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2011-07-16 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-07-16 06:44|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Banking systems are overextended. Now we are tied to them more than ever. They have pushed this one world order for so long they think this experiment will work. The problems of Egypt have been know for many months. It is a sad time for that area of the world and very dangerous.

Posted by Dale 2011-07-16 10:07|| 2011-07-16 10:07|| Front Page Top

#2 This video may be of a time lost. The youth, the country look great. Like Lebanon lost in hate. Netanyahu is a man of the times for the right time.

Posted by Dale 2011-07-16 10:18|| 2011-07-16 10:18|| Front Page Top

#3 The US could exert enormous influence into much of the world right now, if it stopped ethanol production, temporarily subsidized fertilizer production and transport, and stopped holding back farm production. Then exported grain like there was no tomorrow.

But it shouldn't do this. The world and all these nations need to be seriously shaken up. Their tyrannical and stupid models of operation need to collapse, and will, if left to their own devices.

Posted by Anonymoose 2011-07-16 10:35|| 2011-07-16 10:35|| Front Page Top

#4 Moose, may I modify your plan slightly.

Do all of what you said except for shipping it.

Store the grain. Wait for the world to melt down.

Ship grain to places that come down on the side of liberty and democracy (or at least avoid their current barbarism).

Let the rest starve until they too see the light. They will.

Sounds draconian, I know, and it is. No apologies. We owe no one anything.

Posted by Whiskey Mike 2011-07-16 10:44|| 2011-07-16 10:44|| Front Page Top

#5 "Sounds draconian, I know, and it is. No apologies. We owe no one anything". Well yes, they hate us don't they. I know of one ethanol plant in Pennsylvania that is shut down because they can't get corn. Another ethanol plant being built in Pennsylvania has stopped construction, why I don't know."We owe no one anything" is the major flaw of China. People within China want to help others but the government and major corruption will limit them. They will compete with us and anyone else for their own needs. Total indifference. We ourselves are having one disaster after another in crops and animals. Even Mexico has had crop failures and Canada isn't much better. Farmers are being wiped out now. Dairy farmers are going bankrupt in West Virgina at this time. Farmers have to barrow money to plant and they can't recover because they aren't getting a return to continue. Most farmers work another job to keep the farm going. Commercial farms heavily use manufactured fertilizer. They have done that for years. Now the soil is poor and the results will diminish. The soil has been poor since the thirties. We have a dust bowl now in several states. So yes to small farms in every place possible as soon as possible. Small banks, small industry, no more too big to fail giants.

Posted by Dale 2011-07-16 11:47|| 2011-07-16 11:47|| Front Page Top

#6 Ranchers are taking it on the chin out thisaways (nw Texas, west OK, west KS, east CO).

Gonna be worse if the EPA is allowed to complete its publicized agenda. Gonna be worse if the gov maxes out yet another credit card as the dollar plummits. Gonna wish for the days of the $5 burger; I'm not a doom and gloom guy, I am a regional realist. Seems the only people growing anything are grandfathered irrigationists and they are growing corn/silage.

These farmers, especially the family propriatorships, will qualify as the rich people to get more taxes.

Posted by swksvolFF 2011-07-16 14:03|| 2011-07-16 14:03|| Front Page Top

#7 There was an AyePee article entitled "Betting the Farm on it" in our local newspaper business section this a.m. The gist of the article was that rich investors who made their money elsewhere were buying up farm land because they are betting that food will only get more expensive around the world. I also read that George Soros is buying up flooded Missouri farm land which people want to get out from under.

Posted by JohnQC 2011-07-16 14:31|| 2011-07-16 14:31|| Front Page Top

#8 I don't know about you People, but I've been waiting for Muhammad to meet Malthus for more than 20 years.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-07-16 14:47|| 2011-07-16 14:47|| Front Page Top

#9 For the life of me I can't figure out why the farmers keep planting year after year, losing money, year after year, hard times always. Drought, storms, freeze, heat, pests and plant diseases. I guess it's a holy calling, maybe a modern version of the flagelates.

Posted by S 2011-07-16 16:32|| 2011-07-16 16:32|| Front Page Top

#10 S, I wonder myself God bless them. I have know a few that had to take Valium. The weather is bad enough but government has messed things up bad for them. Farmers Coops still operate but they need more than that now. To quit farming is like someone has died. They don't want to give up on it. The debt sucks them in deeper and deeper.

Posted by Dale 2011-07-16 17:30|| 2011-07-16 17:30|| Front Page Top

#11 Want to know why people farm?

80% of businesses fail within 2 years.

Farms is less than 5%.

Farming is nearly as good as a McDonalds franchise, although the lifestyle is better.

Posted by phil_b 2011-07-16 18:38|| 2011-07-16 18:38|| Front Page Top

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