(10-19-2011, 05:24 PM)Richard Wrote: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21...world.htmlThanks for the link, Richard.
Interesting....as it all comes to the fore. I wonder if this will be squashed.
Richard
As most posts imply, no scientific evidence was necessary to get to this knowledge. I remember I was a teenager when I first heard that the EEC (European Economic Community, seed for the current EU) produced milk surplus. My first thought was that it would be given away to the countries in which people died of famine. The "surprise" was discovering that sending that surplus over those countries was deemed "too expensive" by "the authorities" and, so, it wasn't to be sent. Years later, being in close contact with the environment of NGOs, I also found out that most of the "humanitarian aid" never reached its real target groups, but militias or dictators in good relationships with transnational companies or national (european or US) interests.
I've never had deep doubts about the fact that the few hundreds of people with most de facto control over the resources in our world are sadly, mentally unbalanced. This scientific approach is really good news, though.