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2012-01-18 Caribbean-Latin America

Mexican official says rumors are "tinged with evil"

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Posted by badanov 2012-01-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Uh, uh, JUDAS PRIEST = "TOUCH OF EVIL"???

gut nuthin.

No Bodies = no incident.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2012-01-18 00:48|| 2012-01-18 00:48|| Front Page Top

#2 Water shortage, In the snow and Ice, Bullshit.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2012-01-18 10:52|| 2012-01-18 10:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Not necessarily, Redneck. Old ice and snow on peaks doesn't water crops or grasslands at lower altitudes on which livestock graze.

Posted by lotp 2012-01-18 11:19|| 2012-01-18 11:19|| Front Page Top

#4 I've read interesting things about the Tarahumar. They are known for great physical stamina, running long distances and eating peyote. Hmmmmm. Could be the peyote has something to do with the stamina. But they are NOT Somalians.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2012-01-18 12:16|| 2012-01-18 12:16|| Front Page Top

#5 According to the reports I ahve read, there is no dought in the Sierras, especially aboev the snow line. There was, however, an early killing frost which wrecked a number of crops the Taramhumara use in subsistence farming.

Dunno about water run off from there. The agreement amongst Mexican government officials is that cattle on the approaches to the Sierras and in the desert have suffered from a lack of water due to the drought.

I read a report yesterday which said Zacatecas state harvested no, as in zero alfalfa for all of 2011 due to the drought, which does affect cattle and other livestock.

The upshot to all this is that no one is lying. There is a severe food shortage which willl likely not be alleviated anytime before harvest next fall, and the Tarahumara are the hardest hit.

Posted by badanov 2012-01-18 16:36|| http://www.freefirezone.org 2012-01-18 16:36|| Front Page Top

#6 But if NGOs have an opportunity to create a statistic from anecdotal information, they will create a statistic which will then be transcribed by a pliant press as established fact. To date NGOs have failed to do so, suggesting suicide stories are probably apocryphal.

Deliciously, pointedly true, even if nobody else will say so. Beyond reporting stories nobody else covers consistently, the two sentences above ought to be the making of your reputation, badanov.

Posted by trailing wife 2012-01-18 17:01|| 2012-01-18 17:01|| Front Page Top

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