South Asian Quake : Move Something !
26.10.05
Again and again...
Nobody spend holidays in Kashmir...
Quake 'is UN's worst nightmare'
The UN says the shortfall in aid for victims of the South Asian quake has made the relief situation worse than after last December's tsunami.
Weather fears for quake victims
The question of how much time is left before the weather closes in on the quake-affected areas in Kashmir and northern Pakistan is now gaining urgency.
Saddam Hussein
21.10.05
Talking About Tsunami...
by Human Rights Center, University of California, Berkeley
East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
After the Tsunami concludes that survivors continue to suffer from inequities in aid distribution and substandard shelter. It also documents numerous violations of human rights in the wake of the tsunami, including arbitrary arrests, recruitment of children into fighting forces, discrimination in aid distribution, enforced relocation, and sexual and gender-based violence. Tsunami survivors reported widespread inequities in aid distribution on the part of some government agencies as a result of favoritism and political influence, bureaucratic inefficiencies, and caste affiliation. Government authorities rarely, if ever, investigated such abuses. Finally, government agencies and aid organizations often failed to consult people in affected communities about aid distribution and reconstruction.
The study recommends that governments in tsunami-affected countries should commission an independent study to investigate reports of inequities in aid distribution; increase accountability and transparency of public and private aid providers; and develop mechanisms that will enable tsunami survivors to participate in reconstruction planning and implementation.
What The Fuck ?
20.10.05
What's up with all you bourgeois motherfuckers who thought they could redeem themselves calling for donations for the South East Asian Tsunami ?
The world is making me sick right now.
I don't want to write any further on this. Go find out for yourself how you can help.
Free Classic Movies
3.10.05
THE COMING WARS
30.9.05
Oil For Food
The U.N. is Us
The Oil-For-Food 'Scandal' is a Cynical SmokescreenOil For Food Facts
The Independent Inquiry Committee into the Iraq Oil-for-Food Programme (IIC) is collecting and examining information relating to the administration and management of the Oil-for-Food Programme, including allegations of fraud and corruption on the part of United Nations officials, personnel and agents, as well as contractors, including entities that have entered into contracts with the United Nations or with Iraq under the Programme.
Niger is ranked the poorest country in the world and has suffered years of neglect by the outside world.
Niger food aid 'no longer needed'
Huh ?
Niger's prime minister says he agrees with UN plans to end large-scale food aid, which he described as an affront to the country's dignity.
According to WFP website : WFP’s operation in Niger remains only 58 percent funded, with US$23 million of the $57.6 million appeal still urgently required. As of 5 September, US$33.5 million had been confirmed.
Niamey, Niger, 15 September 2005 - With the harvest still several weeks away in most areas of Niger, WFP is ready to start a second round of food aid distributions that will target the people most in need of assistance across the country.
Dynamics & Thermodynamics
15.9.05
Although we cannot say at present whether more or fewer hurricane will occur in the future with global warming, the hurricanes that do occur near the end of the 21st century are expected to be stronger and have significantly more intense rainfall than under present day climate conditions.
Katrina was the most feared of all meteorological events, a major hurricane making landfall in a highly-populated low-lying region. In the wake of this devastation, many have questioned whether global warming may have contributed to this disaster. Could New Orleans be the first major U.S. city ravaged by human-caused climate change ?
Hunger
12.9.05
On average more than 40 young children have been dying a day in one area surveyed in the east of the country.
"If they pledged the same amount every year to a permanent emergency fund at the UN, preventable crises like Niger and southern Africa would not happen."
Food aid is urgently needed for Mali, where the same famine that struck neighbouring Niger is intensifying, the United Nations emergency food agency warns.
Tens of millions of Africans will continue to go hungry over the next 20 years unless major changes in trade and aid policies are enacted, a report forecasts.
Yes! I would like to help feed people in Niger
Niger food aid is 'misdirected' (...) Thousands have probably died of hunger in recent months
WHO declares TB an emergency in Africa
30.8.05
26 AUGUST 2005 | MAPUTO -- The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa comprising health ministers from 46 Member States has declared tuberculosis an emergency in the African region - a response to an epidemic that has more than quadrupled the annual number of new TB cases in most African countries since 1990 and is continuing to rise across the continent, killing more than half a million people every year.
The declaration was made in a resolution adopted today at the end of the Committee's fifty-fifth session in Maputo, Mozambique. The resolution urges Member States in the African Region to commit more human and financial resources to strengthen DOTS programmes and scale up collaborative interventions to fight the co-epidemic of TB and HIV. These and other measures recommended by the Committee encompass those laid out in a "blueprint" developed by the global Stop TB Partnership, which calls for US $2.2 billion in new funding for TB control in Africa during 2006-2007.
Nakba
18.8.05
Palestine : 1947-1949
Mass deportation of a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, massacres of civilians, and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages.
Al-Nakba
Palestine Remembered
Deir Yassin Remembered
Palestine-Net : Destroyed Villages
US Public School System
2.8.05
Most modern addicts get their start on the school grounds, not from the pusher hanging over the school fences, but from the school itself. It is there where they learn all about drugs, what they feel like, which ones are dangerous, what they look like, and how available they are. When the child decides he must experiment, he knows which one to look for, what the signs of quality are, the going prices, and he has been reassured that they are available. He knows what downers and uppers are and how to use one to offset the other. The school makes sure that the child becomes well educated in drugs. It is in fact a mantra of the educators, "Drug use is going up, therefore, we must redouble our efforts to educate the child in drugs." This is quite kin to the statement, "The fire is getting bigger, therefore, we must throw more gasoline on the fire." And besides, the child is taught, everyone is doing it.
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Fascism Anyone?
Beware the beast man, for he is the Devil's pawn. Alone among God's primates, he kills for sport or lust or greed. Yea, he will murder his brother to possess his brother's land. Let him not breed in great numbers, for he will make a desert of his home and yours. Shun him, for he is the harbinger of death.
World Peace
22.7.05
all you hippies better start to face reality.
all your far fetched dreams of anarchy.
better start to see things the way they are,
cause the way things are going they won't be goin' far.
world peace can't be done. it just can't exist.
world peace can't be done. anarchy's a mess.
things are gettin hectic. it's all gonna end.
you don't know what's waitin' up around the bend.
open your eyes. perhaps you'll realize.
if AIDS don't get ya then the warheads will.
world peace can't be done. world peace.
it just can't exist. world peace.
world peace can't be done. world peace.
anarchy's a mess. world peace.
world peace can't be done. world peace.
no it can't. world peace. it just won't exist.
world peace. world peace. world peace.
"World Peace" Cro-Mags / Age of Quarrel LP 1986
Niger Famine
8.7.05
Anybody ?
3,6 million condemned, including 800 000 children.
16 millions dollars needed.
Niger famine appeal falls on deaf ears
12 Myths About Hunger
Does "Overpopulation" cause hunger?
It is a myth that world hunger is due to scarcity of food
Krautjazz Space Guerilla
Missus Beastly (1974)
2nd self-titled of an obscure German band featuring menbers of Embryo.
Bass, keyboards, drums, sax and flute.
Wtf ? Stalk that shit !
Children
28.6.05
"You made your children what they are.... These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.... You can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you. My father is your system.... I am only what you made me. I am a reflection of you. You made your children what they are.... These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.... You can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you. My father is your system.... I am only what you made me. I am a reflection of you."
Everything's Gonna Be Alright...
4.6.05
George Thompson
(...)By 2025, two-thirds of the world's population will live in water-scarce regions; about one-third will face severe water shortages(...)
(...)Ninety-five percent of the future growth will occur in poor countries. It sustains a destabilizing youth bulge in many of these countries' populations. In some countries in Africa, over 50 percent of the population is below 15 years of age. The youth bulge, in turn, produces large numbers of urbanized, unemployed, young males -- the most dangerous social group of all, and the most easily recruited to radical political causes(...)
(...)In 1900, Africa's population was about one-third that of Europe. In 2000, the populations of the regions were roughly equal. By 2050, Africa's population will be three times that of Europe(...)
quoted from Synchronous Failure: The Real Danger of the 21st Century, by Thomas Homer-Dixon
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