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Yemen war: WFP accuses Houthi rebels of diverting food aid
The World Food Programme has demanded Yemen's rebel Houthi movement stops diverting desperately needed food aid from people in areas under its control. A survey by the UN agency said people in the capital Sanaa had not received rations to which they were entitled.
The WFP said lorries were illegally removing food from distribution areas, with rations sold on the open market or given to those not entitled to it. There was no response from the Houthis, but they have denied diverting aid.
The UN says some 20 million Yemenis are food insecure and that 10 million of them do not know how they will obtain their next meal.
[...] Earlier on Monday, the Associated Press reported that factions and militias on all sides of the conflict had blocked food aid from going to groups suspected of disloyalty, diverted it to combat units or sold it for profit.
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by linkdude64 on Wednesday January 02 2019, @12:43AM (1 child)
"My propaganda says you're evil, so you are. How stupid of you to disagree when my $sponsored_content is infallible!"
This is how stupid you sound right now. Enjoy your hugbox while it lasts, snowflake. Violence was created by nature, there is nothing evil about it, and you are a part of it. You would just as soon say the US "swindled" Mexico out of their land - so you are a swindler by association. Go back before the Mexicans to the Native Americans. Go back before that to the mammalians, then the dinosaurs, back to the algae; swindlers, all. You would just as compulsively lie to yourself that there's "Nothing you can do" about the child slaves in China, so you continue to purchase newly manufactured electronics made there, such may as well be the behavior of a psychopath. I'll go out on a limb and say I doubt you've molested anyone, but you're no angel, whether you realize it or not, just as you may not realize you're a true snowflake.
Trump has done good and bad, but your deraillment does nothing useful. It only reasserts your priority: fluffing up your ideological feathers while Yemenis starve, because you would insist that we should unify and empathize with the murderers there, rather than suggest an armed escort, who carries the threat of violence.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 02 2019, @02:31AM
Your weak attempt at diversion is pathetic. You didn't even address my post.
So was slavery. Maybe we should have done nothing about that either, right ?
For millions of years, the only form of inter-species interaction on Earth was predation. But then evolution occured, and other forms appeared, like symbiosis. You may think that symbiosis is still a very small percentage of all forms of interaction, but you'd be wrong, because you'd ignore the fact that you, the human race, in fact, every simgle aerobic multicellular lifeform on this planet, basically all plants and animals, exist because inside every single cell in their bodies, there exist ancient aerobic bacteria call mitochondria that allow them to use oxygen as an energy source.
For thousands of years, the only forms of inter-tribe human interactions were slavery, war and bloodshed. But then humans evolved. Just like nature, they began to figure out that cooperation was more productive than competiton. Civilizations started to appear, bringing commerce, justice, peaceful resolution of conflicts. Only then did humans start to spread around the globe, increase their population, their quality of life, their life expectancy. Only then did they start to develop art, science.
Those you call "snowflakes" are simply those who aspire to develop civilization further, to eventually see the end of suffering, pain, and bloodshed. To see a planetary human society based on cooperation, on symbiosis, instead of predation. This is not some idealistic, touchy-feely delusional pipe-dream, this is evolution.
"Snowflakes" are evolved. But people like you are primitive. They are like those cells who refuse to play by the new rules of cooperating and orchestrated multi-cellular organisms, and want to continue to act like they always acted for the first billion or so years of life on Earth, as single celled organisms fending only for themselves and seeing other organisms in only one of two ways: a competitor to eradicate, or a resource to exploit. Do you know how we call these cells ? Cancer.
That's what people like you are: A Cancer of human civilization. People with a primitive, prehistoric, sociopathic thinking who have no concept of morality or ethics, and who see other people only as one of the two roles above, and see no evil in that. People that see no problem in having a child molester and psychopath as the leader of their country, as long as he serves their purpose. But again, you're too arrogant, full of yourself and self-righteous to admit that.
So you may want to waste your time writing a reply to this, but this will be my last post on this thread. I don't waste my time with cavemen.