Yearly Archives: 2005

The Real US Gov’t

social, Sosial

US gov’t likes to be seen as the generous and caring Uncle Sam. However, they true self was revealed momentarily, when the tsunami disaster hit Asia a few days ago.

When nations are donating vast amount of aid and money, US gov’t donated less than even Sweden.

Only after Jan Egeland, Norwegian UN undersecretary, criticised them severely, then US gov’t suddenly increased their donation and moved their troops into the disaster area.

Now US troops are among the most efficient helper in the area, but that won’t happen without the smack from Egeland. For that, Mr Jan Egeland, please accept my thanks on behalf of Aceh people and other victims – and we sincerely hope that Mr Bush’s wrath on your statement won’t cost you anything too dearly 🙁

Arafat’s billions

Islam

Many people sympathetic to Palestinians plight have long suspected Mr. Arafat’s motives. It seems that we’re correct after all, if the news [ here ] and [ here ] is true.

Now let’s hope that someone that truly care about these poor Palestinians to be able to help them solve their decades of misery 🙁

Aceh disaster information

Teknoblogia

In the last few days, I was still in shock over the tsunami & quake disaster that hit Aceh. Personally I’ve lost contact with a few friends, and we don’t really expect to hear from them again. Then I looked around, and try to think of what I can do about this.

Being so far away, the easiest thing is to donate money. Since I’m a UK taxpayer, I can make my donations goes further by claiming Gift Aid – which will make the UK gov add 28% from my donation to it.

Looking around, I also see there’s something I can do with my computer. Many existing websites on Aceh Disaster are not easily updated, and only its webmasters can do that. Also I couldn’t find any of them offering information in English – which is vital if we want to keep the world informed about it and thus able to donate/help the victim. Or to help inform English-speakers who happen to have friends/relatives in Aceh.

So I created aceh.abangadek.com, as a complement to other websites that already exist out there.
I based the website on phpWiki, so anyone can put in bits information that they have into it. Also I’ve started providing an English section on it.

I do realise that the most help can be done by being out there on Aceh itself, but being so far away, there’s only so much that I can do. So I’m not expecting much from all of this, even if it can help 1 person then it’s already worth my time.

Let us do all that we could to help the people of Aceh.