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Global Food Riots

on 5/6/2008 6:49:25 PM

A time of great change is upon us. In the last few weeks there were riots in the streets of Egypt, Somalia, Haiti, Morocco, Madagascar, Thailand and Mauritania. And this is just the beginning. Here in Canada, Filipinos are buying up rice and […]

Government Regulation is Necessary

on 5/2/2008 6:17:53 PM

Many folks like to harp against the evils of big government and how all it does is create a stumbling block for industrious private business with endless reams of red tape, taxes and laws. In some regards, these complaints are entirely valid. But […]

There is No Oil Shortage

Then Why are We Paying So Much???

on 4/30/2008 1:34:48 PM

There is indeed no oil shortage, nor is there a food shortage. Global demand for both food and energy has been regularly outpaced by the supply but prices on both commodities have skyrocketed. Despite political rhetoric about […]

When Will Iraq's Tet Offensive Begin?

on 4/8/2008 1:57:59 PM

Is the Surge really working? Although I am an unabashed liberal, I would like to ask the fine folks here to consider this article without political bias. I could care less whether a republican or democratic president was responsible for giving the order […]

Couldn't Have Said it Better Myself

on 4/15/2008 4:06:26 PM

Excerpt from an article on the current state of the Union- http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/14046 “By virtually any measure, the United States is the least progressive nation in the developed world. It trails most of Western Europe in poverty […]

Companies will always fight tooth and nail

We are not talking companies, we are talking individuals. Hence the reason I said communities not nations.

in Global Food Riots on 5/7/2008 12:51:16 PM

Don't you think this will happen by default?

No, nor has it ever been the case as long as there is trade among communities (note not even nations).

in Global Food Riots on 5/7/2008 11:56:49 AM

If we were to change how we do business and ban speculation on staple foods in the market and encourage more localized production of food instead of the globalized lie (would also cut down considerably on fuel costs for transportation if more folks ate food that came within 100 miles of where they lived)

Don't you think this will happen by default?

If people are rioting, they will eventually make it to these huge tracts of land that produce food for the globe....and mob rules. Look at Africa.

I wouldn't want to do business in a country where my plantation was being over run by hungry locals. It wouldn't be profitable, and might be deadly.

in Global Food Riots on 5/7/2008 11:04:06 AM

I will read the rest of this after I finish eating my cake.

in Global Food Riots on 5/7/2008 9:01:10 AM

I can see war starting over this, and I don't mean the revolutionary type. China, by sheer numbers, could decide...hey, we need more food but don't have the ability to produce it...so we are gonna take some land (by invasion) and before you know it...WW3.

I'd be keeping my eyes on countries who are not democratic, and are suffering. They have the biggest chance of raising up a leader who will war for land.

Interesting stuff.

in Global Food Riots on 5/6/2008 10:00:31 PM