Food price index
January 6, 2012, 12:08
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: commodities inflation, food price index, food prices, inflation, UN
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: commodities inflation, food price index, food prices, inflation, UN
Appears to have doubled in ten years.
From the UN Report on the World Food Situation.
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Peace is the enemy
January 6, 2012, 06:55
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: civil war, Iraq, Sadr City, Shia, Shiite, Sunnis
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: civil war, Iraq, Sadr City, Shia, Shiite, Sunnis
The bombers choice of Sadr City as a target appeared designed to cause as much rage among Iraq’s Shia majority as possible.
The district, home to more than 3m Shias, is one of the most sensitive in the country, providing many of the recruits that have served in radical militias like the Mahdi Army of Moqtada al-Sadr, the firebrand Shia cleric.
via Wave of bombings across Iraq leaves more than 70 dead – Telegraph.
I hope they have their back-up generators up on stilts or something
January 6, 2012, 04:31
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, nuclear power, Plant Scherer, smart but not wises, tsnumi-catching nuke plants, tsunami danger, USGS
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, nuclear power, Plant Scherer, smart but not wises, tsnumi-catching nuke plants, tsunami danger, USGS
…Plant Scherer, Georgia.
From Estimated Use of Water in the United States in 2005, USGS (pdf).
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 