Archive for the 'famine' Category

Dec 13 2008

Can’t be my fault, must be yours:

Published by jrittenhouse under UK, africa, agriculture, business, communism, corruption_govt, deaths, delusions, dictators, disease, famine, finance, food, government, greed, health, history, inflation, military, plague, politics, propaganda, racism, sad, security, sep_reality, terrorism, uk_colonies, zimbabwe

Zimbabwe is a complex subject, and the complexities have gotten a whole lot rougher on the inhabitants as time passes by.   Europeans under Cecil Rhodes marched in in the ned of the 1800s and took control of the land from the local chiefs, and passed out all sorts of claims to white settlers, who set [...]

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Nov 26 2008

Squeezing the turkey:

Published by jrittenhouse under CLL, Noteworthy, banking_bubble, business, conniej, doctors_nurses, family, famine, fandom, finance, food, friends, health, health_care, holidays, home, illness, kurtnjohn, meredith, money, parenting, personal, religion, surgery, susan, thanksgiving, thoughtful, twins, weird-food, wishlist

I’m noticing that a lot of my friends-list and others online - and the few I talk to on the phone (man, I am so housebound) - are going to take the holidays easy, cheap and local this year.  Our household will, as usual, trot out to Susan’s aunt Marlyce’s house and do the holiday [...]

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Jul 28 2008

The limits of China:

Published by jrittenhouse under automobiles, business, china, coal, communism, corruption_govt, criminals, environment, famine, government, health, oil, political_science, pollution, renmin, secrecy, tech, thoughtful, transport, water

Very good article that explains the real limits of Chinese power down the road.  Here’s a mix of his points and some of my thoughts on the matter:

Cheap labor and fair access to markets is about their main strengths.  Quality is not as important if the manufacturers can slide by.

Labor is starting to [...]

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Jul 17 2008

The Ukrainian Holocaust:

Published by jrittenhouse under communism, deaths, delusions, famine, food, russia, sad, soviets, ukraine

…or the Holodomor, as it’s better known. In the early 1930s, Stalin forced the collectivization of Ukraine, and when the wheat harvest then fell below the levels that Moscow had ordered, he ordered the deliberate starvation of the Ukrainians for their failure to ‘fulfill their duty.’ Several million Ukrainians then starved to [...]

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