Mìdéast unrest: About Hunger, Jobs and inflation·

[vl]

Mother Earth Magazine had a terrific article recently on Big Farm. Says the food they grow does a poor job of feeding us what we need.
There are 15+ MILLION unemployed people in America and EVERY CITY reels from revenue shortfalls, home values crashing and a lack of indigenous manufacturing that actually makes stuff we need.
Revising city plans to accommodate people-feeding self-sustaining Glass Roof Farms is a no-brainer. Our own regular waste and trash converts to dirt fuel, our own waste gray water could be used, solar... water... wind... all forms of alternative energy used in conjunction and modified to mass-consumer use.
WHY ARE WE NOT DOING IT? New World Order. If the money can't manipulate it, it doesn't happen. Egypt. Yemen. Greece. France. Iceland. If cash doesn't circulate, it isn't currency. If there is no currency, we don't recognize wealth. No wealth, no need for a Wealth Class. Eliminate the Wealth Class and build Glass Roof Farms throughout America.

If you can't tell already, I get economic claustrophobia. Bernanke answered questions today. Try this one Ben...

We're tapped out on stimulus money and failed to stimulate anything. Wouldn't the wisest next move be-- to liquidate you and your group of banksters and re-use the absconded stimuli to actually... you know... stimulate the correct things?

[bubblyandblue]

Sorry, got called away for a moment. To continue:
Two parts of a global commodity glut are - 1) identify counties with valuable commodity and access it 2) create conditions on which to bring target commodity out of country and into global market cheaply.
By setting up a dependancy of a country on a basic commodity, such as food or water - by causing prices of their imports to be lower than their cost of production you essentialy create debt within the target countries borders (see USA and virtualy any other country). That country then must raise wealth production to keep it's citizens alive. This encourages the dumping of the countries target commodities on the open market. Oil can be seen as a target commodity and therefore, the international control of this commodity is more easily obtained in financialy dependent countries through law, politics and, most easily in a dictatorship or other suppressive form - possibly a financial superpower or those controling, with some degree, the use of money. This government or corporation can more easily seperate the citizens from the coutry's natural wealth and impose lowered wealth and protections in exchange for life's neccesities. I think some aspects of this relationship are being felt in the USA. It is when the leveraging of these dynamics becomes more global that stability in basic food production and price stability become more criticaly unstable and, a smaller nudge by nature can topple things fairly quickly. From memory only, I think the CIA playbook pretty well demonstrates this leverage play as a way to game the global village to it's advantage. Unfourtunatly, their disipline has been out done by the finacial sector and private corporations.

[bubblyandblue]

So, in many ways, the intersection of communications and opressior's long time, imposed divorce between the citizens and their counties shared wealth, have come to a head. The mask has been revealed and, unrest follows. With natures changing attitudes, mobility in the production of food will be more critical and in opposition to the current, financialy driven, curtailment of food production mobility.
Anyway, enough of my rantings and speculations.

[bubblyandblue]

I guess it's the reason so many dictators, kings and despots have always tried to control communications - communications are a very powerfull means of control.

[midwesterner (banned)]

Global food prices hit record high

english.aljazeera.net/news/2011/02/20112442413591195.html

World food prices have hit their highest level on record in January, the United Nations has said.

It said on Thursday that its Food and Agriculture Organisation Food Price Index rose for the seventh month in a row to reach 231, topping the peak of 224.1 last seen in June 2008.

It is the highest level the index has reached since records began in 1990.

"The new figures clearly show that the upward pressure on world food prices is not abating. These high prices are likely to persist in the months to come," said Abdolreza Abbassian, an economist for FAO, which is based in Rome.

Rising food prices have been cited among the driving forces behind the recent popular revolts in north Africa, including the uprising in Egypt and the toppling of Tunisia's long-time president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

Among them is Algeria, wary after food riots in early January. It has made huge wheat purchases to avoid shortages, and on Thursday it announced plans to lift a 19-year-old state of emergency in a bid to to avert spreading protests.

"Even if the crisis in Egypt eases soon, the actions taken by governments elsewhere to prevent similar uprisings in their own countries will add to the upward pressure on global agricultural commodity prices."

The problem is set to worsen after a massive snowstorm in the United States and floods in Australia. And economists warned that chaos in Egypt could push prices up further and foment more unrest in the region.

"This could mean a slowing down of growth in the countries which raise their interest rates," he said.

Josette Sheeran, the UN World Food Programme's executive director said that the world is now in an era where it has to be very serious about food supply.

"If people don't have enough to eat they only have three options: they can revolt, they can migrate or they can die. We need a better action plan," she said.

So as we can see, many here that disbelieve there are serious inflation problems, the news agencies are reporting otherwise. This trend will continue based on various factors, revolutions taking place, bidding up prices of oil and commodities on real supply issues from weather, and civil unrest, to just speculation of rising costs, inflation from QE and other nations printing money, and various weather conditions across the globe causing disruption in food supplies and crop yields.

[itstippy]

Egypt's unrest goes beyond the human urge to eat. It also involves the urge for sex. Seriously.

Egyptian society does not treat dating and sex among young people nearly as casually as Western societies do, or third-world places like Africa and South America. Premarital sex is very taboo, especially for young women.

Time and again we hear young male Egyptian protesters complain (loudly!) that they cannot earn enough money to get married. If they're not good marriage prospects they cannot even get dates in Egypt, much less have sex. They young women are expected to remain virgins until marriage. They can't find suitable men to marry, for purely economic reasons.

The median age of the entire population of Egypt is 24. The median age of marriage in Egypt is 25. Egyptian society is telling 1/2 of their population that they cannot marry and have sex, and the other half that they will not have grand kids.

Sex is a big motivator. I was young once; I remember the hormones well. I don't see this discussed in the press, but think about it. Something must change. Either the young folk in Egypt are able to make enough money to get married, or Egyptian society relaxes the mores on premarital sex, or all Hell breaks loose. That's my take, anyway.