Garnaut: spend billions! Why? So they don’t say nasty things about us. « JoNova

That’s right, the prof of economics has studied it all, crunched the numbers, been paid a stack, and it boils down to “tut-tut-tut, nobody will like you if you don’t do what I say”. (Well, actually it is just foreign “intellectuals”that won’t like you — shucks!)

Garnaut the schoolyard prefect is telling us off.

Brazilian harvest bottleneck

Following a delayed planting season, cold weather delayed the 2011 crop’s maturity, which has been followed by heavy February rainfalls.