Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Headlines below the fold

Next time you hear cries of brain drain or illegal immigrants, the clue is HERE:
Philippines gets ten percent of their wealth from OFW...and we are the 4th; Mexico, Indian and China get more money sent home from their people working overseas...
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Mall blast still being debated...sewer gas, poorly stored empty diesel tanks, or a bomb? I am betting someone stuck a bomb in the storage room...but no definite answers yet.
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Neat idea: microcredit helps small farmers and businesses. We have the microcredit across the street, where our farmers can get loans for seed and fertilizer.
But what about paying bills? THIS ARTICLE discusses how they use cellphones for money transfer in Kenya.
Cellphone texting here is big...even our farmers and workers have a cellphone (often the family shares one). You can buy "loads" for 15 peasos...
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Fil-Am
is the American top soldier of the year...
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CDC podcast on emergency preparedness HERE.
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John McCain
has the best line of the year:
Senator McCain seemed to me to get in the best line of the campaign so far:
"In case you missed it, a few days ago Senator Clinton tried to spend one million dollars on the Woodstock concert museum. Now, my friends, I wasn't there. I'm sure it was a cultural and pharmaceutical event. I was tied up at the time."

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