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UN food chief roasts 'overfed' West [Upset $Bn being "wasted" on feeding obese people in the West]
Livenews.com ^ | 3/06/2008 | staff writer

Posted on 06/04/2008 9:09:37 AM PDT by yankeedame

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To: Army Air Corps

Jacques Diofus should check those Swiss and offshore bank accounts of various dictators around the world, in which a pro rata share of my stolen American aid tax dollars are earning a nice return for said dictators. Plenty of stolen billions to feed people there, Jacques. Furthermore, why castigate the West? There are plenty of super-rich and overfed Gulf sheiks and “princes” too.


61 posted on 06/04/2008 10:20:45 AM PDT by Cecily
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To: yankeedame

This coming from a pissant at an organization that wastes and steals hundreds of billions of dollars every year. I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.


62 posted on 06/04/2008 10:21:35 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: 4yearlurker
It's not the evil little American fat kid eating his cotton candy thats starving the little African kid. It's the Despots,dictators and war lords feeding their armies and families.

It's neither of those. It's the little African kid's parents who fornicate all day churning out a dozen other kids who they also can't feed.

The arable land and other finite resources that would have 200 million - their population in 1950 - living reasonably well instead have 800 million living cheek and jowl and desperately snapping (or machete-ing as the case may be) at each other.

And if we send them more of our food the way this UN busybody would like, the only thing they'll make of it is even more Africans to spread that food just as thinly as it is now.

63 posted on 06/04/2008 10:23:36 AM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: ctdonath2
an estimated $1.2 trillion was spent on weapons in 2006 while aid to agriculture fell by more than half, from $8 billion in 1984 to $3.4 billion in 2004.

Apples and slices of oranges. What's the figure on the TOTAL spent on food - not just "aid", but all food?

That's not apples and oranges, it's Bull and spit. We passed a 307 billion dollar farm bill last month.

64 posted on 06/04/2008 10:27:47 AM PDT by CGTRWK
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To: yankeedame

While our ships containing tons of relief supplies for the victims in Myanmar (Burma) were turned away.

SKREW ‘EM!


65 posted on 06/04/2008 10:28:17 AM PDT by dbacks (Taglines for sale or rent.)
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To: norton

I believe I saw a post yesterday or the day before that the ship had left.


66 posted on 06/04/2008 10:28:31 AM PDT by Pontiac (Your message here.)
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To: yankeedame

The quote that great philosopher Sam Kenison.

“You live in a desert! Nothing grows there! MOVE! You see all this surrounding you? Do you see it? Its called sand. You know what its going to be in 20 years? Its still going to be #$%$ing sand! MOVE!”


67 posted on 06/04/2008 10:31:04 AM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: yankeedame

Well apparently the U.N. reps from Burma don’t think that starving people need food. Perhaps the UN food guy should speak to them first and fore most before castigating those countries who donated the rejected food.


68 posted on 06/04/2008 10:36:41 AM PDT by rod1
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To: yankeedame

People aren’t starving around the world because of an inadequate food supply. They starve because of their corrupt and inept governments.


69 posted on 06/04/2008 10:40:46 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: CGTRWK

Hey,I think you hit on it!

Don’t send sacks of flour. Send condoms.

I don’t think it’s the kids fault his parents “fornicate all day.”


70 posted on 06/04/2008 10:46:21 AM PDT by 4yearlurker ("Give them Watts boys!!")
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To: Centurion2000

“Like this POS has never had foie gras, creme brulee or champaigne?”

Actually he was served that at the conference to discuss the starving poeple. Oh and I think they had lobster as well.


71 posted on 06/04/2008 10:50:06 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: yankeedame

Then we stop ALL food aid. Every last bit.

Inside of 6 months, the problem solves itself.

Next question ???


72 posted on 06/04/2008 10:58:49 AM PDT by Salgak (Acme Lasers presents: The Energizer Border: I dare you to try and cross it. . .)
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To: ncfool

One World Order!


73 posted on 06/04/2008 11:43:07 AM PDT by Southerngl
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To: yankeedame

Obama will see that Americans starve right along side the Africans. Capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. Socialism is the equal distribution of poverty.


74 posted on 06/04/2008 12:33:07 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (When hopelessness replaces hope, it opens the door to evil.)
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To: Pontiac

Found it, leaving ‘Thursday’, which I think could be today:
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewForeignBureaus.asp?Page=/ForeignBureaus/archive/200806/FOR20080604b.html


75 posted on 06/04/2008 12:33:25 PM PDT by norton
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To: yankeedame
The vast majority of starvation is caused by political strife. There's plenty of food. The problem is that there are many governments that use starvations as both a tool and as a weapon. Then again, there are some people who live in places where you can't grow food... As the late Sam Kineson said, don't send them food. Send them U-Haul trailers! They live where there isn't any food!

Mark

76 posted on 06/04/2008 12:42:10 PM PDT by MarkL (Al Gore: The Greenhouse Gasbag! (heard on Bob Brinker's Money Talk))
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To: yankeedame

“UN Food Chief...” Right... I have 3 words too... “Food For Oil” Anybody remember that UN scandal? Was this guy involved in it?

Mark


77 posted on 06/04/2008 12:46:11 PM PDT by MarkL (Al Gore: The Greenhouse Gasbag! (heard on Bob Brinker's Money Talk))
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To: dirtboy

Mali's President, Alpha Oumar Konaré together with Jacques Diouf, FAO Director

78 posted on 06/04/2008 1:32:37 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei (Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder. [Arnold Toynbee])
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