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Hunger in Africa: Fourteen reasons not to give

by Paul de Blot 15 August 2011 permalink

On August 4, 2011 called Dick Wittenberg in an editorial from NRC Handelsblad fourteen reasons not to give money for emergency aid to the Horn of Africa. There is only one reason opposite to do so. When we think about hunger, there are more arguments to find nothing to give because people are seen as objects of hunger and figures about aid.


Europe in crisis

by Paul de Blot 1 August 2011 permalink

The headlines are full of the European crisis. Many banks do not meet the requirements to meet the stress test to meet. They have enough money on hand in times of emergency. That makes Europe sick, sick well, if you read the messages. Yet the one-sided messages. Economically, Europe is sick, but economy is always sick as those unilaterally applied. Any unilateral application or focus on something can cause disease. To unilaterally take food to you, always makes people sick. To unilateral discipline, with no room for freedom, is a family illness.