India bans wheat exports.

English article: www.cnbc.com...

Dutch article: www.nu.nl...

India banned wheat exports with immediate effect on Saturday, just days after saying it was targeting record shipments this year, as a scorching heatwave curtailed output and local prices hit an all-time high amid strong export demand. The government said it would still allow exports for letters of credit that have already been issued and on the request from countries that are trying “to meet their food security needs.” Global buyers were banking on the world’s second-biggest wheat producer for supplies after exports from the Black Sea region plunged following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in late February. Prior to the ban, India was targeting to ship out a record 10 million tonnes this year. The Indian ban could drive up global prices to new peaks and hit poor consumers in Asia and Africa. “The ban is shocking,” a Mumbai-based dealer with a global trading firm said. “We were expecting curbs on exports after 2-3 months, but seems inflation numbers changed government’s mind.”

India first, the world later. Wheat from India gone, wheat from the Ukraine gone. Let the hunger games begin.

a reply to: Sander1976

I truly and deeply hate the global econony and everyone who brought its existance to light. One countries issue should not raise the price all over the world. I am just about fed up with "globalization".

Revolution is coming.

a reply to: Sander1976

It appears to be a lot of coincidences occurring with regard to food supplies.

a reply to: Sander1976

Elites initiated the class warfare.

In response, the world population has mastered the art of apathy.


Moooooo!

originally posted by: anonentity
a reply to: Sander1976

It appears to be a lot of coincidences occurring with regard to food supplies.

No, not at all, it's due to the fact that so many countries have interlinked economies and supply chains. A lot of places get food from elsewhere, and are now moving to ensure that their domestic supplies are secure.

India does this kind of thing every few years in order to ensure that baisic foodstuffs are consumed domestically and not exported as a cash crop. For example Link

In this case, it's due to there being droughts in several regions that have reduced their own grain outputs, and due to a reduction in the global supply of grain due to Russia and Ukraine reducing their exports.

In the US, there isn't really a shortage of food, it's a disruption of food processing and distribution networks. The amount of food produced by farms is marginally effected but there is a shortage of labor to pick fruit and a shortage of people to pack and process meat. The same thing is evident in the EU. A lot of this is down to cheap migrant labor being less available and the local people being unwilling to do terrible hours for awful money.

originally posted by: 19Bones79
a reply to: Sander1976

Elites initiated the class warfare.

In response, the world population has mastered the art of apathy.


Moooooo!

Yes, the elite forced fruit farmers in California to pay far below the living wage, thus harming their ability to recruit pickers and packers after the immigrants left.

a reply to: AaarghZombies


Thank you for standing up for the elite, good citizen!

a reply to: havok
Ah yes, Globalism is current suffering some several setbacks.

I wonder what has spooked the elites to fail so badly?

the elites being eliminated is the fastest route to normalcy.

originally posted by: 19Bones79
a reply to: AaarghZombies


Thank you for standing up for the elite, good citizen!

The more that I read your comments the more that I'm reminded of a little man standing on a soap box reading from the books of Marx.

I've lived under Communism, and I've seen how they turned people against the "elite", and I'm seeing much of the same here.

a reply to: Sander1976
"India first, the world later. Wheat from India gone, wheat from the Ukraine gone. Let the hunger games begin."

I think they are absolutely right. Because, the corrupt traitors in the german politics, disguised as democratic politicians, do it exactly the other way around. The world first, Germany maybe, maybe later in a dark future. And if i talk to average people now here, like my neighbor some minutes ago, you can see, hear and feel how angry everybody meanwhile is because that effing EU money is less worth from day to day for average, hard working but nevertheless poor people.

Problem is, these average people have their head full of problems, are stressed from never ending work. From jobs they have to do to earn enough money to pay for the essential things, to be fit enough to be the low wage slave the next day again. For the rest of your life. And these people have no time and energy to look at the whole game, who is causing what happens in the world, who is really responsible for all the bad and evil stuff that happens.

If you tell them about the correlations between what the stinky ultra-rich wish and do to get what they want, they don´t even understand it because they never heard of the WEF, of Schwab, of Davos, of the Bilderbergers etc. They often really still believe people like Gates are good for humanity and the world and that these "philanthropists", better Oligarchs, want to make the world a better place for all of us and not only for them. I saw something good in the Netherlands, posters like movie posters everywhere, really looking like advertisement for an upcoming movie. Saying Great Rest You will own nothing in 2030 and be happy, showing the heads of some of these criminals including Mark Rutte, Schwab, Gates... here is a link to one of these posters. People maybe really think whats that for a movie, let me google it. It raises awareness and tells the people what the remote-controlled presstitutes don´t want to tell you.

But at the end i believe all that will not help, we really will end up in 2030 and "happy" about owning nothing anymore. Because these criminals have too much money and with that power meanwhile. And the majority of the average people in these WEF infiltrated and undermined former self-determining nations are distracted by either endless problems, spyPhones and (anti)social media owned by these criminals or they are, like the younger generations, consciously and purposefully made "dumber" so they are better and way easier to control in the NWO future.

Or a violent revolution will start and the people are able to take the criminals out of the game (wishful thinking...), consciously and purposefully, and destroy their complete evil game of global chess with us as peasants right after that. For whatever it takes.
Cheers

originally posted by: 19Bones79
a reply to: Sander1976

Elites initiated the class warfare.

In response, the world population has mastered the art of apathy.


Moooooo!

Class ware fare traditionally comes from the bottom, up, not the top down.

Or haven't you reached that chapter in whatever Marxist manuscript you're currently reading.

a reply to: DerBeobachter

Or a violent revolution will start and the people are able to take the criminals out of the game (wishful thinking...), consciously and purposefully, and destroy their complete evil game of global chess with us as peasants right after that. For whatever it takes.

You're paraphrasing Marx?

"The people will curse him who withholds grain, But blessing will be on the head of him who sells it."
Prov 11:26

written 3,000 years ago. Did the Bible call it or what?
nothing new under the sun.

kind of ironic to think of India as a food exporter. I always think of them as food short.

a reply to: ElGoobero

Appalachia is still poor, just not as bad as it used to be. Of course many of the families moved, shrank or all but died out in the region, but that is another story. But when the TVA displaced entire towns at a time for cheap hydroelectric, the mines laid the land barren for decades and factories in the north boomed from cheap labor…it all worked out.

a reply to: ElGoobero

He's not withholding grain, he's preventing it from being sold at a higher price overseas as a cash crop while his own people face rising food prices.

He's putting India first, and I hope that Washington would do the same under similar circumstances. Trump certainly would have had something to say about American companies selling food overseas while American's starved.

a reply to: AaarghZombies

The more that I read your comments the more that I'm reminded of a little man standing on a soap box reading from the books of Marx.

No doubt. It must've been one of my countless demure yet thoughtful threads about Trump that pushed your mind over the edge of conviction.

I knew I should've injected a tiny bit of fanfare.

Oh well.

a reply to: AaarghZombies
I never read Marx and i don´t let me put in those drawers, especially not by people who don´t know me personally, TPTB made for us so we fight each other but not those responsible for all that sh!t. You know, that left and right fake sh!t and all that. I see what i see, i learned what i learned the last decades and i am able to see the reality that unfolds in front of my eyes. No need for reading Marx to realize what is going on. I just have to go to the discounter or supermarket or market, the gas station and pay for food, gas, energy to realize that are not the average people who profit from this foul game. And i only have to talk to any of my fellow citizens right now to get a picture of what most likely will come, will happen in the either near than distant future.

But what is with your obsession about Marx?

originally posted by: AaarghZombies
a reply to: ElGoobero

He's not withholding grain, he's preventing it from being sold at a higher price overseas as a cash crop while his own people face rising food prices.

He's putting India first, and I hope that Washington would do the same under similar circumstances. Trump certainly would have had something to say about American companies selling food overseas while American's starved.

Yeah, it's kind of funny that those here who are against the US having so many things imported/exported that could and should be manufactured, grown and kept within our own border, 'bring manufacturing back to America' and believe that countries including the USA should be independent in food and energy sources but whine when a country decides to protect their own. Hypocrites.

a reply to: Sander1976

Buy yourselves a bread maker. Get a 50lb bag of flour. And some yeast.