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Friday, July 4, 2008 12:00 AM

A biofuel food-price bombshell

The U.K. Guardian reports some astonishing numbers from a "confidential" World Bank study on energy crops and grain prices.

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  • Saturday, July 5, 2008 06:40 AM

    Where does it stop.

    We have stacked so many problems on top of problems, like the vender from the children’s book who wears so many hats that he can no longer balance them at top his head.

    From Bush to global warming to the huge defense budget to the lobbyists and the slight of hand in Washington. To the.. To the. And oh so many more problems, including the very real problem of Colony Collapse Disorder in the Bee population. A trouble-great, which is already on the brink of wiping out our food supplies of fruits, nuts and alfalfa-thus beef, because there are annualy fewer bees left to pollinate.

    If we had tried to screw up the world, and our planet...made it man’s major goal. I doubt if we could have done much better.

    For more information on the Bees click on the Deeply Imbedded link and blog.

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