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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (333)	2/3/2017 12:08:30 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2202

"the reason the refugee problem has exploded under Obama is because" How Climate Change is Behind the Surge of Migrants to Europe time.com "I doubt that will change under the Stump" I can guarantee that. Nor under anybody else. Remember how Arab Spring started? Following the drought disaster, Russia, one of the world’s leading grain exporters, banned grain exports. In august, 2010, the Washington Post reported: In Egypt — one of the biggest importers of wheat and a nation that experienced deadly violence in bread lines two years ago — the government assured the public that it has a four-month supply of wheat and urged Russia to honor contracts it signed before the ban. Grain harvests around the world have been devastated by unusual weather this year. Heavy rain destroyed much of Canada’s wheat crop, and the country is forecasting a 35 percent drop in production. In China, the world’s most populous nation, the worst flooding in more than a decade is predicted to cut rice production by 5 to 7 percent. China produces about one-third of the world’s rice. Rising prices for stable foods continued into the following year, and NPR reported in January 2011: Political unrest has broken out in Tunisia, Yemen, Egypt and other Arab countries. Social media and governmental policies are getting most of the credit for spurring the turmoil, but there’s another factor at play. Many of the people protesting are also angry about dramatic price hikes for basic foodstuffs, such as rice, cereals, cooking oil and sugar. The advent of of the unrest now referred to as “Arab Spring” coincided with rising grain prices and food rioting across the region. On December 17, 2010, a vegetable vendor in Tunisia set himself afire. That event was a spark that ignited unrest that has toppled regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. Unrest continues in those countries. The Economist, May 17, 2012: IT IS sadly appropriate that Mohamad Bouazizi, the Tunisian whose self-immolation triggered the first protest of the Arab spring, should have been a street vendor, selling food. From the start, food has played a bigger role in the upheavals than most people realise. Now, the Arab spring is making food problems worse. They start with a peculiarity of the region: the Middle East and north Africa depend more on imported food than anywhere else. Most Arab countries buy half of what they eat from abroad and between 2007 and 2010, cereal imports to the region rose 13%, to 66m tonnes. Because they import so much, Arab countries suck in food inflation when world prices rise. In 2007-08, they spiked, with some staple crops doubling in price. In Egypt local food prices rose 37% in 2008-10. – The Arab spring was obviously about much more than food. But it played a role. “The food-price spike was the final nail in the coffin for regimes that were failing to deliver on their side of the social contract,” says Jane Harrigan of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies. climatecrocks.com

To: Broken_Clock who wrote (333)	2/3/2017 1:13:44 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 2202

I have to comment here... I agree... and that is something I need address a little better on Booms Busts.. The world wonders at all the Broohaha about Dem/Rep/... even Trump... the bombs rain down... US foreign policy still kills folks around the world.. irrespective of the domestic government.. Only the rationale presented to the public are different.... I want to impose a hefty tariff on all US citizens pretending to be Canucks when traveling abroad... I want a piece of that action !!!! I am still hopeful Trump the event causes positive change... (NO Trump the man will not be positive)