I Remember When The US Used To Help With Humitarian Disasters, Not Help Create Them.

[mg]

"World faces worst humanitarian crisis since 1945, says UN
official

The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the
end of the second world war with more than 20 million people
in four countries facing starvation and famine, a senior
United Nations official has warned.

Without collective and coordinated global efforts, “people
will simply starve to death” and “many more will suffer and
die from disease”, Stephen O’Brien, the UN under
secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told the
security council in New York on Friday.

He urged an immediate injection of funds for Yemen, South
Sudan, Somalia and northeast Nigeria plus safe and unimpeded
access for humanitarian aid “to avert a catastrophe.”

“To be precise,” O’Brien said, “we need $4.4bn by July”.

Unless there was a major infusion of money, he said,
children would be stunted by severe malnutrition and would
not be able to go to school, gains in economic development
would be reversed and “livelihoods, futures and hope lost”.

UN and food organisations define famine as when more than
30% of children under age 5 suffer from acute malnutrition
and mortality rates are two or more deaths per 10,000 people
every day, among other criteria.

“Already at the beginning of the year we are facing the
largest humanitarian crisis since the creation of the United
Nations [in 1945],” O’Brien said. “Now, more than 20 million
people across four countries face starvation and famine.”

O’Brien said the largest humanitarian crisis was in Yemen
where two-thirds of the population — 18.8 million people —
need aid and more than seven million people are hungry and
did not know where their next meal would come from. “That is
three million people more than in January,” he said.

Famine warning signs were clear – so why are 20 million
lives now at risk?

Yemen is engulfed in conflict as Saudi Arabia and Iran wage
a proxy war in the Arab world’s poorest nation. O’Brien said
more than 48,000 people fled fighting just in the past two
months.

During his recent visit to Yemen, O’Brien said he met senior
leaders of the Saudi-backed government and the Tehran-backed
Shiite Houthi rebels who control the capital Sanaa, and all
promised access for aid.

“Yet all parties to the conflict are arbitrarily denying
sustained humanitarian access and politicise aid,” he said,
warning if that behaviour did not change “they must be held
accountable for the inevitable famine, unnecessary deaths
and associated amplification in suffering that will follow”
[. . .]

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/11/world-faces-worst-humanitarian-crisis-since-1945-says-un-official

[GLOBALIST]

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We are bankrupt
We are up to our nose in debt

But who says we are not helping other countries?

I do know that International Catholic Charities
is there every time

The Quakers go wherever there is a disaster

The Minimites quietly go in and do a hell of
alot of rebuilding, their expertise.

The International Red Cross goes in aka
as the Red Crescent in the Middle East
Doctors without borders always set up
hospitals (when we are not bombing them)

I think some folks are calling it disaster-burn out.
As someone said this morning, maybe you....when these
African nations, slaughter each other in their own
countries, they end up punishing the whole world.

Think of all the killing in Mexico.
I guess this is when we, as Americans, thank God
that we are still a land of plenty.
Bill and Linda Gates seem to be doing a lot of
good in Africa.
Trump is giving his salary as our president
to a different charity every pay period
https://www.philanthropy.com/article/Where-Should-Trump-Donate-His/239492
Wealthy people have to have folks to really research where
their money is 'really'going and who can blame them?

We had an African nun from Nigeria asking for
donations. They set up eye clinics and do
tons of cataract surgeries.

If we are still giving to the United Nations
they should be meeting some of these disasters.

[mg]

The U.S. military is helping Saudi Arabia slaughter people
by the thousands in Yemen.

[GLOBALIST]

Have you ever seen how violent life is in Yemen?
No road or highway is safe to travel on.
You do not want anyone from that country coming here

[mg]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:06:34 -0700 (PDT), GLOBALIST

Life is violent in most places in the middle east and
especially violent when the Sunnis and Shiites are fighting
each other. Why are we helping Saudi Arabia to kill their
enemies and a lot of innocent people, too?

[Tzatz Ziki]

As usual, Robert the " Phony Globalist" is an idiot. No Yemenis have
been involved in terrorist attacks in the USA; one Yemeni has been
convicted of attempted terrorism incident in the last 40+ years.

In fact:

"But after sifting through databases, media reports, court documents,
and other sources, Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration expert at the
libertarian Cato Institute, has arrived at a striking finding: Nationals
of the seven countries singled out by Trump have killed zero people in
terrorist attacks on U.S. soil between 1975 and 2015."

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/trump-immigration-ban-terrorism/514361/

[rumpelstiltskin]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:21:08 -0600, mg <no...@none.nl> wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:06:34 -0700 (PDT), GLOBALIST

>>On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 12:48:52 PM UTC-5, mg wrote:

<snip>

>>> The U.S. military is helping Saudi Arabia slaughter people
>>> by the thousands in Yemen.
>>
>>Have you ever seen how violent life is in Yemen?
>>No road or highway is safe to travel on.
>>You do not want anyone from that country coming here
>>
>>
>Life is violent in most places in the middle east and
>especially violent when the Sunnis and Shiites are fighting
>each other. Why are we helping Saudi Arabia to kill their
>enemies and a lot of innocent people, too?

Answer: American oil billionaires. Did you think
there was something "moral" about it? Hardi-har-har!

[mg]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:29:46 -0700, rumpelstiltskin<x...@y.com>

I think there has always been 3 forces at work ever since
Bush Sr went to war with Iraq in the Gulf War:

1. Neoconservatism

2. Corporate profits

3. Political payoffs.

Those three forces were separate entities, but all working
together to produce the invasion of Iraq when Dubya was
president, but now they seemed to have merged together into
a new world order sort of thing, involving both political
parties.

[rumpelstiltskin]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 01:41:25 -0600, mg <no...@none.nl> wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 18:29:46 -0700, rumpelstiltskin<x...@y.com>
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 14:21:08 -0600, mg <no...@none.nl> wrote:
>>>On Wed, 28 Jun 2017 11:06:34 -0700 (PDT), GLOBALIST
>>>>On Wednesday, June 28, 2017 at 12:48:52 PM UTC-5, mg wrote:
>><snip>
>>
>>
>>>>> The U.S. military is helping Saudi Arabia slaughter people
>>>>> by the thousands in Yemen.
>>>>
>>>>Have you ever seen how violent life is in Yemen?
>>>>No road or highway is safe to travel on.
>>>>You do not want anyone from that country coming here
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Life is violent in most places in the middle east and
>>>especially violent when the Sunnis and Shiites are fighting
>>>each other. Why are we helping Saudi Arabia to kill their
>>>enemies and a lot of innocent people, too?
>>
>>
>> Answer: American oil billionaires. Did you think
>>there was something "moral" about it? Hardi-har-har!
>>
>>
>I think there has always been 3 forces at work ever since
>Bush Sr went to war with Iraq in the Gulf War:
>
>1. Neoconservatism

Holy Ghost
>
>2. Corporate profits

Father
>
>3. Political payoffs.

Son

>
>Those three forces were separate entities, but all working
>together to produce the invasion of Iraq when Dubya was
>president, but now they seemed to have merged together into
>a new world order sort of thing, involving both political
>parties.

The Father and Son are sufficient. The Holy
Ghost is a chimera added just to confuse people
into thinking there's something more, although
there really isn't. As Napoleon noted, "Religion
is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."
http://tinyurl.com/ya7jzpoo

Interesting in connection with this topic is this
(dating from 2014):
http://tinyurl.com/ycpt7aa2
http://tinyurl.com/ycwmhes2

[mg]

On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 08:24:56 -0700, rumpelstiltskin<x...@y.com>

Some people pretend that they don't need religion, but they
really do and politics becomes a lot like religion to them,
with the main difference being that they want to create a
paradisiacal existence right here on earth, rather than in
an imaginary hereafter.

One of the problems that they always have is that they have
to change human nature first before their idea will work. In
the meantime, the politicians pander to their dilusions and
then laugh all the way to the bank.

[rumpelstiltskin]

People do need a way of seeing life as a whole, in order
to function in the world. Whether the result of every such
process should be called "religion" is debatable.

[rumpelstiltskin]

We're ruled by natural selection, just like the
zebra I mentioned who killed a newborn because
he knew he was not the father, or like Gesualdo
who murdered his youngest son because he
suspected the boy was the offspring of the
liaison of his wife and her lover. Gesualdo's
genes "wanted" their own makeup to inherit
the very advantageous position of Prince, and
part of that was making Gesualdo want to kill a
boy if he felt that boy was in the way of what
his genes "wanted". His genes didn't really
"want" anything of course, just as sodium and
chlorine don't "want" to combine to make salt.

Likewise we humans "want" sex, which
doesn't make sense for our own lives since it
gets in the way of other survival needs, but
it is an essential component in producing
"winner" genes that will still be seen in the
world in a thousand years. The mechanism
that controls which genes survive ultimately
determines what we are, even though those
genes themselves don't "care" if we live or
die or even if they themselves live or die.
That's what "Natural Selection" is all about.