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2011-05-21 Africa North

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Posted by tipper 2011-05-21 09:27|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 All Egyptians will soon long for the good ole Mubarak days, just as the Egyptian Christian are already.

Posted by Jack Salami 2011-05-21 09:58|| 2011-05-21 09:58|| Front Page Top

#2 And what is the classic way to divert the masses from blaming the gov't?

Any guesses as to the proper foreign scapegoat?

Posted by AlanC 2011-05-21 10:24|| 2011-05-21 10:24|| Front Page Top

#3 Hmm, could it have anything to do with the tripling of the price of oil? The world wonders.

Posted by Zebulon Thranter9685 2011-05-21 10:26|| 2011-05-21 10:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Late planting season. Farm land under water. You can drill new wells and get the oil flowing in a couple of weeks/months outside of bureaucratic paper obstructions, but you have to wait over a year for the next possible harvest when this years crop is headed to the crapper.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-21 11:00|| 2011-05-21 11:00|| Front Page Top

#5 Very soon things will get ugly. This situation has been know for awhile now. The money to import grain and what they could grow is counting down to zero very fast. Soon the Israelis will have Egyptians trying to get in from the south. Financial help or food aid will be very hard to secure. I guess they could sell the canal.

Posted by Dale 2011-05-21 11:30|| 2011-05-21 11:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Very soon things will get ugly.

Allen wills it. This is going to be a major CF.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2011-05-21 15:17|| 2011-05-21 15:17|| Front Page Top

#7 Egypt won't go hungry, let alone starve. The West will provide. Or face floods of economic refugees.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-05-21 17:35|| 2011-05-21 17:35|| Front Page Top

#8 The 'West' will help somewhat, but the Saudi's will be paying the majority of the bills. They can't have Egypt go bad on them. What a great use of the US petro-dollars that went to Saudi, for those dollars to come right back to the farmers of the Dakotas.

Posted by rammer 2011-05-21 17:41|| 2011-05-21 17:41|| Front Page Top

#9 The 'West' will help somewhat, but the Saudi's will be paying the majority of the bills. They can't have Egypt go bad on them.

Egypt has gone bad on them. That is why the al Sauds are unhappy with Obama, who betrayed Mubarak, a staunch Saudi ally. Back in the day, the al Sauds massacred the original reincarnation of the Ikhwan. Now Obama is putting the Egyptian Ikhwan in power.

Posted by Zhang Fei 2011-05-21 17:54|| 2011-05-21 17:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Wheat up 13% last week.

And that is with Libya out of the market.

The market thinks demand will far outstrip supply this year.

BTW, China and India are the world's biggest wheat producers.

Posted by phil_b 2011-05-21 18:19|| 2011-05-21 18:19|| Front Page Top

#11 So you think there are mothers around the dinner table in New Delhi or Beijing telling their kids to finish what's in their bowl because there are starving kids in Cairo? Or is that just 'Western Guilt'(tm)?

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-05-21 18:32|| 2011-05-21 18:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Meanwhile,

ICELAND'S most active volcano, Grimsvotn, has started erupting

Posted by phil_b 2011-05-21 18:40|| 2011-05-21 18:40|| Front Page Top

#13 given the high price of oil. I doubt we'll be able to ship any grain to Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt, No. Sudan, Q's Libya, Venezuela, North Korea.....

Posted by Frank G 2011-05-21 19:05|| 2011-05-21 19:05|| Front Page Top

#14 mothersaround the dinner table in New Delhi or Beijing telling their kids to finish what's in their bowl Years ago I had a friend from Shanghai & asked him what his mother said to get him to clean his plate when he was very little. He said, "She told me that a farmer has to shed a drop of blood to grow a grain of rice." Now that's a guilt trip.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2011-05-21 22:56|| 2011-05-21 22:56|| Front Page Top

#15 052111_0300 hrs.
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Headlights on in anticipation of TSA quick response time.

Posted by Butch Pherenter1486 2011-05-21 23:29|| 2011-05-21 23:29|| Front Page Top

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Posted by twobyfour 2011-05-21 23:45|| 2011-05-21 23:45|| Front Page Top

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