Is Africa Facing a Bigger Threat Than Colonialism?

The impact of the G8 New Alliance For Food Security and Nutrition (New Alliance) does everything but accomplish what its title suggests. If anything, its false, repressive, spurious existence is a threat to food sovereignty and agro-ecology in Africa and elsewhere.  In other words, predatory capitalism under the pretense of  reducing poverty.

Oxfam found that "both the New Alliance and related policy reforms actually risk marginalizing small-scale agriculture, undermining land tenure security, and endangering the right to food of the most vulnerable people."

Simply put, New Alliance's agenda is the corporate takeover of Africa's food. African governments are reforming laws to benefit multinational corporations like Monsanto in return for western aid and investment. Farmers would be restricted from saving and swapping seeds, and many who buy them would end up in debt. Meanwhile, traditional seed varieties could be lost forever. The law actually says "farmers that use seed varieties claimed under new intellectual property rights by individuals and companies anywhere in the world risk hefty fines or even imprisonment."



According to Lauren McCauley,

“Under the specious claim of delivering "aid to Africa," western governments are backing an initiative—described by some as another form of "colonialism"—that is effectively enabling the corporate takeover of African nations by some of the world’s biggest food and agriculture companies."

Why do we allow the parasitic wealthy and powerful--those who live off the blood, sweat and tears of others, who talk openly about the horrors of third world overpopulation--free reign to decide what's in the best interest of third world people? They have clearly stated that we must reduce that population.  It's insane! Or, perhaps, most of us agree with these predators...as long as it's not us. 

“What small scale farmers need is investment in infrastructure that links them more locally and regionally...Where control and ownership over the means of farming, buying and selling food and the culture of food is held by farmers (and people)—not outside elites." -- Dan Iles, food sovereignty campaigner with Global Justice Now

Links:

Mycotoxins: The Cost of Achieving Food Security and Food Quality

Mycotoxin contamination of foods in Africa: Antinutritional factors

G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition Not Supportive of Small-Scale Food Producers

Corporate influence through the G8 New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition in Africa

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The FDA is Now the Walnut Police!

Life Extension Magazine published 57 articles about the health benefits of walnuts, so Diamond Foods   included the scientific data  about those health benefits on their website, however,  they provided this information without Big Pharma FDA approval. How dare they!  Anyway,  the FDA, totally ignoring the science, proceeded to send the company a warning letter stating that they must file a drug application in order to continue selling walnuts, threatening them with government seizure or injunction.

“Ingesting nuts used to be considered unhealthy because of their high fat content. This misconception has changed over the past 18 years as human studies have revealed sharply reduced incidence of heart disease in those who consume walnuts.1-12

Unlike some nuts, walnuts provide a unique blend of polyunsaturated fatty acids (including omega-3s), along with nutrients like gamma-tocopherol that have demonstrated heart health benefits.13-24

The March 4, 1993, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine published the first clinical study showing significant reductions in dangerous LDL and improvement in the lipoprotein profile in response to moderate consumption of walnuts.14 Later studies revealed that walnuts improve endothelial function in ways that are independent of cholesterol reduction.1, 25-27

One study published by the American Heart Association journal Circulation on April 6, 2004, showed a 64% improvement in a measurement of endothelial function when walnuts were substituted for other fats in a Mediterranean diet.

Keep in mind, the FDA allows potato chip manufacturers to claim heart-healthy benefits, not to mention, walnuts aren’t the only food whose health benefits the FDA has tried to suppress. The bottom line is the FDA targets only those foods that really do benefit health, while allowing artery-clogging, obesity-creating foods to claim any kind of "health benefits" they want.  In other words, the FDA is basically a whore for Big Pharma and the agrichemical companies like DuPont and Monsanto.

Update: I had not realized I posted about this (below) previously, in 2011.

Isn't it funny how the FDA has no problem approving substances like aspartame that's responsible for more complaints to the FDA than any other additive considering that 75% of grievances to the FDA are the result of this highly toxic ingredient...an ingredient that the FDA lists 92 symptoms for, including brain tumors and death! Yet, wants to outlaw walnuts? Does anyone get the idea that the FDA may be trying to outlaw healthy immune systems?

But why would they want to harm we, the people? Well, it's not so much the desire to harm us, as it is their #1 priority to ensure Big Profits for Big Pharma, Big Agriculture and Big Chemical. Remember, they're people, too...far more important then the flesh and blood kind of people like us.

In July, Natural News reported that the FDA "quietly unleashed a regulatory scheme that, if fully implemented, could ban virtually all dietary supplements in the USA that were formulated after 1994".

Which brings us to walnuts are drugs. Yep, you read that right. Why? Because Blue Diamond wants to declare walnuts heart-healthy, so, the FDA says, "walnut products are drugs", and must be regulated as such.
FDA letter to "Blue Diamonds"

"Your walnut products are drugs...they may not legally marketed ...in the United States without an approved new drug application."

Two words to watch out for: Codex Alimentarius which was created in 1963 by UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO) to develop food standards, guidelines and related texts such as codes of practice under the Joint FAO. Sounds innocent enough, right? Well, I'm sure it was until the pharmaceutical industry infiltrated. Now, it appears to be the propaganda arm of the international pharmaceutical industry. In other words, Codex alimentarius is one of the major entities behind the effort to take away our access to nutritional products and information.

Wasn't it Henry Kissinger who said, "Control oil and you control nations, control food and you control the people"? Well, it looks as if these words were more of an agnda, than merely a statement.


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Links:

Harvard study shows that nuts may reduce risk of death

“Nut eaters were 25 percent less likely to die from heart disease, 10 percent less likely to die from cancer, and 20 percent less likely to die from diabetes as well as lung diseases. The study found that nut eaters enjoyed longer lifespans even if they did not exercise, avoided fruits and vegetables, and were overweight.

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Protect Your Health and Starve the Beast: Monsanto GMO Brands

Protect your health and starve the beast by avoiding products distributed by Monsanto and their subsidiaries. Included in the list is the amount that the company (and its subsidiaries) donated to defeat California Proposition 37 which would have required GMO labeling.  Unfortunately, it appears as if they control it all, so good luck avoiding financially supporting this evil company that is poisoning the planet with Genetically Modified Organisms, but try your best. 

 Food:

Aunt Jemima
Aurora Foods
Betty Crocker
Banquet
Bisquick
Cadbury
Campbells
Capri Sun
Carnation
Chef Boyardee
Coca Cola donated $1,164,400.00 to defeat CA Prop-37
ConAgra donated $1,076,700.00 to defeat CA Prop-37
Dean Foods donated $253,950.00 to defeat CA Prop-37
Duncan Heinz
Famous Amos
Frito Ley
General Mills donated $908,200.00 to defeat CA Prop-37
Green Giant
Healthy Choice
Heinz/Hains Celestial donated $500,000.00 to defeat CA Prop-37(Hains is actually owned by Heinz, Phillip Morris, Monsanto, Citigroup, Exxon-Mobil, Wal-Mart and Lockheed Martin)
Hellman’s Mayo
Hershey’s Nestle
Hormel
Hungry Jack
Hunts
KC Masterpiece
Kellogg's donated $632,500.00 to defeat CA Prop-37
Kid Cuisine
Knor
Kool Aid
Kraft donated $551,148.25 to defeat CA Prop-37
Lean Cuisine
Lipton
Loma Linda
Marie Callenders
Minute Maid
Morning Star
Ms. Butterworth
Nabisco
Nestle donated $1,169,400.00 to defeat CA Prop-37
Nature Valley
Ocean Spray
Ore-Ida
Orville Redinbacher
Pepperidge Farm
Pepsi
Pillsbury
Post
Power Bar
Prego
Pringles
Proctor and Gamble
Quaker
Ragu
Rice-a-roni/Pasta-roni
Stouffers
Tombstone Pizza
Tostinos
Uncle Ben's
Unilever – donated $467,000 to defeat CA Prop-37
V-8

Agricultural Seed Brands

Asgrow
Channel
DEKALB
Deltapine
Fielder’s Choice Direct
Fortanelle
Gold Country Seed
Heritage Seeds
Hubner Seed
Kruger Seeds
Lewis Hybrids
REA Hybrids
Specialty Hybrids
Stewart Seeds
Stone Seed Group
Trelay Seeds
West Bred

Traits and Technologies

Acceleron Seed Treatment Products
Genuity Traits
Prescriptive Ag Solutions

Vegetable Seed Brands

De Ruiter Seeds
Seminis

Weed Control Brands

AquaMaster Herbicide
Bullet Herbicide
Certainty Turf Herbicide
Degree Xtra Herbicide
Harness
Intrro
Lariat
Maverick
Micro-Tech
OutRider
QuikPro
Roundup Power Max
Roundup Pro Concentrate
Roundup Pro Max
Roundup Redy Plus
Roundup Weater Max
RT3 Herbicide
TripleFlex Herbicide
Warrant Herbicide

Links:

NON-GMO food brands

The Real Monsanto Protection Act: How The GMO Giant Corrupts Regulators And Consolidates Its Power

GMO feed turns pig stomachs to mush! Shocking photos reveal severe damage caused by GM soy and corn

GMO Wheat Lawsuit: Idaho Wheat Farmers Sue Monsanto

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The Destruction of Our Food Supply and Rising Rates of Chronic Disease

Over 75 years ago, in 1936, the Department of Agriculture issued a warning to the Senate about our mineral depleted soils, and Linus Pauling, famous for discovering the benefits of Vitamin C, said, "all of our modern diseases can be attributed to a mineral deficiency." Yet, despite these warnings  our food supply has become not only mineral deficient, but altogether nutrient deficient.

Not even two decades later, in 1954, the U.S. government mandated that farmers use chemical fertilizers, rich in phosphates but very low in sulfur. These excess phosphates can interfere with sulfur absorption. Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT published an article “Could Sulfur Deficiency be a Contributing Factor to Obesity, Alzheimer’s, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? ” So, it's no coincidence that, since that time, the rates of disease has increased 4,000%.

"Experts have recently become aware that sulfur depletion in the soil creates a serious deficiency for plants [Jez2008], brought about in part by improved efficiency in farming and in part, ironically, by successful attempts to clean up air pollution. Over the last two decades, the U.S. farming industry has steadily consolidated into highly technologized mega farms. The high yield per acre associated with these farms results in greater depletion of sulfur each year by the tall, densely planted crops. Plants require sulfur in the form of the sulfate radical (SO4-2). Bacteria in well aerated soil, similar to nitrogen fixing bacteria, can convert elemental sulfur into sulfate through an oxidation process. Coal contains a significant amount of sulfur, and factories that burn coal for energy release sulfur dioxide into the air. Over time, sun exposure converts the sulfur dioxide to sulfate, a significant contributor to acid rain. Acid rain is a serious pollutant, in that hydrogen sulfate, a potent acid, penetrates lakes, making them too acidic for lifeforms to thrive. The Clean Air Act, enacted by congress in 1980, has led to substantial decreases in the amount of acid rain released into the atmosphere. Factories have introduced highly effective scrubbing technologies to comply with the law, and, as a consequence, less sulfate makes its way back into the soil.

Modern farmers apply highly concentrated fertilizer to their soil, but this fertilizer is typically enriched in phosphates and often contains no sulfur. Excess phosphates interfere with sulfur absorption. In the past, organic matter and plant residues remained after the fruit and grain were harvested. Such accumulating organic matter used to be a major source of recyclable sulfur. However, many modern machinery-based methods remove a great deal more of the organic matter in addition to the edible portions of the plant. So the sulfur in the decaying organic matter is also lost.

Of course, it's not just sulfur that's important. All minerals are essential for a healthy diet, and since your body does not manufacture minerals, the food supply is one of the only ways to ensure your body is adequately supplied. The seven major minerals are: calcium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, sodium, chloride, and magnesium. The nine trace minerals are: iron, zinc, copper, iodide, selenium, potassium, manganese, fluorine, chromium, and molybdenum.  However, many of these minerals are no longer present because our food supply has been completely debased over the past five to six decades alone, more drastically than during any other time in history.

Human beings used to eat wild, fresh foods, mostly in their natural state with minimal processing, and most importantly, without synthetic chemicals. That all changed after the Industrial Revolution when our methods of farming shifted to mass production, and profit became the primary motivator.

From Modern Lifestyles and the Devolution of the Human Species

"The majority of food Americans spend their money on is processed food. It may resemble food, but it certainly is not real food. Food that has been overly processed and packaged into a container is not food for it is virtually devoid of nutrients. Food manufacturers oftentimes must add vitamins and minerals that have been lost during the processing back into the food. These synthetic vitamins and minerals, usually isolated from their natural forms, act more like anti-nutrients than nutrients in these foods, adding to the body’s chemical burden. Modern methods of food preparation and processing have effectively depleted many nutrients and co-factors necessary for the absorption and utilization of foods that in order for the body to process these modern foods, it must use its own store of nutrients. Consider the stress that your body undergoes, the vast amounts of energy that is required for digestion, only to be left short-changed and worse off than before you had that food in the first place."

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Gradual Subversion of the Democratic Party

Many of the traits that we either have or admire in other people...that make us human - loyalty, trustworthiness, faithfulness, a tendency to seek out heroes, etc. - unfortunately, also makes us more likely to ignore evidence that contradicts what we believe to be true. In fact, the evidence to the contrary can manifest itself as large as an elephant, yet we still ignore. In other words, our humanness makes us vulnerable to master manipulators who may very well be less than human.

This brings me to why I believe in the co-option of the left.  The modern liberal – typically associated with the Democratic Party - fears the extremes of wealth and poverty under unrestrained capitalism; thinks all citizens are entitled to the basic necessities of life; champions the protection of the environment, and puts the welfare of all people above the ability of a few to profit enormously from what we’ve been led to believe is the “free market”.

Unlike the Republicans - who,  regardless of their status in life, seem to support the less humanitarian, less "bleeding heart" values of those who dwell at the apex of society - the positions that the Democrats  usually take, make the Democratic Party, in particular, more threatening to the powerful and wealthy. Simply put, the Democrats [used to] believe in speaking truth to power, whereas the ruling class is not interested in truth...only in growing and keeping all of their their wealth and power to themselves.

Therefore, it makes sense, that if the elitists want(ed) to secure their power base, throwing the Democrats/progressives/liberals off their scent...even better, engaging them in the task of defending/supporting their "cause" just might make their road a little easier.  So, why not push their agenda through the Democratic Party; albeit, much more covertly than they do, through the Republican Party.

How?

That's simple, when you consider the aforementioned traits that make us human. It's all about making good use of timing; infiltration, semantics (Orwellian doublespeak); consensus making -  placement of "change agents" or "facilitators" and "divide and conquer" technique (Delphi technique), and let's not forget the Hegelian dialectic (problem-reaction-solution), and/or psychological warfare.  In other words, deceiving the liberals by embedding their operations in issues that appeal to the left.

The evidence for this transformation is right in front of our eyes.  Ever since President Clinton took office, the Democratic Party has gradually moved so far to the right that it's transformed into the Republican party. Moreover, from "the environment" to "family planning", the issues or causes that the Democrats have traditionally supported have been, more or less, co-opted by the ruling class to mask their true motives. 

“I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we’ve had in a while.”

MR. RUSSERT: Let me pick up on some interviews that you’ve given this week as you’ve been touring, talking about your book, “The Age of Turbulence.” You said this: “I think Bill Clinton was the best Republican president we’ve had in a while.” Republican?

MR. GREENSPAN: I’m sure he doesn’t like that joke, but if you look at his record compared to what I think appropriate policy ought to be, he’s for free trade, he’s for globalization, he was for welfare reform, fiscal restraint and—true enough, he’s not a Republican. I’m sorry, President Clinton, I didn’t mean to say that. But I must say, I had to follow an awful lot of your particular guidelines and found them very compatible with my own.

Remember DADT/DOMA-signing President Clinton promising that NAFTA wouldn't hurt a bit? Welfare Reform Act of 1996? Repeal of Glass-Steagall Act? DADT?

Fast forward a bit and we have President Bush 2.0 Obama who is a master at cloaking his almost neo-con "actions" in moderate, democratic rhetoric.  Obama, who Jeremy Scahill called "Blackwater's New Sugar Daddy" has upgraded America’s network of overseas detention facilities or ‘black sites’; approved the assassination of American citizens; signed a defense bill that blocks his bid to close Guantanamo Bay;  supports a 3-year extension of Patriot Act surveillance; extending the Bush-era tax cuts for two years, etc. Sure President Obama throws a bone to his base every once in a while, just like the Clinton administration did, but, for the most part, it's just a bone. Unless he's got some super secret strategy I'm unaware,  President Obama is as "Republican" as former President Clinton.

Regarding the co-opting of issues,  take global warming, of which a very strong argument can be made proving it's not man-made.  To be sure, the issue of global warming falls under the category of a "liberal" cause; however, if you dig deep enough and research Agenda 21, "sustainable development" and Global Biodiversity Assessment (the blueprint for Agenda 21) you will find a huge profit motive whose carbon reducing methods exploit all of us, but especially, those who have the least.

In the US, tighter controls on levels of consumption, and standards of living, intrusive carbon taxes, tolls, massive land grabs, conservation easement, zoning restrictions, energy audits, forcing small business to become energy efficient,  etc. are supposed to take place. Some already have.

"... an ‘agricultural world’ in which most human beings are peasants, should be able to support 5 to 7 billion people, probably more if the large agricultural population were supported by an industry-promoting agricultural activity. In contrast, a reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be one billion…” -- U.N. Global Biodiversity Assessment Report, states at page 773:””Whittaker and Likens (1975)

Former President Kennedy defined a liberal as the following:

“ ...someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people — their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties — someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a 'Liberal', then I’m proud to say I’m a 'Liberal'.

Granted, as a 'Liberal', he didn't make it far, and maybe that's why he was our second to last liberal president. Former President Johnson was probably our last.

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Beware the Heart of Darkness that May Beat Behind the Benevolence of Billionaires

It shouldn't come as any surprise that power increases moral hypocrisy,  nevertheless, that's what  Dutch researchers found who tested the aforementioned hypothesis.  They noted, “the powerful impose more normative restraints on other people, but believe that they themselves can act with less restraint.” In other words, we, the less powerful, cannot afford to trust the rich and powerful, therefore, it's incumbent upon us to educate and inform ourselves beyond the elite propaganda.

The billionaires were each given 15 minutes to present their favourite cause. Over dinner they discussed how they might settle on an “umbrella cause” that could harness their interests.

The issues debated included reforming the supervision of overseas aid spending to setting up rural schools and water systems in developing countries. Taking their cue from Gates they agreed that overpopulation was a priority.

Take god  tech-titan, Bill "Microsoft" Gates, who gathered some of the world's wealthiest and most powerful billionaires, in secret, to discuss curbing  global population, something he claims is the most important issue of our time. During his speech, "Innovating to Zero", he clearly states his agenda, “First we got population. The world today has 6.8 billion people. That’s headed up to about 9 billion. Now if we do a really great job on new vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we lower that by perhaps 10 or 15 percent.”

Considering Mr. Gate's history, that falls on the sociopathic end of the spectrum,  and his dedication and investment (the Gates Foundation is actually an investment firm which reaps vast financial gains every year from investments that contravene its good works) to vaccinating the entire planet, his words are a little disturbing to say the least.

The Gates Foundation has poured $218 million into polio and measles immunization and research worldwide, including in the Niger Delta. At the same time that the foundation is funding inoculations to protect health, The Times found, it has invested $423 million in Eni, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil Corp., Chevron Corp. and Total of France — the companies responsible for most of the flares blanketing the delta with pollution, beyond anything permitted in the United States or Europe.

So first, we should ask ourselves: Is overpopulation the overarching problem that Bill Gates asserts?  



Next, we must explore beneath the surface of Mr. Gate's persuasive rhetoric, because, in general, the truth is seldom found on the surface, however, in Mr. Gate's case, you can be certain, no matter how sincere his posture, it is only a pretense disguising his real purpose:  covert coercion to his will.

The Gates Foundation’s investment portfolio, included 500,000 shares of Monsanto - The short list of Monsanto`s toxic products includes Agent Orange, PCBs, aspartame, rBGH, and Ready Roundup. - stock.   Monsanto recently purchased the services of Xe (Blackwater) Intelligence Services and it was within that same time frame that Bill Gates purchased 23 million dollars (US) of Monsanto stocks, marking a substantial increase from its previous holdings, valued at just over $360,000.

Neo-Eugenics masquerading as altruism?

According to Edwin Black in his book, War Against the Weak, the eugenics movement got its start at the turn of the last century.  "American corporate philanthropy combined with prestigious academic fraud to create the pseudoscience eugenics". The Rockefeller Foundation funded eugenics research in Germany through the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin and Munich, including well into the Third Reich and it was John D. Rockefeller III, a life-long advocate of eugenics, who used his “tax free” foundation money to initiate the population reduction neo-Malthusian movement through his private Population Council in New York beginning in the 1950’s.

In William Engdahl's book, Seeds of Destruction: The Hidden Agenda of Genetic Manipulation, he reports that using vaccines to covertly reduce births in the Third World is not new.  Bill Gates’ good friend, David Rockefeller and his Rockefeller Foundation were involved as early as 1972 in a major project together with WHO and others to perfect another “new vaccine.”

GMO crops and patented seeds were developed in the 1970’s with significant financial support from the pro-eugenics Rockefeller Foundation, by what were essentially chemical companies—Monsanto Chemicals, DuPont and Dow Chemicals. All three were involved in the scandal of the highly toxic Agent Orange used in Vietnam, as well as Dioxin in the 1970’s, and lied to cover up the true damage to its own employees as well as to civilian and military populations exposed.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, along with David Rockefeller’s Rockefeller Foundation, the creators of the GMO biotechnology, are also financing a project called The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) headed by former UN chief, Kofi Annan. Accepting the role as AGRA head in June 2007 Annan expressed his “gratitude to the Rockefeller Foundation, the Bill&Melinda Gates Foundation, and all others who support our African campaign.” The AGRA board is dominated by people from both the Gates’ and Rockefeller foundations.

The bottom line seems to be that the partnership between government, the major foundations and the agribusiness industry reaps far more reward than do the purported recipients of the billionaire's "benevolence".

Links:

US v. Microsoft Timeline

Microsoft v. US trial on Youtube

Docs Reveals Blackwater-Linked Companies Provided Intel & Security to Multinationals Like Monsanto, Chevron

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