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Despite being the world’s largest consumers of rice, China has remained unusually quiet. Chinese Premier Wen Jia-Bao denied that rice shortages or price hikes will be a problem for Chinese consumers and a few weeks ago, revealed secret state reserves of rice in excess of 150 million tons to prove his point...
Google Trends, which tracks the volume of internet searches, reveals a dramatic spike over the last quarter in searches for “rice price.” This surge in interest comes with cause: last week, industrial market prices for rice soared to US$1,000 a ton, up from $360 a ton at the start of 2007—a colossal leap, of proportions unheard of since the OPEC oil squeeze of the 1970s...
...media and consumers of Europe and the United States distract themselves with China’s efforts to avoid a public-relations catastrophe before and during the Beijing Olympics, perhaps they should pay more heed to another growing problem. Though the nascent squeeze on rice supplies appears to have remained under the Western radar thus far, it has the potential to directly affect more people and cause even more violence than the horrors we have heard of from Tibet...
...Philippines, the National Bureau of Investigation has prioritized disbanding rice hoarding rings over tracking terrorists. The police in India are busting into warehouses hoarding rice, while over 50 Bangladeshi workers were injured in hunger riots as even their government was unable to buy any rice at all last week. Crowds in Thailand rioted so much over food shortages that government elections were postponed. Closer to the U.S., Haiti’s Prime Minister was forced to resign following hunger riots that killed 4 and injured 20, and the poor there are now eating mud patties mixed with oil and sugar...
...principles” were led by then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and included Ashcroft and Vice President Dick Cheney, along with Colin Powell, Donald Rumsfeld, and George Tenet, who at the time were Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and CIA Director, respectively. According to ABC, these officials approved whether or not specific detainees “would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep, or subjected to simulated drowning called water boarding.” The report went on to say that, according to its sources, approval at this level was so specific that “the interrogations...