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2013-07-11 Africa North

Egypt has less than two months imported wheat left

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Posted by Steve White 2013-07-11 13:16|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 "The people have no bread? Well, let them eat F-16s! Or sell them on eBay or sumthin'."

-- Marie Antoinette (slightly paraphrased)

Posted by SteveS 2013-07-11 14:51|| 2013-07-11 14:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Interesting. I was under the impression that most of the crowds were out there because their rations were cut back or became unaffordable.

Posted by Ptah 2013-07-11 15:08|| http://crusaderwarcollege.org 2013-07-11 15:08|| Front Page Top

#3 I remember watching some BBC/PBS show on North African agriculture maybe 15 years ago. I was appalled at the acres of land under cultivation vs the population. Now it has got to be worse. No idea how they even fed %10 then no idea how they feed anybody now. I compare scrub land like that to my cousin's subsistence level ranch in Montana of 28,000 acres. All of North Africa's cultivated land is only maybe 100 times her land. Some land is much better than hers and some worse so her's is a good average. Her land supports 4 people raising yearlings and a little hay and some oil you can't eat. Run the math.

Posted by 3dc 2013-07-11 15:14|| 2013-07-11 15:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Kan-ban. With Saudi dole, the cupboards will remain just full enough.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2013-07-11 15:42|| 2013-07-11 15:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Kansas wheat crop 80% of normal.

Posted by bman 2013-07-11 16:00|| 2013-07-11 16:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Tell me again why building the Aswan High Dam and cutting off the annual silting/fertilization by the flooding Nile (which worked for millenia) was a good idea?

Posted by Barbara 2013-07-11 18:19|| 2013-07-11 18:19|| Front Page Top

#7 Control. All that mud is so inconvenient.

Then there's the new Ethiopian dam, which makes things even more inconvenient. Gonna need all those AK-47s.

Posted by KBK 2013-07-11 21:26|| 2013-07-11 21:26|| Front Page Top

#8 Those F-16s may come in handy against the Ethiopians. Rumor has it the Egyptian Air Force is watching Dambusters on Netflix.

Posted by SteveS 2013-07-11 21:54|| 2013-07-11 21:54|| Front Page Top

#9 "Control. All that mud is so inconvenient."

Well, KBK, they've sorta got control now - of a bunch of inconvenient, soon-to-be-starving, pissed-off people.

I'll order more popcorn.

Posted by Barbara 2013-07-11 21:58|| 2013-07-11 21:58|| Front Page Top

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