by Nate Bear Starvation is taking hold in Gaza. Twenty-nine people have starved to death in the last few days. Death by starvation is horrific, the body feeding on itself, first consuming carbohydrates and fats, and then moving on to the protein parts of tissue. Once these are used up, vital organs and tissues start to fail as they aren’t being nourished by essential nutrients. The heart, lungs, muscles, ovaries, testes and brain physically shrink and shrivel. The kidneys start to fail. Eventually the body begins scavenging muscle, including the heart muscle. When this starts to happen, death is hours away, preceded by hallucinations, severe mental disturbances and convulsions. With less stored fat and higher metabolic needs, children die first. Starving parents hold their dying children, at this point nothing but skin and bone, in their arms. Adults can survive anywhere between twenty and forty days without food. Those already weak, chronically ill or immuno-compromised di...
I doubt it very much. I rather believe that some firms as Goldman Sachs are and were the leaders and that the financial melt down has just made then even stronger with respect to their influence on governments. They are very likely now in a position were they can exploit the fragile state of its competition to use it to their advantage.
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