The U.N. will begin food airlifts to Niger: 

 

I want to know what the U.N. has been doing for the last 8 months?  Why haven’t they utilized the media to alert the world?  Money? What money do they need?  Why didn’t they ask for it?  The self-aggrandizing U.N. needs to be shut down.  They are playing politics with peoples lives and it is shameful.

 

(Quotes below from CNN.com)

 

The U.N. will begin food airlifts to Niger: 

“U.N. World Food Program's country director for Niger, Giancarlo Cirri, called the situation "some of the worst hunger I have ever witnessed."

“The United Nations said the famine could have been avoided if the world had heeded its warning eight months ago when aid agencies raised the red flag.”

“WFP's chief logistics officer, Pierre Carrasse, said, "The real problem has not been getting the food to the hungry but getting the donations to pay for the food."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/africa/07/27/un.niger/index.html

Tuesday, July 19, 2005 - Gates stresses need for qualified help By Kim Peterson, Seattle Times technology reporter

 

 

If Microsoft (Bill Gates) is so short on qualified people and only wants to hire recent graduates then why doesn't it go to the high schools, “Calling American high schools "obsolete" and "outdated," Bill Gates urged governors and business leaders to redesign the nation’s educational system so all students—regardless of race or income—can graduate prepared for college and work. Gates delivered the keynote address Saturday, February 26 at the 2005 National Education Summit on High Schools in Washington, D.C.” and pay the college tuition for bright young students with the understanding they will have a job with Microsoft after graduation?

 

I don't trust a company that in tough American economic times builds a plant in India and lays off American employees, ”November 2004 Microsoft broke ground in India that would double the size of that facility while laying of technical workers in Redmond and slowing the growth of job creation in the United States”.

 

And then secure in the freedoms bought with other's blood works with China to repress their people – “Microsoft's Chinese staff could not be reached immediately for comment. However, a spokesman at the tech giant's headquarters in Seattle acknowledged that the company is cooperating with the Chinese government to censor its Chinese-language Web portal”.

 

After doing so much to level the playing field all over the world with it's software and internet services, Microsoft is now just one more unconscionable business with no ethics.

Go Figure

 

     I'm thinking all this largess is off the backs of the taxpayer?  It is soooooo Washington State.

     There's a bunch of us senior citizens still working to feed ourselves and the politicians keep coming up with new ways to spend our money on the drugged, drunk, criminal, foreign, baby makers:

By Keith Ervin, Seattle Times staff reporter

King County Executive Ron Sims hopes to fund two projects next year that could house several hundred homeless people at a cost of close to $7.5 million.

The first of those projects, in conjunction with the YWCA of Seattle-King County-Snohomish County and the King County Housing Authority, would convert the county's now-closed Cedar Hills Alcohol Treatment Center into "transformational" housing for women who have been in trouble with the law.

King County would pay for the estimated $4 million renovation of the county facility near Maple Valley so it could house 70 women and 100 to 150 children. The mothers would participate in parenting classes, job training and counseling during their 18- to 24-month stay.

 "Send us your poor, your tired, your huddled masses..."

 

'Public Enemy No. 1' extradited to Mexico

Considered one of Mexico's most dangerous criminals, Rios Galeana, Mexico's "Public Enemy Number One", was arrested by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at the home he shared with his wife and children in the city of South Gate, just south of Los Angeles, on Monday

Mexican officials said Rios Galeana spent 15 years living as a quiet, church-going family man in a largely Mexican neighborhood of South Gate with his wife and three children under the alias Arturo Montoya.

Stunned Californian neighbors and his pastor described him as a religious man who ran a small janitorial service. South Gate Pastor Melvin Acevedo said he was shocked to learn of Rios' identity.

"He was an example to all of us. He was a good member of the church. He was a good father. I am saddened for his family," Acevedo said by phone from the church.

The pastor said that the man he knew as Montoya sang during services and would often visit sick members of the church and reach out to those who stopped attending church.