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01-21-2005, 07:29 PM
THE WHOLE WORLD SHOULD READ THIS AND UNDERSTAND IT.
Read this carefully! Pass it all over the world! ! !
There are over six billion people living on our planet. Of that six
billion, almost two billion are Muslims. That's roughly a third of the
total population of the earth.
The earthquake that triggered the killer tsunami was centered just off
the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Indonesia is the
world's most populous Muslim country. It was also the most severely
devastated by the wave. Nearly 100,000 of the victims of the December
26 catastrophe were Indonesian Muslims.
The vast majority of the victims were either Muslims, Buddhists or
Hindu. Got all that? Good.
Now, to the United Nations. The United Nations consists of 186
countries. The most powerful voting bloc is the fifty-seven Islamic
countries that generally vote with one voice, especially when the
United States or Israel are voting the other way.
The United Nations' head of humanitarian relief, Jan Egeland,
criticized the West for being stingy. He didn't specifically mention
America, but he cited the exact percentage of the US GDP that is
budgeted for foreign aid, so there is little doubt of who the 'stingy
West' was, at least in Egeland's mind.
Egeland slammed the United States for not raising taxes so that
America could give a greater percentage of its GDP to the UN to
distribute as part of the UN's foreign aid package.
Editorials in the Washington Post, the New York Times and other
liberal newspapers echoed Egeland's charge, with the New York Times
calling America's $350 million in direct government aid 'miserly'.
The United States makes up some six percent of the world's total
population, but we pay a quarter of the United Nation's total budget.
The United States pays forty percent of the world's total disaster
relief aid, and sixty percent of the world's total food donations.
The $2.4 billion (that's BILLION) dollars Washington spent in
emergency aid in 2003 represented 40 percent of the total amount of
emergency assistance from all bilateral donors provided that year.
Evidently, that isn't enough.
It didn't take long for these same liberal elitists to turn Mother
Nature into an American right-wing hater of Islam.
Not only had America's imperialistic self-enrichment policies created
the natural disaster, but also cold-hearted Muslim hating President
Bush wouldn't leave his ranch in Texas... which by the way, is his
home -- not a vacation destination -- and only offered a 'stingy'
initial monetary donation.
While these elitist journalist were assailing President Bush and
expounding the mantra that America should be giving more money to the
devastated region in a token gesture that would 'show Islam that
America didn't hate Muslims', UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was
still on his vacation skiing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He returned to
New York four days later.
The wave struck on Sunday, and it took only until Monday before the US
announced its $350 million in initial aid, sent the USS Abraham
Lincoln into the region, including helicopters, and C-130 transport
planes, sent hundreds of tons of pre-packaged emergency aid supplies,
and deployed some 14,000 American troops to help with the recovery and
cleanup.
In Indonesia, U.S. helicopters flew at least 30 sorties, delivering
60,000 pounds of water and supplies, from the aircraft carrier USS
Abraham Lincoln along a 120-mile stretch of Sumatra island's ravaged
coastline.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the richest nations in the Islamic world,
donated a paltry $10 million each. The United Arab Emirates donated
some $20 million to relieve the suffering of their Islamic 'brothers'.
Egypt's contribution at the time of this writing is $104,000.00.
(Note: Egypt gets
$2 BILLION in US foreign aid annually)
And did anybody notice that the majority of the private donations came
from those evil corporate types the left so loves to loathe?
Pfizer donated $10 million in cash and $25 million in drugs. (That is
more than oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Kuwait combined). General Motors
pledged $2 million in cash, agreed to match employee donations dollar
for dollar, and is sending vehicles to transport food and medical
supplies to the region.
Other corporate donors include Nike Inc., American Express, General
Electric, First Data Corp., Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Exxon-Mobil, Citigroup,
Marriott International and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
On the other hand, where are all the Hollywood liberals? Activist
actors such as Ben Affleck, Susan Sarandon, Al Franken, Tim Robbins,
Martin Sheen, and Barbra Streisand have not been heard from.
And where is George Soros, the world richest left wing liberal?
Actress Sandra Bullock donated one million dollars, but Bullock is
neither an activist nor a liberal. (She also donated one million
following September 11.) Super-rich liberals like Bono and Bruce
Springsteen are promising to hold another 'aid concert' to collect
money (not theirs) for the victims.
America, as noted at the outset, represents six percent of the global
population. But in any catastrophe, it gets one hundred percent of the
blame. The UN's nose is out of joint because the Bush administration
refuses to funnel its aid through the UN's various aid agencies.
Kofi Annan wants to use the catastrophe to shore up the UN's sagging
image in the wake of the Oil-For-Food thefts from Iraq. The United
States wants to ensure the aid doesn't end up lining the pockets of UN
officials. So the US is 'too stingy' and gets another black eye.
Where is the rest of the Islamic world? There are fifty-seven Islamic
nations, and the world's biggest Islamic nation is the one that took
the hardest hit. But it is the United States -- the world's largest
donor nation -- that is grabbing all the headlines for being 'stingy'.
To put things in perspective, I saw a news photo yesterday of one of
the Indonesian victims.
He was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the face of Osama bin Laden.
Excerpted from the Omega Letter Daily Intelligence Digest, Volume:7, Issue:4
Read this carefully! Pass it all over the world! ! !
There are over six billion people living on our planet. Of that six
billion, almost two billion are Muslims. That's roughly a third of the
total population of the earth.
The earthquake that triggered the killer tsunami was centered just off
the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Indonesia is the
world's most populous Muslim country. It was also the most severely
devastated by the wave. Nearly 100,000 of the victims of the December
26 catastrophe were Indonesian Muslims.
The vast majority of the victims were either Muslims, Buddhists or
Hindu. Got all that? Good.
Now, to the United Nations. The United Nations consists of 186
countries. The most powerful voting bloc is the fifty-seven Islamic
countries that generally vote with one voice, especially when the
United States or Israel are voting the other way.
The United Nations' head of humanitarian relief, Jan Egeland,
criticized the West for being stingy. He didn't specifically mention
America, but he cited the exact percentage of the US GDP that is
budgeted for foreign aid, so there is little doubt of who the 'stingy
West' was, at least in Egeland's mind.
Egeland slammed the United States for not raising taxes so that
America could give a greater percentage of its GDP to the UN to
distribute as part of the UN's foreign aid package.
Editorials in the Washington Post, the New York Times and other
liberal newspapers echoed Egeland's charge, with the New York Times
calling America's $350 million in direct government aid 'miserly'.
The United States makes up some six percent of the world's total
population, but we pay a quarter of the United Nation's total budget.
The United States pays forty percent of the world's total disaster
relief aid, and sixty percent of the world's total food donations.
The $2.4 billion (that's BILLION) dollars Washington spent in
emergency aid in 2003 represented 40 percent of the total amount of
emergency assistance from all bilateral donors provided that year.
Evidently, that isn't enough.
It didn't take long for these same liberal elitists to turn Mother
Nature into an American right-wing hater of Islam.
Not only had America's imperialistic self-enrichment policies created
the natural disaster, but also cold-hearted Muslim hating President
Bush wouldn't leave his ranch in Texas... which by the way, is his
home -- not a vacation destination -- and only offered a 'stingy'
initial monetary donation.
While these elitist journalist were assailing President Bush and
expounding the mantra that America should be giving more money to the
devastated region in a token gesture that would 'show Islam that
America didn't hate Muslims', UN Secretary General Kofi Annan was
still on his vacation skiing in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He returned to
New York four days later.
The wave struck on Sunday, and it took only until Monday before the US
announced its $350 million in initial aid, sent the USS Abraham
Lincoln into the region, including helicopters, and C-130 transport
planes, sent hundreds of tons of pre-packaged emergency aid supplies,
and deployed some 14,000 American troops to help with the recovery and
cleanup.
In Indonesia, U.S. helicopters flew at least 30 sorties, delivering
60,000 pounds of water and supplies, from the aircraft carrier USS
Abraham Lincoln along a 120-mile stretch of Sumatra island's ravaged
coastline.
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the richest nations in the Islamic world,
donated a paltry $10 million each. The United Arab Emirates donated
some $20 million to relieve the suffering of their Islamic 'brothers'.
Egypt's contribution at the time of this writing is $104,000.00.
(Note: Egypt gets
$2 BILLION in US foreign aid annually)
And did anybody notice that the majority of the private donations came
from those evil corporate types the left so loves to loathe?
Pfizer donated $10 million in cash and $25 million in drugs. (That is
more than oil-rich Saudi Arabia and Kuwait combined). General Motors
pledged $2 million in cash, agreed to match employee donations dollar
for dollar, and is sending vehicles to transport food and medical
supplies to the region.
Other corporate donors include Nike Inc., American Express, General
Electric, First Data Corp., Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Exxon-Mobil, Citigroup,
Marriott International and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
On the other hand, where are all the Hollywood liberals? Activist
actors such as Ben Affleck, Susan Sarandon, Al Franken, Tim Robbins,
Martin Sheen, and Barbra Streisand have not been heard from.
And where is George Soros, the world richest left wing liberal?
Actress Sandra Bullock donated one million dollars, but Bullock is
neither an activist nor a liberal. (She also donated one million
following September 11.) Super-rich liberals like Bono and Bruce
Springsteen are promising to hold another 'aid concert' to collect
money (not theirs) for the victims.
America, as noted at the outset, represents six percent of the global
population. But in any catastrophe, it gets one hundred percent of the
blame. The UN's nose is out of joint because the Bush administration
refuses to funnel its aid through the UN's various aid agencies.
Kofi Annan wants to use the catastrophe to shore up the UN's sagging
image in the wake of the Oil-For-Food thefts from Iraq. The United
States wants to ensure the aid doesn't end up lining the pockets of UN
officials. So the US is 'too stingy' and gets another black eye.
Where is the rest of the Islamic world? There are fifty-seven Islamic
nations, and the world's biggest Islamic nation is the one that took
the hardest hit. But it is the United States -- the world's largest
donor nation -- that is grabbing all the headlines for being 'stingy'.
To put things in perspective, I saw a news photo yesterday of one of
the Indonesian victims.
He was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the face of Osama bin Laden.
Excerpted from the Omega Letter Daily Intelligence Digest, Volume:7, Issue:4
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01-21-2005, 07:48 PM
Good post!
01-21-2005, 08:18 PM
Whoa. When will the UN wake up, along with the rest of the world and realize that America isn't the bad guys.
02-17-2005, 08:57 PM
united states is too much of a cocky nation
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