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Originally posted by crimvelvet
Make no mistake it is a WAR because as any military person will tell you destroying the enemies supply lines is a first priority in war, declared or undeclared.
That was a nice research but I have a simple question for you. Do you think the US is the only bread basket in the world?
This is the story of how some of the richest people in the world – Goldman, Deutsche Bank, the traders at Merrill Lynch, and more – have caused the starvation of some of the poorest people in the world. At the end of 2006, food prices across the world started to rise, suddenly and stratospherically. Within a year, the price of wheat had shot up by 80 per cent, maize by 90 per cent, rice by 320 per cent. In a global jolt of hunger, 200 million people – mostly children – couldn't afford to get food any more, and sank into malnutrition or starvation.... www.wanttoknow.info...
Former President Clinton told a U.N. gathering Thursday that the global food crisis shows "we all blew it, including me," by treating food crops "like color TVs" instead of as a vital commodity for the world's poor...
Clinton criticized decades of policymaking by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and others, encouraged by the U.S., that pressured Africans in particular into dropping government subsidies for fertilizer, improved seed and other farm inputs as a requirement to get aid. Africa's food self-sufficiency declined and food imports rose.
Now skyrocketing prices in the international grain trade - on average more than doubling between 2006 and early 2008 - have pushed many in poor countries deeper into poverty.
seattletimes.nwsource.com...
War waged by whom on who? Based on the explanation and logic, the US is waging war on its own people?
Also do you think the Great Britain (Instead of US) has anything to do with spoiling and destroying a well existed political and economical system in several countries before lets say WWI?
"Today I resigned from the staff of the International Monetary Fund after over 12 years, and after 1000 days of official fund work in the field, hawking your medicine and your bag of tricks to governments and to peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean and Africa. To me, resignation is a priceless liberation, for with it I have taken the first big step to that place where I may hope to wash my hands of what in my mind's eye is the blood of millions of poor and starving peoples. Mr. Camdessus, the blood is so much, you know, it runs in rivers. It dries up too; it cakes all over me; sometimes I feel that there is not enough soap in the whole world to cleanse me from the things that I did do in your name and in the name of your predecessors, and under your official seal. "... www.thirdworldtraveler.com...
WASHINGTON -- A recent analysis of the 2007 financial markets of 48 countries has revealed that the world's finances are in the hands of just a few mutual funds, banks, and corporations. This is the first clear picture of the global concentration of financial power, and point out the worldwide financial system's vulnerability as it stood on the brink of the current economic crisis....
www.insidescience.org...
Originally posted by crimvelvet
how the starvation was PLANNED!
Books have been written about this. see: "Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation"
Source.
New Delhi, February 08, 2011
In its less-than-impressive fight against malnourishment, India is set to deploy a new weapon: super foods from "bio-fortified" crops packed with nutrients. The first of these, high-iron pearl millet, will be introduced in 2011. Indian research facilities are also close to breeding high-zinc wheat and provitamin-A rice and maize.
"Together, they have the potential to improve nutrition of millions," said Kedar Rai, the director of HarvestPlus, part of a globally funded alliance that has introduced super foods in impoverished Sub-Saharan Africa.
HarvestPlus is "biofortifying" seven food crops that can help reduce micronutrient malnutrition or "hidden hunger" globally.
I resent the implication that all First World Countries are causing this. Many people have given, and given, and given through the years in order to help these third world countries. These giving people have been deceived by their churches and "benevolent" organizations that were supposed to correct these problems. If these organizations had done with the funds what they deceived people into believing they would be doing, there should not be one hungry unclothed child on this planet.
I resent the implication that all First World Countries are causing this
Maurice Strong’s address to the opening session of the Rio Conference (Earth Summit II) in 1992:
“…developed and benefited from the unsustainable patterns of production and consumption which have produced our present dilemma. It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class -- involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and work-place air-conditioning, and suburban housing -- are not sustainable. A shift is necessary toward lifestyles less geared to environmentally damaging consumption patterns."
Strong's first exposure to the U.N. came in 1947 when, at 18, he went to New York to take a job as assistant pass officer in the Identification Unit of the Security Section. He lived with Noah Monod, then treasurer of the U.N.. Here, he first met David Rockefeller and learned that the U.N.'s funds were handled by Rockefeller's Chase Bank. He also met the other Rockefeller brothers and other influential people as well. SOURCE
Among those recommendations are specific proposals to expand the authority of the United Nations to provide:
* Global taxation;
* A standing UN army;
* An Economic Security Council;
* UN authority over the global commons;
* An end to the veto power of permanent members of the Security Council;
* A new parliamentary body of "civil society" representatives (NGOs);
* A new "Petitions Council";
* A new Court of Criminal Justice; (Accomplished in July, 1998 in Rome)
* Binding verdicts of the International Court of Justice;
* Expanded authority for the Secretary General.
These proposals reflect the work of dozens of different agencies and commissions over several years, but are now being advanced by the Commission on Global Governance in its report entitled Our Global Neighborhood (Oxford University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-19-827998-3, 410pp).
A nice-sounding bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama, is up for a Senate vote on Thursday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. The bill, which has the support of many liberal religious groups, makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations. www.aim.org...
Originally posted by BlackPoison94
Reply to post by vinay86
Hello Vinay.
Firstly, I think you've brought up a large amount of amazing points.
I'm guessing you're from India? (because of your name ..I might be wrong..)
It is unsettling about the exploitation of the third world...and it many ways it has changed, especially in culture in many parts (I saw the drastic change when I went India in August.)
You brought the idea how all events usually occur in the first world. Correct...and that to me is rather suspicious.
I personally believe that there is a cycle of power between the MEDCs and LEDCs. Countries like India and China will be the next UK and USA and then it will go around like that in a cycle.
I see here both extremely rich and extremely poor classes and the ever widening gap between them.
Originally posted by Alethea
reply to post by vinay86
I resent the implication that all First World Countries are causing this. Many people have given, and given, and given through the years in order to help these third world countries. These giving people have been deceived by their churches and "benevolent" organizations that were supposed to correct these problems.
I think it's time to realize that much responsibility goes to the churches who have lied and the other "benevolent" organizations who have all taken the money generously given by many Americans for years and years, and who have padded their pockets and raised themselves to a luxurious lifestyle with the funds.
Originally posted by vinay86
Originally posted by crimvelvet
how the starvation was PLANNED!
Books have been written about this. see: "Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation"
Thanks for sharing that info, and It is a great book, all of the bio-tech companies in the world are pushing these GM seeds throughout the world, and governments of third world countries are selling out to them, the companies are selling these GM seems by labeling them as super foods that will eradicate hunger and malnourishment.
We are the experimentation grounds of first world countries, we are the guinea pigs, any new stuff is now being tested on us, but than it is deployed all over the world. .edit on 9/2/11 by vinay86 because: (no reason given)