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    Indonesia's Rice Racket

    Imagine that.
    Rice [quantity, quality, and variety] has been used as a political and financial apparatus forever - most definitely of recent times.

    Valued as gold might be.


    Indonesia’s rice racket - New Mandala

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    When working in Indo. I honed my "spot-the-scam" radar when writing specs. for equipment.

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    On a side note, any of you guys remember back in around 2006 ish, that the price of glutenous rice went up around 50%, So, on holiday in northern Thailand i asked the farmers that actually produced the rice, They did not get one fucking cent more for their harvest. All the fucking money went to the brokers and traders.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deeks View Post
    On a side note, any of you guys remember back in around 2006 ish, that the price of glutenous rice went up around 50%, So, on holiday in northern Thailand i asked the farmers that actually produced the rice, They did not get one fucking cent more for their harvest. All the fucking money went to the brokers and traders.
    Welcome to capitalism, the greedy economical system.

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    Quote Originally Posted by deeks View Post
    On a side note, any of you guys remember back in around 2006 ish, that the price of glutenous rice went up around 50%, So, on holiday in northern Thailand i asked the farmers that actually produced the rice, They did not get one fucking cent more for their harvest. All the fucking money went to the brokers and traders.
    Being such a neo-con free market seppo fuckwit you should applaud this.

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