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Food Crisis - Guest - 03-31-2011

[url="http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/george-soros-making-a-move-to-control-food-and-grain-production?fb_comment=31435366"]George Soros making a move to control food and grain production[/url]
Quote:Financier and progressive activist George Soros is formulating a move to control food and grain production by purchasing grain elevators in late March in several parts of the United States through his subsidiary company Gavilon Grain. With some purchases made on March 29th, Soros will become the third largest grain company behind Cargill, and Archer-Daniels Midland.



With strong ties to the Obama administration, Soros now has both the economic, and political clout to begin consolidation of purchasing and shipping domestic agriculture around the world.



When food brokers consolidate into just a few large companies controlling the majority of a market, then prices can be set not by supply and demand, but by corporate decisions and manipulation of supply. If the price for food is too low in the United States, then grain can be shipped to other markets for sale, causing then an artifical supply problem in the country that produced the grain itself.



With George Soros making this move to control food and grain distribution in the United States, and becoming the third largest grain company in the country, it will lead to the same results that we see in the energy markets as oil is controlled by a small group of corporations, and the price can be dictated by an artificial control over its supply.

[url="http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/24/usa-gavilon-pnw-idUSN2417892020110324"]Gavilon to buy Union Elevator PNW grain elevators[/url]


Food Crisis - Guest - 04-27-2011

[url="http://www.rediff.com/business/slide-show/slide-show-1-infla-high-food-prices-to-make-30-mn-indians-dirt-poor/20110426.htm"]'High food prices to make 30mn Indians dirt poor'[/url]


Food Crisis - Guest - 08-27-2011

Inflation Riots and Protests 2011



Fist = Overthrown Governments

Flames = Actual food / inflation riots

Police = Protests / other riots

$ = Price increase announcements / Price Controls / Stock market issues

! = Strike in inflation / food related industries

Phone = Internet/ Twitter /shutdown



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