Friday, August 10, 2012

Famine?

Greetings good citizen,

Once again global stock exchanges are bleeding from the eye-sockets (which is as it should be considering the severe degree of mismanagement global capitalists are inflicting on a vehicle created to serve us all.)

Tangential to this is the warnings coming out of, er, ‘progressive’ media regarding the detrimental effects the drought will have on the global food supply.

So the > One Percent are going to starve, eh?

Of course not…but the starving masses may well lash out at the fortunate few who can still ‘afford’ food.

(Naturally, worse than people being able to afford retail prices on obviously scarce commodities will be those who steal food intended as relief for the poor so they can sell it to those who can’t afford to pay full price!)

But there will be numerous ‘Robin Hoods’ guarding against precisely that sort of thing.

I find it curious that the closeted Libertarians think we will suffer from a food crisis when energy prices are climbing radically. Could it be they know something the rest of us don’t?

Which begs the question ‘How do they know this?’

They would respond…just look at the drought, it’s everywhere (in the WEST, not so much in the East or the South east, where the bulk of our food is grown.

But that isn’t what’s deviling us. It’s never been a case of whether or not the US can grow enough food to support itself. It can!

The ‘problem’ is the cheaper there…which would starve to death without the heavily subsidized food they receive from the US.

That’s what’s gonna put the bite on the US food supply.

Once we start questioning why so much food is being shipped overseas it will suddenly become ‘humanitarian aid’ for people ‘much worse off’ than starving Americans.


The Great Drought of 2012 has yet to come to an end, but we already know that its consequences will be severe. With more than one-half of America’s counties designated as drought disaster areas, the 2012 harvest of corn, soybeans, and other food staples is guaranteed to fall far short of predictions. This, in turn, will boost food prices domestically and abroad, causing increased misery for farmers and low-income Americans and far greater hardship for poor people in countries that rely on imported U.S. grains.

This, however, is just the beginning of the likely consequences: if history is any guide, rising food prices of this sort will also lead to widespread social unrest and violent conflict.

Food -- affordable food -- is essential to human survival and well-being. Take that away, and people become anxious, desperate, and angry. In the United States, food represents only about 13% of the average household budget, a relatively small share, so a boost in food prices in 2013 will probably not prove overly taxing for most middle- and upper-income families. It could, however, produce considerable hardship for poor and unemployed Americans with limited resources. “You are talking about a real bite out of family budgets,”commented Ernie Gross, an agricultural economist at Omaha’s CreightonUniversity. This could add to the discontent already evident in depressed and high-unemployment areas, perhaps prompting an intensified backlash against incumbent politicians and other forms of dissent and unrest.

Now compound this with sky high energy prices and you have a real fuckaree on your hands!

Sort of redefines the ‘heat or eat’ question and plays directly into the hand of those of us preaching about the existence of a kill off conspiracy.

Yes, that ‘members only’ club you have to be born into has proven (repeatedly) that it doesn’t give a rats ass about the rest of humanity.

And they only have one solution to every problem…‘exterminate ‘em’!

If you weren’t fortunate enough to be born into this exclusive club you are automatically classified as a member of the ‘surplus population’, a vast majority of which is considered ‘expendable’.

Don’t get the wrong impression here…can’t ‘rule in hell’ if there isn’t anybody to ‘bow and scrape’…a certain amount of the surplus population is considered ‘valuable’ as servants/slaves.

Otherwise known as ‘useful idiots’.

But once again I digress.

Food is the great stabilizer as civilization is only nine meals deep. Three days without food and civilization is ‘toast’…

You want to add the lack of heat and light into that equation the time frame shortens considerably…for those of you looking ahead to 12/21/12.

Not that anyone’s calendar has anything to do with any of this BS…

Which is not to say the criminals in charge didn’t leap on the chance to misdirect the superstitious masses into thinking this fuckaree was ‘divine intervention’.

But you know I hold no truck with ‘spirit in the sky’.

Shorthand?

I’d opine the US ‘would be’ just fine despite the drought in the west…it is the capitalist supported cheaper there that will tip the scales against us, creating a ‘world-wide’ famine because our (barely sufficient) food will be shipped overseas to ‘protect their investments.’

Capitalism is NOT your friend.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner


No comments:

Post a Comment