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POOR OHIO FAMILY FORCED TO SCRIMP ON FOOD

From NPR. If you're going to write a story like this, maybe you shouldn't print a picture of the starving people. Ridiculous!

A generation ago, the livelihood of Gloria Nunez's family was built on cars.

Her father worked at General Motors for 45 years before retiring. Her mother taught driver's education. Nunez and her six siblings grew up middle class.

Things have changed considerably for this Ohio family.

The rising cost of food means their money gets them about a third fewer bags of groceries — $100 used to buy about 12 bags of groceries, but now it's more like seven or eight. So they cut back on expensive items like meat, and they don't buy extras like ice cream anymore. Instead, they eat a lot of starches like potatoes and noodles.

And here's a picture of The Amazing Starving Nunezes. I bullshit you not.

CLIMATE ALARMISTS AT ODDS WITH ONE ANOTHER

After years of pushing biofuels as a countermeasure to man-made global warming, Many of those same global alarmists are now painting Big Biofuel in the same light as Big Oil. Yeah, it seems even wealthy leftists will forsake the global warming marxist movement if they're hungry.

The European Union will ignore critics who accuse it of helping to boost food prices by embracing a binding target for the use of biofuels, officials said Friday.

The European Commission is sticking to its proposal that biofuels account for at least 10 percent of energy used by the EU's huge transportation sector by 2020, because voluntary targets have failed miserably so far, EU spokesman Michael Mann said.

The European Commission has said higher food prices are the result of increased demand for meat and dairy products, particularly in China and India, bad weather in 2006 around the world and speculation in the price of grains and other crops.

Joachim von Braun, the head of the International Food Policy Research Institute, said Europe and the U.S. must “correct political errors” made when they gave approval to an increased production of biofuels without properly researching the effects on food supplies.

It's like a high school girls pillow fight.

AHMADINEJAD TARGET OF MURDER PLOT

OK, who dropped the ball on this one?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the target of an assassination plot at the UN food summit in Rome earlier this month as well as during a trip to Iraq in March, an aide said on Monday.

Ahmadinejad last week himself revealed the purported Iraq murder plot -- an announcement greeted with astonishment in some sections of the local press -- but this is the first time a conspiracy has been linked to his Italy trip.

Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that enemies had planned to kidnap and kill him in Iraq but the plot was foiled after the Iranian delegation changed their travel plans.

According to Zabihi, the plots were "in line with the order given by (US President George W.) Bush to kill Iranian leaders." He did not give further details.

Ahmadinejad faces a battle for re-election in summer 2009 against a background of popular discontent over rising prices and exasperation amongst some conservatives over his repeatedly provocative statements.

But some moderate newspapers have already started questioning the validity of the president's allegations of an attempt on his life during the trip to Iraq, the first ever by an Iranian president.

The Iranian people won't buy this story, but the American media will.

HUNGRY PEOPLE ABANDON GLOBAL WARMING HOAX

We've been talking about this all week. All around the world, as food prices soar, more and more people are reconsidering the socialist climate control measures trying to be imposed by the global warming hoaxers. Shallow thinking hippie types, who were sleeping well with the thoughts of gas tanks full of ethanol, are now waking up to the reality that their eco-religion and their knee-jerk feel good policies are starving people to death. Anyone reckon Al Gore will make a movie about that?

The campaign against climate change could be set back by the global food crisis, as foreign populations turn against measures to use foodstuffs as substitutes for fossil fuels.

With prices for rice, wheat, and corn soaring, food-related unrest has broken out in places such as Haiti, Indonesia, and Afghanistan. Several countries have blocked the export of grain. There is even talk that governments could fall if they cannot bring food costs down.

One factor being blamed for the price hikes is the use of government subsidies to promote the use of corn for ethanol production. An estimated 30% of America’s corn crop now goes to fuel, not food...

Mr. Senauer said climate change advocates, such as Vice President Gore, need to distance themselves from ethanol to avoid tarnishing the effort against global warming. “Crop-based biofuels are not part of the solution. They, in fact, add to the problem. Whether Al Gore has caught up with that, somebody ought to ask him,” the professor said. “There are lots of solutions, real solutions to climate change. We need to get to those.”

Mr. Gore was not available for an interview yesterday on the food crisis, according to his spokeswoman. A spokesman for Mr. Gore’s public campaign to address climate change, the Alliance for Climate Protection, declined to comment for this article.

Hey global warming freaks! Where's your God now?

GLOBAL WARMING FREAKS ARE STARVING PEOPLE TO DEATH

Yes folks. Big Science expects us to take their word with respect to the effects of man-made emissions on global warming. Yet these same big brains couldn't foretell the effect that their advocacy of biofeuls would have on the world food market. For years, they advocated biofeuls as means of replacing fossil feuls. And now, the predictable has happened. Food prices are soaring. Due in large part to the increase in biofeuls.

Developed nations should stop paying agricultural subsidies to encourage biofuel production because the payments are making staple foods more expensive, the Asian Development Bank said Monday.

Biofuels should also be re-examined by governments around the world as it is increasingly unclear how environmentally friendly they are, ADB Managing Director General Rajat Nag said in an interview with The Associated Press. The production of biofuel leads to forests being destroyed and reduced land area for growing crops for food, he said.

"We feel that the developed countries should seriously rethink the whole issue of biofuel, particularly the biofuel subsidies," Nag said. "Giving subsidies for biofuels ... basically acts as an implicit tax on staple foods."

Paying farmers to grow oilseed and other crops to produce biofuels means they grow fewer food crops, resulting in higher prices for such staples as palm oil and corn.

Well this all one big "duh". It didn't take someone in a lab coat to see this happening. People are starving. And these freaks are to blame.