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Jul 6, 2008

Biofuels behind food price hikes

Biofuels have caused world food prices to increase by 75 percent, according to the findings of an unpublished World Bank report published in The Guardian newspaper on Friday.

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Jul 7, 2008
 
then maybe OPEC should lower oil prices, so the rest of the world wont suffer because of their greed.

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Jul 9, 2008
 
gee i would have thought the stopping of the stupidity of biofuels which have a larger carbon footprint than fossil fuels would be the sensible and logical thing to do
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Jul 9, 2008
 
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gee i would have thought the stopping of the stupidity of biofuels which have a larger carbon footprint than fossil fuels would be the sensible and logical thing to do
Yeah sensible right, but as we know its not about oil and so called pollution, we know there are underlying motivations. Something I found out the other day, Alaska has more oil than Saudi Arabia, that says a lot to me. Where are we getting manouvered here?
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Apparently one of the reasons the US administration was up-set with Sadam was that he did not tighten up supplies when told to. What does that mean? One reason US in Iraq is to control the supply, not to ramp it up.

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Yeah sensible right, but as we know its not about oil and so called pollution, we know there are underlying motivations. Something I found out the other day, Alaska has more oil than Saudi Arabia, that says a lot to me. Where are we getting manouvered here?
its called being ambushed by watermelons - green on the outside and red on the inside. earth day = lenins birthday - how convenient
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its called being ambushed by watermelons - green on the outside and red on the inside. earth day = lenins birthday - how convenient
I have been spending the last month or so researching the ocult belief system of the globalists, absolutely fascinating. No doubt there is some connection with the date you have mentioned.

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I have been spending the last month or so researching the ocult belief system of the globalists, absolutely fascinating. No doubt there is some connection with the date you have mentioned.
love to hear what youve learnt
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love to hear what youve learnt
First of all a lot of prominant people seem to meet up at a place called Bohemian Grove in California about this time of the year for a couple of weeks. These current and ex world leaders take part in mock human sacrifices to an evil biblical diety Moloch. Youtube Bohemian Grove you will be surprised.

Also bush family part of "Scull and Bones", or otherwise known as "The Order of Death". This secret society is weird to say the least, rituals where they lie in coffins naked.

Thought that these secret societies have roots in ancient Sumerian cultures so they have been around.
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First of all a lot of prominant people seem to meet up at a place called Bohemian Grove in California about this time of the year for a couple of weeks. These current and ex world leaders take part in mock human sacrifices to an evil biblical diety Moloch. Youtube Bohemian Grove you will be surprised.
Also bush family part of "Scull and Bones", or otherwise known as "The Order of Death". This secret society is weird to say the least, rituals where they lie in coffins naked.
Thought that these secret societies have roots in ancient Sumerian cultures so they have been around.
Yeah yeah freemasons most of the presidents too, and the company owned by the bin ladin's and bushes etc. What and the islamic extremist's dont they have any secret society's. Of course they do, just as israel has the idiotic fundamentalists, who deliberately provoke trouble. Then theres the anti religious idiots china and russia just as bad. Then theres the racist retards like south africa and zimbabwe, you dont have to be white to be a racist. Then theres the corporate sector using there countries armies to aquire resources, via insurgencies, sudan etc etc. Then theres people who rant lithium nickel batteries will solve transport problems yet producing nickel and lithium emit more pollution than they save. Christ the whole planet is stuffed, and we have technology to thank, oh and the virus, homo sapien.

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<quoted text>Yeah yeah freemasons most of the presidents too, and the company owned by the bin ladin's and bushes etc. What and the islamic extremist's dont they have any secret society's. Of course they do, just as israel has the idiotic fundamentalists, who deliberately provoke trouble. Then theres the anti religious idiots china and russia just as bad. Then theres the racist retards like south africa and zimbabwe, you dont have to be white to be a racist. Then theres the corporate sector using there countries armies to aquire resources, via insurgencies, sudan etc etc. Then theres people who rant lithium nickel batteries will solve transport problems yet producing nickel and lithium emit more pollution than they save. Christ the whole planet is stuffed, and we have technology to thank, oh and the virus, homo sapien.
so what your saying is everyone has vested interests

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Jul 10, 2008
 
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then maybe OPEC should lower oil prices, so the rest of the world wont suffer because of their greed.
I won't suffer.

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Jul 10, 2008
 
Overpopulation and the consumption mad nature of human beings is the root cause here.

IF the report is corrent, it could be said that biofuels are needed because demand for oil is outsripping cheap and *easily accessible* supply and alternative sources are needed, fast. Some say speculation is the cause of skyrocketing oil prices, but what cunning investor speculates in a commodity that is not likely to rise in value (due to demand outstripping supply)?

Nevertheless, its no secret that africa and the world is overpopulated by resource hungry human beings. There are 6.7 billion of us and, yes, the number is climbing to around 9.5 billion by 2050.

Human rights activists call argue that every living human beings has a 'right' to satisfy its hunger. Well, the more people who want food, the more demand for food there will be, further pushing up prices and causing more suffering.

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First of all a lot of prominant people seem to meet up at a place called Bohemian Grove in California about this time of the year for a couple of weeks. These current and ex world leaders take part in mock human sacrifices to an evil biblical diety Moloch. Youtube Bohemian Grove you will be surprised.
Also bush family part of "Scull and Bones", or otherwise known as "The Order of Death". This secret society is weird to say the least, rituals where they lie in coffins naked.
Thought that these secret societies have roots in ancient Sumerian cultures so they have been around.
Thanks for that...

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Overpopulation and the consumption mad nature of human beings is the root cause here.
IF the report is corrent, it could be said that biofuels are needed because demand for oil is outsripping cheap and *easily accessible* supply and alternative sources are needed, fast. Some say speculation is the cause of skyrocketing oil prices, but what cunning investor speculates in a commodity that is not likely to rise in value (due to demand outstripping supply)?
Nevertheless, its no secret that africa and the world is overpopulated by resource hungry human beings. There are 6.7 billion of us and, yes, the number is climbing to around 9.5 billion by 2050.
Human rights activists call argue that every living human beings has a 'right' to satisfy its hunger. Well, the more people who want food, the more demand for food there will be, further pushing up prices and causing more suffering.
gee as countries become more affluent their birth rate declines significantly - dont you think a little common wisdom would be to work towards affluence with clean technologies. Also many countries have reached or are about to reach peak population and then decline as their populations age. Maybe if we helped the third world to become prosperous we would find that populations might stabilise at the same time raise the standard of living.

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Jul 12, 2008
 
theworldasweknowit wrote:
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gee as countries become more affluent their birth rate declines significantly - dont you think a little common wisdom would be to work towards affluence with clean technologies. Also many countries have reached or are about to reach peak population and then decline as their populations age. Maybe if we helped the third world to become prosperous we would find that populations might stabilise at the same time raise the standard of living.
I'm not sure that we can help the third world, esp places like Africa, to become properous UNTIL we help them to lower their population. The place is in serious structural trouble related to overpopulation. Water and food shortages, and brutal tribal voilence stemming from these and other resource shortages.

I doubt charity can help so many millions upon millions of people: we give them the money and food, and instead of the standards of living of a fixed population going up, the population just seems to go up some more. It's a mess.
"No. It will not do. Even as we see African states refusing to take action to restore something resembling civilisation in Zimbabwe, the begging bowl for Ethiopia is being passed around to us, yet again. It is nearly 25 years since Ethiopia's (and Bob Geldof's) famous Feed The World campaign, and in that time Ethiopia's population has grown from 33.5 million to 78 million today.
By 2050, the population of Ethiopia will be 177 million: The equivalent of France, Germany and Benelux today, but located on the parched and increasingly protein-free wastelands of the Great Rift Valley.
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Jul 13, 2008
 
bdavidos wrote:
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I'm not sure that we can help the third world, esp places like Africa, to become properous UNTIL we help them to lower their population. The place is in serious structural trouble related to overpopulation. Water and food shortages, and brutal tribal voilence stemming from these and other resource shortages.
I doubt charity can help so many millions upon millions of people: we give them the money and food, and instead of the standards of living of a fixed population going up, the population just seems to go up some more. It's a mess.
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http://www.corrupt.org/news/charity_multiplie...
I agree its not a simple solution but the global warming scam will marginalise even more of them into poverty - already we have environmentalists trying to dictate to them how to live. The first thing they need is stable governments who arnt corrupt, they need to be treated fairly on the world stage insofar as trade and they also need aid.
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