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(CBS NEWS) — Kenya, a developed country with lush land and a typically robust economy, is being devastated by a deadly drought, the New York Times reports.

With green pastures drying up, the drought is killing crops and children. It is stoking tensions in water-deprived slums and spawning ethnic conflict in communities fighting over the few remaining areas of fertile land, the newspaper reports.

via Once Immune, Kenya Hit Hard By Drought – World Watch – CBS News.

MEXICO is enduring its worst drought in 60 years, with crops drying up in the fields and water being rationed in the capital.

Residents of poor neighbourhoods have hijacked water trucks, and there are other signs of social tensions building, with water supplies cut off frequently, and many people queuing from 4am to ask for water trucks to fill tanks in their houses.

via Social tensions rise as Mexico suffers worst drought in 60 years – Scotsman.com News .

Mar 12, 2008 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (WASHINGTON POST) — The line for cooking oil was nearly a block long, just a few miles from the Parliament building. Saida Bibi, fistful of rupees in hand, elbowed her way to the front of the angry crowd shoving its way into the government food shop. Full Report

Thanks, S.B.! Anytime Javier Solana talks about global conflict, we should pay attention. — PID

Mar 11, 2008 (TELEGRAPH) — /SNIP/ A stark report, written by two senior EU officials, Javier Solana, foreign policy chief and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the Commissioner for External Relations, highlights seven threats unleashed by “intensified competition over access to, and control over, energy resources”. Mr Solana and Mrs Ferrero-Waldner predict growing increased tensions between north and south because global warming is mainly driven by the rich north and west while its impact will be most devastating in the poor south. Full Report

The fear-mongering continues. While this group says we need to cut carbon output to zero, a dissident group of climatologists last week issued the “Manhattan Declaration”, which went virtually unnoticed by the major media. They believe that attempts by governments to reduce CO2 emissions would “markedly diminish further prosperity” while having “no appreciable impact” on the Earth’s warming. — PID

Mar 10, 2008 (WASHINGTON POST) — The task of cutting greenhouse gas emissions enough to avert a dangerous rise in global temperatures may be far more difficult than previous research suggested, say scientists who have just published studies indicating that it would require the world to cease carbon emissions altogether within a matter of decades. Full Report

Neil Bush, younger brother of U.S. President George W. Bush, talks to journalists after a meeting with Paraguay’s President Nicanor Duarte in Asuncion, Feb. 28, 2008. Bush is visiting Paraguay with members of the Moon’s Universal Peace Federation church. (AP Photo/STR)

Moon owns vast tracts of land (600,000 hectares) in both Paraguay and neighboring Brazil along the Guarani aquifer, one of the largest sources of fresh water in the world. Moon claims he wants to carve out a South American paradise. Coincidentally, the Bush family owns 70,000 hectares of land very close to Moon’s. We wonder what sort of ‘retirement’ plans Bush Jr. might have. Could this be the real reason for the US military base in Paraguay? — PID

Mar 3, 2008 ASUNCION, Paraguay (AP) — Neil Bush, younger brother of U.S. President George W. Bush, called on Paraguay’s president as the guest of a business federation allied with the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Unification Church. A presidential press office source, who spoke on condition of not being named, confirmed the younger Bush met President Nicanor Duarte on Thursday along with a delegation from the Universal Peace Federation, a group associated with Moon. Duarte had no statement on the meeting. Full Report

We doubt the guys from ‘Lonesome Dove’ would have handled it this way. Seriously, Texas farmers seeking justice in Canada should light a fire of indignation in every American. What happened to our sovereignty — oh yeah, the Clinton/Bush two-headed ‘Eagle’ gave it away. — PID

Feb 6, 2008 (TOWNHALL.COM) — /SNIP/ The groups plan to ask a Canadian judge to decide March 25 whether the tribunal erred and deprived the farmers of a fair hearing. The case goes to Canada because both sides agreed in arbitration that if an issue arose they would go to a neutral location. Full Report