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| Seven million still lack shelter after floods: UN |
| 2010-10-20 |
| [Dawn] At least seven million people are still without shelter in Pakistain nearly three months after catastrophic floods devastated huge parts of the country, the United Nations, aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society said Tuesday. Torrential monsoon rains began falling in northwestern Pakistain in July, causing floods that moved steadily south, wiping out villages and farmland and affecting an area roughly the size of England. "At least seven million people are currently without shelter in the flood-affected areas," UN spokeswoman Stacey Winston told a news conference in Islamabad. She said that the floods destroyed and damaged over 1.9 million homes. The United Nations has issued a record two-billion-dollar appeal for funds to cope with the disaster, which UN agencies say affected 21 million people. Only around 35 per cent of the appeal has already been funded. Winston estimated that 14 million people were in need of immediate humanitarian assistance, saying that the United Nations distributed food rations among 2.5 million people this month in 39 flood-affected districts. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 25 mill for Osama's were abouts |
| Posted by: Mr. Bill 2010-10-20 20:55 |
| #8 swamp blondie I think it's 20 billion |
| Posted by: chris 2010-10-20 16:41 |
| #7 While I'm thinking about it, Did the UN "Help" Nawleens? NAW...they just want to stick thier big fat freakin' noses into the business of Arizona |
| Posted by: armyguy 2010-10-20 08:39 |
| #6 How do you say, "Sucks to be you" in Urdu? |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-10-20 08:31 |
| #5 Did Preznit Hopenchange cancel the bounty on Bin Laden's head? Because if they turned him in, that was $5 mil right there, if memory serves me correctly. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie 2010-10-20 08:09 |
| #4 While I'm thinking about it, Did the UN "Help" Nawleens? Don't remember hearing anything about UNhelpful giving anything. Beg elsewhere. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-10-20 03:34 |
| #3 Ask the Muslim Nations for Money, Not here. (Yes I now, they're to stingy to help their brethren, Tax the Non Muslims for the Jizya.) Sorry Murderers, No payum cumshaw, we're on to Ya now. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2010-10-20 03:30 |
| #2 Inshallah! Isn't that what they say? |
| Posted by: bigjim-CA 2010-10-20 03:13 |
| #1 DAILY TIMES.PK > SOUTH ASIA IS WORLD'S MOST CLIMATE-VULNERABLE REGION: STUDY [Climate Change Vulnerability Index]. You name it, the South Asian region's got it, which in turn equals POOR LOCAL, REGIONAL CONTROLS + RESISTANCE VEE CLIMATE CHANGE. Lest we fergit, MILITANT THREAT + GW-CLIMATE CHANGE + "EARTH/LAND CHANGES", etc. = DIASPORAS = heading to Safer, Higher Ground + Work in CONUS + Americas via GUAM-WESTPAC, among other. IOW aka "CHANGE", VOLUNTARILY OR FORCIBLY, for both GUAM + US + WORLD. POPULATION DISPLACEMENT = GEOPOL CHANGE = NWO. * TOPIX/WORLD NEWS > A WARMING PLANET MAY LEAVE CITIES FLATTENED: UN, + Flooded ala KATRINA + NOLA, LA espec a number of the US-World's KEY/MAJOR COASTAL CITIES. * E.g. GUAM > MOst recently, local medias repor that CEMETERIES down south are sinking/eroding or otherwise at high risk of destruction + LT disappearance due to Rising Seas. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-10-20 00:29 |