Alfred Tennyson wrote:We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are;
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
So they are expecting another round of major US dollar devaluations and fuel shortages?!They said that IPPs would now be allowed to get their profits in euro in case of devaluation of the US dollar and introduction of force majeure clause in their contracts in case of fuel shortage, instead of sovereign guarantees."
I was also thinking the price of wheat might be because of wheat rust... They are saying that it is because of hording, but hording often happens when there is a reason for it. Like why life guards call in people onto the beach when a school of fish is heading for the shallows. The life guard isn't worried about the little fish, he is worried about what is chasing the fish...Tanada wrote:If the Wheat Rust someone posted about not too long ago actually does devestate crops in Africa this year then things will be getting grim.
As the Pakistani Government announced recently, the country will most likely not be able to meet the aspired rate of inflation of 6.5 percent this year, mainly because of an extensive increase in food prices, especially for perishable food items. Instead of the desired rate of inflation of 6.5 percent, its now anticipated value lies within the range of 7.0 to 7.5 percent.
wisconsin_cur wrote:Reading the story it is hard to draw a direct line between this and energy depletion. It is the type of things that I would expect to see in the months and years to come.
wisconsin_cur wrote: Note the changing of trade policy against participation in the world market.
wisconsin_cur wrote:Also Pakistan is now willing to take Euro's due to fear of a devalued dollar.
Jafar Kiani was stoned to death in a small village in the province of Qazvin. He was in his late 40s and had spent the last decade in prison after the adultery conviction.
He is the latest casualty of strict Islamic laws as applied since Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979.
The grim sentence came despite a five-year-old moratorium on stonings that rights groups fear is sometimes ignored.
Activists are warning that his partner -- who reportedly was jailed at the same time, 11 years ago -- could face a similar fate.
Iran's Supreme Court this month issued a ruling that upholds the idea that people may be killed with impunity if they are deemed to be immoral. The case confirms Iranians' suspicions that some people in Iran can get away with murder: religious fundamentalists, individuals associated with shadowy "pressure groups," or those linked to hard-line clerics.
The court on April 14 confirmed the acquittal of six Iranian militiamen who admitted killing five people in the southeastern city of Kerman in 2002-03. The six men justified the killings by saying the victims were "morally corrupt" according to religious laws, accusing them of selling drugs and engaging in extramarital sex.
The last two victims were a married couple the militiamen killed for supposedly having "illegitimate" relations as lovers, the daily "Etemad" reported on April 15.
The six defendants -- all of whom admitted to the killings -- are reportedly members of the local Basij militia, a nationwide force affiliated with the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps.
A judiciary spokesman, Alireza Jamshidi, told reporters on Tuesday that a death sentence by stoning had been carried out last week near the city of Takestan, west of Tehran, despite an order by the chief of the judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Shahroudi, not to permit such executions.
"The verdict was final, and so it was carried out for the man but not for the woman," the ISNA news agency quoted Jamshidi as saying.
He said the 20 additional executions were for such things as "rape, insulting religious sanctities and laws, and homosexuality." Most executions in Iran are hangings, often in public and at the scenes of the alleged crimes.
The police arrested about 1,000 people in May during a so-called morality crackdown. Jamshidi said 15 more men were being tried on similar charges and could receive death sentences.
The soaring cost of fuel is whittling away at the cheap-labour advantage enjoyed by Asian exporters, giving Canadian firms a welcome edge in their fight to win back business from Asian competitors.
threadbear wrote: Let's call it Gerbilization.
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