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Middle Class May Be Subject To
Food Rations, Warns UN
Experts warn of food riots as
foreign troops cleared to patrol American cities
Prisonplanet | Feb. 25, 2008
By Paul
Joseph Watson
The UN is warning
of a food shortage crisis and drawing up plans for food rations
which will hit even middle-class suburban populations as inflation
and economic uncertainty causes the prices of staple food
commodities to skyrocket.
The United Nation's
World Food Programme cautions today that if it doesn't receive more
funding, it will have to halt food aid to developing countries like
Mexico and China.
"The WFP crisis
talks come as the body sees the emergence of a “new area of hunger”
in developing countries where even middle-class, urban people are
being “priced out of the food market” because of rising food
prices,"
reports the Financial Times.
The
warning
coincides with
a speech by William Lapp,
of US-based consultancy Advanced
Economic Solutions, who cautioned
that rising agricultural raw
material prices would translate this
year into sharply higher food
inflation.
It also
parallels a prediction by Don Coxe,
a Chicago-based global portfolio strategist for BMO Financial Group
who correctly forecast the fall of the dollar and the rise in price
of gold and oil years in advance, who last week spoke of a "global
food crisis" which will cause the world to enter into, "A period of
food shortages and swiftly rising prices," leading to government
embargoes.
With the U.S. on
the verge of a recession and, as many analysts have warned, a
potential second great depression, those long scoffed at for
hoarding vast quantities of storable food may unfortunately be able
to say "I told you so" if the dollar continues to deteriorate and
people begin to be priced out of the food market.
Global food prices
have
skyrocketed by as much as 60 per cent
in the past year, while UN officials warn of the likelihood of
food riots.
"If prices continue
to rise, I would not be surprised if we began to see food riots,”
said Jacques Diouf,
director-general of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, last
October.
Many see the food
shortages, whether real or manufactured, as simply another pretext
for the implementation of martial law and the introduction of
foreign troops to patrol major U.S. cities.
A
recent announcement by Northcom confirmed
that U.S. and Canadian troops will be allowed to patrol
each other's countries in the event of a national emergency.
"U.S. Air Force
Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace Defense
Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen.
Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil
Assistance Plan that allows the military from one nation to support
the armed forces of the other nation during a civil emergency,"
reads a
Northcom press release.
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