ÿþ<html> <head> <title>Global View - getting the priorities right</title> </head> <body bgcolor=ffffff link=#ffffcc vlink=fffccc alink=red> <div align="center">If the rest of the people on Earth each consumed as much as each American it would take five Earths to supply them.</div> <table bgcolor=#FEFECA align=center border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width="765" height="1000"> <tbody> <tr> <td align=left valign=bottom width="49%" height="900"> <div align="left"> <table border=0 bordercolor=green cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=300> <tbody> <tr> <td align=right valign=top width=169 height="706"> <p class=homeboxes align="center"> <img border=0 src="georgebush.jpg" width="148" height="182" alt="The State of the World. January 2011" align="top"><br> <font size="2" color="#333333">. -Perhaps I succeeded- <br> Once read in a fortune cookie: "Others will rise up after you from your own tribe, who will make the world nostalgic for you". </font><font size="2" color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <br> <img src="HIV%20Victim.jpg" width="148" height="211" border="0" align="top" alt="AIDS victims"><br> Now deceased<br> <br> <a href="slaves"><img src="slaves.jpg" width="148" height="229" border="0"></a><br> </font><font size="1" color="#333333"> <font size="3" color="#000000">Last year the UN estimated</font><font size="3"><font color="#CC0000"><b> there are now 200 million slaves</b></font><b><font color="#CC0000"> in the world.</font></b><br> <font size="2" color="#000000">To put this into perspective, during the four centuries slaves were trafficked from Africa to the colonies, best estimates put the number of victims at 12 million</font></font></font><font size="2" color="#000000">.<br> If money was spent last year to stop this and save the victims, it is unrecorded</font><font size="2" color="#333333">.</font> </td> <td valign=top width="213" height="706"> <div align="center"><b><font size="4">Last year <font color="#CC0000">4 thousand people were killed in acts of terror<font color="#000000">,</font> </font>and we spent 370 billion dollars pursuing the presumed perpetrators. </font></b> </div> <table width="59%" border="1"> <tr> <td width="56%" valign="top" height="330"> <div align="center"><font color="#000000" size="2">Last year<font color="#CC0000"><b> 15 million starved to death</b></font>, children mostly. We spent 8 billion trying to save them. While 800 million are still <u>undernourished..</u> <br> Last year <font color="#CC0000"><b>4 million died of AIDS leaving 6 million orphaned children behind. </b></font> The UN asked for 10 billion dollars to fight it.We offered 4 billion, and have not yet paid up. The clock ticks for 40 million yet living with the AIDS virus.</font></div> </td> <td width="44%" height="330"> <img src="Ethiopia%20Famine%20Child.jpg" width="97" height="225" border="0" align="top" alt="starving child"><br> <font color="#333333" size="2">Starving child<br> in Ethiopia, 800 million more wait at death's door.<br> <img src="streetkids12.jpg" width="97" height="42" alt="starvation"></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56%" valign="top" height="136"> <div align="center"><img src="slave%20child%20prostitutes.jpg" width="98" height="92" border="0" alt="child forced prostitution"><br> <b><font color="#333333" size="1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Chid Prostitute, they exist everywhere, but 70% come from poor countries. </font></b></div> </td> <td width="44%" height="136" valign="top"><font size="2">Last year<font color="#660000"> <b><font color="#CC0000">10 million children were forced into prostitution</font></b></font> (<font size="1">UNICEF</font> estimate). If money was budgeted to save them, there is no record of it.</font></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="56%" valign="top" height="127"> <div align="right"><font size="2">Last year <font color="#CC0000"><b>4.2 million died from TB</b></font>, while we spent 645 million to combat it. WHO estimates 2 billion (1/3 world population) have the disease.</font></div> </td> <td width="44%" height="127"> <div align="center"><a href="http://bruceperu.org/del08.03.html"><img src="tb%20victim.jpg" width="95" height="117" border="0" alt="TB victim"></a><br> <font color="#666666" size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">TB sufferer</font></div> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="99%" border="1" height="176" bordercolor="#FF0000"> <tr valign="top"> <td height="190"> <div align="center"><font size="3" color="#000000">I have included here some of the sad realities of life in our global community today. As for causes. they are numerous: from overpopulation, trade inequities, corruption, intolerant ideologies, religious rivalries, greed, ambition, incompassion, unwillingness of proud democracies to submit to the international democracy: the United Nations. </font></div> </td> </tr> </table> <tr> <td height="2"> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <!-- Begin Nedstat Basic code --> <!-- Title: Bruce Peru --> <!-- URL: http://bruceperu.com/ --> <div align="left"><font size="4"><b><font color="#FFFFFF">.</font>The tally:</b></font><br> <font size="2"> <b><font color="#FF0000"><u><font color="#000000">Terror victims,</font></u></font></b> <font color="#FF0000"><b>4,000</b></font>, <u>Funds dedicated to save them,</u> <font color="#336600"> <b>$370 Billion</b></font><font color="#00CC00"><font color="#339900"><br> <font color="#000000"><b>Victims of Pandemics &amp; Mass Crimes</b> (AIDS, Malaria, Tb,</font><font size="2"><font color="#00CC00"><font color="#339900"><font color="#000000"> Slaves,</font></font></font></font><font color="#000000"> Trafficed women &amp; child prostitutes, Democide, homeless kids) - <font color="#FF0000"><b><font color="#000000">Victims,</font> 347 million</b></font>. <font color="#FFFFFF">.</font><u>Funds dedicated to save them</u></font> - <b><font color="#336600">$12 Billion</font></b></font></font></font></div> </div> </td> <td width="1%" height="900"> <div align="left"></div> </td> <td align=left valign=top width="50%" height="900"> <table border=0 bordercolor=blue cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=370> <tbody> <td align=right valign=top width=187 height="539"> <div align="center"><img src="malaria%20mosquito.jpg" width="182" height="163" alt="malaria mosquito"><br> <font size="2" color="#333333">The Malaria Mosquito</font><br> <font size="1" color="#000000"><b><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="child%20slave%20prostitutes.jpg" width="175" height="121" border="0" alt="sex slaves"></font></b></font><br> <font size="1" color="#000000"><font color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Tricked, trafficked &amp; forced into prostitution</font></font><font size="1" color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><br> <img src="democide.jpg" width="185" height="211" border="0" alt="emocide"> Victims of Democide</font></div> </td> <td valign=top width="197" height="539"> <p class=homeboxes> <font size="4"><br> Last year <font color="#CC0000"><b><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">3.5 million people died of Malaria</font></b></font>. 85 million was spent on research to prevent it, 400 million catch it each year, it is the disease that kills the most </font><font size="2"><font size="4"><u>African children........<br> </u></font> </font><font size="2"><font size="4"><u> <br> </u></font> </font> <font size="2">Last year, the United Nations estimates,<font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <font color="#CC0000"> <b>4 million women were forced (through lies and coercion) to become slave prostitutes</b></font></font>. There is no estimate of the amount of money and resources we spent to find and free these victims, but <u>everyone accepts it was very little</u></font> <br> <font size="4">Last year approximately <b><font color="#CC0000">1 million people died by democide</font></b> (state terror, Government executions, genocide, mass murder). Much of it was predictable, but almost nothing and no money was invested to prevent it.</font> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <table align=top border=1 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=367> <tr> <td align=right valign=top width=162 height="167"> <img border=0 src="streetview.jpg" width="210" height="247" alt="street children"> </td> <td valign=top width="205" height="167"> <font color="#990033" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="2" color="#000000">Last year there were</font><b><font size="2"> over 100 million homeless children on the Earth</font></b></font>. <font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Next year there will be more. Governments are not doing much to help them. NGOs are doing what they can, but they are too few with too few resources. If we care enough to help them we must demand that our elected governments </font> put doing so on their egenda. 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