(Actually, they are already here, too!)
Click on that link and take a look-see at what I mean!!!
"Price of rice takes toll in Asian slums"
"by Bruce Wallace, Los Angeles Times | April 27, 2008
MANILA - It is in the heaving slums of Asia, amid sagging tin shacks and streets afloat with waste, that the soaring global price for rice hits hardest.
Until recently, Imelda Torreras had been able to count on peddling small bags of rice to her neighbors in the putrid streets of Manila's Tondo district, a way to supplement her family's meager income as garbage brokers.
Now, the rocketing price of rice has pushed her out of the food business.
Customers used to paying 65 cents for a kilogram of rice, or 2.2 pounds, have balked at increases that have pushed the price as high as 90 cents, a swift and devastating rise for the desperately poor.
"The price I was paying the wholesalers was rising so fast I couldn't increase my own prices fast enough to keep up," she said, sitting in the entrance to her home as neighborhood children tumbled in the mud around her. "People around here won't pay that kind of money for rice."
The Philippines, a country of more than 90 million people, is the world's largest rice importer. And the United Nations World Food Program warned earlier this month that rising food prices mean Asia's poorest risk a "silent famine."
How can it be a "silent famine" with the Zionist-controlled, New World Order media on the case?
Oh, oh, it isn't a protest movement by a CIA-asset to wreck someone's Olympics, I see.
Indeed, rice prices on commodity futures markets have more than doubled in the last year. As with surging global wheat prices, the increase has been blamed on several factors, from rising transportation and fertilizer costs stemming from record oil prices, to hoarding by wholesalers who smell even bigger profits to be made down the road.
The result, economists and aid workers warn, is that millions of poor people may go hungry if the staple of their diet is priced beyond reach. The most vulnerable are those earning less than $2 a day, for whom even a small price increase means the loss of a crippling chunk of income.
I read this stuff, and all I can think of is EndGame!
President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's government said it has enough rice to meet domestic needs for the next two months and dismissed warnings from some that higher rice prices could lead to riots. But the government acknowledged that it must secure 2.1 million tons of new orders by July. About a week ago, Philippine officials scoured global markets in a futile search to fill an order of 500,000 tons. Such ominous signs are behind the price jumps that are only beginning to touch places like Tondo.
The problem in Tondo is not a rice shortage. The problem is higher prices.
TRILLIONS for WARS, BILLIONS for... oh, you get the point, readers!!!!
Many people have turned to subsidized rice, which is sold from public offices or from the backs of government trucks that have begun showing up, without notice, in poor neighborhoods. Government rice is sold at 37 cents a kilo, though some Filipinos complain the quality is poor.
Torreras, her husband, and their family know they eat better than many in the neighborhood.
As a broker in the garbage business, she and others like her get first crack at a slum staple known as "pagpag:" the bits of meat shaken from chicken bones found in the waste that is dumped in the neighborhood by fast-food restaurants. "Pagpag" can be repackaged or grilled again for resale.
Expect to see "PAGPAG" on AmeriKan store shelves soon!!!!!
For dessert you can have a dirt cookie!!!
:-(
This making of a meal out of something so meager speaks to the survival instincts of those who live in Manila's slums."
That's nice! Turn famine into a POSITIVE!
Readers, can AmeriKa's racist, Zionist media be anymore grotesque?!
If you don't think they are pushing a wicked agenda of evil, then your head is too far up your ass!
Maybe this will wake you up:
Yeah, mass-murder based on lies, exploitation, torture, those don't get Americans riled up.
But THIS WILL!!!!
"by Prasannan Parthasarathi and Juliet Schor | April 27, 2008
GLOBAL CAPITALISM is nothing if not fickle. Seemingly overnight, $19 DVD players, trendy T-shirts for $3.99, and $49 fares on Southwest have given way to $3 loaves of bread, $5 gallons of milk, and gas on its way to $4 a gallon. Will the recent inflation turn out to have been a temporary run-up, or are higher prices here to stay?
We're betting the trifecta of ecological limits, the unequal distribution of wealth, and the legacy of bad policy will end the era of cheap goods. Ecological footprint analysis suggests that global production and consumption are now exceeding sustainable levels by more than 23 percent.
The brainwashing continues so the RICH can have EVEN MORE!!!!
That's the backdrop when scientists confirm that 2007 was yet another year of rising carbon and methane emissions, when hungry Vietnamese workers stage massive strikes against
Oh, and about that global-warming fraud? Give a look-down, will ya?
The new price trends are troubling for a majority of the globe's citizens, who, unless they can translate their numbers into political power, will bear the lion's share of what looks so far to be a painful ecological adjustment.
To see how the trifecta is operating, consider basic foodstuffs, whose rising prices are leading to riots around the world and a run on pantries here in the United States.
Bad government policies, crafted partly in response to unsustainable carbon dioxide emissions and powerful special interests, have led to the diversion of grains into biofuels. Consumption of these fuels grew by 20 percent last year. As ecologists predicted, this pushed up food prices. The wealthy drivers of industrialized nations have their cheap biofuel, but the poor go without food.
We all know how stoo-pid the biofuels are! Hey, wasn't my idea!
I didn't like the idea of BURNING OUR FOOD from the START!!!!
At the same time, growing wealth in China and India is leading to consumption of more expensive foods higher up the chain, such as meat, which is already a staple of diets in Northern countries. Prices go up, and grain and energy are diverted from feeding and heating people to feeding and housing livestock.
Finally, in Africa and Latin America, the run-up in food prices comes after two decades of neoliberal economic policies that have flooded their markets with cheap US grains, whose prices are kept artificially low by government subsidies and unaccounted ecological costs. In Mexico, NAFTA has led to a tripling of corn imports from the United States, and US corn has captured 25 percent of the market. Haiti, the poorest nation in the Americas, is the fourth largest market for exports of US rice, taking nearly 10 percent of exports of that grain. In turn, these imports wiped out poor peasants whose production would have provided a safety net when world food prices rose.
All PART of the GLOBALISTS' PLAN, readers!!!!
Predictably, in a world with supply constraints, the demands of wealthier consumers are crowding out the basic needs of the less wealthy. As the purchasing power of the wealthy grows, this dynamic becomes more powerful.
Similar effects are operating here at home and are likely to intensify. US elites are finally realizing that carbon must be priced.
Once again, the BLOGS CALLED IT!!!!
The prices of energy, food, and everything else will rise in response, and lower-income consumers will be squeezed out.
So what does that mean? Americans will STARVE TO DEATH?
In the United States, the poorest fifth of households spend proportionately twice what the wealthiest fifth do on supermarket food, fuels, and utilities. The gap will widen as high demand drives energy costs higher.
Inadequate funding for the public transport that gives people access to jobs, food stores, and other daily needs, and is essential to achieving reductions in carbon emissions, will worsen the impact on the less wealthy.
Does it not bother you that the authors -- while repeatedly referring to wealth inequality -- never address the MONEY aspect of any of this?!
To me, readers, it just proves the ELITIST SCAM of the whole "global-warming" cult!!!!
YOU do with LESS, while THEY get MORE!!!
Abkhazia take me away!!!
"The economy is broken, but the people don't starve."
Sounds GOOD to ME!!!!"
The nation can no longer sustain the same old policies that enrich the energy giants, agribusinesses, and other transnationals who bear a large part of the responsibility for the current mess.
But that won't stop the insane bastards from trying!!!!
We need broad-based reforms that cushion higher prices for basic needs by putting more purchasing power into lower-income hands, expand secure access to sustainable food sources, and provide climate-friendly power and transport. That requires egalitarian policies, bottom-up power, and sustainable methods of production.
O.K., I stand corrected.
They are saying addressing the inequalities are central to all this -- while still pushing the enviro-agenda!
The sooner we get on the path to this inevitable transition, the easier, and fairer, the process of adjusting prices will be.
Prasannan Parthasarathi is associate professor of history at Boston College. Juliet Schor, a sociology professor at BC, is a board member of newdream.org.""Leadership on warming can begin at home...
...and in all our varied houses of worship
RE "GET real on global warming" (Op-ed, April 22): It's great to hear business leaders like Robin Chase say that we need to get real on global warming goals. And thank God for the scientific consensus that is updating the world almost daily with new motivations to make different choices and develop new habits.
Long wait after game does disservice to riders
IMAGINE MY concern and dismay at having to wait in line for 40 minutes to catch an outbound subway at the Fenway T stop after the Red Sox game. There was a very long line behind me as I boarded, and I'm sure there were others who waited much longer.
Plastic distribution bags add to the problem
THE RECENT celebration of Earth Day reminds us of the work we have yet to do to help our planet be healthier. I continue to be dismayed by the Globe's repeated use of plastic bags in the distribution of its paper to subscribers.
'Green' celebrities make some people see red
I COULDN'T agree more with Alex Beam's column ( "Sick and green over Earth Day," Living & Arts, April 22). So-called green celebrities and businesses for the most part are only in it for money and recognition - not for any altruistic reasons.
Keep focus on the issue, any possible solutions
AS CONCERNED students and teens at Boston Latin Academy, we would like to see more stories focused on global warming. We are very interested in our future on earth - that is, if we have a future. As readers, when we don't hear possible solutions, we become discouraged and feel it is useless to try to solve the problem."
See what they have done to the kids with that last one, readers.
May God preserve us!
