Posted on 05/27/2022 3:44:06 AM PDT by blam
Just months after Elon Musk had a public spat on Twitter about what the true cost of “solving world hunger would be”, the head of the U.N.’s World Food Program is urging billionaires to “step up” and confront the global threat of food insecurity.
The WFP boss had previously said “All we need is $6.6B—just .36% of the top 400 US billionaires’ net worth increase last year” in order to control a humanitarian crisis where in 42 million people in 43 countries face famine.
Musk had previously offered $6 billion if the World Food Programme could provide him “open sourced accounting” on how the $6 billion would be used to solve world hunger. Musk demanded that the public “see precisely how the money is spent” at the time.
Today, that $6 billion sits in limbo somewhere.
Agency Executive Director David Beasley told ABC this week: “Since then, Musk put $6 billion into a foundation. But everybody thought it came to us, but we ain’t gotten any of it yet. So I’m hopeful.
Beasley
“I don’t know what it’s going to take. We’re trying every angle, you know: Elon, we need your help, brother,” he continued.
The push by Beasley comes on the heels of a study that showed 1.9 billion people could face food insecurity by November. The report was presented at the Global Citizen NOW Summit in New York Monday.
Global Citizen CEO Hugh Evans said of the report: “The projections are bleak right now. This doesn’t have to happen. A lot of institutions are failing people.”
He is hoping that launching the Global Citizen Impact Fund will help convince billionaires to donate, since it only requires payments on “pledges based on results”.
“The world is in real serious trouble. This is not rhetoric and B.S. Step up now, because the world needs you,” Beasley told the world’s billionaire’s on Monday.
Beasley also commented that if “Ukraine’s supplies remain off the market, the world could face a food availability problem in the next 10 to 12 months.”
Meanwhile, the whereabouts of Musk’s $6 billion as it relates to how it will help fight hunger, still remain unknown for the most part.
AH needed it because JD sued her.
They’ll never allow transparency , so they’ll never see it. The they’ll try and blame Musk.
These people are pure, undiluted, scum.
Getting them to open their books is a great idea. Probably resemble Hunter’s laptop.
So Musk wants to know how the UN will solve hunger for 2 billion people for approximately $3 apiece? I’d like to learn about that magic too!
Y' kin be a fancy executive if'n y'have a sicks grayed skoolin'. ~ Jethro Bodine
You can’t solve world hunger just like you can’t put out a fire with gasoline. I you feed a population, you have to feed it again, and again, and again, al the while it is growing...
If they're not going to show the world where the money is going, then they're not getting any.
Only gonna work if you teach them to grow food and then they follow through with it. Won't happen though. If they haven't figured out how to feed themselves yet, they're not going to.
WHAT???
Is David Beasley an Ex Governor of SC or NC?
Well she pledged it.
Money for food, security, police, homes from various countries especially US never make it to the listed reasons. It gets stolen, intercepted.
I think there should be an accounting, even for $2 to ensure transparency and accountability.
They went the same way the Clinton foundation money.
“I don’t know what it’s going to take. We’re trying every angle, you know: Elon, we need your help, brother,”
Well jackass, open your books. Full accounting of every penny. No much to ask when someone is giving you billions. Obvious next questions- what are you hiding? Where is the money going?
I hadn’t heard that Hunter’s laptop recorded visits to Epstein Island. Lots of paedo and his bragging about under-age sluts, but nothing about who the WEF and other globalists use.
Mebbe all that data is in the Ukraine files being used to blackmail for support against Russia.
LOL!
Well it certainly didn’t go to AH’s lawyers. Maybe a few thousand of it did.
It came out (or was alleged at least) in the Johnny Depp trial that while they were dating, Amber Heard convinced Elon Musk to pay for her lawyers, and also to donate at least 1 million dollars to charities, in her name, that AH had made “pledges” to but hadn’t fulfilled. And he donated another $250k on her behalf to another charity that had employed AH’s sister.
People thought he was serious???
You can “solve” it, in a sense, by equipping and enabling men to provide for their families.
The poor we will always have with us. But we needn’t have so many. A just peace, fair contracts, the right to work, good trade policy, capitalism will do it. 6 billion not required.
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