Archive for the Category: food crisis

How’s the environment?

[SOURCE] The richer you are, the more food you throw out. 1 There are people who have to scrape and save for everything they eat, there are people who just can’t get enough to eat.  We throw it out, the left overs.  There’s lost of reasons for it, but the primary reason seems to be […]

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Holiday in Space: hotel on track to open in 2012

[SOURCE]. For a mere $5,000,000.00 – that’s five million dollars, you can spend three days in a space resort, 450 km about the Earth. Wow. I’d love to spend 3 days in space, watching the sun rise 15 times a day and spinning around the world 80 times. It sounds really nice.  They even throw […]

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Fancy smancy

McDonalds, that big  multi-national hamburger joint, is selling something a little bit fancy in Melbourne, and I guess the rest of Australia.  Guess what you get?  No, no, not a plastic toy.  You get a hamburger.  It’s cow meat, from an Angus cow by the sounds of it.  Apparently it’s fancy meat.  Let me get […]

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The world changes on #BAD09

Today is Blog Action Day – it’s where thousands of blogs around the world write about the one topic, and this year it’s about climate change. With our climate on the brink of collapse, our whole way of life is under threat.  A couple of degrees rise in the global temperature mightn’t sound like too […]

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How’s your food?

[SOURCE] Let me pick a few key sentences out of the article for you: THE United Nations food aid agency says it will be forced to cut programs even as hunger soars amid the global economic crisis because pledged donations have failed to materialise. we are facing a dangerous and unprecedented shortfall in emergency funding […]

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High food prices help Afghans drop opium

High food prices help Afghans drop opium – Breaking News – World – Breaking News. 90% of the world’s opium comes from Afghanistan.  I think we’ve been bombing the wrong areas.  The crops should have been fire bombed, that’d help the farmers grow crops that actually feed the worlds 923 million starving.  I’m eager to […]

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California gay marriage ban

AFP: Lawsuits to challenge California gay marriage ban. You’ve been waiting for me to comment on this, haven’t you? For those of you who don’t know, Proposition 8 was voted on in the recent elections in the USA’s California.  The intention was to write into the constitution of that State that marriage was between a […]

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The price of petrol

OPEC fails to halt price plunge | smh.com.au. So, in an effort to keep the price inflated, OPEC has cut back on how much oil they produce. The greedy mother fuckers. No mention of cutting back production to look after the environment, or to help those in developing nations afford transport for education and food, […]

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Bruce Does Pod -3

Download in OGG format (right click and save) In my 3rd podcast I talk about the current stock market crisis, look at twitter and George entertains us with his view on a couple of websites. Links: Twitter Ugly People Men who look like old lesbians Jake Stone Bruce Llama Podcasts by Bruce Llama is licensed […]

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Food crisis could defeat Millennium Goals

Reuters AlertNet – AU says food crisis could defeat Millennium Goals. The goal was to reduce by half the number of people living on less that a dollar a day.  $1.00. Its estimated that there are 100 million people being forced back into poverty by the sharp increase in food prices.  The global credit crisis […]

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