Monopoly on rice a dangerous move

THE Americans would like us to believe the Arab Spring came about because the people wanted democracy. That is untrueThe people wanted food at a reasonable price and the Americans and other wanted their oil. It all came together.The criminal invasion of Iraq was as everyone sees now, for oil.
A president whose family business is oil and his vice president whose company services oil fields
The slaughter of people in Tripoli by American and Nato planes and the murder of Gadhafi was also for oil.
There is no intervention in Syria because Syria has no oil of any significance and what they have is consigned to the Russians and Chinese and the Americans are not game enough to take on either of them.
In fact the Americans couldn’t find their way out of a wet paper bag as he has been amply demonstrated in Vietnam and Somalia and now in Iraq and Afghanistan. Can’t fight but they make movies like Good Morning America, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse, Black Hawk Down all to justify why they got their backside kicked by people they despise. What are the new movies to explain Iraq and Afghanistan?
Can’t fight but can assassinate. But this is beside the point. Put up the price of rice and there will be rioting in PNG.
The French Revolution was about Equality and Democracy and Fraternity but it was triggered by a lack of food. When Queen Marie Antoinette was supposedly told that the peasants were revolting because they could not afford bread (which is our equivalent to rice) she is supposedly, incorrect to have replied … “then give them cake”… and peasants (workers) took her out and cut off her head.
If you people are starving they will cause problems. There were no fat Egyptians or Libyans on the TV screens.
The government cannot go down the path of previous governments in allowing outsiders to take control of food like was done so corruptly with Ramu Sugar and the planned Indonesian takeover of the cocoa industry.
It is surprising that the proposed monopoly of the rice industry is also Indonesian inspired?
While we do not eat cocoa directly the proposed Indonesian takeover of the cocoa industry would have had long term disastrous effect.
The sale out of our oil industry is another tale of corruption and woe but nothing affects everyone as much as unaffordable rice.
Yes, we should all be eating kaukau and taro and yams because they provide approximately 100% more energy per hectare than does rice but we are used to rice and we don’t really grown rice here so it’s not really a factor yet.
Yams are full of oestrogen and therefore good for the ladies and perhaps accounts for the peculiar behaviour of those males in areas where the consumption of yams is high. Taro provides testosterone and again may account for the belligerent attitude of the males in areas where it consumed and hirsute ladies in that area.
But even though it perhaps shouldn’t be, we all like our rice it is so easy to prepare and cook and it gives us energy without complications.
No government can allow anyone from anywhere to have a monopoly over food otherwise there will be riots.
There is enough rice on the foreign markets to make sure no one in PNG goes hungry as long as the price is low.
We consume about 200,000 tons of rice every year. World rice costs in 2004 were about K1.25 per kilo and you can ask why we pay K4 in shops and the would-be monopolies are saying prices will increase to more than K11 per kilo. In fact rice prices fell 3 % in 2011.

PR, Sharp,
Rabaul