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World’s richest man calls $6 billion bluff
https://thehornnews.com ^ | November 1, 2021 | A.P. contributed

Posted on 11/01/2021 1:31:23 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

Edited on 11/01/2021 1:49:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, says he will sell $6 billion worth of Tesla stock and donate the proceeds to the United Nations’ food agency if it could show how the money would solve world hunger.

His statement came after U.N. World Food Programme Executive Director David Beasley challenged Musk, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and other billionaires in a CNN interview last week, calling on them to step up on “a one-time basis” to help end starvation.


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KEYWORDS: davidbeasley; elonmusk; solarcity; spacex; tesla; unitednations; untiednations; worldfoodprogramme
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To: Mr. Blond

and Musk knows this, and thus his bluff!


21 posted on 11/01/2021 1:53:47 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: RockyTx

Local warlords and all that follow them should be made extinct.


22 posted on 11/01/2021 1:53:57 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Is their idea to give men fish, or teach men to fish?


23 posted on 11/01/2021 1:56:01 PM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: Mr. Blond

I interned for a certain mission in Skid Row when I first started. As a Christian, I get it: help others. HOWEVER, I asked someone “within the church” how exactly are we helping others by giving them something, when there is no benefit to working for it?

They looked at me like I was the spawn of satan. I even reversed it “if I expect free food 3 times a day without working..why work?”. Again that look.


24 posted on 11/01/2021 1:56:22 PM PDT by max americana (FIRED LEFTARD employees at our office every election since 2008 and enjoyed seeing them cry.)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

WTF makes him think they want the money for anything but hookers and blow??


25 posted on 11/01/2021 1:56:50 PM PDT by eyeamok (founded in cynicism, wrapped in sarcasm)
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To: EEGator
This is where we disagree. I think they are almost completely incapable. Look at Zimbabwe and South Africa.

Internationalist groups and activists were using pressure campaigns on the blacks in both countries and radicalized them. It's the equivalent of how the Dems radicalized blacks shortly after blacks won civil rights victories. None of what the blacks did in Africa was organic or self-created. It was purposefully done because globalists don't want to see Africans become self-sufficient.

Apartheid was a horrific but a necessary system to modernize Africans and teach them civility. The globalists hated that, so they weaponized the racial aspect of it to bring down both countries.

26 posted on 11/01/2021 2:00:26 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Hi.

Cheap energy, an abundant water supply and a free market produce food. In the desert (greenhouses) or the American plains. For the next hundred years.

Otherwise, you feed the world one meal a day. This year.

Imho.

5.56mm


27 posted on 11/01/2021 2:03:29 PM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: Army Air Corps

Or scamming. It’s a corrupt outfit, so....


28 posted on 11/01/2021 2:04:46 PM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

When do blacks take responsibility for their actions, instead of blaming white people?
I submit it will be never.
The smart black people will use the dumb ones to maintain a perpetual victimhood mentality.


29 posted on 11/01/2021 2:06:15 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
Looks like we're doing pretty good:
Famine-deats-1900-2010
30 posted on 11/01/2021 2:11:59 PM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ; - )
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Hold on there, is it fair to ask how your $6MM is going to be spent? I thought giving money to the UN was an article of faith.


31 posted on 11/01/2021 2:13:08 PM PDT by Hazwaste (Socialists are like slinkies. Only good for pushing down stairs.)
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To: Tunehead54

I notice here in the US, a lot of those children “going to bed hungry every night” seem obese.


32 posted on 11/01/2021 2:13:53 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's Go Brandon!)
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To: Tunehead54

My takeaway from that chart: it looks like famine wasn’t a big problem until the commies began to take over countries starting in 1917.


33 posted on 11/01/2021 2:17:04 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

Love it - put up or shut up, UN.

Man, the amount of DGAF in Elon is high.


34 posted on 11/01/2021 2:17:59 PM PDT by ro_dreaming ("We seem to have gone from 'We the people' to 'Me, the president' in a scant 8 months." - Me)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

“Elon Musk, the richest person in the world, says he will sell $6 billion worth of Tesla stock and donate the proceeds to the United Nations’ food agency if it could show how the money would solve world hunger.”

Nothing can “solve” world hunger. It is systemic.

They have said “”$6 billion to help 42 million people that are literally going to die if we don’t reach them ...”

Therefore it seems they should have to prove that $6B would help 42 million people from starving. Not an easy thing to do.


35 posted on 11/01/2021 2:20:32 PM PDT by plain talk
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36 posted on 11/01/2021 2:24:19 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: SGCOS

Just today.


37 posted on 11/01/2021 2:25:37 PM PDT by eclectic (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: EEGator

They’re being manipulated. They don’t have the intelligence to understand that so that’s why they act that way accordingly.


38 posted on 11/01/2021 2:36:12 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

At the risk of asking a dumb question; why wouldn’t they want Africa self-sufficient?


39 posted on 11/01/2021 2:38:18 PM PDT by Jean2
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To: SGCOS

Elon Musk made about $6 billion in the final 30 minutes of trading today, and he made $22.6 billion for the whole day.


40 posted on 11/01/2021 2:44:58 PM PDT by Chad_the_Impaler
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