Thread: George Soros making a move to control food and grain product

George Soros making a move to control food and grain productionMarch 30th, 2011 1:37 pm ET .
Kenneth Schortgen Jr Finance Examiner.

Financier and progressive activist George Soros is formulating a move to control food and grain production by purchasing grain elevators in late March in several parts of the United States through his subsidiary company Gavilon Grain. With some purchases made on March 29th, Soros will become the third largest grain company behind Cargill, and Archer-Daniels Midland.

With strong ties to the Obama administration, Soros now has both the economic, and political clout to begin consolidation of purchasing and shipping domestic agriculture around the world.

U.S. grain firm Gavilon Grain said on Thursday it will buy Union Elevator and Warehouse's 16 grain elevators in the Pacific Northwest , the company's second big purchase of U.S. grain facilities in the last six months.

The purchase of 16 elevators at 12 locations in eastern Washington will expand Gavilon's grain capacity by 8.4 mbu.

"The addition of Union Elevator's grain facilities and origination capabilities position us well to support the growing Pacific Northwest export wheat market and serve the Columbian Basin feed grain market," Greg Konsor, VP and GM of Gavilon Grain, said in a statement. The PNW is the No. 1 wheat export terminal in the United States.
When food brokers consolidate into just a few large companies controlling the majority of a market, then prices can be set not by supply and demand, but by corporate decisions and manipulation of supply. If the price for food is too low in the United States, then grain can be shipped to other markets for sale, causing then an artifical supply problem in the country that produced the grain itself.

With George Soros making this move to control food and grain distribution in the United States, and becoming the third largest grain company in the country, it will lead to the same results that we see in the energy markets as oil is controlled by a small group of corporations, and the price can be dictated by an artificial control over its supply.
. - Reuters

http://www.examiner.com/finance-examine ... t=31435366

Interesting article.

Having shopped the other day when I was on the road and had run out of toothpaste I was shocked when I looked to see where my toothpaste was manufactured. I had thought all toothpaste, or at least the major brands were made in the USA. What a shock! Major brands made in China! Out of four of the major brands that I picked up, one was made in the USA.

Looking at how much of our manufacturing capacity has been outsourced, lock, stock, and barrel, I think the next big wave for outsourcing in the future, and to some extent already is happening, will be the food processors.

It has been said that we already depend on many other nations for military manufactures of various sorts and how we are becoming so dependent on others for these types of manufactures, and the ill effects they could present in a crisis.

What happens when we Americans wake up and find much of our processed food is dependent upon other nations, some that are not at all concerned with our own concerns?

What will we be willing to politically accept when a dollar crisis, or an energy, or some political crisis comes about and we are dependent upon others for something as simple as food?

Just what kind of deal did Wonderboy make down in Rio in order to keep the dollar pegged to oil sales? Will we be seeing an influx of immigrants from Brazil, or food products?

Learn from the Irish Potato Famine.

The 'Great Hunger' was one of many famines in Ireland during the first half of the nineteenth century, but the size of the disaster dwarfed those that preceded it. A contemporary comment was that "God sent the blight, but the English made the famine: and to some extent this was true because the governments of both Peel and Lord John Russell did little to help the Irish population.

The Irish population had exploded in the first half of the nineteenth century, reaching about 8.5 million by 1845. The peasants were almost totally dependent on the potato as a source of food because this crop produced more food per acre than wheat and could also be sold as a source of income. Because of the widespread practise of conacre, the peasants needed to produce the biggest crop possible and so the type of potato most favoured was the "Aran Banner," a large variety.

Unfortunately, this particular strain was highly susceptive to the fungus, Phytophthora infestans, commonly known as blight, which had spread from North America to Europe. The blight destroyed the potato crop of 1845 and by the early autumn of that year it was clear that famine was imminent in Ireland. Peel's government was slow to react. Peel said that the Irish had a habit of exaggerating reports of distress; since he had been Chief Secretary for Ireland between 1812 and 1818, his experience might have told him that there might have had some truth in his comment, but in 1816 he had produced a contingency plan for the government in case economic disaster ever struck Ireland. Consequently his lack of action is difficult to explain.

During the winter of 1845-1846 Peel's government spent £100,000 on American maize which was sold to the destitute. The Irish called the maize 'Peel's brimstone'. Eventually the government also initiated relief schemes such as canal-building and road building to provide employment. The workers were paid at the end of the week and often men had died of starvation before their wages arrived. Even worse, many of the schemes were of little used: men filled in valleys and flattened hills just so the government could justify the cash payments. The Irish crisis was used as an excuse by Peel in order for him to the repeal the Corn Laws in 1846, but their removal brought Ireland little benefit. The major problem was not that there was no food in Ireland — there was plenty of wheat, meat and dairy produce, much of which was being exported to England — but that the Irish peasants had no money with which to buy the food. The repeal of the Corn Laws had no effect on Ireland because however cheap grain was, without money the Irish peasants could not buy it.

Peel was replaced in office in June 1846 by Lord John Russell and a Whig administration dedicated to a laissez-faire policy. Russell's administration believed that Irish wealth should relieve Irish poverty, and rejected the policy of direct state intervention or aid. However, neither Irish landlords nor the Poor Law unions could deal with the burden of a huge starving population. In January 1847 Russell's administration modified its non-interventionist policy and made money available on loan for relief, and soup kitchens were established. The potato crop did not fail in 1847, but the yield was low. Then, as hundreds of thousands of starving people poured into the towns and cities for relief, epidemics of typhoid fever, cholera, and dysentery broke out, and claimed more lives than starvation itself.

In September 1847 Russell's government ended what little relief it had made available and demanded that the Poor Law rate be collected before any further money be made available by the Treasury. The collection of these rates in a period of considerable hardship was accompanied by widespread unrest and violence. Some 16,000 extra troops were sent to Ireland and troubled parts of the country were put under martial law. The potato crop failed once more in 1848, and this was accompanied by Asiatic cholera

The 1841 census recorded an Irish population of 8.2 million. By 1851 this figure had been reduced to 6.5 million. These statistics give some indication of the scale of the disaster, but since many of those affected by the famine lived in remote and inaccessible places, it is more than possible that far more people died that has ever been thought. It has been estimated that at least one million people died from starvation and its attendant diseases, with the balance seeking emigration to Britain and North America
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/famine.html

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Soros moves to control American food and grain production !

http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-234008.html

In 2008 the Soros group bought ConAgra. Hasn't Conagra employed a lot of illegals at various subsidies ariound the country?
It looks like Soros group is moving to control food and supply
I believe that .
SOROS IS THE ULTIMATE INSIDE TRADER. He buys governments through corrupt politicians.


Just google Conagra-soros and read.

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As you head toward No. 11 ConAgra Drive, there's no clue that you're approaching the headquarters of a company with more than 300 high-salaried local employees, owned by some of the nation's biggest investment groups, with a global network that markets and shuttles billions of dollars worth of grain, fertilizer and fuel each year.

Nor can many people in Omaha tell you much about Gavilon Group.

But Gavilon has become a widely known name in the behind-the-scenes world of commodities, from grain elevators in the Farm Belt to shipping and trading of grain, fertilizer, natural gas and petroleum products on six continents. And some day, Gavilon might even appear on Wall Street. (Ticker symbol GVN is available.)

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