Rice production at record lows

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All three elements of the chaos trifecta are now rearing their ugly heads on a global scale. Environmental, social and economic collapse. We’re seeing major climate disruptions (drought) leading to food shortages, increasing frequency and magnitude of natural disasters, food riots, social protest, financial crisis rapidly expanding around the world along with wars and numerous threats of wars.

Along with wheats shortages we also have rice.

standeyo.com/NEWS/08_Food_Water/080309.signs.hoading.html

Already We Have Riots, Hoarding, Panic: the Sign of Things

The spectre of food shortages is casting a shadow across the globe, causing riots in Africa, consumer protests in Europe and panic in food-importing countries. In a world of increasing affluence, the hoarding of rice and wheat has begun......

“This is a wake-up call,” said Robert Zeigler, who heads the International Rice Research Institute. “We have a crisis brewing in rice supply.” Half of the planet depends on rice but stocks are at their lowest since the mid1970s when Bangladesh suffered a terrible famine. Rice production will fall this year below the global consumption level of 430 million tonnes....

Wheat is suffering even greater pressures, with prices up 115 per cent in a year. A succession of droughts in Australia has put upward pressure on the cost of a food commodity that is already in short supply. Stocks are at a 40-year low and exports are being restricted from Beijing to Buenos Aires. Ukraine started closing its door to grain exports in June and Russia set a 40 per cent export tariff on wheat in January.

[Mech]

No Draught up here whatsoever.

The rivers up here overflowed their banks for the last 2 days.

I will say this.


SHORTAGE = CONTROL

ABUNDANCE = FREEDOM


The elites are Consolidating and making their final moves.

I think they are heading for THEIR OWN deaths personally.

Many on the inside know it as well.

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Precipitation seems to be accumulating in certain areas while becoming sparse in many other larger areas. This spells disaster for crop production and we’re now experiencing the impact. Right now China is wishing that they hadn’t been so irresponsible with their water supplies. The water in Iraq has been making our troops sick. If we want to protect ourselves from supply/demand based control we need to preserve those resources that we need to survive. Not contaminate them. By doing so we do the NWO’s job for them.

[Mech]

Nature has her cycles.

Lets not forget NATURE has a much greater influence than man ever will.

There are WET Cycles just as there are DRY Cycles.

the early 80s saw a draught up here in Mass.

It didnt last.

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There may be cycles but no other previous cycle in history has ever ran its course in conjunction with an industrial age and all of its consequences both intended and not. There’s no historical comparison or statistics to gauge the combined effects. Natural cycles do not produce industrial waste. We didn't have smog thousands of years ago. Drought conditions are worsened by man-made pollutants and by-products in the remaining water supplies. The question is simple, if you happen to live an in area or country that is ravaged by water shortages, do you want clean or polluted water? The fact of the matter is that we can play a large part in controlling that aspect of water preservation. Large corporations would rather hide behind the word “cycle” because it relieves them of personal responsibility. They’re worried about the costs of properly disposing of waste. Yet we’re now seeing that China has been forced to spend billions each year to deal with their overwhelming pollution problem after years of neglect and corporate carte blanche. They’re learning the hard way and we will too.

A quick search of the word “drought” in the news section of a search engine:
news.ask.com/news?qsrc=2087&q=drought

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This is just unacceptable and it’s a problem that we human beings have total and complete control over. Our air shouldn't be unsafe to breathe. No cycles to blame either. Imagine a top shelf athlete opting out of competing in such a prestigious Olympic event for a reason like that?

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Pollution keeps Haile out of Beijing run

Marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie, pictured, said yesterday he would not compete in the Olympic marathon because of fears that Beijing's air pollution would damage his health.

The Ethiopian runner, who suffers from asthma, said he would still compete in the 10,000 meters event in the August Games.

"The pollution in China is a threat to my health and it would be difficult for me to run 42km in my current condition," he said.

He called on China to deal with the problem, saying that pollution "would be a hazard to athletes, seriously affecting their performances."

[Mech]

Im sorry.... I think the US Environment has markedly improved since the 1940s and 1950s. Christ...the US is DE-INDUSTRIALIZING. Most of the big factories and Mills are GONE. Part of the UN's rewilding program.You should have seen the air Pollution in some of the Mill towns even in the 70s around here...it was gross....and sewage was still in the rivers and lakes.

Weve come a long way.

I say the #1 ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN in my opinion is GMO'S Genetically modified foods and organisms.

THAT Danger is WORSE than the ATOM BOMB posed to us as far as Im concerned.

I think ALL GMOs should be 100% Banned from the human food supply.

THAT is the REAL environmental nighmare.

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Those factories aren't gone. They've just moved elsewhere. Since we all share the same planet we share the same problems regardless of where they go. Perhaps we have come a long way since the 50's thanks to the tireless dedication of true environmentalists (not the phony ones). There’s no guarantee that it will stay that way. Neo-cons often say the same thing about America being the freest nation in the world. We now see what happens when you take it for granted. The Bush administration has done much to reverse all of that progress with handfuls of pro-industry policies. What has the Bush administration done for us that has been positive so far? I can't think of one.

They play word games with us because they understand that the average American doesn’t comprehend the substance of any policy behind the title.

The “Help America Vote Act” did nothing to help voters. It did the opposite.

The “Patriot Act” did nothing for national security and protecting freedoms. It did the opposite.

The same goes for the “Clear Skies Initiative” and other scam environmental initiatives. They produce the exact opposite result of what the name suggests.

I still have family that live in Syracuse NY and the air there is to this day repugnant. You can also smell the pungent odor of the terribly contaminated Onondaga lake. It's like that in most major cities that I've visited. LA is the worst! Nothing like the air out in the rural areas. That is directly the result of urbanization and industrialization.

GM crops are of course a huge problem but they're just one amongst many.

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Environmentalist groups have fought to list fluoride as a potentially cancer-causing agent. I guess that makes you a terrorist these days? You won’t see Bush, Crest or Colgate take that step.

www.infowars.com/?p=719
Eco-terrorists top the FBI’s threat list

It began 16 years ago with a meeting of disaffected environmentalists in Brighton. Today the radical organisation they created - the Earth Liberation Front - is described as a decentralised al-Qaeda-style network and America’s No 1 domestic terrorism threat. It even provided inspiration for the villains in Michael Crichton’s 2004 thriller State of Fear.

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Environmentalists were the #1 group to rid the land of pollutants from the 1960s on. Cities are still very polluted though. The many fold increase in air traffic has reversed a lot of the strides made, and in the NY-NJ area, Diesel vehicles do not need to be inspected for pollutants.

GMO crops are a VERY serious issue, and should be addressed or avoided at all costs.

Here is my list of environmental concerns.

GMO Crops

Animal Slaughter

Pesticides

Hormones

SSRIs

Chemtrails

Global Warming

Hydrocarbons

PCBs

Fluoride

Lead

Toxic Land Fills

Coal





Here is a good site:

www.scorecard.org/

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Gulf war syndrome has been in part linked to pesticides. There was a guest on Coast To Coast AM last night who discussed the many kinds of man-made elements that can end up in our groundwater. She said that even with well water you should have it regularly tested.

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Bloomberg

Wheat Rises as U.S. Cuts Inventory Estimate, Demand Increases

Wheat jumped by the daily limit in Chicago after the U.S., the world's largest exporter of the grain, cut a month-old forecast of domestic stockpiles by 11 percent because of rising global demand.

By May 31, 242 million bushels, or 6.6 million metric tons, will be in storage, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said, down from 272 million projected last month. Exports of 33.34 million tons were forecast for the year through May, up 2.1 percent from last month's estimate and 35 percent higher than a year earlier. Wheat has more than doubled in the past year.

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www.infowars.com/?p=791

Food Riots in Egypt

The UN secretary general has warned that millions of people are at risk of starvation as global food stocks have fallen to their lowest levels for decades.

In a letter to a US newspaper Ban Ki Moon warned that shortages are forcing prices to rise which may have devastating consequences for the world’s most vulnerable communities

The most acute effects have been seen in Egypt, where thousands of people have resorted to violence due to shortages of basic food commodities and rising food prices.

At least 10 people have died over the past two weeks, in riots that erupted at government subsidised bakeries.

The unavailability of basic food products such as bread, rice, sugar and cooking oil, coupled with high food prices has led many to protest against the Egyptian government and resort to violent tactics.