Mashed spuds. Biofuels.
UN on biofuels MKI
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?N ... 71&Cr=&Cr1
UN Foundation: The United Nations Biofuels Initiative
http://www.unfoundation.org/biofuels/index.asp
"The UN Biofuels Initiative promotes the sustainable production and use of biofuels in developing countries, under conditions that can attract foreign and domestic investment. Biofuels are liquid fuels made from biomass (plants and trees), and include biodiesel for trucks or generators and ethanol for cars or cooking. A domestic biofuels industry can create good jobs, increase income in rural areas, and reduce the need for costly imports of foreign oil."
http://www.unfoundation.org/donate/index.asp
The Initiative is supported by the UN Foundation and is being undertaken in partnership with five UN agencies working in coordination:
• United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
• United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
• United Nations Environment Program (UNEP)
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
UN on biofuels MkII
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7065061.stm
Biofuels 'crime against humanity'
I think they are on drugs.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/ ... 30464.html
Oh its mainly US ethanol that starves the world.
Huh.
Let's research the guy in the UN the press is quoting in this Ethanol is a crime deal:
From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Ziegler
Ziegler has praised Cuba, stating in November 2007 that it is a world model for how it provides its people with food and praised it for cooperating with the United Nations and agreeing to allow him to report on the country's respect for the "right to food."[6] Reuters reported:
"We cannot say that the right to food is totally respected in Cuba, but we have not seen a single malnourished person," [Ziegler] said...
[His visit] was the first by a U.N. rights rapporteur to Cuba in almost a decade. He was invited by Havana after the U.N. Human Rights Council, of which Cuba is a member, decided in June to stop the scrutiny of human rights abuses in Cuba...
Ziegler said his visit was a sign that Cuba was willing to cooperate on human rights with the new U.N. body and would pave the way for visits by other rapporteurs.[7]
According to the National Post,
As early as 1964, Professor Ziegler expressed his admiration for the Cuban communists. That year, he served as Che Guevara's chauffeur when Guevara was on a trade mission in Geneva for the Cuban government. He was convinced by Guevara not to emigrate to the island nation, but to stay in Western Europe where he might fight more directly the enemies of Cuba's revolution and international Marxism...
Ziegler permitted undercover Cuban agents to monitor a press conference he gave in Geneva prior to his [visit to Cuba]... [who] took note of journalists' question and tone...[8]
Concerning the event in Geneva, the Associated Press reported that a U.N. spokeswoman
...said she was unable to prevent two Cuban diplomats from entering the [press conference]...
The U.N. strictly prohibits government officials from attending news conferences unless they are explicitly invited and included among those presenting...
When the news conference ended and [she] confronted the officials, they said they were diplomats at a U.N. mission, but declined to say which country they represented.
"I can only regret this incident," she wrote in a letter to the U.N. correspondents' association in Geneva.[6]
[edit] Opinion of the United States
According to The Weekly Standard, Ziegler believes that the United States is an "'imperialist dictatorship' that is guilty, among other atrocities, of 'genocide' against the people of Cuba by means of its trade embargo."[4] The Inter Press Service reported that Ziegler"
Motive seems pretty clear to me. Ferment that corn boys.
Until the the Gizmo goes.