Archive for January, 2005

Problems with Tsunami Aid for Aceh

Thursday, January 13th, 2005

While your average John/Jane Doe donates generously and with no strings attached whatsoever - the big institutions are giving their donations reluctantly, and many came with so many strings attached, even a spider can be trapped in it.
I’ll document them in this post for your information :

Published as aid - but in reality, just another […]

The Real US Gov’t

Tuesday, January 4th, 2005

US gov’t likes to be seen as the generous and caring Uncle Sam. However, they true self was revealed momentarily, when the tsunami disaster hit Asia a few days ago.
When nations are donating vast amount of aid and money, US gov’t donated less than even Sweden.
Only after Jan Egeland, Norwegian UN undersecretary, criticised them […]

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