Using  "alternative energy" to kill a whole lot of people. Gee, I wonder who thought that up? Maybe this guy's controller could tell us.

Internal World Bank study delivers blow to plant energy drive

Aditya Chakrabortty
* The Guardian,
* Friday July 4, 2008

Corn used for biofuel

Biofuels have forced global food prices up by 75% - far more than ( Read more... )

Malawi to be first country expected to benefit from innovative initiative

Press Release No:2008/401/SDN

Contacts:
In Washington: Roger Morier (1 202) 473 5675

rmorier@worldbank.org

In Lilongwe: Zeria Ntambuzeni Banda (265-1) 770 611

zbanda@worldbank.org

WASHINGTON, June 24, 2008 - The World Bank is moving ahead with plans to use the weather ( Read more... )

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25% REPORTED CREAMED OFF THE TOP OF SETTLEMENTS: LONDON, 6th June 2008: It has been reported to us that the World Court agreed to the terms of a petition, believed to have been lodged by the World Bank, providing for 25% to be sliced off the top of the aggregate Settlements figure for redirection to ‘humanitarian’ purposes*.
$45 Trillion ( Read more... )

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Destroying African Agriculture

AFP

World at 'alarming juncture' as leaders gather for FAO summit

by Gina Doggett  2 hours, 8 minutes ago

World leaders gathered in Rome on Monday for a UN summit on food security, with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warning that the world had come to an "alarming juncture."

"For years, falling food prices and ( Read more... )

By Walden Bello

This article appeared in the June 2, 2008 edition of The Nation.

May 15, 2008

When tens of thousands of people staged demonstrations in Mexico last year to protest a 60 percent increase in the price of tortillas, many analysts pointed to biofuel as the culprit. Because of US government subsidies, American farmers were devoting more ( Read more... )

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(Update1)

By Alison Fitzgerald, Jason Gale and Helen Murphy
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