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2007-06-02 Africa Subsaharan
Sudan Threatens To Cut Off The World's Supply Of Coca-Cola
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Posted by Unaiper Sholumble8760 2007-06-02 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ]  Top

#1 3000 people dead - trillion $ hit to the economy - no biggie, let's move on.

Cut off my Cola - it'll be over in a week.
Posted by anonymous2u 2007-06-02 11:11||   2007-06-02 11:11|| Front Page Top

#2 As long as it's not my Kona Coffee I have not problem.
Posted by 3dc 2007-06-02 11:39||   2007-06-02 11:39|| Front Page Top

#3 From my reading, it sounds like gum arabic is quite useful for many products and processes. I would imagine that with some additional work, the complex mixture of saccharides and glycoproteins that is gum arabic could be synthesized by chemists, just like synthetic rubber did to natural rubber, when the allies faced a shortage, and John Ukec Lueth Ukec can then go pound sand.

It would be fun to sink Sudan. My two cents.
Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul  2007-06-02 12:15||   2007-06-02 12:15|| Front Page Top

#4 I'm sure there's a biologist out there willing to genetically modify something suitable to produce gum arabic. Perhaps kudzu, or honeysuckle?
Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford  2007-06-02 12:22|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/]  2007-06-02 12:22|| Front Page Top

#5 We need to end our dependence on foreign gum arabic by 2020. We need a program to conserve gum arabic through the use of gum arabic caps and trading gum arabic credits.
Posted by Algore 2007-06-02 12:39||   2007-06-02 12:39|| Front Page Top

#6 Coca Cola Classic ingredients:
Carbonated Water
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Caramel Color
Phosphoric Acid
Natural Flavors
Caffeine
See any gum arabic in there Ukec?
Posted by GK 2007-06-02 18:51||   2007-06-02 18:51|| Front Page Top

#7 Two Words:

Nuclear Response

should be an object lesson to Iran
Posted by Injun Angock2602 2007-06-02 20:08||   2007-06-02 20:08|| Front Page Top

#8 Go ahead, asshole. I may like Diet Coke, but I'll live without it rather than cater to the likes of you.
Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut  2007-06-02 00:21|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]  2007-06-02 00:21|| Front Page Top

#9 So, they export gum arabic and what else, sand? This reads like a certain scene from "Blazing Saddles".
Posted by Zenster">Zenster  2007-06-02 00:43||   2007-06-02 00:43|| Front Page Top

#10 From wikipedia

Nearly 80% of gum arabic is produced in Sudan[1], and the production of gum arabic is heavily controlled by the Sudanese government.[2]

Oddly, the connection between Sudan and Osama bin Laden brought the otherwise innocuous gum to public consciousness in 2001, as an urban legend arose that bin Laden owned a significant fraction of the gum arabic production in Sudan, and that therefore one should boycott products using it.[3] As a result, some food producers, for instance Snapple, renamed the ingredient to "gum acacia" on their labels.

This story took on somewhat significant proportions, mostly thanks to an article in The Daily Telegraph a few days after the September 11 attacks, which echoed this claim. Eventually the State Department issued a release stating that while Osama bin Laden had once had considerable holdings in Sudanese gum arabic production, he divested himself of these when he was expelled from Sudan in 1996.
Posted by phil_b 2007-06-02 01:32||   2007-06-02 01:32|| Front Page Top

#11 Go ahead, water is free.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-06-02 01:46|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]  2007-06-02 01:46|| Front Page Top

#12 I can envision the moonbats screaming in my head already, "NO WAR FOR COCA-COLA! NO WAR TO ENRICH BUSH'S CRONIES IN THE MILITARY-SOFT DRINK COMPLEX!"
Posted by Grumenk Philalzabod0723 2007-06-02 06:00||   2007-06-02 06:00|| Front Page Top

#13 I say we invade, take the gum, kill them all and use the koran for toilet paper.
Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader  2007-06-02 08:31||   2007-06-02 08:31|| Front Page Top

#14 No Coke. Pepsi.
Posted by John Belushi 2007-06-02 08:34||   2007-06-02 08:34|| Front Page Top

#15 "Okay, Mandrake: you win. But you're going to have to answer to the Coca-Cola company for this."
Posted by eLarson 2007-06-02 09:15||   2007-06-02 09:15|| Front Page Top

#16 If only there were a US presidential candidate out there that had a plan to reduce our dependence on foreign gum Arabic.
Posted by DepotGuy 2007-06-02 10:07||   2007-06-02 10:07|| Front Page Top

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