Posted on 10/23/2009 7:10:38 PM PDT by rdl6989
The White House Friday highlighted a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations, following a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his landmark speech to the Islamic world.
The White House said the US Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) had issued a call for proposals for the fund, which will provide financing of between 25 and 150 million dollars for selected projects and funds.
The Global Technology and Innovation Fund will "catalyze and facilitate private sector investments" throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa, the White House said in a statement.
Eligible projects would advance economic opportunity and create jobs in areas like technology, education, telecoms, media, business services and clean technology, the White House said.
OPIC said sample projects could help foster the development of new computer technology or telecommunications businesses, or widen access to broadband Internet services.
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We want our country back
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The left is winning with billions in funding from all over the globe. The American right is losing because they stopped funding a party that was no longer worthy of the people’s investment. McCain barely raised $300 million for his campaign, and most of that was made possible by Sarah Palin. But Obama was able to raise over $1 BILLION for his campaign, not counting another billion or so via Soros 527 groups, and almost half of it came from foreign sources!
The Tea Party and town hall goers have the power to drastically change the game, if they only will.
They do NOT need to form another third political party. But they do need to form something along the lines of a New Tea Party 527 organization through which they can raise money and seize control of the RNC.
It’s a simple mathematical equation. Approximately 2 million American patriots recently descended on Washington DC on 9/12, in the biggest single Tea Party in world history. Each of them spent an average of $500 to be there.
Obama left town to speak to 1400 union members and leftist supporters, not at all interested in what 2 million Americans had to say. The left tried to pull off a 9/13 counter-protest, which failed miserably. Still, nobody in DC or the press paid any attention at all to the 9/12 march, other than to grossly underestimate the number in attendance, and call Tea Party goers “right-wing crackpots and racists.”
If instead of marching in protest, Tea Party members consolidated their power in a real way, raising a lousy $100 from each of the 2 million who attended the 9/12 event, that is $200 MILLION bucks folks and trust me, a two hundred million dollar war chest is enough to put American patriots in the drivers seat of the GOP and RNC.
Most American patriots across the nation were unable to attend the DC 9/12 march. Nobody knows for sure how many Tea Party patriots exist across the country, but it is a whole lot more than the 2 million who were able to take time away from work to attend the DC event.
If there are 5 million patriots nationwide, they could easily raise a half a billion dollars and 10 million American patriots can come up with a BILLION dollar war chest for as little as $100 each. My guess is there are more than 30 million patriots nationwide. Can they each come up with $100?
That kinda falls under the whole thief thing...
If this isn’t smacking of treason, I don’t know what is. It is a betrayal of our public trust, and it is giving aid and comfort to our enemy. While the WH may say that they are not giving money directly to terrorist groups, there is no question that much of the money will be funneled into terrorist cells by corrupt, anti-American government officials, and the WH knows this. We have to clean house in 2010; it is absolutely crucial to our survival as a democratic nation.
Im`a gonna move to Algeria and set up a Taliban start-up company making burkhas so I can export to Afghanistan when Obama abandons it so I can get freee money for the startup and let Obama help the Taliban kill women cause Taliban need Obama`s help so bad so Obama can let Al Quaeda hit us agin... where`s my shotgun?
This is The Won paying back some of the Muslim money lent him for his presidential bid.
I shall pray yet again for my country at tomorrow’s mass.
I guess Obama's team CAN make quick decisions for that part of the world after all... ( and the troops? What about the troops?)
For him it’s “All for ALLAH.”
I guess he’s trying to make good on one of his promises before the year is up so he can say he did something
Those who oppose a welfare donation like this one, consider it meddling into the affairs of foreign nations with millions of taxpayer dollars. But proponents of these donations will call them “kooks” for not wanting to meddle in the affairs of foreign nations with taxpayer dollars.
Those in favor of these welfare donations to foreign nations will also argue it’s an isolationist bent to oppose meddling into the affairs of foreign nations. They claim we must intervene to aid the world over. And if we refuse to aid, meddle, and intervene, we will suffer dire consequences.
Here’s a question? Who stands to gain? Certain corporations, investors, individuals and various entities stand to make a great deal of money off of these “investments”. Our tax money is the seed money being used to make other people rich. Follow the money.
The Pubs in congress now had better be keeping a list of these events. If the Pubs re-capture control of both houses next year, the first order of business should be initiating impeachment proceeding against zer0. This has got to stop. How many times do you have to add 1+1+1+1 before it comes to something really big? We need Pubs with spines and stones to rid this country of this nightmare.
LOL, wouldn’t hoit... ;-)
Well that is a sore subject with me. How much does the Middle-East pump into the Palestinian cause? Probably nothing, except weapons.
It’s the West that funds the Palestinian cause.
Anything you'd like to add to your post 9/11 defense of islam ?
Jabir Ibn Haiyan – considered the father of modern Chemistry. Jabir emphasized experimentation and development of methods to achieve reproducibility in his work. He devoted his effort to the development of basic chemical methods and the study of various mechanisms of chemical reactions and thus helped evolve chemistry as a science from the legends of alchemy.From hereAbd al-Malik ibn al-Quraib al-Asmai – left writings that contributed to the development of what we now know as Zoology, Botany and Animal Husbandry
Abu Abdullah Muhammad Ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi - recognized as the founder of Algebra, as he not only initiated the subject in a systematic form but also developed it to the extent of giving analytical solutions of linear and quadratic equations. The name Algebra is derived from his famous book Al-Jabr wa-al-Muqabilah. He developed in detail trigonometric tables containing the sine functions, which were later extrapolated to tangent functions. Al-Khwarizmi also developed the calculus of two errors, which led him to the concept of differentiation. He also refined the geometric representation of conic sections
Yaqub idn Ishaq Al-Kindi - the first physician who systematically determined the dosage for most drugs. It greatly helped in the development of dosage standards (prescription) for patients.
Thabit ibn Qurrah – pioneered extending the concept of traditional geometry to geometrical algebra and proposed theories that led to the development of non-Euclidean geometry, spherical trigonometry, integral calculus and real numbers. He used arithmetic terminology to study several aspects of conic sections (parabola and ellipse). His algorithm for computing the surface area and volume of solids is in fact what we came to know later as the integral calculus.
Ali ibn Rabban Al-Tabari – wrote the first known medical encycopedia and reference work.
Abu Abdullah Al-Battani - made several emendations to Ptolemy and rectified the calculations for the orbits of the moon and certain planets. He proved the possibility of annular eclipses of the sun and determined with greater accuracy the obliquity of the seasons and the true and mean orbit of the ecliptic, the length of the tropical year and the seasons and the true and mean orbit of the sun." His remarkably accurate calculation of the solar year as 365 days, 5 hours, 46 minutes and 24 seconds is very close to the latest estimates. He found that the longitude of the Sun's apogee had increased by 16o 47' since Ptolemy. It inferred the important discovery of the motion of solar apsides and of a slow variation in the equation of time.
Abu Bakr Muhammed bin Zakariya Ar-Razi – physician who pioneered opthamology. He first described the operation for the removal of cataract and also the first scientist to discuss the pupillary reaction or the widening and narrowing of the pupil of the eye and what caused it.
Abd al-Rahman Al-Sufi – astronomer who charted the heavens and was the first to describe a nebula. His book is still an important reference on the study of proper motions and long period variables.
Abul Qasim Al-Zahravi a surgeon. He invented instruments for internal examination of the ear, internal inspection of the urethra and for applying or removing foreign bodies from the throat. He introduced such new procedures as cauterization of wounds, crushing stones inside the bladder, the vivisection and dissection. He applied cauterization procedure to as many as 50 different operations. In addition, Al-Zahravi discussed the preparation of medicines and the application of such techniques as sublimation and decantation. He prescribed the use of diuretics, sudorifics, purgatives, the absorption of pure wine and hot baths. Al-Zahravi was the first to give detailed description hemophilia and was the first to use silk thread for stitching wounds. He is also considered one of the fathers of Oral Surgery for his work on the problem of non-aligned or deformed teeth and procedures to rectify these defects. In addition, he developed the procedure for preparing and setting artificial teeth made from animal bones.
Abu Ali Hasan ibn Al-Haitham – the father of modern optics. He conducted experiments on the propagation of light and colors, optic illusions and reflections. He examined the refraction of light rays through transparent medium (air, water) and discovered the laws of refraction. He also carried out the first experiments on the dispersion of light into its constituent colors. In detailing his experiment with spherical segments (glass vessels filled with water), he came very close to discovering the theory of magnifying lenses which was developed in Italy three centuries later. It took another three centuries before the law of sines was proposed by Snell and Descartes.
Abu Raihan Muhammad Al-Birundi - discovered seven different ways of finding the direction of the north and south, and discovered mathematical techniques to determine exactly the beginnings of the season. He also wrote about the sun and its movements and the eclipse. In addition, he invented few astronomical instruments. Many centuries before the rest of the world, Al-Biruni discussed that the earth rotated on its axis and made accurate calculations of latitude and longitude.
Abu Marwan Abd Al-Malik Ibn Zuhr – a physician who made several breakthroughs. He was the first to test different medicines on animals before administering them to humans. Also, he was the first to describe in detail scabies, the itch mite, and is thus regarded as the first parasitologist. He was also the first to give a full description of the operation of tracheotomy and practiced direct feeding through the gullet in those cases where normal feeding was not possible. As a clinician, he provided clinical descriptions of intestinal phthisis, inflammation of the middle ear, peri carditis, and mediastinal tumors among others.
Ibn Al-Nafis Damishqui – a physician who is credited with the discovery of the blood's circulatory system, and was the first to describe the constitution of lungs, Bronchi, and the coronary arteries.
36 posted on Fri Jan 11 09:45:17 2002 by Non-Sequitur
A chance to defend two of the things you hold most dear in a single thread?
You must be in Hog Heaven!
Electronic burkhas?
This must all be a lie. None of this scholarship occurred as the result of U.S. taxpayer money supplied by Obama, so it couldn’t possibly be true. sarc/ I think this list might be more illuminating if the dates of these scholars were given. Were any of them as recent as the 20th century?
Hogwash, or should I say prophet wash.
How many of these “brilliant minds” are the result of piggybacking off the work of conquered civilizations and then presenting it as their own? Or just as heinous, an attempt by modern day mohammedans to scrub their blood soaked history of barbarism by laying claiming today what never actually happened in the “golden age” of mohammedanism?
As Yogi Berra is often quoted as saying, “History ain’t what it used to be.”
THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! OUTRAGEOUS!
Only now it's the Sheik of Kenya who is now giggling at the cries of "OUTRAGEOUS".
That’s what they need: more of our money. They don’t have enough from our oil dollars, they have to get our tax dollars, too.
Thank God our noble president isn’t really a Muslim. Boy, then I’d be worried.
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