Posted on 07/17/2010 1:00:51 AM PDT by bruinbirdman
Uh-oh. The terrorists have control of the entire strategic cocoa supply!
There's no chocolate manufacturer in the world that could or would do that, or it would have been done in the past. It's especially unusual in the depths of the biggest recession in 80 years.
Something else, something new, is afoot. I wonder if some drug maker has discovered proof of a really important new medication that is refined from cacao. Imagine if this is the secret ingredient for a silver bullet drug for cancer, AIDS, malaria, or hepatitis C? The profits from candy bars would be trifling by comparison.
Depends if you are a manufacturer or not. If you are a manufacturer, it becomes a necessity just to keep you in the business.
Wow, only took 4 posts until everyone’s favorite bogyeman was mentioned. So predictable.
€1B? It's code for EIB. Rush Limbaugh bought it all.
It was a question not a joke. He did short silver and nearly crush Britain. He has heavily invested in Petrobras not long before 0bammy loaned them $2 billion dollars. He has also played similar games with currencies as well. If it’s predictable it’s because he is predictable. Like the carping of little minds on FR. lol
Ivory Coast Arrests 3 Journalists Over Cocoa Story
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Thank you. It seems reasonable to me.
Michelle Obama is behind this.
Can’t have us eating our favorite junk food.
Thanks for the ping. Someone’s going cuckoo for cocoa puffs.
Ivory Coast Arrests 3 Journalists Over Cocoa Story
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2554443/posts
I was ready to ping you myself, seeing if we could get some “prints.”
LOL
;)
or Quantum
Bosco!
Someone is trying to corner the women’s vote.
"To me, this makes no sense."
Only because your stomach is full and you are used to prosperity. Per cubic inch, chocolate is one of the most portable sources that can sustain you when nothing else is available. The person (if it is indeed a person) who bought this supply may be anticipating war and disruptions that we have not seen for almost a century.
This is quite reasonable. The beginning of the XIX century saw Napoleonic Wars and the beginning of the XX century saw WW I. We are ready for yet another major redefinition of the world. The suicidal tendencies of the West --- abandonment of the Judeo-Christian value system, embrace of socialism, defeatist immigration policies, etc. --- cannot end in any other way.
The buyer is likely to make a lot of money.
He can't cut them; he picks our cocoa beans with them.
. . .you gonna finish that Hershey bar?
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