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To: cAPSLOCK who wrote (31030)	4/1/1999 11:28:00 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116780

Talk about wealth redistribution! OK, let's take money from the US tax payers and give it to pork-like program and use the money to support the rice market making farmers and the Ivory Coast owe their very existance to our government. If they would only allow gold to run without manipulation top economists would question these inflation numbers rice would also run. The Ivory Coast could sell gold & our farmers could sell rice. USDA to donate 15,000 tonnes rice for Ivory Coast WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department said Thursday it will donate 15,000 tonnes of U.S. unmilled brown rice to Winrock International, which will sell the rice to benefit programs in Ivory Coast. The package is estimated at $4.5 million, USDA said. Proceeds from the sale will be used in a program to advance the role of women in agriculture, to address environmental and natural resource issues and to expand training for women and small farmers. biz.yahoo.com Do we really need to have more "pork" with swine farmers going broke?

To: cAPSLOCK who wrote (31030)	1/8/2000 9:51:00 PM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116780

OT(?) Saturday, January 8, 2000 Reprisals feared after boy escapes VIVIEN PIK-KWAN CHAN and AGENCIES -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The secret flight to India of a "living Buddha," one of the most revered figures in Tibet an Buddhism, could spark further Chinese repression in Tibet, a pro-Tibetan rights group warned yesterday. The 14-year-old Ugyen Trinley Dorje had fled the Tsurphu monastery in Tibet to join the Dalai Lama at his headquarters in the northern Indian town of Dharamsala, the Tibetan government-in-exile confirmed. "There are concerns that there will be a security clampdown in Tibet and retaliation against his (cont) scmp.com