Sunday, December 9, 2018

My Comments: Just one question: Save a child from starvation or ogle at nude paintings? It's your money -- It's your choice.

Do you need Arthur T. Benjamin to calculate this? My question is we're buying explicit porn for zillions of dollars, aren't we? And, there're zillions of people dying because of starvation etcetera. So you still think I'm a moron, retard and crazy? A despicable pariah? This defies logic.

Go to this United Nations site for Global Issues -- we're facing today.

http://www.un.org/en/sections/issues-depth/global-issues-overview/

Yemen food survey finds majority in 'dire' crisis, famine a danger
Yemen’s war and the ensuing economic collapse has left 15.9 million people, 53 percent of the population, facing “severe acute food insecurity” and famine was a danger if immediate action was not taken, a survey said on Saturday.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-security-hunger/yemen-food-survey-finds-majority-in-dire-crisis-famine-a-danger-idUSKBN1O70DP

Some 85,000 children may have already died here in Yemen, and 12 million more people may be on the brink of starvation, casualties in part of the three-year-old American-backed Saudi war in Yemen. United Nations officials and aid experts warn that this could become the worst famine the world has seen in a generation.

“The risk of a major catastrophe is very high,” Mark Lowcock, the United Nations humanitarian chief, told me. “In the worst case, what we have in Yemen now has the potential to be worse than anything any professional in this field has seen during their working lives.”

A nude painting just sold in New York for a record-breaking $157 million - here are the 15 most expensive paintings ever sold

15. Amedeo Modigliani's "Nu couché (sur le côté gauche)" — $157.2 million

14. Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I" — $135 million

13. Pablo Picasso's "Le Rêve" — $155 million

12. Willem de Kooning's "Woman III" — $137.5 million

11. Jackson Pollock's "No. 5, 1948" — $140 million

10. Roy Lichtenstein's "Masterpiece" — $165 million

9. Amedeo Modigliani's "Nu Couché" — $170.4 million

8. Picasso's "Les Femmes d'Alger ("Version O")" — $179.4 million

7. Rembrandt's "Pendant portraits of Maerten Soolmans and Oopjen Coppit" — $180 million

6. Mark Rothko's "No. 6 (Violet, Green and Red)" — $186 million

5. Pollock's "Number 17A" — ~$200 million

4. Paul Gauguin's "Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?)" — $210 million

3. Paul Cézanne's "The Card Players" — $250 million

2. Willem de Kooning's "Interchange" — ~$300 million

1. Painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, "Salvator Mundi" — $450.3 million

https://www.businessinsider.in/A-nude-painting-just-sold-in-New-York-for-a-record-breaking-157-million-here-are-the-15-most-expensive-paintings-ever-sold/articleshow/64194028.cms

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