Remember the world doesn't end at the Pacific and Atlantic shores of North America.

[RB TexLa]

Compared to real world issues, the the downgrade of a rich government's debt to the second highest rating from the highest rating and unemployment mean absolutely nothing.



Famine: 'Hundreds of thousands of kids could die'
DADAAB, Kenya (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa's famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden visited a refugee camp filed with hungry Somalis.

Jill Biden is the highest-profile U.S. visitor to East Africa since the number of refugees coming across the Somali border dramatically increased in July. Biden, who traveled to the camp in a C-130 military transport plane, said she wants to raise awareness and persuade donors to give more.

"One of the reasons to be here is just to ask Americans and people worldwide, the global community, the human family, if they could just reach a little deeper into their pockets and give money to help these poor people, these poor mothers and children," said Biden, who met with two Somali mothers and their eight children.


http://news.yahoo.com/famine-hundreds-thousands-kids-could-die-170801422.html