Let Them Eat Grits
The sudden advent of a crisis in food supplies has provoked a flurry of speculation (you all know I can't resist a pun) and many opinions I've been listening to at CSpan really remind me of Marie Antoinette. She was only a kid, though, from adults it makes me want to beg Watertiger to lend me her desk. I need to bang my head.
While kids are starving, into some people's heads pops a strong need to whine that suddenly everyone is saying all the same things, it's obviously a leftie/librul media plot to demean GoPervs. Just because we have runaway gas costs driving up the price of everything including food, and wages have stagnated during ten years of their drive for a permanent majority, you should think they're okay because the world is safe for carcinogens. We're just pointy-headed intellecshuls.
The prospect of needing to get the recidivist voting block to help keep a world's population from starving, before they can blown up or asphyxiated, is just a little overwhelming.
Watching CSpan coverage of 'action' on legislation to fix this, a lot of the activity in congress covers that drama where talking points are all the wingers will allow. All action is being stalled in the Senate by, last count I saw, 68 filibusters, to prove the Dems are inactive. I see the increasingly urgent need to get all of them out of office. That is fast becoming urgent for the whole world's safety, from hunger and from global warming.
The crisis isn't tomorrow, it's today.
Us pinko libruls are being blamed for the crises of all sorts of course. The wingers have a wonderful email that outlines the talking points on the floor of the Congress. The fact that their failure to do anything for ten years except give away our taxes to business interests has put us here probably can't work its way into their befuddled little minds.
I know Professor Wombat doesn't like the idea, but sometimes I do believe that there should be some limits on how benighted a voter can be. But as he reminds me, remember that the administration of the standards could wind up in the kind of war criminals we have at the Pentagon, DoJ, FDA, and on and on.
263 days.
While kids are starving, into some people's heads pops a strong need to whine that suddenly everyone is saying all the same things, it's obviously a leftie/librul media plot to demean GoPervs. Just because we have runaway gas costs driving up the price of everything including food, and wages have stagnated during ten years of their drive for a permanent majority, you should think they're okay because the world is safe for carcinogens. We're just pointy-headed intellecshuls.
The prospect of needing to get the recidivist voting block to help keep a world's population from starving, before they can blown up or asphyxiated, is just a little overwhelming.
Watching CSpan coverage of 'action' on legislation to fix this, a lot of the activity in congress covers that drama where talking points are all the wingers will allow. All action is being stalled in the Senate by, last count I saw, 68 filibusters, to prove the Dems are inactive. I see the increasingly urgent need to get all of them out of office. That is fast becoming urgent for the whole world's safety, from hunger and from global warming.
The crisis isn't tomorrow, it's today.
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has warned that the crisis of rising food prices could reverse gains made in reducing poverty across the continent.
Bank president Haruhiko Kuroda warned at its annual meeting in Madrid that "the cheap food era may be over".
Donor countries have pledged more than $11bn (£5.5bn) to a fund to ease the hardship of Asia's poorest people.
Meanwhile the African Development Bank has pledged an extra $1bn for its loans portfolio to tackle the food crisis.
(snip)
Mr Ban warned of "widespread hunger, malnutrition and social unrest on an unprecedented scale" because of soaring food prices.
The WFP believes 100 million people are currently going short of food.
Us pinko libruls are being blamed for the crises of all sorts of course. The wingers have a wonderful email that outlines the talking points on the floor of the Congress. The fact that their failure to do anything for ten years except give away our taxes to business interests has put us here probably can't work its way into their befuddled little minds.
I know Professor Wombat doesn't like the idea, but sometimes I do believe that there should be some limits on how benighted a voter can be. But as he reminds me, remember that the administration of the standards could wind up in the kind of war criminals we have at the Pentagon, DoJ, FDA, and on and on.
263 days.
Labels: Bush Legacy, Corruption, Economy, Hunger
posted by Ruth at 8:30 AM
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"The Green Revolution increased the energy flow to agriculture by an average of 50 times the energy input of traditional agriculture.5 In the most extreme cases, energy consumption by agriculture has increased 100 fold or more.6"
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/100303_eating_oil.html
Food scarcity will soon follow the increase in petroleum fuel prices. We will also very likely burn up the last six inches of topsoil throughout the entire Midwest in our gastanks before that fully takes old.
People will starves by the billions.
"Starve."
Or just go extinct.
The people eating mud pies would love grits. Our government sucks.
Without the incredible wastefulness we've had the past eight to ten years, we could have made advances toward feeding all those poor the occupied WH wants to think all that AIDs assistance - that requires abstinence education -is helping.
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