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We currently spend 11 times more money killing each other than we do trying to stop the Innocent from dying. Climate change and rising food prices hurt the poor first and foremost. They suffer for our pollution.

Thursday 10th July, 02:26 AM JST

British actor and Oxfam ambassador Bill Nighy, talking about changes the G-8 leaders should be making to help lower food and gas prices to help reduce the strain on poverty stricken people around the world. (Japan Times)

3 Comments

  • weedkila at 03:03 AM JST - 10th July

    We currently spend 11 times more money killing each other than we do trying to stop the Innocent from dying.

    And the only people that profit are the ones that arm both sides simultaneously.

  • Alphaape at 03:14 AM JST - 10th July

    Not to say that his comments aren't true, but I wonder how much this guy spends on his First Class treatment I assume he receives when he travels and how much expensive meals he has cost, and if he would be willing to live like the rest of us "unwashed masses."

  • borscht at 10:25 PM JST - 10th July

    Alphaape,

    Attack the messenger, not the message. Good tactics. Ad hominem.

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