More on the (planned) food "crisis":
"On Dec. 10, 1974, the U.S. National Security Council under Henry Kissinger completed a classified 200-page study, "National Security Study Memorandum 200: Implications of Worldwide Population Growth for U.S. Security and Overseas Interests." The study falsely claimed that population growth in the so-called Lesser Developed Countries (LDCs) was a grave threat to U.S. national security. Adopted as official policy in November 1975 by President Gerald Ford, NSSM 200 outlined a covert plan to reduce population growth in those countries through birth control, and also, implicitly, war and famine. Brent Scowcroft, who had by then replaced Kissinger as national security adviser (the same post Scowcroft was to hold in the Bush administration), was put in charge of implementing the plan. CIA Director George Bush was ordered to assist Scowcroft, as were the secretaries of state, treasury, defense, and agriculture...."
NSSM 200 similarly concluded that the United States was threatened by population growth in the former colonial sector. It paid special attention to 13 "key countries" in which the United States had a "special political and strategic interest": India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, Thailand, the Philippines, Turkey, Nigeria, Egypt, Ethiopia, Mexico, Brazil, and Colombia....
"It is questionable," Kissinger gloated, "whether aid donor countries will be prepared to provide the sort of massive food aid called for by the import projections on a long-term continuing basis." Consequently, "large-scale famine of a kind not experienced for several decades—a kind the world thought had been permanently banished," was foreseeable—famine, which has indeed come to pass."
"Financial crisis hits food aid, Annan says; On World Food Day, implores nations to act" by Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press | October 17, 2008
DUBLIN - Wealthy nations are reneging on commitments to help feed the world's hungry, former UN secretary general Kofi Annan told an international conference on combating starvation yesterday.
Annan, speaking on World Food Day, said 10,000 children in the Third World would die from malnutrition yesterday alone. And this, he said, should be viewed as a tragedy as great as the collapse of a bank.
I'm sure the globalist Annan means well, but he's just farting out shit!!!!
All PART of the PLAN, man!!!!
"The financial crisis deserves urgent attention and focus. But so does the question of hunger. Millions are liable to die [this year]. Is that any less urgent?" Annan told journalists at the Fighting Hunger conference, attended by 200 foreign-aid specialists from Europe, Africa and the United States.
"I agree that politicians being what they are, and under pressure from their own voters to improve their own local economic conditions - they will take their eyes off of poverty," he said.
Annan questioned whether governments were really serious when they proclaimed aid commitments at a Group of Eight summit in Scotland in 2005 and at a 181-nation Food Summit in Rome in June.
They didn't seem to concerned then, either: The MSM and the Meal
Of course, those elite richers are just TRYING TO HELP!!! I keep forgetting that Paulson, Bush, et al, are ALL TRYING TO HELP!! That's why they CAUSED THIS CRISIS!!!!
The G-8 meeting produced promises to boost development aid to Africa to $50 billion by 2010. The Rome Food Summit ended with nations committing $12 billion toward measures to modernize agricultural practices, including promises to buy more food from small African farmers and to help them boost their yields with fertilizer, high-tech seeds, irrigation, and mechanical equipment.
If those promises were kept, Third World hunger would decline, Annan said. Instead, hunger specialists at yesterday's conference agreed that the current number of 920 million hungry worldwide is likely to grow this year to about 970 million.
AS PLANNED!!!
Annan suggested that the $12 billion pledge was an illusion. "How much of that $12 billion has been paid out? How much of that $12 billion was new money? How much of it had been pledged before and pledged again?" he asked.
You are just finding that out richers promises aren't worth shit, eh?
Annan declined to identify specific nations and their financial shortcomings on aid. So did several representatives of aid organizations at the conference. All said it was foolish to risk annoying potential sources of funding. In Rome yesterday, Pope Benedict XVI said that the world has enough resources to feed its growing population and blamed world hunger partly on corruption, military spending and the "egoism" of nations.
When the Pope is right, you gotta give him his props!
In Dublin, US economist Jeffrey Sachs, a development specialist and special adviser to both Annan and his successor, US Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, said virtually all of the world's wealthiest countries have talked big and delivered far less.
That's O.K.' third-worlders are used to it. The lying, I mean!
"It's easy to give a big speech, and very hard to track the money afterward," said Sachs, a Columbia University professor who has promoted the idea of pooling international donations for modernizing Third World agriculture into a single, publicly visible fund.
He said the Rome promises had been "nearly a washout" so far, with only a single major donation - about $33 million from Australia - banked and earmarked for future use in developing agriculture. He said virtually no major country was close to meeting the United Nations' goal of committing 0.7 percent of gross domestic product to foreign aid. He said the biggest donor, the United States, was also "the No. 1 offender" - because its aid equals just 0.16 percent of its GDP. --more--"
But we spend MORE than the REST of the WORLD COMBINED on MILITARY!!!!
