I've said this before, but food prices will just keep going up and up, largely because of a confluence of several factors:
-increasing fuel prices
-poor agricultural use of land
-increasing consumption of meat
-population growth
There are more reasons than that, but those are some of the big ones. As tension continues to rise look for attempts to overthrow local governments. Providing basic, cheap food supplies is really one of the main things governments are expected to do, and not doing it is one of the things that makes the masses of the poor rise up:
Price shock in global food
And here, a Dutch court has refused to ban Fitna: the movie. Freedom is still alive, for now.
