On Thu, 3 Apr 2008 08:30:08 -0500, "David Courtney"
wrote:
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Food is as cheap as it's ever been in the history of man. An hour of
work feeds the four of us for a day or two; which is ridiculous when you
stop and think about it.
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I have already posted several links about the big upsurge in food
stamp usage and increases in demand on the "community pantries"
within the US.

You may wish to review
http://www.archive.org/download/link...02_1_5Mbps.mp4
which details the problems the speculation in food commodities is
causing outside the US. We are stepping on our lolly big time in
the geo-political/economic sense as these rapidly increasing food
prices are destabilizing not only much of the Mid-East and Africa
but also significant parts of Latin America, e.g. Chile. These
areas either supply or abut areas that supply the US with not
only petroleum, but also other strategic materials such as
chrome, nickel, and platinum. While the elite in the actual
petroleum producing countries such as Saudi or Dubai may not be
affected, the less affluent most definitely are, and telling them
to eat cake will not be any better received this time around.

If you need a mp4 viewer you can download one for free he
http://www.getmiro.com/

With a nod to John Carroll -- we just added a few more inches to
the snowpack...


Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).