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[traderabc] 02/7/2011 10:47

Opinion

The great land grab: India's war on farmers

Land is a valuable asset that should be used to better humanity through farming and ecology.
Vandana Shiva Last Modified: 07 Jun 2011 17:14




Land is life. It is the basis of livelihoods for peasants and indigenous people across the Third World and is also becoming the most vital asset in the global economy. As the resource demands of globalisation increase, land has emerged as a key source of conflict. In India, 65 per cent of people are dependent on land. At the same time a global economy, driven by speculative finance and limitless consumerism, wants the land for mining and for industry, for towns, highways, and biofuel plantations. The speculative economy of global finance is hundreds of times larger than the value of real goods and services produced in the world.

Financial capital is hungry for investments and returns on investments. It must commodify everything on the planet - land and water, plants and genes, microbes and mammals. The commodification of land is fuelling the corporate land grab in India, both through the creation of Special Economic Zones and through foreign direct investment in real estate.

[traderabc] 01/7/2011 18:06

Schiff - Reckless Fed to Drive Gold North of $10,000, Oil $300

[traderabc] 01/7/2011 10:42

Gerald Celente - 'There's no way out' (30-Jun-11)(GLOBAL FOCUS series - US)

[traderabc] 01/7/2011 10:35

Rogers on Gov at home.

Should Congressman live in D.C. or your town?

[traderabc] 01/7/2011 09:59

Getting Used to Life Without Food, Part 2
Agribusiness as a Long-Term Strategy

Agribusiness as a Long-Term Strategy

Editor's Note: This editorial is continued from Getting Used to Life Without Food, Part 1: Wall Street, BP, Bio-Ethanol and the Death of Millions

The record rise in grain and food prices in recent years is not a mere Wall Street profit gimmick, although obscene profits are being made. Rather, it is apparently an integral part of a long-term strategy whose roots go back to the years just after World War Two when Nelson Rockefeller and his brothers tried to organize the global food chain along the same monopoly model they had used for world oil. Food would henceforth become just another commodity like oil or tin or silver whose scarcity and price could ultimately be controlled by a small group of powerful trading insiders.

At the same time the Rockefeller brothers were expanding their global business reach from oil to agriculture in the developing world through their technology-driven Green Revolution scheme after the war, they were also financing a little-noticed project at Harvard University. The project would form the infrastructure for their plan to globalize world food production under the central control of a handful of private corporations.

[traderabc] 30/6/2011 22:20

Keiser Report: The Counterattack! (E160)

[traderabc] 30/6/2011 12:57

Britain: Council to Force Family Living On Their Own Land and Growing Their Own Food to Live in State Housing and Become Dole Recipients
June 30th, 2011


Madness.

Via: This is Devon:

A COUPLE living an "off-grid" lifestyle say they face prison unless they move from their own land in Willand and return to an existence in the benefits trap.

Stig and Dinah Mason bought Muxbeare Orchard after a sudden windfall allowed them to quit their impoverished lives on a Hertfordshire council estate two years ago.

The Masons have transformed what they described as a derelict four-acre plot into a haven of self-sufficiency boasting a 400 sq m allotment, a polytunnel and greenhouses to grow fruit and vegetables, chickens for egg production and an orchard they have regenerated by planting around 14 new apple trees of various species.

The couple, who have two boys, aged eight and nine, say because they moved onto the site in order to work the land, Mid Devon District Council is turfing them off as officers do not consider them to be conserving an agricultural area.

They faced magistrates on March 31 when they were served with an injunction to leave within 28 days from June 1.

[traderabc] 30/6/2011 11:01

Jim Rogers On The Ratigan Show, Tells Viewers To Get Ready To Protect Themselves

[traderabc] 30/6/2011 10:49

GLENN BECK JIM ROGERS STATE OF OBAMA`S ECONOMY NOT GOOD

[traderabc] 30/6/2011 07:26

Hi c2i, I'm doing ok, most of my stocks are down some since we last talked but I'm not so bothered as I'm holding far less then I used to. I only have a couple of leavered positions atm, namely LSIL, and LKI which are close to break even.

The PM complex makes me nervous as I'm heavily long and they aren't doing the 45 degree thing anymore ;-)

I'm finding it hard to have confidence in any particular sector. The good ones are already up loads, even with these recent retrenchments, and the bad ones threaten the good and everything else.

I'm still looking to diversify out of the market all together, it's going to pop again like it did in 2008, I doubt anything will be spared, the big question is whether there will be a last hooray before it does.

It's hard to find charts that made it through 2008/2009 without severe damage, they almost all say, 'possible retest', and that's a place I'd rather not go.

I have edited my last post on the on the palladium thread, it might be of interest to you.

[traderabc] 30/6/2011 07:21

Jim Rogers: Holding Dollar, Euro and says Let Greece Default

[contrarian2investor] 29/6/2011 22:04

Hi traderabc, I thought you might find this interesting.

Subprime-Mortgage Indexes Jump After BofA Deal

29 Jun 2011 - 21:06



I have also left a post for you on the PHPD thread

[traderabc] 29/6/2011 20:06

Indeed, not exactly the words I'd use, perhaps it has to get really, really bad before 'the good guys win'.

Farage: Brussels bunglers lurching from one bailout to the next; Barroso says 'No Plan B'

[michaeld] 29/6/2011 15:21

Let's hope so Trader.

[traderabc] 29/6/2011 11:49

michaeld, our friend Farage. Such a shame the true Finn party didn't quite make it, next time hopefully.


"However bad it may look right now, be optimistic, the good guys always win in the end"

[traderabc] 29/6/2011 10:16

Modern Day Gold Prospectors

160 years after the original California gold rush, gold fever still grips the men of Nugget Alley

[traderabc] 29/6/2011 10:16

apdi71, I looked through the list of interviews and must admit that I didn't recognize any names, must have missed the Schiff one, I'll look again.

It's the adherence to conventional and consensus dogma that have brought the western economies to their knees, we need free thinkers and perhaps 'radical' policies to get out of this mess.

They can't keep dealing with the issues we face using the same concepts that got us here, these policies are obviously failing, yet they won't try something else. It's all getting far too serious for us to carry on tolerating what they do.

I'm not so sure of the 'benevolent dictator' theory, democracy for all its faults could be made to work if we could keep government small, transparent and most importantly accountable. A good education system is also a must.

[traderabc] 28/6/2011 22:31

Max Keiser and Lars Schall discuss Greece - below the Eiffel Tour!