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To: elmatador who wrote (58021)	1/1/2005 11:07:08 AM
From: RealMuLan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

[The US now sees the opportunity]--"US denies rivalry with UN over leading tsunami relief work:" [World News]: United Nations, Jan 1 : The US has firmly rejected suggestions that it was trying to sidetrack the United Nations in the relief efforts for the victims of the tsunami catastrophe by creating a four-nation "core group" which includes India, Japan and Australia. The group was created as there was need for a coordination mechanism and it includes countries which have assets, experience and capacity, US Secretary of State Colin Powell told reporters yesterday after a meeting with UN Secretary General Kofi Annan. The Indians, he said, had already dispatched military units to Sri Lanka. He did not envisage any major expansion of the group, saying it might be expanded "slightly." But "in due course we hope the Core Group will work itself out of business because we will have brought all the international organisations into play under the overall supervision and leadership of the United Nations," he said. Annan also underlined "the need for us to cooperate and coordinate our efforts as effectively as possible" and asserted that the immediate need was now for logistical support, including aircraft, to get supplies in as quickly as possible. Asked whether China would join the Core Group, Powell said Beijing is playing an important role and "I think they can do that without necessarily being a member of the core group." PTI newkerala.com

To: elmatador who wrote (58021)	1/1/2005 11:53:32 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<New Zealand Government's immigration policy is designed to attract quality immigrants, that is to say, people that either have a good education and good skills to offer New Zealand > ElM, if it were only true. They need a driver's licence so they don't crash while they cause traffic jams and so they can get a taxi soon. Or don't bother with the licence, or get one printed in Thailand or somewhere. Good skills in handling bureaucracy is a major talent so they can fiddle the system and get the rest of their tribe in too. There are heaps of people who came from Taiwan and Hong Kong as a stepping stone to Oz. Oz has seen how stupid New Zealanders are, so they've shut that route. They live for years here, get citizenship, then swoop into Oz. Meanwhile they've enjoyed taxpayer funded education, medicine, prison services, welfare and commonly-owned facilities [such as the water supply which had to be extended - what I'd built would have been sufficient if it had been priced correctly and the population constrained - guess who paid for both the old AND the new water supply]. Mqurice