[Kevmo]

intriguing

thanks for posting this

[null and void]

A ping in hopes that you still lurk...

[Grimmy]

Huh.

Never thought of this as a trigger.

[nvscanman]

Few things will trigger people who otherwise are docile
to turn violent than the pangs of hunger.....unless it is
the look of hunger in the eyes of their children.

[Impy]

Is the US next?

[IChing]

Ping

[Varsity Flight]

Rev. 6:6

[steve86]

I’ve seen this before — it could be a spurious correlation, not causation, of course. Lots of other factors rising or falling at the same time as food prices.

[Gene Eric]

Anything that disrupts supplying the necessities is a catalyst.

[LibWhacker]

So, if correct, China, Russia, Arabia, N. Korea, Cuba, etc. — all hostile third world countries that are historically susceptible to this kind of unrest anyway, and that have been conspiring to weaken and destabilize us for decades — have only to experience a spike in domestic food prices and tyrants’ heads begin rolling around like someone just smashed the gum ball machine?

This is easy. Not a lot of troops needed. It’s not rocket science. So why are we sending them food aid? And as for sabotaging their food production... You kidding me? You hardly have to lift your pinky and N. Korea goes down. Our opponent in this battle is half a dozen one-legged men in a dark alley. True, nothing’s going to happen while the Kenyan’s president. But he’s not going to be president forever.

[FreedomPoster]

A real Hari Seldon?

[FreedomPoster]

I’d love to see some analysis of the effect of ethanol requirements in gasoline (a hidden corn subsidy) on food prices linked to this.

[spokeshave]

Read and weep: http://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/20130911_OurCoolingClimateCapitolHill16thSeptember2013.pdf

and: “The official view in Norway is in contrast to what the people experience because of cooling weather: Late spring gives flooding and avalanches when late snow-melting in the mountains. Water pipes freeze because of early and deep frost in the winter. Insect populations down 40% in 5 years because of cool and wet summers. This of cause is bad for pollination of fruit and berries. The grain harvest in Norway this summer is down 18% from average the last 5 years, despite increase in area and better seeds. But officially it is getting warmer.”

Norway is not known as a major wheat producer...but it's production is in decline because of colder weather

[P.O.E.]

Just another thing the elite politicians exempt themselves from - we pay for their food, so who cares what it costs?

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

"Everything now is very sensitive to what will happen with the ethanol mandate," Bar-Yam tells me.

If we continue to burn the food, the cities will follow.

[CodeToad]

I don’t think food prices are the cause, just the effect. That doesn’t mean watching food prices isn’t helpful, they are, it just means we need to look at the triggers of rising food prices.