The past year 2004 started off as a time to
go fishing and ends in a tsunami wave of calamity. The relief
efforts are portrayed as assistance after the effect of a natural disaster, but
the real story for the year is the onslaught of refugee camps of a very different kind. The condition
of the globe is much more at risk from political discord than from an
environmental catastrophe. If the planet can rally to aid the suffering from the
wrath of mother nature, why is it virtually impossible to resolve the
differences from man made conflicts?
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