Posted on 02/01/2011 3:47:53 AM PST by Daisyjane69
Commodities traders have warned they are seeing the first signs of panic buying from states concerned about the political implications of rising prices for staple crops.
However, the tactic risks simply further pushing up prices, analysts have warned, pushing a spiral of food inflation.
Governments in Asia, the Middle East and North Africa have recently made large food purchases on the open market in the wake of unrest in Tunisia which deposed president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali.
Resentment at food shortages and high prices, as well as repression and corruption, drove the popular uprising which swept away his government.
Youths reportedly chanted "bring us sugar!" in the demonstrations which toppled his regime.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Let them eat cake.
Ben B is only following a blueprint put together by the globalists/elitists. This is their final push for global control.
If this is true it will make the food shortage even worse. Its kinda’ like the time Johnny Carson joked about there being a shortage of toilet paper...everyone went out and bought toilet paper and some stores stocked out of toilet paper.
Let them eat ethanol
Pingerooni, ladybug.
My wife went to W-M yesterday and said she noticed some empty shelves. Probably in anticipation of the 24 inches of snow that is called for starting today around noon.
This is my concern. Food prices are going up, so to combat it the administration passes a bill which makes it pretty much a crime to grow your own food.
And the media didn’t see Anything wrong withnthis? My kid put 2 and 2 together.
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