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- utopian2
Millions of Yemeni children may starve amid pandemic
Millions of children could be pushed to the brink of starvation as the coronavirus pandemic sweeps across war-torn Yemen amid a “huge” drop in humanitarian aid funding, the U.N. children’s agency warned Friday.
The stark prediction comes in a new UNICEF report, “Yemen five years on: Children, conflict and COVID-19.” It said the number of malnourished Yemeni children could reach 2.4 million by the end of the year, a 20% increase in the current figure.
“As Yemen’s devastated health system and infrastructure struggle to cope with coronavirus, the already dire situation for children is likely to deteriorate considerably,” warned UNICEF.
- That is some sad, fucked up shit. And here I am, getting fatter everyday from all this rona drinking I indulge in. Makes me wonder what I am doing with my lifedasohr
- Don't donate ... Actually get out there and helpAQUTE
- The US government is partly behind this, media barely talks about it. Trump vetoed legislation last year by Bernie Sanders and others to end US involvement.yuekit
- https://www.nytimes.…yuekit
- well Yemen has been deep in civil war for the last half decade so the blame lies with barbaric Yemeni adultsBustySaintClaire
- It started as a revolution against the government, Saudi Arabia wasn't happy with the outcome and started bombing. USA supplies the weapons and logistics.yuekit
- QBN is the new facebook.toemaas
- neverscared2
- These fuckers will mob you if you have deer cookies. Right into your pockets.i_monk
- My Japanese friends bought me cookies as a pranknb
- Beautiful. I got to sit in a park in Tokyo during cherry blossom season, it's one of my favourite family memories.PhanLo
- Spent quite a bit of time in this part of Japan last year -- Osaka, Kyoto, Nara. Beautiful and so much to explore.yuekit
- The deer that had approached me seemed to have mange or something. Not the adorable, well groomed deer I imagined. Maybe it was me ;)bezoar
- Krassy4
- Huh? Do you not know these things?nb
- some pizza is eaten as rectanglessarahfailin
- grafician4
- LOL this can be true in a while...renderedred
- introvertspablo28
- Gardener5
a pretty cool way to see in NYE : https://jeanmicheljarre.com/
- yuekit1
Astrology is nonsense of course but nonetheless found this interesting...didn't know about it until I went to see this exhibit by Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.
https://www.bangkokpost.com/life…
According to the Chinese zodiac 2020, beginning in February 2020 is the year of the rat. More specifically the year of the metal rat. Due to the alignment of elements it is a "gengzi year" which occurs every 60 years and is supposed to coincide with some sort of cataclysmic disaster that also remakes the world.
"In 1840, the First Opium War served as a prelude for the transformation of China when it was forced to open its ports and Hong Kong was relinquished to England. In 1900, churches were burned and Christian missionaries massacred as part of the Boxer Rebellion just as Empress Cixi declared war on the United Kingdom, United States, France, Russia, Germany, Japan, Italy and Austria before Beijing was taken in August.
In 1960, China experienced a great famine and it was at this point that Ai and his family reached a turning point. His poet father, Ai Qing, was sent to the Eighth Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps in Shihezi where Ai lived for 16 years.
In terms of the existence of human civilisation, 60 years is not a long time. However, most people will only see one such year of the rat in their lifetime."
- Interesting, so after this we're cool for another 60 years?grafician
- them too? Its also the beginning of the age of aquarius. I take these with a grain of salt but a lot of astrologers predicted a disaster year last year.Beeswax
- Wow I didn't know that...the age of Aquarius began this week apparently. 12/21/20yuekit
- This guy is a little bit off his rocker but always interesting to read
https://asiatimes.co…yuekit - Ai Weiwei is the shit.garbage
- It's a fact that the position of the planets has nothing to do with our personalities or the events in our lives.CyBrainX
- grafician3
- Faceplant JesusContinuity
- (L) Fabio, (R) Artie Langeutopian
- L: Thor, R: Steve BannonNBQ00