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Math Models Predicted Global Uprisings
retroworks writes "Just over a year ago, complex systems theorists at the New England Complex Systems Institute warned that if food prices continued to climb, so too would the likelihood that there would be riots across the globe. Sure enough, we're seeing them now. The paper's author, Yaneer 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."
Its worse then that, their little graph only shows a handful of riots that they want to be on their.
I dont see any riots that do not meet their own agenda on it, hell the french riot a few times every year, I see none of the Australian riots I know of.
Total BS
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Meanwhile, here in Norway the VAT for food items was reduced from 25% down to half. The consumers didn't notice because the shops just pocketed the difference and pretended nothing had happened.
Everything is not always the govt's fault.
But it's ok to bail out banks that can't keep their act together and invest sensibly, right?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Getting it right is easy. Not getting it wrong is hard. What is the false positive rate for this model? How many uprisings did it miss?
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day...
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