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Global Org. Warns of Possible ‘Social Instability’ as Food Prices Rise

(The Blaze/AP) — Corn and soybean prices skyrocketed after the government lowered this year’s production forecasts. As demand for already tight supplies for both crops grows, coupled with greater global demand, one international organization has warned of possible “social an political instability.”

Corn and soybeans rose about 4 percent Wednesday to the highest they’ve been since July 2008. Analysts expect the gains to continue to until there is a clearer picture of how global crops for both will fare this year.

There also is speculation that the price gains will translate into higher food costs for consumers and raw materials costs for businesses, such as livestock owners and ethanol producers.

The Agriculture Department predicted this year’s corn production will fall about 4.9 percent to 12.45 billion bushels. That would leave inventories at the end of the season at about 745 million bushels, compared with 1.7 billion bushels in the previous year. On a global scale, the agency forecast inventories to decline 3 million tons, with more than two-thirds of fall coming in the United States.

More corn is being bought by ethanol producers after the Obama administration approved the sale of gasoline with 15 percent ethanol, up from the current blend of 10 percent ethanol. That decision is being challenged by trade groups.

The department has forecast this year’s soybean production to fall 0.9 percentage point to 3.329 billion bushels, which would put inventories at the end of the season at about 140 million bushels, compared with 151 million bushels the previous year. Soybeans are in high demand, particularly in China.

Telvent DTN analyst John Sanow said he believes farmers will have to plant a significantly higher amount of acres in spring wheat, corn, soybeans and cotton to ease situation. Until then, he speculated tight supplies will continue to push prices higher.

In contracts for March delivery, corn added 24 cents to settle at $6.31 a bushel, soybeans gained 58 cents to $14.15 a bushel and wheat rose 11 cents to $7.705 a bushel.

“The markets are very, very tight,” Joseph Glauber, the USDA’s chief economist, told the Wall Street Journal regarding rising prices. “There is concern, no doubt.”

That concern is not just unique to the U.S. A report from The World Economic Forum released this week cited rising demand for water, food, and energy as a risk facing the world, reports the WSJ.

A growing global population and greater prosperity “are putting unsustainable pressures on resources,” the report said. It also raised the issue of shortages, which could “cause social and political instability, geopolitical conflict, and irreparable environmental damage.”

Besides food, most other commodities also settled higher.

In metals trading, February gold added $1.50 to settle at $1,385.80 an ounce and April platinum gained $30.80 to $1,801.10 an ounce. In March contracts, silver added 4.6 cents to settle at $29.545 an ounce, copper rose 6.25 cents to $4.4115 a pound and palladium gained $23 to $806.75 an ounce.

Oil prices rose after the government reported a larger-than-expected drop in crude oil supplies and stock markets climbed on Europe’s improving financial picture. Benchmark crude for February delivery rose 75 cents to settle at $91.86 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

In other Nymex trading in February contracts, heating oil rose 0.98 cent to settle at $2.6186 a gallon, gasoline futures fell 1.53 cents to settle at $2.4784 per gallon. February natural gas futures gained 5 cents to settle at $4.531 per 1,000 cubic feet.

Comments (323)

  • 912828Buckeye
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:08am

    Add your comments

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:33am

      your comments

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    • Max jones
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:26pm

      Are you sure you want MY comments? OK….Open your bibles to the great chapter of Revelation. Who are God’s Elect? Who is “MYSTERY BABYLON? Chapter 6 tells of the four horsemen of the apocalypse…recognize them?
      How many of the TRUMPS do you think have sounded? Have you the seal of God in your forehead?

      The Global elite lend their considerable power to one called the beast(new world order) and the kings of the eerth reign with him for a short while, but he turns on them too.
      “for God hath put in their hearts to fulfil His will,and to agree,and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God be fulfilled.” Rev. 17-17

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    • jgeezy
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 12:01pm

      Yes, bad things are going to happen, and unfortunately our leaders never do anything to help

      http://practicalpolitician.wordpress.com/

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  • suzy000
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:07am

    We have a shortage of corn and soybean and this White House ups the ante for higher ethanol in gas KNOWING it will create even higher shortages. Is this President trying to destroy our economy? I wonder if he is in hock with those that want to see us on central banking? Just thinking these thoughts makes me even wonder how sincere he was last night. If Obama is up to his eyeballs in the downfall of America…then last night in Tucson was just an act. Oh boy he is good!!!

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    • Max jones
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:03pm

      It should be obvious to all that this president IS in the business of flushing this country down the old toilet. He is part of the globalist elite, and he was not Elected, as much as Selected to do the bidding of the globalists. All of our modern presidents and many other elite public servants have been part of the conspiracy!(except for one dead, murdered president).. I know that for many of you this is hard or impossible to believe, but look around you, could this all be coincidence? Glenn called this “the perfect storm”. Not even the the demonic bastards who have put this into motion can stop it now, even if they wanted to. The genie is out of the bottle.
      All I can think to do is pray for mercy and receive what blessings the Lord has for us. Like our families and friends, and the little time we have left to wait for for our Savior.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 9:06am

      Max Jones, what do you think about Alex Jones’ claim that Glenn Beck is a CIA operative?

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  • UpstateNYConservative
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:05am

    This is just birth pangs. Wait till it really hits. A year, maybe two, before the real shiite hits the fan?

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  • The American
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:05am

    So they claim that demand will be up, prices up, and less production of corn and soybeans? How do they expect to accomplish this? Are they going to pay farmers to not farm, or is it that too many farms have gone in to foreclosure?

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  • felina g
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:04am

    Toilet paper and Beano !!!!

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  • benrush
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:04am

    Naw, its not that we need more grains – its that the money supply is being inflated. This is to misdirect attention to agriculture rather than to federal finance flimflammery.

    Watch “The Creature from Jekyll Island” on YouTube if you haven’t already, and The Money Masters.

    They are taking the value of our money out the back door while looking out the front window and yelling, “Fire in the street!”.

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  • smalldog
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:04am

    Maybe the price of oil and food are not rising, the dollar is sinking? Thus, it takes for dollars to buy the same amount of food?

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:16am

      It’s a combination of both. Mainly, though, food production is going down. Every time some petty African dictator gets pissed, he starves his own people to keep his power. The same in other parts of the world.

      Every time French farmers get pissed, they rip up their fields or slaughter their livestock ‘in protest’.

      The world population isn‘t going up so fast it’s causing a food shortage; many nations (like Russia) have negative population growth. Production is down in the first place, and a portion of what remains is going to biofuels. That ‘green’ thing, you know.

      A lot of places around the world also tax food, which people can’t afford so they have to buy less. Prices then drop, so farmers grow less. And on and on and on…

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:25am

      As a matter of fact, the US government either pays farmers to not grow food, or gives them loans they don’t have to repay for land left fallow. I forget the details, but check out the book “Parliament of Whores” for a better understanding of how this came about.

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    • Thomas Payne
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:56am

      Dont’ forget how your food gets the to grocery store. As fuel prices rise the truckers necessarily need to raise their prices to make up the difference. Think about having to fill up 2 x 150 gallon tanks. A jump of only $0.10/gallon makes a BIG difference in their fuel costs.

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  • Trestin Meacham
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:02am

    I saw this coming a few weeks ago:
    http://www.trestinmeacham.info/2010/12/my-2011-predictions.html

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  • smalldog
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:02am

    Maybe food prices would be so high if government eliminated speculation. In my mind, futures markets are like making bets. What if the gambling aspect was elimiated?

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:09am

      Then food prices would skyrocket.

      The reason food is going up is the ethenol (for corn based food) and our dollar becoming worthless. I suspect that the actual *value* of food is the same, but when your dollar is worth less and less everyday, things will naturally cost more if you buy them in dollars.

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  • Utahdrifter
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:01am

    I read someplace that it takes a gallon of gas to make a gallon of ethanol . And this idiot government wants to use more of it. I have an answer There are reports of new oil finds all over in the US and Canada. Cut out ethanol and DRILL BABY DRILL. Lets stop this insanity.

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  • WestOfThePecos
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:00am

    Isn‘t this a form of ’fear mongering’? How’s this different from what Glenn says?

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    • mamawalker
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:04am

      their “political correctness rules” only apply to those on the right…nothing new

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  • LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:59am

    Off Topic……at the beginning of this article it says ( The Blaze/ AP ) anyone know what that means ?
    dose the AP Wright an article and then the Blaze edits it ?
    I have noticed this on many articles and I wish they would separate their reports.

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    • Reagan/DeMint.disciple
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:12am

      You’re right, Off topic…So is this… It’s “ WRITE ”… What difference does it make ? Do you think they’re lying to you at the Blaze ? It’s only a hat tip to the AP.. That’s why they mention the source, so no one freaks out and says the Blaze are reporting stories as their own when the AP reports them first..

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    • LOOKING_BOTH_WAYS
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:51am

      Reagan…thank you for correcting my spelling… its not one of my strong points , but I’m working at it.
      and no I don’t think the Blaze is lying but in this world of mass media I would like to know who says what.
      If the Blaze has its own information to add to the report, well I think that’s grate ( oppps did I miss spell again )

      It’s really no big deal on this article I guess… but I do try to weed out bias on both the left & right.
      Can’t help it. hence my name ….mama told me to look both ways before I cross the street.
      I guess if you want to Label me I would be called an Independent.

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  • Pawsupday
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:59am

    In Calf. the stopped them from growing stuff because of a fish! Then they want corn to make fuel while banning drilling for oil in the gulf and other place in the US. Then they pass tough restrictions on food sounds like they destroying us pretty well. Lets not forget the cold weather has damaged crops last month and growers in Fl had to replant corn again….let’s hope this crop makes it!

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    • Reagan/DeMint.disciple
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:01am

      You can’t just say “ A fish” , people that don’t know will think a trout, or something meaningful to us.. It’s a two inch little smelt, that has no meaning to us at all.. We can live with it, or without it.. Yet, there they are, cutting off water supply to the farmers and OUR FOOD, just to save a meaningless little minnow.. WOW !! Don’t ya just love the bleeding heart of a liberal ? lol, AMAZING !!!!!

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    • CyberPro
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:59pm

      I am also concerned about these folks who think we can power the entire earth with a handful of solar panels and a windmill or two. I think we should be tapping oil reserves, but what in the world is wrong with putting folks to work building Nuclear POWER PLANTS?? Yeah, I know they take a long time to build, but only because you have to fight off years of tree hugger protest groups, if we just said, “yeah, that is a great idea, now, go sit over their in the poison ivy while we build this thing.” and started building them. Even the tree huggers ought to love them, so they can run their ‘electric cars and stuff. If they don’t like the idea, then I would invite them to disconnect themselves from the electric grid. Let’s face it, there is no free lunch. The folks who are thinking that you can build a pile of electric cars and eliminate pollution do not seem to understand that the power to charge them has to come from somewhere, and just because you don’t see it does not make it magic. We also will need to improve the infrastructure for power delivery, but one step at a time.

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  • GeorgieJo
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:59am

    Sure glad I took Glenn’s advice!!!!!

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  • redneckgenius
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:58am

    It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out food prices are skyrocketing. In NC milk went from 2.29 to 3.09, eggs from .94 to 1.65, ice cream 2.50 to 3.00, a 5lb bag of sugar became a 4lb bag with no price change, and the list goes on and on. This is why we have a shrinking economy. A nudge at a time. Add higher gas prices and we all see our pocket books getting lighter by the end of the month. Prepare your family now. It would be wonderful to say in 10 years we didn’t need to worry, but as it looks now the growing expenses of food and gas are binding hard working Americans.

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    • dmforman
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:31am

      So true. Wonder what the world will look for my 2 year old son when he is my age. Scary.

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:34am

      In what time frame was that rise calculated, redneckgenius? Just curious.

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    • redneckgenius
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:21pm

      over the past 3 ot 4 months…. and just all of a sudden…. I love ice cream.. and overnight about a month ago it went up 50 cents….

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  • Listen-to-the-people
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:57am

    I don’t know who would have seen this coming. …Oh that’s right! Glenn did!!!!

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  • love the kids
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:57am

    This type of language need to be stopped, it will scare my grandma!

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    • Carl1
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:07am

      Good one!! LMAO

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    • GhostOfJefferson
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:07am

      I’ll have a Yaqui medicine man get a prayer out to the four leggeds and things under the earth, in order to sooth your poor grandmother’s soul. Never despair!

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:07am

      Dont worry…Granny can count on Obama to save her from starvation…She can eat her dollar bills when hyperinflation starts…

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  • grandmaof5
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:56am

    Wait, have they been watching repeats of Glenn’s shows? I seem to recall a number of shows about that, along with our crappy credit rating. Maybe they are in a different time zone than we are and there are a few months difference in time zones, or maybe they have just figured out Glenn knows what he is talking about. In either case, we are more informed than the experts – yay us!

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:56am

    Some bozo from the U.N. said a few years ago that the U.N. should be in charge of global food production, especially in the U.S. since it is a global resource. Should there be allot of problems because of food prices we are going to hear allot more about a U.N. take over because the U.S. is still largest food producer.

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    • loweralabama
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:26am

      We need to tell the UN to stick their head where the sun don’t shine. Its time to start pushing our representatives in the government on all levels that we need to defund the UN and politely ask them to leave. I could give a good d**n what the UN thinks or wants. They need to leave and move to some sand country that doesn’t use toilet paper. Its time to stop wealth redistribution. We are out of money and broke. Write and call your congressman often on this issue. It matters.

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    • UnreconstructedLibertarian
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:20am

      the UN is now in charge of our food system, didn‘t you know that’s what SB 510 was about?

      Codex Alimentarious – look it up.

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:52pm

      You are correct Rick. The global progressives agenda is in place. We are wise to be prepared. Stocking up on food and basic neccessities is vital.I know alot of people crindge at the thought but we have an abundance of resorces if forced into survival. Hunting will become our mainstay. As will growing our own food .Stock up on seeds, appropriate clothing , and supplies. I think we are even going to get a few goats and a dairy cow.. I still remember my grand-ma’s way of life. She canned,butchered her meat, and had a huge garden. She and my grand-pa raised chickens, ducks, and cattle as well.There was a pump in the kitchen and an outhouse behind the barn. Guess what? They not only raised a big family but they were happy. They shared their garden and meat with their friends and families. I just bought one of those crank radios and several sets of walkie talkies’ I have been stocking up on batteries. If we are never in a situation that these options are necessary so what? I would rather have the peace of mind knowing that we could survive than being left frantic without a clue about where our next meal comes from. Call me crazy if you want, but I feel that these are frightening times and I want to make sure that my family has what is necessary to ride out the storm.

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    • Rickfromillinois
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:50pm

      Pamela Kay – Your right, that does make you crazy…..but it makes me crazy too since I have been doing the same.

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  • ENTITLEMENTSBLOW
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:56am

    Its ok, obama is going to give all of us EBT cards! Yay!

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    • shorthanded12
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:51am

      Socialist/Progressive dictionary definition for EBT: “Eat Better Tonight”

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  • Hefsmaster
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:48am

    The headline is violent rhetoric and hate speech fear mongering. Looks like someone didn’t get the memo.

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:34am

      LOl, what memo? If you don’t believe there will be shortage, and skyrocketing prices now and in the future, you don’t know econ101?

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  • jedi.kep
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:48am

    “Global Org. Warns of Possible ‘Social Instability’ as Food Prices Rise”

    Ya THINK?

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    • EZDOZIT
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:18am

      Democrats take over Congress and senate in 2007,first thing they do pass energy bill. It increace the use of corn to make ethnal by 700%. the republicans wanted to use ALL froms of energy but dems. said no,only wind,solar and renewable(corn) would be used. Dems.made them keep this in the Bush tax extensions. They have block oil drilling for 50 years and will not let us build new oil refineries. When these useful idiots that voted for them complain about high prices,just tell them they ask for this!

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  • SecretPolice
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:47am

    They must have watched and listened to Glen Beck although they would never admit it.

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  • Lesterp
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:44am

    They have started to watch Glenn! What took them so long? Glenn said this a year ago.

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    • aafriend
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:57am

      Unemployment report just out, up, gas @ $91.67 per barrel, left coast gas at pump $3.35 per gallon, grocery bill up, building supplies through the roof.

      1 roll of blue 2 inch tape $7.00, one regular hamburger combo with fries (don’t tell Shelle Obama) $8.00. i will keep you posted, its sad.

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:56am

      @Lesterp

      Most people will ignore those telling the truth of what is coming; until the danger is at their door and it is then too late. We are going to bear the brunt of the storm, which is now here, yet as a people and as individuals WE WILL MAKE IT!!!

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    • Lesterp
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:46pm

      Snow, Agreed!

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  • DashRipRock
    Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:43am

    Maybe our FOOD prices wouldnt be so high
    if we would STOP GROWING FUEL
    and start GROWING FOOD AGAIN

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    • ishka4me
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:00am

      it is all an illusion, food prices are not rising, oil prices are not rising, gas is not rising.I know because my parents ssi did not get cola raise because we are in an actual deflation. it is all in your minds

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    • Kurty C Wipe
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:01am

      Celente called it 2 years ago

      http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/brace-yourself-our-society-is-going-to-the-dogs-535805.html?tickers=%5Etnx,tlt,tbt,%5Edji,%5Egspc&sec=topStories&pos=9&asset=&ccode=

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    • Dustyluv
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:04am

      When those 45 + million Americans currently on Food Stamps find that the assistance they get will soon become worthless or completely cut off due to hyperinflation, then you will see riots in the streets.

      My wife thought I was insane when I started stockpiling food, silver and ammo. Now she thinks I a pretty smart guy. Even a skeptic like her can see this train wreck coming. Unfortunately most people have their heads stuck up their backside and have done nothing…Hope that’s not you…

      Just this week 445,000 new unemployed, food prices up and oil prices up to add to the rolling snowball of htperinflation.

      Yes, I am proud to be seen as someone who wears a tinfoil hat! Too bad i will have to watch the unprepared suffer…Are you prepared?

       
    • effvar
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:17am

      Amen, Dash. It’s not that hard to figure out. We need food not fuel.

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    • JohnQTaxpayer
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:17am

      Dustyluv

      Chance favors the prepared mind

      Chaos is the absence of knowledge

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    • aafriend
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:18am

      America cannot survive on a service industry only, we must start manufacturing.

      when you cannot raise taxes, you get it in other ways. inflation is just part of the game.

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    • IntheKnowOG
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:24am

      Where are the lefty ostrich’s calling Beck a scam artist alarmist? Probably downloading orders to blame this on AGW.

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    • exdem
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:28am

      Another so called Beck lie that is fact. Joe Scarborough’s mom must be scared to death!!

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    • Polwatcher
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:44am

      AAFRIEND has it right. A service economy is what South America has and we can see how that is working out for them. Manufacturing must come back before we ever see a recovery. That won’t happen with big government boo coo regulations.

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    • oldguy49
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:49am

      the new congress let pass a new subsidy for ethenol………but we got 2 year tax break

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:52am

      @DashRipRock
      “Maybe our FOOD prices wouldn’t be so high
      if we would STOP GROWING FUEL
      and start GROWING FOOD AGAIN”
      That’s sure a part of it…The Fed’s monetary policies are a huge part also…and to think of how the GOP caved in December, with the Ethanol Subsidies included in the “Tax cut bill”. Stoops!

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    • izzyt84
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:02am

      I agree with you, 100 percent! Growing food for fuel is INSANE, espececially when we have untapped oil, (lots of it) sitting right underneath our own land!

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    • APatriotFirst
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:02am

      gasoline with 15 percent ethanol……
      Not in my P/U. Is worst thing to put in your engine. Iowa is big on ethanol, and no one uses it after finding out the damage it does. Is a dying business now. Fuel filters, injecters, etc. Is not good for the vehicle.
      I used it until started having problems, my mechanic told me to stop. No problems since.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:03am

      We’ll be putting more acreage into corn and barley nest year on my property, and so will many others here in the US. The market can take care of these typical fluctuations in supply and demand. I’ve seen this for decades. It’s nothing new and is no cause for panic in our country. There are many, many other mitigating factors in play as well. It‘s smart to always be prepared for the worst case scenario but don’t let fear and paranoia rule your lives.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:08am

      Featuring this story on The Blaze is just another example of Glenneth working hard to spread fear and uncertainty. BTW – This morning on his radio show, Glenn stated that we must look to “HIM” for guidence. Who is going to be telling us all what “HIM” is advising us to do? Glenn Beck? Now that is frightening.

       
    • GeauxAlready
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:14am

      Turn the water back on to califorina‘s valley’s we need food not snail darters…………….

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    • Donald
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:15am

      That about SUMS it up….

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    • HillBillySam1
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:16am

      Five bucks for a Twinkie?!?!? Them‘s fightin’ words!!!!!!!

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    • IntheKnowOG
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:19am

      So YOU (Bechishnertz) need comeone to tell you what God’s answers to your prayers are? Hmmmm….that might be the whole problem now.

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    • Cobra Blue
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:26am

      DustyLuv

      Smart Guy. Just read Proverbs 22:3

      I too have make the same preparations. The storm clouds are gathering on the horizon. The key is making sure you survive the initial collapse. Self-Reliance.

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    • Sgt.Crust
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:29am

      dusty, right there with ya, my wife is slowly coming around, although still not believing me, however, i am as prepared as I can be w/in my budget…woe be to the unprepared, they will be sorely tested, even the prepared will be tested…

      if you have guns, ammo, food and water, great, but for how long do you have stockpiles…add to your list survivalseedbank.com and canning jars people, it is going to be rough…

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    • heavyduty
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:41am

      DASHRIPROCK: When the FEDS quit printing money that they don’t have gold for. Then the prices will quit rising. The government has put us between a rock and a hard place. They keep printing money that they have no backing for and that decreases the dollar. When the dollar won’t buy as much then you have to use more dollars to buy things.
      Until we can get our government back under our control this kind of crap is going to continue to happen.

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:49am

      @BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:08am

      “Featuring this story on The Blaze is just another example of Glenneth working hard to spread fear and uncertainty…”

      Let’s get this straight, from you: Featuring the story–which originates from an outside source–is spreading fear? Who is/are spreading the fear, as you put it, by bringing the whole matter up in the first place? Try going back to that idea for a moment, of the originators, if your toy brain has the mental wattage to do it. According to your standard, it can only be Global Org (run by Palin and Rush, no doubt, financed by the Bush family, the vast right-wing conspiracy, and the Catholic Church?)

      Beck isn’t nuts. You, however, might well be. I suppose, according to your view, any other outlet that mentions this story, like MSNBC for example, is also spreading fear and uncertainty? Nah–you’d NEVER say that, would you?

      Did Beck make this up? If he did, you might well have a valid point (it would be your first, I imagine). Or if this the story is accurate and copied/‘featured’ elsewhere in the world, are you going to get all political and shiite and call every other place an example of fear and uncertainty?

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    • snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:54am

      @Dashriprock

      Agreed, the blasted Fed’s need to get the heck out of the regulating of production and pricing, also in the case of food prices, Beck has been once again proven correct. In the last two weeks alone, I have seen prices rise on bread, eggs and milk – products raise an average of .54cents. Even the milk here has jumped overnight by around .63 cents; some I know is due to the rise in gas prices, and due in part to a seasonal difference.

      It is still going up more than ever before.

      http://www.artinphoenix.com/gallery/grimm

      Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}  
    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 10:57am

      @BeckIsNuts

      I forgot to mention: To avoid ‘spreading fear and uncertainty’, should this story instead be kept secret from the public? What about that freedom-of-information thing and ‘transparency’ the Left is always blathering about?

      Your arguments float no better than a f*rt bubble in the bathtub, and smell just as bad.

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:06am

      @tinydd

      There were reports two or three weeks ago about shortages and price inflation of food in Europe. This story, really, is a little behind the curve.

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    • JESUS-IS-LORD
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:07am

      I’ve been saying this since the end of September and of course,
      just like the people in the Bible when God warns them a hundred thousand times,
      they do not listen.
      Praise be to the Holy God Our Father, Amen.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:10am

      upstatenewyorkcon, any news story out there that supports Beck’s fire and brimstone fear mongering paranoia is funneled into The Blaze for you lemmings to lap up. Beck keeps you people fired up and frightened 24/7 between this web site, his shows on TV and radio and his sponsors, who cater to the apocalypse soon crowd. You Becklers are being manipulated by Glenn in order to boost his sagging ratings. It’s common knowledge. Then he sells you people merchandise, Insider Extreme memberships and ghost written books on top of it. Glenn‘s got quite a little industry here and it’s all built on his message of impending doom. PT Barnum was correct.

       
    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:13am

      So, we all know that upstatenewyorkcon passes gas while playing with his rubber ducky in the tub. Sometimes too much information is an unwelcome thing.

       
    • mhgadfly
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:16am

      Food is finite, unlike Bernanke bucks.

      SEPARATION OF CORPORATIONS AND STATE
      stop freddie, fannie and the fha
      DON’T RAISE THE DEBT CEILING
      socializm is mass slavery

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    • hologram5
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:18am

      Good call dash, it is now scientific fact that the ethanol fuel actually burns dirtier than regular fuel so what are we gaining again?

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:21am

      @BeckIsNuts

      Ah, but I’m not a fonzenoon like you. You know what that is? A fonzenoon is a person who f*rts in the tub and bites the bubbles.

      I have never bought a thing from Mr. Beck. Most of my news comes from, well, news outlets. I read from all kinds of sites, with links to the actual outlets reporting the stories. I read from the Times of London, The Guardian; I watch CBC from Canada since I get the station, look at the NYT, and lots of other places.

      The last thing I am is a bot of some kind, and I imagine most others here are the same as me.

      Now, go bite a bubble or two, would you?

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:26am

      Upstatenewyorkcon, we’ll leave the bubble biting to you, as you are obviously an expert in that field. Off you go.

       
    • DashRipRock
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:30am

      I have news for you Paul’ers trying to blame this all on the FED
      when we stopped growing food and started growing fuel instead
      that is when food and enegy prices started going up.

      Even if the FED never raised or did a damn thing
      food and fuel would STILL be going thru the roof.

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    • beefman
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:31am

      Be careful what you speak Dashriprock The American farmer is a vanishing breed. If we start controlling the income and production of the American Farmer we will loss another 1/3 of the farmers as we did in the last great recession of 1981-1982. The majority of the farmers are family farms in the US. To suggest that they shoiuld not use every means available to stay in business is –socialistic in thought. I do not like the ethanol subsidies either. however if we want to import all our food then keep suggestion the farmers only produce cheap food.. I like cheap food also but I prefer to eat also

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:32am

      Agreed,

      Pretty soon or very soon we will witness how outlandish our addiction to oil/fuels to power our vehicles which will get priority over the living things. This disparity already exists in the world but is not as prevalent yet because it has not taken hold in the Western countries. But soon, very soon we will see people going hungry to drive their cars/feed their cars first because food will have become so expensive. Still gotta to go too work, so the drudge must continue until those that continue can no longer function. Greed is leading this NEW BUBBLE in food prices and its without merit. We have enough land mass and abilities to grow food for all who need food the world over but because of selfishness and greed we will not do it. We will however take taxes from the American people to buy food and give it away to corrupt governments who stockpile it to rot or only supply their armies with it to maintain control. Its an ugly cycle. Mans abuse of man continues and will get worse in this year. The writing is on the wall.

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    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:37am

      This global org doesn’t need to worry about the high cost of food. All they need to do is review the past few days of the actions of some right here in the USA. The time has come for right-minded people to dis-connect ourselves from the left in any way possible. We must come together as the last great hope for this once great nation! We know it won’t be coming from the left, we have mountains of proof!

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    • DashRipRock
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:38am

      BEEFMAN

      How is raising American grown food through the roof
      helping to cut down on imported food?

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    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:39am

      Dustyluv, I would proudly share that tin-foil hat of yours without hesitation.

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    • click4cheapandeasyweb
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:43am

      HillBillySam1, not sure this is the time for levity. People won’t find it funny when a loaf of bread and a gallon of milk costs over $20 bucks.

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    • UpstateNYConservative
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:43am

      @BeckIsNuts

      Now that we’ve had our fun, Chucklenuts, let’s return to the matter at point.

      Food shortages ARE developing globally, with them as well as inflation occurring also in the wealthy, Western, industrialized world. What has been seen in the Third World for decades is now coming home to us, too. When Yugoslavia collapsed around 1990, it had an annual inflation rate of about five million percent. What’s happening in Europe right now runs a serious risk of repeating that.

      Individual countries of the EU are barely hanging on, and already Brussels is demanding bigger bailouts from the IMF (I saw the link about this on Drudge just a few hours ago). The current crisis is bad, so much that last week there was talk of a possible break-up of the EU, among the Euros themselves. Such talk didn’t happen two short years ago.

      Posture all you like, but the fact is that bad things are happening all over the planet. If they weren’t, why would there be the riots we have seen in Greece, Italy, and Britain the past few months, in places of such long-time wealth? Those aren’t Third World locales, after all.

      Decide what you like. But it looks like things are soon to get all kinds of ugly.

      You may well believe we’re all wrong here and, to be honest, I truly hope you’re right.

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    • SavvyCowboy
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:08pm

      I feel sorry for any of you who can’t grow your own groceries. I’ve been doing that for years now, from meat to produce. Glenn has been on this issue for years now and watch riots in the cities start because people can’t afford to pay for food. Glad I’m WAY out in the sticks!! :)

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    • natstew
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:12pm

      And we continue to burn our largest food crop while foreign countries drill for oil in our Gulf.

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    • oldguy48
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:14pm

      A lot of us have seen this train wreck coming. They are doing everything they can to destroy America. The sad part is the number of folks that still deny what the “elies” are doing.
      My wife also thought I, and several friends of ours, had gone off the “deep end” and began our survivalist mentality. We now have a “bolt hole” 1-1/2 year supply of food, our own water and electric supply, and our self sustaining “retirement home” all set to go. Yes, do not forget that the people with blinders on will try to take your stuff, guns and ammo are necessary to discourage their marxist attitude.
      When stocking, don’t forget medical supplies and a method to retain potable water. If choosing a “country estate” make sure it is as far as possible from any large city, or medium sized city. This will get very ugly.
      Food is only one way they are coming after us. Watch the dollar.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:14pm

      Upstatenewyorkcon, you‘re simply parroting the exact words Glenn’s been saying. An independent thinker would understand that even though those events (riots) did take place, they really are insignificant and unordinary. The riots in the UK consisted of some students and they have come and gone without any real consequence. If they had spread to other sectors of British society, that may have supported Beck’s theory, but they obviously did not.

      We’re going through a rough patch, but these things, like weather changes, are cyclical. I’ve seen plenty of these in my lifetimes. I’ve also seen unbalanced fear mongers try to profit from them by exaggerating their importance. Al Gore does it with climate change, and I contend that Beck is doing it as well. Have you noticed how he stopped ringing the alarm bell about Iran and Al Qaeda? What happened to that impending crisis? Did it just vanish? No. And what about his campaign about our southern border he harped on too? Why the silence on that? Glenn goes from one trumped up crisis to another. Mix in a healthy dose of religion, fire and brimstone, patriotism and the like, and he gets his ratings. Glenneth figured this all out years ago when his career was in a tailspin and he broadcast his show from some nval ship. Ratings went up and Glenn learned how to tap into the American audience. He’s a showman. Follow him at your own risk.

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    • SavvyCowboy
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:15pm

      @BEEFMAN

      You are right on, the American Farmer is vanishing, we’re barely hanging on. City people think we’re all millionaires – whatever. I will say some of my neighbors have made lousy business decisions but then I also know lots of business people who’ve made the same mistakes. Most everyone I know can really stretch their dollar but when it costs $300+ per acre to raise corn, the profit margin is razor thin and as you know BEEFMAN, there are no subsidies in the beef industry – only a lot of hard work and a little luck.

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    • Max jones
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:38pm

      OK, enter the conspiracy realist, Max. This crisis has been in the works for a good while. Although because of current events the schedule apparrently has been moved up.
      DUSTYLUV….The food stamp thing is part of the bottom-up trap. What is called aid is actually meant to be the start of the uprising…planned that way.
      BECKISNUTS…You keep telling us not to worry. this is all gonna go away, but I would bet that you already have stockpiled food and other essentials. If you are as smart as you think you are, you have firearms and ammo, too, don’t you. Got gold? I think you are either in denial or you are a hypocritical SOB.
      HEAVYDUTY…Unfortunately, the FED has always been a tool of the globalists, and is a big, essential part of the planned takeover. The globalists are anti GOD, and anti-independence. Sometime after the crash, when most of us are in extremely dire straits, there will be a solution proposed that will look mighty good to the survivors, Who will have no choice but to compromise every thing they have ever known…just to live!
      Watch out for martial law and mass arrests. There really are 800 internment camps here, spread out all across the country.
      I personally have no firearms, In the last year I have barely made mortgage and utility payments. I have no gold no food stockpiled and I have been ready and waiting for these days.
      The globalist plan is to reduce the world population to“manageable” numbers. and to possess ALL of the earth’s resources. They have stated that humankind is cancer that is killing the earth. They have taken it upon themselves to commit murder in a scale that is unimaginable.
      Our leaders have been leading us down the “primrose path” for generations. They have had DEMONIC assistance the whole time. It is now time for the cabal to bring the hammer down.
      The circumstance we are experiencing right now is just a ‘softening up’ of the target….all the people of the world. They want us to be weak and hopeless. They want us to fight each other to the death..They don’t like the guns the public has, and will be looking for the right time to seize them. That will be AFTER we have killed EACH OTHER, in huge numbers. There will be NO mercy.
      Along with internment camps all over the pace, there are huge stockpiles of blow-molded, multiple person coffins in many places. The U.S. Is the final domino!
      There is no political solution!! All the politics is merely diversion and distraction. The time draws near when all biblical prophecy will be fulfilled. Praise God! Pray for the people. that they will turn to Christ and Get on with the business of eternity. THIS WORLD AGE IS DONE!!!
      “For God so loved the world, that He gave his only begotten SON, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,but have everlasting life.”

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    • Max jones
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:49pm

      Go to your prowser and type in “bohemian grove exposed.” You may become a conspiracy realist.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 12:56pm

      Max Jones, you believe all of that and yet you didn’t imagine it or learn it on your own. Someone else told you all of that. Probably Alex Jones, and he’s making a career for himself out of spreading lies like that. You have been fed false information by delusional people. It‘s a complex web of misinformation and I realize that my message here cannot counter the diet of lies you’ve been fed for who knows how long. But do yourself a favor. Reboot your thinking on all of that and take a fresh, honest look into those claims and who the people are that are claiming it. I’m not going to address your religious beliefs, but I urge you to recheck and rethink the rest of it. Wouldn‘t you welcome the chance to experience the wave of relief you’ll feel if all of those catastrophic speculative events and predictions were FALSE? It’s worth a shot. You owe it to yourself to get to the bottom of it. Use neutral sources. Alex Jones is delusional.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:03pm

      Max Jones, check this out for example:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr-0mqI0GTc

      I haven’t vetted it yet, but I agree with the sentiment of the author.

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    • CatB
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:24pm

      Soros EVIL plan is working.

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    • Josh
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:38pm

      @Beckisnuts So you say that it is like weather, cyclical. So you are saying you don’t believe in Global Warming? What will your liberal brethren say?

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    • MCGIRV
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:55pm

      Hell yeah that ethanol is a great Idea!

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    • G.W. Dobbs
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 1:59pm

      Henry Ford believed MARIJUANA/HEMP would be used to build, and fuel his cars inexpensively.
      HEMP could be used for ethanol instead of CORN and should be. But, hey, that requires COMMON SENSE and our government has NONE.

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:10pm

      Josh, you‘ve fallen into the trap of thinking anyone who doesn’t by Beck’s routine is automatically a liberal. How could a conservative not be on Glenn’s side? Right? Well, you are wrong. I was a conservative when Glenn was still running around with a pony tail, rolling joints, snorting lines and getting drunk everyday. It’s really time for you Becklers to kick it up a notch and stop making false assumptions. Learn to think outside the box. Not every conservative supports Glenn Beck. There are lots of us who think he’s part of the problem. But don’t take my word for it. Research it on your own.

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    • Goobergregory
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:52pm

      @Dustyluv. I think we may know each other LOL… I soooooooooooooo Agree with you. Bubba and I found each other precisely BECAUSE we were both looking ahead a couple of years ago and not seeing a very pretty picture. We watch as they slowly ratchet the regs up so that when the bottom truly falls out from under the masses feet they will be more ready to handle the nightmare that they have created. People like you and Bubba and I have not bought into the BS that has been fed to them Via MSM et. all. We do not have debt, we own our farm and small plot of land free and clear and have been taking care of making sure that the worst we have to worry about is the price of energy (only to a point) and taxes.

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    • TheLascone
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 2:58pm

      You got that right Dash ….

      http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/5296855395/in/photostream/

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    • beckisnuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:10pm

      Don’t you all just *love* me? I just love how you all respond to my foolish posts! You all seem to can’t get enough of me, can you?

      BlazingPatriot  
    • sWampy
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 4:53pm

      And it was a good day for the sharks. ;-(

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    • BeckIsNuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:03pm

      beckisnuts
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 3:10pm
      Don’t you all just *love* me? I just love how you all respond to my foolish posts! You all seem to can’t get enough of me, can you?

      The message above is not posted by me.
      It appears that you can steal another’s name on The Blaze by changing what letters are upper and lower case. Interesting. One of Glenneth’s supporters is very childish.

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    • Brooke Lorren
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 5:18pm

      Definitely behind the power curve. I started writing about this myself nearly three years ago: http://brookelorren.com/blog/2008/04/an-upcoming-famine/

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    • avenger
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 6:27pm

      looks like the elites are tweaking the herd again….time to take back the country…..whoops…is this violence

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    • What-A-Joke
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 7:00pm

      Bend over, here it comes.

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    • *************************
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 7:27pm

      But don’t expect imposter-in-chief Barack Hussein Obama (A.K.A. Barry Obama, A.K.A. Barry Soetoro, Kenyan national) to stop being served his favorite $100 sirloins at his White House dinners. Pass the ketchup?

      LILI Von SHTUPP:” Would you like another schnitzengruben?”
      sheriff BART: “No, thank you! Fifteen is my limit on schnitzengruben!”
      -Blazing Saddles

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    • jimenycricket
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 8:00pm

      Amen brother, you said a mouth full. God gave us food and fuel but some want to go against the grain so to speak

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:10pm

      Guess who is heavily invested in commodities? Hint: SOROS!! This is not an accident folks, it was planned.

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    • DisillusionedDaily
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:13pm

      Oh, yes. I almost forgot. How many billions do we spend each year paying farmers NOT to grow stuff? Could CONGRESS be another name for POLITBURO?

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    • oldoldtimer
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 9:43pm

      Remember the panic buying of years gone by? Sugar shortage- All the sugar was bought up while Mexico and other countries had plenty. Speculators made millions. Remember the nonexistant toilet paper shortage? Same thing. Price of both went rediculious. Some one stands to make a fortune if they can convince people food is in short supply and they need to hoard. it will drive up the price and the speculators will make billions. People like Soros who love to start shortages of things they already own or control. Yes you should have a supply of food but to go out and panic buy destroying the normal demand is insanity.

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    • snidley-whiplash
      Posted on January 13, 2011 at 11:10pm

      And if our educational system (federal) would stop raising idiots, than we could rid the U.S. of future politicans that have hijacked (oops don’t meant things that fly) our very way of freedom!

      I’m waiting for the phrase and action that goes along with it: IMPEACH OBAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 1:49am

      @GEAU-

      Amen to that. We had to drive through the GREAT CONGRESS CREATED DUST BOWL this past October- the sight is mind numbing. Makes no sense what so ever. Let me see if I have gotten this right. The government stops farmers in California from producing much needed food- over a stupid little fish. Then the spend and spend and spend. They print money on top of money. They pass a food safety bill that will destroy small producers. They criticize people for hoarding food and wanting to learn how to grow their own food. Meanwhile- the spend and print situation creates hyperinflation to the point that NO ONE but the rich will be able to afford their current grocery budget.

      I don’t mean to be the conveyor of gloom and doom but what you end up with is food shortages and mass starvation reaching biblical proportions. Seems like a form of genocide to me. Just sayin-

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    • EP46
      Posted on January 14, 2011 at 3:28pm

      Nope DASH* we have to IMPORT food so we can send our money to other countries. It would be too simple to grow and sell food here at home…that would not help spread the wealth.
      Also keep in mind that Soros sold lots of his investments and put his money into commodities….which is now making him billions more.

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