Re: Soaring food prices...resulting in demos, riots, lootings,

On Apr 8, 10:54=A0pm, baldeagle <botakea...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Soaring food prices mean stavation and hunger for the poor around the
> world. The poor are forced to turn ugly, they protests, demonstrate.
> They get angry with shop keepers and government...they become angry
> mobs...they take part in lootings and riots. =A0Social order break
> down...
>
> This is not Hollywood movies...this scence is repeated in Egypt, Irin,
> Africa, Ivory coast, Cameroon, Yemen, Mauritania, Mexico and even in
> Italy.
>
> The food shortage is caused by natural disasters. draught, flood, ??
> No.
> The food shortage is the result of oil producers buying up food for
> making fuel.
> The soaring prices is caused by speculators who buy up 'commodity
> futures' and resell them at skyhigh profit.
>
> Democracy with capitalist economic sytem is breaking down...
> Time for the poor to rise up...to mobilize forces to destroy the
> system in which the rich and powerful make =A0obscene profit,....
> making =A0rice and bread too expensive for the poor.

How come American human right activiists are averting their eyes from
Haiti which need immediate assistance?

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1729150,00.html

"Haitians are no strangers to hunger. But even the resilience of the
hemisphere's poorest citizens can be pushed too far, and with world
food prices spiking this year due to shrinking harvests, burgeoning
demand and skyrocketing fuel prices, it should be little surprise that
Haiti is once again erupting in angry violence."