This is probably only an excuse, most other commodities are down. There is more and more evidence emerging that food prices are being manipulated (more than usual).
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Malaysia vowed to beef up security Monday in an eastern state where at least 26 people have been reported killed after a bizarre invasion by Philippine followers of a self-styled sultan.
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Because the IMF has ordered austerity and market conform prizes. I wonder if King Abdullah will survive this
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Jordan is in a far precarious position than is generally known. The Arab spring has made fuel prices explode and the poor must now pay the price. Even Jordan’s king Abdullah is no longer seen as invulnerable.
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The death toll of the U.S. drone strike launched on Thursday in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal region has risen to 16 while leaving several others injured, local media reported.
The drone fired four missiles at the compound that killed seven people on the spot while injuring 15 others.
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In the last presidential election, 35.5 million voters requested absentee ballots, but only 27.9 million absentee votes were counted!
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Of course this price hike is the result of a “Structural Adjustment Program” forced upon Guatemala by the IMF.
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The new round of what the government described as “enormous” tax rises came as Lisbon revealed it would miss this year’s recently relaxed budget deficit target by the equivalent of 1.1 percentage points if it failed to take exceptional measures.
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Value-added tax (btw) goes up from 19% to 21% on October 1, a measure which will cost Dutch households an average â¬180 next year, according to ING economists.
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Seven out of 10 people in the Netherlands are pessimistic about the future, the highest figure recorded since records began in 2008, according to the latest quarterly report on the state of the nation by the government’s socio-cultural advisory group SCP.
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