Greedy Africans are starving our cars

Populations and Environments in the USSR were severely compromised to meet the goals of “Central Planning”.
Socialism in action.The ends justify the means.
Ethanol mandates are an example of “Central Planning”.
Welcome to the post USSR, post Cold War, Brave New World.
It would appear the USSR won.

Folks, if you REALLY want to get mad at the enviroNazis, read Paul Driessen’s book Eco-Imperialism: Greeen Power Black Death. It sets forth in greater detail many of the points in his essay here.
What these people are doing to poor people worldwide – including here in the US (artificially high electric rates, $4 gasoline so grandmothers can’t give the grandchildren they’re raising a decent diet) and in the UK (carbon taxes = mass murder by hypothermia)
On another point: everyone should read Roosters of the Apocalypse, by Rael Isaac. It tells the story of a teenage Xhosa girl named Mnongqause who prophesied that if the Xhosa people slaughtered their herds and destroyed their crops, doom would be averted and their ancestors would return to give them new wealth. (This story was also told in James Michener’s docu-novel, The Covenent, about South Africa.) And of course, after the herds were slaughtered and the crops destroyed, no ancestors reappeared to provide the promised bounty – and 2 million of the Xhosa people starved toi death.
Notice the parallels between global warming alarmism and the story of the Xhosa? There’s a difference, however: Mnongqause surely did not intend that her people should die, whereas the alarmists DO intend that people should suffer and die.

RobRoy says:
June 24, 2013 at 7:16 am
American farmland is not renewable, once it is spent, it is gone. Fields need to lay fallow….
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Actually it can be renewed but it takes years. My farm had over two feet of loam when the soil survey was done. (1940’s) When I bought it, it had no loam and was 98% clay and 2% organic. (soil samples) After twenty years as pasture I have added about 4 inches of top soil. Due to our thunder storm downpours I lose a bit down the hill.
This is why I dislike Monoculture farming. Small family owned farms rotate crops, hay fields and pasture. One study showed family farms using the correct techniques of companion planting actually get more food per acre compared to Monoculture farming.
There is also the new Food Safety’s Scorched Earth Policy which includes poisoning ponds, bulldozing tree lines (wind breaks) and killing wildlife.

Dick Peixoto planted hedges of fennel and flowering cilantro around his organic vegetable fields in the Pajaro Valley near Watsonville to harbor beneficial insects, an alternative to pesticides.
He has since ripped out such plants in the name of food safety, because his big customers demand sterile buffers around his crops. No vegetation. No water. No wildlife of any kind.
“I was driving by a field where a squirrel fed off the end of the field, and so 30 feet in we had to destroy the crop,” he said. “On one field where a deer walked through, didn’t eat anything, just walked through and you could see the tracks, we had to take out 30 feet on each side of the tracks and annihilate the crop.”

On top of that, because Monoculture uses such big equipment, I think the wind breaks put in after the Dust Bowl are being ripped out.

By clearing land for agriculture or logging, large formerly-forested areas of the Middle-East and Europe have been turned into deserts. This also causes major soil erosion which is one of our major ecological problems, worldwide. Problems here in the U. S. caused the Dust Bowl in the 1930s. These problems were subsequently partially overcome by people on small, family farms planting windbreaks, rotating crops, etc. However, the large, post-WWII corporate farms went back to monoculture and tore out the windbreaks that were in the way of big machines, thereby bringing the erosion problems back, even worse than before. I recall reading about an area of, I think it was, Spain that originally had been a lush, forested area, but for much of recent history was a hot, nearly-inhospitable, desert-like area. A local man undertook it as his life’s work to re-plant as many trees as he could, and to encourage others to do the same. Now, a generation or two later, the climate of the area has changed noticably. The presence of trees changed not only the localized microclimate, but influenced the overall climate in the area, including temperature and humidity…..
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio303/human%20interactions.htm

Also see: Temperate Region Agroforestry
The practice of ripping out grass filter strips and tree wind breaks could come back to bite us if the climate is indeed cyclical and we return to drought conditions similar to the 1930’s.

JDN says:
June 23, 2013 at 1:43 pm
…..Seriously, there is little effective demand for food in poor countries. How did you get to be a policy analyst?
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You are a bit behind the times. The WTO agreement on Agriculture took ‘care of third world food self sufficiency’ along with the World Bank/IMF SAPs. The first world needs to quit interfering with the third world.
From Clinton who pushed the USA into the WTO (and sold us out to the Chinese. )

“We Made a Devil’s Bargain”: Fmr. President Clinton Apologizes for Trade Policies that Destroyed Haitian Rice Farming
Transcript:
Clinton: Since 1981, the United States has followed a policy, until the last year or so when we started rethinking it, that we rich countries that produce a lot of food should sell it to poor countries and relieve them of the burden of producing their own food, so, thank goodness, they can leap directly into the industrial era. It has not worked. It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake. It was a mistake that I was a party to. I am not pointing the finger at anybody. I did that. I have to live every day with the consequences of the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people, because of what I did. Nobody else……

SAPS:

Structural Adjustment Policies are economic policies which countries must follow in order to qualify for new World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) loans and help them make debt repayments on the older debts owed to commercial banks, governments and the World Bank….
SAPs generally require countries to devalue their currencies against the dollar; lift import and export restrictions; balance their budgets and not overspend; and remove price controls and state subsidies.
Devaluation makes their goods cheaper for foreigners to buy and theoretically makes foreign imports more expensive. In principle it should make the country wary of buying expensive foreign equipment. In practice, however, the IMF actually disrupts this by rewarding the country with a large foreign currency loan that encourages it to purchase imports.
Balancing national budgets can be done by raising taxes, which the IMF frowns upon, or by cutting government spending, which it definitely recommends. As a result, SAPs often result in deep cuts in programmes like education, health and social care, and the removal of subsidies designed to control the price of basics such as food and milk. So SAPs hurt the poor most, because they depend heavily on these services and subsidies.
SAPs encourage countries to focus on the production and export of primary commodities such as cocoa and coffee to earn foreign exchange. But these commodities have notoriously erratic prices subject to the whims of global markets which can depress prices just when countries have invested in these so-called ‘cash crops’.
By devaluing the currency and simultaneously removing price controls, the immediate effect of a SAP is generally to hike prices up three or four times, increasing poverty to such an extent that riots are a frequent result.
The term “Structural Adjustment Program” has gained such a negative connotation that the World Bank and IMF launched a new initiative, the Poverty Reduction Strategy Initiative, and makes countries develop Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers (PRSP). While the name has changed, with PRSPs, the World Bank is still forcing countries to adopt the same types of policies as SAPs….. link

This is from ” someone from Africa who is trying to save the Zebu cattlle in Kenya. These cattle, indigenous to the area, therefore better for their use, are being replaced by other cattle…I have told the man some of what is going on here. (He is actually currently in the US for a short time.) I asked him about the USDA. Seems as though they are as “loved” there as they are here, by us. And they are screwing things up just as bad there too.
 
I have enclosed 2 of his responses to share with you. ” – Kim P., July 2008

Don’t even start me with the USDA. They work in the world under United States urgency for international development, and they are the biggest dumpers of dangerous foods in terms of aids any burned food staff from USA they dump there including chemicals , Village do not accept free dry milk and food staff any more any thing with the USAID and USDA the villages will take and they will just feed the to the animals.They lost so many children with the powdered milk formula because they were mixing it with untreated water and that made it so poisonous to children when they drink it they were never told to use treated water to mix the milk with 
 
Yes we have allot of Government interference but the biggest thread to our survival is the Billion of American tax money and any other rich countries sending to Africa for poverty eradication.I will foreword you the article I wrote about the donor money to Africa.
 The government and big malty national cooperation’s are our number one enemy.In my village the large Sugar industry is killing us. first they asked people to clear the forests to grow sugar cane , sugar cane takes two years to harvest, but because of corruption it takes up to seven years sometimes if you do not pay kick back they will never come to harvest your sugar cane,and even if they cut after seven years they deduct so much fees that most small scale farmers wind up owing them money.
 The worst thing they did is that they coursed so much land degradation of small farmers by using too much nitrogen phosphate chemical fertilizers and over relying on just one crop without rotation.This has created the top soil to be so acidic and since the villagers cleared the trees to make room for sugar cane crops there is nothing to prevent top soil from getting washed into the rivers then on to lake Victoria.Please google the effect of nitrogen phosphate into Lake Victoria and you can see the damage to the lake. All the river streams flowing into the Lake are carrying so much soil and Chemical fertilizers in such a way that in a few years there will be no Lake Victoria.Here is what new york Times write about What Heifer International , and Land O lake is doing to Africa and the world it is a shame.Heifer international Animals dies within three months of their arival to Africa.

David says:
June 23, 2013 at 7:24 pm
There is one problem with the article.
Hydraulic fracturing spreads poisons in the environment leading to toxic chemicals leaching in to water supplies, Fracking is being used by the Globalists.to poison land in order to snatch it up at low prices…..
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Where is your link?
Fracking has been around for well over a hundred years

…Civil War veteran Col. Edward A.L. Roberts fought bravely with a New Jersey Regiment at the bloody 1862 battle of Fredericksburg, Virginia.
Amid the chaos of the battle, he saw the results of explosive Confederate artillery rounds plunging into the narrow millrace (canal) that obstructed the battlefield.
Despite heroic actions during the battle, he will be cashiered from Union army in 1863. But the Virginia battlefield observation gave him an idea that would evolve into what he described as “superincumbent fluid tamping.”
Just a few years later his revolutionary oilfield invention will greatly increase production of America’s early petroleum industry. Roberts received the first of his many patents for an “Improvement in Exploding Torpedoes in Artesian Wells” on April 25, 1865.
Torpedoes filled with gunpowder (later nitroglycerin) were lowered into wells and ignited by a weight dropped along a suspension wire onto a percussion cap.
Roberts was awarded U.S. Patent (No. 59,936) in November 1866 for what would become known as the Roberts Torpedo. The new technology would revolutionize the young oil and natural gas industry by vastly increasing production from individual wells.
The Titusville Morning Herald newspaper reported:

Our attention has been called to a series of experiments that have been made in the wells of various localities by Col. Roberts, with his newly patented torpedo. The results have in many cases been astonishing.
The torpedo, which is an iron case, containing an amount of powder varying from fifteen to twenty pounds, is lowered into the well, down to the spot, as near as can be ascertained, where it is necessary to explode it.
It is then exploded by means of a cap on the torpedo, connected with the top of the shell by a wire.

Filling the borehole with water provided Roberts his “fluid tamping” to concentrate concussion and more efficiently fracture surrounding oil strata. The technique had an immediate impact – production from some wells increased 1,200 percent within a week of being shot – and the Roberts Petroleum Torpedo Company flourished.
Roberts charged $100 to $200 per torpedo and a royalty of one-fifteenth of the increased flow of oil….
link

Gary Pearse says:
June 24, 2013 at 7:32 am
….. A change of government won’t work because a lot of Repubs get their support from the rural voters and, of course, killing an industry that supplies jobs and tax revenues won’t be popular….
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I think you are selling the USA farmer short. According to the 2002 Ag Census there are 2.2 million farms only 70,642 have GROSS (not net) sales over $500,000 or more and only 73,752 are corporations. Those are the commercial farms that can actually support a family full time.
GROSS SALES……..Number of farms
up to $25,000……….1,519,209 (hobby)
25-$100,000……….. 2,98,385 (family)
$100,000 & up…….. 3,11,388 large
All of the farmers I know have a second job. They farm because they love it, not to make money. Most of the farmers I know are for smaller government. Again they are in farming because they want to be their own boss and they hate the USDA/FDA/WTO.

From 1994 to 1998, consumer prices have increased 3 percent while the prices paid to farmers for their products has plunged 36 percent. Likewise, the impact of price disparity is reinforced by reports of record profits among agribusinesses at the same time producers are suffering an economic depression.
In the past decade and a half, an explosion of mergers, acquisitions, and anti-competitive practices has raised concentration in American agriculture to record levels…..
we have an honest to goodness depression in agriculture. We have the best people in the world working 20 hours a day who are being spit out of the economy. We have record low income, record low prices, broken dreams and lives, and broken families.
We had close to 3,000 farmers who came here last week. It was riveting. It was pouring rain, but they were down on The Mall. We had 500 farmers from Minnesota. Most all of them came by bus. They don’t have money to come by jet. Many of them are older. They came with their children and grandchildren. They did not come here for the fun of it. They came here because the reality is, this will be their last bus trip. They are not going to be able to come to Washington to talk about agriculture. They are not going to be farming any longer. These family farmers are not going to be farming any longer unless we deal with the price crisis.
Right now, the price of what they get is way below the cost of production. Only if you have huge amounts of capital can you go on. People eating at the dinner table are doing fine. The IVVs, and the Con-Agras and big grain companies are doing fine. But our dairy and crop farmers and livestock producers are going under…..
That is my cry as a Senator from Minnesota from the heartland of America.
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-2000-03-28/html/CREC-2000-03-28-pt1-PgS1807-2.htm

@ur momisugly Gail Combs says:
June 24, 2013 at 3:34 pm
GunnyGene, Thanks
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You’re welcome. Are you just curious or checking out the competition? 😉

The solution is simple — make biofuel from switch grass, inedible high cellulose sugar cane, waste, etc., rather than from food crops. Stop practicing corporate welfare by subsidizing the manufacture of ethanol from corn.

@ur momisugly Gail Combs says:
June 24, 2013 at 6:34 pm
GunnyGene says: @ur momisugly June 24, 2013 at 4:01 pm
You’re welcome. Are you just curious or checking out the competition? 😉
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I am sitting on gas shale in NC. So far fracking is illegal however it is being revisited and just passed the house!!! It will have to go back to the Senate “…, where leaders aren’t happy with the House’s changes.”
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Well, good. Have you got some mineral rights? Not all states allow that for landowners. MS does, and this will be the second well we draw a little mailbox money from if it comes in. We’re smack in the middle of the Black Warrior Basin, which has been proven, and still has several million bbls of oil and a few trillion cf of gas undiscovered according to the last USGS assessment in 2007. Not a big field as these things go, but worth drilling. http://pubs.usgs.gov/dds/dds-069/dds-069-i/

Justthinkin says:
June 23, 2013 at 2:10 pm
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Sorry justthinkin – there are in fact many biofuels – think biodiesel. My new Dodge diesel has a huge warning sticker NOT to use biodiesel in any blend. Ethanol is for gasoline engines or engines designed to run on ethanol mixes. Durability – I expect not. I ran alcohol fuelled engines some. Lots of maintenance. Not for the average driver. But good for the car dealerships 😉