Ahh... so you think when times are good they are so lazy they grow only enough food to feed themselves, and then sit around, such that they're not ready for the famine years.
Actually it's because we have state-regulated management of surpluses to make sure there's a stockpile.
Not always. You evidently forget how pinched the national grain reserves got back in the late 80's early 90's.
Yeah... because we have state-mandated national grain reserves.
If capitalists were in charge of the food supply, they'd stockpile it, and then charge you a fortune in the bad years.
Like what? Happen to live in a place prone to drought?
They're used to drought. They used to expect one about every ten years.
Then the climate started changing and it because a drought every five years.
Then every two.
And now it's non-stop drought... at which point they had no choice but to move into the camps.
Welcome to climate change.
?!? Where the frik did you get the idea that starving Somalians in refugee camps are standing there in determination, demanding to be fed while they preserve their Somalian heritage???
Criminy... you're one of the mouth-pieces of the food-corps quietly buying up land in Africa in order to have a backup for food production after the climate changes. Interesting how corps will say outside one side of the mouth that the climate is not changing, or if it is they're not responsible for it, while on the other they read climate-change maps and buy up places that are no good for food production now, but will be after the climate changes.
In any case, how do you think Africa works?
Some starving Somalis will send an ambassador to Nigeria and say, "Hey, give us some food" ???
You smokin' some awesome BC bud, who's your supplier? I like him.
State mandated surpluses? What a howler! Does Jean Chretien, Steven Harper, George Bush, Barrack Obama, or "the system" tell us what to do? I could injure myself laughing.
You skipped over Australia, which has had a drought for most of this decade, and where's the crisis there? Oz is called the driest continent.
Subsistence peasants, in Canada, Africa, or Asia, don't like to work much. They are indolent, indolent means lazy. When you only do just enough work as necessary, you lack a surplus to hedge against disaster. Thus, when disaster strikes, the weakest and most vulnerable die first, which means children and women.
This is not racism, this is observing the behaviour of people. And these people don't like to work any more than they absolutely have to. The lazy white people in Canada like to go on EI as much as possible, along with many Indians.
Britain's development and wealth is a legacy of its empire, which included Sudan. Sudan has been fighting a brutal civil war on and off since its independence from Britain. Decades of war disrupts economies. The initial causes of the conflicts in Sudan are directly related to British imperialism.
Sounds to me like Sudan is the perfect example of a country ruined by capitalist imperialism.
And whose fault is it that Sudan is in the state it's in today? The government of Sudan is a corrupt, thieving, genocidal Islamo-fascist dictatorship. They don't suffer from famine conditions. It's the people who do. And so when you yawn at the Sudanese for their starvation, you are mocking them not for their failures, as you try to twist it, but for being the victims of imperial exploitation, decades of civil war, genocide, terror rape, burned fields and destroyed livelihoods.
It's a little hard to believe that people in the world were taking cruel advantage of each other long before Anglo-Ameriican imperialism began. Strange but true! Turks and Arabs have not always been so kind throughout their histories, especially the latter in Africa-even in Sudan.
These countries have considerable political problems. What tires me out is the media constantly shouting HELP HELP HELP when these predictable cirises occur. Don't you get tired of the same old same old bad news? You're considered on the crazy side if you keep doing the same thing and expect a different outcome.
These people are always victims, they are never the cause of their problems, they are always "good" and require our help. But to our lame media, their political problems are so complex, that if we just drop some food on them, we hope they'll go away. Or we'll give as many as we can political asylum so they can continue their proxy wars from Canada.
