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Please spread... many have no idea what is going on.Price Shocks, Food Shortages And Global Economic Riots In 2011?Prison Planet.com
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Jan 14, 2011 People need to wake up – 2011 has just begun and yet we are
already seeing significant price shocks and serious food shortages in
many areas of the globe. In fact, violent economic riots are now being
reported in Algeria, in Chile and in Mozambique. Food shortages and
price increases are also causing political unrest in other nations such
as India, Bangladesh and Indonesia. This is a very serious situation,
and if the major food producing nations of the world do not have
another record harvest this year there is very likely going to be an
incredibly serious global food crunch. According to the UN’s Food and
Agricultural Organization, the global price of food hit a
new record high in December. The previous record high for food
prices was in June 2008, and we all remember what happened during the
summer of 2008. Massive food riots erupted in countries such as
Cameroon, Haiti and Egypt. So with price shocks and food shortages
already being reported all over the globe, will we see even worse
global economic riots in 2011?
One of the things that is playing into all this is all of the
really extreme weather that we have been witnessing all over the
globe. In Australia, they have been experiencing flooding that is of
Biblical proportions. Brazil has also been hit by very serious
flooding. In other parts of South America, extremely dry weather is
severely damaging many crops. In the Northern Hemisphere, unusually
cold and unusually snowy weather has many people scratching their
heads. Something really strange seems to be happening to global
weather patterns, and that is not good news for global food production.
All of this bad weather is fueling a tremendous amount of
commodity speculation. Over this past year, almost every single major
agricultural commodity has experienced a dramatic increase in price.
According to Forbes, corn is up 94% since June,
soybeans are up 51% since June, and wheat is up 80% since June.
Ouch!
All of these agricultural commodity price increases are really
starting to be felt around the globe. Meanwhile, global demand for
food only continues to increase.
For the last several years, great harvests in major food producing
nations such as the United States have been able to offset the rising
demand for food around the globe.
But what is going to happen if the big food exporting nations have
a year or two of really bad harvests?
Not only that, but there are a couple of other factors that have
many analysts warning of “inflation spikes” in the year ahead….
*Crude oil prices set new multi-year highs on Wednesday and we
continue to see a relentless march back toward $100 dollars a barrel.
The price of oil affects the price of almost everything else, so this
is a key indicator to watch.
*Rampant inflation in China is soon going to impact the prices of
literally tens of thousands of different U.S. consumer products. A recent New
York Times article stated that U.S. garment buyers should be
prepared for “sticker shock” when they attend China’s annual trade
shows this year….
So how are U.S. consumers (and consumers all over the globe) going
to react when all of those “cheap Chinese imports” are not so cheap
anymore?
It won’t be pretty.
But for most people around the world in 2011, the main economic
problem is likely to be the price of food. In many areas of the globe,
large numbers of people have to spend more than half their incomes just
to feed themselves, so a spike in the price of food can have very, very
serious consequences.
In some areas of the world, we are already witnessing very violent
economic riots in response to rising prices for food.
Just check out what is happening in Algeria. Several protesters
have been killed and hundreds of others have been injured during
violent food riots in that country. Hordes of young people are
throwing fire bombs and are shouting slogans such as “Bring us sugar!”
Are these the kinds of food riots that we should expect to see around
the globe as food gets tight this year?….
Economic riots are also being reported in Chile and Mozambique.
Officials in India, Bangladesh and Indonesia are concerned that
political unrest over food prices could soon erupt into violence in
those nations as well.
Eric Bolling of the Fox Business Network recently did a really
good job of explaining exactly what is causing all of this to happen,
and in the video posted below he does not sound very optimistic about
the rest of 2011 at all….
A recent article in Forbes magazine summarized the
current global food situation this way….
So what does all of this mean for America? Could we actually face
food shortages in the United States at some point?
Well, at first a global food shortage would mean rapidly rising
prices for food in the supermarkets. The shelves would still be full,
but people would not be able to afford to buy as much.
If a global food shortage was sharp enough and went on long
enough, the price shocks would eventually turn into empty shelves and
physical food shortages inside the United States.
Keep in mind, there are already tens of millions of Americans that
cannot feed themselves. In the United States today, there are over 43
million Americans on food stamps. That means that approximately 1 out
of every 7 Americans is being fed by the government.
So what is going to happen if real food shortages hit?
Already there are some very disturbing reports about food
shortages in the U.S. floating around out there.
For example, the following is an excerpt from an alert that Steve
Quayle recently posted on his website….
The early warning signs are right there in front of us. This has
the potential to start getting very real.
Are you ready? Are you prepared for price shocks? Are you
prepared for food shortages? Are you prepared for a global economic
meltdown?
The number of “preppers” in the United States has not exploded
just because millions of Americans suddenly wanted to pick up a new
hobby. The truth is that over the last several years people have been
waking up and have started realizing that the global economic system is
heading for some really, really hard times.
Many believe that we are heading into what could potentially be
some of the most chaotic times in all of human history. Life in the
years ahead is likely to be very different from what we are
experiencing now. The world is rapidly changing. Now is the time to
start getting prepared.
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