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Yeah, after a while it seems to be a PATTERN down there at the agenda-pushing propaganda paper.
No wonder we are a land of ill-informed idiots!!!!
"Shortage of sugar souring the mood of Pakistan public; Supplies rationed as accusations of price-fixing fly" by Pamela Constable, Washington Post | December 20, 2009
I hate to keep putting this up, but the Washington Post is the CIA 's newspaper.
The agenda-pushing source is important.
KANJWANI, Pakistan - Pakistan is a nation of unabashed sugarholics, who heap the crystals in their tea and devour cakes at special occasions. Sugar may be far less important to the national diet than wheat or cooking oil, but it looms much larger in the national psyche....
Pffft!
Here I am, sitting in a nation that has a diabetic and obesity (so I'm told) crisis on our hands and the WaPo begins with an insult to Pakistanis!
Fields of tall green cane line the roads, and flatbed trucks piled with ripe stalks head for a modern mill that steadily crushes tons of cane into refined white crystals.
But 200 miles north, in the crowded city of Rawalpindi, the frustration of people waiting in long lines for emergency sugar rations often erupts into tirades against the government, the hoarders, the black marketeers, and especially the wealthy families that dominate Pakistan’s lucrative sugar industry....
It is the SAME in EVERY COUNTRY in the WORLD!
The WEALTHY ELITE of ANY NATION DOMINATE its INTERNAL ECONOMIES!
Thus the Pakistanis get PRICE GOUGING and PROFITEERING (along with electricity blackouts on a daily basis; I read that once in a newspaper and never saw it again).
Half a century ago, a sugar shortage helped bring down Pakistan’s military regime. For the past four months, a similar shortage has led to skyrocketing prices and empty market shelves, sending consumers and officials into a panic.
Oh, then THIS is a SERIOUS THREAT to the WHOLE POWER STRUCTURE!
I'll bet the SUGAR FIX trumps "terrorism" any day!! Ever see an addict freaking?
Yeah, GET 'EM a TWINKIE, government -- right now!!!
The protracted drama has been marked by riots and protests, arrests and raids, accusations of price-fixing and hoarding, rationed distribution in cities, and direct intervention by the Supreme Court.
First I'm reading of it in my AmeriKan MSM paper -- and probably the last!
The owners of Pakistan’s 82 sugar mills have been the main targets of public wrath and official intervention. Critics and consumer activists charge that they have conspired to fix prices and hoard sugar stocks.
Aaaaaaaah, that never happens in business!!!
First thing I think of: OIL!!!
Supply goes up.... and so does PRICE!
“Rarely, even in the rancid annals of Pakistan’s politics, has there been such a display of rampant and shameless self-interest,’’ scolded the News International newspaper in an editorial. It said mill owners are “fleecing the pockets of the poor.’’
Oh, YOU GUYS have that, too, Pakistanis?
Oh, we are SO MUCH ALIKE -- including the sugar weakness!!!!!
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The government moved tardily to defuse the crisis. Last month it imported 700,000 tons of sugar for distribution to more than 5,700 state utility stores. Consumers were finally able to buy sugar at a subsidized price - even though it often ran out and private shops continued to charge almost double. The mill owners went on the counterattack. In news releases and TV interviews, they denied behaving like a cartel and accused the government of exacerbating the sugar crisis.
Pick your industry, any industry. They ALL DO IT EVERYWHERE!!!!
The group said officials ignored its early warnings of a cane crop shortfall, then overreacted and intervened in arbitrary ways that worsened the problem. “The media calls us a cartel, but it is all garbage,’’ said Haroon Akhtar Khan, a senator who is managing director of Tandlianwala Sugar Mills.
Well, then....
He described the business as a series of complex price- and time-sensitive negotiations with growers, traders, bankers, and officials....
So do you want to believe a liar or a scum, readers?
Btw, whose who? They both share the same qualities!
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