UN alert -
Action needed now to avert starvation

Due to droughts and civil unrest, the United Nations has 33 nations listed as having famine victims in them this fall. Countries like Uzbekistan and Tajikistan are under threat of repeating the terrible Ukranian famine of the 30s (although for different reasons ... the Ukranians were deliberately starved to death by Stalin). The situation is also dire in Afghanistan, also suffering from over 3 years of terrible drought, with close to 7 and half million people now under threat, with close to a million and half under severe threat of death by starvation in the coming days due to the war and the inability to supply relief. The following is the latest press release issued by the United Nations on the starvation threat facing citizens of 33 countries this fall and winter, that appeared on the AllAfrica.com newswire...

http://allafrica.com/stories/200110260388.html

Action Needed Now to Avert Starvation

UN Integrated Regional
Information Networks
October 26, 2001
Posted to the web October 26, 2001

Feeding programmes to assist the poor should begin soon to prevent starvation, and possible death, by the end of the year, World Vision relief manager for Malawi, Elton Ntwana, warned on Wednesday. His warning followed the release of a World Vision nutrition survey conducted in part of the Machinga District from 2-8 October. The survey, using a height-for-age formula, found a global acute malnutrition rate of 31.8 percent among children between six months and five years old.

"If people will only act when the malnutrition rate is very high, children will die. If any assistance is needed, programmes should start now so that by December people can get food," Ntwana told IRIN. According to the survey, about 75 percent of respondents at the Nayuchi Area Development Programme in Machinga, where the survey was conducted, had no food reserves. Only 20.8 percent had food until December.


As well, since this week is the religious right's 'White Ribbon Campaign' against pornography, and since I have protested the misinformation being tolerated by Christian media on the so called 'global world wide food shortage' I also continue my own White Ribbon Campaign against 'Child porno' by posting the following protest...While it is commonly asserted by the religious right that 'prostitutes, tax collectors, and sinners are responsible for 'the decline of the nation' and 'bringing down God's wrath' this persecution demonstrates a blindness to some of the real causes of suffering on earth and shows a lack of common sense at a time like this...You might recall that blitz of attacks on prostitutes, tax collectors and sinners that predictably came spewing out of the religious right in the days right after the September 11th disasters, this 'swallowing a camel' seeming to endemic to this particular expression of religion (obssessed with 'criminal orgasms' a relatively victimless crime, although there are legitimate concerns about the exploitation of people for sexual favors in exchange for money or even simple survival...nevertheless to constantly be attacking prostitutes as 'ruining the nation for everyone' by 'bringing down the wrath of God on the nation' is idiotically myopic and downright offensive, in particular when real sinning goes on and goes by uncommented upon, injustice, inequality and oppression and disinformation apparently being sins that do not bother preachers as much as the thought of someone having a 'criminal orgasm' of any kind (there being so many illegal and wicked types of orgasms that are the main obbesssion of the religious right as my viewing of Christian television this morning indicates). Last week it was the United Campaign against 'the Harry Potter books'. This week it is more ranting about 'illegal orgasms' in particular those caused by those terrible terrible prostitutes, another hour of air time is being wasted by Christian television everyday ranting about 'devil possession' as one of the most serious threats to America these days, and it just goes on and on and on as one of the most odiously disgusting offenses I have had to endure over years and years and years of protest and actions I have been invovled with specifically in regards to the churches and to that Christian television and that religious right that completely dominates the airwaves. So therefore...


Isaiah 32:5 The fool will no more be called noble, nor the knave said to be honorable.
Isaiah 32:6 For the fool speaks folly, and his mind plots iniquity: to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning YAHWEH, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.
Isaiah 32:7 The knaveries of the knave are evil; he devises wicked devices to ruin the poor with lying words, even when the plea of the needy is right.
Isaiah 32:8 But the one who is noble devises noble things, and by noble things they stand.
Isaiah 32:9 Rise up, you women who are at ease, hear my voice; you complacent daughters, give ear to my speech.
Isaiah 32:10 In little more than a year you will shudder, you complacent women; for the vintage will fail, the fruit harvest will not come.
Isaiah 32:11 Tremble, you women who are at ease, shudder, you complacent ones; strip, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your loins.
Isaiah 32:12 Beat upon your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,
Isaiah 32:13 for the soil of my people growing up in thorns and briers; yea, for all the joyous houses in the joyful city.
Isaiah 32:14 For the palace will be forsaken, the populous city deserted; the hill and the watchtower will become dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;
Isaiah 32:15 until the Spirit is poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness becomes a fruitful field, and the fruitful field is deemed a forest.

By the way the ranting about devil's taking over the church is based on the story of the superpowered chain snapping demonaic in the church testament, and I also assume that this is a week long reactionary rant against a page I posted critically examining this very parable. I am very well known as a church protestor, in particular by Christian television, and over the years I have noticed a pattern of posting followed by reaction on that very subject coming from Christian television evangelists, so once again I assume that this is more of the same, a worthless hobby if you ask me, but some people like to keep busy.

For a more intelligent discussion of demon possession in the church, and the serious threat it really does pose see my discussion of this story on my site located here:

Matthew's editing of the story of the herd of swine story

For those of you who consider super powered chain snapping demoniacs to be a truly grave and serious threat to the church at this time, well tune into the John Hagee show where raving about this very topic is high on the agenda for this week, after another rant about the Harry Potter books just fnished, and who knows what for next week...whatever it is I am sure that it will prove to be equally worthless to the cause of justice and humanity...