July 25, 2011
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"True individual freedom cannot
exist without economic security and independence. People who are
hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are
made."
Franklin Roosevelt
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Hungry people will do anything for food, which
means that those who have control over food can use it as leverage.
In 1974,
Henry
Kissinger suggested using food as a weapon to induce targeted
population reduction in a previously classified 200-page report,
National Security Study Memorandum 200 - Implications of Worldwide
Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests.
The primary tactic to be applied is that food
aid would be withheld from developing nations until they submitted to birth
control policies:
There is also some established precedent for
taking account of family planning performance in appraisal of assistance
requirements by
USAID [U.S. Agency for International
Development] and consultative groups.
Since population growth is a major
determinant of increases in food demand, allocation of scarce
PL 480 resources should take account of
what steps a country is taking in population control as well as food
production.
In these sensitive relations, however, it is
important in style as well as substance to avoid the appearance of
coercion.
So, food was to be used as just another method
of imperial colonization to force countries to conform their policies to
those desired by the controllers.
Notably, this tactic only works as a blunt
weapon on territories enduring a severe economic collapse and with little
resources for food production. Today, however, it appears that the entire
globe is receiving an arsenal of food bombs as there appears to be a
multifaceted attack on people's access to food.
In other words, what has been an admitted tactic
for nearly 40 years of controlling food aid for regional
population reduction has now grown more complex and expansive.
Because of massive corporate consolidation of agriculture, centrally
coordinated global regulations, a devalued commodity - dollar and
unrestrained commodity speculation, chemical and genetic modification, and
real or manipulated food shortages; there is indeed a war being waged - with
food as the primary weapon.
Understand, this is a not purely a war on
food, but rather a war on the general population. Therefore, it
is crucial to understand these tactics in order to defend against them.
Here are six ways food is being used to "Wage War Against The Population":
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Food inflation
Crippling food inflation is now
affecting every corner of the world with the poorest feeling the
worst pangs. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) food
price index increased by 3 points to 234 points in June - a
39% increase on the year.
These increases are causing mass
starvation and rioting in many poor regions of the world, but they
are also beginning to punish the middle-class in the Industrialized
nations. The price of food is inflating primarily because of a
devalued commodity-dollar from excessive money printing and
Wall Street commodity speculation.
Perhaps it's more appropriate to call it
commodity manipulation, not speculation.
As William Engdahl recently
pointed out:
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"The ability to manipulate the price
of essential foods worldwide at will - almost irrespective of
today’s physical supply and demand for grains - is quite
recent... Up until the grain crisis of the mid-1970s there was
no single 'world price' for grain, the benchmark for the price
of all foods and food products."
What fuels commodity speculation is not
just the obvious decline of the dollar and a flight to something
tangible, but also genuine supply concerns based on a variety of
factors that cause crop shortages like extreme weather or disease.
Regardless of real or manipulated food
shortages, food prices will continue to rise because of increased
demand and an incrementally weaker dollar.
Luckily, there are many ways to protect
yourself from food inflation and the food war in general.
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Shortages
Through supply controls, food shortages
have been used as a weapon to create regional conflicts, to
encourage peacekeeping missions, and as a foreign policy carrot - as
clearly outlined in Kissinger's 1974,
Memorandum 200.
The most recent examples can be found
with the current and ongoing negotiations with North Korea who
perpetually holds a nuclear gun to the West's head in exchange for
food.
Somalia, who was food self-sufficient
until the 1970s, has become a "failed state" because of food
shortages. Significantly, the situation in
Somalia and other large-scale famine
are usually caused by a manipulated economic collapse.
In fact, many have reported that the
lack of food was an underlying factor of the
Egyptian revolution.
Because of corporate consolidation of staple crops such as corn,
soybeans, and wheat - and the central control of food aid - it is
now easy to manipulate food shortages. But, clearly, there are also
catastrophic weather events that destroy production in entire
regions such as the heat wave in Russia last summer that caused them
to
restrict wheat exports in what some
referred to as food wars.
Many countries who had contracts with
Russia were not happy, and their protectionist move had global
effects on the food prices.
In other words, imminent food shortages
are typically a localized problem, but because the food system is so
interconnected, local problems now affect the global community.
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Chemical Additives
Chemical additives, from pesticides to
preservatives, can only be viewed as a weapon in the depopulation
agenda. Clearly, laboratory-concocted chemicals were never meant for
human consumption.
Therefore, they can only be attributed
to an effort to deliberately and slowly poison the population. Many
food and drink toxins like
fluoride,
aspartame, or
monosodium glutamate (MSG) are now
well-known to have negative health effects. Other lab creations like
high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) are also beginning to prove very
unhealthy with tests showing
mercury in corn syrup.
Incidentally, we dare you to find any
sweet food that doesn't contain either aspartame or HFCS. Even
wholesome Campbell's Tomato soup has HFCS, as does Heinz ketchup -
while nearly every candy or gum contains aspartame.
It's estimated that the average American
consumes 12 teaspoons of HFCS per day, while the younger population
consumes nearly double that.
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"Mercury is toxic in all its forms.
Given how much high-fructose corn syrup is consumed by children,
it could be a significant additional source of mercury never
before considered," said Dr. David Wallinga of the Agriculture
and Trade Policy whose study found about a third of brand-name
foods with HFCS had measurable amounts of mercury.
Pesticides fall into the chemical
additive category - GM pesticides especially (called Bt toxins).
They are found in the blood stream of
nearly all North Americans, and even in
80% of their unborn babies. It is
presumed these toxins are acquired by eating genetically modified
corn or soy, and from the livestock that feed on it.
A recent study proved that the chemical
found in best-selling pesticides,
glyphosate, causes birth defects
among other ailments. We must understand that although all of these
toxins, and a host of others, are approved for consumption by the
FDA, it doesn't make them safe.
And even the ones that have exotic names
but have yet to be proven to have ill effects surely have a
cumulative impact on human health.
They're so pervasive that it seems
impossible to evade them, but there are still ways to eat like a
human.
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Regulations
By restricting food freedom, regulatory
agencies purposely increase dependence on the Big Ag monopoly cartel
that fully controls the basic building blocks of food.
Simply put, those who control the corn,
wheat, soybeans and rice, control all food, since all livestock and
all processed foods are dependent on those food sources. In America,
and increasingly around the world, this cartel places their cronies
in government regulatory
agencies like the USDA to weed out
their competition through excessive regulation.
Furthermore, this restriction of food
freedom is happening in concert across the globe, precisely because
it is a top-down globalist initiative driven by international
regulatory agencies such as
the World Trade Organization and
the United Nations. It is a
complex, interwoven agenda that takes into account everything from
health safety to land use rights in order to force independent food
producers to conform in ways that only benefit a global corporate
structure.
Regulatory agencies are one of the
primary weapons deployed against independent living.
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Genetic Modification
There are many reasons to avoid eating
genetically modified food, from health concerns to supporting a
fundamentally evil food cartel. Genetically modified foods are the
path to monopolies over human life through patented technology and
environmental destruction by chemical-heavy
monoculture practices.
GMOs are so pervasive in the United
States that it is estimated that 70% of the average American diet
contains them. Many European countries, and other regions, have
rejected GMOs. Hungary recently
destroyed illegal GM corn crops and
plans to make distributing seeds a felony offense.
However, because of corporate/political
pressure, most resistant countries are being forced to adopt them.
All of this despite the fact that
environmental infection and contamination
are proven effects of transgenic plants.
Meanwhile, the control is being
implemented under convoluted patent laws, where the mutation itself
signifies originality and control over the natural organism it
imitates.
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The Weather
Weather undeniably affects
food access and food costs.
One glance at
maps across the U.S.
reveals that food production areas are being especially hard hit,
and we are seeing prices rise accordingly. These natural events can
be exploited both by speculators and governments.
However, with the introduction of
weather modification, invested in by those such as
Bill Gates and openly promoted
by
elite globalist think tanks,
concerns have been raised over the possibility that governments
could use weather as a deliberate weapon to create food wars.
Accusations have already been leveled charging exactly that.
While some might dismiss the various
possibilities of "steering the weather" for malevolent purposes as
conspiracy, it is much more difficult to ignore the 1996 document
presented to the Air Force titled
Owning the Weather 2025, which
explicitly states as a heading on page 10: Applying
Weather-modification to Military Operations.
One key section states that weather
control could be virtual, as well as literal:
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Offensive abilities could provide
spoofing options to create virtual weather in the enemy's
sensory and information systems, making it more likely for them
to make decisions producing results of our choosing rather than
theirs. It would also allow for the capability to mask or
disguise our weather-modification activities.
[...]
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Also key to the feasibility of such
a system is the ability to model the extremely complex nonlinear
system of global weather in ways that can accurately predict the
outcome of changes in the influencing variables.
[...]
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Conceivably, with enough lead time
and the right conditions, you could get “made-to-order” weather.
This would certainly be the ultimate
endgame for anyone wishing to use food as a weapon of control and
profit. This possibility should not be easily dismissed, but rather
it warrants open-minded investigation and research.
As we can see, food control is full spectrum,
with wars being declared on the individual, states, and sovereign nations
simultaneously.
Food controllers utilize health, politics, and
economics to integrate their agenda. Only full spectrum solutions can be
employed as protection. There is much hope to be offered through
alternative markets, barter systems, and local co-ops.
We welcome your thoughts in the comments section
below about other creative ideas we can implement to preserve our
independence.
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