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Non-Tech : The Brazil Board

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To: Julius Wong who wrote (218)4/16/2011 3:52:33 AM
From: elmatador   of 2512
 
Unrest in M. East and North Africa is positive for Brazil.

As governments try to keep seven free food.
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Every 10 percent increase in global food prices equates to a 100 percent increase in anti-government protests, according to a recent report from the International Monetary Fund. Looking at recent increases in foodstuff commodities -- up a total of 45 percent since the arrival of QE2 last year -- it’s no wonder there are revolutions, civil wars and riots breaking out across the globe. According to the IMF, a 45 percent increase in foodstuffs should quadruple the levels of unrest, and that seems to be precisely what’s happening.

Recent chaos caused by food inflation and hunger is being heartwarmingly marketed by propagandists as democratization. Remember the French Revolution and “let them eat cake.” The causa proxima was food inflation.

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Brazil is cashing in on those developments:

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