Food non-Crisis: There is No Shortage of Food in the World Today
A war on humanity is being waged by entities behind the scenes who are controlling energy, food, the stock markets, and currency.
“Depopulation should be the highest priority of U.S. foreign policy towards the Third World.” ~Henry Kissinger, National Security Memo 200, dated April 24, 1974 (story HERE)
“We're speaking of men making decisions, based not on people's needs but on pseudo-scientific, amoral mechanisms like supply and demand, commodity exchanges, grain futures, selling short, selling long, and other forms of speculation.” ~political analyst William Blum
The “food crisis” is an artificially created crisis. Those who created the crisis are benefiting through insider trading in food and food related commodities and stocks including fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and farm machinery.
The United Nations and developed countries like the USA, France, Canada, UK, Japan, etc. are offering “solutions” in the form of aid packages. These same structures created the problem through trade agreements and are magically ready with the “solution” when the “crisis” strikes.
Part of the reason for creating the “food crisis” is to further push the idea of genetically modified foods (GMO) or bio-engineered foods on the peoples of the Earth. As soon as the “food crisis” became visible the mainstream media reported that GMOs could possibly be a solution.
Source: Reuters Biotechnology a key to solving food crisis-US
“Biotechnology can help solve the world's food crisis with benefits such as flood-resistant rice in Bangladesh or higher cotton yields in Burkina Faso,” a senior U.S. official said at a U.N. food summit on Tuesday.
“Biotechnology is one of the most promising tools for improving the productivity of agriculture and increasing the incomes of the rural poor,” U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer said.
“We are convinced of the benefits it offers to developing countries and small farmers,” he told a U.S.-led briefing on the sidelines of the June 3-5 summit seeking ways to combat high food prices when climate change may aggravate shortages.
A google news search of “food crisis” will bring up pages of newspapers that are joining the biotech GMO bandwagon.
“Food Crisis” Planned Many Years in Advance
The “food crisis” and its response has been planned many years in advance. As soon as the “food crisis” became news through the reporting of riots and deaths in many countries throughout the world, the media began to roll out the story of a food savior in the form of GMOs or biotechnology.
In a story from the BBC headlined GM food: Monster or savour? the reporter states: “I have been left in no doubt that many UK farmers—and others in the food production industry—think that GM is an important tool which can improve their efficiency, but which has been denied to them.”
I highly recommend the BBC story to get an idea of how this story is being spun. The article contains several videos. Monsanto is so eager to push this story that the reporter was allowed inside their labs to video. This alone is worth seeing.
HERE is another report from BBC with video from Africa about Biotechnology saving the country.
HERE is another BBC video GM needed to fight banana wilt.
A More Realist View of GMO Foods
Jeffery Smith has been researching and reporting on bioengineered food for several years. You can see his videos HERE.
Below: French video—The World According to Monsanto.
“Food Crisis” Aid Packages: Who Benefits?
Another plan for the “food crisis” are the aid packages. As soon as individuals became aware of the story of rioting and deaths, the developed countries and the United Nations offered their opinions on the causes of the crisis and presented their solution in the form of aid packages.
These aid packages have been a standard solution throughout history and many individuals respond gladly with generous donations. This is a noble response but the reality is that most of the aid is diverted to individuals in control of the affected countries who profit substantially.
“A huge amount of aid, which includes money from the United Nations and donations generated by Live Aid for Ethiopia, organized by Bob Geldof, and the Live 8 concert in 2005, organized by Bono funded civil war across Africa…The money has ended up making Africa poorer and more violent because the money has been diverted towards warlords, weapons and armed invasions," according to terrorism expert Dr Loretta Napoleoni. See story HERE.
Another result of the aid packages is promoting GMOs. “The Bush administration has slipped a controversial ingredient into the $770 million aid package it recently proposed to ease the world food crisis, adding language that would promote the use of genetically modified crops in food-deprived countries. It would direct the U.S. Agency for International Development to spend $150 million of the total aid package on development farming, which would include the use of GMO crops. Opponents of GMO crops…contend that the administration's plan is aimed at helping American agribusinesses.” See story in Chicago Tribune.
Even though the U.N. and countries like the US are purchasing millions of food products, they are not getting a discount and are paying top dollar.
Multinationals Make Billions in Profit Out of Growing Global Food Crisis
Source: The Independant
The World Bank says that 100 million more people are facing severe hunger. Yet some of the world's richest food companies are making record profits. Monsanto last month reported that its net income for the three months up to the end of February this year had more than doubled over the same period in 2007.
Cargill's net earnings soared by 86 per cent over the same three months. And Archer Daniels Midland, one of the world's largest agricultural processors of soy, corn and wheat, increased its net earnings by 42 per cent in the first three months of this year. The operating profit of its grains merchandising and handling operations jumped 16-fold.
Similarly, the Mosaic Company, one of the world's largest fertiliser companies, saw its income for the three months ending 29 February rise more than 12-fold, on the back of a shortage of fertiliser. The prices of some kinds of fertiliser have more than tripled over the past year as demand has outstripped supply. As a result, plans to increase harvests in developing countries have been hit hard.
The Food and Agriculture Organisation reports that 37 developing countries are in urgent need of food. And food riots are breaking out across the globe from Bangladesh to Burkina Faso, from China to Cameroon, and from Uzbekistan to the United Arab Emirates. Read the full story HERE.
World Bank and International Monetary Fund: Economic Hit Men
Source: Al-Ahram Weekly
The World Bank and the IMF, set up largely by the US following WWII, are notorious for refusing to advance loans to poor countries unless they agree to Structural Adjustment Programs that require the loan recipients to devalue their currencies, cut taxes, privatize utilities and reduce or eliminate support programs for farmers.
The results are a weakened state, impoverished local farmers and increased economic domination by international corporations. Combined with this is constant pressure on poor countries to lower tariffs, preventing them from building up their industrial potential, often destituting their farmers who cannot compete with heavily subsidized produce from rich nations.
In Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making (2008), David Rothkopf, currently at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former deputy undersecretary of commerce for international trade under Clinton and managing director of Kissinger and Associates, brazenly outlines the real situation. As a consummate insider, he is clearly someone who should know.
A global elite now run the planet and have usurped the power of national governments while ensuring laws constrained by borders are all but obsolete. “Each one of them is one in a million. They number six thousand on a planet of six billion. They run our governments, our largest corporations, the powerhouses of international finance, the media, world religions, and, from the shadows, the world's most dangerous criminal and terrorist organisations. They are the global superclass, and they are shaping the history of our time,” states the promo for the book.
This elite “see national governments as residues from the past whose only useful function is to facilitate the elite's global operations. Their connections to each other have become more significant than their ties to their home nations and governments.”
It seems the time is ripe to move forward on this plan to drastically reduce world population, and increase control of the Earth's land and resources for a world elite in perpetuity.
As political analyst William Blum, famously cited by Osama Bin Laden on one of his video missives, told Al-Ahram Weekly, “we're speaking of men making decisions, based not on people's needs but on pseudo-scientific, amoral mechanisms like supply and demand, commodity exchanges, grain futures, selling short, selling long, and other forms of speculation, all fed and multiplied by the proverbial herd mentality—a system governed by only two things: fear and greed; not a rational way to feed a world of human beings.” (Full story HERE)
Source: Socialist Project
Over the past three decades, transnational agribusiness companies have engineered a massive restructuring of global agriculture. Directly through their own market power and indirectly through governments and the World Bank, IMF and World Trade Organization, they have changed the way food is grown and distributed around the world…
Study after study shows that global food production has consistently outstripped population growth, and that there is more than enough food to feed everyone. According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, enough food is produced in the world to provide…more than the minimum required for good health.
As the Food First Institute points out, “abundance, not scarcity, best describes the supply of food in the world today.”
Despite that, the most commonly proposed solution to world hunger is new technology to increase food production. (Full story HERE)
Peasants belonging to the group 400 Pueblos, who fight for land rights for poor farmers, march naked in Mexico City.Taking their clothes off shows that they have nothing to lose and nothing to hide.
Vandana Shiva: The Recipe for Food Rights
“This war over food is a war against the human body, a war against those who eat the food. For peace with our own bodies, for peace with the earth, we need a food system that is about food democracy.” ~Vandana Shiva (see video below)
Source: The recipe for food rights by Vandana Shiva 
I'd like to just mention: free trade is not free. Every one of the problems we have have been triggered by government policy.
Globalisation is government policy. Trade liberalisation is government policy. Biofuels is government policy. Climate change is triggered by government subsidies for fossil fuel use.
If the governments have caused the problem, they cannot now throw up their hands and say that they cannot intervene. They have created the price rise, they need to intervene in creating a fair market for famers and ensure the rights of all.
Food is about life. If the governments continue to make interventions on behalf of the rich—they can bail out the banks in their absolute unwinding of the financial crisis—then they can intervene in the market.
But if they refuse to intervene in the market to ensure food prices are regulated, we will see more riots. Either governments will fall because of riots or they can become enlightened and not see the pseudo free trade as a sacred cow that has to be protected.