Thursday 11 October 2012

Fueling the Food Crisis!

Multi-year Corn Chart

1- Bio-fuels are driving up the price of food everywhere & costing developing countries billions

2- Goldman Warns Food Inflation To Surge http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-10-10/food-inflation-surge-goldman-warns
3- When French peasants stormed the Bastille on July 14, 1789, they weren't just revolting against the monarchy's policies. They were also HUNGRY.
4-  The FAO Food Price Index averaged 216 points in September 2012, up 3 points (1.4%) from August  http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/foodpricesindex/en/ 
5- Researchers who use mathematical modeling WARN more waves of riots are coming http://necsi.edu/research/social/foodprices/briefing/ 
6- FlashBack: Zbigniew Brzezinski roundtable discussion at The Aspen Institute on July 18, 2012
"The phenomenon that I call 'The GLOBAL Political AWAKENING', namely that for the '1st time, the PUBLIC MASSES through out the entire WORLD' have reached a stage of political consciousness and political activism which more or less achieves the standard set for the '1st time in HUMAN HISTORY', not by the AMERICAN REVOLUTION, which was an upper-class and aristocratic revolution, BUT by the 'FRENCH REVOLUTION'  which was a POPULAR REVOLUTION." (Excerpt speech starts at 6mins)

7- Global watchdog ActionAid: Rising corn prices in the United States brought about by biofuel mandates policies have triggered global hunger and political turmoil http://www.ipsnews.net/2012/10/high-u-s-corn-prices-spread-global-hunger-and-instability/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter Or read the Full Report here: http://actionaidusa.org/assets/pdfs/Food_Crisis_web.pdf  Or Listen to the FULL press conference call that was held on October 10, 2012
Link to ActionAid Website here: http://actionaidusa.org/who/

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