It's A Hard Life.

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Tue, 2010-06-22 21:31

It's A Hard Life.

While we moan and groan about the Budget we are warned that nearly 400,000 children risk dying of starvation in Niger.
More than half of its 13 million population already do not have sufficient food as a failed harvest and prolonged drought has reduced some families to surviving on little more than berries and leaves!
“Those on the ground recount heart-wrenching stories of families arriving at health clinics with children so malnourished that they are beyond the help of doctors.”

http://news.uk.msn.com/world/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=153866165

If the US can essentially fine BP billions of dollars for polluting their coastline can these poor beggars who are starving to death get anything from the developed countries for causing their droughts?

Meanwhile, is there any progress on ways to try and reverse Climate Change?
One last question - How exactly does excess Carbon Dioxide cause earthquakes and volcano eruptions?

Thu, 2010-06-24 02:03

Mangone

Meanwhile... General McChrystal who was recently in France to sell his new war strategy to NATO allies – to keep up the fiction, in essence, that the US actually has allies... has gone! The commander of multinational forces in Afghanistan, Gen Stanley McChrystal, has been dismissed by US President Barack Obama after critical comments about senior administration officials. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10395402.stm The comments are here :- http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/119236 Maybe the US has so few true allies in Afghanistan because the penny has finally dropped as to why they are really in Afghanistan. The truth has recently emerged about the huge mineral resources that were supposedly discovered a couple of years ago but in reality about 40 years ago… The US Special Representative for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke said… About the discovery of minerals in Afghanistan. It was not that recent a discovery and people knew about it since 1970. Due to long tragic period under Soviet occupation and recent war, and because of security issues, Afghanistan was not getting investment on this vital sector. It would be a good thing that there were investors interested to invest in this sector for the benefit of people of Afghanistan. So much for Charlie Wilson’s war - a great yarn but always a little hard to swallow!

Tue, 2010-06-29 08:58

Mangone

At the Gleneagles G8 Summit in 2005, the G8 countries committed themselves to providing Africa with an additional $25 billion by 2010 but according to the DATA report 2010, put out by the ONE campaign, co-founded by Bono, the G8 has fallen short by at least $8.9 billion! So, no surprise that the UN is asking for urgent emergency aid of around $190 million for Niger... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/10439339.stm

Tue, 2010-06-29 15:19

WillSimpson

Maybe mangone the world will start to change for the better and we can start helping each other, but the way economies are run for profit to keep a minority of supreme rulers in wealth I can't see it changing anytme soon without some sort of unexplainable condition. All we have is hope, and each day that hope brings misery to untold millions across the earth we share.

Until we feel our thoughts our thinking remains unfelt

Wed, 2010-06-30 10:01

Mangone

"...but the way economies are run for profit to keep a minority of supreme rulers in wealth I can't see it changing anytime soon without some sort of unexplainable condition." The condition is quite explainable, Will... it's called the collapse of the world banking system and I would say that we are on track and accelerating toward it!

Fri, 2010-07-02 09:17

Mangone

Here’s something we all ‘know’, or at least ‘suspect‘, to be true… The Case Against Experts. http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/24/the-case-against-experts.html

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