#McCain Foods

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[justinspoliticalcorner]

AP, via NPR:

WASHINGTON — A top U.N. official said Friday that hard-hit northern Gaza was now in "full-blown famine" after more than six months of war between Israel and Hamas and severe Israeli restrictions on food deliveries to the Palestinian territory. Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Program, became the most prominent international official so far to declare that trapped civilians in the most cut-off part of Gaza had gone over the brink into famine. "It's horror," McCain told NBC's "Meet the Press" in an interview to air Sunday. "There is famine — full-blown famine — in the north, and it's moving its way south." She said a cease-fire and a greatly increased flow of aid through land and sea routes was essential to confronting the growing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, home to 2.3 million people.

According to World Food Programme director Cindy McCain (the spouse of the late John McCain), northern Gaza is in a full-on famine.

[foodyincar]

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[sayruq]

Three days ago, the Israeli military dropped flyers ordering displaced people and residents of Rafah to leave. In the orders where people were told to move out of Rafah, the military said it was “about to operate with force against the terror organisations in the area”. A UN estimate says there are 1.2 million people sheltering in dire conditions in Rafah, Gaza's southern city. The "full-blown famine" that has taken hold in the north of Gaza has spread to the south, Cindy McCain, the head of the World Food Programme, confirmed over the weekend. There are roughly 200 Palestinians that are being forcibly displaced from Rafah every hour, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said on Wednesday. During an online press briefing, medical doctors and humanitarian aid workers reporting from the ground in Gaza spoke about the impossible feat of moving people from Rafah, as people are ridden by famine plus a collapsed transportation and healthcare system. "There are children and elderly that are so starved that they can barely walk. These people cannot just relocate to another area, to so-called 'safe zones'. It is not possible," Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy from Save the Children, said. Several aid workers have expressed that there is no "safe" area in the Gaza Strip for people to relocate to. "The concept of safe zones is a lie," Helena Marchal, from Medecins du Monde, said. Aid workers also reiterated the difficulty of getting aid both into Gaza and then distributing it. Both the Rafah and the Kerem Shalom crossings, through which most aid reached the besieged Strip, have closed since Sunday evening. Roads across Gaza are largely destroyed or blocked by people sheltering, contributing to the difficulty of movement of both goods and people. Only a very limited number of routes, especially between the north and south, are available for humanitarian use, Jeremy Konyndyk, from Refugees International, explained. Another issue is overcrowding. "In Deir al-Balah and the Mawasi area on the outskirts of the Rafah and Khan Younis governorates, there is barely any space. There are tents everywhere, on the beach, on the sidewalks, the streets, the graveyards, the courtyards of the hospitals, in the courtyards of the schools," Ghada Alhaddad, from Oxfam International, said. Saieh explained that it took her team six weeks and four failed attempts to move a couple of hundred food parcels from Rafah to the north of Gaza. "One litre of fuel cost $40 yesterday," according to Ranchal. Fuel enters through the Rafah crossing. If the fuel is cut off, the aid operation collapses," Konyndyk said.

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Further gluten free airfare adventures - replacing Friday night fish and chips!

Batter recipe adapted to be coeliac from https://www.fatherandus.com/wprm_print/2780

[probablyasocialecologist]

The World Food Programme (WFP) announced on Wednesday a pause in the movement of its employees in Gaza until further notice following an attack on a team returning from an aid delivery mission on Tuesday evening, just metres from an Israeli-controlled checkpoint. “This is totally unacceptable and the latest in a series of unnecessary security incidents that have endangered the lives of WFP’s team in Gaza,” said the UN agency’s Executive Director Cindy McCain, calling on the Israeli authorities and all parties to the conflict to act immediately to ensure the safety and security of all aid workers in Gaza. Thankfully, no one was injured in the attack, WFP said. “As last night’s events show, the current deconfliction system is failing and this cannot go on any longer,” Ms. McCain added. A “clearly marked UN humanitarian vehicle – part of a convoy that had been fully coordinated with the [Israeli Defense Forces] IDF – was struck 10 times by IDF gunfire, including with bullets targeting front windows,” UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters at a briefing at UN Headquarters on Wednesday.

28 August 2024

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Three days ago, the Israeli military dropped flyers ordering displaced people and residents of Rafah to leave. In the orders where people were told to move out of Rafah, the military said it was “about to operate with force against the terror organisations in the area”.  A UN estimate says there are 1.2 million people sheltering in dire conditions in Rafah, Gaza's southern city. The "full-blown famine" that has taken hold in the north of Gaza has spread to the south, Cindy McCain, the head of the World Food Programme, confirmed over the weekend.  There are roughly 200 Palestinians that are being forcibly displaced from Rafah every hour, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa) said on Wednesday.  During an online press briefing, medical doctors and humanitarian aid workers reporting from the ground in Gaza spoke about the impossible feat of moving people from Rafah, as people are ridden by famine plus a collapsed transportation and healthcare system. "There are children and elderly that are so starved that they can barely walk. These people cannot just relocate to another area, to so-called 'safe zones'. It is not possible," Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy from Save the Children, said.  Several aid workers have expressed that there is no "safe" area in the Gaza Strip for people to relocate to. "The concept of safe zones is a lie," Helena Marchal, from Medecins du Monde, said. Restricted movement Aid workers also reiterated the difficulty of getting aid both into Gaza and then distributing it. Both the Rafah and the Kerem Shalom crossings, through which most aid reached the besieged Strip, have closed since Sunday evening.  Roads across Gaza are largely destroyed or blocked by people sheltering, contributing to the difficulty of movement of both goods and people. Only a very limited number of routes, especially between the north and south, are available for humanitarian use, Jeremy Konyndyk, from Refugees International, explained. Another issue is overcrowding. "In Deir al-Balah and the Mawasi area on the outskirts of the Rafah and Khan Younis governorates, there is barely any space. There are tents everywhere, on the beach, on the sidewalks, the streets, the graveyards, the courtyards of the hospitals, in the courtyards of the schools," Ghada Alhaddad, from Oxfam International, said. Saieh explained that it took her team six weeks and four failed attempts to move a couple of hundred food parcels from Rafah to the north of Gaza.  "One litre of fuel cost $40 yesterday," according to Ranchal. Fuel enters through the Rafah crossing. "The whole aid operation runs on fuel. If the fuel is cut off, the aid operation collapses," Konyndyk said.  Severe malnutrition Professor John Maynard, a surgeon from the UK who has spent the last two weeks operating on Palestinians in Gaza, highlighted complications from a direct result of malnutrition.

"I had two patients, 16 and 18, both of whom had survivable injuries, [and] both of whom died last week as a direct result of malnutrition." His colleague Dr Kahler, spoke of a "tipping point" after six-eight months, "the immunological system breaks down". "It is at that time when infections and complications from malnutrition will start," he added.  A famine, one aid worker explained, requires three thresholds: a sustained, severe lack of access to food, high levels of child malnutrition, and highly elevated mortality as a result of famine and disease.  All thresholds have been passed in the north, Konyndyk stated.  "If there is a Rafah invasion, this will certainly push things past the tipping point, and we will see a skyrocketing mortality related to the famine."

[gowns]

The head of the UN World Food Program (WFP) described the situation in Gaza as "catastrophic" as only 0.002 percent of the coastal enclave's immediate relief needs have entered so far, according to Palestine's Health Ministry. Cindy McCain described the 20 aid trucks that were allowed to enter via Egypt on Saturday as a "drop in the ocean". Speaking on ABC's This Week programme, McCain said aid agencies needed secure and sustainable access to the enclave. She added that the WFP is doing its very best to ensure aid gets to the people who need it but that Gaza was a war zone and that "things happen".

-- Middle East Eye, 10/22/23

"Two small convoys entered Gaza over the weekend, totaling 34 trucks between them, meaning that the territory is 7,246 trucks short of regular deliveries."

-- CNN, 10/23/23

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[ideasarestuckinmyhead]

Maybe some y! Charlie? :3c

And a pinch of Rat Poison!

TW: poisoning, talks of suicide, and douchebag thoughts of....John.

Charlie smiled at the neighbor that always flirted with Casper, who made it VERY clear they didn't like it. Said neighbor was named, John McCain age 32 divorced because he cheated on his wife.

He has three kids who are in their teens and hate him, Charlie doesn't blame them. This asshole is the worst, always cat calling women that pass by and calling Charlie a sissy for not wanting to 'man up' to see who Casper should really be with.

Casper almost went over to bash the older man's skull in multiple times. But Charlie told them to let him dig a deeper hole, and what did John do? Dug way too fucking deep of a hole to claw his way out. What broke the cables back for everyone was him slapping Casper at a block party for turning him down loudly.

"I would rather slit my fucking throat than be with you? Can you not FUCKING SEE THAT IM HAPPY WITH CHARLIE?" Screaming in rage Casper caught everyone attention. Children paused their games as they looked at the two adults in the middle of the party staring each other down.

"Honey, listen let's not make a big dea-" Silky words trying to smooth this over were interrupted. Why? By Casper throwing their drink in his face and flipping him off.

"GO AWAY YOU FUCKING SHITTY ASS MOTHERFUCKER THAT DESERVES TO DIE!" Everyone, not loudly, agreed with the beloved neighbor's words. They all hated him but was civil to him because Charlie asked. The blonde said he wanted to give him a chance to be better, but really he was using this to seem like a saint to everyone.

Suddenly there was a crack and Casper was holding their nose cursing up a storm. Charlie who was by them grabbed a bottle and smashed it over John's face. The older man fell to the ground and screamed as the booze in the bottle stung his scratches.

A few guys in the party grabbed him and began pulling him away from everyone. Family's grabbed their kids to make sure they didn't interfere, and some even called the police. After that party John was shunned by the whole block, no one spoke to him and even the kids threw rocks and bricks at his place.

Using this to his advantage weeks later Charlie snuck into his house at night and waited until he woke up. The rat poison he had made him smile, after the party Casper was planning how to kill him. But Charlie spoke up saying he wanted to get ride of this vermin himself.

And what better way to do that than using the poison that would kill it slowly? Getting enough to kill a 5'10" man was easy just saying you had a lot to a clerk got you enough. Charlie put gloves on and burned the evidence of him buying it, so all he had to do was use it.

When John finally woke up he went down to his kitchen and began cooking breakfast. He mentally cursed that bitch for not letting his advances woo them. He was a fucking catch! If only his bitch of a ex wife never told everyone why he was divorced he would have taken Casper away from that sissy Charlie!

"Stupid slut probably is only playing hard to get! Bet if I got them into bed they'd roll over and let me fuck them." Smug words filled the air as he turned to the spice cabinets. Grabbing one of them he added it to his food and went to the fridge grabbing a beer to drink.

Charlie who heard all of this was clutching the knife he got from the knife drawer tightly. Oh he's going to fucking enjoy taking his life. Watching from a closet by the kitchen he smiled as John greedily ate the food he made.

After finishing both the food and beer he got up to the sink. Before he could get there he started choking on something, then the food he just ate came up his throat. Puking out basically his guts out he wheezing on the floor as he began to convulse.

Seeing this Charlie opened the closet and walked to him. The blonde made sure to conceal his identity so when the police found his shitty ugly nasty mess they couldn't find out what happened. Taking out the note he made it told how John committed suicide because everyone hated him.

How he hated the man he became after losing his ex wife. Along with other words, making sure it sounded like him Charlie cursed him and Casper in the note. Leaving the rat poison boxes on the counter he smiled thinking how Casper would love this.

"Wish I killed you a different way now....like taking out your heart and giving it to my lover. Oh they'd love that!" Giggling maniacally Charlie thought of other things he could have done. John's final moments of his life was Charlie standing over John slitting his wrists.

After finishing Charlie left to the house making sure no one saw him. Casper was there and gave him a questioning look like catching a kid in the cookie jar.

"Awe baby did you kill him? Should have let me help! I wanted to kill that fucking lowlife for giving me a broken nose!" Going to their boyfriend Casper gave him kisses, both kissed happily.

"I did sorry Cas, I just couldn't wait anymore. I made it look like suicide though!" Giving them a happy look Casper laughed at his words. The two continued their day until they heard sirens blurring up and down the block.

"Oh! The cops arrived! Hope they liked the scene I left them!" Curious Charlie with Casper went out of the house, just like everyone else. Seeing the ex wife on the side walk puking on the lawn made Charlie sad.

The case of John McCain was ruled a suicide since he did buy a lot of Rat Poison a day before this. Also with the note Charlie made left finger prints and DNA of John on it. Casper was just glad that sick fuck was dead finally now they can enjoy being with Charlie peacefully like before John moved in half a year ago.

[allthegeopolitics]

Northern Gaza is experiencing a “full-blown famine”, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has said, and warned that it is “moving its way south”. In an interview with NBC News set to air on Sunday (May 5), Cindy McCain said that her remarks are based on what the WFP has seen and experienced on the ground. UN officials and aid agencies have for months warned of such a scenario.

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Northern Gaza is experiencing a “full-blown famine”, the head of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has said, and warned that it is “moving its way south”. In an interview with NBC News set to air on Sunday, Cindy McCain said that her remarks are based on what the WFP has seen and experienced on the ground. UN officials and aid agencies have for months warned of such a scenario. “It’s horror. It’s so hard to look at and it’s so hard to hear,” McCain told the US broadcaster’s Meet the Press programme. “What we are asking for and what we continually ask for is a ceasefire and the ability to have unfettered access, to get in safe through the various ports and gate crossings,” she said, according to a video clip of the interview. On Saturday, a delegation from Palestinian group Hamas was in Egypt to continue negotiations on a ceasefire amid an uptick in international pressure for a deal to be reached. Hamas’s spokesman Osama Hamdan said there had been “some forward steps”. Yet Israel has threatened to launch its ground invasion of Rafah in the southernmost tip of the enclave, which is home to more than 1.4 million displaced Palestinians who have fled the Israeli military’s relentless bombardment in other parts of the Gaza Strip. Israel has severely restricted the entry of critical humanitarian supplies into Gaza despite warnings from its allies and the United Nations of a looming famine in parts of the Palestinian territory. Its military has also repeatedly attacked and killed Palestinian civilians waiting to collect aid in the Strip. This week it reopened the Beit Hanoon (Erez) crossing into northern Gaza, but Israeli settlers attacked two aid convoys sent by Jordan. The UN has said the amounts remain insufficient to meet the vast and growing needs of Gaza’s starving population. The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification has previously warned that more than 70 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million population is facing “catastrophic hunger” any time between mid-March and May

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The NDP has a lobbyist problem. Many of the party’s top officials shuffle between employment at lobbying firms and work on provincial and federal elections—and the priorities and perspectives of their day jobs are a key reason why the party runs such uninspiring campaigns. In the most recent provincial election in Alberta, the NDP—including Rachel Notley’s brain trust, campaign managers, and high-profile volunteers—was stacked with party insiders who lobby for corporate clients. Only one got any attention: the campaign’s manager, Nathan Rotman, who is a registered lobbyist for Airbnb. But others include Cheryl Oates, a campaign advisor who as recently as February was leading a lobbying push in British Columbia for Uber, as well as a U.S. coal company. Brian Topp, a senior campaign advisor and former chief of staff to Notley, runs the firm where Oates works. The firm has recently also lobbied for Bank of Montreal, McCain Foods, railway giant CN, and one of Canada’s largest cannabis corporations. Other important roles—like Notley’s press secretary, and campaign managers in multiple ridings—were filled by lobbyists. [...]

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