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- The price of wheat, corn and soybeans surged in the United States and around the world by 8% this year.
- A global surge in food prices is causing havoc across the developing world, and thousands of poor people are caught in a widening arc of hunger stretching from Egypt to Cameroon, to Zimbabwe.”
- Rice prices surged 50% worldwide for the year causing food riots in Egypt, Cameroon, Indonesia and other countries.
- “According to Rising Food Prices: Policy Options and World Bank Response, increases in global wheat prices reached 181 percent over the 36 months leading up to February 2008, and overall global food prices increased by 83 percent”.
- “Wheat prices (US$) have increased by 200 percent, and overall food prices (US$) have risen by 75 percent since the turn of the century.”
Yup, it looks like Dubya, Inc’s global chaos strategy to level the playing field is working.
“Price hikes in food have already sparked riots in several African capitals, rattling treasuries, and stoking unprecedented Malthusian scares.” Of course that is academic. It can't happen here. But one might wonder at the inflation figures being fed to the Average American.
" Of course that is academic. It can't happen here."
Oh I don't know about that. George W. Bush has happend here. I would have said that could not have happened here.
Impeach Bush and Cheney, and then start war crimes procedeedings against them and their fascist proceedings at the hague.
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