Funds shortage forces UN WFP to cut food aid to Yemen
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) today said it will reduce food assistance to war-torn Yemen as of January due to a shortage in funds.WFP said it is running out of funds to provide food aid for 13 million Yemenis. In January, the UN body will provide a reduced food aid ration to eight million people.
It pointed out that, as a result, five million people will be vulnerable to "famine conditions."
"Every time we reduce the amount of food, we know that more people who are already hungry and food insecure will join the ranks of the millions who are starving," said Corinne Fleischer, the WFP regional director for the Middle East and North Africa.
She pointed out that the available resources will be directed to those in "the most critical state," and that 75% of Yemeni children already suffer from acute malnutrition.[4]
Personal Power To Save or NOT To Save Lives
It must be quite a feeling of power to be told you can save 42 million lives of fellow human beings with just 2% of your wealth. The power to save many millions praying to God for food for their starving children. This power includes the power WHEN to save them and of course, incredibly, the power NOT to save them at all.
Allowing a child to starve to death or die of malnutrition will bring a charge of homicide, but in this world dominated by Western capitalist and colonialist 'de-civilization,' allowing millions of children to starve to death will not bring a charge of genocide upon anyone. Reflects a modern adage "Kill one fellow human being, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of human beings, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.
It Would Appear That Allowing Millions of Children to Starve to Death is Not a Crime.
For many years, Bill Gates was the richest man in the world during which time the United Nations would frequently announce without result that $30 billion could basically end hunger on Earth. Gates, with $75 billion owned at least twice as much wealth as the poorest 1/10th of humanity - 750 million fellow human beings suffering hunger throughout the year and watching millions of their children die of starvation. If Bill had given the UN the $30 billion it needed to end hunger everywhere for one year, he would have dropped to fourth richest person in the world. Gates or someone of influence like a US President could have had the 540 American billionaires raise that $30 billion among themselves equitably. Why has this not happened?
In 'Billionaires Not Morally Qualified to Shape Civilization,' Caitlin Johnstone writes,
The United Nations has estimated that world hunger could be ended for an additional expenditure of $30 billion a year" According to Inequality.org, America's billionaires have a combined net worth of $5.1 trillion, which is a 70 percent increase from their combined net worth of under $3 trillion at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.
So, we're talking about a class which could easily put a complete halt to human beings dying of starvation on this planet by simply putting some of their vast fortunes toward making sure everyone gets enough to eat. But they don't. [5]
Multi Billionaires Musk Bezos Zuckerberg Gates et al. Play God With the Lives of Starving Millions
(There are of course multibillionaires who are citizens of other countries, however, Forbes lists only one non-American (French) within the nine wealthiest men in the world.)
There is plenty of food in the world for everyone. The problem is that hungry people are trapped in severe poverty. They lack the money to buy enough food to nourish themselves. Being constantly malnourished, they become weaker and often sick. This makes them increasingly less able to work, which then makes them even poorer and hungrier. This downward spiral often continues until death for them and their families. Those who have entrapped them in severe poverty have committed genocide, which normally is a punishable crime.
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