US Donates $100K (!!!) For Indonesian Forest Conservation - ENN

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WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mission Accomplished!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WASHINGTON — The United States praised Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei for a new environmental project to conserve 220,000 kilometers (136,710 miles) of equatorial rain forest that straddles their shared border on Borneo.

In a statement, spokesman Sean McCormack's office said a $100,000 (euro78,375) donation for the project, announced last Friday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, would be disbursed through the World Wildlife Fund and the International Tropical Timber Organization.

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http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=10983

Very short article - with good reason.

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1. In Jules Verne's "From the Earth to the Moon", various nations of Earth

donated to the project ... the (fictional) amounts were listed ... Britian gave "nought".

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2. ...This just in from the Ministry of Insignificance... nt

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3. That's Condi Rice's Ministry of Insignificance, isn't it?

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4. I thought she was with...

... the "Ministry of Accidental Genocide"? But they might have merged, they seem to work towards many of the same goals.

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5. Then again, she started her career in the Ministry Of Oops

Her prior position had been Assistant Secretary Of Being Unable To Imagine Things, as I recall.