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To: Alan Whirlwind who wrote (15253)	8/27/2002 2:30:43 PM
From: sea_urchin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 80915

Al >Where does the hypocrisy end You tell me. The conference is called the World Conference on Sustainable Development but what was the main subject for discussion today? --- the subsidy which the US pays its farmers. Now I ask you, what has such a thing to do with subsistence farming in Africa where people are dying of starvation, drought, famine, disease and pestilence? iol.co.za Answer. Simple --- the subsidy should be paid to the African leaders who attended the conference and not to the US farmers. All the whole conference is about is the politics of greed, envy, theft and blackmail. Local people who really have nothing, no land and no food etc, and who wanted to demonstrate in the streets in protest, have been kept away by thousands of heavily-armed, riot-police because they "Don't have permission."