reply to post by unity1
I sincerely believe that but i am worried about technologies that we are not even aware of being used against us. I would hope that every citizen will
do their part to work together with what is to come. That includes helping each other in times of need. Opening our homes to each other etc. There is
strength in numbers. Even when food is in short supply we will work best as a whole.
The technology is being implemented as we speak. It is called famine. Martial law will be used to control a starving population. That is the why of
the Patriot Act and the demise of Posse Comitatus I wrote this up a while back and it details what is taking place. It represents a years worth of
research.
World War three is already being fought in silence in the US and other parts of the world.
Who is the enemy?
No, I am not talking about the war in Iraq, I am talking about a much more subtle and dangerous war. In this war the battle lines are drawn by giant
corporations, backed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and trade treaties, aggressively pursuing a silent war against billions
of people around the globe. At stake is the very survival of over 1.5 billion small and marginal farmers, and the prize is your money and your
freedom. In 1997, ten corporations controlled almost every aspect of the world's food chain. With the formation of the World Trade Organization
(WTO) in 1995, global and national politics here and abroad are now driven by corporate financial priorities. Corporations set the agenda for the the
European Union (EU), the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the WTO and the USA. The objective is the complete control of the food supply,
the surefire weapon used by armies and dictators throughout history. If the giant corporations gain complete control of your food, it will be much
worse than OPEC's control of world oil.
In Malawi 1,500 people perished from famine caused by the World Bank's interference in government policies. A member of the World Bank executive
board described this as “unprecedented thoroughgoing interventionism.” Deborah Bryceson of Oxford calls it “de-peasantization”–the phasing
out of traditional family farms to make fertile farmland available for intensive capital accumulation using factory farming.
In a vertically integrated food system, giant corporations gain control of the country's food system by controlling food from seed to shelf. This
system is being extended around the world. But as long as an individual can buy land, raise livestock and veggies and then sell at a local farmers
market, the Ag giants do not have the complete monopoly they want. So multinational corporations are making the move to gain that complete control.
The weapons they use are international treaties, biological patents, dumping of subsidized food and coerced government regulations. The IMF and the
World Bank blackmail debt-ridden governments into eliminating high tariffs and systematically dismantling government support of family farming,
thereby sacrificing national food self-sufficiency. With the US debt at $9.2 Trillion much of it owed to foreign interests, the US, contrary to
popular belief, is not immune to financial blackmail. The new regulations imposed upon governments, originate with the WTO's AoA, and involve
traceability, “Good Farming Practices”, depopulation and “disease free status”. These regulations are designed to complete the demise of
privately owned farms. Make no mistake, these regulations actually DECREASE the safety of the food supply while ensuring complete corporate control.
How? By removing quarantine and disease testing as “Trade Barriers” and substituting “traceability” and ISO “Good Farming Practices”
The USDA and the FDA are trying to sell these regulations to consumers as necessary “Food Safety” regs. But even American Quality Professionals
will not defend ISO. An Article "Eliminate ISO 9000?," in Quality Magazine received the heaviest reader response in some time but contained no
ardent rebuttals in defense of ISO 9000! Scott Dalgleish, editor of ASQ magazine for five years, contends that ISO 9000 misdirects resources to
paperwork that does almost nothing. Traceability allows corporations to shift blame from their poor manufacturing practices to the innocent farmer.
In Wisconsin a state-blessed monopoly requires farmers to sign contracts shifting all liability to the farmer leaving the corporation free from the
threat of lawsuits.
Despite the negative impact of WTO regulations on food safety and despite Congressional defeat of bills to make WTO regulations law, the USDA and FDA
are intent on forcing implementation. The European Union has already completed implementation, and as a result, farming in the UK is all but dead.
North Farm is the last working dairy farm left for miles. Mr Lawton said: "... all my neighbours have given up. It's become incredibly
bureaucratic and it's completely over-powered by bureaucrats - there must be two civil servants in Defra (Department for the Environment and Rural
Affairs) for every farmer in the countryside.". ...The sheer amount of paperwork and restrictions on what farmers can do is a problem
.www.thisisswindon.co.uk...
Is the extermination of family farms planned or just bureaucratic bumbling? This question was answered during discussion of the agricultural
conditions for entry by Poland into the EU. The EU chair lady bluntly stated the EU plans to oust a million Polish farmers from their land. Another
EU member proudly announced Portugal had already removed 60% of their farmers. After traditional farmers are regulated out of business, corporations
move in buying land cheaply and instituting environmentally devastating monoculture farming. The EU has doubled the intake of herbicides, multiplied
the use of fungicides by six times and increased the area sprayed with pesticides by almost a hundred per cent in the past two decades. All very
profitable for the Ag chemical giants like Dow and Monsanto.
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