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[El Oso, El Moreno, and El Abogado] This was followed by widespread speculation that the corn supply would run out by the year’s end to which Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez, the Secretary of Agriculture, responded “that the price hike of a kilo of tortillas was not due to a shortage of maize, rather it was due to price speculation. Likewise, Cardenas Jimenez said that there will be sufficient maize throughout the year with the Sinaloa harvest due in May [and] Ricardo Monreal, the PRD senator, presented the Attorney General´s office with a formal complaint against maize speculators who brought on the tortilla price hike.”
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Global Voices Online: The “Tortilla Protests” got so bad, in fact, that, as Mexico City-based, radio talk show host Ana Maria Salazar writes, “a so called “Tortilla Price Stabilization Agreement” was signed by the government and companies linked to the tortilla industry in order to fix a 8.50 peso price per kilo.” This was followed by widespread speculation that the corn supply would run out by the year’s end to which Alberto Cárdenas Jiménez, the Secretary of Agriculture, responded “that the price hike of a kilo of tortillas was not due to a shortage of maize, rather it was due to price speculation. (via Cosmos)
[Gmopundit.blogspot.com] GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe: 2006-11-05: A blog to give Australian primary producers a direct insight into what technology could offer them, and point them towards authoritative sources of information from all over the world. We help agricultural producers to stay ahead of the global competition.
[Spectrezine.org] Cuban View of USA Economy; Time Bomb Waiting to go off: Indebtedness and speculation, the stimulants of the U.S. consumer economy, constitute a time bomb waiting to go off. Not even invented wars will be able to deactivate it.
[Billtotten.blogspot.com] Bill Totten's Weblog: January 2005: And in October 2002, a study by Columbia University's Center for International Earth Science Information Network and the Wildlife Conservation Society, published in the journal BioScience, found that 83 percent of the world's total land surface and 98 percent of the areas where it is possible to grow the world's three main crops - rice, wheat, and maize - are now directly impacted by human activities such as cities, farming, mining, fishing, logging, roads, waterways, dams, and electrical power grids. Given a human ecological footprint that damn near covers the entire earth, it shouldn't come as any surprise that we now face a mass extinction crisis, collapsing fisheries, a growing number of "dead zones", and other signs of global ecological collapse.
[Antigreen.blogspot.com] GREENIE WATCH: Most would agree that reducing nitrogen contamination of groundwater wells, limiting the occurrence of code red ozone alerts, and preserving habitat for grizzly bears are worthy goals. Determining the relative merits of any one of these compared to the others, or compared to non-environmental goals such as improving public education, is much more daunting.
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