Tsunami

What Obama and McCain Won't Tell You

Richard Walden | Posted 08.21.2008 | Living

Read More: Charity, Relief, Tsunami, Economy, Katrina, Obama, Mccain, Healthcare, Bush, Richard Walden, The Giving Life, Living News
Richard Walden

Political contributions are discretionary but come from the same pool of funds which are the lifeblood charities and other nonprofits depend upon to provide vital services to our communities.

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Earthquake Rocks Islands Off India, No Tsunami Warning Issued

AP | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home

Read More: Andaman Islands, Andaman Islands Earthquake, Earthquake Indian Ocean, Indian Ocean Islands, Tsunami, Extreme Weather, Home News

NEW DELHI — A 6.7-magnitude earthquake struck off India's Andaman Islands on Friday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, ...

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Disaster Banking: British Bank Bradford & Bingley Blows Up and Insiders Make a Bundle

Max Keiser | Posted 06.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Neo-Feudalism, Northern Rock, Bradford & Bingley, Alliance and Leicester, Tsunami, Naomi Klein, Disaster Capitalism, Business News
Max Keiser

Disaster capitalism, a term that describes these organized neo-feudal (aka neo-con) thefts is pretty easy to understand once you understand that disaster means profit for purveyors of pain.

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Myanmar (and China) Need the Odd Couple

Carol Felsenthal | Posted 05.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Earthquake, Bill Clinton, The Odd Couple, Tsunami, Barbara Bush, China, George H.W. Bush, Myanmar, Politics News
Carol Felsenthal

Wouldn't it be something if this current natural disaster in Myanmar could bring together George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton in another heroic relief effort?

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Obama and Wisdom and Clinton

Norman MacAfee | Posted 05.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al Gore, Wisdom, Kyl-Lieberman, Rfk, Obama, Edwards, Myanmar, Canadian Forests, Clinton, Vietnam War, Tsunami, Iraq Invasion and Occupation, Katrina, World War II, Trojan War, Ralph Nader, Global Warming, Mlk, Aeschylus, Politics News
Norman MacAfee

I have been meaning to write about whom I support in the Democratic primary. In January I backed all three main candidates. Basically, it was a case o...

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Mother's Day Musings, 2008

Justin Frank | Posted 05.11.2008 | Home

Read More: Tsunami, Mother's Day, Mother Earth, Katrina, An Inconvenient Truth, Mccain, Hagee, Earth Day, Pangaea Day, Tree-Hugger, Home News
Justin Frank

Each of us, even identical twins, has his own unique mother. So the relationship each child in a family has to his mother is different from that of e...

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Giver's Greed: Charity's Worst Enemy

Justin Hudnall | Posted 11.01.2007 | Living

Read More: California Fires, Charity, Psychology, Funding, Media, Compassion, Charities, Southern California Fires, Emotions, Disaster Relief, California Wildfires, Tsunami, Disaster Relief Organizations, Giving, Fundraising, Fire Relief, Logic, Unicef, Compassion Study, Wildfires, San Diego Wildfires, Living News
Justin Hudnall

Writing a check for medical supplies is so businesslike, while giving a teddy bear is warm and fuzzy. It makes the giver feel good, which is the problem: Giving is not supposed to be about the giver.

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How Best To Help Victims of the California Wildfires: More of the Same or ???

Richard Walden | Posted 10.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: Tsunami, California Wildfires, Disaster Relief, Disaster Relief Organizations, Red Cross, 9/11, Crisis Relief, American Red Cross, Hurricane Katrina, Salvation Army, Politics News
Richard Walden

We'd all be better served by directing contributions to local nonprofits that could meet a far wider set of recovery needs than what the Red Cross and Salvation Army are charged with doing.

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