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  • Guilty of genocide: the leader who unleashed a 'Red Terror' on Africa

    12/12/2006 4:08:25 PM PST · by MadIvan · 13 replies · 479+ views
    The Times ^ | December 13, 2006 | Jonathon Clayton
    Ethiopia’s brutal Marxist dictator, known as the African Pol Pot, became the first fallen leader to be found guilty yesterday of genocide in his own country after a 12-year trial.Mengistu Haile Mariam, the former President, who fled to Zimbabwe in 1991, was accused along with top members of his military Government of killing thousands during his 17-year rule. The period was marked by vicious crackdowns on opponents, disastrous wars with neighbouring countries and rebel groups and devastating famines in which starvation was used to force peasants into submission. “Members of the Derg [Government] who are present in court today and...
  • It’s All About Control: The Elite Plan for the Great Food Reset

    11/03/2024 4:21:52 AM PST · by MtnClimber · 65 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 3 Nov, 2024 | Janet Levy
    By getting governments to over-regulate farming, elite oligarchs like Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab aim to take control over food production in the name of sustainability. Besides ‘degrowth’ and ‘net zero,’ one other dangerous buzz phrase being bandied about by proponents of the Great Reset is “nature-positive food systems.” The stated goal of moving to new food systems is to reduce nitrogen emissions, livestock production, and meat consumption. This is to be achieved by consuming plant-based products, lab-grown foods, and insects (as a source of protein). The moot question, however, is whether such a change is at all necessary? The...
  • Joe Biden Quietly Gives Mozambique $41 Million

    08/22/2022 11:50:37 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 25 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 08/22/2022 | John Hayward
    The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said on Sunday it received $41 million in funding from the U.S. government for emergency aid in Mozambique. The WFP also said the United States is buying 150,000 metric tons of grain from Ukraine for shipment to African countries facing drought and starvation.
  • Grace Mugabe is immune from prosecution in Hong Kong (repeatedly punched photographer in the face)

    03/22/2009 10:05:38 AM PDT · by Stoat · 22 replies · 1,050+ views
    The Times (U.K.) ^ | March 22,2009 | Jane Macartney
    (edit)Hong Kong-based British photographer Richard Jones encountered the 43-year-old wife of Robert Mugabe as she walked down a street near her luxury hotel in the heart of the city to go shopping.She punched him in the face when he tried to take pictures of her on January 15, leaving Mr Jones with bruises and cuts where her diamond-encrusted ring had smashed into his face. Mr Jones told AFP: "I think it's a disgrace for the Hong Kong government to allow a person to walk on a street in Hong Kong, punch a member of the media, and walk free from...
  • ‘Don’t Let Food into the Cities’: Evo Morales Caught on Tape Planning Starvation in Bolivia

    11/21/2019 5:36:00 AM PST · by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget · 36 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 20 Nov 2019 | Frances Martel
    The conservative government of Bolivia published an audio file on Wednesday, allegedly of a conversation between a socialist activist and former President Evo Morales in which the latter ordered him to ensure that socialist rioters prevented food and basic goods from getting to the nation’s cities. Morales resigned from the presidency two weeks ago, after 13 years in power, following the revelation of widespread fraud in the October elections he claimed had earned him another five-year term. He then fled to Mexico and claimed to be the victim of a “coup,” although he voluntarily resigned, and is now demanding that...
  • Sundowning: Late-day confusion

    06/30/2024 2:57:43 PM PDT · by Eli Kopter · 42 replies
    Mayo Clinic ^ | Unknown | Jonathan Graff-Radford, M.D.
    I've heard that sundowning may happen with dementia. What is sundowning and how is it treated? Answer From Jonathan Graff-Radford, M.D. The term "sundowning" refers to a state of confusion that occurs in the late afternoon and lasts into the night. Sundowning can cause various behaviors, such as confusion, anxiety, aggression or ignoring directions. Sundowning also can lead to pacing or wandering. Sundowning isn't a disease. It's a group of symptoms that occurs at a specific time of the day. These symptoms may affect people with Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia. The exact cause of sundowning is not...
  • Sudan may become ‘world’s largest humanitarian crisis,’ McCain warns

    06/09/2024 6:27:21 PM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 41 replies
    The hill ^ | 06/09/2024 | SARAH FORTINSKY
    World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain warned Sunday of the worsening humanitarian crisis in Sudan. In an interview on CBS News’s “Face the Nation,” McCain stressed the importance of “safe and unfettered access” for the organization to deliver food to the war-torn country. country. “Sudan has the real possibility of becoming the world’s largest humanitarian crisis,” McCain said. “We cannot get food in — we can barely get food in — we certainly aren’t getting it in at scale, and you see the results of what can happen if people aren’t fed.” McCain noted that the situation is...
  • College Students Announce Indefinite Hunger Strike For Palestine Between 10 AM And Noon And Also Between 1 PM and 5 PM Every Day Except For Some Light Snacking

    05/14/2024 4:24:53 AM PDT · by servo1969 · 13 replies
    BabylonBee.com ^ | 5-13-2024 | Bee Staff
    U.S. — College Students protesting Israel announced an indefinite hunger strike on Monday, which they say will occur between the hours of 10 AM and 5 PM, with an hour for lunch at noon with only some light snacking permitted from time to time. "We mean business!" said Princeton University student Jezebel Bashar. "It will be hard to eat absolutely nothing for part of the day followed by an after-lunch period of a few hours of not eating again, but we are committed!" On the first day of the hunger strike, protestors appeared visibly weakened with many resorting to emergency...
  • Cindy McCain says hunger in Haiti is ‘catastrophic’ amid gang violence

    03/31/2024 11:52:17 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 73 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/31/2024 | MIRANDA NAZZARO
    Cindy McCain, the executive director of the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) sounded the alarm on hunger in Haiti as gang violence rages on in the Caribbean nation. “It’s catastrophic. We…WFP are still in there, and we are working in the north somewhat and somewhat down towards the center, but it’s a very dicey situation,” McCain said Sunday during an interview on CBS News’s “Face The Nation.” “We are continuing our school feeding programs, but once again, as you’ve seen, there have been evacuations of U.N. personnel out of there.”
  • Cuba 'on verge of total collapse' as country hit by blackouts and runs out of food and power

    03/19/2024 9:07:35 AM PDT · by re_tail20 · 49 replies
    Daily Star ^ | March 19, 2024 | Joe Faretra
    The crisis in Cuba has seen its government approach the United Nations for aid to address its food shortage, as residents take to the streets in a rare sign of social unrest Cuba is "on the verge of total collapse" as the country has been hit by blackouts with residents taking to the streets calling for "food and power". The crisis has seen the Cuban government approach the United Nations for aid to address its food shortage. As the Caribbean island goes through its harshest economic crisis in three decades, the communist regime is resorting to hitherto unseen cries for...
  • Cuba blames US for stoking protests amid power cuts and food shortages

    03/18/2024 8:04:47 PM PDT · by dynachrome · 50 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 3-18-24 | Ruaridh Nicoll in Havana
    The Cuban government has summoned the US ambassador, Benjamin Ziff, to its foreign ministry, accusing Washington of stoking a protest which saw hundreds of people take to the streets in the island’s second city of Santiago de Cuba. The demonstration late on Sunday was a rare public show of disenchantment against Cuba’s communist government, and was apparently led by parents struggling to feed their children in the face of a worsening food crisis. The protesters reportedly chanted: “Without electricity and food, the people get hot.” Power cuts of up to 18 hours a day have meant that as the island...
  • Center for Economic Justice and Action at UCSC leading University system participation in “End Hunger and Build Healthy Communities” challenge

    03/01/2024 3:50:02 PM PST · by artichokegrower · 29 replies
    KION ^ | February 29, 2024 | By Victor Guzman
    A nationwide call to end hunger and reduce diet-related diseases has been answered by more than 100 entities, including the University of California system which will be led by staff at the Center for Economic Justice and Action at UC-Santa Cruz. The recently announced program from the White House has received 141 commitments. The University of California would pave the way for advancing "current and new efforts" to help students with essential needs.
  • Climate change, hunger and HIV are a triple threat to vulnerable African women

    02/13/2024 10:43:59 AM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 20 replies
    The Hill ^ | 02/13/2024 | ANDREA LOW
    “I have no other way out,” said Inês, a mother of four in the Mutauanha Piloto neighborhood of Nampula, Mozambique, who was interviewed by a member of my team. “I have children to support, I have to take risks.” Every year, Inês cultivates a small crop of tomatoes and onions to sell, and every year, it gets harder to produce enough. So she turned to sex work in exchange for food. In 2007, she learned she was HIV-positive. I have been working in the field of HIV care and research for over 20 years as an infectious disease physician and...
  • North Koreans Dying of Starvation Following COVID Isolation Measures, Residents Reveal: Report

    06/17/2023 11:23:11 PM PDT · by nickcarraway · 9 replies
    New York Post ^ | June 17, 2023 | Matthew Sedacca
    North Koreans are fighting starvation as the Hermit Kingdom continues its isolation from the rest of the world. Three residents of the totalitarian state secretly communicated with the BBC for months, detailing the horrors of watching their neighbors starve to death as they struggle to survive what may prove to be an even worse hunger crisis than North Korea’s famine in the 1990s, which killed three million people. “At first, I was afraid of dying from Covid,” one construction worker told the broadcaster, “but then I began to worry about starving to death.” Following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic...
  • Cuts to SNAP benefits will push millions over the hunger cliff

    03/07/2023 1:53:34 PM PST · by ChicagoConservative27 · 58 replies
    The Hill ^ | 03/07/2023 | KAREN DOLAN,
    Millions of people in the U.S. are now facing the precipice of a hunger cliff. Starting in 2020, the pandemic pulled back the curtain on the tattered state of the U.S. safety net and the millions of families who were falling through. Hunger rates were expected to soar like they did during the Great Recession. But that’s not what happened. Thanks to a pandemic expansion of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, millions of Americans kept food on their tables during an unprecedented public health and economic emergency. These “emergency allotments” made food easier to access and increased the number...
  • White House gains partners to end US hunger within a decade

    09/28/2022 8:03:52 AM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 56 replies
    The Associated Press ^ | September 28, 2022 | By ASHRAF KHALIL
    WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration is counting on a variety of private-sector partnerships to help fund and implement its ambitious goal of ending hunger in America by 2030. Biden’s administration released a list of more than $8 billion in commitments to the cause from private companies, charitable foundations and industry groups. They range from outright donations to in-kind contributions of services and include: —A $20 million commitment from the Novo Nordisk pharmaceutical company to improve access to healthy foods and safe spaces for physical activity in marginalized communities. —A $3.85 million commitment from the Publix grocery store chain to...
  • Hunger In America: Why Hasn't It Already Been Ended?

    09/25/2022 5:23:35 AM PDT · by MtnClimber · 58 replies
    Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 24 Sep, 2022 | Francis Menton
    As you may know, the Biden Administration is planning to hold its big “White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition and Health” this coming Wednesday, September 28. Apparently, we are to believe that “hunger” is and remains a significant problem today in the United States. Thankfully, we have President Biden and his many minions hard at work on the job, with a promise to finally end this scourge of human hunger once and for all. According to the announcement of the conference, “The Biden-Harris Administration has set the goal of ending hunger . . . by 2030.” But wait a minute...
  • "The Benefits of World Hunger"

    08/31/2022 10:11:37 AM PDT · by quikstrike98 · 30 replies
    United Nations ^ | United Nations
    This is who our "betters" are.
  • Are edible insects the solution to hunger?

    08/05/2022 7:34:27 PM PDT · by Pining_4_TX · 35 replies
    wfxg.com ^ | 08/03/2022 | Fox News
    While Americans aren't lining up to scarf down a bowl of crickets, consuming insects as part of a balanced diet is a critical part to the culture of many other countries around the world. And, the trend could be taking off here in the states, as biologists say edible insects can provide solutions to hunger and climate change. Insects are going from pests to protein packed menu items, with the potential to combat the world's ongoing hunger and climate crises. "They're low in fat. they're high in nutrients, minerals, uh, calcium. uh, so they're good for you." Unlike traditional forms...
  • Ukraine urges Lebanon to block ship with grain from leaving

    08/03/2022 12:58:55 PM PDT · by McGruff · 5 replies
    The Washington Times ^ | August 3, 2022 | Kareem Chehayeb
    Ukraine’s ambassador to Lebanon on Wednesday insisted a Syrian ship docked at a Lebanese port is carrying stolen Ukrainian grain and urged Lebanon to block the vessel from leaving. The claim comes just days before the tiny cash-strapped country receives Ukraine’s first grain shipment since Russia’s invasion began over five months ago. The Syrian-flagged Laodicea has been anchored at the port of Tripoli since it arrived last Thursday, carrying 10,000 tons of wheat flour and barley. Ukraine says the grain was stolen by Russia.