Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Phony Terrorism Through The Eyes of One of Us

Phony Terrorism Through The Eyes of One of Us

Where ARE These Bastards?



VeteransToday/ I am NOT suggesting ANY of this. All I’m doing is thinking out aloud, asking myself some questions.
That being said, please take a moment to THINK along with me. Just THINK about the utter absurdity of the government’s claim that the identities of the ultra-macho Navy SEALs who allegedly murdered Usama bin Laden have to be kept secret.
Why?
To protect our elite warriors from reprisals from Muslim terrorists, we’re told. Okay. But how about all our government brass responsible for writing LAWS that allow our elite warriors to continue torturing and killing tens of thousands of Muslims?
Surely these people’s’ identities are far from secret?
Take, for instance, Jose Rodriguez, the criminal who ran the CIA torture program.
This guy was recently on “60 Minutes,” fer chrissake!
After 9/11, Vice President Cheney was moved to Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, to the George Marshall Center for Strategic Studies, to a secret secure VIP facility to protect him from terror attack. Every morning at 11 am, Cheney would walk down the main street of town to the Cafe Klatsche (owners now retired), where chef, Jens, would make him spaetzel and weisswurst for lunch. He had no security detail. A well known VT editor would, from time to time, help out in the kitchen and bask in the absurdity.
Or take John Yoo, who wrote the Justice Department memos giving the green light to torture, in violation of US and international law. Yoo is a professor at the Boalt School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley.
Yup, REALLY tough keeping THIS guy under wraps. As Paul Craig Roberts wrote in a recent article www.activistpost.com/2012/05/case-of-missing-terrorists.html: “Another easy mark for assassination [allegedly by “Muslim terrorists”] would be former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who staffed up the Pentagon with neoconservative warmongers such as Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith, who in turn concocted the false information used to justify the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Rumsfeld himself declared members of al Qaeda to be the most vicious and dangerous killers on earth. Yet Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Richard Perle, together with neoconservative media propagandists, such as William Kristol and Max Boot, have been walking around safe for years unmolested by terrorists seeking revenge or bringing retribution to those responsible for over one million Muslim deaths.”
How come these well-known bigwigs freely walk the streets, unprotected, feeling perfectly safe, while their identities are KNOWN to the whole world?
How come these people aren’t targeted by the platoons of ‘evildoers’ who we’re told are EVERYWHERE? Does this make sense to you? For god’s sake, if the world were truly filled with all these Muslim maniacs, don’t you think by now they would have whacked all the KNOWN officials who frequently appear on television, traipse about the boulevards of America UNPROTECTED, going shopping with their families without a care in the world…dining out in restaurants…taking their kids to school…attending ball games?
A day doesn’t go by without these people’s smug mugs being emblazoned on some mass-circulation rag somewhere. Everyone KNOWS who they are. Their offices are public knowledge. Their home addresses aren’t state secrets. These people don’t have bodyguards. They don’t have security details.
How come we don’t have Muslim death squads roaming the streets of America gunning down this lot? We’re talking Big Game here, folks. Wouldn’t these types of “high-value targets” win the bad guys more kudos from Allah than just knocking off a handful of garden variety Sheeple? Besides, wouldn’t this be a lot less risky than trying to board airliners?
Look, if these Mooselim bogeymen really wanted to kill Americans by the hundreds, do you really think they’d risk queuing up at airport security checkpoints sweating bullets about getting caught red-handed with their explosives belts?
Why would these supposedly brilliant arch-villains whose buddies pulled off 9/11 run the OBVIOUS risk of getting nabbed before they even got NEAR their target aircraft? Wouldn’t it be so much easier — and efficacious — for these “terrorists” to simply walk into the middle of congested ticketing areas BEFORE they get to the scanners, carrying massive trunks full of their hot stuff, and then blow themselves up?
Surely this would GUARANTEE taking a few hundred infidel honkies with them? And how, then, will the “authorities” counter THIS new game plan? Set up scanners OUTSIDE airports? What happens if a guy then blew himself up in THAT crowd?
What next?
A checkpoint outside your front door? No, wait, DRONES!
Really, people. And re all these Al Quaeda meanies, why the fetish about airplanes? Is it the thrill of the ride? Or is it the quicker ride upwards from cruising altitude into the waiting arms of the hundred virgins?
Think about this: Instead of having to knowingly face armies of TSA thugs en route to the aircraft, why don’t these bad guys simply wear massive backpacks packed with Semtex and roam about unhindered UNDERGROUND in choked metro subway trains during rush hour? Piece o’ cake, no?
Or take buses during the morning rush? Or hang out in crowded city squares at lunchtime? Or cruise around busy shopping malls on weekends? Or sit in the middle of packed movie theaters? Better yet, rock concerts?
How about 4,000-passenger cruise ships in mid-ocean? Talk about a mother lode for Allah! Surely, you’d think these crazies could take out “infidels” by the thousands on a daily basis all across America!
Heck, we’re told these evil bastards are doing exactly this all over the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan every day! Just ask Mossad. You’d think if these “suicide bombers” supposedly roaming around America were as efficient as their comrades elsewhere, by now they would’ve reduced the American population by a few million!
Have you ever heard of ONE bomb going off ANYWHERE in America? ONE?
So where are these bastards?
Please, THINK about this.
Why on earth would these chaps go through all the hassle of boarding one aircraft, when they could merrily blow up dozens of trains, buses, malls, theatres…? Does this make sense to you?
Besides, why pack their Jockeys with silly little half-cocked firecrackers barely sufficient to singe their balls, when the idea is to blow a gaping hole through the fuselage?
Ditto, dud sparklers in heels of shoes that only fizzle (remember that hapless twit?) If these turbaned camel-jockeys really wanted to bring down jumbo jets — by the dozen! — don’t you think all they’d need to do is ship their bombs around the world in innocent-looking boxes aboard Fedex, DHL, and UPS aircraft?
How about via the postal service?
All these “terrorists” would need to do is ship one small box per aircraft. Done. The skies would be raining Boeings. So how come they aren’t? Ever heard of ONE flaming freighter ANYWHERE?
Were they to take this route, there’s the added bonus of not losing a single member of their precious team of ‘suicide bombers’!
Aside from lowering attrition, you’d think that would be the smart way to go about their dirty business, no? Why screw around with flying lessons, forged passports, toasted testicles and the like? Hey, aren’t these the geniuses who, we’re told, were so brilliant that on 9/11 they outwitted the most sophisticated defense system in the world? Four times? And all in an hour? They evaded radar, grounded fighters, deactivated surface-to-air missiles, flew with more finesse than the finest jet jocks…
Hell, these supermen put Bond to shame. So how come this latter generation of Arab SEALs can’t even light their own flammable jockstraps with a match? And when they do try to light the fuse, they’re so unbelievably stupid they do it right in theirs seats!?
In plain view of everyone around them!? Why not simply meander back to the lavatory and let ‘er rip? Same with the ‘Shoe Bomber.” This clown, too, had to light his match for all the world to to see! Have the Sheeple become SO dumbed-down they actually BELIEVE this crap? What happened to all the world-class-genius bad boys? Why aren’t there more 9/11-type Einsteins signing up to carry on the great work of their martyred brethren, instead of letting these rank amateurs keep burning their balls?
Did the Muslim genius-terrorist gene pool suddenly dry up? Or were there only nineteen in the pool to begin with, and they all crashed and burned on 9/11? Where the hell are these goddamned “terrorists” we’re all supposed to be so bloody scared of? WHERE ARE THEY?!


WAKE UP, FOLKS! “Al Qaueda” indeed. There are no terrorists. The Terrorists ‘R’ Us.

Just as with boiling a frog, the heat’s being turned up on you, v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y… You’ll never know it ‘til after you’re cooked.

What do you think this brutish Police State you see rising up all around you is really all about? Your safety and wellbeing?
Right.
The idea is to fill the Sheeple with such dread, such anxiety, such petrifying fear…to get them so utterly terrified of the unspeakable danger that lurks behind every bush, at every turn, they’ll roll over and surrender to ANY edict, no matter how Orwellian, that’s thrown at them.
It’s all about CONTROLLING THE MASSES.
It’s about neutering your faculties of reasoning…Lobotomizing your ability to resist…Annealing your temperament to where your nothing but a puttied pawn on their grand chess board.
Its about total mass emasculation.
And they’ve finally got you exactly where they want you. All they’ve got to do to push your button now is yell “Al Qaeda!”
It’s as simple as that.
Please think about this the next time you find yourself at the airport getting your butt patted by some TSA pervert who’s got a wand in his other hand stroking your crotch checking for ordnance, with you standing there in your socks like a perfect fool before a gallery of equally docile strangers, arms and legs outstretched, clutching your little plastic bags of toiletries, unthinkingly acquiescing to every order blared at you by some martial moron working part-time between spells in the slammer.
Did you ever think such a ludicrous, pathetic, public caricature of yourself could ever have been possible?
Could you ever have imagined this kind of abject humiliation and deprivation of self-respect 20 years ago?
Did all this happen suddenly?
No. But you never saw it coming, did you?

Dangerous glass fibers in cigaretts worsen lung damage

29.05.2012 18:13    Comments: 0    Categories: Eugenics      Tags: cigarettes  tobacco  cancer  fiber glass  
(NaturalNews) Shocking new research reveals that a specific type of lung cancer many smokers develop comes from tiny tears in their lung tissue caused by microscopic glass fibers, also known as glass wool, found in many conventional cigarette filters. These rips in the epithelial (soft) tissue fuel the development of tumors and cancerous cells due to the constant overload of toxins, namely pesticides, nicotine and ammonia, contained in commercial cigarette smoke.

The filters of typical commercial cigarettes contain microscopic, needle-shaped shards of glass wool (like fiberglass insulation) which escape into the mouth and throat, and then lodge with tobacco tar in the lung tissue, surrounding the alveoli (tiny air sacs) and lead to COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), emphysema and eventually lung cancer.

A physician's assistant (PA) and an intensive care nurse at a major hospital reviewed the damaged lung tissue of several cigarette smokers and said the x-rays looked identical to those of patients exposed to asbestos, and that diagnostic imaging revealed what looked like "ground glass" which settled in the soft tissue near the bottom of the lungs (GGO - ground glass opacity). The interviewed nurse said, "When lung tissue is damaged over and over, it develops lesions, and the cancer plants itself in there like seeds." (http://www.appliedradiology.com)

According to the PA, the tiny shards penetrate the "lipid bilayer, then embed in the lung tissue, causing the tissue to harden and eventually lose its ability to absorb oxygen." This damage fuels the development of the same type of lung cancer (mesothelioma) associated with asbestos poisoning. He also explained how smoking destroys the cilia (tiny hairs) that help push excretions/mucus out, and how when smokers sleep, their breathing patterns relax and the "tar deposits creep in on damaged air sacs called blebs, eventually rupturing and collapsing them." This is why when smokers awake in the morning they can experience unproductive coughing fits and/or bronchial spasms.

(http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1766058/)



Why Fiberglass?

The cigarette filter (butt) acts as a buffer from the extreme heat of the cigarette's burning chemicals, which can exceed 1700 degrees Fahrenheit during inhale. Fibrous glass has the heat-resistant qualities of asbestos, which makes it an efficient material for insulation; however, if you've ever been in an attic and got insulation on your skin, you already know how irritating the glass fibers can be, so now imagine what it's doing to the inside of a smoker's lungs.

Up to 12,000 microscopic glass fibers are tightly bound together, which explains why filters take between 10 to 15 years to disintegrate. If the filter were simply cotton rolled tightly in paper, a few rainstorms would break it up and wash it away within weeks. Filters are also constructed to catch the tar and the tobacco particles from coming through, but not entirely.

Although fiberglass is not the same as asbestos, it can be just as damaging to the human body. The long, very narrow fibers penetrate deep into lung tissue and remain there. One study conducted with rats showed that fibrous glass is a potent carcinogen, leading to changes in the DNA genetic structure and breaking down the immune system. This is one reason smoker's fight colds, the flu, sinus and bronchial infections for much longer periods of time than non-smokers. (http://tpx.sagepub.com/content/19/4-1/482.full.pdf)



60 years of BIG LIES from BIG TOBACCO

Independent studies reveal that commercial cigarettes with defective filters have been marketed for over 60 years. Mesothelioma, a deadly cancer that develops in the protective lining of the lungs, abdomen, and/or the cavity around the heart, is most commonly associated with asbestos poisoning, but now research reveals that more than 10% of those cases are now associated with cigarette smokers with NO history of exposure to asbestos.

The tobacco industry has been negligent in failing to perform toxicological examinations to assess human health risks from inhaling and ingesting these synthetic micro-particles released from conventional cigarette filters. The recent "warning ads" about the effects of smoking are not educational, nor do they help smokers understand strategies for cessation at all. The $54 million campaign full of "stark and graphic advertisements" is nothing more than a ploy to pretend like the U.S. Center for Disease Control (CDC) is trying to help with this massive, preventable health crisis. (http://www.cnn.com)

Thanks to absolutely no regulations regarding the ingredients used for manufacturing cigarettes, smokers are susceptible to multiple forms of lung disease, including desquamative interstitial pneumonitis from ground glass infiltration of the soft tissues, bronchoalveolar cell carcinoma, and pulmonary fibrosis, which are all revealed from specific lung biopsies (HR-CT scans). (http://www.radiologyassistant.nl/en/42459cff38f02)



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Obama opens door to Africa for Monsanto

29.05.2012 17:42    Comments: 0    Categories: GMO's      Tags: obama  monsanto  africa  
(NaturalNews)Last week President Barack Obama announced a plan that puts Monsanto, as well as other large argi-businesses, in charge of increasing food supplies to malnourished regions in Africa. The Grow Africa Partnership is a part of the Obama administration's plan to end hunger in Africa.

While $3 billion dollars in commitments have already been secured by Monsanto and its peers, the local organic farmers in Africa have largely been left out of the program.

"I'm delighted to be here taking part in this conversation as I believe public and private sector commitment is necessary and able to support a transformation in African agriculture," said Monsanto Chairman, President and CEO Hugh Grant.

Letting a company like Monsanto expand their reach globally is not only irresponsible, but it sets a dangerous precedent. The problem with letting any private company fund and develop agriculture is that their primary concern will be with their own bottom line, rather than food security. Simply put, their objective is not the fight against hunger, it's to make money.

Rajiv Shah, administrator of the US Agency for International Development, made a shocking statement: "We are never going to end hunger in Africa without private investment. There are things that only companies can do, like building silos for storage and developing seeds and fertilizers."

Africa doesn't need chemical fertilizers, genetically modified crops and large monoculture plantations. Instead it needs more resources for the farmers that sustain the local economies.

Ronnie Cummins, director of the organic consumers association, calls Obama's plan "misguided" and said "To help the world's two billion small farmers and rural villagers survive and prosper we need to help them gain access, not to genetically engineered seeds and expensive chemical inputs; but rather access to land, water, and the tools and techniques of traditional, sustainable farming: non-patented open-pollinated seeds, crop rotation, natural compost production, beneficial insects, and access to local markets."

The declared goal of Obama's food program is to advance sustainable agriculture and reduce the number of people worldwide living in poverty by 50 million over the next decade. While the goal is admirable, the methods the being employed, that involve big business, may end up doing more harm than good.

Grant also stated "There is no single group or simple solution that can solve the food issues facing a growing population." In fact, the solution is very simple, it just takes time. It has been proven that medium sized organic is the most sustainable type of agriculture. Rather than doing things the right way, the Obama administration has decided to take a short cut in ending world hunger by calling in big business. The problem with shortcuts is that they always come up short.

sources for the article include
http://www.allgov.com
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/05/21-5
http://www.marketwatch.com

Poland beekeepers kick Monsanto out of the hive

29.05.2012 17:34    Comments: 0    Categories: GMO's      Tags: poland  bees  monsanto  gmo's  
(NaturalNews) A significant health freedom victory has taken place in the European nation of Poland, where all plantings of Monsanto's MON810, a genetically-modified (GM) variety of maize (corn) that produces its own built-in Bt insecticide in every kernel, have been officially banned.

The decision comes after thousands of protesters recently took to the streets in demonstration of the undeniable fact that both MON810 and the chemicals applied to it are at least partially responsible for causing Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), the worldwide phenomenon in which entire swarms of honey bees disappear or turn up dead.

"The decree is in the works. It introduces a complete ban on the MON810 strain of maize in Poland," said Polish Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki, who also explained to the press that pollen from MON810 appears to be responsible for further devastating the already dwindling bee population throughout the country and elsewhere.

According to reports, Poland's decision to ban MON810 makes it the first nation to formally acknowledge that Monsanto's GM corn is definitively linked to CCD. It also affirms the findings of several earlier studies that have identified a link between Bt GM crops and bee deaths, including independent research conducted by Pennsylvania beekeeper John McDonald.

McDonald's research found that bees foraging near Bt crops did not gain the proper amount of weight, and failed to produce honey in their honey supers (honey storage bins) when they should have. Their non-Bt crop counterparts, on the other hand, produced more than double the amount of honey they needed to survive the winter (http://www.naturalnews.com/025287.html).

Back in early March, nine European countries -- Belgium, Great Britain, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland, and Slovakia -- successfully blocked an effort by the Danish EU presidency to allow expanded cultivation of GM crops in Europe. And around that same time, France imposed its own ban on MON810.

Meanwhile, the U.S. continues to forge ahead in the unmitigated, and largely unregulated, cultivation and use of GM crops. Despite countless grassroots efforts to put at least some restraint on GM agriculture, including a number of state initiatives that would require GMO labeling on food, Monsanto's products continue to dominate much of the American agricultural landscape.

To learn more about how you can support the preservation of honeybees in your local community, be sure to visit: http://www.honeybeehaven.org/content/take-pledge

Sources for this article include:

http://www.polishnews.com

http://capwiz.com/grassrootsnetroots/issues/alert/?alertid=22033501

States, federal government reduce length of jobless benefits active Edit 29.05.2012 13:26 Comments: 0 Categories: Politics Tags: unemployment benefits Outlook/Hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans are losing their federal unemployment benefits earlier than they expected due to new rules passed in February that make it harder for states to qualify for extended jobless aid, the New York Times reports. At the height of the recession, Congress passed a law to boost unemployment assistance to up to 99 weeks: The unemployed would receive federal money instead of state funds if they continued to be jobless past the traditional period of six months. In February, Congress extended this law, but added rules that would draw down the number of weeks the government would pay for, based on whether a state's jobless rate had decreased and other factors. Now, only three states still offer 99 weeks of assistance, and all three will stop doing so in September. [Related: Florida the stingiest state for jobless benefits] More than 5 million Americans have been out of work for more than six months, down from a high of more than 6 million two years ago. Supporters of extending benefits say they stimulate the economy and provide a crucial safety net for vulnerable workers, but those opposed say they discourage people from finding work. Meanwhile, some states, independently of the federal government, have made it more difficult for people to receive jobless benefits. The National Employment Law Project (NELP), a nonprofit that advocates for more support for unemployed people, filed suit against Florida, saying it wrongfully denied people jobless benefits. The group says only 15 percent of eligible people are receiving unemployment assistance in the state, the lowest rate in the nation. This is due in part to a new law passed last year that requires unemployed people to take an online "skills test" before qualifying to receive the roughly $275 per week in benefits, the Miami Herald reported. The state's unemployment rate has fallen to 8.7 percent from 10.6 percent a year ago. [Related: 4 degrees with 0% unemployment] On the state level, unemployment insurance is paid for by a tax on employers, and only people who were let go through no fault of their own are eligible to receive the funds

29.05.2012 13:26    Comments: 0    Categories: Politics      Tags: unemployment benefits  
Outlook/Hundreds of thousands of jobless Americans are losing their federal unemployment benefits earlier than they expected due to new rules passed in February that make it harder for states to qualify for extended jobless aid, the New York Times reports.
At the height of the recession, Congress passed a law to boost unemployment assistance to up to 99 weeks: The unemployed would receive federal money instead of state funds if they continued to be jobless past the traditional period of six months. In February, Congress extended this law, but added rules that would draw down the number of weeks the government would pay for, based on whether a state's jobless rate had decreased and other factors. Now, only three states still offer 99 weeks of assistance, and all three will stop doing so in September.
More than 5 million Americans have been out of work for more than six months, down from a high of more than 6 million two years ago. Supporters of extending benefits say they stimulate the economy and provide a crucial safety net for vulnerable workers, but those opposed say they discourage people from finding work.
Meanwhile, some states, independently of the federal government, have made it more difficult for people to receive jobless benefits. The National Employment Law Project (NELP), a nonprofit that advocates for more support for unemployed people, filed suit against Florida, saying it wrongfully denied people jobless benefits. The group says only 15 percent of eligible people are receiving unemployment assistance in the state, the lowest rate in the nation. This is due in part to a new law passed last year that requires unemployed people to take an online "skills test" before qualifying to receive the roughly $275 per week in benefits, the Miami Herald reported. The state's unemployment rate has fallen to 8.7 percent from 10.6 percent a year ago.
On the state level, unemployment insurance is paid for by a tax on employers, and only people who were let go through no fault of their own are eligible to receive the funds

Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US

29.05.2012 13:24    Comments: 0    Categories: Eugenics      Tags: radiation  california  bluefin tuna  fukushima  
(AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.
"We were frankly kind of startled," said Nicholas Fisher, one of the researchers reporting the findings online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The levels of radioactive cesium were 10 times higher than the amount measured in tuna off the California coast in previous years. But even so, that's still far below safe-to-eat limits set by the U.S. and Japanese governments.
Previously, smaller fish and plankton were found with elevated levels of radiation in Japanese waters after a magnitude-9 earthquake in March 2011 triggered a tsunami that badly damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors.
But scientists did not expect the nuclear fallout to linger in huge fish that sail the world because such fish can metabolize and shed radioactive substances.
One of the largest and speediest fish, Pacific bluefin tuna can grow to 10 feet and weigh more than 1,000 pounds. They spawn off the Japan coast and swim east at breakneck speed to school in waters off California and the tip of Baja California, Mexico.
Five months after the Fukushima disaster, Fisher of Stony Brook University in New York and a team decided to test Pacific bluefin that were caught off the coast of San Diego. To their surprise, tissue samples from all 15 tuna captured contained levels of two radioactive substances — ceisum-134 and cesium-137 — that were higher than in previous catches.
To rule out the possibility that the radiation was carried by ocean currents or deposited in the sea through the atmosphere, the team also analyzed yellowfin tuna, found in the eastern Pacific, and bluefin that migrated to Southern California before the nuclear crisis. They found no trace of cesium-134 and only background levels of cesium-137 left over from nuclear weapons testing in the 1960s.
The results "are unequivocal. Fukushima was the source," said Ken Buesseler of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, who had no role in the research.
Bluefin tuna absorbed radioactive cesium from swimming in contaminated waters and feeding on contaminated prey such as krill and squid, the scientists said. As the predators made the journey east, they shed some of the radiation through metabolism and as they grew larger. Even so, they weren't able to completely flush out all the contamination from their system.
"That's a big ocean. To swim across it and still retain these radionuclides is pretty amazing," Fisher said.
Pacific bluefin tuna are prized in Japan where a thin slice of the tender red meat prepared as sushi can fetch $24 per piece at top Tokyo restaurants. Japanese consume 80 percent of the world's Pacific and Atlantic bluefin tuna.
The real test of how radioactivity affects tuna populations comes this summer when researchers planned to repeat the study with a larger number of samples. Bluefin tuna that journeyed last year were exposed to radiation for about a month. The upcoming travelers have been swimming in radioactive waters for a longer period. How this will affect concentrations of contamination remains to be seen.
Now that scientists know that bluefin tuna can transport radiation, they also want to track the movements of other migratory species including sea turtles, sharks and seabirds.
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Cry for Help': Hunger and Drought Crisis in West Africa

29.05.2012 13:01    Comments: 0    Categories: NWO      Tags: mwo  west africa  un  hunger  eugenics  
ABC/According to the United Nations, the Sahel region of West Africa, which stretches across eight countries including Chad, Mauritania and Gambia, is being affected by a hunger crisis.
The U.N. estimates that 15 million people in the region are suffering from food shortages caused by drought and conflict and UNICEF says that nearly 1.5 million children are near starvation.
The following organizations are working to stop the famine by supporting livestock, growing crops and giving people cash so that they can afford the food on sale in their markets.
Below is more information on those organizations and how you can help. A little goes a long way:
Save the Children:
Save the Children plans to reach 185,000 of the most vulnerable families -- 1.3 million people -- to help prevent them from falling into hunger.
The group's Lane Hartill said, however, that the organization also wanted to help these families to build up their resistance in the long term so they were better prepared for the next drought.
Save the Children also supports families through cash-transfer programs so they have money to buy what they consider appropriate. Cattle and goats -- essentially "savings accounts" in villages -- have been hard hit by the drought, Hartill said, and with animals dying, there is no fodder.
According to the organization, $39 could help support 10 mothers whose children are in a stabilization clinic and $2.35 could pay for sachets of oral rehydration salts to help treat 100 children suffering from diarrhea.
Courtesy UNICEF
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Oxfam:
Oxfam is starting to distribute unconditional cash to the most vulnerable so they can access food on the markets -- 30 percent to 40 percent higher than in the last five-year average -- and cope until the next harvest.
The organization says that animal feed is "super important" to protect the livelihoods of pastoralists. If they lose their animals on the onset of the rainy season -- which occurred in 2010 when 24 percent of the livestock was lost -- they will be locked in the cycle of hunger.
"One way to put this: Save an animal, save an entire community and help lift them out of poverty," said Gaelle Bausson, an Oxfam spokesperson.
Oxfam said that seeds are also among "the most acute and immediate" need.
Bausson told ABC News today that $40 will vaccinate 15 goats so vulnerable families can have food and an income; $80 will give three people the money to buy food and other essentials for the next three months; and $140 will provide clean, safe drinking water for three families by building or repairing water sources.
To donate to Oxfam, click here.
UNICEF:
UNICEF is focused on the nutritional needs of children. According to the organization, children who are acutely malnourished cannot consume regular food and require ready-to-use therapeutic food for their bodies to recover.
UNICEF said the donations made for the Sahel crisis would support life-saving relief efforts for children, including: therapeutic food and milk, medicine, immunizations and supplies to provide access to clean water.
Susannah Masur, a UNICEF spokeswoman, said that $100 could save a child from severe acute malnutrition; $50 could buy 1,200 high-energy biscuits to give suffering children the protein, vitamins and sugar; and less than $1 could immunize two children against the measles.
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