Subject:	Re: ANGOLA FACES 'DISASTER' - 192 Days Before Y2k
Date:	1999/06/23
Author:	Paul Milne <fedinfo@halifax.com>
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Like I have posted before, millions and millions and countless millions are going to die. All the places that eat SOLELY based on food brought in from the outside will go first. There will be mass emigrations causing even more problems.   Paul Milne   JBaloun wrote in message <7krod7$ksq$1@nnrp1.deja.com>... >U. N. AGENCY SAYS ANGOLA FACES 'DISASTER' AS FOOD SUPPLIES DWINDLE >CNN News http://cnn.com >June 22, 1999 Web posted at: 2:32 p.m. EDT (1832 GMT) > >JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) -- Angola faces the prospect of >widespread starvation as food supplies dwindle in the midst of a >seemingly endless civil war, the World Food Program said on Tuesday. > >Emergency food stocks have dropped to just eight weeks' worth as the >attention of foreign donors has turned away from Africa to the crisis in >Kosovo. > >"We have a combination of no food, inadequate transportation and a >growing number of beneficiaries. If that's not a recipe for disaster, I >don't know what is," Maria Flynn of the U.N. agency told Reuters by >telephone from Luanda. > >"We are running out of food and we are running out of food quickly...we >have about eight weeks left." More than 1.2 million Angolans have fled >their homes since last December, when government forces and UNITA rebels >resumed fighting in a civil war that has gone on with only occasional >periods of peace since the 1970s. > >The WFP is responsible for feeding about 900,000 of the displaced -- >almost a tenth of Angola's population -- but because of the pressure on >supplies, has had to limit delivery to about 500,000 of the most needy. > >At the same time, the incidence of malnutrition in children has >quadrupled in the past few weeks, Flynn said, and deteriorating sanitary >conditions have created a breeding ground for diseases to which >malnourished people are most susceptible. > >"The poor and hungry people of Angola are all at risk, at grave risk, >they really are... It's a silent death," Flynn said. > >"What is the solution, do we let them die?" > >The most immediate threat is to the city of Huambo, in Angola's central >highlands, 500 km (350 miles) southeast of the capital Luanda. The >rebels have shelled the city repeatedly in the past three days, forcing >the WFP to stop aid flights. > >As well as the estimated 150,000 homeless people stranded in Huambo, >nearby Kuito is under rebel pressure and the towns of Malanje and Uige >to the north are without electricity. Huambo is completely inaccessible >by road or air. > >UNITA -- the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola -- made >strong gains against the government's forces in the first three months >of fighting, but more recently the conflict looks to have bogged down, >diplomats have said. > >President Jose Eduardo dos Santos has repeatedly threatened a massive >assault against UNITA, which is led by veteran guerrilla Jonas Savimbi, >but his first two advances in December and March failed, leaving the >government on the back foot. > >A quarter century of war has ravaged Angola's vast oil and diamond >wealth and led to exasperation among many in the donor community. >Earlier this month two non-government organisations withdrew out of >frustration. > >While aid workers are reluctant to talk of donor fatigue, the WFP's food >shortage is a sign resources are running dry. > >The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Sadako Ogata, is >currently on a four-day visit to Africa trying to regenerate interest in >the continent which has waned sharply in the wake of the conflict in >Kosovo and the refugee crisis there. > >With outbreaks of fighting from Angola to the Democratic Republic of >Congo, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia and Eritrea -- to name a few -- the >UNHCR's resources are severly stretched and the organisation is a long >way short of budget. > >************** > >As reported on Art Bells Quickening News > >http://bbs.rowlandnet.com/cgi-bin/WebX?13@^1083011@.ee76d7d > >The general theory has been that countries less dependant on high >technology may have a better chance if there are widespread problems >with the infrastructure. It appears that some are teetering on the edge >of disaster and it won't take much to push them over. > >-- >James > > >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ >Share what you know. Learn what you don't.

-- a (a@a.a), June 24, 1999

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You might also want to visit the site madmonk@hawaiian.net), June 24, 1999.

Sorry about the messed up link. The page is already gone, anyway. The gist of the article was that the Red Cross is saying that we can expect "a spate of super-disasters sparked by a mix of climate change, environmentatl damage, and population pressures."

Down toward the end of the article was my favorite line:

"Data contained in the report showed evidence that higher investment in disaster preparedness pays off."

-- Mad Monk (madmonk@hawaiian.net), June 24, 1999.

say, m.monk i,m starting to think those prophets new what they we,re talkin, about.call me crazy[and they will] i think we,re getting close to armegeddon.

-- al-d. (CATT@ZIANET.COM), June 24, 1999.

Thank you Mad Monk for that "reality check". (I really miss mangos, and those Mexico 'thangs' do not count)

-- Will continue (farming@home.com), June 24, 1999.

In January 1998 I started an email campaign to warn of starvation from Y2k. I estimated 300M dead (not including wars). (Yellig's May 1998 Westergaard article appeared to quote a couple paragraphs from my email.) Haven't seen anything to change those estimates. Wrote to the UN and it's sub-organizations, international relief agencies, you name it. Standard response: (1) total silence or (2) "We're working on the computer problem and expect to be compliant by the end of 1998, with a full year for testing."

No, no, you idiots, read my lips. I don't care about your COMPUTERS, what are you doing about your FUNCTIONS? No more answers.

Wanna know what I'm almost ashamed to think? Maybe if we're really lucky, the rest of the world will be so bad that we'll forget to shoot each other for food. Maybe we'll be mesmerized by the carnage overseas, maybe we'll be so busy trying to help out, trying to ramp up food production to save Europe that our economy will boost. Maybe it will be like WWII, where we were the only major combatant to avoid bombing, and so we got a jump start when everyone else was trying to rebuild after the damage.

What will survivors' guilt feel like, after that?

-- bw (home@puget.sound), June 24, 1999.

8 weeks of food supply.

It might comfort you to know that Michael Hyatt states that the US now has just a 30 DAY supply! The rest given to Russia and other countries.

-- Jon Johnson (narnia4@usa.net), June 24, 1999.