Showing posts with label world famine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label world famine. Show all posts

April 01, 2008

oldie but goodie: Michael Vail on Operation Grapes of Wrath

Operation Grapes Of Wrath

Operation Grapes Of Wrath

By: Michael Vail

"Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world."
-Heinz Alfred Kissinger


Would you trust your government with the lives of your family? During a national emergency would you wait for help or make efforts to safeguard your family? The government devours roughly 40% from the average American family's budget through taxes and what services do they get in return? The proper role of government according to the constitution is to guard life, liberty and property. It is sad to say but if America was the name of a ship sailing upon choppy waters and our government officials knew we were headed for the ‘perfect storm'[1] they would be guarding the life rafts and jumping ship.

I could cite[2] so many different examples[3] showing that the government does not concern itself with the safety of Americans but if you are honest with yourself you know it as well as I do. The stark reality is that the politicians and monopoly men view the common man and woman like cattle. We are branded with names like ‘useful idiots' and ‘useless eaters' and of course they must thin the herd to ensure their own survival. This idea has been passed down from gangrenous minded individuals like Giammaria Ortes[4] and Thomas Malthus and many in this generation who want 80 percent of the world to be culled.

In 1961 Frederick S. Jaffe, then vice president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA), sent a memorandum to Bernard Barelson, president of the Population Council, in which he proposed various measures to reduce U.S. fertility.

Social constraints would include postponing or avoiding marriage, altering the image of the ideal family size, compulsory sex education and family limitation, encouraging increased homosexuality, encouraging women to work and putting fertility control agents in the water supply.[5]

John D. Rockefeller and other so-called elites have taken great care to invest part of their fortunes into the eugenics and population control movement. They are responsible for pushing abortion under the name of ‘Planned parenthood'. John D. Rockefeller is also responsible for putting fluoride in the water supply which is causing spontaneous miscarriages. Fluoride has a disastrous effect upon the mind and body.

1953: In a joint speech, U.S. Surgeon-General Scheele and Health, Education & Welfare Undersecretary Nelson Rockefeller announced hopeful plans to put more medicine than just fluoride into the U.S. water supplies:

"Dr. Scheele, in discussing mass-application methods for preventing non-infectious diseases, said a case in point was fluoridation of water supplies to reduce tooth decay.

Nearly 800 cities throughout the country have adopted the technique during the past 10 years, he said. Such a community-wide attack on "far more serious diseases than dental decay" probably will be forthcoming after laboratory tests have paved the way, he predicted." (Paterson Evening News, 11/6/53)

Today some of the richest Americans such as Bill Gates[6] are actively participating in mass genocide[7]. They want to bring the one-child policy from China to America and they don't mind spending millions to get it done. The important question is what happens when the rat poison in our water supply, forced sterilizations and other methods to mass murder the populace isn't decreasing the population as fast as they had hoped? That is the question that keeps me up at night but I think I know the answer.

Over the past six months I have seen a most disturbing trend. The American economy is on its last leg as the dollar slides towards oblivion and the prices of food[8] have started to rise sharply. Farmers have been worried about Monsanto[9] and DuPont, as they are trying to corner the seed market. Both companies are producing ‘genetically modified crops' and you will be eating the Frankenfoods[10] regardless of what food you buy unless you buy your own seeds now and produce your own vegetables.

Food banks which supplies foods to our nations poor have recently been reporting critical shortages and some even closing down. Many of these food banks also provide food during national emergencies. Now Americans may face stagflation, a situation where prices rise but growth slows. Recently the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research CGIAR)[11] released a report about the world's food situation while at the same time working in tandem with Bill Gates and the Rockefeller Foundation, Monsanto and DuPont to create a ‘doomsday'[12] seed vault in Norway. This seed vault will contain, "It will contain up to three million different varieties of seeds from the entire world, ‘so that crop diversity can be conserved for the future,' according to the Norwegian government."

We can only speculate as to the reasoning for this seed vault but their agricultural Noah's ark will not be for public consumption. Also these GMO frankenfoods may have catastrophic effects on our bodies and the environment. Warn your friend and families about GMO products and let's live off our own land like our forefathers.

Michael Vail

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis...."
--David Rockefeller speaking at the UN, Sept. 14, 1994

1. This is money. World economy heading for 'perfect storm'. 2007 cited; Available from: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=426994&in_page_id=2&ito=1565.

2. NY Times. Landfill Has 9/11 Remains, Medical Examiner Wrote. 2007 cited; Available from: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/24/nyregion/24remains.html.

3. New Statesman. The poisonous legacy of 9/11. 2007 cited; Available from: http://www.newstatesman.com/200706040025.

4. Economist. Like herrings in a barrel. 1999 cited; Available from: http://www.economist.com/diversions/millennium/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=346605.

5. Life Issues. License for Parenting? 2001 cited; Available from: http://www.lifeissues.net/writers/hab/hab_04parenting.html.

6. Insight Magazine. Population Control. 1999 cited; Available from: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_23_15/ai_81139234/print.

7. John Lofton. Bill Gates Funding Of Abortion Reveals Him To Be Liar When He Says "All Lives" Have "Equal Value". 2006 cited; Available from: http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=648.

8. Mclatchy Newspaper. Egg, Beans, Chicken, Milk: Prices for Key Foods Rising Sharply. 2007 cited; Available from: http://www.mindfully.org/Food/2007/Price-Foods-Rising14aug07.htm.

9. ZNET. Challenging Monsanto's Monopoly. 2007 cited; Available from: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=12703.

10. Karen Barlow. Researchers create cholera rice vaccine. 2007 cited; Available from: http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2007/s1948658.htm.

11. Earth Times. World's poor threatened by rising food prices - report. 2007 cited; Available from: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/152672.html.

12. Global Research. "Doomsday Seed Vault" in the Arctic. 2007 cited; Available from: http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7529.

March 13, 2008

Don't worry about hunger, buy agricultural stocks (yeah, right)




Biofuel production, poor harvests and emerging nations' growing appetites are emptying the world's pantry, sending prices soaring.

It's a good time toinvest in agricultural stocks.

By Jon Markman March 06, 2008

As if a bear market, U.S. credit crunch, energy crisis and city financing
emergency were not enough for one year, experts say the world is now facing down the barrel of the worst catastrophe of all: famine.

The very idea that the modern world could run out of food seems ludicrous, but that is the flip side, or cause, of the tremendous recent increase in the cost of raw wheat, corn, rice, oats and soybeans. Food prices are not escalating because speculators have run them up for sport and profit, but because accelerating demand in developing nations, biofuel production and poor harvests in some areas have made basic foodstuffs truly scarce.

In energy circles, folks who warn about the beginning of the end of cheap
fossil fuels talk about "peak oil" as a point we have dangerously and
expensively crossed. Likewise, you can now add "peak wheat" to your political and investment lexicon. And it's a lot worse.

Food fighting One can always move closer to work to cut down on gasoline. But be forced to eat less toast, beer and steak? Them's fightin' words.

Wheat futures prices have tripled since 2004, corn prices have almost tripled since 2005, and soybeans have tripled since 2006. Meanwhile, crude oil is up merely 60% in the past three years, which makes it seem very bearable in comparison. U.S. stock prices have barely eked out a 10% advance since 2005, underscoring the diminishment of our buying power. A large pepperoni pizza these days costs about as much as a share of Citigroup (C.N). Citigroup finished Wednesday at $22.15.

This is no joke, already, in Asia. Rice prices surged to a 20-year high this week -- more than $18 per hundred pounds -- as countries that have the most are hoarding it for their own people. Vietnam, India and Egypt have restricted exports to keep local markets stocked. Thai, Philippine and Indonesian officials are warning of civil unrest if the flow of rice does not increase.

Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan in recent weeks have restricted wheat exports as well, slapping on big tariffs to make sure shelves are stocked in their homelands amid soaring prices. A major Russian grains-company chief told Reuters that his country

"is in a condition that has never happened before."
Higher prices are not meeting any resistance from desperate buyers.

Most unusual about this phenomenon, according to BMO Financial Group
strategist Don Coxe, is that until now, food crises in world history were
regional concerns that arose from crop failures, war or pests. Once global
trade of grains got going in the 19th century in a major way, food shortages in one country were ameliorated by imports, he said. What's happening now is a lack of supply everywhere at once.

Talk back: How are you keeping your grocery bills down?

Culprits abound, but chief among them is urbanization, which has cut the
amount of acreage devoted to farming. The United Nations reports that the
total area devoted to crops worldwide had risen by 0.3% annually since 1961, to 3.8 billion acres through the latest survey. But the growth has stalled to 0.1% annually in the past decade. Unlike energy, you can't drill deeper in the ocean or under Arctic tundra for more food.

Also, surging income growth among emerging middle classes in China, India,
Southeast Asia and South America has boosted demand for meat protein, and feed for new Asian cattle ranches and pig farms is putting intense pressure on the world's corn supply. Of course, the weather plays a role, too. A terrible drought in the breadbasket of Australia over the past two years has combined with bad harvests in Argentina and Brazil to create some of today's shortfall.

Empty global cupboards

Shortages are real. The Financial Times reports that rice stocks have fallen this year to about 70 million tons, the lowest level in 25 years and less than half the total held in global inventories in 2000.

Wheat inventories, called "carry-overs" in the trade, are at 30-year lows even though world wheat production was actually up 1% last year. In the past year, reports show, wheat inventories in the European Union have plunged to 1 million tons from 14 million tons.

A leading Canadian fertilizer executive told analysts recently that according to his company's calculations, global grain reserves are "precarious," at just 1.7 months of consumption, down from 3.5 months of reserves as recently as 2000.

Now the really bad news is that we might actually have been lucky in the past few years, as global warming has lengthened growing seasons in the American Plains, sometimes called the Saudi Arabia of corn. BMO's Coxe notes that the U.S. Midwest has enjoyed 17 straight years without significant crop failure, the longest winning streak on record. If this fortunate run ends soon, we'll likely face a worldwide crisis.

Some researchers, including climatologist Elwyn Taylor of Iowa State
University, believe it could happen this year, as La Niqa conditions are
emerging at a time when the Midwest has become vulnerable due to a drought
creeping up from the South.

Food prices are already way up in North America but not as much as feed prices because manufacturers, processors and retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores (WMT.N) have found ways to hold the line by cutting expenses. But they can dam up the flood of food inflation for only so long. Just this week, Procter & Gamble (PG.N) announced it was raising prices on many of its foods products, including Folgers coffee. J&J Snack Foods said it would lift prices by as much as 12% in April to offset costs, and local newspapers have been rife with stories about pizzerias both raising prices and cutting back on crust thickness and cheese quantities.

Joseph R. Dancy, who teaches law at Southern Methodist University and runs a small hedge fund, lays the immediacy of the crisis directly on
ethanol-production mandates in an energy bill recently passed in the U.S. The bill, intended to boost America's energy independence, is expected to push as much as 31% of the U.S. corn crop into biofuels production, up from 24% last year. In other words, at the exact moment we most need corn on our plates, it is being funnelled into cars. A full tank of gas requires the equivalent of a quarter of a ton of raw foodstuffs, enough to feed one person bread for a year.

Coxe's solution: As a first step, shut down all ethanol plants immediately.
"It's criminal to burn corn for fuel when we are out of food," he said. In a particularly pernicious development, he noted that a big boost in demand for soybeans for use as biodiesel in Europe has driven up the price of palm oil in Southeast Asia, where it is the main source of protein for the poor.

If global famine is one bad crop away, then surely there is an investment
angle. On dips, the companies to focus on are mostly the same as I described in my year-opening column, "10 market predictions for a glum '08:" Seed innovators Monsanto (MON.N) and Syngenta (SYT.N); fertilizer makers Potash of Saskatchewan (POT.N), Mosaic (MOS.N), CF Industries (CF.N) and Agrium (AGU.N); tractor maker Deere (DE.N); and, for exposure to the food futures themselves, the exchange-traded funds PowerShares DB Agriculture (DBA.N), iPath AIG Agriculture (JJA.N) and iPath AIG Grains (JJG.N).

Some additional small caps to consider are equipment retailer Titan Machinery (TITN.O), irrigation-equipment maker Lindsay (LNN.N) and processing-machine maker Key Technology (KTEC.N).

I guess this gives a new meaning to the term "seed capital."

Fine print Coxe has published a book summarizing his view of investment
bubbles and declines called "The New Reality of Wall Street." . . . To learn more about law professor Dancy, visit his Web site. . . . To keep an eye on commodity futures prices, visit here or here. The Chicago Board of Trade has a great page summarizing the action. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Web site has pages and pages of material to help you get up to speed...

I previously wrote about ethanol as bad public policy on Feb. 10 in a blog
item and on Oct. 11, 2007, in a column, "Shuck the ethanol and let solar
shine."

At the time of publication, Jon Markman owned shares of Monsanto, Potash of Saskatchewan, Mosaic, CF Industries, Agrium, Lindsay, Powershares DB
Agriculture, iPath AIG Agriculture and iPath AIG Grains.

March 09, 2008

Carolyn Baker's news today

Some I have covered, some I have not.

Good for the newbie at any rate!!

Veeger

http://carolynbaker.net

MUST SEE-MUST UNDERSTAND! UNCOUNTED: THE NEW MATH OF AMERICAN ELECTIONS

http://www.uncountedthemovie.com/

The 2008 election is already decided. Here's why:

UNCOUNTED is an explosive new documentary that shows how the election fraud that changed the outcome of the 2004 election led to even greater fraud in 2006 - and now looms as an unbridled threat to the outcome of the 2008 election. This controversial feature length film by Emmy award-winning director David Earnhardt examines in factual, logical, and yet startling terms how easy it is to change election outcomes and undermine election integrity across the U.S. Noted computer programmers, statisticians, journalists, and experienced election officials provide the irrefutable proof

CLINTON: BOUGHT AND PAID FOR BY SAUDI ARABIA AND CHINA

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/3/7/132849/9985/416/471466

DAILY KOS SAYS: Hillary Clinton still hasn't released her tax return. We don't know what she's hiding, but if her tax return was clear, we'd have long since seen the return (which was filed in April of 2007). After 8 years of Dick Cheney raiding the public treasury for the benefit of his Halliburton stock, we must know the financial interests of potential future Presidents and the conflicts they pose. Since Clinton won't release her tax return, I will speculate as to what may or may not be contained therein.

CLINTON MAY GET PAYOUT OF $20 MILLION

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120097424021905843.html

CLINTON FAMILY COCAINE TRAFFICKING AND COVERUP IN ARKANSAS

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7349140906801270904

While Bill Clinton and other members of the Democratic Arkansas mafia were involved, so were a host of Republicans. For example, the Clintons were closely tied to convicted coccaine trafficker and CIA pilot, Barry Seal, but curiously today, the proud owner of one of Barry Seal's private planes is none other than George W. Bush. (Seal was assassinated in 1986.) A number of unanswered questions remain regarding the laundering of massive amounts of cash through Hillary's Rose Law Firm. Details on Barry Seal at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Seal

INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS FORSEE COLLAPSE OF U.S. ECONOMY

http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=918803

THE MEMBERS OF EARTH LIBERATION FRONT ARE MAD. WHY AREN'T WE?

http://www.bestcyrano.org/THOMASPAINE/?p=626

THE RUSH FOR BIOFUELS THREATENS WORLD FAMINE

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article3500954.ece

NEW INSTRUMENTS OF SURVEILLANCE AND SOCIAL CONTROL: WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES WHICH TARGET NEURONAL FUNCTIONING OF THE BRAIN

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8263

BLACKWATER ENDS BID FOR CALIFORNIA TRAINING SITE

http://origin.mercurynews.com/news/ci_8493247?nclick_check=1

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