25,000
people will die today and each day from hunger while trillions of dollars are
poured into weapons of mass destruction and new wars begin each year.
Since the
9/11 atrocity the US government has spent $1.121 trillion dollars
on the war in Afghanistan and Iraq (2011) and in 2009-10 Australia’s Afghanistan war
budget was a massive $1.2 billion for our nation of just under 25 million
people.
43 million
asylum-seekers currently wandering the globe, fleeing wars and poverty which for
the most case are not of their own making while 1.2 billion people survive on just US$1.25 a day while a new billionare
is made every second day to add to more than the 500 already existing.
The gap between the
rich and poor is growing alarmingly, poverty is on the rise throughout the globe and yet the United Nations estimates just $40 – 60
billion a year would halve world poverty.
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