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A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors. – Mark Twain	added by JokerGem 10 months ago
Often the one at foot will hop away because it’s terrified as its mother has just been shot. Now the chances of the shooter catching that little joey and killing it is slim, so it dies from predation, starvation and exposure. – Mark Pearson	Found on CNN 1 year ago
You get mass starvation and mass death. – Jim Radford	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This is one of the gathering places of the dead, these are the guys who died yesterday due to the so-called ‘ shell starvation ’ [ by the Russian MOD ]. There should have been five times fewer of them. So mothers, wives and children will get their bodies. – Yevgeny Prigozhin	Found on CNN 1 year ago
The main tool in 1932-33 was extermination by starvation, taking away all foodstuffs and making conditions incompatible with life. It is the same now. Creating conditions incompatible with life, but now there is a wider range of tools, and they are more military related. New weapons, new missiles. A huge mass of troops aimed at destroying and suppressing Ukrainian resistance. – Mykhailo Kostiv	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Costs are going up … so that food is becoming less affordable for people here in the United States, but in particular, people who are about to enter the phase of starvation around the world. – Barron Segar	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
' Deportation' is a euphemism. It's been used as a fairly innocuous term for what happened to these people, which was effectively enslavement and starvation. is shipping off the women, the children, the people that you want to remove from societies in order to neutralize them, they are generally met with pretty horrific fates. If they survived at all, they did not return for years or decades. – Keir Giles	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I'll be very straight with you if this isn't handled. You're going to have kids with starvation because over the course of the years we've been supplementing the food and other provisions. – Mark Davis	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are requesting them to unfreeze Afghan assets and not punish ordinary Afghans because of the political discourse, because of the starvation, because of the deadly winter, I think it’s time for the international community to support Afghans, not punish them because of their political disputes. – The Taliban	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
There is far too little evidence of the $ 100 billion per year that was promised to help climate vulnerable countries to meet this challenge. But those funds were promised to arrive by 2020 and we are still waiting, you can not adapt to lost cultures, traditions and history. You can not adapt to starvation. It's time for leaders to put loss and damage at the center of the climate negotiations. – Vanessa Nakate	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Because of Covid, conflict, economic deterioration, the numbers of people marching to the brink of starvation has spiked to now about 13 to 14 million people. – David Beasley	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When Donald Trump , wow gets $ 800 million in tax breaks and subsidies to build luxury condominiums, that's socialism for the rich, we have to subsidize Walmart's workers on Medicaid and food stamps because the wealthiest family in America pays starvation wages. That's socialism for the rich. I believe in democratic socialism for working people. Not billionaires. Health care for all. Educational opportunity for all. – Bernie Sanders	Found on CNN 4 years ago
People have put their animals in cages, tied them to trees, dumped them in the woods ... and normally they end up dying from starvation. – Kathleen Leary	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
I've been doing rescues since 2004, we see a lot of starvation and a lot of cruelty, but that was the most horrific scene I've ever been on. Just cold-blooded malice. – Tonya Conn	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Go to any city in the United States and you will find people living in dump-like environments. These are real people, not an abstract, intellectual category. They are people with hopes and fears. And, quite frankly, many of them are not interested in discussions about economic determinism. They are interested in having a home, obtaining a job that does not pay starvation wages, getting their children educated, affording health care, enjoying some of the social goodies. Helping a poor family will not change societal patterns of inequality, but it will change the pattern of that family's life. And, when we get done helping that family we can pick up a book, voting ballot, or protest sign. – David Pilgrim	added by anonymous 4 years ago
I couldn't do anything for her, why did I bring her here from her farm ? Even in rural China, one doesn't die of starvation. – Kim Yong-hwa	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem. – Howard Zinn	added by Normando 5 years ago
People who are starving do not mobilize in the streets, there is actually widespread starvation. – Cynthia Arnson	Found on CNN 5 years ago
Of course it's at least partially about the sanctions, just look at the way the letter is worded. They want to make it sound like sanctions equals starvation so the U.S. should really be benevolent and give them up. – Benjamin Silberstein	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Just look at the way the letter is worded. They want to make it sound like sanctions equals starvation so the U.S. should really be benevolent and give them up. – Benjamin Silberstein	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It's about time. After more than three years of war, thousands dead, millions on the brink of starvation, and growing pressure from Congress, the Trump Administration is finally calling for an end to the Saudi-led war in Yemen, we have tremendous leverage over the Saudi-led coalition and should demand this Administration do all in their power to bring both sides to the peace table and end the war. – Ro Khanna	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The process has already started. Science is proving more and more each day what some spiritual teachers have been teaching for thousands of years. People are starting to wake up in larger numbers. As people awaken they will influence others. With each awakening the cosmic mind gets a little brighter. As we evolve so will the cosmic forces of creation. The human race and planet earth will heal. Poverty, starvation, and war, will someday be a thing of the past. We create our own reality. We collectively create a much larger reality. The next step in mankind’s evolution will be spiritual. – H.W. Mann	added by howardmann 6 years ago
So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.” – Victor Hugo	added by regnumveritatis 6 years ago
During a famine, death does not necessarily come from starvation, but often from disease as weakened people succumb. – Russell Geekie	Found on FOX News 7 years ago

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

– Mark Twain

added by JokerGem
10 months ago

Often the one at foot will hop away because it’s terrified as its mother has just been shot. Now the chances of the shooter catching that little joey and killing it is slim, so it dies from predation, starvation and exposure.

– Mark Pearson

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You get mass starvation and mass death.

– Jim Radford

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This is one of the gathering places of the dead, these are the guys who died yesterday due to the so-called ‘ shell starvation ’ [ by the Russian MOD ]. There should have been five times fewer of them. So mothers, wives and children will get their bodies.

– Yevgeny Prigozhin

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The main tool in 1932-33 was extermination by starvation, taking away all foodstuffs and making conditions incompatible with life. It is the same now. Creating conditions incompatible with life, but now there is a wider range of tools, and they are more military related. New weapons, new missiles. A huge mass of troops aimed at destroying and suppressing Ukrainian resistance.

– Mykhailo Kostiv

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Costs are going up … so that food is becoming less affordable for people here in the United States, but in particular, people who are about to enter the phase of starvation around the world.

– Barron Segar

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

' Deportation' is a euphemism. It's been used as a fairly innocuous term for what happened to these people, which was effectively enslavement and starvation. is shipping off the women, the children, the people that you want to remove from societies in order to neutralize them, they are generally met with pretty horrific fates. If they survived at all, they did not return for years or decades.

– Keir Giles

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I'll be very straight with you if this isn't handled. You're going to have kids with starvation because over the course of the years we've been supplementing the food and other provisions.

– Mark Davis

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are requesting them to unfreeze Afghan assets and not punish ordinary Afghans because of the political discourse, because of the starvation, because of the deadly winter, I think it’s time for the international community to support Afghans, not punish them because of their political disputes.

– The Taliban

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

There is far too little evidence of the $ 100 billion per year that was promised to help climate vulnerable countries to meet this challenge. But those funds were promised to arrive by 2020 and we are still waiting, you can not adapt to lost cultures, traditions and history. You can not adapt to starvation. It's time for leaders to put loss and damage at the center of the climate negotiations.

– Vanessa Nakate

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Because of Covid, conflict, economic deterioration, the numbers of people marching to the brink of starvation has spiked to now about 13 to 14 million people.

– David Beasley

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When Donald Trump , wow gets $ 800 million in tax breaks and subsidies to build luxury condominiums, that's socialism for the rich, we have to subsidize Walmart's workers on Medicaid and food stamps because the wealthiest family in America pays starvation wages. That's socialism for the rich. I believe in democratic socialism for working people. Not billionaires. Health care for all. Educational opportunity for all.

– Bernie Sanders

Found on CNN
4 years ago

People have put their animals in cages, tied them to trees, dumped them in the woods ... and normally they end up dying from starvation.

– Kathleen Leary

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

I've been doing rescues since 2004, we see a lot of starvation and a lot of cruelty, but that was the most horrific scene I've ever been on. Just cold-blooded malice.

– Tonya Conn

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Go to any city in the United States and you will find people living in dump-like environments. These are real people, not an abstract, intellectual category. They are people with hopes and fears. And, quite frankly, many of them are not interested in discussions about economic determinism. They are interested in having a home, obtaining a job that does not pay starvation wages, getting their children educated, affording health care, enjoying some of the social goodies. Helping a poor family will not change societal patterns of inequality, but it will change the pattern of that family's life. And, when we get done helping that family we can pick up a book, voting ballot, or protest sign.

– David Pilgrim

added by anonymous
4 years ago

I couldn't do anything for her, why did I bring her here from her farm ? Even in rural China, one doesn't die of starvation.

– Kim Yong-hwa

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.

– Howard Zinn

added by Normando
5 years ago

People who are starving do not mobilize in the streets, there is actually widespread starvation.

– Cynthia Arnson

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Of course it's at least partially about the sanctions, just look at the way the letter is worded. They want to make it sound like sanctions equals starvation so the U.S. should really be benevolent and give them up.

– Benjamin Silberstein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Just look at the way the letter is worded. They want to make it sound like sanctions equals starvation so the U.S. should really be benevolent and give them up.

– Benjamin Silberstein

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It's about time. After more than three years of war, thousands dead, millions on the brink of starvation, and growing pressure from Congress, the Trump Administration is finally calling for an end to the Saudi-led war in Yemen, we have tremendous leverage over the Saudi-led coalition and should demand this Administration do all in their power to bring both sides to the peace table and end the war.

– Ro Khanna

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The process has already started. Science is proving more and more each day what some spiritual teachers have been teaching for thousands of years. People are starting to wake up in larger numbers. As people awaken they will influence others. With each awakening the cosmic mind gets a little brighter. As we evolve so will the cosmic forces of creation. The human race and planet earth will heal. Poverty, starvation, and war, will someday be a thing of the past. We create our own reality. We collectively create a much larger reality. The next step in mankind’s evolution will be spiritual.

– H.W. Mann

added by howardmann
6 years ago

So long as there shall exist, by reason of law and custom, a social condemnation which, in the midst of civilization, artificially creates a hell on earth, and complicates with human fatality a destiny that is divine; so long as the three problems of the century - the degradation of man by the exploitation of his labour, the ruin of women by starvation and the atrophy of childhood by physical and spiritual night are not solved; so long as, in certain regions, social asphyxia shall be possible; in other words and from a still broader point of view, so long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, there should be a need for books such as this.”

– Victor Hugo

added by regnumveritatis
6 years ago

During a famine, death does not necessarily come from starvation, but often from disease as weakened people succumb.

– Russell Geekie

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

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