Millions starving to death because the world did not act when warned as long ago as a year. And whats being done now? Shockingly little. Can we justify ignoring the plight of 3.5 or so million in the face of what is happening here?
The past Wednesdays news reports tell of a famine crisis in Niger, Africa. 3.5 million including roughly 1 million children are facing death right now and this was totally preventable! The UN appealed for aid back in May and warnings about this disarster were first heard about a year ago. But still...even now as the crisis really grips the country aid is not coming in. The UN is 26 million odd dollas short of what it needs to ease this catastrophe. Thusrday morning the story no longer made the morning headline- and thats before the second set of london bombings occured. Why? And what happened to the G8 promises to fight against poverty that came from those at the top just weeks ago at the G8? Is this further proof of what some already knew/feared? There is no real committment internationally to stamp out poverty. All that is said and all that is done is simply to appease those who campaign and those tho pressure. And Geldof and Bono...where are they now?! And why when this crisis was so close, just round the corner, did the Make Poverty History campaign claim that it didn't need or want peoples money but just their support. Africa DOES need our money and it needs it NOW. What was the cause of the famine you may ask?! A swarm of Locus followed by a drought. Arguably an example of what we are likely to see more of in the future. Global Warming will cause more droughts in Africa. We cause it, yet we ignore it! By Thursday afternoon all reports were obviously of the situation in London. Obviously the situation we find our selves in globally is shocking, and we as a country need to take responsibility for our own actions- in reguard to the bombings and also this crisis. The media are ignoring it. 54 innocent people died in london two weeks ago. 3.5 million are dying in Nigra NOW. Is that how 2nd class our society views the people of africa. Even the potential, death of MILLIONS doesn't compare to the loss of 54 of our own. Its disgusting and we NEED to act now. This cannot be allowed to be ignored any longer.
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A Comparison
24.07.2005 18:58
Post a message about a massive humanitarian crisis in Niger. Get none.
It's a funny old game (The gospel according to Jimmy Greaves).
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02.08.2005 15:29
if that is so should we have a 24/7/365 pop concert! in every city until the act?
Even when violence is used as a means to publise a problem as in london recently no media questions as to WHY? it happened... only an obesession with revenge... maybe prince charles has got it right when he said he hoped to be reborn as a virus and wipe out this miserable excuse for a caring world.....
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New Crisis Search Engine And Emergency Planning Portal
16.09.2005 17:23
Please add related crisis blogs and websites to the database, already 1,000 websites spidered for meta data (fetched meta tags for description, title and keywords, plus we then grab the text from page and cache it for further searchable data)...
Also a portal as at the bottom of every search page has external links. Also a 'Suggestion Bot' that tries to suggest similar terms to use in further queries... Blogs/forums are on the way (being created so people can find more personalized one-on-one advice/help) for people to post missing friends, family, pets or post about volunteering or possible stradegies for Emergency Planning for current crisises or Clean-Up plans for past disasters.
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