THIS WEEK, THE UN IS TRYING TO DRAW ATTENTION, AND
POTENTIALLY MONEY, TO HELP SOLVE A MASSIVE HUMANITARIAN
CRISIS: A HUGE AND GROWING FAMINE ACROSS MULTIPLE
COUNTRIES, ACROSS AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
THIS IS FROM STEPHEN O'BRIEN, UN HUMANITARIAN CHIEF.
MORE THAN 20 MILLION PEOPLE ACROSS FOUR COUNTRIES FACE
STARVATION, PEOPLE WILL CIVILLY STARVE TO DEATH AND MANY
MORE WILL DIE FROM DISEASE.
MEMBERS OF THE UN HAVE BEEN DISPATCHED TO HELP DRAW
ATTENTION TO THE CRISIS GROWING IN A NUMBER OF COUNTRIES.
THE SECOND ñ
THE SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS ARRIVED IN
SOMALIA ON TUESDAY AND APPEALED FOR $825 MILLION IN AID TO
ADJUST OUT AND CHOLERA IN THE EAST AFRICAN NATION.
WHEN I LOOK AT THAT NUMBER, AND I THINK ABOUT THE COST IN HUMAN
LIVES, THE SHEER QUANTITY OF SUFFERING THAT WILL LIKELY
HAPPEN IN THAT REGION BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW THAT THAT MONEY IS
ACTUALLY GOING TO BE FOUND, AND THEN I THINK ABOUT THE 55
ADDITIONAL BILLION DOLLARS WE ARE GOING TO THROW INTO THE MOST
BLOATED MILITARY BUDGET THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN.
THINK ABOUT HOW MUCH GOODWILL YOU CAN BUY.
IF YOU ARE BEING PRAGMATIC, NOT EVEN THE THINGS YOU CAN DO,
JUST GOODWILL.
IF YOU ARE TAKING A TINY FRACTION OF THAT AND TAKING
IT TO THIS PART OF THE WORLD TO SEE ñ TO RELIEVE SOME OF
THE WORST SUFFERING, BUT THAT IS OF THE COUNTRY WE HAVE.
BY THE WAY, THE GREATEST PROGRAM WE EVER DID WAS THE
MARSHALL PLAN, WHERE WE HELPED OUR DEFEATED ENEMIES AND
THEY BECAME OUR TOP ALLIES IN THE WORLD.
IT'S NOT JUST TO BE DECENT PEOPLE, IT WORKS.
IT'S PRACTICAL, IT HELPS YOUR ECONOMY IN THE LONG RUN.
THAT'S WHY WE WERE BELOVED FOR A WHILE IN THE WORLD, AND NOW
WHAT DO WE DO?
ALL WE DO IS SEND OVER BONDS, SO THEN JOE SCARBOROUGH CAN GO
ON TV AND GO, IT'S BECAUSE THEY HATE US.
BUT IN REALITY, IF WE SPENT LESS THAN $1 BILLION, IF YOU TOOK ONE
OUT OF THE 55 THAT THEY ARE ASKING FOR IN THE PENTAGON, AND
SENT IT TO HELP 25 MILLION PEOPLE ACTUALLY SURVIVE AND LIVE
INSTEAD OF DIE FROM FAMINE, DROUGHT, CHOLERA AND ALL THESE
OTHER THINGS, IMAGINE THAT THEY MIGHT LOVE US BECAUSE THEY LOVE
US, BECAUSE WE DID SOMETHING RIGHT.
AND ALL THE BENEFITS THAT ACCRUE FROM THAT.
EVEN IF YOU JUST LOOK AT IT FROM ECONOMIC TERMS IT'S THE
RIGHT THING TO DO.
WELL I MEAN, AT THE 600 BILLION IN TAX CUTS FROM THE HEALTHCARE
LAW, OR THE BUSH TAX CUTS, WE COULD GO ON.
I WOULD LIKE SOME OF THAT MONEY TO GO TO AMERICA, TO AMERICANS,
BUT YOU CAN DEFINITELY PUT A DENT IN THESE NUMBERS.
I THINK THESE SOMALI INDIVIDUALS SHOULD INCORPORATE, THEN
OUR GOVERNMENT MIGHT SEND THEM SOME MONEY.
I WANT TO RUN THROUGH SOME OF THESE OTHER NUMBERS BECAUSE
I WANT YOU TO GET AN IDEA OF THE SCALE OF THE TRAGEDY WE ARE
TALKING ABOUT.
THE MONEY THAT WAS NEEDED TO HELP, THE $825 MILLION, IS TO
HELP ABOUT HALF OF THE POPULATION OF SOMALIA SURVIVED
THE NEXT SIX MONTHS.
SURVIVAL THAT IS IN QUESTION RIGHT NOW.
FAMINE WAS LAST TO CLARENCE AMALIA IN JULY 2011,
AFTER AN ESTIMATED 200,000
PEOPLE DIED, MOSTLY DURING A TWO-MONTH PERIOD.
YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT PART
OF THE PROBLEM, IN TERMS OF
RELIEVING SOME OF THE SUFFERING THERE, IS THAT ORGANIZATIONS
LIKE AL-SHABAAB BLOCKS ROADS, MAKES IT HARDER TO ACCESS
FOOD AS WELL.
I WANT TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHERE THESE PROBLEMS ARE
AND HOW BIG THEY ARE.
AT RISK OF STARVATION, IN YEMEN THERE ARE MORE THAN 7
MILLION PEOPLE; SMALL YOU ALMOST 3 MILLION; SO SUDAN 5
MILLION; AND NIGERIA, 5.1 MILLION AS WELL.
MULTIPLE CULTURES, BUT A COMMON PROBLEM.
SOMETIMES IN WAR-TORN AREAS, WHERE THE U.S.
HAS BEEN INVOLVED AND IS STILL INVOLVED AS WELL, BUT THEN
THERE IS ALSO THE CHILDREN.
IN YEMEN, ALMOST HALF A MILLION PEOPLE, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS
IN SOMALIA, AND ALMOST HALF A MILLION IN NIGERIA AS WELL.
IT IS BEING COVERED, YOU CAN FIND ARTICLES ON MOST WEBSITES.
TAKE Her ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT IT ON SUNDAY, BUT IT'S NOT
SEXY, IT DOESN'T BRING RATINGS, SO PEOPLE DON'T FOCUS ON IT.
SO THEY MIGHT BE EXPOSED TO THE INFORMATION, BUT THEN I GO
BACK TO THEIR EVERYDAY LIFE.
IT'S ACTUALLY A TINY BIT MORE OBLIGATED THAN THAT EVEN,
BECAUSE THERE IS SOME ELEMENT OF TERRORISM INVOLVED, LIKE
AL-SHABAAB.
YOU KNOW THAT THE MEDIA LOVES TALKING ABOUT TERRORISM, THEY
TALK ABOUT IT TOO MUCH.
IMAGINE IF A TERROR STRIKE KILLED 250,000 PEOPLE?
IT WOULD BE THE BIGGEST EVENT IN WORLD HISTORY, WE WOULD
NEVER STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.
A FAMINE KILLS 250,000 PEOPLE, NOBODY EVEN REMEMBERS.
YOU KNOW ALL THAT NEVER FORGET STUFF?
NOT IF IT'S A FAMINE, THEN WE FORGET IMMEDIATELY.
BUT THERE IS A TERRORISM ANGLE HERE, BUT YET NOBODY IS
TALKING ABOUT IT.
WHY IS THAT?
BECAUSE TALKING POINTS DON'T ARISE OUT OF THIN AIR, THEY
ARE MANUFACTURED, AND SENT TO THE MEDIA.
SO IF YOU WANT TO START HOSTILITIES IN A CERTAIN
COUNTRY, PERHAPS IF THEY HAVE A LOT OF NATURAL RESOURCES, AND
SOME OF THESE COUNTRIES DON'T HAVE NATURAL RESOURCES AT ALL
ñ NIGERIA DOES, BUT NOT SOMALIA, NOT MUCH OF SUDAN, NOT
ENOUGH OIL, RIGHT?
SO ALL OF A SUDDEN, ONLY GOD LOOK AT WHAT IS HAPPENING
IN IRAQ!
HUMANITARIAN CRISIS!
SYRIA, CRISIS THIS, CRISIS THAT.
NORTH KOREA?
NAH...
THEY ARE KIND OF CRAZY, AND THEY ALREADY HAVE NUCLEAR WEAPONS, AS
OPPOSED TO THE IRAQIS WHO WERE THINKING ABOUT WEAPONS MASS
DESTRUCTION.
NOW THEY GET MEDIA COVERAGE BECAUSE THEIR LEADER IS SO
CRAZY, BUT NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT INVADING NORTH KOREA.
THESE COUNTRIES IN AFRICA, EVERYBODY IS LIKE, SHH.
THE DEFENSE CONTRACTORS NEVER HAD THE GUYS IN THE MEDIA
TALKING POINTS, SO THE NEVER TALKED ABOUT IT.
IF THEY WANT TO DO, THEY WOULD AND IT WOULD BE LIKE, AL-SHABAAB
AL-SHABAAB!
THEY JUST CHOSE NOT TO VALUE UP OVER THAT MUSLIM TERRORIST
GROUP, IS THAT INTERESTING?
AND THEN FINALLY YEMEN, ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROBLEM SPOTS HERE.
PART OF THE PROBLEM IN YEMEN IS OUR ALLY SAUDI ARABIA,
WHICH IS BOMBING THE HELL OUT OF THEM, AND NOBODY CAN GET IN
MEDICAL AID.
NOT BECAUSE OF AL-SHABAAB, BUT BECAUSE OF AL-SAUDI ARABIA,
AND THEY ARE OUR TOP ALLIES.
SOME OF THIS IS SIMPLY THE REALITY OF THE AREA, SOME OF IT
WITH IT ñ IS WITHIN ñ SOME OF IT IS WITHIN OUR CONTROL.
WE ARE INVOLVED IN A FIGHT AGAINST BOKO HARAM IN SOME
OF THESE COUNTRIES.
WE TALKED VERY OFTEN ABOUT CLIMATE CHANGE AND HOW IT
IS THE SINGLE GREATEST THREAT TO THE CONTINUATION OF HUMAN
CIVILIZATION, BUT SOME PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE IT, BECAUSE
WHEN THE DAMAGE IS DONE, THEY DON'T SEE IT HAS HAVING
BEEN CLIMATE CHANGE.
BUT IN SOME OF THESE COUNTRIES, THEY SHARE BASICALLY ONE
LARGE LAKE IN THE CENTER AT THE BORDER, SURROUNDED BY FIRST
ALL LAND, AND THAT LAKE HAS BEEN GRADUALLY GETTING SMALLER
AND SMALLER AND SMALLER.
AND THAT IS JUST ONE CASE STUDY OF ECO-INDUCED CIVIL WAR
AND FAMINE THAT WILL COME ABOUT AS THE RESULT OF, CHANGE,
AND IT'S NOT JUST WANT TO BE AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST.
ALREADY CHINA IS EXPERIENCING GROWING STARVATION AND DROUGHT.
THEY ARE PROPOSING THE WORLD'S LARGEST WATER TRANSPORTATION
PIPELINE BECAUSE THEY CANNOT GROW FOOD BECAUSE THE DESERT IS
EXPANDING IN THAT AREA, IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE DRY
OVER TIME.
THAT IS A TREND THAT IS ONLY GOING TO ACCELERATE IN THE
FUTURE.
IF ANYBODY IN THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS WATCHING IT, THEY WILL
THINK, YOU GUYS ARE NUTS, THERE'S NOBODY GIVING US TALKING
POINTS FROM LOCKHEED MARTIN TO START WARS BUT NOT TALK ABOUT
AL-SHABAAB.
BUT I WANT TO ASK YOU, WHY WERE YOU TALKING ABOUT IRAQ SO MUCH?
THEY DID, THE WAY THEY HANDED YOU A TALKING POINT WAS,
REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS WOULD COME OUT AND GO, LOOK OVER HERE!
OVER HERE, THIS IS THE PROBLEM!
VIDEO BUFFERING ñ
INCLUDING ISIS, BUT NO DONOR PAID REPUBLICANS TO GO
FEARMONGER ABOUT AL-SHABAAB.
SO THAT NEVER WENT TO REPUBLICANS AND HENCE NEVER
WENT TO YOUR AIR.
YOU ARE IN A GAME AND YOU DON'T EVEN REALIZE WHAT GAME IS
BEING PLAYED.
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