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2007-11-19 Arabia

Yemen: Food Protest Biggest Since Revolution

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Posted by McZoid 2007-11-19 00:04|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Yemen along with a majority of other MME (Muslim Middle East) nations all face a severe shortage of irrigation resources in general and drinking water specifically. This is known as "water poverty". The upshot of this is thatas their populations continue to expand uncheckedany available water supplies are dwindling at an inversely proportionate rate.

What much of the hostile and aggressive Islamic nations will soon need to confront is that the Western countriesthe ones that that they so often allow their citizens to commit terrorist atrocities againstmay soon stop shipping them the grain that they are rapidly becoming totally dependent upon as they divert all available hydrological resources to potable water supplies.

Desalination is so prohibitively expensiveespecially in the midst of such traditional kleptocraciesthat thwarting Islamic aggression may soon prove to be so simple as just stopping all food shipments to these ~~Islamic utopias~~ sere terrorist hellholes. I say, let them eat sand and drink oil.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-11-19 01:49|| 2007-11-19 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 Water shortages/ food shortages can also be related to qat. This shrub uses a ton of water and land to grow...everyone in Yemen chews it and it is a huge part of the economy and culture.

Posted by Beagle2 2007-11-19 06:19|| 2007-11-19 06:19|| Front Page Top

#3 Another future recipient of the US Meals on Wheels program.

Posted by ed 2007-11-19 08:20|| 2007-11-19 08:20|| Front Page Top

#4 In the early 6th Century, Yemen was a major regional power. They had built the Marib Dam, which was then the biggest known. However, Yemen collapsed after the dam burst in about 520 AD. There is a reference to that in the Koran. After Muhammed's (camel fleas be upon him) death, his successors invaded Yemen after they declared their own phony "prophet." If that dam hadn't collapsed, then the Hijaz Arabs would have been in no position to attack. History is a funny game.

Supposedly, the Queen of Sheba was a Yemeni.

Posted by McZoid 2007-11-19 09:00|| 2007-11-19 09:00|| Front Page Top

#5 The Ethiopians claim the Queen of Sheba, too, for what it's worth. And, the Ethiopian emperors claimed direct line of descent from the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2007-11-19 19:49|| 2007-11-19 19:49|| Front Page Top

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