Major Ingredient for Gov. Overthrows

[maxx]

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=54119
" Famine-hollowed farmers watch trucks loaded with grain grown on their ancestral lands heading for the nearest port, destined to fill richer bellies in foreign lands. This scene has become all too common since the 2008 food crisis..."

[MCP-001]

Are you implying that this will happen here in the future?

[oladub]

This article from the Asia Times suggests that up to 1M Chinese laborers might be doing farm work in Africa. It took a couple of hundred years to get rid of European colonialists but now China is assuming the same role but also possibly including Chinese settlers in it's new found African colonies. If African labor is not needed, wouldn't Africans be expendable?
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_B.../KJ02Cb01.html
This BBC article says there are 750,000 Chinese farmers who have moved to Africa. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7118941.stm

[Bigb23]

Not quite off topic - but read a few pages of this book to see what ConAgra and Monsanto etc. has done to farming in this country. And the consequences.

http://tinyurl.com/methland-the-book [[start with page 159)

On Wednesday, U.S.-based Cargill, the world's largest agricultural commodities trader, announced a tripling of profits. The firm generated 1.49 billion dollars in three months between September and November 2010

[maxx]

Looks like we could use a trust buster for our food as well as our information media.
The new healthcare law makes some attempt to create competition in our so-called capitalist system, but it's obvious that capitalists are only interested in destroying their competition and creating monopolies.