[wisconsin_cur]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'G')overnments are racing to strike secretive barter and bilateral agreements with food-exporting countries to secure scarce supplies as the price of agricultural commodities jump to record highs, diplomats and cereal traders say.

The moves coincide with a significant tightening of the global food market as leading exporters of agricultural commodities ban foreign sales. The government-to-government contracts could bypass those restrictions, diplomats say.

Wheat traders said yesterday that Ukraine was close to an agreement with Libya to devote up to 100,000 hectares of its own land to grow wheat for the north African country. Kiev-based analysts questioned the feasibility of such an agreement after the former Soviet republic restricted its cereals sales earlier this year.

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Financial Times', 'G')overnments are racing to strike secretive barter and bilateral agreements with food-exporting countries to secure scarce supplies as the price of agricultural commodities jump to record highs, diplomats and cereal traders say.

[manu]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'W')ould White people in Scandinavia Countires ever lower themselves to such behavior?

[manu]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'Z')ombie hordes in the land that gave them their name. How appropriate.

[gw]

Haiti's government falls over food riots

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')ORT-AU-PRINCE, April 12 (Reuters) - Haiti's Senate on Saturday fired the impoverished country's prime minister after a week of food riots, brushing aside an announcement by President Rene Preval of plans to slash the cost of rice.

Asked before the Senate vote how he viewed the criticism of Alexis, he said: "I think it's unjust because the government is not responsible for the rapid acceleration of prices on the international markets. The government has dealt with the crisis to the best of its ability."

Preval reiterated that Haiti could not afford to cut taxes on food because it needed the revenue to pay for longer-term projects that create jobs and boost agriculture.

Sen. Youri Latortue, a nephew of a former prime minister and leader of the vote against Alexis, said the ousted prime minister had failed to ramp up national food production, failed to protect people against crime and failed to heed calls to establish a new national security force.

[vision-master]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', 'W')ould White people in Scandinavia Countires ever lower themselves to such behavior?

[Ache]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Novus', '
')
Haiti is the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere and in a state of extreme overshoot. It is a modern day Easter Island ripe for a massive die-off.

[mattduke]

[flash width=250 height=250]http://www.youtube.com/v/JPYBEJnsb0M&hl=en[/flash]

[Revi]

Wow! It looked like the UN troops were fighting the mob. Was that a food distribution truck or something?

It can get a little hairy. I saw food riots in Guatemala in 1984, and they weren't fun at all. Busses flipped and burned, etc.

The price of a bowl of rice has almost tripled in Haiti. The price of rice has tripled on the world market, and there's almost none to buy. Three of the largest exporters have said that they aren't going to export. It's getting a little unsettling out there.

[catbox]

Welcome to the modern world!

[gw]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'W')ow! It looked like the UN troops were fighting the mob.

[DantesPeak]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'H')aiti's government falls after food riots

By Joseph Guyler Delva and Jim Loney
Sat Apr 12, 6:50 PM ET



PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's government fell on Saturday when senators fired the prime minister after more than a week of riots over food prices, ignoring a plan presented by the president to slash the cost of rice.

Sixteen of 17 senators at a special session voted against Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, an ally President Rene Preval placed at the head of a coalition cabinet in June 2006 that was meant to unite the fractious Caribbean nation.

The move by opposition senators was seen as a serious but not crushing blow to Preval, whose 2006 election brought a measure of calm to the poorest country in the Americas as it searched for political stability after decades of dictatorship, military rule and economic mayhem.

[35Kas]

It sounds as if those are some of the Brazilian soldiers in the UN detachment in Haiti. It sucks to be them right now. A few years ago Haiti was all ok (before the Aristide coup) and in short notice they are eating mud cakes and at any moment now they will become a zombie horde.

[kpeavey]

near the end of the video I could clearly make out a tear gas gun. For the sake of the people, I hope the assault rifle looking weapons were firing rubber bullets.

[Twilight]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('kpeavey', 'n')ear the end of the video I could clearly make out a tear gas gun. For the sake of the people, I hope the assault rifle looking weapons were firing rubber bullets.

[vision-master]

To dang cold up here for food riots.

We still got snow on the ground.

[Jenab6]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gw', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Revi', 'W')ow! It looked like the UN troops were fighting the mob.

[Specop_007]

"Dont bite the hand that feeds"

Sons of bitches throw shit at me if I was hauling them food, I'd turn around and dump it in the ocean.

[eastbay]

Just about everything Haitians eat is one way or another from handouts. The problem this time is that there wasn't quite enough to go around.

They want more. But they won't because there isn't enough food for everyone anymore.