Donate Japan

Japan Disaster Relief: Where to Give
"With Thousands Feared Missing, Relief Organizations Offer Assistance;" (ABC NEWS)

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | March 12, 2011 | [SOURCE]

" ... Rescue and recovery efforts have already begun and are expected to last for months, with numerous international organizations and governments offering assistance. Prime Minister Naoto Kan said he dispatched 50,000 troops for recovery efforts as powerful aftershocks continue to rattle the region.
To make donations, below is a list of organizations contributing to the relief effort. (ibid.) ... "

Japan Relief Donations
Save the Children: Emergency Relief for Japan Quake
www.savethechildren.org/japanquake
Toll free: 800-728-3843
Text JAPAN or 20222 to donate.


The American Red Cross: Japan Earthquake and Pacific Tsunami Relief
www.redcross.org
Text REDCROSS or 90999 to make $10 donation by text message.


Salvation Army
donate.salvationarmyusa.org
Toll free: 800-SAL-ARMY
Text QUAKE or 80888 to donate $10


International Medical Corps
www.internationalmedicalcorps.org
Text MED or 80888 to donate $10


Doctors Without Borders
www.doctorswithoutborders.org


Global Giving
www.globalgiving.org
Text JAPAN or 50555 to donate $10

Why Ikki Peed Ya

An appeal from Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales | or just another Bailout?

PHOTO: Jimmy "Appeal" Wales

Dear Reader,

Today I am going to ask you to support Wikipedia with a donation. This might sound unusual: Why does one of the world's five most popular web properties ask for financial support from its users?

Wikipedia is built differently from almost every other top 50 website. We have a small number of paid staff, just twenty-three. Wikipedia content is free to use by anyone for any purpose. Our annual expenses are less than six million dollars. Wikipedia is run by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation, which I founded in 2003.

At its core, Wikipedia is driven by a global community of more than 150,000 volunteers - all dedicated to sharing knowledge freely. Over almost eight years, these volunteers have contributed more than 11 million articles in 265 languages. More than 275 million people come to our website every month to access information, free of charge and free of advertising.

But Wikipedia is more than a website. We share a common cause: Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's our commitment.

Your donation helps us in several ways. Most importantly, you will help us cover the increasing cost of managing global traffic to one of the most popular websites on the Internet. Funds also help us improve the software that runs Wikipedia -- making it easier to search, easier to read, and easier to write for. We are committed to growing the free knowledge movement world-wide, by recruiting new volunteers, and building strategic partnerships with institutions of culture and learning.

Wikipedia is different. It's the largest encyclopedia in history, written by volunteers. Like a national park or a school, we don't believe advertising should have a place in Wikipedia. We want to keep it free and strong, but we need the support of thousands of people like you.

I invite you to join us: Your donation will help keep Wikipedia free for the whole world.

Thank you,

Jimmy Wales

Want to Buy a Brick?

MooPig welcomes you to the *Jim Bakker* School of Donations and Re-attributions: which MooPig affectionately calls the: *Two Strikes Culprit [kk] Radical Accounting Method**

[SOURCE-- CAMPAIGN FINANCE FRAUD: OBAMA'S LATEST RUSE, DEFLECT/RUN]
Review by Pat Darnell

Anyone within the sound of this blog, might want to consider going door to door in your neighborhood with a bucket. For instructions read this Campaign Finance...

The timing is excellent as it seems ripe pickings for election 2008 voters are ready, willing, and able to separate themselves from large amounts of cash. All you give them is a picture of the *brick*** or simply a Lego block, shown above, no receipt required. Don't forget to say thank you.
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*To quote "Jim Bakker began the PTL (Praise The Lord) ministry in Fort Mill, South Carolina back in 1974. Affectionately named Heritage USA, he built the ministry from the ground up, and would eventually have a 500 room luxury hotel, its own cable TV show, an amusement park, and an amphitheater. The PTL claimed in 1987 to have 13 million subscribers and assets of $175 million including Heritage USA, a 2,300-acre Christian theme park theme park, which was home to PTL and his cable show, called the Inspirational Network." Various people from various directions became distracted by the money going through Heritage. Jim was selling lifetime memberships for $1000 a pop. This got you a 3 day stay every year at PTL. Unfortunately, they sold more memberships than they built rooms... this was a red flag for some, coupled with the large numbers coming in, and people began to watch... namely, the IRS, FCC

**Jim Bakker, evangelist / convict -- "Between 1984 and 1987, the Bakkers received annual salaries of $200,000 each and Jim awarded himself over $4,000,000 in bonuses. Their assets at that time included a $600,000 house in Palm Springs, four condominiums in California, and a Rolls Royce.

In their success, [as evangelists] the Bakkers took conspicuous consumption to an unusual level for a non-profit organization. For example TRUE or FALSE --

• PTL once spent $100,000 for a private jet to fly the Bakkers' clothing across the country.
• It also once spent $100 for cinnamon rolls because the Bakkers wanted the smell of them in their hotel room.
• According to Frances FitzGerald in an April 1987 New Yorker article, "They epitomized the excesses of the 1980s; the greed, the love of glitz, and the shamelessness; which in their case was so pure as to almost amount to a kind of innocence." [SOURCE]

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***Their [Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker's] PTL television ministry was a money-generating colossus centered on a wild, unscripted talk show with ratings higher than Johnny Carson's. But a virtual community wasn't enough for this duo - they'd gone on to build a brick and mortar town and name it Heritage, U.S.A.
October 2004, Fort Mill South Carolina. This was a really cool and unexpected walk through. I had heard about the park off and on for a few years prior to visiting. I try to keep a running tab of some of these abandoned parks in the back of my head, just in case I might some day be in the area. I was headed to North Carolina with a good friend of mine to see the Sponge Bob Square Pants NASCAR race...The giant unfinished hotel (often confused as the condo's) was looming over us everywhere we went. You could see large sections of brick falling off, and birds flying in and out of the open windows. The PTL ended before the hotel was finished right around 1987 ...[SOURCE]