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World’s hungry top one billion: UN food agency
AFP
Friday, June 19, 2009
ROME (AFP) — A record one billion people are undernourished around the world, the UN food agency said Friday, blaming the global financial crisis for a surge of more than 100 million hungry since last year.
Deploring “the biggest ever year-on-year increase” in world hunger, Jacques Diouf, the head of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), told a news conference: “One in six human beings does not have access to food.”
The FAO chief called for a “new world food order” enshrining the “right to food and thus the right to exist,” urging stepped-up investment in agriculture.
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Some three weeks ahead of the Group of Eight wealthy nations’ summit in Italy, Diouf said: “The problem of food security is a political one. It’s a question of priorities on the world agenda.”
Josette Sheeran, head of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), recalled food riots in several developing countries in the past two years and warned at the same news conference: “A hungry world is a dangerous world.”
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June 19th, 2009 at 9:26 am
A “new world food order”, eh?
Well yah that’s a good idea – under the NWO plan 6-7 Billion will get to try the age old starvation diet!
Idiots!!
June 19th, 2009 at 10:35 am
“The most recent increase in hunger is not the consequence of poor global harvests but is caused by the world economic crisis that has resulted in lower incomes and increased unemployment.”
They always find ways to turn the argument around and not acknowledge that the world has stopped warming for the past 11 years and has now significantly cooled down for the last 2 years. Global cooling brings crop failure and this is what we are sing and it is getting worse not better. Even Monsanto seeds will fail. Look at the past cooling periods and the same thing happened.
Going forward with carbon taxation will only worsen the situation. Not only the food price will skyrocket because of its low yield, but it will even be higher because they will tax the farmers to the ground.
June 19th, 2009 at 10:46 am
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June 19th, 2009 at 11:07 am
BULLs--- ,, by way of deception and glorification of genetically engineered crops were got in ..and people constructed buildings , schools, malls on teh fertile lands and that has been centuries old plan …
now only people who accept the rules of satan or new world order or so called globalism will get food and rest all will fac efood crisis ..
after all food was there to be cultivated in earth and now we see few major companies controlling food supplies
June 19th, 2009 at 11:35 am
This is a lie. A lot of the so-called “impoverished” people are actually just people independent from government taxation and enslavement — so the UN declares them “hungry”.
Rubbish. Read some Chomsky and you’ll know what I’m talking about.
With that said, of course globalisation has lead to a lot of misery. I’m just saying: there may be more to these numbers than we think.
June 19th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
“The FAO chief called for a “new world food order” enshrining the “right to food and thus the right to exist,” urging stepped-up investment in agriculture.”
Or we can take care of ourselves, go by our own laws which already include Right to Life, grow as much our own food as possible, and get the 1st world out of the 3rd world’s business and politics. The intentional underdevelopment of the the 3rd world was controlled and guided by the West.
The hungry people who live in shacks next to the diamond mines know quite well that their countries aren’t poor. Turn Africa’s resources over to the people, and they will be eating better than us.
June 19th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
So with tens of trillions & technology, man still “chooses” NOT to feed his fellow!
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June 19th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDkhzHQO7jY ….. George Carlin – We Like War
In Context: US Military Spending Versus Rest of the World
When the US Fiscal Year 2009 budget request for military spending came out in early 2008, Travis Sharp and Christopher Hellman (mentioned earlier) projected the spending of other nations planned for 2008 thus allowing comparison between US military spending and the rest of the world:
* Pie chart
* Comparing US with others
* Top spenders ranked (and sources)
Pie chart
Comparing US with others
In other words,
* US military spending accounts for 48 percent, or almost half, of the world’s total military spending
* US military spending is more than the next 46 highest spending countries in the world combined
* US military spending is 5.8 times more than China, 10.2 times more than Russia, and 98.6 times more than Iran.
* US military spending is almost 55 times the spending on the six “rogue” states (Cuba, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Sudan and Syria) whose spending amounts to around $13 billion, maximum. (Tabulated data does not include four of the six, as the data only lists nations that have spent over 1 billion in the year, so their budget is assumed to be $1 billion each)
* US spending is more than the combined spending of the next 45 countries.
* The United States and its strongest allies (the NATO countries, Japan, South Korea and Australia) spend $1.1 trillion on their militaries combined, representing 72 percent of the world’s total.
* The six potential “enemies,” Russia, and China together account for about $205 billion or 29% of the US military budget.
Top spenders ranked (and sources)
Military spending in 2008 ($ Billions, and percent of total)Country Dollars (billions) % of total Rank
Source: U.S. Military Spending vs. the World, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, February 22, 2008
Notes:
* The figure for the United States is the budget request for Fiscal Year 2009 and includes $170 billion for ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as funding for the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons activities.
* All other figures are projections based on 2006, the last year for which accurate data is available.
* All countries that spent over one billion per year are listed.
* Due to rounding, some percentages may be slightly off.
If you are viewing this table on another site, please see http://www.globalissues.org/ar.....y-spending for further details.
United States 711 48.28% 1
China 121.9 8.28% 2
Russia 70 4.75% 3
United Kingdom 55.4 3.76% 4
France 54 3.67% 5
Japan 41.1 2.79% 6
Germany 37.8 2.57% 7
Italy 30.6 2.08% 8
Saudi Arabia 29.5 2.00% 9
South Korea 24.6 1.67% 10
India 22.4 1.52% 11
Australia 17.2 1.17% 12
Brazil 16.2 1.10% 13
Canada 15 1.02% 14
Spain 14.4 0.98% 15
Turkey 11.6 0.79% 16
Israel 11 0.75% 17
Netherlands 9.9 0.67% 18
United Arab Emirates 9.5 0.65% 19
Taiwan 7.7 0.52% 20
Greece 7.3 0.50% 21
Iran 7.2 0.49% 22
Myanmar 6.9 0.47% 23
Singapore 6.3 0.43% 24
Poland 6.2 0.42% 25
Sweden 5.8 0.39% 26
Colombia 5.4 0.37% 27
Chile 4.7 0.32% 28
Belgium 4.4 0.30% 29
Egypt 4.3 0.29% 30
Pakistan 4.2 0.29% 31
Denmark 3.9 0.26% 32
Indonesia 3.6 0.24% 33
Switzerland 3.5 0.24% 34
Kuwait 3.5 0.24% 35
South Africa 3.5 0.24% 36
Oman 3.3 0.22% 37
Malaysia 3.2 0.22% 38
Mexico 3.2 0.22% 39
Portugal 3.1 0.21% 40
Algeria 3.1 0.21% 41
Finland 2.8 0.19% 42
Austria 2.6 0.18% 43
Venezuela 2.6 0.18% 44
Czech Republic 2.5 0.17% 45
Romania 2.3 0.16% 46
Qatar 2.3 0.16% 47
Thailand 2.3 0.16% 48
Morocco 2.2 0.15% 49
Argentina 1.9 0.13% 50
Ukraine 1.7 0.12% 51
Cuba 1.7 0.12% 52
Angola 1.6 0.11% 53
New Zealand 1.5 0.10% 54
Hungary 1.3 0.09% 55
Ireland 1.1 0.07% 56
Jordan 1.1 0.07% 57
Peru 1.1 0.07% 58
North Korea n/a n/a 59
Global Total (not all countries shown): 1,472.7 100% n/a
Why does the US number seem so high when the budget announced $517.9 for the Department of Defense?
Unfortunately, the budget numbers can be a bit confusing. For example, the Fiscal Year budget requests for US military spending do not include combat figures (which are supplemental requests that Congress approves separately). The budget for nuclear weapons falls under the Department of Energy, and for the 2009 request, was about $29 billion.
The cost of war (Iraq and Afghanistan) is estimated to be about $170 billion for the 2009 spending alone. Christopher Hellman and Travis Sharp also discuss the US fiscal year 2009 Pentagon spending request and note that “Congress has already approved nearly $700 billion in supplemental funding for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and an additional $126 billion in FY’08 war funding is still pending before the House and Senate.”
Furthermore, other costs such as care for veterans, health care, military training/aid, secret operations, may fall under other departments or be counted separately.
http://www.globalissues.org/ar.....rySpending
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June 19th, 2009 at 5:07 pm
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June 19th, 2009 at 5:23 pm
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Chris Diminie Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 10:35 am
As Bill Hicks said(paraphrased), “We can send a smart bomb down a chimney… theoretically couldn’t we use the same technology to drop food on hungry people?”
June 19th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Of course, if you compare the amount of food non-American people consume compared to what Americans eat, yeah you could say that people are starving. I know 303,824,640 people that should be on a diet.
June 19th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
LET THEM EAT CAKE!!!!! (no pun intended)
June 19th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
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June 19th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
As Henry Kissinger once noted, “Who controls the food supply controls the people; who controls the energy can control whole continents; who controls money can control the world.”
(September 2003)
http://www.larouchepub.com/oth.....intro.html …. Who Is Responsible for the
World Food Shortage
ARTICLES IN THIS FEATURE:
* World Food Shortage Follows Imposed Import-Depencency
* Kissinger’s 1974 Plan for Food Control Genocide
* The Windsors’ Global Food Cartel:
Instrument for Starvation
* Control by the Food Cartel Companies:
Profiles and Histories
* The Cartel `Experts’ Decide Who Eats
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http://thetruthorthefight.word.....od-supply/ ….. Codex Alimentarius – How the global elite will control your food supply
-”If you control the food supply, you control the people” – Henry Kissinger
“If you are not suspicious of a large group of elite bankers/corporate giants/scat-eating-politicians who ultimately want to control the worlds food and money supply than you are already under their (mind) control. Groups like, The Club Of Rome, The Trilateral Commission, and the Council on Foreign Relations, which the “Urban” Howdy-Doody, Obama and his “Mr. Ed” horse-mouth wife are members of.
Things are bad enough now. But If they manage to have their way with this, it will be nothing short of total enslavement. If you think this is all nonsense and a conspiracy theory, then I wish you good luck and remember to brush after your global masters pull out their scaly peckers .
–AHAHA YUP THE “WHO” AAMMM YUP I AM LISTENING …..
http://www.globalresearch.ca/i.....p;aid=4022 ….. Pope Benedict XVI has invited Henry Kissinger, former adviser to Richard Nixon, to be a political consultant and he accepted.
BY EDWARD PENTIN
National Catholic Register Correspondent
November 26-December 2, 2006 Issue
VATICAN CITY — Over the course of his long and controversial career, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has had many titles. Now he reportedly has one more — adviser to the Pope.
According to the Italian newspaper La Stampa, Pope Benedict XVI has invited the 83-year-old former adviser to Richard Nixon to be a political consultant, and Kissinger has accepted.
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For whom was the Rothschild family
working?
Aware that the Rothschilds are an important Jewish family, I
looked them up in Encyclopedia Judaica and discovered that
they bear the title ‘Guardians of the Vatican Treasury’…. The
appointment of Rothschild gave the black papacy absolute
financial privacy and secrecy. Who would ever search a
family of orthodox Jews for the key to the wealth of the
Roman Catholic Church? — F. Tupper Saussy, Rulers of
Evil, Harper Collins, page 160, 161
The Rothschilds were Jesuits who used their Jewish background as a
facade to cover their sinister activities. The Jesuits, working through
Rothschild and Biddle, sought to gain control of the banking system of
the United States.
Andrew Jackson was not happy with the central bank. When Biddle
sought to renew the bank’s charter in 1832, President Jackson put his
re-election bid on the line and vetoed Congress’ attempt to renew the
charter. He vetoed it for three reasons. The bank was becoming a
monopoly; it was unconstitutional, and it was a grave danger to the
country by having the bank heavily dominated by foreign interests (the
Jesuits).
Jackson felt that the very security of America was in danger from these
foreign interests. He said:
Is there no danger to our liberty and independence in a bank
that in its nature has so little to bind it to our country? Is
there not cause to tremble for the purity of our elections in
peace and for the independence of our country in war?
Controlling our currency, receiving our public monies, and
holding thousands of our citizens in dependence, it would be
more formidable and dangerous than a naval and military
power of the enemy. — Herman E. Kross, Documentary
History of Banking and Currency in the United States,
Chelsea House, pp. 26, 27.
Jackson’s comments were nothing new. Others understood the power
wielded by those who ran the bank. Mayer Rothschild said:
“I care not what puppet is placed on the throne of the
WORLD GOVERNMENTS to rule the Empire, … The man that controls
THE WORLDS money supply controls the WORLD and i care not
who writes the laws. And I control the money supply.”
–Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild (1777-1836)
. — G. Edward Griffin, The Creature from
Jekyll Island, American Opinion Publishing, p. 218.
This is the Jesuits’/Rothschilds’ golden rule. The one who has the gold
makes the rules!
Griffin then writes:
The Rothschild dynasty had conquered the world more
thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all
the Caesars before or all the Hitlers after them. — Ibid, p.
218.
Thomas Jefferson has this to say about the central bank.
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a
greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing
army… We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual
debt. — Ibid. p. 329.
The Jesuits used Biddle and Rothschild to gain the upper hand in
American banking because they knew they could then control the
people and effectively re-write the Constitution according to papal law.
Jackson was trying to stop them.
Let us take a closer look at the central bank and see why it is so
dangerous. Most people do not understand the central bank, the
Federal Reserve Bank. Here is a very simplified scenario that pretty
much explains one of the operations of the Federal Reserve.
It is necessary to understand that the Federal Reserve Bank is not
owned by the United States government as many believe. The central
bank, the Federal Reserve Bank, is a private bank, owned by some of
the richest and most powerful people in the world. This bank has
nothing to do with the U.S. government other than the connection,
which allows the operation described below. The Federal Reserve Bank
has a total, government-enforced monopoly in money. Before we had
the central bank, each individual bank competed with other banks; the
customers, the consumers, got the best deal. Not any more.
We all know that today the United States government borrows money
and operates under astronomical debt. Why is this? Common sense
dictates that a policy of such enormous debt will sooner or later
destroy the organization that practices it, because the interest on its
debt must increase beyond its income, making payoff impossible.
Now to our scenario. Here, roughly, is how the operation proceeds.
Suppose the United States government wants to borrow a billion
dollars. The government issues a bond for this amount, much as a
water company does when it wants to raise money for a new pipeline
or a new dam. The government delivers this bond for the billion dollars
to the Federal Reserve Bank. The Federal Reserve Bank takes the bond
and writes an order to the Department of Printing and Engraving to
print the billion dollars’ worth of bills. After about two weeks or so,
when the bills are printed, the Department of Printing and Engraving
ships the bills to the Federal Reserve Bank, which then writes a check
for about two thousand dollars to pay for printing the billion dollars’
worth of bills. The Federal Reserve Bank then takes the billion dollars
and lends the billion dollars to the United States government, and the
people of the country pay interest at an exorbitant rate each year on
this money, which came out of nothing. The owners of the Federal
Reserve Bank put up nothing for this money.
We see, therefore, that when the United States government goes into
debt one dollar, a dollar plus the interest goes into the pockets of the
owners of the Federal Reserve Bank. This is the largest, the most
colossal theft ever perpetrated in the history of mankind, and it is so
slick, so subtle, and so obfuscated by propaganda from the news media
that the victims are not even aware of what is happening. You can see
why the Jesuits want to keep this operation secret.
The Constitution of the United States gives to Congress the power to
coin money. If Congress coined its own money as the Constitution
directs, it would not have to pay the hundreds of billions of dollars of
interest that it now pays each year to the bankers for the national
debt, for money that came out of nothing. Money coined by Congress
would be debt free.
Biddle responded to Jackson’s refusing to allow him to re-establish the
central bank by shrinking the nations money supply. He did this by
refusing to make loans. By so doing, he upended the economy and
money disappeared. Unemployment ran high. Companies went
bankrupt because they could not pay their loans. The nation went into
a panic depression. Biddle felt he could force Jackson to keep the
central bank. So confident was he that he publicly boasted that he had
caused the economic woes in America. Due to his foolish bragging,
others came out in defense of Jackson and the central bank died. It
died until its re-establishment in 1913. It was re-established then by
the same people, (Jesuits of Rome) for the same purpose of bringing
America to her knees and planting the temporal power of the pope in
The Jesuits’ scheming for a central bank in America was temporarily
stopped during Andrew Jackson’s presidency. He had opposed
Calhoun’s States Rights doctrine, and he stopped Biddle’s attempt to
continue the Central Bank. When other things fail, the Jesuit Oath
declares that it is commendable to murder someone who stands in
their way.
The President had earned the undying hatred of monetary
scientists, both in America and abroad. [The Jesuits were
furious.] It is not surprising, therefore, that on January
30,1835, an assassination attempt was made against him.
Miraculously, both pistols of the assailant misfired, and
Jackson was spared by a quirk of fate. It was the first such
attempt to be made against the life of a President of the
United States. The would-be assassin was Richard
Lawrence who either was truly insane or who pretended to
be insane to escape harsh punishment. At any rate,
Lawrence was found not guilty due to insanity. Later, he
boasted to friends that he had been in touch with powerful
people in Europe who had promised to protect him from
punishment should he be caught. — Ibid. p. 357.
The Jesuit Order was dead serious about taking over the United States.
They infiltrated into government at the highest levels, and used their
agents in controlling the American banking system. They would also
use assassination when necessary to destroy any opposition to their
plans. Andrew Jackson was almost assassinated by a Jesuit plant, who
bragged of powerful Europeans, (the Jesuits) that would set him free in
case he was caught. Other Presidents came along who also incurred
the undying wrath of Rome. Several have been assassinated, and a few
escaped certain death. The next chapter, which discusses the
Presidencies of William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, and James
Buchanan, will fill in the details. Hughes – The Secret Terrorists
AMMM RIGHT THE “WHO”
YOU MEAN THE OFFICIAL CLUB OF THE PRIEST LAWYER POLITICAL SWINDLERS ROBBER BARONS MURDERERS AND THIEVES ? THOSE PUNKS ????? AKA THE GOVERNMENT” ? AHAHAH YEA REALLY GOING TO LISTEN TO THAT SLIME
NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
June 19th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
well when these morons lose control we will feed the hungry and end this crisis once and for all.There is food everywhere.Its just a s--- system that allows people to be left behind.
kebcreation Reply:
June 19th, 2009 at 6:10 pm
Stop the wars, stop the destroying countries, stop the making of refugees. Before you combat the hunger of peoples you need to get to the root cause. Stop the misuse and destruction and all will have enough. The UN is a bad joke on the world. It is nothing more than the evil congregation of so-called leaders that act like they are helping humanity when inside they are ravenous wolves starving the people of food and truth. Governments are crooks taking for themselves and couldn’t give 2 cents on the dollar to the people without interest. Unbelievable how far from humanity they have slid like snakes hunting rats.
June 19th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
I wonder how many of those would have gone hungry if our “civilisation” hadn’t spend $1.46 trillion last year on weapons so that we could kill each other?
http://www.openyoureyesnews.com/?p=6019
June 20th, 2009 at 1:01 am
I wonder how many of those would have gone hungry if our “civilisation” hadn’t spend $1.46 trillion last year on weapons so that we could kill each other?
http://www.openyoureyesnews.com/?p=6019
Sorry, forgot to add great post! Can’t wait to see your next post!
June 20th, 2009 at 1:32 am
There is plenty of food to feed everybody in the world . It is the distribution and the economic system that creates artificial barriers and difficulties .
A few years ago in Autralia entire citrus groves wese uprooted beacuse it was cheaper to impont concentrated orange juice from Brazil . In Italy just a few weeks ago , milk producers were fined by the EU million of Euros for excess production !
The economic system in place now is a terrible failure , we got 2 billion of humans barely surviving today and this is an indictment of how bankrupt our civilization is . Our criminal governments spend untold amount of money in weapons to keep us as slaves to the bowsers and divided . Technology is available to free mankind from the slavery of petrol and energy but it is all locked up . The ones responsible for this state of affairs should be dealt harshly . I am for the re introduction of the guillotine and cricifixion .
June 20th, 2009 at 2:57 am
You can’t make s--- up:
“FANCY the idea of hopping around Asia and Africa in less than five minutes with the Rolling Stones classic “Gimme Shelter” ringing in your ears? Or, how would you like to watch live video footage of refugees in Chad or internally displaced people in Colombia as they mark World Refugee Day this weekend?
Both will be possible thanks to innovative technology being introduced this week on UNHCR’s new website, which was launched on Monday. The Google Earth Tour takes you from Mae La Refugee Camp in the rainforest of western Thailand to Treguine in the arid wastes of eastern Chad, visiting five other UNHCR-run camps along the way…”
http://www.unhcr.org/4a3a5f046.html
Talk about predictive programming…
King Kong Reply:
June 20th, 2009 at 3:12 am
Shoulda been “can’t make THIS s--- up…”
June 20th, 2009 at 6:34 am
the seed bank is pure evil [satans little stash] is what it will be called from now on by me
June 20th, 2009 at 9:12 pm
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