[Peace-discuss] the food war

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Famish has little to do with Simons, horses and hats, usually.

During the War Between the States they couldnt get real coffee in the south
so they made do with chicory roots and dried ground sweet potatoes.
That's not really hardship although it is a sort of unpleasantness and 
frustration
to a penniless blockaded enemy.

When there is nothing at all to eat you can make do with the Chlorella 
algae that
grows on decaying urine and can be surprised at the value of helminths, 
felids,
and other delicacies for sustenance.

Jimmy Carter (that Great Humanitarian) wanted to starve the Russians out 
of AfPak with a grain embargo,
which massively destroyed the small American farmer.  Those who are 
well-off are not
generally particularly threatened by food shortages even though the 
clamouring can at times
reach their ears.

It may be immoral indeed to use grain alcohol to power automobiles, but 
those who have the wherewithal
are able to make the rules about how the world goes, and driving down 
the grain supply
does certainly consolidate power even further.

/March corn closed at $6.15 and 1/4, up 1 and 1/4 cents
January soybeans closed at $13.73, up 23 and 1/2 cents
January soybean meal closed at $366.40, up $6.40/

It appears that part of being the world's policeman is to starve the 
unfortunate inside and outside the walls.

It does not seem (to me) that this will turn out well for the 
perpetrators, whether they are active or passive.

I thought all along that the MLK's "backbone of power" that was to be 
broken was the dollar.

But it seems that there is a protruding spine yet to be felt and 
appreciated.


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