Petrolpryse sal vandag weer styg. Motoriste word opnuut gestraf deurdat brandstof nou byna R15 per liter petrol sal kos.
Alle grade petrol het om middernag met 36 sent ‘n liter die hoogte in geskiet. Diesel kos nou tussen 27 en 28 sent meer.
Die impak op motoriste sal onmiddellik gevoel word, maar die styging sal ook uiteindelik weer bydra tot hoër voedselpryse.
Hoër voedselpryse word wêreldwyd verbind met opstande en rewolusies wat selfs verkose regerings destabiliseer.
Die hoof van die wêreld se grootste voedselmaatskappy het gewaarsku dat stygende voedselpryse tot verdere opstande kan lei soos in 2008.
Die Switserse voorsitter van Nestlé, Peter Brabeck het vroeër aan ‘n Oostenrykse koerant gesê stygende pryse is ‘n produk van ‘n groeiende wêreldbevolking, die opkoms van ‘n middelklas in lande soos Indië wat gretig is om meer vleis te eet, en die toenemende vraag na water.
Brabeck het gesê: “Dit is die nuwe werklikheid.”
In die geval van die Franse Revolusie is die krisis, hongersnood, kunsmatig geskep deur die Jakobyne wat sleutelposisies in die vervaardiging van die opstand gehad het.
Hulle het wetteloosheid aangemoedig deur ‘n groep boewe hul gang te laat gaan. Daarna het hulle meer invloedryke lede van die gemeenskap gekry om ‘n oproep vir “wet en orde” te doen en duisende Franse mans is na die guillotine gestuur. Daarmee het die verdeling tussen ryk en arm versterk.
In die lente en somer van 1789 is ‘n kunsmatige tekort aan graan geskep deur manipulasies van die graanmark. Dit het tot ‘n hongersnood gelei.
Maar in werklikheid het die samesweerders voedselvoorrade en alle hervormings in die Nasionale Vergadering geblokkeer om die situasie te vererger en die bevolking uit te honger.
Daar is dus ruim voorbeelde uit die geskiedenis wat aantoon hoe kunsmatige manipulasie van voedselpryse aanleiding tot opstand kan gee.
Die minister van finansies, Pravin Gordhan het tydens sy begroting aangekondig dat die brandstofheffing en bydrae tot die padongelukkefonds van 2 April verhoog word.
Dit beteken ‘n bykomende verhoging van 20-sent per liter.
Ek staan vuisvoos en staar na my amper leë beursie…
Agge nee, ek wou nogal ‘n “small loan” maak … nou lees ek van “amper leë beursie” !
Grap net – ek weet eerlikwaar nie waar moet mens nog besnoei nie, minder met vakansie gaan, minder kuier by geliefdes en vriende, maar werk toe, moet ons werk toe.
Presies Trippie. En ons werk en werk en werk – sodat zuma, al sy mede gedrogte en flip-kop malema blink motors kan ry… Hoe siek kan dit raak?!
Ek vra Flip, hoe kan ek spaar as my beursie so leeg is…?!
Spaar???? Ek sê hoe, ons moet ophou om die bleddie regering en munisipaliteite te verryk! WEIER om te betaal en koop eerder kos. Sny alle rekening vir hulle in die helfte (want dis dan NAASTENBY die waarheid) en betaal net dit.
Jy kan altyd my leë beursie huur! (~;
Dolk, gelukkig sê jy nie “leen” nie, want “leen” is ‘n M8 se naam he he !
“Leen is ‘n m8 se naam” – my ma het my ook so geleer!
Riffels ! PRESIES soos my ou moedertjie ons groot gemaak het !
More Trips, en opvallend dat daar nie 1 WIT gesig is nie nê! Ons is nie gebaar om te bedel nie!!
As ek so na jou hand (avatar) kyk … dan is is die vuivoos = letterlik!
Die belasting op brandstof is nou weer op – kwansuis vir die padongelukke fonds – ha ha, eerder om die ANC se verkiesingsbeloftes en sosiale toelaes (lees aanteeltoelaes) te kan bekostig.
Nou veg ons nog die e-trol ook (Ek kry gister my rekeninge – natuurlik met eskalasie vir begin Desember 2013! – Hulle agterente.)
Rooikop, ‘n vriendin van my gaan deur 1 hek en kry gister ‘n rekening op E POS vir R 461.?? en iets sent!!! VIR 1 HEK! Die goed is so deurmekaar soos kots in ‘n tuimeldroër!
Die verskonings wat gegee word hoekom die rand so laag is of hoekom die voedselpryse op is maak vir my partykeer geen sin nie. Maar ja ek is nie ‘n ekonoom nie net ‘n vuisvoos belastingbetaler. SANRAL moet maar nog langer wag voordat hulle enige geld indien ooit uit my uit gaan kry want ek moet eers my huisgesin versorg.
Ek wonder waar gaan dit stop. Dit raak vir my al moeiliker om by die werk te kom.
Baie vreemde kommentaar op die berig. Dit is duidelik dat die ANC ‘n swart opstand vervaardig. Is die kommentaar opsetlik om die berig te neutraliseer? Gaan ons nou weer die “aartsrassiste” klub byeenkomsie sien?
Gas, nou praat jy waarheid, kyk wat se die berig, em kyk waar staan NSA se naam op die lys…….
Food – The Fuel of Revolution
February 28, 2014 | Maryann Gearhart
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The earth is literally shaking as earthquakes are
dramatically increasing across the globe.
But it’s not just the earth that is rumbling;
nations are increasingly experiencing the writhing discomfort of political
upheaval and the common denominator is—food.
The complex system of the global food supply is the
key that opens the exits as well as the entrance doors for political regimes
around the world.
Food shortages spark the fires of protest such the
one that resulted in the ouster of Tunisia’s President, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
and eventually spread like wildfire to Egypt, Libya and Yemen in 2011, and now
seem to be engulfing a new list of nations that were predicted by complex
systems theorist, Yaneer Bar-Yam of New England Complex Systems Institute, as
vulnerable to revolution due to rising food prices.
Brian
Merchant reported that Bar-Yam charted the rise in the FAO food
price index—a measure the UN uses to map the cost of food over time and found
that whenever it rose above 210, riots
broke out worldwide. It
happened in 2008 after the economic collapse and again in 2011, when a Tunisian
street vendor who could no longer feed his family set himself on fire in
protest.”
Bar-Yam’s list of nations deemed destined to riots
and unrest due to food shortages were
South
Africa; Haiti; Argentina; Egypt; Tunisia; Brazil; Turkey;
Colombia; Libya; Sweden; India; China; Bulgaria; Chile; Syria; Thailand;
Bangladesh; Bahrain; Ukraine; Venezuela; Bosnia.
We have already seen the Arab Spring countries
experience riot and overthrow, but now we see mounting turmoil in the other
nations on the list.
“There
are certainly many other factors fueling mass protests, but hunger—or the
desperation caused by its looming specter—is often the tipping point. …Venezuela—where students have taken to the streets and
protests have left citizens dead—food prices at a staggering 18-year high,”
says Merchant.
But it’s not just food shortages that
promote unrest.
Factors which affect food at its source serve as a
volatile contender in the ring of political jousting.
In Thailand, amid anti-government protests, the
lamenting voice of the farmer can be heard. According to Orthai
Sriring and Amy Sawitta Lefevre, “…the Election Commission approved a 712
million Baht ($21.87 million) fund to be drawn from the central budget for rice
farmers, many of whom have been waiting for payment and some of whom have
committed suicide in desperation.”
“But the sum is a small fraction of the estimated
130 billion baht her [Prime Minister Yingluch Shinawatra] government needs to
pay to nearly a million farmers.”
“If we don’t get our money this week, we’ll return
to remind the prime minister about it,” said one of the farmers’ leaders after
they protested outside an air force base where Yingluck was holding a cabinet
meeting.
Americans are
used to hearing about food shortages abroad, but what about here, at home?
The following
excerpt from a recent Prophecy News Watch article gives a glimpsing view of
upcoming trouble.
“The state of
California, which produces the most vegetables in the U.S, is going through its
worst drought ever, with 91.6% of the state experiencing severe to exceptional
drought. 2013 was its worst year ever and there has been no improvement so far
in 2014. According to CNBC, it is being projected that California farmers are
going to let half a million acres of farmland sit idle this year because of the
crippling drought. Much of the western U.S. has been exceedingly dry for an
extended period of time, and this is hurting huge numbers of farmers and
ranchers all the way from Texas to the west coast.” Read more
here
Food production woes coupled with the American
farmers’ tremendous dependence on farm subsidies paid at “around $20 billion
per year,” according to Wikipedia, from a budget of which is projected
to be deficient of $514 billion in
fiscal year 2014, the curious question has to be asked, “How long can Americans
expect the fuel to remain protected from the spark?”
Ja! Kyk waar staan NSA se naam op die lys.
Die lys is verseker nie alfabeties nie – is dit dalk kronologies? Is ons maw woorde volgende aan die beurt?
Dis seker daardie berig dat Nederland en Vlaandere wil saamwerk wat so knel