Posted on 02/19/2011 6:13:52 AM PST by HangnJudge
Forget stocks, the real crisis is coming and its coming fast.
Indeed, it first hit in 2008 though it was almost entirely off the radar of the American public. While all eyes were glued to the carnage in the stock market and brokerage account balances, a far more serious crisis began to unfold rocking 30 countries around the globe.
Im talking about food shortages.
Aside from a few rice shortages that were induced by export restrictions in Asia, food received little or no coverage from the financial media in 2008. Yet, food shortages started riots in over 30 countries worldwide. In Egypt people were actually stabbing each other while standing in line for bread. Were now seeing the second round of this disaster occurring in Egypt and other Arab countries today. Thanks to the Feds funny money policies, food prices have hit records. And even the Feds phony measures show that vegetable prices are up 13%! The developed world, most notably the US, has been relatively immune to these developments
so far. But for much of the developing world, in which food and basic expenses consumer 50% of incomes, any rise in food prices can have catastrophic consequences. And thats not to say that food shortages cant hit the developed world either. According to Mark McLoran of Agro-Terra, the Earths population is currently growing by 70-80 million people per year. Between 2000 and 2012, the earths population will jump from six billion to seven billion. Were expected to add another billion people by 2024. So demanding for food is growing
and its growing fast.
(Excerpt) Read more at zerohedge.com ...
I bought mine at a farm auction. It was a kit that the elderly couple never put up. The frame is very heavy aluminum. Now, I use old windows I’ve dumpster dived for to have a cold frame. (old houses have big windows)
My friend built a greenhouse from old windows and it’s very ecclectic. Alot of imagination went into that structure.
Be vewy quiet...I'm hunting wabbits!
No need to "divert" it. Last time I talked to my corn-farming relations, they said >80 of the biomass of Corn used in ethanol production ends up as feed (the big golden pile in the photo below)... and food.
So there's not as much divertable over-production as your post might lead one to believe.
Furthermore, they know these production levels aren't long-term sustainable. Got Water and Fertilizer?
We're one good drought away from TSHTF. Let alone one like that which created the Nebraska Sand Hills...
Ok
Had to look that one up
The last estimate was 95.55%
http://tshtf.com/
When was the last time you saw a spinning wheel?
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Last time I was over at my neighbor’s house.
There are lots of books on my shelf from when I taught myself to build a cabin from scratch (w/o benefit of electric tools, electricity, running water, or phones) 25 miles from the nearest paved road... and live off the land for 7 years.
Look for old steel tools — they do not rust.
“I disagree. You have weapons to PROTECT that which you have.
If you think you can just march in and take what you want because you have a pistol, it could be a tragic mistake if your “victim” has a defend-able position, training, and superior firepower.
In fact it would be your last mistake.”
But what if you don’t have enough, which is the position of many countries...I was not writing about this on an “individual” level. OTOH, we have enough nuclear weapons to wipe out the planet, but we can’t stop a flood of illegal aliens from entering the country.
However, if you joined the Managed Forest program, you are mandated to thin out trash trees, like aspen, but you will be stonewalled if you want to harvest hardwoods, like maple.
Our forester told us she is not even going out to look at Managed Forest land. She is part-time and is told to stay in the office working up *plans*. The gratuitous comment that followed was:”You just want the economic benefit of harvesting the maples.” Cue snarky disgust in her voice.
Our contract ends in 2014, but the increase in property taxes might mean we re-up in the MFL program.
You can’t. It is the young farmers with enormous loans who are going broke and out of business. The older guys with equity are hanging in there, but the stress of the banker meetings and loan presentations is showing.
Non-farmers don’t understand that the price of diesel and fertilizer is killing good-sized family farms with generations of experience and infrastructure. I know some young farmers who are managing, but the irony is that their kids are all eligible for free-lunch and they could qualify for food stamps. They don’t need to, as one brother has an egg operation and the other raises hogs while the ones I know are dairy farmers, so they trade between themselves and survive. Still, they have 3 kids under 13 and when I see her grocery cart (it’s Walmart, so she has more than food in the basket), I cringe because it must add up to over $200/shopping trip.
Then, when folks think about selling out and finding something else to do, they look at the capital gains tax and there is no percentage.
We may not have been saving money, but Americans have, alas, been saving calories. We are as well prepared and plumped for a famine as any people in history. For all the liberal whining about “hunger” in this country, obesity is a much more common problem than starvation.
I've been attracted to nickels lately due to the rising price of copper and the fact that they will never be less than what I paid for them (5 cents)...unlike bullion and other things.
Hey...
I resemble that remark
Alas, so do I.
Some of them have said as much. The ZPG groups, those like our esteemed 'science czar' Eric Holdren who think that reducing the worlds population by 90% is a desirable goal and then there's the Voluntary Human Extinction movement. All real. all true.
I've always felt that we should help them out. Them first.
Cannibalism might get a new slogan
Man - the Other White Meat
Keep your powder dry
Biblical? Think how much fun it'll be to have Obama and team in charge of handing out ration stamps...
With zero held by government - isn't this low 'private stocks' number a recipe for panic?
Thanks - never would have checked it without your comment.
Thanks - never would have checked it without your comment.
She still washed her tin foil at 85, for reuse.
You just brought a tear to my eye, as I recall my late father carefully flattening the “silvah paypah”, as he called it, with his thick Boston accent, for later re-use.
And, there was always an empty concentrated orange juice can next to the sink, where my parents would pour bacon grease and other oils. This was never used. I don’t know what they did with it.
In any case, my parents were both Depression Era children, and they passed along a lot of warnings which, I guess, only I, took to heart.
Hard-Times are coming. Be Prepared. And remember the lessons your parents taught you...
Thanks for sharing
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