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 Food Crisis Profits "In the midst of all this, in the global food system that's been created over the past few decades you have some corporations that sit in the middle of it all and who have taken a stronger and stronger position in managing the food system. They're the ones who are profiting immensely now from this food crisis.
"So, even though we're in a situation where millions of people can no longer afford to fill their basic food needs you have corporations making record profits. A company like Cargill which is one of the world's biggest grain traders - there are only small number of companies that control the trade in basic cereals - and Cargill's one of these companies, and it's profits are higher than they've been in years..." |
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 Born Into Debt So you think you're doing it tough? What with all that school everyday and the packed lunches - compare our lucky lives to the 200 million children around the world who didn't go to school today - they went to work.
Day in, day out. Born into debt, forced to work and denied an education.
In India alone there's over 60 million children in child labour - three times the population of Australia. Why is it that in our world the country of your birth determines the course of your life? Isn't is time to do something real? |
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 Kamal Hyder Since 2002, the US has had permission to strike in the tribal regions that border Afghanistan.
But with talk of peace between Pakistan's government and tribal forces - there are renewed calls for such unilateral action to stop.
Kamal Hyder reports from the North Western frontier.
"More trouble or a chance for peace in Pakistan's frontier region along the border with Afghanistan. Bush, in a recent interview with an American television network described the region along the border as one of the most dangerous areas of the world, where Al Qaida had established safe havens and was plotting attacks against the United States..." |
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 Saud & FDR "Franklin Roosevelt first looked ahead and saw that the United States eventually would become dependent and he was the one who pioneered a foreign policy based on oil.
"Roosevelt understood that oil was a decisive in America's victory in World War II. We triumphed over the Germans and Japanese true by military prowess and the leadership of our generals, but also because the US had a superior industrial capacity. We were able to produce so many thousands of tanks and planes and we had the petroleum to fuel those weapons whereas the Germans and Japanese did not..." |
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 Haitian Famine "Brasilian soldiers handed out food to the residents of a shanty town in Haiti on Tuesday in the calm of the rioting over food prices. No country has escaped the effects of escalating wheat and rice prices though the poorer nations like Haiti have been hardest hit."
Raj Patel: "Haiti at the moment is a place of incredible turmoil. For months, people in Haiti have been going hungry..."
"Recent rises in the price of rice have tipped people over the edge. Last week 5 people were killed in food protests - four protesters and one UN peace keeper. |
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