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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 03/02/2000 9:32:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The official U.S. response has been meager: 140 tents, 6,900 blankets, 6,000 water cans and 160 rolls of plastic. Not much more than a small truck load. It certainly doesn't address the deep needs for medicine, health providers and repairing the roads, wells, water systems and public buildings that have been washed away. Few newspapers have given much coverage to this tragedy, although the flooding has been going on for three weeks as of this writing. Many climatologists believe that the warming trend in the climate, often called "global warming," is responsible for the increasing volatility of the weather. There is more energy in the atmosphere, which means more wind, more rain and more drought. Africa doesn't get a lot of concern from the "official" US Government circles. It will get worse if Bush gets into the White House. I was listening to C-SPAN a couple of weeks ago, and was astonished to hear a woman leader of one of the very conservative groups refer to Mr. Bush, Mr. McCain and Alan Keyes.I haven't lived in the South for years; I didn't know they were still playing the "mister" game down there, but they are. The Conservatives really want the South to be aware that they support their views. Sending a lot of help to a black nation would not impress the South at all. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- No, Prudy, you certainly have not been in the South in many years if you think we are "still playing that Mister game." The woman probably misspoke and did not mean anything derogatory toward Alan Keys. I also doubt she represents the entire South, if she is even from it, It is very diversified and there is no consensus on much of anything. I am so weary of this stereotyping! If we are not all bigots, then we are a bunch of rednecks. PLEASE people, give it a rest! I encountered more racial bigotry during the five years I lived in the Midwest than I ever did in all my many years in the South. Also, we were FORCED to deal with racial problems more or less at gun point years ago and are well ahead of many areas of this country. I do not personally know of one person who would object to aid going to help people in Africa in this flooding. I also seem to remember your own democratic Jimmy Carter building houses with his own presidential hands, most of which go to black people. We have no towns like Herrin, Illinois, or Cicero, Illinois, where no blacks are allowed at all. We have whole counties with black majorities. Yes, we become impatient, just as you did in your very next post, when blacks do not take advantage of the opportunities that they have available to them. The drug/crime/incarceration rate is appalling but values and prejudices and bigotry are fairly uniform across this nation. I think it has been so for at least the last twenty years, maybe with so much time spent by children watching TV. Amelia - Original Message - From: "Prudence L. Kuhn" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 8:08 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] [Fwd: Meager U.S. Response to Africa Floods] -Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- In a message dated 03/02/2000 9:32:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The official U.S. response has been meager: 140 tents, 6,900 blankets, 6,000 water cans and 160 rolls of plastic. Not much more than a small truck load. It certainly doesn't address the deep needs for medicine, health providers and repairing the roads, wells, water systems and public buildings that have been washed away. Few newspapers have given much coverage to this tragedy, although the flooding has been going on for three weeks as of this writing. Many climatologists believe that the warming trend in the climate, often called "global warming," is responsible for the increasing volatility of the weather. There is more energy in the atmosphere, which means more wind, more rain and more drought. Africa doesn't get a lot of concern from the "official" US Government circles. It will get worse if Bush gets into the White House. I was listening to C-SPAN a couple of weeks ago, and was astonished to hear a woman leader of one of the very conservative groups refer to Mr. Bush, Mr. McCain and Alan Keyes.I haven't lived in the South for years; I didn't know they were still playing the "mister" game down there, but they are. The Conservatives really want the South to be aware that they support their views. Sending a lot of help to a black nation would not impress the South at all. Prudy A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectru
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-Caveat Lector- A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/" /A -Cui Bono?- Original Message Subject: Meager U.S. Response to Africa Floods Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:19:05 -0600 (CST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: ? To: undisclosed-recipients:; - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Mar. 9, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - GLOBAL WARMING? MEAGER U.S RESPONSE TO DEADLY FLOODS IN AFRICA By G. Dunkel Mozambique, one of the 10 poorest countries in the world, has been devastated by floods since early February. Some 300,000 people have lost their homes, cattle, crops and livelihood. Maputo, the capital and a city of a million people, has been cut off from the rest of the country by the floods. Thousands of people are clinging to treetops and small patches of high ground. If helicopters don't get to them, they are going to drown. Health experts have run out of medicine and supplies and because roads have been cut, they can't be resupplied unless there is a massive airlift. They warn that even if the waters quickly recede, malaria, cholera, typhoid and a whole host of other water-borne diseases are going to put millions of people, particularly children, at risk. Mozambique is the worst hit, but Botswana, Zimbabwe and northern South Africa are also suffering from major floods. What is particularly disheartening for the people of Mozambique is that after years of war, which started in the late 1960s, first against the Portuguese colonialists and then against a proxy for South Africa's apartheid regime called Renamo, they had managed to pull the country and the economy together. For the past two years, Mozambique's economy has had one of the fastest rates of growth in the world. U.S. REACTION TO THIS CATASTROPHE The official U.S. response has been meager: 140 tents, 6,900 blankets, 6,000 water cans and 160 rolls of plastic. Not much more than a small truck load. It certainly doesn't address the deep needs for medicine, health providers and repairing the roads, wells, water systems and public buildings that have been washed away. Few newspapers have given much coverage to this tragedy, although the flooding has been going on for three weeks as of this writing. Many climatologists believe that the warming trend in the climate, often called "global warming," is responsible for the increasing volatility of the weather. There is more energy in the atmosphere, which means more wind, more rain and more drought. While the degree to which industrial pollution contributes to global warming is disputed, there has been enough agreement to adopt some international conventions, such as the Kyoto Protocol. But the United States government has spent much more effort obstructing these agreements than it has to the suffering of the Mozambican people. - END - (Copyleft Workers World Service. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"www.ctrl.org/A DECLARATION DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substancenot soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright fraudsis used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
