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2022-03-10 International-UN-NGOs

Chinese head of UN food and agriculture org - buries report of likely Africa and MidEast famine from war.

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Posted by 3dc 2022-03-10 05:15|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 ...A related thought: I don't particularly care what pronouns/gender/letters you use, but it occurs to me that America - pretty much the most tolerant country on the planet - has never known actual, no-shiat food shortages.

And if they happen here...if you can't buy enough (or any) bread or staples with what little money you have...I suspect that the tolerance for a great deal of things is going to go right out the window. People are simply not going to accept being screamed at when they can't eat.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-03-10 06:56|| 2022-03-10 06:56|| Front Page Top

#2 ..One other thing - the Chinese are actually saying that they expect a bad harvest this year. They may be assholes, but I'm not going to be grudge a nation trying to buy the food it needs for its people, and you know they're going to do it, whatever and however much money it takes.

Which means they - and everybody else trying to buy food - won't have the money to buy our debt.

Sleep tight.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2022-03-10 07:00|| 2022-03-10 07:00|| Front Page Top

#3 Food instability has been a persistent cause of political instability in Egypt. One of many second-order effects of our sanctions will be at least one, probably several, revolutions and/or civil wars across the the Mideast and Africa.

Which means our globalists will soon have their tits in a vise grip: punishing Russia means causing millions of Egyptians, Syrians, other Arabs and Africans to starve.

Is that what our globalist goofs actually want - to make the entire Arab and African world dependent on exports of US wheat?

Perhaps. All of this will cause the US price of basic staples will continue to soar, which means more subsidies and more inflation and more poverty in the US.

And more dependence on the state. As planned.

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-10 07:57|| 2022-03-10 07:57|| Front Page Top

#4 The Arab Spring like so many uprisings in the Middle East over the last half century was caused by food shortages. was A good overview:
The Arab Spring was a revolution of the hungry

The brittle, undemocratic regimes had, however, no mechanism of oversight and little resilience to withstand outside shocks. So distant events like a bad crop on the Black Sea or low rainfall in Canada could quickly translate into a political crisis in the Levant or North Africa.

In 2008, world food prices spiked, and, once again, bread riots broke out across the Middle East. Regimes scrambled to cover the shortfall with handouts and subsidies, on the assumption that their populations might tolerate repression but not hunger.

Indeed, rising commodity prices were one of the triggers in the 2010 to 2011 uprisings. Protesters in Tunisia brandished baguettes. In Egypt, many of the revolutionary chants talked about food, and a central demand was for “bread, freedom, social justice” (it rhymes in Arabic).

The first Syrians to rise up against Bashar Assad included many poor farmers who had been displaced by drought and the government’s neoliberal disinvestment from agriculture. Caitlin Werrell and Francesco Femia at the Center for Climate and Security in Washington, D.C., argue that a series of droughts in Syria from 2006 to 2010 created the preconditions for the uprisings — crop failures drove farmers off their land and raised the level of desperation until Syrians directly challenged their ruler.

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-10 08:06|| 2022-03-10 08:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Another straw for the camel’s back: Syria, et al are experiencing a drought at the moment. Baghdad has been having dust storms.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-10 08:57|| 2022-03-10 08:57|| Front Page Top

#6 So predictable.

Why are we doing this? Are we actually trying to set the Middle East and Africa on fire?

Or does Biden and his loopy crew really think that starving Arabs and Africans will rally to our side rather than side with Russia and demand an end to, or get around, the sanctions?

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-10 10:10|| 2022-03-10 10:10|| Front Page Top

#7 There will be huge food shortages in Africa, Middle East and China. Fertilizer shortage, wheat shortage, droughts and floods have all wreaked havoc with food production. Add fuel costs and shortages to food distribution and you have the perfect storm of global famine.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-10 10:13|| 2022-03-10 10:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Its a mess.

I keep coming back in thought to a global Argentina.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 10:24|| 2022-03-10 10:24|| Front Page Top

#9 The blowback from this retarded botch job will be 100x greater than the blowback from the Iraq War fuckup.

It is not possible that this is not by design.

No one could possibly be so stupid as to fail to see the obvious, predictable blowback from trying to extinguish the planet's greatest natural resource producing economy.

Makes you think of the recent Russell Crowe movie about Noah in which God is played by a sadistic little child who throws dice. Was this insane policy cooked up by sadistic little Neocon children indulging their war fantasies?

How do we stop these deranged little children before they destroy us all?

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-10 10:32|| 2022-03-10 10:32|| Front Page Top

#10 The USA is the Saudi Arabia of food. We won't starve.

And if we did, the alphabet people would be right there insisting that their interests come before us being able to eat. They hate us and want us dead.

Posted by Omomolet Phutch9064 2022-03-10 12:36|| 2022-03-10 12:36|| Front Page Top

#11 A truly hungry person would notice that the alphabet people are all made out of meat. Even the vegans.

Posted by SteveS 2022-03-10 12:45|| 2022-03-10 12:45|| Front Page Top

#12 Grain Finished even.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-03-10 12:58|| 2022-03-10 12:58|| Front Page Top

#13 I'll wager alphabet people make for good alphabet soup.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-10 13:14|| 2022-03-10 13:14|| Front Page Top

#14 #10 "The USA is the Saudi Arabia of food. We won't starve."

Providing we are willing to stop the massive purchase of agricultural assets and food processing industries by the Chinese. I have no doubt that they plan to ship food home in increasing amounts as this worsens. In the same way, finish the wall to prevent most of central America from moving in when it gets hungry out at home. Time to return to America First in every aspect of our thinking, and fire any public official who doesn't get that! I'm all for global charity and compassion, right after Americans are safe and healthy. And for those who think my attitude if jingoistic and nationalist....it is!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-10 13:44|| 2022-03-10 13:44|| Front Page Top

#15 Time to return to America First in every aspect of our thinking, and fire any public official who doesn't get that!

Amen!

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-10 14:10|| 2022-03-10 14:10|| Front Page Top

#16 ^ Unfortunately an utter fantasy at this point.

Posted by Cthulhu of Ryleh 2022-03-10 14:47|| 2022-03-10 14:47|| Front Page Top

#17 The first step is regime change
The American people get it. We don't give a fuck about Ukraine. Get rid of our globo-homos and our MIC and we can't at least start to undo some of the damage

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-10 14:53|| 2022-03-10 14:53|| Front Page Top

#18 *we can at least start

Posted by No Fortunate Son 2022-03-10 14:54|| 2022-03-10 14:54|| Front Page Top

#19 First you have to ditch the grifters at Conservatism Inc. - like CPAC head Matt Schlap. Rod Dreher today:

Against Conservatism Inc's Grift

More and more, people know that a “Republican Congress” for two years did nothing to stem the tide of illegal immigration invasion and endless wars. They know that Republican political operators will use the term “America First” as little more than a mantra hoping you will fall in line.

But they can’t define what it means to put America first, let alone believe in it. Today we are being subjected to demands that America protect the borders of Ukraine, from politicians who have done nothing to protect our own borders and fellow citizens.

But more and more people have seen the path forward, and it does not include any of the major GOP organizations, which do not provide the promised results but only enrich their ranks.

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-10 16:10|| 2022-03-10 16:10|| Front Page Top

#20 No one could possibly be so stupid as to fail to see

Don’t be absurd. Of course they can — and are. Even Donald Trump, the stable genius, did not foresee how stupid they are.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-10 16:28|| 2022-03-10 16:28|| Front Page Top

#21 Blame our leaders' madness on the soaring price of lithium
Must be getting scarce in DC ... lots of Swamp folks going off their meds these days

Posted by Hunter Bidens Laptop 2022-03-10 16:33|| 2022-03-10 16:33|| Front Page Top

#22 As for that I don't think anyone had any idea of just how deep and widespread the DC-Swamp really was. Or what kind of truly monstrous monsters inhabit its deeper depths.

Posted by CrazyFool 2022-03-10 16:40|| 2022-03-10 16:40|| Front Page Top

#23 Ref #22. Spot on, but how could we have ?

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-10 16:52|| 2022-03-10 16:52|| Front Page Top

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