Saturday, January 1, 2005

HERE’S AN INTERESTING LIST of tsunami blog links.

…excerpt from: http://instapundit.com/archives/020190.php

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Oops… It looks as though you may have to be an actual Canadian in order to have the Canadian government match your donation, as I stated here recently. I’m not entirely certain of how this would work in practice, however, as there are Canadians all over the world, all of whom should qualify to have [...]

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CJAD 800 : News
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (CP) – After the devastation wreaked by the seas, a deluge from the skies deepened the misery for tsunami-stricken areas of southern Asia on Saturday, triggering flash-floods in Sri Lanka that sent evacuees fleeing and increasing the threat of deadly disease as survivors shivered in relief centres.
The death [...]

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The Australian: Gerard Baker: Tsunami must be fault of the US [December 31, 2004]
INEVITABLY, confronted with a tragedy of unimaginable scale, the human mind looks for someone to blame. In the Dark Ages, disasters were ascribed to the wrath of God. Now, in an odd inversion that we like to think of as progress, [...]

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BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Asian disaster: How to help
Global aid organisations have launched urgent appeals for donations to help survivors of Sunday’s Indian Ocean earthquake disaster.
More than 120,000 people are confirmed killed by the waves and millions more are homeless.
Many governments and organisations – including the US, Canada, Australia, the EU [...]

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Google Search: tsunami

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Overhead Costs of International Relief Organizations
Below, I’ve highlighted in blue those organizations with less than a 10% overhead rate, and in orange those organizations above the 10% mark, but that may still be worthy of your consideration. For instance, the Doctors Without Borders organization has a high overhead rate, but presumably this is [...]

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The Command Post – Global Recon – Operation Give: “Fill the Plane” Campaign
Operation Give, a charitable organization that sends toys and other goods to the children of Iraq and Afghanistan, have found a way to collect supplies for the relief effort and get them over there quickly, thanks to the generosity of FedEx.
Rev. Donald [...]

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