Needlenose

Depressing news, a new world record – there are now 1 billion hungry people in the world, about 1 out of every 7 people.  Lester Brown of the WorldWatch Institute warns how food shortages are leading to failed states and a threat to the overall world order.

Venal senators from the Midwest just don’t get it – they insist on porking out the current energy bill with subsidies for corn farmers, diverting food from the plates of the world poor into the gas tanks of the rich’s SUVs.

Scientific American ‘keeps it real’ and lays out the greatest threats to the current world order.  No, it’s not Islam, Communism, the Clash of Cultures or any of that nonsense – it’s the massive consumption (for livestock and biofuelds) of the world food supply on the part of the halves that is putting severe pressure on the halve-nots – causing states to fail and foster terrorism, piracy, the drug trade and disease.

Again, our foreign policy and national defense spending is greatly misguided – or perhaps insane would be a better word.