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"In a food crisis, the public expects the state to intervene on their behalf, and states will do just that."

Maybe, if they can.


The first corn planting in the US in 2008 is mostly a failure owing to lack of rain. Plus, driving through the midwest and plains states last week, one observes literally hundreds of pivotal irrigation rigs are toppled.
Couple it with the spread of wheat rust UG99, the low level of grain reserves on hand, and the lack of global demand for the un-backed US "dollar", and one wonders how many hundreds of such dollars it will take to buy a bushel of corn in the near future. The "dollar" is being propped up because the big boys havn't yet quite finished preparing, but once they do, then they'll pull the stops and all those poor hardworking people with a couple $million will wake up penniless and hungry, as predicted by Thomas Jefferson.

Gold and silver will be declared strategic assets of the gov, and confiscated in the name of feeding the people, and those who hoard it will become criminal.