Food & Financial Sustainability Meltdown: (6 degrees of seperation)

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http://words-of-power.blogspot.com/2008/12/global-crisis-update-do-you-really.html


Food & Financial Sustainability Meltdown: Do You Really Think There are Even 6 Degrees of Separation Between You & People in Burma, Darfur or Congo?


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The so-called "Six Degrees of Separation" have collapsed into three, two, one ...

Here are six stories that erase those six degrees of separation -- three on the world food security crisis, and one on 30 additions to the "Dirty List" of corporations enabling the Thugocracy in Burma, along with an extraordinary post from humanitarian activist Mia Farrow now on the ground in the Congo, and an excerpt on Darfur from "Scream Bloody Murder," Christian Amanpour's powerful documentary on the collective failure of the great nations to stop the genocides that have occurred on our watch:

Nicholas D. Kristof on the need for a Secretary of Food:

"A Department of Agriculture made sense 100 years ago when 35 percent of Americans engaged in farming. But today, fewer than 2 percent are farmers. In contrast, 100 percent of Americans eat." New York Times, 12-11-08

US Conference of Mayors on homelessness and hunger in the USA:

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and so it goes on the food front