Nobel Peace Prize goes to World Food Program for efforts to combat hunger
Source: Washington Post
The World Food Program was awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.
"The need for international solidarity and multilateral cooperation is more conspicuous than ever," said Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, announcing the prize in Oslo. She said the organization would receive the award "for its efforts to combat hunger."
The award is an acknowledgment of the central role the Rome-based organization plays in dealing with impoverished people caught in or fleeing from conflict. The WFP, which was established in 1961, has become the primary international organization for people dealing with hunger -- at a time when climate change, and numerous prolonged conflict in the Middle East and Africa, is exacerbating the challenge.
Millions in Syria and Yemen depend each month on the WFP for survival. The organization says that more than 800 million people are chronically hungry, the majority of them living in conflict-stricken areas. Though other organizations have won the peace prize -- most recently the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, in 2017 -- the World Food Program is particularly sprawling. The organization has 17,000 staff worldwide, works in 80-some countries, and says it has more than 20 ships, 92 planes, and 5,600 trucks on the move on any given day.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/nobel-peace-prize-2020-winner-world-food-program/2020/10/09/8541c412-08e0-11eb-8719-0df159d14794_story.html?arc404=true
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5:00 AM · Oct 9, 2020
Yesterday's announcement was an hour "later" than typical and today's was an hour "earlier" than expected - I guess so they could go run to their bunker and hide from the
in the WH on our side of the pond.
Original article -
"The need for international solidarity and multilateral cooperation is more conspicuous than ever," said Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, announcing the prize in Oslo. She said the organization would receive the award "for its efforts to combat hunger."
And as a note about the OP and "hunger" - I don't know WTF to say - RIGHT HERE IN THE U.S., the BREAD BASKET OF THE WORLD, WE have a "hunger" problem that is NO DIFFERENT than people around the rest of the world except OURS is due to GREED. After this pandemic and extreme recession, we are probably close to 50 million who are food insecure.
Among U.S. households with children under age 18:
86.4 percent of households with children were food secure in 2019. Household food insecurity affected 13.6 percent of households with children in 2019. In some of these food-insecure households only adults were food insecure, while in others children also experienced food insecurity. In 7.1 percent of households with children, only adults were food insecure. Both children and adults were food insecure in 6.5 percent of households with children (2.4 million households). Children are usually protected from substantial reductions in food intake even in households with very low food security. Nevertheless, in about 0.6 percent of households with children (213,000 households), one or more child also experienced reduced food intake and disrupted eating patterns at some time during the year.
https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/food-nutrition-assistance/food-security-in-the-us/key-statistics-graphics.aspx
MORE DATA - https://www.dosomething.org/us/facts/11-facts-about-hunger-us
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maggots last chance.........
I'm sure shitler will b
e ranting... 
Why should people have food, right? Just let them eat cake! 
TY for sharing BRDS.
I think everyone is going to have to duck the fusillade of bullshit today - especially about this. 
Before he blows something up!
And get rid of that fking electoral college! I'm SO sick of illiterates installing our leaders - being held hostage to their ignorant and damgerous hate voting!
to see where the crazy train leads. Hope he's proud to have made all that money lying to ignorant, hateful fools.
Will red don be snuggling up to him in the same room, considering that they both called Covid a hoax? No, didn't think so.
and I think the "terror" will be incoming today. 
Hi ya'll!
Seems more & more night owls as chumputin's terrorism intensifies.
Used to be quite empty here in the wee hours, even a couple of weeks ago. 
It's usually a "quiet" time of the day before all hell breaks loose later in the day.
I used to start work at 5am, and getting up early has stuck with me.
I love the quiet, wee hours!
Nice to have company in here.
I was working a 7 am - 3:30 pm schedule so when I was commuting, I was leaving at 6 am. I like being up and about during the full time of "daylight" - from sunrise to sunset.
But then by the time it's 8 pm, I start slowing down and TRYING to get ready for bed, but the past week, it's been a nightmare of bedtimes of 11 pms and midnights (but still back up at 4 am-ish). 
But since March, I haven't been able to even do that.
I have been trying to closely keep track of what my state and city are doing with respect to the pandemic - usually watching their pressers because stuff changes daily with respect to openings and closings. And since that takes some time from my sometimes labor-intensive hobbies, then I run out of hours in the day.
I'm glad that I am retired because trying to do this while trying to focus on work, would be nuts.
.... this year.
Wow!
Same thing! 
