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aljazeera@squeet.me
Al Jazeera (unofficial)

Can we ever put an end to global hunger? | Counting the Cost

There is no shortage of food being produced globally. Yet, more than 735 million people faced chronic hunger in 2022.The United Nations has called for urgent...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #business #countingthecost #economy #food #hunger #latestnews #newsheadlines #poverty
Can we ever put an end to global hunger? | Counting the Cost

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drnoam@diasp.org
Noam Bergman

We can eliminate #poverty: but we have decided not to

#Tory MP and our trade secretary Kemi Badenoch tweeted:
“We don’t have a cure for poverty. If we did, we would have done it already.”

Of course, we know how to tackle poverty. As a matter of fact, there is less poverty in the #UK than once there was. As a result, unless you are wilfully blind, it is apparent that we do know how to tackle this issue.

The answers are relatively straightforward. Apart from paying decent benefits and appropriate pensions (neither of which happens in the UK at present) we also need to:

  • Build affordable social housing in sufficient quantity that everybody might enjoy it.
  • Ensure that essential public services, such as water, gas, electricity, telecoms and transport are affordably accessible to everyone.
  • Guarantee free healthcare and social care from cradle to grave.
  • Deliver high-quality education so that people can, if they wish, change their situations and are encouraged to do so.
  • Have a policy of full employment at a living wage.

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The choice is simple. Do we run the #economy in the interests of those who are in need, or for the benefit of those who already have a great deal but want more? That is the political question that we need to answer now. To add piquancy, human life can only survive one of those choices. That should make deciding fairly easy.

#sustainability #capitalism #tories

We can eliminate poverty: but we have decided not to

The choice is simple. Do we run an economy for those who are in need, or for those who already have a great deal but want more?

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anonymiss@despora.de
anonymiss

#MrBeast builds 100 wells in #Africa, attracting praise – and some #criticism

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/11/06/africa/mrbeast-100-wells-africa-intl-scli/index.html

She praised Donaldson for shining the spotlight on the need for clean water supply but warned that “the issue is sustainability. It’s one thing to go in and install the well, it’s another thing for us to go back to three, four, or five years from now, and see if that well is still functional.”

When will Elon unlock free satellite internet for Africa?

#ethics #poverty #water #donation #entertainment #YouTube #news #world #humanRights

MrBeast builds 100 wells in Africa, attracting praise – and some criticism | CNN

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anonymiss

#Pope Francis criticizes #capitalism

source: https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_exhortations/documents/20231004-laudate-deum.html

As usual, it would seem that everything is the fault of the poor. Yet the reality is that a low, richer percentage of the planet contaminates more than the poorest 50% of the total world population, and that per capita emissions of the richer countries are much greater than those of the poorer ones.

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Deep down, it consists in thinking “as if reality, goodness and truth automatically flow from technological and economic power as such”. As a logical consequence, it then becomes easy “to accept the idea of infinite or unlimited growth, which proves so attractive to economists, financiers and experts in #technology”.

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One need but think of the momentary excitement raised by the money received in exchange for the deposit of nuclear waste in a certain place. The house that one could have bought with that money has turned into a grave due to the diseases that were then unleashed.

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Once and for all, let us put an end to the irresponsible derision that would present this issue as something purely ecological, “green”, romantic, frequently subject to ridicule by economic interests. Let us finally admit that it is a human and social #problem on any number of levels. For this reason, it calls for involvement on the part of all.

**I myself am surprised to hear such wise words from the #Vatican, which I have never before mentioned with praise in my timeline

#criticism #economy #climate #environment #nature #poverty #earth #church #religion #warning #society #future #emissions #ecology #news

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Mark Lansbury

UK ‘in violation of international law’ over poverty levels, says UN envoy

Poverty levels in the UK are “simply not acceptable” and the [UK] government is violating international law, the United Nations’ poverty envoy has said ahead of a visit to the country this week, when he will urge ministers to increase welfare spending.

Olivier De Schutter, the UN’s special rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, cited research showing universal credit payments of £85 a week for single adults over 25 were “grossly insufficient” and described the UK’s main welfare system as “a leaking bucket”.

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/nov/05/uk-poverty-levels-simply-not-acceptable-says-un-envoy-olivier-de-schutter

#UnitedKingdom #UK #poverty #InternationalLaw #violations #hunger #food #shelter #Dystopia #ToryFascists #ToryDictatorship #ToryFascistDictatorship

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad A

DR #Congo: Death Toll Rises to 47, Shipwreck

On late Monday, the Minister of Transport Marc Ekila said that the death toll has risen to 47 after a boat carrying about 300 people sank four days ago in the province of Equateur in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

According to official data, the shipwreck, which occurred Friday night on the Congo River, killed at least 47 people, while an unknown number remains missing, said the minister.

He also specified that the tragedy was due to "overloading."

"As the boat was in an irregular situation, we were unable to obtain the manifest which could allow us to determine exactly the number of passengers who were on board," he added.

#Africa #Catastrophe #poverty

faab64@diasp.org
Farhad A

DR #Congo: Death Toll Rises to 47, Shipwreck

On late Monday, the Minister of Transport Marc Ekila said that the death toll has risen to 47 after a boat carrying about 300 people sank four days ago in the province of Equateur in the northwestern Democratic Republic of the Congo.

According to official data, the shipwreck, which occurred Friday night on the Congo River, killed at least 47 people, while an unknown number remains missing, said the minister.

He also specified that the tragedy was due to "overloading."

"As the boat was in an irregular situation, we were unable to obtain the manifest which could allow us to determine exactly the number of passengers who were on board," he added.

#Africa #Catastrophe #poverty

aljazeera@squeet.me
Al Jazeera (unofficial)

Paul Kagame: Africans can't permanently stay in a 'victim' position | Talk to Al Jazeera

Paul Kagame has ruled Rwanda for 23 years.The small, landlocked country of 13 million people has come a long way since the civil war and genocide of 1994. Rw...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #africa #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #democracy #development #humanrights #latestnews #newsheadlines #paulkagame #politics #poverty #rwanda #talktoaljazeera
Paul Kagame: Africans can't permanently stay in a 'victim' position | Talk to Al Jazeera

digit@iviv.hu
Digit

quick,
destroy more,
make shoddier,
replace sooner,
externalities, externalities, externalities,
rebrand the devil angelic,
keep telling the slaves they're free,
destroy the competition,
suppress the innovations that obsolete the rents.

look at all that churn.
look at all that wealth transfer.
pay no attention to the orders magnitude more wealth destroyed.
keep calling wealth extraction maximisation "profit".
keep calling poverty a virtue to the impoverished.
keep saying the churn is progress and riches.
trot out worshippers of the Gross Domestic Product.

dont you just love capitalism?
maybe capitalist barons care.
maybe this psycho is best.
believe harder. the lies are true.
buy more.

stay dependent,
on your abuser,
because they took everything.
dont you just love capitalism?

#digitspoems #capitalism #churn #GDP #TheCorporation #ThePsychopath #wealthextractionmaximisation #poverty #marketing #advertising #plannedobsolescence #dependence #austerity #rentierism #rents #barons #bigbaron #buy #buybuybuy #consumerism #economics #freedom #deception #emancipation #oppression #orwellianism

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aljazeera@squeet.me
Al Jazeera (unofficial)

Poverty in South Africa: Many families await better living conditions in Eastern Cape

Former South African President Nelson Mandela is just one of many prominent politicians born in the province of Eastern Cape.Still, it is one of the poorest ...#AfricanNationalCongress #AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #EasternCape #FormerSouthAfricanPresidentNelsonMandela #Poverty #PovertyandDevelopment #PovertyinSouthAfrica #SouthAfrica #aljazeera #aljazeeraenglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #latestnews #newsheadlines
Poverty in South Africa: Many families await better living conditions in Eastern Cape

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