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Here's a nice tidbit from the Washington Examiner

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warpmine:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/news/2011/04/soaring-food-costs-pushing-millions-poverty

Soaring food and energy prices, still-fragile financial systems and continued tensions between the United States and China over trade and currency issues will all be on the agenda at meetings over the next three days of global finance officials.

World Bank President Robert Zoellick said Thursday that food prices are 36 percent higher than they were a year ago and already have pushed 44 million people into poverty. He called on major countries to do more to help poor countries meet the challenge of feeding their populations at a time of surging prices.

Finance ministers and central bank presidents of the Group of 20 major industrial countries were involved in talks that began Thursday on ways to address the food crisis and to better coordinate their economic policies.

Zoellick cited a new World Bank study that showed that another 10 percent increase in global food prices could drive an additional 10 million people into extreme poverty.

That would be in addition to the 44 million people who have been driven into poverty since June because of soaring food prices. The World Bank estimates there are about 1.2 billion people living below the poverty line of $1.25 per day.

"We have to put food first and protect the poor and vulnerable, who spend most of their money on food," Zoellick said at a briefing to preview the upcoming finance meetings.

Perhaps, if they'd get their head out of their collectivism asses, the world would be in better shape.

In the modern age, starvation was just for war torn countries but now, thanks in big part to AGW hoax, we're burning food instead of consuming it as food. The worlds bread basket, the United States, was always producing far more food than it needed which fed poorer countries that couldn't grow it themselves either because of climate or technique. The elitists of both political parties thought they knew better and put into place the most insane policies a government could possibly yoke around their constituents. Let's all use our food not for food but to go put put around in place of hydrocarbon fuels. Now the world suffers not so much because of war but because of the hoax of AGW is causing the shortages that lead up to it.

The global geniuses met to address the horrible realities that the world is becoming a poorer place in which to live. Many of us if not all, know that the Green movement is more like a watermelon, green on the outside and commie red on the inside. The Elitists invented this hoax to gain power over all at the expense of creating world wide misery some would say a desired effect. ::gaah::

Sectionhand:
When will Stymie unveil the Twinkie-Mobile ?

Libertas:
"Perhaps, if they'd get their head out of their collectivism asses, the world would be in better shape."

Uhh huh, I'll put my money on "doubling-down on stupid".

 ::)

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