The politics of food shortage
A hungry mob is an angry mob and no one will care if we’re just one of the many Asian countries with this food problem.
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About the Philippines’ rice imports
Sources Thailand and Vietnam are having their own rice-related problems.
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Asia facing food crisis?
Threat of turmoil all over Asia has been the favorite doomsday prediction for weeks.
In Thailand, farmers are hoarding rice.
In Indonesia, social unrest is feared although the government spends “35 percent of its entire budget on fuel and electricity subsidies to keep those commodities affordable for the poor.” Wow. Can we say as much for the [...]
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Food shortage
In the Philippines, if people don’t stop making babies like rabbits, future generations will starve. That’s according to a spokesperson of the National Food Authority (NFA). Actually, I don’t understand why this should be newsworthy at all. Every person with a brain knows that the more mouths to feed, the lesser the share of each.
The [...]
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A third of what’s been written about me is true, a third is half-true and the rest consists of drug-induced hallucinations. I suppose I’d better let me, rather than them, tell you 
