From TFA:
The American Civil Liberties Union sent out an emergency appeal to card-carrying members and donors this week after realizing it is a victim of Bernard Madoff's self-confessed Ponzi scheme.
"We've been hit hard in a way that no one could forecast," Alma Montcla, director of administration and finance for the left-leaning advocacy group, wrote this week. "Two foundations that have been incredibly generous and longstanding supporters of our national security and reproductive freedom work have been victimized by the Madoff scandal - forced to close their doors and terminate their grants," the plea said.
"That means that $850,000 in support we were counting on from these foundations in 2009 simply won't exist."
The ACLU reported $80 million in income in 2007. It sux to be liberal these days...
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"That means that $850,000 in support we were counting on from these foundations in 2009 simply won't exist." The ACLU reported $80 million in income in 2007.
Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet set the standard for disappointed investors. Just sayin.
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"I believe Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been hit even worse."
Don't tease us, CP.
Hope it's true. :-D
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"I believe Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have been hit even worse."
A three-fer! And they say that Santa Claus doesn't exist.
Just as an aside - there once was a time, when I used to respect the ALCU, AI, and HRW, back when they used to be - or at least appear to be - fairly even-handed, and politically neutral. AI and HRW used to have some respect, some shreds of standing. But all that seems to have been pissed away. Now I hold them in indifferent contempt.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu launched a stinging attack on South Africa yesterday, accusing it of failing to stand up to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and betraying its apartheid legacy.
Tutu, the retired archbishop of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and anti-apartheid campaigner, told BBC radio he was "ashamed" of his homeland. He suggested that South Africa had surrendered the "moral high ground" which it gained in the post-apartheid era.
Tutu also told BBC radio that violence could be used to remove Mugabe, who should then be indicted by the International Criminal Court (ICC). His comments came amid rising international pressure for Mugabe to quit and an outbreak of cholera which has killed over 1,000 people, according to UNICEF.
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Not so sure about any moral high ground South Africa attained after overturning the old system.
But good to learn that Tutu is capable of shame. Interestingly, he condemns his homeland for failing to take a stand against despotism - yet he's mostly known for condemning the US for actually taking stands - against vastly more consequential tyrannies, at the cost of its own blood, treasure, and slandered honor.
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Tutu probably hates Mugabe either because he is no longer a socialist, belongs to a different tribe, or because Mugabe won't cut him in for a piece of the action.
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This Tutu is a complete jerk and part of the crowd responsible for the destruction of South Africa. That he's coming close to saying the right thing now doesn't start to expiate his past sins. He's a scumbag who deserves a hard punch right in the middle of his ugly face.
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As you probably know, grom, the construction workforce is almost entirely foreign (mostly south Asians and Filipinos), so very few Gulfies will be feeling any pinch.
One of the odd but positive things about Dubai, where I took a few breaks during my Iraq gig - most of the people you dealt with from hotel staff to drivers to restaurant folks, largely Indians and Filipinos, were about as warm and nice as you could find. I enjoyed talking with them - I'd even sometimes find them reasonable people to talk about the "situation" with (more often than folks back here).
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Yes, its the Filipinos, Indians, et al doing the work. Not the Paleos. Hundreds of thousands of their 'brothers' unemployed and they hire infidels. Things that make you go hmmmmm... /sarcasm off
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Kuwait had a large number of Paleos working there when Sammy invaded. The Paleos welcomed the invaders with open arms. I think the rest of Arabia noticed.
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I'd hazard a guess that Paleostains are pretty good at playing both sides of the board.
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Kuwait used to have all manner of Third Country Nationals (TCN). Lots of busy little brown buggers from the PI. A majority of the natives won't lift a finger to do manual labor, so somebody has to do the work.
About 50 percent of driving licences carried by drivers across the country are fake and prepared through irregularities and corruption, says the chairman of Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA).
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Only 50%?
I'm shocked that it's not closer to 100%.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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