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The Impact Of Rising Food Costs Goes Global

Namely, in the form of aid to the poor nations of the world.

A 41 per cent surge in prices of wheat, corn, rice and other cereals over the past six months has generated a $US120 million ($126.5 million) budget shortfall that will force the USAID to reduce emergency operations, the report said.

That deficit is projected to rise to $US200 million ($211 million) by the end of the year.

The USAID is reviewing all of the agency’s emergency programs, which target countries like Ethiopia, Iraq, Somalia, Honduras and Sudan’s Darfur region.

“We’re in the process now of going country by country and analyzing the commodity price increase on each country,” The Post quotes Jeff Borns, director of USAID’s Food for Peace program as saying.

And what isn’t mentioned in this article is that demand is rising faster than the supply because of the E85 Ethanol push.
I didn’t realize this when I wrote this here and at Ace’s site, but Sinistar is covering this topic as well.

If You Try To Take A Short Cut

Be careful.

A Northumbria Police spokesman said: �A 33-year-old male was conscious and able to tell officers he had been taking a short cut over a wall when he feel onto metal spikes on top of the wall.

�The spikes had completely penetrated his right thigh near to his groin area.�

The spokesman said firefighters cut him free but he was taken to hospital with the spikes still in his leg.

If You Are Keeping A Stag’s Testicles To Extract Semen

Keep lawyers on call.

Brusnik’s testicles, however, were the subject of a separate written contract, potentially valued far in excess of the $80,000 paid for the stag.

They were to remain Waghorn’s property and semen extracted in a laboratory after Brusnik’s death was to be frozen for future use.

But the arrangement broke down in April 2006 after a Kiwi Safaris’ regular, Sheikh Mishal bin Hamad Al Thani of Qatar, shot Brusnik on a game estate at Stew Point, on the southern side of the Rangitata River.

Waghorn’s lawyers claim that Brusnik’s testicles were removed and semen extracted without their client’s authority, allegedly in breach of the contract.

True Heroism

This guy swam 12 hours to get help for his friends.

One, John Jarrett, was rescued after spending 30 hours at sea while skipper Charlie Picton is still missing.

Mr Williams, 39, set off for shore when the trawler Sea Rogue overturned and was found exhausted and injured on a New Brighton Beach, north of Byron Bay, by a walker.

Police say he had “miraculously swum to shore after their vessel overturned” just before dawn on Wednesday.

An officer said he was in a distressed state with bad cuts and bruises to his legs and his arms as well as severe sunburn.

If You Want A Reason Why You Should Not Snowmobile At Night

Here is why.

The Maine Warden Service said 19-year-old Lyman Messer was fading in and out of consciousness when Wardens Gary Sibley and Adrian Marquis found him at 12:30 a.m. after following snowmobile tracks.

Messer was wearing a wool pea coat, a T-shirt, shorts and boots. After Sibley gave Messer his snow pants and Marquis wrapped him in blankets, the wardens drove him by snowmobile for 45 minutes to a waiting ambulance on the closest plowed road, Route 161.

Messer was treated for frostbite at Northern Maine Medical Center in Fort Kent. The incident remains under investigation, including whether alcohol was involved.

If You Want To Drink During A Scottish “Football” Game

You may soon be in luck.

The Motherwell chairman, John Boyle, remains the most vocal figure in favour of bringing booze back, branding the current situation as “absurd”. Boyle, to his credit, openly admits that the opportunity for commercial gain is the prime motivator behind his call for a review on the alcohol ban, which does not apply in corporate hospitality areas, of course.

Yet people must think twice before heeding Boyle’s pleas. This is, in the most blatant case, an example of something which ain’t broke, and doesn’t require fixing. It is 28 years since drinking on the terraces of Scottish grounds was prohibited, a full-scale riot at an Old Firm Scottish Cup final sufficient to trigger the introduction of the Criminal Justice Act and prohibit punters from indulging in beer rather than Bovril.

It is an intriguing debate over just how much we have moved on since 1980.

Certainly, there is nothing like the level of violence within or in the vicinity of stadia that there was back then, but regular moments of alcohol-free lunacy (or, at least, moments where alcohol is not being taken at the time) remain. And it is far from simply an Old Firm problem; earlier this month, supporters of Aberdeen and Dundee United entered into some kind of impromptu competition to see who could throw the most objects onto the Tynecastle pitch during their CIS Cup semi-final.

This should end well.

My Irony Meter Hasn’t Gone This High Since Brady Quinn Was Caught Taunting Patrons Of A Gay Bar

It seems the clowns at Code Pink, who have been insulting and harassing Marines at their recruiting stations, needed some help themselves. And who did they call?

Take a guess.

While we were at the protest in Berkeley from 12 to 4 PM a white volvo drove by and a man spat upon code pink. They chased him down the street and got into a verbal altercation. The police were NO WHERE in sight. That’s not the best part, ready for this? Medea Benjamin yelled and I quote “Marines!” she actually yelled for our help because this man had stepped out of his car. Lol. I even asked her if she was yelling Police and she told me “I said Marines” then put her arm around my friend Allen (the Marine vet)

What’s The Deal With Taunting Animals At The San Francisco Zoo?

First, we had that incident where the tiger killed that guy who was taunting it. Now this?

Police said they were summoned to the zoo at 3:30 p.m. Thursday after a patron reported to officials that Zuluaga was picking acorns off a branch and tossing them at the black rhino, a male named Mashaki. Zuluaga was with another man, who was not cited.

The animal appeared unfazed, police Sgt. Steve Mannina said.

Zuluaga told authorities that he had been trying to get the rhino’s attention, said Lora LaMarca, spokeswoman for the zoo. “He tried whistling at (the animal), then grabbed a branch and took acorns off it,” she said.

She said the person who saw Zuluaga had reported the incident by calling a hot line number on one of the recently posted signs.