These thoughts from NoGuff are about ridiculous - no – intrusion by government bureaucracy on a Federal, State and Local level. As NoGuff points – hello Agenda 21. Obamunism contributes to heinous intrusion on Americans’ Constitutional rights.
JRH 8/3/12
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2 NoGuff Message under RE: I predicted this, now it's coming true
July 30, 2012
Thank you very much for posting those.
One thing, though, about this one [I predicted this …] It really isn't about taxation; it's about using the ruse of taxation to track our movements, with the eventual goal of restricting them.
Government agencies have wanted to achieve full-scale, real-time, no holds-barred tracking of each person in America for a long time now. But they never knew how to make it work under law. Liberals often propose legislation that is simply a total ruse in order to achieve a different goal. This is a clear case of that.
Again, thanks a lot,
-NG
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Hi Friends,
As predicted probably two years ago, staple foods starting with corn & rice are skyrocketing. Now they're talking about diverting corn from Ethanol production to livestock feed. That will force gas prices up further. Plus, meat prices are expected to skyrocket along with the corn prices. So - there is THREE Agenda 21 birds with one stone.
"Corn prices hit record as crops shrivel"
CNN-Moneyhttp://tinyurl.com/c8qsgj4
SlantRight Editor: The above link does not work. I suspect because the link might go to a website that is constantly updating the data. When I typed the title into the CNN-Money search bar this graph came up:
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[If NoGuff meant to display a graph I doubt it changed much from July 30, 2012. Okay I wasn’t satisfied with the graph above by CNN/Money so I did a little digging; ergo below are a couple of other places that also refer to the NoGuff link plus a Chicago Tribune article that might have the same train of thought.]
Corn Prices Hit Record As Crops Shrivel in Record Drought
Corn prices surged to a new record high Monday, as the worst drought in more than 50 years continues to plague more than half the country.
Almost 90% of the United States' corn crops are in drought ravaged areas, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and nearly 40% are situated in the hardest hit spots.
Corn prices have soared more than 50% during the past six weeks as the crops continue to shrivel in relentless dry heat throughout the Midwest. They jumped another 3% Monday to a record high of $8.17 per bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade.
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Things are getting worse! Stock up now!
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Corn prices hit record as crops shrivel
CNN Money, by HIbah Yousuf
Corn prices surged to a new record high Monday, as the worst drought in more than 50 years continues to plague more than half the country. Almost 90% of the United States' corn crops are in drought ravaged areas, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and nearly 40% are situated in the hardest hit spots. Corn prices have soared more than 50% during the past six weeks as the crops continue to shrivel in relentless dry heat throughout the Midwest. They jumped another 3% Monday to a record high of $8.17 per bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade.
Comments:
With corn prices up the cost of all animals fed corn also rises. And for that other corn-based stuff, as they say, ''your mileage may vary.''
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Corn prices hit record as crops shrivel
Corn prices surged to a new record high Monday, as the worst drought in more than 50 years continues to plague more than half the country.
Almost 90% of the United States' corn crops are in drought ravaged areas, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and nearly 40% are situated in the hardest hit spots.
Corn prices have soared more than 50% during the past six weeks as the crops continue to shrivel in relentless dry heat throughout the Midwest. They jumped another 3% Monday to a record high of $8.17 per bushel on the Chicago Board of Trade.
The Teucrium Corn ETF (CORN), which tracks a basket corn futures contracts, gained 2.5%.
Soybean prices, which are up more than 20% in recent weeks, also advanced. Prices rose 1% Monday to touch $16.17 per bushel, the highest since July 23. The Teucrium Soybean ETF (SOYB) gained more than 2%.
Soybean prices will likely continue to rise as the heat lingers in the area where soybeans are the major crop.
"Soybeans are second only to corn as the biggest agricultural product in the Midwest," said Alex Sosnowski, expert senior Meteorologist at AccuWeather.com. "While episodes of rain will continue over some agricultural areas in the Upper Midwest, Ohio Valley and East in the coming weeks, part of primary soybean growing areas will continue to be slammed by heat and drought."
Continued: http://buzz.money.cnn.com/2012/07/30...oybean-prices/
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Food and the drought
Stop requiring the use of corn for fuel
July 30, 2012
Drought is never good for corn. Drought in July is as bad as it gets.
The Midwest corn crop pollinates in the first weeks of July. No rain means little or no pollination. As a result, fewer kernels form on each ear of corn. Even if the rain were to start falling again — and much more is needed than the storms and showers that reached Illinois recently — yields will be sharply reduced. A big part of the crop already is lost.
The looming shortage has sent prices for corn as well as soybeans to all-time highs at the Chicago Board of Trade. The farm belt is facing its worst disaster since the devastating drought of 1988.
What to do? Pray for rain, of course. But there is one important step that should be taken soon: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency needs to waive its requirement for using corn-brewed ethanol in U.S. motor fuels.
Under a program called the renewable fuel standard, the EPA requires petroleum blenders to dilute their gasoline with increasing amounts of biofuel each year. This year, the RFS mandate calls for 13.2 billion gallons, nearly all of it corn-derived ethanol. This page has pointed out many times the absurdity of this intervention in the marketplace. Few government programs cost so much and deliver so little benefit to the public.
What makes matters worse in light of the drought is the enormous drain of ethanol production on the corn supply.
In a good growing year, such as 2011, ethanol consumed 40 percent of the U.S. crop. This year, with a disaster unfolding, the amount of corn needed to produce the required amount of fuel very likely would be more than half of what's eventually harvested.
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Back to NoGuff
And another example of our over-legislated, over-regulated, zero-tolerance, everything-is-outlawed, government-now-runs-everything society, guided by Agenda 21, is on display here.
"Examiner Local Editorial: Fauquier County steps over the line"
Washington Examiner
Farmers in Fauquier County are planning to bring their pitchforks to an Aug. 2 hearing before the Board of Zoning Appeals to protest the arbitrary treatment of one of their own. On April 30, Zoning Administrator Kimberley Johnson sent Martha Boneta an official cease-and-desist notice for selling farm products and hosting a birthday party for her best friend's 10-year-old daughter on her 70-acre Paris, Va., farm without a special administrative permit.
Johnson threatened to fine Boneta $5,000 per violation if she did not stop the alleged unlawful activities within 30 days. In doing so, Boneta's fellow farmers say, Johnson stepped far beyond her authority. They're supporting her appeal before the BZA because they rightly fear that left unchecked, this infringement on one farmer's freedom to make a living will spread to other agricultural enterprises like a dangerous pest.
The Virginia Right to Farm Act prohibits local authorities from treating agricultural activity as a "nuisance" -- which seems to be what's happening here, since Johnson was reportedly responding to complaints from nearby residents. Boneta already had a business license the county issued her in June 2011 that allowed her to operate a "retail farm shop" on her property. Her license application specifically noted her intention to sell handspun yarns, birdhouses, soaps and other handicrafts in addition to fresh vegetables, eggs, herbs and honey.
The following month, the Fauquier County Board of Supervisors changed the classification of "farm sales" to require a special administrative permit for activities that were in compliance with the ordinance just one month before. But documents received under the Freedom of Information Act showed that Boneta is the only farmer in Fauquier County who has ever been cited -- even though the county's own website lists dozens of farms that sell similar products to end-use customers.
On July 12, supervisors voted to limit the number of visitors allowed at food- and wine-tasting events to 25, and to limit such events to two per month, even though they were warned by the county attorney and Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Todd Haymore that such restrictions are illegal. Virginia's growing wine industry and its small artisanal farmers contribute millions of dollars to the state economy while providing urban residents with a taste of country life. But even in picturesque Fauquier County, their future is clouded by the growing burden of capricious government regulation.
Now you can't even host a child's birthday party on your property without first getting government permission.
Hooray for freedom, huh? Is this the America you grew up in? Because it isn't the one I grew up in.
-NG
