Reasons This World Is Completely Insane!

[MizMotown]

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-s...policy-elites/

Starvation.net logs the increasing impacts of world hunger and starvation. Over 30,000 people a day [[85% children under 5) die of malnutrition, curable diseases, and starvation. The numbers of unnecessary deaths has exceeded three hundred million people over the past forty years.

These are the people who David Rothkopf in his book Superclass calls the unlucky. “If you happen to be born in the wrong place, like sub-Saharan Africa, …that is bad luck,” Rothkopf writes. Rothkopf goes on to describe how the top 10% of the adults worldwide own 84% of the wealth and the bottom half owns barely 1%. Included in the top 10% of wealth holders are the one thousand global billionaires. But is such a contrast of wealth inequality really the result of luck, or are there policies, supported by political elites, that protect the few at the expense of the many?

Farmers around the world grow more than enough food to feed the entire world adequately. Global grain production yielded a record 2.3 billion tons in 2007, up 4% from the year before, yet, billions of people go hungry every day. Grain.org describes the core reasons for continuing hunger in a recent article “Making a Killing from Hunger.” It turns out that while farmers grow enough food to feed the world, commodity speculators and huge grain traders like Cargill control the global food prices and distribution. Starvation is profitable for corporations when demands for food push the prices up. Cargill announced that profits for commodity trading for the first quarter of 2008 were 86% above 2007. World food prices grew 22% from June 2007 to June 2008 and a significant portion of the increase was propelled by the $175 billion invested in commodity futures that speculate on price instead of seeking to feed the hungry. The result is wild food price spirals, both up and down, with food insecurity remaining widespread.

[MizMotown]

http://now.org/press/04-11/04-19.html

April 19, 2011
Watch out -- the war being waged on women, the middle class and the poor just took another dark turn. Those connecting the dots will recognize the progression from the calamitous shock to the economy perpetrated by Wall Street to the systematic looting of public assets and families' pocketbooks by conservative lawmakers in Washington and various states.
We must ask whether political calculation motivated Standard and Poor's [[S&P) to announce its negative outlook for the U.S. yesterday. Right-wing legislators wasted no time jumping on the announcement as 'proof' that the U.S. must cut Social Security benefits, voucherize Medicare, block grant Medicaid, and target a host of other social programs that disproportionately serve and employ women -- not just family planning but also assisted housing, student loans, Head Start, nutrition, prenatal and infant care and hundreds of other important programs.
Women rely on these programs especially because the recovery, which is anemic to begin with, is leaving them behind. While women accounted for one-third of the jobs lost in the recession, men have picked up almost 90 percent of the job gains. The wage gap -- women on average are paid only 77 cents on the dollar paid to men -- makes it even harder for women to make ends meet. And women of color, subjected to race-based as well as gender-based wage discrimination, are at particular risk.
But conservative politicians and their corporate backers are oblivious to these realities. No surprise there -- this is the same crowd who converted the federal budget surplus to a massive deficit in the Bush/Cheney administration. They were the cheerleaders when the U.S. was led into unnecessary and catastrophically costly wars. They engineered the huge tax breaks on the wealthiest, and then deregulated Wall Street, which soon went out of control and drove the U.S. economy off a cliff, creating the worst unemployment crisis this country has seen in generations.

[maxx]

How many people living a middle class lifestyle can the world's resources support? The world's population continues to increase geometrically. The poor need to be educated and brought into the 21st century and learn about family planning. Personal responsibility includes having only as many children as you can support.

[maxx]

. The easy position to take is to point with alarm at all the starving children in the world. But there are consequences for all our medical advances. People are living longer but don't necessarily have the means to buy the treatments for the medical problems of aging. If we don't want to live in a world where birth control is required, then we need to discuss the world population issue as it relates to everyone's standard of living.

Is all this logging in really necessary? And what happened to the edit button?

[MizMotown]

everybody deserves to eat... maybe if more money was spent on education and yes even education regarding birth control than military defense spending maybe we''d get somewhere

[Detroitnerd]

It's not a question of resources. It's a question of distribution. The super-rich are too greedy.

[GOAT]

Not just the super-rich but our asses are as well since we started using food for gasoline it, to me, is just plain dumb. Plus the taxes that go to ethanol production is ridiculous!

[HistoryNotHisStory]

everybody deserves to eat... maybe if more money was spent on education and yes even education regarding birth control than military defense spending maybe we''d get somewhere

Birth control does not stop greed.

The number 1 killer of children around the world is uncleaned water. Children dies from chlorea daily. Not having enough food compounds the problem. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund are greedy corporations who profits off the backs of dying and starving children.

The system will and must change.

[Danny]

The world is always INSANE since the beginning of human civilization:

The world is always INSANE since the Tower of Babel was built and destroyed.

The world is always INSANE since the people worship strange pagan gods.

The world is always INSANE since the people worship one god.

The world is always INSANE since the people owning other people.

The world is always INSANE since since empires rise and fall.

The world is always INSANE since cities rise and fall.

The world is always INSANE since since God punish nations.

The world is always INSANE since leaders win thier thirst for power and kill those who oppose its will.

The world is always INSANE since Americans blew up Japan with A-bomb!

The world is always INSANE since communists tried to take over the world.

The world is always INSANE since Hippie counterculture movement went all over the world.

The world is always INSANE when radical islamic terrorist blew the World Trade Center Towers with commercial jet airliners.

The world is always INSANE since Americans [[ Under George Bush) went to war against Iraq.

The world is always INSANE since Republicans and corporations have a martial relationship.

The world is always INSANE since gas prices went UP, UP, UP


WORD FROM THE STREET PROPHET

Because the world went insane after Neda, was killed in the streets of Iran and I miss her so.