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Facing Famine, 20 Million People Need Food, Not Bombs
Monterey Herald ^ | 03/17/17, | Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan

Posted on 03/17/2017 8:20:48 PM PDT by artichokegrower

The world is facing the most serious humanitarian catastrophe since the end of World War II. Twenty million people are at risk of starving to death in Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria and South Sudan. Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is responding by slamming the door on refugees and cutting aid funding while proposing a massive expansion of the U.S. military.

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To: Dilbert San Diego

The sanctimonious Gates Foundation is donating billions to Africa to plant crops. I believe they will be GMO crops with gene-splicing that in some way will lower the birth rate by a large percent.


21 posted on 03/17/2017 8:38:57 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: artichokegrower

Sounds like a rerun of the old ‘80s leftist group Food Not Bombs. They could get rough, not as violent as today’s lefties tho.

A friend of my daughter’s got involved with them, now is a yuuuuge conservative and Trump supporter. Yes, I did lecture her a lot.


22 posted on 03/17/2017 8:42:11 PM PDT by Veto! (Opinions freely dispensed as advice)
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To: Dilbert San Diego; artichokegrower; Roger Kaputnik
South Sudan is not a Muslim nation. It's about 60% Christian, 33% are followers of African Traditional Religion which is sometimes mixed with Christian tradition and about 6% Muslim.

The reason there is a South Sudan is the Muslim dominated north was trying to subjugate all the Southerners with their radical Islamic beliefs. It was a long nasty war that resulted in the partitioning of Sudan. As a result of the war South Sudan was devastated and they are still trying to rebuild.

23 posted on 03/17/2017 8:46:01 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: Veto!

Maybe Gates will offer some more powerful vaccines to stave off hunger and famine.


24 posted on 03/17/2017 8:47:05 PM PDT by davidb56
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To: artichokegrower

They just need to listen to Sam Kinison’s advice.


25 posted on 03/17/2017 8:47:30 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Dilbert San Diego; artichokegrower; Roger Kaputnik
Religion in South Sudan by the 2012 Pew Research on Religion[1] Note that other sources give differing figures.

Christianity (60.5%)

Traditional African religion (32.9%)

Islam (6.2%)

Other (0.4%)

26 posted on 03/17/2017 8:48:53 PM PDT by BBell (calm down and eat your sandwiches)
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To: ealgeone

Now now the Holy Land foundation has done a lot of charitable work!


27 posted on 03/17/2017 8:49:57 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: ealgeone

Now now the Holy Land foundation has done a lot of charitable work!


28 posted on 03/17/2017 8:49:59 PM PDT by Phil DiBasquette
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To: max americana

Apparently this just started happening 2 months ago.....


29 posted on 03/17/2017 8:50:26 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: artichokegrower

These people actually need tubal ligations and vasectomies.

30 posted on 03/17/2017 8:50:46 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: artichokegrower

It’s also not America’s problem.


31 posted on 03/17/2017 8:51:22 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: artichokegrower

so bring food to the people not people sent to other countries in hopes of food.

With all the feeding programs in so many parts of the world for decades and they cannot figure a way to join forces and handle this too? or at least give their methods and ideas so others with means can figure a way to feed these people in their home countries not ship them all over the globe.


32 posted on 03/17/2017 8:53:19 PM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

[[Christian charities have been active in third world countries for decades delivering aid. What about Moslems???]]

Why moslems are spreading charity all over Germany, Sweden, Britain etc etc- They can’t help it if western women don’t like to be raped


33 posted on 03/17/2017 8:54:11 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: artichokegrower

You can’t save a people from themselves.
You can’t drag people with a culture of poverty and famine out of poverty and famine.
You can’t force a people stuck in early iron age to move into the modern era.

All assistance simply causes more babies to be born which will then be more people reduced by famine and poverty.

Assistance to such peoples is evil.


34 posted on 03/17/2017 8:55:32 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: artichokegrower

Not our job to feed every nation, at least we need to get our own country squared away.

We are being drained by do-gooding blood suckers


35 posted on 03/17/2017 8:56:15 PM PDT by madison10 (Bless you, Mr. DJ Trump.)
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Sorry, we’re busy trying to figure out how to help all the homeless, jobless and hungry we have here in the US due to the Obamination of the economy and the Obamination of our treasury. We’ll get around to helping Africa’s starving masses after we’ve taken care of our own. Go ask the EU and the Arab Union for money and aid - after all, they’re rich and they’re closer.


36 posted on 03/17/2017 8:56:29 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: artichokegrower

So all this started a little over 50 days ago. /s


37 posted on 03/17/2017 8:58:10 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (There will come a time when those screaming Fascists are in fact the actual Facists. W Church)
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To: artichokegrower

Yeah we’re exoanding our military to try and make their hellhole nations more stable while they sneak in here to rail against us


38 posted on 03/17/2017 8:59:57 PM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: artichokegrower

Good for him,


40 posted on 03/17/2017 9:00:52 PM PDT by Ace the Biker
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