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(Washington Post) Interesting Riots against greedy sugar monopoly may bring down Pakistan's government. Again   (washingtonpost.com) divider line 38
More: Interesting, Pakistan, self interests, chief justices, Pakistan Sugar Mills Association, suicide bombers, cartels, Islamabad, Muhammad said  
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bronyaur1 [TotalFark] 2009-11-29 11:30:06 AM  

 
kronicfeld [TotalFark] 2009-11-29 11:49:05 AM  
In Pakistan, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women...

 
Weaver95 [TotalFark] 2009-11-29 12:06:08 PM  
now would be a great time to confiscate the heroin crop in afghanistan, and dump it into pakistan.

oh yeah...we gots yer sugar riiiiiight here baby!

 
koniver 2009-11-29 01:57:15 PM  
Disco Stu got hooked on the white stuff back in the seventies.

\The sugar baron is pleased

 
Elektrohed 2009-11-29 01:57:23 PM  
www.diet-blog.com

The sugar industry: full of good ideas!

 
Seth'n'Spectrum 2009-11-29 01:57:59 PM  
Time to set up an artificial insulin factory in Karachi, so it seems.

/anyone hear about the break-in at the Karachi national library?
//They stole the book.
///Indian joke.

 
eraser8 [TotalFark] 2009-11-29 02:01:10 PM  
kronicfeld: In Pakistan, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women...

Thread over.

I think we're done here.

 
ShamWowofDamocles 2009-11-29 02:03:58 PM  
I hope they are all keistering their personal stash.

 
JasonOfOrillia 2009-11-29 02:04:20 PM  
Well, sugar is easier to control than salt. And less critical.

 
Funk Brothers 2009-11-29 02:04:23 PM  
Well they need to capture several military installations controlled by Coloniel Sanders.

 
dlewis6 2009-11-29 02:06:43 PM  
I think I'm putting this at fourth dumbest thing I've ever heard. I read comments on Fark, so that's gotta take up first through third.

 
Fano 2009-11-29 02:11:33 PM  
kronicfeld: In Pakistan, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women...

*shakes fist*

 
CliChe Guevara 2009-11-29 02:31:26 PM  
dlewis6: I think I'm putting this at fourth dumbest thing I've ever heard. I read comments on Fark, so that's gotta take up first through third.

We think of sugar as just junk food. In some countries it is a major necessary source of energy in peoples otherwise very energy-poor diets, and a huge economic force.
It isn't like they are rioting 'cause they won't get twinkies. It is actually a pretty big deal.

 
TheManofPA 2009-11-29 02:37:36 PM  
kronicfeld: In Pakistan, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women...

I looked away for one minute and this Englishman got in here and stole my line.

 
006andahalf 2009-11-29 02:38:13 PM  
A major influencing factor in the February 1917 revolution in Russia was the banning of vodka, so I could totally see this having a bit of traction. The Economist this week has a piece on it, but I haven't gotten around to reading it.

Collusion among influential figures? In Pakistan? Against the national good? naaaah.

 
JimmyCarter'sSecondTerm 2009-11-29 02:44:54 PM  
The sugar industry can DIAF.

 
Young Rory Calhoun 2009-11-29 02:48:12 PM  
kronicfeld: In Pakistan, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women...

But they sell sugar at the grocery store for fifty cents a pound and it doesn't have broken glass in it.

 
simpsonfan 2009-11-29 02:57:22 PM  
Meh, you don't need sugar when you have steamed limes for dessert.

 
zulius 2009-11-29 03:01:34 PM  
www.theage.com.au
/Wanted for Questioning
//Dumb show...

 
Oznog [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-11-29 03:07:00 PM  
farm3.static.flickr.com

I'm about to take down the government over high fructose corn syrup being used instead of cane sugar.

WHO'S WITH ME??

 
npt [TotalFark] 2009-11-29 03:17:07 PM  
Why don't those dumb asses just grow corn and subsidize it like we do?

It works way better than that silly 'sugar' stuff.

 
Oznog [recently expired TotalFark] 2009-11-29 03:31:55 PM  
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They forced us to work in their sugar mines...

Cast off our insect overlords!!

 
Leeds 2009-11-29 03:37:01 PM  
And I'd do it again

i40.tinypic.com


// hot

 
acohn 2009-11-29 03:37:55 PM  
1. Import Stevia/Splenda.
2. Profit!

 
RepoManTSM 2009-11-29 04:50:03 PM  
Came for Simpsons references to forgot about how Pakistan is a borderline failed state with nuclear weapons and Taliban insurgents.

 
HAHA!_You_cannot_kill_a_Hindu! 2009-11-29 06:57:09 PM  
Done in 2.

 
Klom Dark 2009-11-29 07:14:19 PM  
llabmik.net:8081

LOL, WUT... DA HELL IS THAT?

 
Gyrfalcon 2009-11-29 09:21:02 PM  
Sooo....part of Obama's Afghanistan strategy is to overthrow Pakistan while they're sugar jonesing and use it as a base?

Clever, that.

 
Fano 2009-11-29 09:40:09 PM  
Gyrfalcon: Sooo....part of Obama's Afghanistan strategy is to overthrow Pakistan while they're sugar jonesing and use it as a base?

Clever, that.


Barack plays the long game.

 
LargeCanine 2009-11-29 09:48:10 PM  
Wish we'd riot against our sugar monopoly.

 
Torhathel [TotalFark] 2009-11-29 11:02:11 PM  
"Without sugar, my children will be crying when I get home."

Tell the little bastards to go eat something nutritious.

 
cmn85 2009-11-29 11:15:25 PM  
anyone else notice the article said "rancid annals of Pakistan's politics"?

I think rancid annals describes it well...

 
GomezAdams 2009-11-29 11:28:58 PM  
Joe Kennedy scoffs, 'Amateurs".

 
CliChe Guevara 2009-11-29 11:29:41 PM  
Torhathel: "Without sugar, my children will be crying when I get home."

Tell the little bastards to go eat something nutritious.


They don't eat the nutritionally stripped white granule crap we do.

Raw cane juice provides one of the primary freaking sources of the carbs in their pretty weak diets. Also potassium and calcium among other things.
Don't eat it = get sick &/or die. You'd be crying too.

 
theredsea1 2009-11-30 12:38:21 AM  
I got this image in my head of these two big bullies beating down a muslim kid on a playground. The bullies have a star of david and a us flag on their t-shirts. Then kid on the ground is wearing an "i ran" t-shirt. Then the two bullies turn around as this little girl in a cute dress holds up a gun and blows the two bullies away.

The caption reads, "Oops, we got the wrong guy!"

 
theredsea1 2009-11-30 12:39:44 AM  
It is assumed that the little girl is Pakistan.

Islam, coups and nukes don't mix very well.

 
carver 2009-11-30 01:07:23 AM  
www.boingboing.net

sugar = death?

 
Repent harlequin 2009-11-30 01:40:38 PM  
carver

death sugar...om nom nom.

 
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