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As President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry close in on a nuclear deal with Iran, it's worth remembering that the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation received money from "a front for the government of Iran" called the Alavi Foundation. The front gave the Clintons $30,000 between April 2005 and March 2006, according to tax forms. This occurred years after law enforcement officials tied the group to Iranian radicals. “The center is funded by the New York-based Alavi Foundation, which law enforcement officials say is closely tied to the mullahs who dominate Iran,” the Washington Post reported...

One year after a tsunami devastated a dozen nations and killed more than 215,000 people, local charities are still sending help. You'll recall the campaign "From Lubbock With Love" raised over a million dollars for tsunami relief. All that money was donated by citizens right here on the South Plains. It was then split between Breedlove Dehydrated Foods, and the local chapters of the Salvation Army and Red Cross. NewsChannel 11's Kealey McIntire tells us how that money is still helping survivors. >>> A year ago on December 26th, the tsunami wiped out much of Southeast Asia, leaving its residents...

Believed to be Top Church Collection Ever WASHINGTON (May 12, 2005)—Over $150 million has been given to Catholic Relief Services, the U.S. bishops’ international relief agency, to address the tsunami crisis which struck Southeast Asia less than five months ago. The donations are believed to mark the most money ever collected by the church in a single appeal. The figures included donations directly from 168 of the nation’s 192 dioceses, eparchies, and territorial sees. CRS, which made the figures public May 6, reported that more than $71 million came directly through dioceses and the rest directly from parish collections, individuals...

Globalist Perspective > Global Politics Tsunami Relief — The Great Indian Absence By Ashutosh Sheshabalaya | Wednesday, February 09, 2005 Why did the U.S. and European media virtually ignore the post-tsunami relief efforts mounted by the Indian military? Ashutosh Sheshabalaya argues that this failure is just another sign of the West’s inability to get over its stereotypes of India as a backward country. It’s time for the global community to give due recognition to this fast-emerging giant — or risk itself becoming out-of-date. n January 5, 2005, several thousand tons of wreckage and debris were cleared from Sri Lanka’s tsunami-crippled...

LONDON - The musician formerly known as Cat Stevens has recorded his first secular pop song in more than 35 years as part of a fundraising effort for victims of the tsunami disaster. Yusuf Islam wrote and recorded the song, called Indian Ocean, with British musician Ed Harcourt, Travis drummer Neil Primrose, Magne Furuholmen of the band A-Ha and the Indian composer/producer A.R. Rahman. The song will be released in February as a benefit single to raise money for children orphaned by the earthquake and tsunami on Dec. 26. The effort marks the first time Islam has recorded a pop...

Sriyanka Walpola for The New York Times A member of Antioch Community Church in Texas playing with Sri Lankan children at a relief camp. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MORAKETIYA, Sri Lanka, Jan. 19 -A dozen Americans walked into a relief camp here, showering bereft parents and traumatized children with gifts, attention and affection. They also quietly offered camp residents something else: Jesus. The Americans, who all come from one church in Texas, have staged plays detailing the life of Jesus and had children draw pictures of him, camp residents said. They have told parents who lost children that they should still believe...

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Jan. 21) - Rebels in tsunami-devastated Aceh province accused the government of abandoning an informal cease-fire after the military said Friday it has killed scores of suspected guerrillas to protect aid deliveries. The rebels disputed the military's claim of killing 120 rebels in the past two weeks, saying only 20 of its fighters had died in skirmishes. The rebels said 100 others killed were unarmed civilians. The renewed hostilities in the nearly three-decade separatist conflict called into question the security of efforts to aid survivors of the Dec. 26 tsunami. Tallies of the dead from the disaster...

JAKARTA, Jan. 18 (Xinhuanet) -- The Japanese government has extended a 14.6 billion yen (about 146 million US dollars) grant to Indonesia for the immediate purchase of emergency relief goods for Aceh as well as rehabilitation work in the affected areas. "This grant was pledged to President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono by Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who visited Jakarta to attend the Special ASEAN Leaders' Meeting held on Jan. 6, 2005," Japanese Ambassador to Indonesia Yutaka Iimura was quoted Tuesday by The Jakarta Post newspaper as saying. "This grant will be used effectively for the purchase of emergency relief goods...

ABOARD THE USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN — The aircraft carrier leading the U.S. military's tsunami relief effort steamed out of Indonesian waters yesterday after the country declined to let the ship's fighter pilots use its airspace for training missions — part of a broad effort by Indonesia to reassert control over its territory.     The USS Abraham Lincoln's diversion, which was not expected to affect aid flights, came as the White House asked the Indonesian government to explain why it appears to be demanding that the U.S. military and other foreign troops providing disaster relief leave the country by the end...

ABOARD THE USS BONHOMME RICHARD -- Cpl. Sean Foley looks around the ship's main armory and takes a quick inventory. The room is overflowing with guns. Pistols, sniper rifles, machine guns, grenade launchers. But for the time being, it's all staying right here. In an effort to ease the fears of local officials, Marines participating in the humanitarian mission to help Indonesia recover from the earthquake and tsunami that have killed more than 100,000 people on the island of Sumatra have agreed to leave their weapons behind whenever they go ashore. For many Marines, that's tantamount to traveling naked. "They...

Only 34 percent of Americans believe the United Nations should be in charge of international relief efforts for victims of the South Asia tsunami that killed more than 150,000 people Dec. 26, according to a survey. The Rasmussen Reports poll of 1,000 adults also found 83 percent believe the United States is generous when confronted with the emergency needs of other nations. Just 12 percent believe the U.S. is stingy, a question apparently prompted by U.N. Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs Jan Egeland's negative assessment of the U.S. and other Western nations in the immediate aftermath of the tsunami. Support for...

President Bush met with Secretary of State Colin Powell, who reported on his tour of the tsunamis-devastated areas in SE Asia. Bush received some measure of vindication over unsubstantiated allegations ("Rathergate memos") about his Air National Guard service when CBS announced today, on its web site, that four employees were fired following the release of an independent investigation into the '60 Minutes' story about President Bush's military service. Media bias is now called "myopic zeal." Since no discovery of media bias or forgery was admitted in the report CBS executives ordered (which did accurately credit FreeRepublic.com), decide for yourself how...

The television brings us images of all kinds of evil. Rape. Murder. Theft. Corruption. Death. We see terrorism, battles in the Mideast, dishonest government and endless stories of sick events unfolding in the world around us. Recently, we've seen devastating images of events that seem a little more complicated: Nature destroying lives and livelihoods. We're seeing creation groaning and we know that something is wrong with all of this; it's not right. And in the midst of that, we give. We're giving a lot. It seems to be our only response. So much so it that we're seeing what can...

LONDON (Reuters) - Veteran pop star Sir Cliff Richard, flamboyant singer Boy George and other British musicians plan to release a song to raise money for victims of the devastating Asian tsunami, the tune's composer said. Radio DJ Mike Read wrote the song "Grief Never Grows Old" before the Dec. 26 disaster, but said he was now getting stars on board to release it within weeks. "We've tracked down quite a few people, who have said,'Yes I would love to do a few lines on it,"' Read told Sky News television, adding that Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees and...

Press Conference 4 January 2005 Japanese victims of the earthquake/tsunami disaster Press Secretary Hatsuhisa Takashima: Good afternoon and Happy New Year to you. Thank you very much for coming to the briefing. Today, I would like to give you some information on the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean area, especially about Japan-related items. Firstly, the Japanese casualties. So far, we have 21 Japanese citizens who are confirmed dead because of this disaster. So far, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has counted 653 missing Japanese citizens. These missing people are not specifically mentioned as missing in that area. It...

President and Mrs. Bush, former Presidents Bush and Clinton visited the embassies of the nations hardest hit by the Asian quake and tsunami: Indonesia, Sri Lanka, India and Thailand. He asked both (interestingly, Carter didn't make the list) to lead a nationwide charitable fund-raising effort for victims of the Asian tsunamis, through private contributions, non-governmental and international organizations. The White House's Freedom Corps, which helps facilitate volunteer efforts around the country, will assist the two former presidents in soliciting private contributions. The president hosted a reception for new members elected to Congress and their spouses in the East Room; the...

President and Mrs. Clinton who have made better than $30 million in book advances since leaving the White House took time this weekend to make a very public pledge of personal funds towards the relief work going on in the Tsunami wrecked region of the Indian Ocean. The Clintons were appearing at a relief effort in Queens and met with some 30 volunteers gathered. Oh yes, and New York Newsday newspaper reporter just happened to be there to get a statement from the couple. Later in the weekend when the Clintons were queried by CNN as to how much they...

TOKYO — Japan is planning to send ground, maritime and air self-defense force teams to Thailand to help in tsunami disaster relief efforts in cooperation with U.S. forces, government sources said Sunday. Under the mission, the Defense Agency envisions sending destroyers and other vessels of the Maritime Self-Defense Force and C-130 transport planes of the Air Self-Defense Force, as well as a Ground Self-Defense Force contingent, they said. The teams are to be based at the Utapao base in Thailand, which has been used by the U.S. forces as a base for their relief operations, the sources said. The Japanese...

This is about the devastation happened by tsunami and about the funds pouring in for the relief. I know there is a lot of money coming from everywhere in the world for the relief efforts. Infact I did a little bit of math interms of indian currecny though the situation might be differnt for different countries. Even if we assume that the total relief money is about $2 billion, it would amount to almost 20,000Rs in indian currency for each person who was affected by tsunami. This is assuming that 5 million people were moved by tsunami. And if we...