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leftyladyfrommo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 05:39 PM Original message |
The North Koreans are all starving - again. And the Repubs |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 05:41 PM Response to Original message |
1. Everybody knows this, but what are the options? |
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leftyladyfrommo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 05:55 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. I don't think we are doing anything. |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Exactly. The options are limited. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. The people who make it to the South have to go through reconditioning, because the society is so... |
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leftyladyfrommo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:15 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. At least S. Korea provides them money to start over. |
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Bloke 32 (201 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:12 PM Response to Reply #2 |
19. Doing nothing is the correct policy |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:22 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. Seems like the UN ought to intercede with China taking a lead roll. |
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RZM (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:29 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. I don't know |
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Old and In the Way (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:47 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Certainly no good solution. |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:35 PM Response to Reply #1 |
23. Find a way of sending them oil at below market prices. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:42 PM Response to Reply #23 |
25. 14% arable land should be enough, with a coal gasification + biofuel program, imo. |
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RC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 08:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. Cut down all the trees. Yeah, that will help them in the long run. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 08:16 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. Yes, food self-sufficiency is a good thing. |
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jmowreader (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 08:58 PM Response to Reply #25 |
32. Slash-and-burn agriculture is the norm there |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 05:58 PM Response to Original message |
3. We should immediately invade them.... |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. You're joking, right? |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
16. Absolutely not (did you read more than my subject line?). |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:15 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. Well congratulations on hatching a really terrible idea. |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:22 PM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Food and medicine are bad ideas? |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:36 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Invading is a bad idea, and thinking you can just go around invading and throwing food around... |
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Scuba (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 08:28 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. OK, agreed. I did NOT mean a military invasion.... |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 11:14 PM Response to Reply #30 |
36. Why don't you give it a shot? |
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leftstreet (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
14. Occupy North Korea! |
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JVS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:16 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Remember that bombs are really freedom seeds. |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:06 PM Response to Reply #3 |
18. N. Korea is invasion-proof, they made sure of that. Seoul would be leveled in an hour. |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:07 PM Response to Original message |
6. They can't even spend enough on the military |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 08:58 PM Response to Reply #6 |
31. That's what I've said for a long time |
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leftyladyfrommo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:13 PM Response to Original message |
8. There are 22 million people caught in that nightmare. |
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Faygo Kid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:16 PM Response to Original message |
10. "Repubs response is that this will happen under Obama" - link? |
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leftyladyfrommo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. There has been a news story out for the last couple of days |
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demosincebirth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
17. N. Korea doesn't have oil... on second thought, neither did Uganda. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
26. Just re-read an old Yes magazine article on adapting to peak oil |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 08:18 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. Cuba dropped the cash crops and started growing locally, but then Venezuela came along. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 10:32 PM Response to Reply #29 |
33. Both countries are at least nominally Communist |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 11:59 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Without Venezuela Cuba would be in very bad shape right now. |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 03:22 AM Response to Reply #37 |
40. That does not change the fact that Cuba is now on a completely sustainable |
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GreenStormCloud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
34. Where are the NK apologists to post pictures of smiling N. Koreans... |
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joshcryer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 12:03 AM Response to Reply #34 |
38. Heh |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-08-11 11:04 PM Response to Original message |
35. k&r we shouldn't let any nation starve |
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thelordofhell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Oct-09-11 12:24 AM Response to Reply #35 |
39. Including ours |
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