Nobel Peace Prize lost all meaning when they gave one to that unindicted-War Criminal Henry Kissinger, "A massive bombing campaign in Cambodia. Anything that flies on anything that moves."
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But then Henry Kissinger won one for losing the Viet Nam War, so it's hard to take this award as anything that should be taken seriously.
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Because it'd be so much better if the USA had won the counter-insurgency war and imposed its usual style of American-friendly dictatorship (just like the good ol' days in South Korea, Philippines, Indonesia, etc; and the entire regions of South America, Africa and the Middle East!)
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Since ethanol has been a hot topic with commitments from at least the US and Canada, grain prices have been increasing a lot (corn first, then the other substitutes in animal feed, which all have an impact on the cost of meat),
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There have already been riots in Mexico over the increasing cost of tortillas, a staple food of the poor there, with bio-fuel buying up more of the corn crop that leaves less for food and then Supply & Demand kicks in raising prices. Expect this to get worse as more food crops in poor countries are converted to fuel crops for rich countries.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7026105.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/...cle2697788.ece
http://www.chomsky.info/articles/20070515.htm
http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2007...ion/#more-1051
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6481029.stm