[Anyone] New Orleans seeking foreign aid:

Mon Jun 18 14:04:44 MDT 2007

tommy all this hate it's your mothers fault?

Lean to the Left? It May Be Mommy's Fault

    Researchers at the University of New Mexico think they know why aunt 
Bertha is an ACLU-card-carrying liberal while cousin Winthrop is a 
rifle-toting conservative.
    Blame it on their parents.
    A new paper in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior suggests that 
those who have experienced stresses in childhood— divorce, family violence, 
angry parents— are more likely to be liberal. Conservatives, meanwhile, are 
more likely to have had less stressful childhoods.
    The study, conducted by UNM biology professor Randy Thornhill and 
research associate Corey Fincher, ties political values to how people were 
raised and the interactions between children and their parents and between 
the parents.
    Their findings appear to ring true for the executive director of the 
state's Democratic Party.
    "I'm the only child of divorced parents. What more can I say," Matt 
Farrauto said.
    The study was based on responses to a questionnaire filled out by 123 
UNM students.
    Those who reported having low-stress childhoods were more likely to have 
formed strong attachments to their parents and to be conservative, the study 
found. Those who experienced more stressful childhoods were more likely to 
have weaker attachments to their parents and to be liberal.
    "We've all got this psychological mechanism in our brain that reads the 
environment," Thornhill said.
    He added there's likely an evolutionary reason for being liberal versus 
conservative.
    People with good childhoods would naturally want to maintain their 
values and their sense of right and wrong because things are working for 
them, Thornhill explained.
    Those who had difficult childhoods would be open to new experiences and 
would be willing to venture out of their own circles, he said.
    The study classified liberals as those who tend to value diversity, 
imagination, intellectualism, logic and scientific progress.
    They are open to new experiences; disobedient— even rebellious— rule 
breakers; sensation seekers and pleasure seekers; socially and economically 
egalitarian; and risk prone.
    Conservatives are classified as those who value order, structure, 
closure, family and national security, salvation, sexual restraint and self 
control.
    They try to avoid change, novelty, unpredictability, ambiguity and 
complexity.
    "I think it potentially will open up some new avenues of research," 
Thornhill said.
    Professor Steven Gangestad, an evolutionary psychologist at UNM, said 
the study, while not conclusive about cause and effect, sets forth something 
that should be explored.
    "I think this is an exciting and interesting direction of work," he 
said. "It's just the start."
    The research was featured in stories in the Economist and the United 
Kingdom-based Telegraph. The Economist story, however, noted that the UNM 
study conflicts with findings published last year by researchers at the 
University of California, Berkeley.
    Those researchers concluded that insecure and fearful children were more 
likely to grow up into conservatives, while confident youths were more 
likely to become liberals, according to the Economist.

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>New Orleans Turns to International Aid
>By Becky Bohrer
>The Associated Press
>
>Friday 15 June 2007
>
>City has received only half of promised funds.
>
>New Orleans - The cash-strapped city of New Orleans is turning to foreign
>countries for help to rebuild as federal hurricane-recovery dollars remain
>slow to flow.
>
>Kenya Smith, director of intergovernmental relations for Mayor Ray Nagin,
>said city leaders are talking with more than five countries. He wouldn't
>identify the countries, saying discussions were in the early stages. But
>he said the city is "very serious" about pursuing foreign help.
>
>"Of course, we would love to have all the resources we need from federal
>and state partners, but we're comfortable now in having to be creative,"
>Smith said. He did not know if the city would have to overcome any
>obstacles if it got firm pledges for aid, but "we want to make sure we're
>leaving no options unexplored."
>
>For months Nagin has complained bureaucracy is choking the flow of
>much-needed federal aid dollars to New Orleans - slowing the city's
>recovery. As of June 8, the city said it had received just over half of
>the $320 million FEMA has obligated for rebuilding city infrastructure and
>emergency response-related costs. The city has estimated its damage at far
>more than that - at least $1 billion. And that doesn't include other
>improvements - such as raised neighborhoods - meant to help build the
>stronger city promoted by Nagin and his recovery director.
>
>Discussions with foreign representatives have been occurring off and on
>since the storm, but Smith said the city became re-engaged after a news
>report in April that millions of dollars in aid offered by foreign
>countries after Hurricane Katrina went unaccepted.
>
>It wasn't clear how much of the $854 million in aid originally offered
>remained on the table. In Katrina's wake, Cuban President Fidel Castro's
>proposal to send more than 1,000 medical personnel to New Orleans was
>among the offers of aid.
>
>The federal government accepted about $126 million from foreign sources
>and encouraged some countries to give instead to private groups such as
>the Bush-Clinton Katrina Fund, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice told a
>congressional committee last month.
>
>Nagin said city officials are now trying to skirt the Bush administration
>and contact foreign governments directly "to see if we can get some of
>those dollars coming here."
>
>Separately, Adam Sharp, a spokesman for U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La.,
>said Landrieu is working with the government of Saudi Arabia on ways it
>can help restore New Orleans' City Park.
>
>In addition, Landrieu joined Sens. Joseph Biden, D-Del., and Patrick
>Leahy, D-Vt., in asking Rice to respond to whether the United States is
>better positioned now to accept foreign aid should the need arise again.
>
>http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061607E.shtml
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