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  1. God loves a cheerful giver because God has cheerfully given for us.  #Jesus became poor for our sakes so we might become rich, and therefore we should strive to become relatively #impoverished so others might be #enriched so we might be more like Him. 

    When we give for the needs of others, we participate in the grace of God which He has given us.  People should be able to tell we are Christians by our love for and #generosity toward one another and for all.

  2. God loves a cheerful giver because God has cheerfully given for us.  #Jesus became poor for our sakes so we might become rich, and therefore we should strive to become relatively #impoverished so others might be #enriched so we might be more like Him. 

    When we give for the needs of others, we participate in the grace of God which He has given us.  People should be able to tell we are Christians by our love for and #generosity toward one another and for all.

  3. What we don't realize is that most of the rest of the world also has #1stworldproblems . They aren't the #impoverished areas we believe them to be. We need to stop with the use of 1st and third world, neither exist because they had to do with if you were aligned with the #US , The #USSR or neutral. We should instead call it what I coin as 1%st, 10%st world problems and so on. I'm barely in the 11%st of the world. That said even if you make less, if you have a good social safety net, you don't need to be in that range to have a healthy happy life.
  4. What we don't realize is that most of the rest of the world also has #1stworldproblems . They aren't the #impoverished areas we believe them to be. We need to stop with the use of 1st and third world, neither exist because they had to do with if you were aligned with the #US , The #USSR or neutral. We should instead call it what I coin as 1%st, 10%st world problems and so on. I'm barely in the 11%st of the world. That said even if you make less, if you have a good social safety net, you don't need to be in that range to have a healthy happy life.
  5. What we don't realize is that most of the rest of the world also has #1stworldproblems . They aren't the #impoverished areas we believe them to be. We need to stop with the use of 1st and third world, neither exist because they had to do with if you were aligned with the #US , The #USSR or neutral. We should instead call it what I coin as 1%st, 10%st world problems and so on. I'm barely in the 11%st of the world. That said even if you make less, if you have a good social safety net, you don't need to be in that range to have a healthy happy life.
  6. What we don't realize is that most of the rest of the world also has #1stworldproblems . They aren't the #impoverished areas we believe them to be. We need to stop with the use of 1st and third world, neither exist because they had to do with if you were aligned with the #US , The #USSR or neutral. We should instead call it what I coin as 1%st, 10%st world problems and so on. I'm barely in the 11%st of the world. That said even if you make less, if you have a good social safety net, you don't need to be in that range to have a healthy happy life.
  7. "For so long, #politics has been about #fear, about scapegoating & punishing the #impoverished & the #struggling. Now something else has reared its head. It’s called #hope."

  8. A quotation from Oscar Wilde

    Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

    Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
    Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)

    More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #advice #budget #heartlessness #impoverished #insult #necessity #need #poor #poverty #spending #thrift

  9. A quotation from Oscar Wilde

    Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

    Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
    Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)

    More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #advice #budget #heartlessness #impoverished #insult #necessity #need #poor #poverty #spending #thrift

  10. A quotation from Oscar Wilde

    Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

    Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
    Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)

    More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #advice #budget #heartlessness #impoverished #insult #necessity #need #poor #poverty #spending #thrift

  11. A quotation from Oscar Wilde

    Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

    Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
    Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)

    More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #advice #budget #heartlessness #impoverished #insult #necessity #need #poor #poverty #spending #thrift

  12. A quotation from Oscar Wilde

    Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

    Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet, wit, dramatist
    Essay (1891-02), “The Soul of Man Under Socialism,” Fortnightly Review, Vol. 49 (ns)

    More about this quote: wist.info/wilde-oscar/81828/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #oscarwilde #advice #budget #heartlessness #impoverished #insult #necessity #need #poor #poverty #spending #thrift

  13. The fact that #BillGates can buy at least 300,000 Middle Class #homes that could be #donated to the #impoverished yet he doesn’t makes me feel sick

  14. The fact that #BillGates can buy at least 300,000 Middle Class #homes that could be #donated to the #impoverished yet he doesn’t makes me feel sick

  15. The fact that #BillGates can buy at least 300,000 Middle Class #homes that could be #donated to the #impoverished yet he doesn’t makes me feel sick

  16. The fact that #BillGates can buy at least 300,000 Middle Class #homes that could be #donated to the #impoverished yet he doesn’t makes me feel sick

  17. The fact that #BillGates can buy at least 300,000 Middle Class #homes that could be #donated to the #impoverished yet he doesn’t makes me feel sick

  18. Hun Sen's war is his last gasps
    🧐"immunity once enjoyed by #HunSen's inner circle is evaporating. We r witnessing a slow-motion purge of their international legitimacy, with key cronies facing visa bans & asset freezes across te US & Europe.. Hun Sen is not saving his legacy; he is mortgaging his country's future. He's gambling w te lives of #impoverished #conscripts & #border #villagers to protect a #family #fortune tt the world is rapidly marking as #illicit" #Scambodia
    bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinio

  19. Hun Sen's war is his last gasps
    🧐"immunity once enjoyed by #HunSen's inner circle is evaporating. We r witnessing a slow-motion purge of their international legitimacy, with key cronies facing visa bans & asset freezes across te US & Europe.. Hun Sen is not saving his legacy; he is mortgaging his country's future. He's gambling w te lives of #impoverished #conscripts & #border #villagers to protect a #family #fortune tt the world is rapidly marking as #illicit" #Scambodia
    bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinio

  20. Hun Sen's war is his last gasps
    🧐"immunity once enjoyed by #HunSen's inner circle is evaporating. We r witnessing a slow-motion purge of their international legitimacy, with key cronies facing visa bans & asset freezes across te US & Europe.. Hun Sen is not saving his legacy; he is mortgaging his country's future. He's gambling w te lives of #impoverished #conscripts & #border #villagers to protect a #family #fortune tt the world is rapidly marking as #illicit" #Scambodia
    bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinio

  21. Hun Sen's war is his last gasps
    🧐"immunity once enjoyed by #HunSen's inner circle is evaporating. We r witnessing a slow-motion purge of their international legitimacy, with key cronies facing visa bans & asset freezes across te US & Europe.. Hun Sen is not saving his legacy; he is mortgaging his country's future. He's gambling w te lives of #impoverished #conscripts & #border #villagers to protect a #family #fortune tt the world is rapidly marking as #illicit" #Scambodia
    bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinio

  22. Hun Sen's war is his last gasps
    🧐"immunity once enjoyed by #HunSen's inner circle is evaporating. We r witnessing a slow-motion purge of their international legitimacy, with key cronies facing visa bans & asset freezes across te US & Europe.. Hun Sen is not saving his legacy; he is mortgaging his country's future. He's gambling w te lives of #impoverished #conscripts & #border #villagers to protect a #family #fortune tt the world is rapidly marking as #illicit" #Scambodia
    bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinio

  23. the #Trump Admin are building a gilded golden $200m #ballroom with the #money they saved sentencing 1,000,000 of the world’s most #impoverished #children to death from #starvation and #AIDS. are you okay with that?

  24. A quotation from Franklin Roosevelt

    The millions who are in want will not stand by silently forever while the things to satisfy their needs are within easy reach.

    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945) American lawyer, politician, statesman, US President (1933-1945)
    Speech (1932-05-22), Commencement, Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, Georgia

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/roosevelt-franklin-d…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #fdr #franklinroosevelt #franklindroosevelt #franklindelanoroosevelt #economicinjustice #impoverished #needy #poor #poverty #protest #redistribution #revolution #socialunrest #taking #unrest #want

  25. There it’s processed into #tantalum, a heat-resistant #metal that fetches >$300 a kilogram & is in high demand by makers of mobile phones, computers, aerospace components & gas turbines.
    #Rubaya produces ~15% of the world’s #coltan, all dug manually by #impoverished locals who earn a few dollars per day. Control of this mine is the biggest prize in a long-running conflict in this central #Africa nation.

    #Congo #DRC #Rwanda #Kinshasa #Tutsi #HumanRights #exploitation #business #tech #geopolitics

  26. "Just saying but the negative aspects of #capitalism is literally what is holding the #world back from being #sustainable. The only #reason we don’t have safe drinking #water, #shelter, #food, #medicine, #education, and clean #energy for every #person on this #earth is because it wouldn’t be profitable for the 0.1% of the world’s #population whose entire income is based solely around limiting those #resources for lower class and #impoverished #people."

    tumblr.com/nando161mando/79163

  27. Until now
    Trump
    dismantled the #Government
    dismantled the #Army efficency
    cancel all Biden economic progress
    and
    led #USA to #Recession and #Inflation
    #impoverished the #US population and deprived it of #rights
    dismantled the organizations that maintained #National #Security
    canceled the #Alliances of the US and associated US with #Russia

    America has NEVER been in worst situation
    And all in 4 weeks

    Truly...
    Stupidity also has limit
    What are you waiting to send Trump back to Russia ?

  28. US Dist Judge Amir H. Ali had given the admin until 11:59PM to fulfill its contractual obligations & restart the payments to organizations whose work in #impoverished parts of the world had been stopped since #Trump halted the assistance in late Jan.

    Acting solicitor gen Sarah M. Harris, the govt’s top appellate atty, had asked #SCOTUS to block Ali’s order, which she said had “thrown what should be an orderly review by the government into chaos.” [who threw the govt into chaos?]

    #law #USAID

  29. US Dist Judge Amir H. Ali gave the govt until 11:59 PM Wednesday to fulfill its contractual obligations & restart payments to contractors whose work in #impoverished parts of the #world had been largely stopped during an ongoing #legal battle. #Trump admin ofcls must also provide examples of communication sent to partners on the ground about resuming assistance, Ali ruled.
    
His order applies to work done before Feb 13.

    #law #USAID #ForeignAid #DOJ #geopolitics #USpol

  30. Also made this cool chart showing how #CEO pay increases as quality decreases along with #worker #pay and #benefits

    It's made with some fudged numbers, to get the idea across, but average CEO pay and Worker pay was taken from real data sets linked from the Economic Policy Institute.

    It's crazy to see how much #wealth is being #extracted from the #impoverished and #middleclass by companies that are literally #poisoning our children.

    Remember, part of the listeria chicken went to schools.

  31. @jargoggles @philip_cardella

    “…the Ford Motor Company will begin to produce electric trucks at BlueOval City, a sprawling manufacturing complex in an #impoverished #rural area of TN. The multibillion-dollar project, received a federal loan through the Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act [HR3684] that #Biden signed in 2021, already created thousands of construction jobs that pay substantially more than locals are accustomed to earning.

    newyorker.com/news/daily-comme

  32. #Israel is massing #troops near the #Gaza Strip ahead of an expected #ground assault; an #IDF spox said Thurs that Hamas would no longer be tolerated as a “#sovereign [entity] located adjacent to Israel.”

    In Gaza, authorities warned of dire #water & #electricity #shortages after Israel ordered a “full #siege” of the densely populated, #impoverished #Palestinian enclave. The Palestinian MOH in Gaza said #IsraeliAirstrikes left #hospitals at full capacity as #medicine & #fuel run out.
    #Hamas #war

  33. the #movie: [a #wealthy #capitalist sets up a #factory in the middle of a low-income #british(?)/ #american(?) #neighborhood to #exploit cheap #labor, only to fire #everybody when his #IP might be threatened; #exploits indentured #colonized #people for #free labor; "tests" an impoverished #kid by dangling thousands of #dollars in front of his face, claiming he "passed" when the kid refused to better his situation; lets four #children probably die; probably has mountains of osha #violations and is trying to #pawn off his factory onto #someone else so he doesn't have to deal with the #consequences]

    the #theory: is the #impoverished bed-ridden 80-year-old #man who stands up for the aforementioned kid during the "#test" actually the real #villain of this story???? 😱🤯😏😜

  34. In a rare foray from his country, #Kim would travel from #Pyongyang, #NorthKorea, probably by armored train, to #Vladivostok, #Russia, where he would meet w/ #Putin, the ofcls said. Kim could possibly go to #Moscow, though that is not certain.

    Putin wants Kim to agree to send Russia #ArtilleryShells & #AntitankMissiles, & Kim would like Russia to provide North Korea w/advanced #technology for #satellites & #nuclear-powered #submarines…. Kim is also seeking #FoodAid for his #impoverished nation.

  35. I’d love if we could roll back the clock and choose a different future.

    If we had started remaking our society to be more sustainable when the crisis was first becoming obvious — 50+ years ago — we could have avoided most of the catastrophes that are now unavoidably our lot.

    Had we got going when the science was clear and sustainability solutions readily available (say, two decades ago), the desolation we now face would have been much reduced.

    Heck, if we were even responding at the speed demanded today (instead of our slow-if-inevitable march towards a less harmful economy), we wouldn’t be bracing for such unforgivably massive destruction.

    Action is happening, sure, and will accelerate. Unfortunately, even if we move much more quickly than we currently are, that will mostly mean a reduction in the future magnitude of the crisis, rather than a reversal of the climate change and ecological collapse we’ve already set in motion.

    There’s a huge gap between how most things function now, and how they realistically need to work to limit the crisis and thrive in this hard new future.

    Being outdated brings consequences. When assets remain stuck on the old side of the gap, they end up devalued; when institutions do, they become destabilized; when people wind up on there, they get #displaced and #impoverished.

    Hundreds of millions of people around the world live in dire poverty — usually in places already struggling with massive, complex, and deeply-rooted societal challenges. They now face the transapocalyptic realities of poverty in a planetary crisis.

    If we think of the widespread displacement and ruination now rolling over people as the prize in a sort of terrible lottery, these poor folks have already been issued a winning ticket.

    In the real world, there’s little they can do to give back that ticket, and little appetite in the wealthier countries for cancelling the transapocalyptic sweepstakes.

    We in the wealthy world — the vast majority of people reading this — are still lining up to find out what kind of tickets we’re holding.

    alexsteffen.substack.com/p/you

  36. Another day and the army of the working #impoverished get ready for yet another day in the rat race. Good times!

  37. "#Benefit sanctions had little effect on getting people into #work, they routinely #impoverished claimants and damaged their #MentalHealth.
    Sanctions are effectively fines ... for infringing benefit conditions, such as not spending enough time searching for #jobs, or failing to attend meetings with jobcentre work coaches."

    Welfare Secretary Mel Stride remains “satisfied overall with the way the sanctions system works" (even though it doesn't).

    theguardian.com/society/2023/m

  38. Key to #Deuteronomy 16’s & 26’s demands to include the #impoverished & #disadvantaged (widows, orphans, sojourners) at festivals is to ensure that the #marginalized are seen

    #SystemicPoverty thrives on making the poor the “other” and, when possible, keeping impoverished folks away from those with means/influence

    These Deut statutes encourage interaction, community-building, and care

    #BiblicalStudies #liberation #BiblicalEthics #BiblicalEconomics

  39. Key to #Deuteronomy 16’s & 26’s demands to include the #impoverished & #disadvantaged (widows, orphans, sojourners) at festivals is to ensure that the #marginalized are seen

    #SystemicPoverty thrives on making the poor the “other” and, when possible, keeping impoverished folks away from those with means/influence

    These Deut statutes encourage interaction, community-building, and care

    #BiblicalStudies #liberation #BiblicalEthics #BiblicalEconomics

  40. Key to #Deuteronomy 16’s & 26’s demands to include the #impoverished & #disadvantaged (widows, orphans, sojourners) at festivals is to ensure that the #marginalized are seen

    #SystemicPoverty thrives on making the poor the “other” and, when possible, keeping impoverished folks away from those with means/influence

    These Deut statutes encourage interaction, community-building, and care

    #BiblicalStudies #liberation #BiblicalEthics #BiblicalEconomics

  41. Key to #Deuteronomy 16’s & 26’s demands to include the #impoverished & #disadvantaged (widows, orphans, sojourners) at festivals is to ensure that the #marginalized are seen

    #SystemicPoverty thrives on making the poor the “other” and, when possible, keeping impoverished folks away from those with means/influence

    These Deut statutes encourage interaction, community-building, and care

    #BiblicalStudies #liberation #BiblicalEthics #BiblicalEconomics

  42. #December 18, 1829
    #OTD Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, #French #Naturalist, #Biologist, & #Academic, died #Lonely, #Blind, & #Impoverished in #Paris.

    Regarded as the #Father of #Evolutionary #Theory, he paved the way for #Darwin.
    He was an early thinker on #ContinentalDrift.

    As a #Botanist at the Royal #Botanical #Garden & #Herbarium, he #Ingeniously saved the garden during the #French #Revolution by #Quietly renaming it w/ a #Humble #Sign that simply read The Garden of #Plants.

    #Royal #Omitted

  43. #December 18, 1829
    #OTD Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, #French #Naturalist, #Biologist, & #Academic, died #Lonely, #Blind, & #Impoverished in #Paris.

    Regarded as the #Father of #Evolutionary #Theory, he paved the way for #Darwin.
    He was an early thinker on #ContinentalDrift.

    As a #Botanist at the Royal #Botanical #Garden & #Herbarium, he #Ingeniously saved the garden during the #French #Revolution by #Quietly renaming it w/ a #Humble #Sign that simply read The Garden of #Plants.

    #Royal #Omitted

  44. #December 18, 1829
    #OTD Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, #French #Naturalist, #Biologist, & #Academic, died #Lonely, #Blind, & #Impoverished in #Paris.

    Regarded as the #Father of #Evolutionary #Theory, he paved the way for #Darwin.
    He was an early thinker on #ContinentalDrift.

    As a #Botanist at the Royal #Botanical #Garden & #Herbarium, he #Ingeniously saved the garden during the #French #Revolution by #Quietly renaming it w/ a #Humble #Sign that simply read The Garden of #Plants.

    #Royal #Omitted

  45. #December 18, 1829
    #OTD Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, #French #Naturalist, #Biologist, & #Academic, died #Lonely, #Blind, & #Impoverished in #Paris.

    Regarded as the #Father of #Evolutionary #Theory, he paved the way for #Darwin.
    He was an early thinker on #ContinentalDrift.

    As a #Botanist at the Royal #Botanical #Garden & #Herbarium, he #Ingeniously saved the garden during the #French #Revolution by #Quietly renaming it w/ a #Humble #Sign that simply read The Garden of #Plants.

    #Royal #Omitted

  46. #December 18, 1829
    #OTD Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, #French #Naturalist, #Biologist, & #Academic, died #Lonely, #Blind, & #Impoverished in #Paris.

    Regarded as the #Father of #Evolutionary #Theory, he paved the way for #Darwin.
    He was an early thinker on #ContinentalDrift.

    As a #Botanist at the Royal #Botanical #Garden & #Herbarium, he #Ingeniously saved the garden during the #French #Revolution by #Quietly renaming it w/ a #Humble #Sign that simply read The Garden of #Plants.

    #Royal #Omitted