in the areas affected by the late-summer rash of deadly hurricanes and floods.
The SBA makes low-interest disaster loans to homeowners, renters, and non- farm businesses of all sizes. Homeowners may borrow up to $200,000 to repair disaster damaged primary residences. Homeowners and renters are eligible for loans up to $40,000 to replace personal property such as furniture and clothing. Loans of up to $1.5 million are available to eligible businesses of all sizes and non-profit organizations to repair damage to real estate, machinery, equipment and inventory. Economic Injury Disaster Loans (EIDLs) of up to $1.5 million are also available to small businesses unable to pay bills or meet operating expenses. Interest rates can be as low as 3.187 percent for homeowners and renters and 2.9 percent for businesses, with terms up to 30 years. Loan amounts and terms are set by the SBA and are based upon each applicant's financial condition.
Why are we sending these nations cash instead of issuing loans at 3.187 percent, as we did for Floridians?
Anybody who has kept up with the United Nation's "Oil for Food" program knows that money designated for "humanitarian causes" is just a smokescreen for creating a few select millionaires or billionaires, the corrupt officials in the target nation. It will be no different with the nations who suffered the tsunami disaster.
When you file an expense report for your work, you need to attach receipts showing your dinner bill, your toll charges, etc., and sometimes, if you drove, the number cruncher at your employer will go so far as to check your mileage you reported by using Mapquest, just to keep you honest.
How do you think the "humanitarian assistance" will be audited? The will be no American accountants. There will be no auditors. There will be no distribution plan set up by American planners. There will be no paper trail. There will be no receipts. Where is the expense report?
Once we send the blank check, we do not even know who will be in charge for disbursements. Indonesia has said that they have islands that are so remote that they cannot even count the dead. A logical question is then if Indonesian officials cannot even get into much of their disaster area, what logistics are in place to get aid into those areas?
What is the cost of rebuilding a mud hut? What is the cost of burying a dead cow? When we give hard cash to these nations, there is nothing other than trust that the nation receiving it will help their needy in an honest fashion. We just want to believe that some people in some far away land has a Mother Teresa personality and would never think about pocketing a few hundred thousand, or a few million dollars. In the case of Sri Lanka, a nation that just refused aid from Israel because "they are Jews", we have to believe any trust placed in Sri Lanka to distribute the "humanitarian cash" is baseless.
I have to wonder what will cash buy once it gets to Nicobar Island, Sumatra, Aceh province, and even more remote places. Will they be able to buy clothes or food? What if the clothing stores and food suppliers have been destroyed? Besides, looting has already broken out in Indonesia. Is cash really what is needed?
Sending money to these nations is just another item in the long list of wasting American tax dollars. When Doctors Without Borders show up, they will do some immediate good. Supplies of mosquito nets, water, food, clothes and basic need items will help. For some reason, American taxpayers continue to allow our nation to send millions of dollars of cash to foreign nations that will only make a few corrupt officials very rich. Yes this is a tragedy and we are all sorry for the loss of life and suffering. The response to any foreign disaster should be physical supplies of needed items, machinery, know how, and volunteers.
Sending foreign aid in cash under normal circumstances is normally a total waste. Sending cash in the midst of chaos following a natural disaster is even more idiotic as it makes it just that much easier for the corrupt officials to pocket the money.
[url=http://www.etherzone.com/2004/sent122904.shtml]"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact." [/url]
2004-12-31 21:05 | User Profile
I see Mr. Rober Sentry but you do aprove of the 5 billions of the US taxpayer money going to the Zionists of the state of Israel year after year after year?
If we were to keep that money here not only would we be able to help others but also those whitout a home and schools without books.
You worry about a few millions without regards to 5 BILLIONS PER YEAR going down the drain with no hope of recovery.
I have come to the conclusion that the Zionist state of Israel are holding a sword over the head of the US government, is the only thing that makes sense.
2005-01-01 15:25 | User Profile
The opener makes a good point...one that most are loath to admit because to do so makes a person sound heartless or worse, bigoted.
But the truth is, these countries have no way of putting this money to immediate use and it's already been reported that food and medical supplies are bottlenecked because the distribution channels don't exist. If ever there was a cart-before-the-horse scenario, this is it.
Some UN ****-up has already begun to politicize the recovery op by claiming the US looks to be trying to monopolize the whole shebang by refusing to filter everything through the UN in order to win back global support. This deliberate attempt to once again smear this country by a lowlife, flunky from that communist cesspool on the East River has confirmed my suspicions that aid won't find its way to the needy, not because it can't or shouldn't, but because some in the UN see this as a way to payback the US for exposing the Oil-for-Food ripoff and the call for cuppa-Kofi to slink back to his mud hut.
Ads are now appearing in print and on broadcast media asking people to not send food nor blankets but money. I thought that very odd. Who's buying what for whom and who's wearing the green eyeshades to make sure it's all going according to plan? No one. It's a recipe for corruption like no other.
One question. Since most of the nations hit with this disaster are Muslim, where's Saudi Arabia and the rest of the oil rich Arab-Muslim nations? We hear about the US, Britain, Japan, Australia making huge pledges through non-profit orgs, corporations and citizen contributions. Where are the Muslim nations with their billions from oil going into very private pockets every month? Huh?
2005-01-02 03:58 | User Profile
Nature is culling the human herd. Why would we object?
2005-01-02 05:50 | User Profile
These are our biological competitors, so why would we object to their demise? They wouldn't object to ours, and certainly wouldn't pay to prevent it. Besides, if any two places could use a population reduction, Southeast Asia and India would be near the top of that list....
2005-01-02 15:48 | User Profile
That was my first reaction. I wonder what effect, if any, this will have on the Muslim strong hold in Indonesia.
2005-01-02 16:46 | User Profile
A picture of hell, and no kerosene
Amit Varma | January 01, 2005 00:13 IST Last Updated: January 01, 2005 16:10 IST
It's five kilometres of hell, and it's right here at Nagapattinam.
Kaviarsi studies - make that studied - in the sixth standard. Her schoolbooks lie a short distance away, and besides them lies a doll.
The girl herself lies on a makeshift pyre on what used to be her home, her face totally blackened, her neck twisted upwards, the skin peeling off her legs like torn stockings. There is a large empty container of Pepsi lying just besides her, and four other bodies. And besides the pyre, towards the sunset, are five long kilometers of slushy wasteland strewn with dead bodies.
It wasn't like this five days ago. We - me and two companions - are at a part of Nagapattinam called Akkarakadai, where a prosperous fishing community lived. This five-kilometre-long stretch of land was filled with houses, and had at its heart a bustling Sunday marketplace. The people here were well off - some of them had expensive fishing launches costing many lakhs of rupees. Then the tsunami came.
*
TN limping back to normal; toll 6,238
These settlements begin half a kilometre from the sea, across the road, but the tsunami swept everything away. Every single house was flooded away, all the way till the end of the stretch, and when I went there, I just saw one long expanse of slush. In the distance, there were pyres burning.
Dr Narasimhan, a man I'd wanted to meet, who heads a team of relief workers that has come down from Salem, told me when I called him that we had to walk into that expanse, beyond the pyres. "Walk towards the sunset till you find me," he said, and we did.
It took us half-an-hour to traverse the half-kilometre or so until we reached him. The ground was like quicksand in parts, and our shoes would sink in with each step and resist our attempts to lift our feet again. We came across dead bodies on the way: a young girl in a basket, her limbs akimbo, and her face, with some dried blood on it, contorted in an expression that even Damien Hirst would have found too macabre. Three feet away from her lay a woman, with a frozen look of horror on her face, etched into an eerie permanence.
"In an unprecedented situation, you need an unprecedented response"
"For the next five kilometres," Dr Narsimhan motion towards the setting sun, "you will find bodies everywhere. Only the distance you have walked so far - around half a kilometre - has been cleared of corpses. This is the furthest point till which bodies have been cleared. There is so much work to be done."
"It's five days since the tsunami happened," I say. "Why is this place so deserted, why hasn't all this been sorted?"
Dr Narasimhan sighs. "Sorted," he asks. "All that the government has been doing is lining the streets outside with bleaching powder. They are not interested in coming here, they left this to the NGOs. And look at this." He extends his hands towards me. "We're doing all the work of moving bodies with surgical gloves made of latex, which are no protection against cuts and bruises."
I had heard about this before I arrived here, in Pondicherry, where Aid workers had complained that the locals in Nagapattinam had refused to help out in clearing the bodies, and when the aid workers got down to it with their latex gloves, the bodies had started decomposing, and were difficult to manoeuvre, with a limb prone to just falling away from the rest of the corpse.
"We need heavy earth-moving equipment," he had said. "That way the bodies can be shifted en masse and given a mass burial. That is the only way to deal with this situation." Mani Shankar Aiyar, India's petroleum minister, had announced on TV four days ago that such equipment was at the top of his wishlist of aid. Then why did it not materialise? Could the government not mobilise its resources even that much?
[url]http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/01amit.htm[/url]
2005-01-02 21:40 | User Profile
[QUOTE=DakotaBlue]That was my first reaction. I wonder what effect, if any, this will have on the Muslim strong hold in Indonesia.[/QUOTE]
While an accurate census is beyond the capabilities of the Pacific Islanders that infest the East Indies, it is generally believed that there are more people in Indonesia than in the United States, so I don't think losing 100,000 of them, especially in the rural backwater of Sumatra, will matter much to anything, really. It is interesting to note, however, that Aceh province in Sumatra, the most hard-hit place of all, is in the midst of an Islamic Fundamentalist insurgency against the semi-Islamic government in Djakarta (official Indonesian government theology is that one must be a monotheist, not necessarily a Muslim, in order to be a good Indonesian, and Christians have been traditionally treated well there, outside of East Timor, although in recent years things have been turning ugly). If the Indonesian government were totally Islamicized, there'd be no need for an Islamist insurgency in Aceh, presumably.
The tidal wave (I'm not a Jap, so I don't say "tsunami") also killed 700 Tamil Tiger rebels in Sri Lanka, who were camped out by the beach. I have no idea if that's good or bad (other than 700 fewer biological competitors, of course).
2005-01-03 00:14 | User Profile
Little german girl lost her parents to killer tsunami, very sad [url]http://uk.fc.yahoo.com/041228/46/f9bcq.html[/url]
2005-01-03 00:40 | User Profile
I'm not sure what's holding up the clean-up, food and medical distribution, but it sounds to me like we should attack this like we did the war in the Pacific in WWII. We landed on isolated, jungle-infested, hostile atolls and set about clearing it for airfields from which to launch strikes and serve as supply depots. I'm sure politics is getting in the way of saving lives yet again. And if the UN is spearheading anything, you can bet your bippie that everything is moving no faster than my 98 year old aunt, Cornelia.
2005-01-03 18:04 | User Profile
Would someone or some group do much more by giving swimming lessons? That skill did not seem to be common.
2005-01-03 21:43 | User Profile
Another look at "diversity" in an Asian country.
[url]http://www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com/2005/Crane010105Thailand.htm[/url]
2005-01-03 23:00 | User Profile
I wonder how well prepare the US is in order to help the US population for what is to come.
As the old saying goes "Charity begings at home"
2005-01-04 03:48 | User Profile
I for One saw it.. did you ? Bush Senior and Clinton looked so disgusted and SAD.. it was surreal... did you see this ???
2005-01-04 21:46 | User Profile
[url]http://www.godfamilyrepublic.com/schedule/index.php?action=eventview&event_id=652[/url]
FROM THE CAMPAIGN HEADQUARTERS IN PASADENA, MARYLAND Mr. President, "Disaster Relief" Is Not Yours to Give December 30, 2004
Reacting to the tsunami disaster from his Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas, President Bush said he and Laura were shocked and saddened by this terrible loss of life. He said: ââ¬ÅWe pledged an initial $35 million in relief assistance.ââ¬Â He noted, proudly, that in 2004, the U.S. Government had provided $2.4 billion in food, cash, in humanitarian relief, to cover disasters the previous year. He said that providing 40 percent of all the ââ¬Årelief aidââ¬Â given in the world in 2003 shows ââ¬Åweââ¬â¢re a very generous, kindhearted nation.ââ¬Â
ââ¬ÅWe?ââ¬Â Did Mr. Bush mean he and Mrs. Bush have pledged $35 million? No. Mr. Bush meant that $35 million worth of your hard-earned Federal tax dollars and mine have been pledged. In an interview on the CBS ââ¬ÅEarly Show,ââ¬Â Secretary of State Colin Powell said that to deal with the tsunami disaster the U.S. was sending nine P-3 reconnaissance planes and a dozen C-130s. He added: ââ¬ÅI think a lot more aid is going to be needed.ââ¬Â
In another interview, on NBCââ¬â¢s ââ¬ÅTodayââ¬Â show, Secretary Powell was asked: Is the United States prepared to send aid which might be as much as $1 billion? He replied: ââ¬ÅI canââ¬â¢t answer that yet.ââ¬Â In yet one more interview, on the Cable News Network, he said: ââ¬ÅThe United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.ââ¬Â
At the risk of being misunderstood, and being falsely accused of being a cruel, hard-hearted person, I must say what must be said. The issue here is not whether America is ââ¬Åstingy.ââ¬Â And the issue is certainly not whether Americans are a ââ¬Ågenerousââ¬Â people. We are.
The real issue here is whether such so-called Federally-funded disaster ââ¬Åreliefââ¬Â is Constitutional. And the answer is very clear: No, it is not. There isnââ¬â¢t the slightest Constitutional authority for Federal tax dollars to be spent for disaster ââ¬Årelief.ââ¬Â Thus, any such expenditure of Federal tax dollars for disaster ââ¬Åreliefââ¬Â --- foreign or domestic --- is illegal, unlawful.
As I pondered what Mr. Bush and Secretary Powell had said, I thought about Tennessee Congressman Davy Crockett. In the early 1800s, Congress was considering a bill to appropriate tax dollars for the widow of a distinguished naval officer. It seemed that everyone in the House of Representatives favored it.
Then Rep. Crockett spoke. He began by expressing his respect for the deceased. But, he insisted, such respect must not lead to an act of injustice against those still alive. He continued:
ââ¬ÅI will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity, but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.
ââ¬ÅSome eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Sir, this is no debt. We cannot without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one weekââ¬â¢s pay, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks.ââ¬Â
There was silence on the floor as Rep. Crockett took his seat. When the bill came to a vote, instead of passing unanimously as had been expected, it received only a few votes.
Well, that was then and now is now. President Bush has said what he said and is doing what heââ¬â¢s doing. Mr. Bush, however, is wrong and Rep. Crockett was right. To spend Federal tax dollars on disaster ââ¬Åreliefââ¬Â is the grossest corruption because it is blatantly un-Constitutional. It has not the semblance of any Constitutional authority. We must pray that God raises up more Davy Crocketts to serve in our Congress and all other branches of all our civil governments.
Like Davy Crockett, I admire and appreciate the charity of Americans. But Congress is not authorized to be ââ¬Åcharitableââ¬Â with your money. Only you are.
For God, Family and the Republic,
Michael A. Peroutka
GOD
FAMILY
REPUBLIC
PEROUTKA 2004 ââ¬Â¢ 8028 Ritchie Highway ââ¬Â¢ Suite #303 ââ¬Â¢ Pasadena, Maryland 21122
877-MAP-2004 ââ¬Â¢ [url]www.peroutka2004.com[/url]
2005-01-04 23:07 | User Profile
Hard to disagree with any of that. Makes me proud I voted for him last November.
2005-01-05 19:41 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Kevin_O'Keeffe]These are our biological competitors, so why would we object to their demise? They wouldn't object to ours, and certainly wouldn't pay to prevent it. Besides, if any two places could use a population reduction, Southeast Asia and India would be near the top of that list....[/QUOTE]Your words sound harsh from a humanitarian standpoint, but it is fairly self-evident to me that as you note the outpouring of staged sympathy for this area was clearly motivated by the globalist/multiculturalist mentality. These nations have disasters like this all the time - always have. In fact I don't think over there their governments really care that much about them, but they are perfectly willing to play along with this, if it gets them more welfare dollars.
Look for the press to stay on this issue forever. I can hear the globalists talk - if we can't bring the world to America and our welfare agencies (now that the neo-cons more outrageous open border initiatives are starting to founder) we can always bring America and our welfare agencies to the world.
2005-01-05 21:36 | User Profile
[url]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/printer.php?id=4432[/url]
'TsunamiRelief.com' Domain Name Scam
News/Comment; Posted on: 2005-01-05 08:26:21
Student tries to sell 'Tsunamirelief.com' for $50,000 -- all profit.
by Melanie M. Carroll
A 20-YEAR-OLD student at the Ontario College of Art and Design saw that a domain reseller was offering 'Tsunamirelief.com' for $99, but managed to convince the young woman entrepreneur into giving it to him by claiming he represented "an international fund-raising effort" -- and then he immediately placed the domain up for sale on eBay for $50,000. His name? Josh Kaplan. (ILLUSTRATION: A logo from Kaplan's TsunamiRelief.com, which is now decorated with quotes from Albert Einstein and the Dalai Lama.)
It turns out that the woman entrepreneur, Michelle Tirado of Southbury, CT, was also a journalist -- and she publicly blew the whistle on Kaplan when she discovered the $50,000 asking price for the domain she had just donated.
"I thought there was a good chance this is fraud," she said. Her story was carried by the New York Post, causing Kaplan to send an angry email to Tirado. It was Kaplan's mother who responded to the press, however, saying "He was completely shocked. His intention was solely to give to tsunami relief." According to CNN:
Tirado registered the domain name shortly after the disaster and she listed it on eBay herself, with a minimum bid of $99.99. But she withdrew the listing Dec. 27 without any bids. She told the Post she had a change of heart about profiting from the domain name as the death toll began to climb. She said she was contacted by Kaplan, who told her since he would be using the site to help victims, he would not be able to pay her for it.
One observer in Britain, experienced in the study of Jewish affairs, stated that the whole episode exhibits Jewish psychology in a nutshell:
"Tribesman Josh Kaplan does not think of the idea first -- but then cons the initial owner Michelle Tirado out of the title deed to the domain name on the basis of a lying promise that he is going to use the domain name to raise relief funds.
"He then, without her knowledge, offers the title on eBay for $50,000. When she finds out, unfortunately for the crooked Kaplan she turns out to be a freelance journalist with contacts and is thus able to generate publicity about his nefarious dealings to make himself a quick pile on the backs of the misery of others -- a pretty normal Tribe way of making money, i.e., totally and utterly unconscionable.
"When he is caught, bang to rights, with his hand in the cookie jar, the family rally round and his mother says 'How could you say such a thing about my boy? Why he was going to donate the money he raised, to the relief operation. Honestly... enough already!'
"Of course this assertion is accompanied by absolutely no proof whatsoever that he had taken any steps to apply the proceeds of the sale to any organisation involved in the relief operation.
"Well, as they say, there you have it all: the Tribe as they are, and not as the pretence that is played portrays them."
Tirado states that, contrary to the claims of the Kaplans, Josh Kaplan "never mentioned that it was his intention" to sell the domain name while he was convincing her to give it to him for free, as part of his claimed "international fund-raising effort."
"There's no potential scam involved," Kaplan stated. "I'm auctioning it to raise money for relief." But he admitted that he "never told Tirado" of his plans to sell the domain name.
But does Kaplan's "raising money for relief" claim even make the slightest bit of sense? Any group wanting that name would be a relief organization. Therefore, any money they paid Kaplan would have to come out of their relief funds anyway. And that's the source Kaplan would tap to make his "donation"? In this writer's opinion, that line stinks of an excuse manufactured after he was caught with his hand in the cookie jar.
Tirado says one reason she cried foul was because she suspected Kaplan's "charitable" claims were false, since the auction "failed to follow eBay's rules for a charitable listing." Bingo.
Jewish mother defends 'wave rat'
Woman 'shocked' at $50,000 price after giving away domain name for Tsunami relief
Josh Kaplan's home page
Source: FT ââ¬Â¢ Printed from National Vanguard ( [url]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=4432[/url] ) National Alliance ââ¬Â¢ Box 90 ââ¬Â¢ Hillsboro ââ¬Â¢ WV 24946 ââ¬Â¢ USA NationalVanguard.org