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| 2011-07-20 |
| unbelievable UN wants to drum up some funding for its world government. Totally unquestioning when the UN says things like: We need more money. Somalia is in this mess BECAUSE the UN ignores it is 3 countries, and refuses to give money to Puntland and Somaliland, instead propping up 500+ fat cats in the "Transitional Federal Government" who rule nothing and nobody. So now the US wants to stick its oar in and pay to feed al Shabaab who have brought ruin on South Central Somalia. Like it doesn't have enough starving people in its own country to feed, with one in four on food stamps. US 'to aid Islamist areas of famine-hit Somalia' The US has said it will send aid to famine-hit areas of Somalia controlled by the Islamist group al-Shabab. But US aid officials say assurances must be given that the insurgents will not interfere with its distribution. Because you can really say that for sure in South Central Somalia .... The US considers al-Shabab a terrorist group and last year stopped aid to the large area of Somalia it controls. There is no difference between al Shabaab and most of the population there. If you help the population you help al Shabaab. The good ones have already fled. The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century. let nature do its job Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group which Give us your food, now go away. allahu akhbar. The deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Donald Steinberg, said the aid must not benefit al-Shabab. look at the left hand, don't worry about what the right hand is doing..... don't look while we give billions of US taxes to the UN again.... "What we need is assurances from the World Food Programme and from other agencies, the United Nations or other agencies, both public and in the non-governmental sector, who are willing to go into Somalia who will tell us affirmatively that they are not being taxed by al-Shabab, they are not being subjected to bribes from al-Shabab, that they can operate unfettered," Mr Steinberg told the BBC. This joo's on crack He said the goal was to make money "not to play a game of 'gotcha' with a UN agency or any other group that is brave enough to go in and provide that assistance". BBC Africa analyst Martin Plaut says this marks a considerable change in policy from Washington. journos interviewing other journos In April 2010 US President Barack Obama issued an executive order naming al-Shabab a terrorist organisation, meaning no US aid could go to areas under its control, our analyst adds. well well well but now the UN wants YOU to feed them 'Dangerously inadequate' how about a different sub-heading? 'Stupid idea' An estimated 10 million people have been affected in East Africa by the worst drought in more than half a century. leave them alone and they'll evolve More than 166,000 desperate Somalis are estimated to have fled their country to neighbouring Kenya or Ethiopia. didn't like african sharia utopia The UN said the humanitarian situation in Somalia's southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle districts had deteriorated rapidly and declared them to be suffering a famine. That's the sell, now for the important bit kiddies, here is where the UN holds out its own bloated hand: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said new funds to help the country were desperately needed."The overall requirement is $1.6bn (£990m) for Somalia, roughly $300m is needed in the next two months to provide an adequate response to famine-affected areas. And just in case you thought you might not pay because the US is now broke.... Children and adults are dying at an appalling rate," Mr Ban said. oh dear how could we say no? heartless! Nearly half the Somali population - 3.7 million people - were in crisis, he said, with most of them in the south. they won't be if they give up radical islam The BBC's Africa correspondent Andrew Harding says the emotive word "famine" is used rarely and carefully by humanitarian organisations, when they want money and it is the first time since 1992 that the word has been applied to a situation in Somalia. The UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, said the response by many European and developed countries to the crisis in the Horn of Africa had been "derisory and dangerously inadequate". derisory? Look after yourselves because we're not going to anymore. US should cut the UN off completely let those fat bureaucrats starve as well. US should not give a single dollar to the UN or to Somalia. Please, for SOmalia's sake, don't give any money. They have a chance to change but they won't if you keep them the way they are with aid. And before you give them food, just you remember how that story ended last time -- they dragged the body of a US Marine through the streets of mogadishu, chained to the back of a car, and crowds of kids chased it laughing and screaming. Those kids are adults now and no they're not really sorry about it at all US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington would provide an extra $28m in emergency aid to counter the famine. how many food stamps would that buy back at home? She said the US had already provided $431m this year in emergency aid to the Horn of Africa, this is YOUR tax money, citizens of the US. WASTED on Africa. It didn't do any good it just made it worse. Robbed you and made them worse off. Read "dead aid" by dambisa Moyo but that was "not enough". |
| Posted by:anon1 |
| #7 The Prime Directive dictates that there can be no interference with the internal development of alien civilizations, consistent with the historical real world concept of Westphalian sovereignty. ... indicated to include purposeful efforts to improve or change in any way the natural course of such a society, even if that change is well-intentioned and kept completely secret. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2011-07-20 22:36 |
| #6 The US set up the post-WW1 League of Nations, + post-WW2 UNO, + now cometh OWG including both "Globalism" + "Regionalism", etc. SOMALIA = NEW AFPAK [alo read, protect Suez Canal, Red Sea trade + South AFrica = JudeoChristian Africa]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-07-20 20:43 |
| #5 ...you know with sausage, its all mystery meat anyway. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2011-07-20 20:10 |
| #4 I doubt that would work, S.A.M. Even starving Somalis have standards. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2011-07-20 20:02 |
| #3 Feed the UN bureaucrats to the starving Somalis. |
| Posted by: Secret Asian Man 2011-07-20 19:05 |
| #2 US should cut the UN off completely let those fat bureaucrats starve as well. Heh. |
| Posted by: Unish Protector of the Apes1896 2011-07-20 18:26 |
| #1 UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said new funds to help the (The UN) were desperately needed. "The overall requirement (to keep us in 5-star hotels) is $1.6bn (£990m) for Somalia, roughly $300m is needed in the next two months for me and my henchmen to party to provide an adequate response to famine-affected areas. |
| Posted by: anon1 2011-07-20 17:31 |