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2008-05-02 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

US receptive to Palestinian funding needs

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Posted by Steve White 2008-05-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
File under: Palestinian Authority

#1 Why is Bush and Congress ~~borrowing~~ printing money to give to terrorists while the US dollar drops in value hourly? Oil hasn't got more expensive the Dollar has got worth LESS. Congress and the President can do something about this they can stop printing money for stupid crap like bankrolling terrorists.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2008-05-02 05:03|| 2008-05-02 05:03|| Front Page Top

#2 US receptive

With vaseline and everything.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2008-05-02 06:30|| 2008-05-02 06:30|| Front Page Top

#3 The only thing we should give the Palestinians is a MOAB from 20,000 feet.

Posted by RWV 2008-05-02 06:52|| 2008-05-02 06:52|| Front Page Top

#4 I'd rather see our own liberal fairies get $555M to produce dancing sock puppet operas for the fine arts fund.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-05-02 08:34|| 2008-05-02 08:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Hush Jim, they'll take you up on that.

And then give the Paleos the money anyways.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-05-02 11:12|| 2008-05-02 11:12|| Front Page Top

#6 Greed is never satisfied.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,353944,00.html EFL
U.N.'s World Food Program Cried Poverty While Sitting on Cash Stockpile of More Than $1.22 Billion
Just weeks before it announced the onset of a global food crisis and the urgent need for donors to provide at least $775 million in additional funding, the World Food Program (WFP) was sitting on a cash and near-cash stockpile of more than $1.22 billion.

The startling figure is contained in the latest audited statements of the WFP, which were endorsed by WFPs executive director, Josette Sheeran, on March 31, 2008 just a month before Sheeran announced at an international aid conference on April 22 that a silent tsunami in rising food prices demanded the huge infusion of cash for WFPs latest budget.

In an op-ed article published in the International Herald Tribune on May 1, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon further declared that the WFP had just $18 million cash in hand in the wake of its appeal for emergency funding.

The audited statements are due to be presented to the annual Rome meeting of WFPs supervisory executive board in June.

Ever since WFP first announced the looming crisis of food aid for the worlds poorest people based largely on dramatic international hikes in food costs the World Food Program and other United Nations spokesmen, including Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, have been steadily ratcheting up the tab required to top off WFPs budget to meet 2008 needs.

Initially, Sheeran announced that some $500 million was needed, though she added that would not fully fund such things as school food programs for some 20 million hungry youngsters. By the time of the aid conference, attended largely by U.N. agencies and World Bank representatives, the needed funding had risen to $775 million.

By the time the conference ended, Secretary General Ban put the shortfall at roughly $1 billion.

Ban also announced that a U.N. task force dealing with the food crisis would need as much as $1.6 billion in additional funding for seed programs and other means of expanding the global food supply.

On Thursday, President George W. Bush called on Congress to add $770 million in new international food aid to some $350 million in new aid he announced after WFP announced the silent tsunami crisis.

Posted by Thealing Borgia6122 2008-05-02 11:23|| 2008-05-02 11:23|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh, we're receptive all right. Just put your funding requests in that receptacle right over there in the alley, boys.

Posted by SteveS 2008-05-02 15:24|| 2008-05-02 15:24|| Front Page Top

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