There are good and bad in every country and community, and even in the business community.
Yet people hardly get noticed for the good that they do, especially when it has to do with the poor. It's better to shine the light on people who err than to give credit where credit is due.
Two examples of this would be Bill Clinton and Frank Giustra of the Clinton Giustra Foundation which solicits donations from mining corporations to help mitigate poverty in Chile and Peru.
Yet neither of these men are rewarded for that. While Bill Clinton was once the butt of jokes in the comedy circle, today he meditates to help reduce stress since his heart problems a few years ago.
On the other hand, nobody has heard of Frank Giustra, because he's so low-key and under the radar.
And that's the way it's supposed to be.
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Showing posts with label FranK Giustra. Show all posts
20130117
The Man Who will Save Colombia's Poor
Thiis man used to be my neighbor when I lived in Aldergrove until 1980.
This man is why Vancouver has a lot of successful charities.
Unfortunately he couldn't save an icon of Vancouver, that opera or whatever it was called. However, I feel activities which need charity to survive need money management to survive.
As well, it needs a new gimmick to keep various non-profit organizations from going belly up.
For Frank Giustra may be rich, but it's not up to him to rescue organizations that subsist on charity and become its patron.
Rather, it is the obligation of all people who've never been to public school, and who graduated from great colleges and universities bot in America and Canada, as well as around the world, to attend a charity and develop your philanthropic endeavors.
I'm proud of you and Frank Giustra.
Thanks for the charity.
This man is why Vancouver has a lot of successful charities.
Unfortunately he couldn't save an icon of Vancouver, that opera or whatever it was called. However, I feel activities which need charity to survive need money management to survive.
As well, it needs a new gimmick to keep various non-profit organizations from going belly up.
For Frank Giustra may be rich, but it's not up to him to rescue organizations that subsist on charity and become its patron.
Rather, it is the obligation of all people who've never been to public school, and who graduated from great colleges and universities bot in America and Canada, as well as around the world, to attend a charity and develop your philanthropic endeavors.
I'm proud of you and Frank Giustra.
Thanks for the charity.
20080117
Undernutrition Kills Kids Yearly
Reference: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080117/hl_afp/healthchildrennutrition_080117211620
Now I have been vindicated when earlier I mentioned the main problem of the post-modern diet is the risk of sub-clinical malnutrition. What is under-nutrition but malnutrition?
According to French researchers, under-nutrition "is to blame for 3.5 million deaths among children aged under five each year, but most of the fatalities occur in 20 countries, where targeted aid programmes could swiftly address the problem."
This is the world-wide malnutrition problem caused by lack of food, but you can still go on to claim that sub-clinical malnutrition is common in developed countries where children do not go to bed hungry, but get nutrient-poor food daily like carbonated beverages, processed meat, and factory meats which are heavily loaded with chemicals designed to ensure product makes it to your dinner table.
While I am not saying more people should go out hunting, I am saying that shopping in a grocery store is not the same as growing your own vegetables, raising your own chicken and hunting & fishing for part of your food intake.
IMHO hunting and fishing licenses are not done to conserve limited game resources, but to ensure rich hunting & fishing "hobbyists" can afford to get a trophy. The waste of game resources is one travesty of such sport, and such hobbyists should be forced to take lessons on the processing of their game into meat as part of the hunting & fishing licensing process. While I am sure fish suffer as much being hooked and clubbed to death, I am not convinced barb-less hooks and the current practise of catch-and-release is any less traumatic for the fish. However, sports hunters and fishers should limit their hunting and fishing to what they can eat.
Getting back to those kids in developing countries, the main reason they are starving is due to foreign aid not getting to them. In most cases, the privileged few in a given nation are hoarding food supplies stolen from the foreign aid agencies through fraud. A leader of a corrupt nation could easily force an army of "homeless and starving" native to grab what they get and cache it at a specific site. If that army is bigger and stronger than the actual homeless and starving people, then the foreign aid agency can only stand back and watch.
No one knows if 750 out of 1000 people are aligned with the corrupt leader and hoarding while the other 250 get barely enough to last them a day, a week, or a month.
So what actually kills kids in undeveloped countries is not actually under-nutrition but social Darwinism. However, penalizing the corrupt leaders will not help the kids. Only Bill Gates and Frank Giustra can do that, because it is so cheap to feed and care for children in developing nations.
This post marks my second one where a reference URL is not converted to a working link. This is a good "feature" of my limited interface in the Blogger editor due to it detecting Konqueror. In fact it detects Konqueror and is not fooled by the spoofing Konqueror provides.
Now I have been vindicated when earlier I mentioned the main problem of the post-modern diet is the risk of sub-clinical malnutrition. What is under-nutrition but malnutrition?
According to French researchers, under-nutrition "is to blame for 3.5 million deaths among children aged under five each year, but most of the fatalities occur in 20 countries, where targeted aid programmes could swiftly address the problem."
This is the world-wide malnutrition problem caused by lack of food, but you can still go on to claim that sub-clinical malnutrition is common in developed countries where children do not go to bed hungry, but get nutrient-poor food daily like carbonated beverages, processed meat, and factory meats which are heavily loaded with chemicals designed to ensure product makes it to your dinner table.
While I am not saying more people should go out hunting, I am saying that shopping in a grocery store is not the same as growing your own vegetables, raising your own chicken and hunting & fishing for part of your food intake.
IMHO hunting and fishing licenses are not done to conserve limited game resources, but to ensure rich hunting & fishing "hobbyists" can afford to get a trophy. The waste of game resources is one travesty of such sport, and such hobbyists should be forced to take lessons on the processing of their game into meat as part of the hunting & fishing licensing process. While I am sure fish suffer as much being hooked and clubbed to death, I am not convinced barb-less hooks and the current practise of catch-and-release is any less traumatic for the fish. However, sports hunters and fishers should limit their hunting and fishing to what they can eat.
Getting back to those kids in developing countries, the main reason they are starving is due to foreign aid not getting to them. In most cases, the privileged few in a given nation are hoarding food supplies stolen from the foreign aid agencies through fraud. A leader of a corrupt nation could easily force an army of "homeless and starving" native to grab what they get and cache it at a specific site. If that army is bigger and stronger than the actual homeless and starving people, then the foreign aid agency can only stand back and watch.
No one knows if 750 out of 1000 people are aligned with the corrupt leader and hoarding while the other 250 get barely enough to last them a day, a week, or a month.
So what actually kills kids in undeveloped countries is not actually under-nutrition but social Darwinism. However, penalizing the corrupt leaders will not help the kids. Only Bill Gates and Frank Giustra can do that, because it is so cheap to feed and care for children in developing nations.
This post marks my second one where a reference URL is not converted to a working link. This is a good "feature" of my limited interface in the Blogger editor due to it detecting Konqueror. In fact it detects Konqueror and is not fooled by the spoofing Konqueror provides.
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