Food Shortages In US-Japan Spark Fears Of World War

Food Shortages In US-Japan Spark Fears Of World
War

This came through to me me today. I am not going
into fear based consciousness, but it's good to be aware of what is occuring
on a planetary level and so I share with you. J


Food Shortages In US-Japan Spark Fears Of World War

By
Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her
Western
Subscribers

Dire reports coming from the two
most powerful Western Nations of the United
States and Japan are stating
that in these economically powerful countries food
shortages have begun
to be seen.

From the United States the New York Sun News Service is
reporting: "Major
retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on
the West Coast are
limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as
demand outstrips supply.
There are also anecdotal reports that some
consumers are hoarding grain
stocks." <http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/robbritt/>

From Japan, Australia's The Age News Service is reporting:
"MARIKO
Watanabe admits she could have chosen a better time to take up
baking. This
week, when the Tokyo housewife visited her local Ito-Yokado
supermarket to buy
butter to make a cake, she found the
shelves
bare.
<http://business.theage.com.au/japans-hunger-becomes-a-dire-warning-for-other-nations/20080420-27ey.html>

"I
went to another supermarket, and then another, and there was no butter
at
those either. Everywhere I went there were notices saying Japan has run
out
of butter. I couldn't believe it - this is the first time in my
life
I've wanted to try baking cakes and I can't get any butter,"
said
the frustrated cook.
<http://business.theage.com.au/japans-hunger-becomes-a-dire-warning-for-other-nations/20080420-27ey.html>

While
soaring food prices have triggered rioting among the starving millions
of
the third world, in wealthy Japan they have forced a pampered
population to
contemplate the shocking possibility of a long-term -
perhaps permanent -
reduction in the quality and quantity of
its
food."
<http://business.theage.com.au/japans-hunger-becomes-a-dire-warning-for-other-nations/20080420-27ey.html>

So
dire has the situation for dwindling World food stocks become that
the
United Nations has issued a dire warning about the looming dangers
being faced
by billions of people on our planet, and as we can read as
reported by the
Associated Press News Service:

"The U.N. chief
warned Sunday that the world must urgently increase food
production to
ease skyrocketing prices and pledged to set up a task force on a
crisis
threatening to destabilize developing nations. The cost of food
has
increased by around 40 percent since mid-2007 worldwide, and the
strain has
caused riots and protests in countries like Cameroon, Burkina
Faso, Haiti and
Egypt."
<http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D905T9KG0&show_article=1
<http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D905T9KG0&amp;show_article=1>
>

Even more ominous, however, are the warnings being issued by
the
International
Monetary Fund, and as we can read as reported
by the Reuters News Service:

"The worst of the instability and
rioting caused by the skyrocketing cost
of staple foods may yet come,
International Monetary
<http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/news/article_1400561.php/Worst_may_still_be_to_come_in_food_rioting_IMF_head_says__Roundup_>
Fund
(IMF) head Dominique Strauss-Kahn told a French radio station on
Friday.
'The worst of the crisis may be before us,' Strauss-Kahn, a
former
French finance minister, told Europe 1 radio. 'Hundreds of
millions of
people will be affected.'
<http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/news/article_1400561.php/Worst_may_still_be_to_come_in_food_rioting_IMF_head_says__Roundup_>

The
IMF head also said that democratically elected governments may be
toppled
because of the crisis, even though they enacted correct
policies.

<http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/news/article_1400561.php/Worst_may_still_be_to_come_in_food_rioting_IMF_head_says__Roundup_>

Strauss-Kahn
also invoked the possibility of regional warfare provoked by the
rising
cost of foods such as maize, rice and wheat."
<http://news.monstersandcritics.com/business/news/article_1400561.php/Worst_may_still_be_to_come_in_food_rioting_IMF_head_says__Roundup_>

But,
to the greatest dangers facing our World today is the breaking down
of
resistance by many of the Western Nations facing food shortages to the
planting
and use of genetically modified crops, and where it is now being
reported that
"Japan and South Korea, some manufacturers for the first
time have begun
buying genetically engineered corn for use in soft
drinks, snacks and other
foods." <http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/21/business/21crop.php>

As
we had previously stated in
our March 26, 2008, report, "Fears
Grow
Over 'Catastrophic' US Biosphere Collapse
<http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1083.htm> ", the use of
genetically modified crops in the United States, and where
nearly 75 percent of
their food is infected with these modified strands
of DNA, is causing the
destruction of their ability to feed themselves as
their bee and bat pollinator
species are being completely
destroyed.

Even more dangerous for humanity are that these Western
Nations are continuing
their promotion of bio-fuels (using the World's
grain stocks to produce
fuel) as the World's gain stocks fall to record
low of just 12 weeks supply
<http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=336878&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/
<http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=336878&amp;area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/>
>
to feed a Global population nearing 7 million. And to our
World's ability
to increase our dwindling food supply even more dire
warnings are being
issued
by the Christian Scientist News
Service, and is are reporting:

"A rough calculation by Brown finds
that just to feed the addition to the
world population each year would
take some 640 square miles of good new
farmland. That's an area
approximately the size of Greater London, or Los
Angeles County, or 18
million football fields.
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0421/p15s01-wmgn.html>

The problem is that although tropical forests in the Amazon region,
Indonesia,
and the Congo are being chopped down for timber and to create
farmland, the
amount of farmland around the world has been shrinking
through desertification
- not growing. <http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0421/p15s01-wmgn.html>

Moreover, the growth of yields from the world's grain fields has
declined
from 2.1 percent a year between 1950 and 1990 during the height
of the
"green revolution" to 1.2 percent a year
since
then."
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0421/p15s01-wmgn.html>

To the greatest paradox, however, in a World teetering on the edge
of an abyss
in its ability to feed itself, are the reports from the
United States that they
make up the largest percentage of the estimated
1.6 billion overly obese and are
spending 'roughly $1 billion a year to
shed a few pounds
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0421/p15s01-wmgn.html> '.

One cannot help but wonder how much better spent this $1 billion a
year would
be if used to plant home gardens instead of being wasted for
the purpose of
human vanity, especially as the growing Global food crisis
will, for certain,
eliminate those 'extra pounds' as these people begin
to queue up for
their meager rations once their government takes complete
control of their
shrinking food stocks.

To those people who have
foreseen, and prepared for, this Global food crisis
an
even
greater danger lurks in that they are now being labeled
as
'hoarders' and will be powerless as their military and police
forces
confiscate their stocks of food and grains and imprison them for
their crimes
against their fellow citizens.

As Egypt, India,
Indonesia and Vietnam have all taken steps to block rice
exports and
Argentina, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine have cut grain exports
<http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=70101> , and as the United States
continues its collapse in its ability to feed
its own people, our World today
stands yet another step closer to Total
War. .

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Translation to Spanish by: Sister Maru Barraza
<mailto:[email protected]> , Mazatlán,
Mexico

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I agree, Stefa; it also reeks of the plans to radically reduce the population of the planet. These folks actually seem heartless. Let's offer them some our ours,, shall we!
Blessings,
John

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