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UN raises Burma cyclone estimate
The UN has sharply increased its estimate of those severely affected by Burma’s cyclone to 2.5m people.
The figure was revised up from the 1.5m previously thought to be in need, following the storm 12 days ago.
Since Cyclone Nargis struck, hardly any foreign aid workers have been allowed into [...]

Posted by bosskitty May 14th, 2008 | Tags: Accountability, Burma, China, consequences, cyclone, Disaster, earthquake, humanitarian, Myanmar, Red Cross, relief, survivors, Three Gorges Dam, UN, victims | Category: Accountability, Burma, Casualties, China, Disaster, Emergency Management, Environment, Human Rights, Myanmar, Red Cross, World Health, bio hazards, catastrophe, consequences, critical resources, cyclone, food, global community, humanitarian, hunger, infrastructure, pollution, state of emergency | Leave a comment

Over 1.3 million people, one in six New Yorkers, cannot afford enough food, with queues at soup kitchens getting longer, anti-poverty groups say.
The New York City Coalition Against Hunger says the number of people who use food pantries and soup kitchens in the city increased by 20% in 2007. … food distribution points are [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 22nd, 2007 | Category: America, Collateral, Declaration of Independence, Federal Cutbacks, New York, Nouveau Poor, Revolution, USDA, consequences, cover up, disparity, displaced persons, economy, food pantries, humanitarian, hunger, migrants, poverty, predjudice, soup kitchens | Comments (4)

Thousands perched on rooftops in Mexico floods
Flood waters pour through devastated Mexican city
Rains flood thousands of homes in Mexico
FOOD, WATER RUNNING OUT

Thousands of people perched on roofs in southern Mexico on Saturday, desperate to [...]

Posted by bosskitty November 4th, 2007 | Category: Andres Granier, Bush, Casualties, Chiapas, Felipe Calderon, Mexico, No Border Wall, Outsource, Politics, Public Health, Tabasco, Villahermosa, catastrophe, contamination, floods, humanitarian, pollution, prejudice, resonsibility, state of emergency, survivors | Comments (2)

“We will give our lives but not our land!”
“This is a new beginning for the Tibetan struggle against Chinese occupation,” said Kalsang Phuntsok Godrukpa, president of the congress.
Thousands of Tibetans rallied in the Indian capital yesterday in the first protest of an aggressive new campaign to highlight Chinese abuses in Tibet in the run-up [...]

Posted by bosskitty October 16th, 2007 | Category: Bush, Defiance, Democide, Exile, Foreign Minister Liu, Human Rights, India, Olympics, Propaganda, Tibet, Time Bomb, deportation, displaced persons, genocide, humanitarian, monks, protesters, refugees | Comments (13)

Documents Show Troops Disregarding Rules
by Ryan Lenz
New documents released Tuesday regarding crimes committed by U.S. soldiers against civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan detail a troubling pattern of troops failing to understand and follow the rules that govern interrogations and deadly actions.
“The simple fact of the matter is interrogation is supposed to be stressful or you [...]

Posted by bosskitty September 5th, 2007 | Category: ACLU, Abu Ghraib, Accountability, Baghdad, Casualties, Collateral, Cowboys and Indians, Education, Excuses, Gangs, Hypocracy, Ignorance, Iraq, Law, Legacy, Mercenaries, Occupation Army, Outsource, PTSD, Pentagon Corruption, Private Armies, Propaganda, Rumsfeld, Scandal, Soldiers, Tax Dollars, The Liar, War Cost, War Crimes, abuse, arrogance, battlefield, betrayal, cover up, crimes, department of defense, deployment, disinformation, documents, escalation, ethics, humanitarian, incompetence, innocents, lies, mental health, military, profiteers, resonsibility, training, troops | Leave a comment