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Much has been made – and rightly so – of recent news reports that President Obama somehow managed to find a spare $250 million to send to Egypt while warning American taxpayers about “immediate, painful, arbitrary budget cuts” to come as a result of the so-called sequester. The president’s dishonesty offends. But what particularly outrages is that he gifted Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi with U.S. foreign aid even as his Islamist regime continues to persecute the country’s Coptic Christians, who make up 10 percent of Egypt’s population. CNN recently reported, “Threats by Muslim extremists against Coptic Christians in the past...

ATTORNEY GENERAL MARK BENNETT’S OFFICE SAYS THEY HAVE “NO GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS PERTAINING TO THE PREPARATION OF THE PUBLIC STATEMENTS MADE BY DR. FUKINO” The Post & Email is in receipt of a letter signed by Jill T. Nagamine, Deputy Attorney General of the State of Hawaii, which affirms her email early last month to our Editor-in-Chief, Mr. John Charlton, stating that her office will not or cannot corroborate any of the Department of Health’s public statements regarding the alleged birth of Barack Hussein Obama in Hawaii. Ms. Nagamine’s March 19, 2010 formal letter was sent in response to the Hawaii...

Major concerns in US, over proposed US aid of $20 billion dollars to "friendly" Arabs Today, Sunday, On CNN's LateEdition (with Wolf Blitzer), Both Rep. Charlie Rangel & D-New York Rep. Charles Shays, R-Connecticut, were voicing concerns against proposed US aid in $20 bn. to Saudi Artabia. Charlie Rangel: 'They have no been our friends, it includes Arab nations such as: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, as well, and Israel should be nuts to agree to that "deal"'. http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/late.edition/index.html It should be available later on on: http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/le.html

US places guns before butter By Jim Lobe WASHINGTON - Despite his administration's growing concerns about preventing the collapse of states in strategic parts of the world, US President George W Bush has proposed cuts in development and disaster assistance while increasing the defense budget by almost 7%. Under his 2007 budget request submitted to Congress on Monday, Pentagon spending next year would rise to some US$440 billion, not including another $120 billion that the administration is expected to ask for as a supplemental appropriation to fund US military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan through September, when fiscal 2006 ends....

I need help researching the charity numbers. In short, I'm looking to show how much the US gives to other countries through both foriegn aid and charitable contributions. Any URLs / pointers the Freeper community can provide? Thanks,

The dark side of altruism NGOs may do more harm than good Sean M. Maloney Saturday Post Saturday, December 07, 2002 A BED FOR THE NIGHT: HUMANITARIANISM IN CRISIS By David Rieff Simon & Schuster 366 pp., $41 - - - While working in Kosovo in 2001, I saw a member of a prominent non-governmental relief organization handing out foodstuffs to refugees. The message on his T-shirt could have been the subtitle to this book: "If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat?" In A Bed for the Night, David Rieff, a journalist with extensive Balkans and African experience, has...

Who needs foreign aid anyway? SWAMINOMICS / SWAMINATHAN S ANKLESARIA AIYAR [ SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2002 12:14:05 AM ] The Monterrey aid summit, organised by the UN to try and double aid to developing countries, hogged the headlines and editorial columns in both recipient and donor countries across the globe. Yet it received remarkably little attention in India. Why? Because India receives no net aid. Interest and amortisation (repayment of principal) of old aid has consistently exceeded fresh inflows since 1995-96, with the result that the dollar flow to India has turned negative. In most developing countries this would be...