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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/op...=1&oref=slogin
Grains Gone Wild Article Tools Sponsored By By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: April 7, 2008 These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But thereıs another world crisis under way and itıs hurting a lot more people. Iım talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even relatively well-off Americans but theyıre truly devastating in poor countries, where food often accounts for more than half a familyıs spending. There have already been food riots around the world. Food-supplying countries, from Ukraine to Argentina, have been limiting exports in an attempt to protect domestic consumers, leading to angry protests from farmers and making things even worse in countries that need to import food. . . ---------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/bu...inflate.html?p agewanted=1&ei=5088&en=ed7e8eeb99f7441c&ex=1365393 600&partner=rssnyt&emc= rss Asian Inflation Begins to Sting U.S. Shoppers Justin Mott for The New York Times .. . . Developing countries have had bouts of inflation before. Indeed, some are famous for them, like Brazil, which experienced triple-digit inflation in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But two things make this time different, and together promise to send prices higher at Wal-Mart and supermarkets alike in the United States, just as the possibility of recession looms. First, developing countries now produce nearly half of all American imports. Second, inflation in these countries is coming at the same time that many of their currencies are rising against the dollar. That puts American consumers in a double bind, paying at least some of producersı higher costs for making their goods, and higher prices on top of that because the dollar buys less in those countries. . . .. . . And there are signs that the dollar could fall further if developing countriesı central banks stopped supporting it, particularly in Asia. Vietnamıs central bank even had to order the countryıs commercial banks late last month to resume buying dollars within the tight range of exchange rates set by the government. Many banks had started betting on dollar depreciation and refusing to accept large sums in dollars, to the point that multinationals and exporters had trouble wiring money into the country to pay their employeesı salaries. --------- Make that garden as big as you can. Food = $ -- Billy Impeach Pelosi, Bush & Cheney to the Hague http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ |
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, Billy wrote: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/op...=1&oref=slogin Grains Gone Wild Article Tools Sponsored By By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: April 7, 2008 These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But thereıs another world crisis under way and itıs hurting a lot more people. Iım talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even relatively well-off Americans but theyıre truly devastating in poor countries, where food often accounts for more than half a familyıs spending. There have already been food riots around the world. Food-supplying countries, from Ukraine to Argentina, have been limiting exports in an attempt to protect domestic consumers, leading to angry protests from farmers and making things even worse in countries that need to import food. . . ---------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/bu...inflate.html?p agewanted=1&ei=5088&en=ed7e8eeb99f7441c&ex=1365393 600&partner=rssnyt&emc= rss Asian Inflation Begins to Sting U.S. Shoppers Justin Mott for The New York Times . . . Developing countries have had bouts of inflation before. Indeed, some are famous for them, like Brazil, which experienced triple-digit inflation in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But two things make this time different, and together promise to send prices higher at Wal-Mart and supermarkets alike in the United States, just as the possibility of recession looms. First, developing countries now produce nearly half of all American imports. Second, inflation in these countries is coming at the same time that many of their currencies are rising against the dollar. That puts American consumers in a double bind, paying at least some of producersı higher costs for making their goods, and higher prices on top of that because the dollar buys less in those countries. . . . . . And there are signs that the dollar could fall further if developing countriesı central banks stopped supporting it, particularly in Asia. Vietnamıs central bank even had to order the countryıs commercial banks late last month to resume buying dollars within the tight range of exchange rates set by the government. Many banks had started betting on dollar depreciation and refusing to accept large sums in dollars, to the point that multinationals and exporters had trouble wiring money into the country to pay their employeesı salaries. --------- Make that garden as big as you can. Food = $ Look at some of these graphs dealing with Commodity/Futures. http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/ Scary for sure. Deals with food stuffs and more. Bill -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA MaCain in 2038 !! http://www.ted.com/ |
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On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:53:36 -0400, Bill wrote: Look at some of these graphs dealing with Commodity/Futures. http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/ Scary for sure. Deals with food stuffs and more. Bill Yike is right. Thanks for this link. All the info is in one place for me now. The last two months. Very not good. Overseas news is reporting the results of this. Several grain exporting countries will *not* be exporting this year. Last week we hit one of the big boxes and I picked up a couple hundred pounds of rice and beans. Short term insurance. Got Rice? Charlie Yup we have about 3 months worth on hand. I've got it in 2 # containers as I've had 50# bags go buggy before. Australia is a major exporter of wheat. This drought they have effects us all. There is always squirrel stew. ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH9MaW1tjig Bill -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA MaCain in 2038 !! http://www.ted.com/ |
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On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:35:35 -0400, Bill wrote: Yup we have about 3 months worth on hand. I've got it in 2 # containers as I've had 50# bags go buggy before. Australia is a major exporter of wheat. This drought they have effects us all. I use the old chunk of dry ice in the bottom of a bucket and fill with rice letting the CO2 displace the O2 before sealing the bucket trick. There is always squirrel stew. ) LOL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH9MaW1tjig Let's not forget this fine dining experience either. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1NlLJsr2ac We need to have a care here, we're gonna hurt old Billy's feelings by hijinxing his thread. ;-) Charlie I thought we were on topic but I usually do ) The devil made me do it. Billy made me do it. Bill -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA MaCain in 2038 !! http://www.ted.com/ |
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We need to have a care here, we're gonna hurt old Billy's feelings by hijinxing his thread. ;-) Charlie I thought we were on topic but I usually do ) The devil made me do it. Billy made me do it. Hey Billy, you gettin' this? {:-[ Guess not. Must be out getting grounded, lucky feller! Bill Ah yes......a fine compost of ideas! "Spread it on the ground, pile it up, add stuff or not....... Just don't bag it up and throw it away. It's all good." cat daddy Life. It all works together, always on topic, to create something better if we just mix it up and let it. Charlie Uh-huh. Chapter Nine in "The Revolution yada,yada, yada" by Sandor Katz is dedcated to "The Feral Forager": Scavaging and Recycling Food Resources. Think I'll head on out to the store and pick up a few things:-( -- Billy Impeach Pelosi, Bush & Cheney to the Hague http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ |
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... In article , Charlie wrote: We need to have a care here, we're gonna hurt old Billy's feelings by hijinxing his thread. ;-) Charlie I thought we were on topic but I usually do ) The devil made me do it. Billy made me do it. Hey Billy, you gettin' this? {:-[ Guess not. Must be out getting grounded, lucky feller! Bill Ah yes......a fine compost of ideas! "Spread it on the ground, pile it up, add stuff or not....... Just don't bag it up and throw it away. It's all good." cat daddy Life. It all works together, always on topic, to create something better if we just mix it up and let it. Charlie Uh-huh. Chapter Nine in "The Revolution yada,yada, yada" by Sandor Katz is dedcated to "The Feral Forager": Scavaging and Recycling Food Resources. Think I'll head on out to the store and pick up a few things:-( -- Billy Impeach Pelosi, Bush & Cheney to the Hague http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ Oil and gas prices is one thing. When my Saturday night pizza delivery doubles in price, that's going to put a real hurtin' on my budget. I am having my post-and-rail fence replaced. Maybe I should make that an enclosed chain link fence around my Meditation Potato Walk with 24-hour internet webcams. dwight |
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"dwight" wrote: "Billy" wrote in message ... In article , Charlie wrote: We need to have a care here, we're gonna hurt old Billy's feelings by hijinxing his thread. ;-) Charlie I thought we were on topic but I usually do ) The devil made me do it. Billy made me do it. Hey Billy, you gettin' this? {:-[ Guess not. Must be out getting grounded, lucky feller! Bill Ah yes......a fine compost of ideas! "Spread it on the ground, pile it up, add stuff or not....... Just don't bag it up and throw it away. It's all good." cat daddy Life. It all works together, always on topic, to create something better if we just mix it up and let it. Charlie Uh-huh. Chapter Nine in "The Revolution yada,yada, yada" by Sandor Katz is dedcated to "The Feral Forager": Scavaging and Recycling Food Resources. Think I'll head on out to the store and pick up a few things:-( -- Billy Impeach Pelosi, Bush & Cheney to the Hague http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ Oil and gas prices is one thing. When my Saturday night pizza delivery doubles in price, that's going to put a real hurtin' on my budget. I am having my post-and-rail fence replaced. Maybe I should make that an enclosed chain link fence around my Meditation Potato Walk with 24-hour internet webcams. dwight Pizza Dough 7g compressed yeast 1/2 teaspoon castor sugar 1/4 cup warm water 2 cups plain flour 2 eggs lightly beaten 90g butter or softened or olive oil Combine yeast with sugar stir well in warm water .( stand about 8 to 10 min or until mixture is foamy) Sift flour then combined eggs, yeast mixture, knee for about 3 min to form a dough then knead in small pieces of butter until all butter is incorporated , this should take about 5 minutes ( mixture will be quite sticky ) Knead dough further about 10 minutes or until its become smooth and elastic. Place dough in lightly oiled bowl, cover , stand in room temp. for about 1 hour or until doubled in size. Pizza Roll (Stromboli) 2 pizza dough (2 lbs.) 1/2 lb. salami 1/2 lb. Capocolla or Pancetta (Italian bacon) 1 1/2 green bell peppers 1 1/2 onions 1/2 lb. Provolone cheese Oregano peppers to taste Make two individual rolls, split ingredients evenly. Roll out pizza dough to make a square sheet, about 12x12 inch or thinner. Layer above ingredients in order listed and roll to make one big loaf. Make sure the seam is at the bottom. Brush top of loaf with egg wash or water. This will give a nice shine on top. Bake at 350 degrees until golden. Let it get cool and slice. Serve warm or cold. This can be frozen in slices and reheated just before serving. Pizza Sliced the following ingredient:- Sausages or ham or salami, sliced raw button mushroom or any of raw mushrooms, sliced one medium yellow onion, sliced one medium tomato, sliced 300g shredded cheese (Gouda cheese or mozzarella cheese or pizza cheese ) The topping of the pizza is refer to your taste, You can add or change the topping and replace some others stuff that you like, but just aware that the pizza base must brush with tomato sauce,oregano leaves, and the top up with the cheese. The above dough can make two pizza (round size diameter about 12 inches) Remember don't press too hard to make it flat, cause this will make your pizza crust too hard. Preheat the Oven 200C or temp like you're baking cakes.) Divide the dough into two pieces, press to flatten . Spread the tomato sauce and sprinkle the oregano leaves at the surface of the dough, then spread the rest of the slices ingredients and top with the cheese. Bake it for 10 minutes or until cheese is melted and pizza base cooked through. -- -- Billy Impeach Pelosi, Bush & Cheney to the Hague http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ |
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In article , Charlie wrote:
On Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:53:36 -0400, Bill wrote: Look at some of these graphs dealing with Commodity/Futures. http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/ Scary for sure. Deals with food stuffs and more. Bill Yike is right. Thanks for this link. All the info is in one place for me now. The last two months. Very not good. Overseas news is reporting the results of this. Several grain exporting countries will *not* be exporting this year. Last week we hit one of the big boxes and I picked up a couple hundred pounds of rice and beans. Short term insurance. Got Rice? Charlie Got me thinkin Wonder how wild rice is being priced these days. Was pricey but with our current changes maybe worth a look. http://www.google.com/search?client=...d+rice&ie=UTF- 8&oe=UTF-8 Bill Wild rice a traditional food B4 white guys add Maple Syrup b4 white guys. What is next Acorn's. Never ate them. ) Below deals with acorns. http://plantanswers.tamu.edu/recipes/squirrel.html -- Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA MaCain in 2038 !! http://www.ted.com/ |
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"Billy" wrote in message
... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/op...=1&oref=slogin Grains Gone Wild Article Tools Sponsored By By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: April 7, 2008 These days you hear a lot about the world financial crisis. But thereıs another world crisis under way and itıs hurting a lot more people. Iım talking about the food crisis. Over the past few years the prices of wheat, corn, rice and other basic foodstuffs have doubled or tripled, with much of the increase taking place just in the last few months. High food prices dismay even relatively well-off Americans but theyıre truly devastating in poor countries, where food often accounts for more than half a familyıs spending. There have already been food riots around the world. Food-supplying countries, from Ukraine to Argentina, have been limiting exports in an attempt to protect domestic consumers, leading to angry protests from farmers and making things even worse in countries that need to import food. . . ---------------- http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/bu...inflate.html?p agewanted=1&ei=5088&en=ed7e8eeb99f7441c&ex=1365393 600&partner=rssnyt&emc= rss Asian Inflation Begins to Sting U.S. Shoppers Justin Mott for The New York Times . . . Developing countries have had bouts of inflation before. Indeed, some are famous for them, like Brazil, which experienced triple-digit inflation in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But two things make this time different, and together promise to send prices higher at Wal-Mart and supermarkets alike in the United States, just as the possibility of recession looms. First, developing countries now produce nearly half of all American imports. Second, inflation in these countries is coming at the same time that many of their currencies are rising against the dollar. That puts American consumers in a double bind, paying at least some of producersı higher costs for making their goods, and higher prices on top of that because the dollar buys less in those countries. . . . . . And there are signs that the dollar could fall further if developing countriesı central banks stopped supporting it, particularly in Asia. Vietnamıs central bank even had to order the countryıs commercial banks late last month to resume buying dollars within the tight range of exchange rates set by the government. Many banks had started betting on dollar depreciation and refusing to accept large sums in dollars, to the point that multinationals and exporters had trouble wiring money into the country to pay their employeesı salaries. --------- Make that garden as big as you can. Food = $ -- Billy Impeach Pelosi, Bush & Cheney to the Hague http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ How many homeowners and non-homeowners are not privy with an adequate amount of acreage, adequate soil, and adequate water supply to grow an adequate garden in the U.S.? How about the remaining countries of this earth? -- Dave |
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"Dioclese" NONE wrote: How many homeowners and non-homeowners are not privy with an adequate amount of acreage, adequate soil, and adequate water supply to grow an adequate garden in the U.S.? How about the remaining countries of this earth? -- Dave That isn't the point. There is also the possibility of joining a community gardens, or renting a small area where you can garden, or subscribing to a Community Supported Agriculture participant. I am receiving free range eggs with the promise to share my meager garden's bounty. The point is to maximize what you have, whether it is 12,000 sq. ft. to support a family of three or a pot of parsley, it is all important. -- Billy Impeach Pelosi, Bush & Cheney to the Hague http://angryarab.blogspot.com/ http://rachelcorriefoundation.org/ |