What Would We Do Without Crisis?

Overpriced inventories, protectionist trade barriers, the credit crunch and a *WARMING PLANET* are likely to continue standing in the way of getting the food staple to the more than 3 billion people who rely on it for basic nutrition.

Man, the moonbats are still pushing global warming.

Gee I wonder if the price of Rice is going to fall like the price of Gasoline?

You know,like in the course of 3 months a fall in Gas prices of over 70% !!!!!!!!!!!

It's all bullshit.

Why are higher prices for labour in the auto industry a good thing but higher prices for farm labour a bad thing? Nobody eats cars but that seems to be the priority among some.

I'm trying to make sense of the CTV article and failing. It says the crisis will persist while failing to give any reason for it. Prices have been cut in half.

They interview a guy complaining that we cannot get something for free. Then he complains he cannot buy 60 000 kg. What a nutbar.

Stefania Moretti is the author of the article, and boy does she serve to confuse.

MSM, ambulance chasers.

A "hangover" still lingers over major rice markets mainly as a result of government interventions to subdue last spring's rice crisis, Savage told ctv.ca in a telephone interview from London.

Making matters worse, expensive inventories are creating a backlog and overpriced rice is filling warehouses in places such as India, Savage said.
The pricey stock lingers in storage because export bans keep it from getting to those who need it in other countries, and many locals simply can't afford it.

Simple, interfere in the market, and the market bites you in the ass, every time.

So many experts, so little common sense.

Without a crisis, these experts wouldn't be needed, wouldn't get paid and wouldn't clog up the airwaves with their nonsense.

rice a roni...the san francisco treat
rice a roni...it's flavour can't be beat.

long grain rice.....ready in only 5 minutes...

where was I?...oh yes....when did/does supply meet demand in this story ?

Message flom Mao Stlong say, no wolly about lice in China; you wan some? Mao, goody sociarist, give you some with melmean bonus flee.
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"World rice price hikes "will not hurt supply" in China
1 Apr 2008 ... "Please set your mind at rest because China has abundant supply of rice," Wen said, adding that the country has stockpiled about 40-50 ...
www.gov.cn/english/2008-04/01/content_933928.htm"

The fear mongers are turning us all into cynics.
If some real crisis should creep up no one would believe it anymore. To Much of the MSM has cried wolf for way to long. Besides I doubt they could see whats important after the socialist brain washing Journalists get.

***********Overpriced inventories, protectionist trade barriers, the credit crunch and a *WARMING PLANET****************

article credibility tanked at "WARMING PLANET"

thusly I stopped rite there

"Why are higher prices for labour in the auto industry a good thing but higher prices for farm labour a bad thing?"

Because farmers and other primary food producers are still considered nothing but lowly serfs, whose only purpose is to serve urban consumers. Making a living & profit while producing necessities such as food is distasteful to most socialist. :P

"Nobody eats cars"

If you cook 'em first they supposedly can be edible. Apparently this is a new culinary trend in France, and as we all know, almost all degustational delicacies start in that country.

Screw the lame flame-kissed, charcoal roasted and Saganaki foodstuffs, we trendy westerners now want fire-roasted Citroen!

On a related note, next turkey time, stuff it with lemons. It's yummy.

I think the msm's ability to sell a crisis, is the msm's real crisis, and if you're not directly employed in any of the msm, you're not to worry about them.

I've always enjoyed reading a real paper in the morning, but their isn't much more than that to it.
and the National Post seems to be sliding a bit.

Crisis? Based on this I'm submitting an entry for 'Word of the Year' ..."Crices"

"Why are higher prices for labour in the auto industry a good thing but higher prices for farm labour a bad thing?"

It depends on who is doing the buying and who is doing the selling, or who is making the statement :-)

Are high home prices good or bad? Depends on whether you own a home (or collateralized debt obligation securities).

One thing I do know: price CONTROLS are a bad thing.

THE FOUSA!!!!

Good catch Kate. I wonder how many journos took economics in school?

The reason it's a 'Crisis' is to justify the assorted governmnets and NGO's from buying the rice at a higher than market price, protecting the stockpilers, (who are probably related to the politicians).

Overpopulation! Plain and simple. It will get far worse.

That Queen Noor of Jordan on CNN is quite the babe. I wonder if she'll be offered a movie contract soon.

Sorry, been watching CNN. They've been promising explosions, chaos, war and the possible end of the world all day, so it's hard to resist. So far, I'm disappointed.

They sucked me in, in between Barack Obama puff pieces, appeals to buy Barack Obama memorial coins, The Clapper, and some weird, dollar bill that re-erects the WTC Towers. I should BUY NOW!

But wait! I see explosions now! Oh, that was just a replay of something before. But wait! It's a crisis now! Oh wait, it's been a crisis for decades. But wait! Some urgent-sounding TV journalist is now saying...oh, sorry, false alarm. But wait! There will surely be something dramatic and gory happening soon! Stay tuned.

[Porcelain statues of Elvis ads, "Are you too fat?" ads, "you are paying too much for long distance" ads...]

Oooh look! Lights in the sky! That must be Israeli missiles captured by our exclusive webcam! Oh crap, it was just the reflection on the window from our cameraman lighting a cigarette. Please stay tuned, much more exciting stuff to come, including where the webcam falls off it's perch and the US news team spirals off into speculation about whether the local news team has been bombed!

Talk about stirring the pot how could this make it as news

Talk about stirring the pot how could this make it as news

Talk about stirring the pot how could this make it as news

OhNo.The price of saki just went up 2 cents a bottle.The Horror.

Ahhh, the ever outraged ulianov is heard from.

Pray tell, where exactly in the 21 posts prior to your own was anyone making fun of starving people?

And just curious, exactly how many blood pressure meds are you so that your head does not explode with each new "outrage"?

Oh. And the amount of something available goes up,and the price goes down? Did I miss something in Economics 101?

Why do we have experts that are blatant whores & when did the sleaze begin?

George Will wrote in his column last week the following tidbit.
LBJ (Lyndon Johnson) did not like the increasing price of "eggs" and ordered the "US Surgeon General" to concoct the Cholesterol connection to Eggs. The MSM pushed that BS to the limit. Did Canada follow suit?... The price went down..

This raises the question of how many other Surgeon General claims are cloaked in fraud.. and why has the MSM been silent until now.

The answer to the rice shortage may have to wait until the Feds open Bernard Madoff's deep freeze. Under the 50 used Big Mac Cartoons sealed with duct-tape, each bearing Gores Signature and labeled "1B", could be the missing Rice.

Enough already!

CTV has become just as bad as the CBC if not worse.
Always manufacturing some kind of crisis whether its the bird flu or killer bees or global warming or the polar bears dying or terror alerts or we're in another great depression or Harper is scary blah blah blah

kind of like, it's getting colder so it must be global warming.

Crisis? What crisis?

Oh yea, but the best thing about the MSM is that we don't have any more lineups at the newstand waiting for a crisis.

I used to get really tired waiting for a crisis.
You know, one that I could really, you know, sink my teeth into.

Real crisis is best served sugar-coated.