that, in UK
"According to recently published research, the number of cases of Incapacity Benefit “fraud” is so low it is almost impossible to measure accurately. It is estimated to account for less than 0.3 percent of total Incapacity Benefit payments."
"Basic Incapacity Benefit payment ranges from £63.75 on the “short-term lower late” to £84.50 on the “long-term higher rate.” Research conducted by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation in 2004 found that claimants on Incapacity Benefit and or Disability Living Allowance/Income Support met only 28 percent of the costs of people with low-medium needs, 30 percent of the costs of people with intermittent/fluctuating needs, 35 percent of the costs of deaf people and people with visual impairments and 50 percent of the costs of people with high-medium support needs."
"Britain: Welfare Reform Act to force sick and vulnerable into work"
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Saturday, May 10, 2008
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Drunk & Stoned What I feel Now
Watching this US "Police, Camera, Action" and the commentator is a bit wierd init? He maes me feel like , "Shite, I should be out there doing that, I mean be a perp."
Yeah that feeling has been working since I started wondering into this program when there is nothing about. So am I right to believe that the commentator who is a pig-bum sucker....well worse than that. He is in the corporate world making money for the pigs.
You know that it is an establihment of Po lice, which goes as far as we lived in communities as humans. They came after the prostitutes then after that came the surveyers. So if there is no crime in the streets then why do we need the po lice. They are a parasite. Everytime the crime rate goes down the coppers become less. They are equal forces, kept up for their own future progress. If one is not there.....So why don't we create more crime and there is more work for all of us, says some of us. If you are not with us you are with them, sir.
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Yeah that feeling has been working since I started wondering into this program when there is nothing about. So am I right to believe that the commentator who is a pig-bum sucker....well worse than that. He is in the corporate world making money for the pigs.
You know that it is an establihment of Po lice, which goes as far as we lived in communities as humans. They came after the prostitutes then after that came the surveyers. So if there is no crime in the streets then why do we need the po lice. They are a parasite. Everytime the crime rate goes down the coppers become less. They are equal forces, kept up for their own future progress. If one is not there.....So why don't we create more crime and there is more work for all of us, says some of us. If you are not with us you are with them, sir.
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Iranian in Iraq
Long time ago when the US were screaming that the road side bombs were imported from Iran, I discussed that the design of the bombs were a present from our Army boys to the Protestant crew in Northern Ireland to be used against the Catholics. Now I see this outburst from a Iraq Mahdi army Fighter.
"“Our bombs are not Iranian-made – they are produced locally,” said one commander. “Any Mahdi fighter can put one together.”"
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"“Our bombs are not Iranian-made – they are produced locally,” said one commander. “Any Mahdi fighter can put one together.”"
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Nice Words
"They grinned, patted each other’s backs and uttered the greeting “Peace be with you”, before getting down to the business of war."
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Did You Know
That 13% of the American voters think Barack Obama is a Mulim.
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Mud Cookie Recipe
1 cup of grade 'A' mud.
1/2 cup of chopped grade 'A' earth worms.
2 pinches of vegetable shortening
Sugar, salt and other seasoning to taste.
Mix all together in a sterile bowl. Make flat biscuits and bake in the sun if the bugger is out, otherwise wait until it comes out.
This is the latest rage in Haiti. It is catching on and the Haitians are going to get the world market very soon. This is very good for obesity and the best to keep yourself skinny. You can appear in the TV like those people in 90's in Ethiopia.
Easy to learn slogan to sing along to.
“The perfect meal for down-to-earth folk; wash it down with a Diet Coke”
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1/2 cup of chopped grade 'A' earth worms.
2 pinches of vegetable shortening
Sugar, salt and other seasoning to taste.
Mix all together in a sterile bowl. Make flat biscuits and bake in the sun if the bugger is out, otherwise wait until it comes out.
This is the latest rage in Haiti. It is catching on and the Haitians are going to get the world market very soon. This is very good for obesity and the best to keep yourself skinny. You can appear in the TV like those people in 90's in Ethiopia.
Easy to learn slogan to sing along to.
“The perfect meal for down-to-earth folk; wash it down with a Diet Coke”
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Did You Know
"What does torture have in common with genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression? They are all jus cogens. Jus cogens is Latin for "higher law" or "compelling law." This means that no country can ever pass a law that allows torture. There can be no immunity from criminal liability for violation of a jus cogens prohibition."
From "Why John Yoo and Other Top Administration Lawyers Should be Investigated for War Crimes"
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From "Why John Yoo and Other Top Administration Lawyers Should be Investigated for War Crimes"
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Tuesday, May 06, 2008
The World Hunger Is Growing (Updated)
My last post
I am really glad that my first thoughts about this calamity is proved right after all this depressing news. The Bankers lost money from the bloody fracas they created out of bad credit. Now they want to make the money back. So how do they proceed. Buy the food stocks of the world and stockpile them. Then hold it increasing the price. Lots of people will die but who cares about it except lttle people like me who cry from inside. Everytime I throw a little bit of food, as they go bad I cringe from guilt. But the Bankers do not my dear friend. they laugh all the way to the.....
Listen to this article if you are not sure.
"Speculation in commodities – the first culprit
The immediate cause for the rise in food prices is the speculation in commodities mainly at the Chicago stock exchange. According to Jean Ziegler, one thousand billion dollars of the world money supply have been lost between October and January through market speculation on the world's stock exchanges. The big speculators, the hedge funds – that's not the Red Cross, says Jean Ziegler – now speculate in soya, rice, millet, wheat and corn. They are looking for maximum profit in agricultural raw materials and are thus pushing the prices up to an explosive level. They can buy up Brazil's entire soya harvest with only 5 % of real capital. This way they risk very little if the harvest turns out to be less than expected but they stand a good chance of making astronomical profits.
The cause is the speculation in commodities, the hedge funds that create money with money. It doesn't make money from production, from an industry, from creating something of value. It is a way of making gold with air ("Ils font de l'or avec du vent"). The speculators are not bothered with food security in the world; they go where they have to go to make maximum profits.
One thousand billion dollars of inherited property have been lost since October in the world's money markets which are no more profitable. The financial markets have collapsed. The margin of profit is negative. So where do they go? They go where the speculation is worthwhile and that is in agricultural raw materials.
Those speculators are criminals because we are dealing with crimes against humanity.
Since the bi-polar world system that existed before 1991 and the fall of the Soviet Union, there have been no obstacles to the savage capitalism that has now conquered the world.
UNCTAD – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development – is trying to rein in the WTO, which is the neoliberal institution that above all supports deregulation and privatization. UNCTAD is making efforts to exert a stabilizing influence on speculation in the commodities markets. However, capitalist market forces are too strong to be subdued by the well-intentioned efforts of a UN organization."
The rest of the reasons for the problem is in the article.
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I am really glad that my first thoughts about this calamity is proved right after all this depressing news. The Bankers lost money from the bloody fracas they created out of bad credit. Now they want to make the money back. So how do they proceed. Buy the food stocks of the world and stockpile them. Then hold it increasing the price. Lots of people will die but who cares about it except lttle people like me who cry from inside. Everytime I throw a little bit of food, as they go bad I cringe from guilt. But the Bankers do not my dear friend. they laugh all the way to the.....
Listen to this article if you are not sure.
"Speculation in commodities – the first culprit
The immediate cause for the rise in food prices is the speculation in commodities mainly at the Chicago stock exchange. According to Jean Ziegler, one thousand billion dollars of the world money supply have been lost between October and January through market speculation on the world's stock exchanges. The big speculators, the hedge funds – that's not the Red Cross, says Jean Ziegler – now speculate in soya, rice, millet, wheat and corn. They are looking for maximum profit in agricultural raw materials and are thus pushing the prices up to an explosive level. They can buy up Brazil's entire soya harvest with only 5 % of real capital. This way they risk very little if the harvest turns out to be less than expected but they stand a good chance of making astronomical profits.
The cause is the speculation in commodities, the hedge funds that create money with money. It doesn't make money from production, from an industry, from creating something of value. It is a way of making gold with air ("Ils font de l'or avec du vent"). The speculators are not bothered with food security in the world; they go where they have to go to make maximum profits.
One thousand billion dollars of inherited property have been lost since October in the world's money markets which are no more profitable. The financial markets have collapsed. The margin of profit is negative. So where do they go? They go where the speculation is worthwhile and that is in agricultural raw materials.
Those speculators are criminals because we are dealing with crimes against humanity.
Since the bi-polar world system that existed before 1991 and the fall of the Soviet Union, there have been no obstacles to the savage capitalism that has now conquered the world.
UNCTAD – United Nations Conference on Trade and Development – is trying to rein in the WTO, which is the neoliberal institution that above all supports deregulation and privatization. UNCTAD is making efforts to exert a stabilizing influence on speculation in the commodities markets. However, capitalist market forces are too strong to be subdued by the well-intentioned efforts of a UN organization."
The rest of the reasons for the problem is in the article.
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Sunday, May 04, 2008
Digital TV
I have problems with the digital "Free View" TV. It goes out at the crucial moment in the plot; fucking "No Signal". I think the corporate bastards are doing it, so that, we have to buy a better system instead of the free.
I have noticed this in the digital TV. Can you remember whan they show a clip of 1920's camera clip of an old movie you can see the scene going a bit jerky. Yeah? You know what I mean?
That is what I felt whan I was watching snooker. The Ref as well as the perps in the plot move as in an old clip. Man! Am I going nuts? But I loves the feeling.
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I have noticed this in the digital TV. Can you remember whan they show a clip of 1920's camera clip of an old movie you can see the scene going a bit jerky. Yeah? You know what I mean?
That is what I felt whan I was watching snooker. The Ref as well as the perps in the plot move as in an old clip. Man! Am I going nuts? But I loves the feeling.
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Saturday, May 03, 2008
London Mayoral Elections
My stupid view is that the Ken L lost the election because, he mixed himself with Islam and the Islamic priests who were in the western mind a bit revolutionists. The Jewish block brought the voters out in masses. I won't be surprised if later they find out that there was a bit of vote rigging. Zionists can go to these lengths even though they know they will be found out later.
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Friday, May 02, 2008
The Bombing of Syrian Nuclear Site
I mentioned this episode in some earlier posts they are:
This First.
And go down the page to 09:40 18/09/2007
Then this.
And go to the 10:50 27/09/2007 entry further down on the page.
This is the presentations to the Senate and House intelligence committees were meant to show that North Koreans were helping the Syrians build a plutonium reactor. The what follows after this will be easily understood if you watch this commentary. Promise it is not that long!!!!!
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This First.
And go down the page to 09:40 18/09/2007
Then this.
And go to the 10:50 27/09/2007 entry further down on the page.
This is the presentations to the Senate and House intelligence committees were meant to show that North Koreans were helping the Syrians build a plutonium reactor. The what follows after this will be easily understood if you watch this commentary. Promise it is not that long!!!!!
Online Videos by Veoh.com
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Thursday, May 01, 2008
What I Really Like Others To Do When I Am Dead
I like my body except the dreads to go to scientific knowledgs. I like someone to look into my body and see how much repair went into the system since 1995 when I realised what is wrong with my body.
My dread locks have to be given to John Coyle (Scottish John) who lives in Cornwall now. I like him to ask someone to check whether my DNA (the rubbish units et al) have changed over the years. I started dreading in 1982. The dreads from that time which came off are there in a bag in my place.
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My dread locks have to be given to John Coyle (Scottish John) who lives in Cornwall now. I like him to ask someone to check whether my DNA (the rubbish units et al) have changed over the years. I started dreading in 1982. The dreads from that time which came off are there in a bag in my place.
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Did You Know
"Filling the gas tank of an SUV with pure ethanol requires more than 450 pounds of corn. This is enough calories to feed one person for a year."
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Did You Know
"Sixteen-year-old Charlene, who has a one-month-old son, relies on a traditional Haitian remedy for hunger pangs: cookies made of dried yellow dirt mixed with salt and vegetable shortening. This mud cookie sells for five cents on the street and some people can’t even afford this non-food meal which causes severe malnutrition, intestinal distress and contains potentially deadly toxins and parasites."
This is Haiti. Man we throw food away. Is there any one who cares?
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This is Haiti. Man we throw food away. Is there any one who cares?
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Oil Oil Everwhere But Not A Drop Cheap
The petrol prices are a record high. We are all suffering. But the oil companies are making record profits. The Gov is not interested in doing anything Why?
"BP has reported a 63 percent jump in profits in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago.
The oil company on Tuesday reported a profit of $7.6 billion compared to $4.4 billion in the first quarter of 2007.
First-quarter profit was up 73 percent compared to the previous quarter.
BP's closely watched replacement cost profit rose 48 percent to $6.59 billion. This compared to US$4.44 billion in the first quarter of 2007."
Look at This.
"Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell said Tuesday that first-quarter net profits leapt 25 percent to 4.58 billion pounds because of record-breaking crude oil prices.
Crude oil prices smashed record after record in the first quarter and hit an all-time high of almost 120 dollars per barrel on Monday on the back of a British refinery strike and simmering tensions in key producer Nigeria.
Net earnings on a current cost of supply (CCS) basis, excluding fluctuations in the value of inventories, were up 12 percent to 3.92 billion pounds in the three months ending March 31, compared with the same period of 2007."
And This.
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"BP has reported a 63 percent jump in profits in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago.
The oil company on Tuesday reported a profit of $7.6 billion compared to $4.4 billion in the first quarter of 2007.
First-quarter profit was up 73 percent compared to the previous quarter.
BP's closely watched replacement cost profit rose 48 percent to $6.59 billion. This compared to US$4.44 billion in the first quarter of 2007."
Look at This.
"Anglo-Dutch energy giant Royal Dutch Shell said Tuesday that first-quarter net profits leapt 25 percent to 4.58 billion pounds because of record-breaking crude oil prices.
Crude oil prices smashed record after record in the first quarter and hit an all-time high of almost 120 dollars per barrel on Monday on the back of a British refinery strike and simmering tensions in key producer Nigeria.
Net earnings on a current cost of supply (CCS) basis, excluding fluctuations in the value of inventories, were up 12 percent to 3.92 billion pounds in the three months ending March 31, compared with the same period of 2007."
And This.
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The Law Makers Of US And The MIC
"Who profits from the Iraq war? More than a quarter of senators and congressmen have invested at least $196 million of their own money in companies doing business with the Department of Defense (DoD) that profit from the death and destruction in Iraq."
"In 2004, the first full year after the present Iraq war began, Republican and Democratic lawmakers—both hawks and doves—invested between $74.9 million and $161.3 million in companies under contract with the DoD. In 2006 Democrats had at least $3.7 million invested in the defense sector alone, compared to the Republicans’ “only” $577,500. As the war raged on, so did the billions of profits—and personal investments by Congress members in war contractors, which increased 5 percent from 2004 to 2006."
So going to war is only way these wankers can make money. Man I wish I am a law maker.
Now this is what I wrote to BBC news "Have Your Say". I will post any replies if they appear in the BBC website.
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"In 2004, the first full year after the present Iraq war began, Republican and Democratic lawmakers—both hawks and doves—invested between $74.9 million and $161.3 million in companies under contract with the DoD. In 2006 Democrats had at least $3.7 million invested in the defense sector alone, compared to the Republicans’ “only” $577,500. As the war raged on, so did the billions of profits—and personal investments by Congress members in war contractors, which increased 5 percent from 2004 to 2006."
So going to war is only way these wankers can make money. Man I wish I am a law maker.
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008
The World Hunger Is Growing
The question I asked myself is; from all the news so far I read it does not explain the increase in prices in such a short time. In this article I found it.
"As prices rose, major grain producers including Argentina and Ukraine, battling inflation caused in part by soaring oil bills, were moving to bar exports on a range of crops to control costs at home. It meant less supply on world markets even as global demand entered a fundamentally new phase. Already, corn prices had been climbing for months on the back of booming government-subsidized ethanol programs. Soybeans were facing pressure from surging demand in China. But as supplies in the pipelines of global trade shrank, prices for corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, rice and other grains began shooting through the roof.
At the same time, food was becoming the new gold. Investors fleeing Wall Street's mortgage-related strife plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into grain futures, driving prices up even more. By Christmas, a global panic was building. With fewer places to turn, and tempted by the weaker dollar, nations staged a run on the American wheat harvest.
Foreign buyers, who typically seek to purchase one or two months' supply of wheat at a time, suddenly began to stockpile. They put in orders on U.S. grain exchanges two to three times larger than normal as food riots began to erupt worldwide. This led major domestic U.S. mills to jump into the fray with their own massive orders, fearing that there would soon be no wheat left at any price.
"Japan, the Philippines, [South] Korea, Taiwan -- they all came in with huge orders, and no matter how high prices go, they keep on buying," said Jeff Voge, chairman of the Kansas City Board of Trade and also an independent trader. Grains have surged so high, he said, that some traders are walking off the floor for weeks at a time, unable to handle the stress.
"We have never seen anything like this before," Voge said. "Prices are going up more in one day than they have during entire years in the past. But no matter the price, there always seems to be a buyer. . . . This isn't just any commodity. It is food, and people need to eat.""
So the truth is that some WallStreet Bankers are the people responsible for this price rise. But why?
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"As prices rose, major grain producers including Argentina and Ukraine, battling inflation caused in part by soaring oil bills, were moving to bar exports on a range of crops to control costs at home. It meant less supply on world markets even as global demand entered a fundamentally new phase. Already, corn prices had been climbing for months on the back of booming government-subsidized ethanol programs. Soybeans were facing pressure from surging demand in China. But as supplies in the pipelines of global trade shrank, prices for corn, soybeans, wheat, oats, rice and other grains began shooting through the roof.
At the same time, food was becoming the new gold. Investors fleeing Wall Street's mortgage-related strife plowed hundreds of millions of dollars into grain futures, driving prices up even more. By Christmas, a global panic was building. With fewer places to turn, and tempted by the weaker dollar, nations staged a run on the American wheat harvest.
Foreign buyers, who typically seek to purchase one or two months' supply of wheat at a time, suddenly began to stockpile. They put in orders on U.S. grain exchanges two to three times larger than normal as food riots began to erupt worldwide. This led major domestic U.S. mills to jump into the fray with their own massive orders, fearing that there would soon be no wheat left at any price.
"Japan, the Philippines, [South] Korea, Taiwan -- they all came in with huge orders, and no matter how high prices go, they keep on buying," said Jeff Voge, chairman of the Kansas City Board of Trade and also an independent trader. Grains have surged so high, he said, that some traders are walking off the floor for weeks at a time, unable to handle the stress.
"We have never seen anything like this before," Voge said. "Prices are going up more in one day than they have during entire years in the past. But no matter the price, there always seems to be a buyer. . . . This isn't just any commodity. It is food, and people need to eat.""
So the truth is that some WallStreet Bankers are the people responsible for this price rise. But why?
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The World Hunger Is Growing (All Up to Date)
My First Post:
This is somethong which I noticed in the news recently. the food shortage in the world.
"Two million children in India die and turn into statistics every year. That's about 6,000 deaths everyday. A CNN-IBN Special Investigation travelled to the rural heartlands of UP to document deaths and cases of malnutrition for a special edition of 30 Minutes. Here's the first installment from UP's Varanasi and Lalitpur districts."
In Booming India, Hunger Kills 6,000 Kids Daily
"The United Nations body World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the rise in global food prices will reduce its ability to feed hungry and malnourished people.
Speaking last month in Rome, where the WFP is based, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said, “Our ability to reach people is going down just as needs go up.... We are seeing a new face of hunger in which people are being priced out of the food market.... Situations that were previously not urgent—they are now.”
In a press release, the WFP gave a new estimate for the funds needed for its work this year at nearly US$3.5 billion, half a billion more than estimated last year. This money is for approved projects to feed 73 million people in 78 countries throughout the world. It notes that this money is for projected feeding schemes and does not include unforeseen emergencies that may arise.
It also notes that the poorest people on earth will have to spend an increasing portion of their meagre income on food. The WFP warns that these people will be forced to buy less food, or less nutritious food, or rely on outside help."
Global Food Prices Rise And Famine Increases
After Philliphines and Indonesia Cambodia has banned export of rice.
"Cambodia has become the latest Asian country to impose restrictions on exports of rice – the staple food for half the world's population.
The government announced the two-month export ban to ensure "food security" on Thursday, blaming surging overseas demand – particularly in Africa and the Middle East - for the skyrocketing cost of rice."
My Second Post:
Here I was looking at two places in the world who has problems with their staple diet, Rice.
"At least four Haitians were killed and around 25 others wounded in demonstrations-turned-riots in southern Haiti with U.N. peacekeepers, according to the local reports.
On the second day of demonstrations related to the anti-poverty and against the rising prices on Friday, riots broke out among the armed protesters and clashes were reported between the United Nations peacekeepers and the people.
Violence engulfed different parts of Haiti for the last two days over the rising food prices including rice, fruits and beans that have surged by more than 50 percent over the last 12 months in the region."
Yeah right, when you consider Haiti is colonised by the US and conned the UN to send peace keepers. Do not forget that the democratically elected prime minister, had to flee the country and living in Africa at the moment. That was US instigated riots.
"Haiti, which face food crisis that is threatening the country's vulnerable security, holds 8.5 million people with only marginal number of people earning less than two dollars per day.
"We know that these demonstrations have been infiltrated by individuals linked to drug dealers and other smugglers," Haiti's Prime Minister, Jacques Edouard Alexis, condemning the violence told BBC News report on Saturday.
He added that the country has already spent almost $10 million to curb the rising food prices and to make the food aid schemes available to the people."
I bet $8 million ended up in the prime minister's pockets init?
That is from "Food Riots Kill At Least Four, Dozens Injured In Haiti"
And there is a bit more here.
"A global rice shortage that has seen prices of one of the world's most important staple foods increase by 50 per cent in the past two weeks alone is triggering an international crisis, with countries banning export and threatening serious punishment for hoarders.
With rice stocks at their lowest for 30 years, prices of the grain rose more than 10 per cent on Friday to record highs and are expected to soar further in the coming months. Already China, India, Egypt, Vietnam and Cambodia have imposed tariffs or export bans, as it has become clear that world production of rice this year will decline in real terms by 3.5 per cent. The impact will be felt most keenly by the world's poorest populations, who have become increasingly dependent on the crop as the prices of other grains have become too costly."
But do not forget that US policy through the WTO made the American GM rice dirt cheap in the third world countries and people stopped growing their own rice, as it will not sell in their own country due to American rice.
"Analysts have cited many factors for the rises, including rising fuel and fertiliser expenses, as well as climate change. But while drought is one factor, another is the switch from food to biofuel production in large areas of the world, in particular to fulfil the US energy demands. A continuing change in the global diet is also putting a further squeeze on rice. In China, for example, 100 million rural migrants to the country's big cities have switched from a staple of wheat to rice as they have become wealthier."
From Egyptian workers riot over rising prices
"Thousands of demonstrators angry about rising prices and stagnant salaries torched buildings, looted shops and hurled bricks at police who responded with tear gas Sunday in a northern industrial town as Egyptians staged a nationwide strike.Thousands of demonstrators angry about rising prices and stagnant salaries torched buildings, looted shops and hurled bricks at police who responded with tear gas Sunday in a northern industrial town as Egyptians staged a nationwide strike."
The third Post:
Check my earlier posts this and this.
"Sri Lanka’s official annualised inflation rate skyrocketed to 28 percent in March, up from 24 percent in February. Prices for essential food items are soaring—the inflation rate for food and beverages reached a staggering 37 percent—while transport prices and housing rents followed with 24 percent and 11 percent respectively.
Over the past three months, the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) has jumped by 487 points, from 5,955 in December to 6,442 in March, and the impact is sharply eroding the living standards of workers, the rural poor and students. People are particularly angry because the price of rice, the main staple food in Sri Lanka, has nearly doubled since January last year, causing immense hardship. Worse conditions lie ahead. The government has admitted that bread prices could rise to 100 rupees by the end of this year, a threefold increase."
Anger grows over rising prices in Sri Lanka
So we have Phillipines, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, India, Egypt, Vietnam, Egypt, Haiti and now in Sri Lanka. In a way it is good that people can see the large differnce between how we in UK live and other countries. But will it be too late for us in the near future where we might have to tighten our belts or kill someone for a morsal of food? Hmmmm it is nice to see BBC news on the same subject. Please join the country India to the above list!!!!!
Forth Post:
Yeah BBC news and lots of media has taken up the issue. My last post, about the subject. In this article there is a bit more stats and different points of view.
"Never mind the economic crisis. Focus for a moment on a more urgent threat: the great food recession that is sweeping the world faster than the credit crunch. You have probably seen the figures by now: the price of rice has risen by three-quarters over the past year, that of wheat by 130%. There are food crises in 37 countries. One hundred million people, according to the World Bank, could be pushed into deeper poverty by the high prices.
But I bet that you have missed the most telling statistic. At 2,1-billion tonnes, the global grain harvest broke all records last year -- it beat the previous year's by almost 5%. The crisis, in other words, has begun before world food supplies are hit by climate change. If hunger can strike now, what will happen if harvests decline?"
Media so far has been telling a lie about the harvest init? They said the global harvest failed?
"The World Bank points out that "the grain required to fill the tank of a sports utility vehicle with ethanol ... could feed one person for a year". "
Oh dear, what fun?
"This year global stockpiles of cereals will decline by about 53-million tonnes; this gives you a rough idea of the size of the hunger gap. The production of biofuels will consume almost 100-million tonnes, which suggests that they are directly responsible for the current crisis."
Good on you Ruth Kelly, you are getting us into a muddle annd you knows it!
"While 100-million tonnes of food will be diverted this year to feed cars, 760-million tonnes will be snatched from the mouths of humans to feed animals -- which could cover the global food deficit 14 times. If you care about hunger, eat less meat.
While meat consumption is booming in Asia and Latin America, in the United Kingdom it has scarcely changed since the government started gathering data in 1974. At just over 1kg per person per week, it's still about 40% above the global average, though less than half the amount consumed in the United States.
We eat less beef and more chicken than we did 30 years ago, which means a smaller total impact. Beef cattle eat about 8kg of grain or meal for every kilogram of flesh they produce; a kilogram of chicken needs just 2kg of feed. Even so, our consumption rate is plainly unsustainable."
STOP: There is good news as well on the food front. For the people who like their spuds it is good news of course.
"The potato has potential as an antidote to hunger caused by higher food prices, a population that is growing by one billion people each decade, climbing costs for fertilizer and diesel, and more cropland being sown for biofuel production.
To focus attention on this, the United Nations named 2008 the International Year of the Potato, calling the vegetable a "hidden treasure"."
Read it here.
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This is somethong which I noticed in the news recently. the food shortage in the world.
"Two million children in India die and turn into statistics every year. That's about 6,000 deaths everyday. A CNN-IBN Special Investigation travelled to the rural heartlands of UP to document deaths and cases of malnutrition for a special edition of 30 Minutes. Here's the first installment from UP's Varanasi and Lalitpur districts."
In Booming India, Hunger Kills 6,000 Kids Daily
"The United Nations body World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the rise in global food prices will reduce its ability to feed hungry and malnourished people.
Speaking last month in Rome, where the WFP is based, WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said, “Our ability to reach people is going down just as needs go up.... We are seeing a new face of hunger in which people are being priced out of the food market.... Situations that were previously not urgent—they are now.”
In a press release, the WFP gave a new estimate for the funds needed for its work this year at nearly US$3.5 billion, half a billion more than estimated last year. This money is for approved projects to feed 73 million people in 78 countries throughout the world. It notes that this money is for projected feeding schemes and does not include unforeseen emergencies that may arise.
It also notes that the poorest people on earth will have to spend an increasing portion of their meagre income on food. The WFP warns that these people will be forced to buy less food, or less nutritious food, or rely on outside help."
Global Food Prices Rise And Famine Increases
After Philliphines and Indonesia Cambodia has banned export of rice.
"Cambodia has become the latest Asian country to impose restrictions on exports of rice – the staple food for half the world's population.
The government announced the two-month export ban to ensure "food security" on Thursday, blaming surging overseas demand – particularly in Africa and the Middle East - for the skyrocketing cost of rice."
My Second Post:
Here I was looking at two places in the world who has problems with their staple diet, Rice.
"At least four Haitians were killed and around 25 others wounded in demonstrations-turned-riots in southern Haiti with U.N. peacekeepers, according to the local reports.
On the second day of demonstrations related to the anti-poverty and against the rising prices on Friday, riots broke out among the armed protesters and clashes were reported between the United Nations peacekeepers and the people.
Violence engulfed different parts of Haiti for the last two days over the rising food prices including rice, fruits and beans that have surged by more than 50 percent over the last 12 months in the region."
Yeah right, when you consider Haiti is colonised by the US and conned the UN to send peace keepers. Do not forget that the democratically elected prime minister, had to flee the country and living in Africa at the moment. That was US instigated riots.
"Haiti, which face food crisis that is threatening the country's vulnerable security, holds 8.5 million people with only marginal number of people earning less than two dollars per day.
"We know that these demonstrations have been infiltrated by individuals linked to drug dealers and other smugglers," Haiti's Prime Minister, Jacques Edouard Alexis, condemning the violence told BBC News report on Saturday.
He added that the country has already spent almost $10 million to curb the rising food prices and to make the food aid schemes available to the people."
I bet $8 million ended up in the prime minister's pockets init?
That is from "Food Riots Kill At Least Four, Dozens Injured In Haiti"
And there is a bit more here.
"A global rice shortage that has seen prices of one of the world's most important staple foods increase by 50 per cent in the past two weeks alone is triggering an international crisis, with countries banning export and threatening serious punishment for hoarders.
With rice stocks at their lowest for 30 years, prices of the grain rose more than 10 per cent on Friday to record highs and are expected to soar further in the coming months. Already China, India, Egypt, Vietnam and Cambodia have imposed tariffs or export bans, as it has become clear that world production of rice this year will decline in real terms by 3.5 per cent. The impact will be felt most keenly by the world's poorest populations, who have become increasingly dependent on the crop as the prices of other grains have become too costly."
But do not forget that US policy through the WTO made the American GM rice dirt cheap in the third world countries and people stopped growing their own rice, as it will not sell in their own country due to American rice.
"Analysts have cited many factors for the rises, including rising fuel and fertiliser expenses, as well as climate change. But while drought is one factor, another is the switch from food to biofuel production in large areas of the world, in particular to fulfil the US energy demands. A continuing change in the global diet is also putting a further squeeze on rice. In China, for example, 100 million rural migrants to the country's big cities have switched from a staple of wheat to rice as they have become wealthier."
From Egyptian workers riot over rising prices
"Thousands of demonstrators angry about rising prices and stagnant salaries torched buildings, looted shops and hurled bricks at police who responded with tear gas Sunday in a northern industrial town as Egyptians staged a nationwide strike.Thousands of demonstrators angry about rising prices and stagnant salaries torched buildings, looted shops and hurled bricks at police who responded with tear gas Sunday in a northern industrial town as Egyptians staged a nationwide strike."
The third Post:
Check my earlier posts this and this.
"Sri Lanka’s official annualised inflation rate skyrocketed to 28 percent in March, up from 24 percent in February. Prices for essential food items are soaring—the inflation rate for food and beverages reached a staggering 37 percent—while transport prices and housing rents followed with 24 percent and 11 percent respectively.
Over the past three months, the Colombo Consumer Price Index (CCPI) has jumped by 487 points, from 5,955 in December to 6,442 in March, and the impact is sharply eroding the living standards of workers, the rural poor and students. People are particularly angry because the price of rice, the main staple food in Sri Lanka, has nearly doubled since January last year, causing immense hardship. Worse conditions lie ahead. The government has admitted that bread prices could rise to 100 rupees by the end of this year, a threefold increase."
Anger grows over rising prices in Sri Lanka
So we have Phillipines, Indonesia, Cambodia, China, India, Egypt, Vietnam, Egypt, Haiti and now in Sri Lanka. In a way it is good that people can see the large differnce between how we in UK live and other countries. But will it be too late for us in the near future where we might have to tighten our belts or kill someone for a morsal of food? Hmmmm it is nice to see BBC news on the same subject. Please join the country India to the above list!!!!!
Forth Post:
Yeah BBC news and lots of media has taken up the issue. My last post, about the subject. In this article there is a bit more stats and different points of view.
"Never mind the economic crisis. Focus for a moment on a more urgent threat: the great food recession that is sweeping the world faster than the credit crunch. You have probably seen the figures by now: the price of rice has risen by three-quarters over the past year, that of wheat by 130%. There are food crises in 37 countries. One hundred million people, according to the World Bank, could be pushed into deeper poverty by the high prices.
But I bet that you have missed the most telling statistic. At 2,1-billion tonnes, the global grain harvest broke all records last year -- it beat the previous year's by almost 5%. The crisis, in other words, has begun before world food supplies are hit by climate change. If hunger can strike now, what will happen if harvests decline?"
Media so far has been telling a lie about the harvest init? They said the global harvest failed?
"The World Bank points out that "the grain required to fill the tank of a sports utility vehicle with ethanol ... could feed one person for a year". "
Oh dear, what fun?
"This year global stockpiles of cereals will decline by about 53-million tonnes; this gives you a rough idea of the size of the hunger gap. The production of biofuels will consume almost 100-million tonnes, which suggests that they are directly responsible for the current crisis."
Good on you Ruth Kelly, you are getting us into a muddle annd you knows it!
"While 100-million tonnes of food will be diverted this year to feed cars, 760-million tonnes will be snatched from the mouths of humans to feed animals -- which could cover the global food deficit 14 times. If you care about hunger, eat less meat.
While meat consumption is booming in Asia and Latin America, in the United Kingdom it has scarcely changed since the government started gathering data in 1974. At just over 1kg per person per week, it's still about 40% above the global average, though less than half the amount consumed in the United States.
We eat less beef and more chicken than we did 30 years ago, which means a smaller total impact. Beef cattle eat about 8kg of grain or meal for every kilogram of flesh they produce; a kilogram of chicken needs just 2kg of feed. Even so, our consumption rate is plainly unsustainable."
STOP: There is good news as well on the food front. For the people who like their spuds it is good news of course.
"The potato has potential as an antidote to hunger caused by higher food prices, a population that is growing by one billion people each decade, climbing costs for fertilizer and diesel, and more cropland being sown for biofuel production.
To focus attention on this, the United Nations named 2008 the International Year of the Potato, calling the vegetable a "hidden treasure"."
Read it here.
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Things I Feel, I Am; And Feel, Am I?
I was watching snooker and saw that sometimes the presentators do snide remarks on each other. But you can see in the face of the reciever a slight of the zero degree but it is there. Now can we do it in real time in normal circumstances or am I doing it now and I myself have not realised it.
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Sunday, April 27, 2008
Snooker And Kick In A Shot.
Snooker: 'Kick' during a shot.
Those days when there were no 'kicks' on a snooker table, the boffins say the only difference is the thickness of the cloth.
If, when the white ball (WB) hits the object ball (OB), the white ball is moving towords the OB and the OB is stationary. So the cloth underneath the OB is stationary. The cloth underneath the WB is getting pushed by the WB. Somewhere before/after WB hits the OB there can be a little wrinkle due to the thinness of the cloth, which can make either ball react chaotically.
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Those days when there were no 'kicks' on a snooker table, the boffins say the only difference is the thickness of the cloth.
If, when the white ball (WB) hits the object ball (OB), the white ball is moving towords the OB and the OB is stationary. So the cloth underneath the OB is stationary. The cloth underneath the WB is getting pushed by the WB. Somewhere before/after WB hits the OB there can be a little wrinkle due to the thinness of the cloth, which can make either ball react chaotically.
If you cannot find the links in this blog, I have majority of them filed, Email me!
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