Saturday, June 14, 2008

Month ending 14 June 2008

News from 17/05/08 to 14/06/08

Today's food crisis isn't a blip
For anyone wondering where food prices are really headed, the news that Beijing has begun buying up farmland in Africa and South America offers a troubling hint.

US Warns Tourists of 'Small-Unit Combat' at Mexico Border


13,000 displaced by SAfrica mobs as Mbeki urges calm


Fight to save wheat falters

In the face of a devastating new plant disease that threatens the world's wheat crops, the U.S. government has cut the budget for research that might head off the infestation.

Abkhazia: the frozen conflict that is thawing rapidly


Heavy gunfire breaks out along border between Georgia, Abkhazia


George Soros: 'We face the most serious recession of our lifetime'


Energy Watchdog Warns Of Oil-Production Crunch


Nine meals from anarchy - how Britain is facing a very real food crisis
It was Lord Cameron's estimation that it would take just nine meals - three full days without food on supermarket shelves - before law and order started to break down, and British streets descended into chaos.

US property foreclosures up 65%


The Financial Tsunami has not reached its Climax
Credit Default Swaps: Next Phase of an Unravelling Crisis


US rail network facing congestion 'calamity'


China’s Cyber-Militia


Worries Mount as Farmers Push for Big Harvest
At a moment when the country’s corn should be flourishing, one plant in 10 has not even emerged from the ground, the Agriculture Department said Monday.

Surgeon: one in three [UK] trauma patients has been knifed


Pentagon says AFRICOM Will Be Ready for Full Operations October 1


Rate of Violence Skyrocketing in Afghanistan
In terms of enemy fire, May 2008 was the second deadliest month of the war since hostilities began in Afghanistan shortly after 9/11. This also marked the end of the deadliest 12-month period for U.S. troops in combat in Afghanistan since the war began nearly seven years ago.

Through the floor
America's house prices are falling even faster than during the Great Depression


Home price drop means $4 trillion in lost capital


Zimbabwe faces worst harvest on record as Robert Mugabe stops charity food handouts


Opposing Robert Mugabe is now 'treason' in Zimbabwe


Traders predict [UK] house prices will fall by 50% in four years


Surging inflation will stoke riots and conflict between nations, says report


Apocalypse in the Oceans

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