Time for our monthly Matthew Lee Watch.
We are waiting for AP reporter Matthew Lee to tell us how few Iraqi refugees arrived in the United States during the month of March. The time of his reporting varies slightly. Last month he posted his story about 8 hours into the first day of the …
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Great article in Seattle Times this weekend. (Can’t believe I said that. Oh yea, it’s because it was copied from a reporter for the Denver Post.) Proactive maintenance is key to saving money as a homeowner. Something mentioned in the article is what we have recommended to homeowners for years: …
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“Sweden closes doors to fleeing Iraqis” reads the headline of a March 30 AP story. As is usual with stories like this, it begins with the sad tale of a “victim” of Sweden’s heartless policy. Only it doesn’t seem that sad:
The fear of being sent back to Baghdad has taken its …
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Peggy Shapiro of The American Thinker reports:
It has been sixty years since 850,000 Jews were victims of “ethnic cleansing” in 10 Arab lands, where some Jewish communities had existed for 2,500 years. The number of Jewish refugees expelled from Arab lands exceeds Arab refugees from Israel by more than 100,000 …
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Predatory Lenders’ Partners in Crime: How the Bush Administration Stopped the States from Stepping in to Help Consumers (Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer in Washington Post via Global Research 3/14/08)
GR: “The following oped by Eliot Spitzer was published barely a month prior to the unfolding scandal and his demise as Governor …
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1971 Winter Soldier Hearings: What are we doing to Vietnam? (Alternet 3/13/08)
In the run-up to the ‘new’ Winter Soldier sessions this month, Alternet is running selections from the original hearings - “Having killed for religious beliefs and then political beliefs, I believe we are now on the threshold of killing …
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The Earth Times reports:
Berlin - Germany is mulling calls for it to take in up to 30,000 Christians who have fled intimidation and violence in Iraq, an Interior Ministry spokeswoman said Saturday, confirming an account in the news magazine Der Spiegel. Iraq’s Christians, who have lived in Mesopotamia since before …
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Israel is in the midst of a refugee crisis. Africans from Darfur began to come in small numbers in 2005. According to a March 27 Jerusalem Post article, the Israeli government accepted the first 600 Darfur refugees and gave them legal status. Israelis donated goods and money, and the refugees are integrating …
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If this article is accurate, it looks like there could be others of unknown nationality resettling in the West from the refugee camps in Nepal.
KATHMANDU, 30 March 2008 - As one of the world’s largest third-country resettlement processes started this week in Nepal, with over 10,000 Bhutanese refugees scheduled to …
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No, you don’t say! This article from the New York Times rounds out my troika of posts this weekend that began with Chicago non-profits getting boatloads of charitable money that go for political organizing, Chris Coen’s charges that although well paid, Chicago charities have a bad record of caring for refugees. And, …
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