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EX500rider

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11. I don't recall that was my premise

Reply to mike_c (Reply #10)

Mon Mar 18, 2024, 03:54 PM

Mar 18

My premise was why one gets front page news and the other is on page nine if you can find it at all even though it's multitudes worse cases of starvation

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18 million people are facing acute hunger, and more than five million are experiencing emergency levels of hunger.. [View all] EX500rider Mar 18 OP

The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind... comradebillyboy Mar 18 #1

We need another hands across America. We did this in the 80's and saved Africa. jimfields33 Mar 18 #2

To use a well-worn cliche..... Coventina Mar 18 #3

Thank you for raising awareness. Frasier Balzov Mar 18 #4

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I've been wondering that myself. n/t shrike3 Mar 18 #7

Hunger anywhere is a tragedy. Elessar Zappa Mar 18 #8

K&R betsuni Mar 18 #9

in 2023 we sent $880 million in aid to Sudan and its neighbors. mike_c Mar 18 #10

I don't recall that was my premise EX500rider Mar 18 #11

Lack of Jews to blame and no propaganda network TheKentuckian Mar 18 #12

Trick Question John Shaft Mar 18 #13

We should be helping much much more. onecaliberal Mar 18 #14

I agree with your point about the lack of protests. Clearly, the U.S. should not be giving any aid to the nation that is TeamProg Mar 18 #15

And it is all being financed by the global powers malaise Mar 18 #16

What Global power is financing the war in the Sudan? EX500rider Mar 18 #18

I've noticed that its the same with diseases 70sEraVet Mar 18 #17

Hunger happens one person at a time and it doesn't make them bleed Warpy Mar 18 #19

Oh sorry... justaprogressive Mar 19 #20

Somehow I don't think millions are about to starve death in the US EX500rider Mar 19 #22

Oh really? justaprogressive Mar 19 #23

You seem to equate food insecurity with starvation EX500rider Mar 19 #24

Similar things are going down in Haiti JCMach1 Mar 19 #21