Frank Veracity/PPJ Contributor
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Climate constantly changes, it’s called WEATHER. Weather always affects crops, however…”
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Bloomberg came out with a story last week revealing that George Soros is selling gold and buying farmland. Some large farming investments reap over 16% profits yearly. Soros makes his money by renting land to farmers and land appreciation (notice that he owns the land).
Mike Adams discusses food shortages in his article ‘Why is George Soros selling gold and buying farmland?’ http://www.naturalnews.com/033319_food_prices_farmland.html
Adams identifies the following causes of food shortages:
1. Increased food demand- this is a veiled reference to overpopulation. The Malthusian overpopulation theory is incorrect and is used to justify depopulation. By the way, the UN projects that by 2050 the world’s population will be around 9 billion people and will plateau there- the population projection for 2300 is still 9 billion people.
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=9136&Cr=population&Cr1
Here are some of Mike Adams’ thoughts on overpopulation from another article:
“When the population continues to expand and most of the world’s resources are wiped out, the human population will plunge into a time of great darkness. The loss of life will be immense — perhaps as much as a 90% reduction in the planetary population. Ecosystems will fail, crops will fail and civilization itself will be brought to its knees.” http://www.naturalnews.com/029056_environmental_protection_population_control.html#ixzz1V6uP6AP8
This silly yet destructive idea, perpetuated by Paul Ehrlich, the leading depopulationist of the 1970’s, has been proven wrong over and over again. http://www.prisonplanet.com/predictions-of-the-overpopulation-alarmists-wrong-wrong-wrong-again.html
While Mike Adams says he does not support a one-child policy or government intervention to squelch the population “problem”, he does advocate education- this could have some value if his information was actually correct:
The International Grains Council report for July 2011 says that global grain production is expected to reach record highs in 2011/2012. This report indicates that grain used as animal feed to produce meat may be causing a higher consumption demand. http://www.igc.int/en/downloads/gmrsummary/gmrsumme.pdf
2. Adamsidentifies the next leading cause of famine as “radical climate changes” which is a euphemism for global warming, based on phony science coming out of the United Nations in order consolidate resources and political power under the UN. NASA’s real world satellite data shows that carbon dioxide is having a minuscule heat-trapping effect, and nullifies much of the phony global warming theory.
Climate constantly changes, it’s called WEATHER. Weather always affects crops, however…
If Adams was referring to the Russian heat wave that resulted in a decrease in wheat production in 2010, even the corrupt NOAA admitted that the heat wave was a result of natural phenomena as opposed to global warming. There are many other examples of blaming global warming for natural weather changes that affect crops.
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/03/09/noaa-findsclimate-change-blameless-in-2010-russian-heat-wave/
And what about Japan? Their food supply will be damaged for hundreds of years or longer. The earthquake that ruined the county’s food supply is a result of plate tectonic movement, not carbon. http://www.infowars.com/global-warming-did-not-cause-the-japanese-earthquake/
Alarmism over population, “finite resources” and beneficial carbon dioxide creates a false mindset of scarcity and panic.
Mike Adams does correctly state that genetically engineered crops reduce crop yields. Ironically, global warming is the excuse used for extensive planting of GE crops.
Adams says that “fossil water supplies” or, the more appropriate common name “groundwater”, is being depleted- this is correct, but this is a much more complicated topic that involves corporate monopolies, government corruption and poor planning.
The Real Problem
The real problem is not so much a shortage of food, but government control over food and manufactured famines- here’s what Adams neglected to mention:
Government Control
Governments provide restrictive regulations, subsidies, market manipulation, price fixing and import/export regulations that benefit government and favored corporations. Corporate monopolies exist only through government regulations.
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_food_intro.html
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2249_cartel_companies.html
The cure for this is to remove unnecessary government regulations that hinder economic development, such as the despicable Food Safety and Modernization Act. Corporate privileges must be abolished. Corporate owned monopolies are the opposite of free market Capitalism that encourages competition.
People make the mistake of blaming Capitalism for our current problems. There is nothing wrong with making a profit. The problem is that governments mandate advantages for corporations or other favored groups that create monopolies, and while this is very wrong, it cannot be called free market Capitalism.
Lack of Private Property
The cornerstone of Capitalism is private property ownership. Property ownership is the leading cause of economic freedom.
Lack of property rights, not population density, is the major cause of poverty. The linked article points out that Ehrlich’s book, “The Population Bomb”, does not explain why South Korea is so much better off than North Korea, but an analysis of property rights explains this difference very well.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/y2k/jungle_christ.htm
Wall Street
The derivatives market was responsible for the meteoric inflation of food prices in 2008, and we have the same story today.
http://www.infiniteunknown.net/2011/05/05/how-goldman-sachs-created-the-food-crisis/
Wall Street speculation reform is not a high priority on the elite or political agenda. However, an effective hedge against rising food costs is grain storage. The federal government sold or gave away most of the US grain reserves, so the responsibility of grain storage falls to the states, local governments, communities and individuals.
https://ppjg.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/usda-no-strategic-grain-reserves-they-sold-them/
While I am totally prepared to support any individual or group sounding the alarm on various impending global disasters it appears quite apparent to me that many of those who claim to be “grassroots” or even professional activists of one sort or another, really turn out to be some sort of provocateur. These people tend to get on my last nerve with their wavering back and forth on issues. When they blatantly begin parroting government talking points that we all know to be fictionally created scare tactics, I really get kind of P.O’d.
Pick a side Mikey and stay there. At this point we don’t care if you are for us or against us, we just need to know where you really stand.
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Louie Cocroft
Aug 18, 2011 @ 22:17:39
Another point of view (not my original idea) is that capital is and has been moved into countries that have growing populations and a larger pool of young people, thereby ensuring a cheap labor force. The small percent that own and control most of the wealth tend to believe in slavery and have a strange sense of entitlement.
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Aaron
Aug 18, 2011 @ 02:05:03
Ozs: I said INDUSTRIAL phosphorus for large-scale farming. I doubt you can piss enough to supply a 40-acre spread, let alone 40,000.
Like it or not, most of our food does not come from your backyard garden. You also do not produce wheat or other cereal grains (the backbone of our food production WORLDWIDE), which require more potash than do your peas and tomatoes.
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simply4health
Aug 17, 2011 @ 16:44:15
The Health Ranger misfires on about everything he posts. I find his claim about being an editor pretty fallacious since he is good at poor grammar, run on sentences and terrible fact checking, to say the least.
If he would just stop the cut & paste routine and have a little bit more transparency he might be mroe credible.
I got a big laugh today when I was reading about his MLM protein powder that has added sugar and toxic Himalayan salt. Just what you need for health more sugar and salt.
I could go on for days about Mikey’s sheanigans, but I’d rather see more people find out exactly what his MO is, for truth’s sake.
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ozspeaksup
Aug 17, 2011 @ 14:21:53
AAron..re phosphorus, are you aware they “announced” a world shortage..PNLY after..they had had some old boys chats and the big agris and miners bought up all the known sources they could, monsanto cargill pivotincitec etc etc.
you want phosphorus? save urine dilite 20 to 1 and water the garden,
we let tonnes flow out to sea in sewage treatment plants daily.
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ozspeaksup
Aug 17, 2011 @ 14:17:41
for me the start of the Hmm? was the mussell oil /marketing, then the ? Vilcabamba community idea, the the radio film whatever.
his macro pics of salami ware a hoot though:-)
he does have some good info, he also has some a tad iffy.
the green and eugenics side of it sadly do seem to go together..
you get AGW- you get the too many people claims.
as a prior comment said 1st world taking of 3rd world outputs hasnt really helped them much.
fair trade still isnt real fair.
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nigly24
Aug 17, 2011 @ 13:13:00
In our world many millions are born and many millions die, each and every week. Now i havent noticed any one counting humans around here, but i do know that in the western world birthrates are down below the death rates and that we are told that in the third world life expectancy is low and i am also aware that there are people in this world that wish to inflate the problem for their own ends. Now the bottom line is, that population fluctuates, always has always will; the natural pressures of life and society dictate this. Some have a desire to control us all and also to cull some of us, so as to have more resources for themselves, of course these people are quite mad, their desire to enslave and control is one of the reasons we hear so much doomshit; (excuse the language). Their mission is doomed, but it wont stop them, for a while at least; stirring things up. There are no shortages of resources nor space for more people; there are only the greedy profiteers,the liars and the damned.
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Harry
Aug 17, 2011 @ 05:39:44
No one knows what the game is. And what is the truth really? Mike has said some good things and at the same time I agree with some of this article……yes Mike is sending mixed messages. I really think it’s all a big game and humans are pretty messed up. What happened to the truth and love for others?
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marcellas
Aug 17, 2011 @ 02:17:39
So let me get this straight ……its ok if Adams flutters about from side to side….and its ok if he’s pumping out the global warming stuff that is a known scam,,,,,,and its ok if he sells out cause gosh darn it! He’s a nice guy and needs his 15 mins of fame………and its ok because once he was all for vaccines til it became apparent his audience wasn’t and then he was against them…..or most of them….well…some of them……and even he was supposedly wrong about why we will have a food shortage…….but thats ok because……..??? I forgot. Was it cause he is a nice guy and helped some people one time or was it because he deserves to be famous for a minute or was it because HE JUST GOT NAILED FOR SAYING ONE THING ONE TIME AND THEN SAYING SOMETHING ELSE ANOTHER TIME AND THEN DENYING THAT HE SAID ANYTHING AT ALL? Or for maybe promoting depopulation/eugenics Can you say “CONTROLLED OPPOSTION?”
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dave
Aug 17, 2011 @ 01:08:17
All well and good putting Mike Adams down, but he has helped an aweful lot of people wake t f up about vaccines, gmo shit, and many other medical and nutritional advice, which is not coming from our doctors, or our governments, who are the people who are supposed to be doing that job. Ease up on the brother, so he wants his 15 minutes, let him have it, his previous work justifies it, in my opinion.
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Aaron
Aug 17, 2011 @ 00:48:30
Two problems with your analysis. You ignore phosphorus, which is becoming a serious problem for food producers as the cheap-and-easy potash is fast disappearing. THAT is what is going to cause food shortages. As for “radical climate changes,” if you’ve read through Adams’ stuff on NaturalNews.com, you’d see that the world’s climate is indeed changing and will likely continue to change in big ways in relatively short amounts of time. Nothing to do with AGW. The Little Ice Age was a “radical climate change”, for instance.
Instead of outing everyone but yourself as some kind of lynchpin for the overlords, maybe you should instead just do the research and vet the knowledge being produced.
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tawny
Aug 16, 2011 @ 19:05:32
I agree that Mike Adams is putting out some mixed messages. Whether he really is ignorant/mis-informed or whether he is putting out dis-info at the behest of handlers I don’t know.
Re wanting to get on Oprah, yes she is definitely one of the bad guys. Anyone with any savvy would have to know that. I have noticed Mike Adams is very eager to have his pic put up on Alex Jones’ websites. He seems to be a publicity hound. Maybe him have heap big ego. Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, except that people are controlled by those hungry egos. Makes them vulnerable to being corrupted/co-opted.
Re the ‘population bomb’ – this is basically the result of corrupt governments keeping their people so ‘barefoot and pregnant’ that they don’t know about/don’t have access to birth control information and methods.
Statistics show that with increase in a country’s standard of living comes decrease in birth rate/size of families, as a function of birth control education and availability.
The biggest criminals responsible for keeping people in Third World nations so poor and ignorant are the big money men primarily of the Western World – the Anglo-American corporate/banking elites. Their mega corporations and banks get control of/install & bribe corrupt governments which allow said mega-corporations to rip off these 3rd World peoples of the fair market value of their labor and of their countries’ natural resources.
That I believe in a nutshell is one of the main reasons that 3rd World countries have not followed the pattern seen in the US and many European countries – increase in standard of living bringing with it a decline in the birth rate. Instead they and their people have been financially raped – kept impoverished, ignorant — and pregnant.
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dogg
Aug 16, 2011 @ 16:55:22
He’s not completely wrong about climate change, if you consider the destruction and weather chaos being caused by the government’s haarp program. Of course, it’s not the global warming smack, but general chaos and damage to controlled areas.
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Ken
Aug 16, 2011 @ 16:35:44
I was beginning to wonder about Mike when he went off on social security benefits, how it was going down the tubes and how it would be fine if it was eliminated. No mention of the Military Industrial Complex and how that makes up roughly two-thirds of our national budget, spent mostly around the world (160+ countries, 777+ bases) creating death and mayhem. Seems more and more that he is another one of the elites “controlled opposition”
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ozspeaksup
Aug 16, 2011 @ 13:48:16
well said Frank,
while I think Mike means well, I also am astounded hes fallen for the AGW line..
lowers his cred on the rest, by showing such poor judgement and lack of independant research, which is..what his sites supposed to be about.
same thing also with greenpeace, their mindless support and admissions of scaremongering to gain AGW hysteria has diminished their GMO and other campaigns to the point many have, as I now do, stopped listening to them at all.
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Beth Patten
Aug 16, 2011 @ 13:29:45
I really had to start wondering about Mike when he wanted so badly to get on the Oprah wagon. Anyone with a clue knows she’s part of the little elite party with Gates, and various and assorted other eugenicists…
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Myles O'Howe
Aug 16, 2011 @ 13:26:13
Jeff Rense won’t post my videos when I send him messages just like mike ruppert they promote more collapse propaganda than solutions to solve collapse. Why? He posts that charlie guy spreading disinfo about collapse all the time, i probably wont waste my time with him but i could make a video collection of him living in fear over collapse, its like dude all the fear levels are not logical because hemp means no more unsustainable hypocrisy it means self sufficiency and sustainability, living long health lives in abundance and not scarcity. Hemp is the #1 food, #1 fiber, #1 biofuel, #1 plastic, #1 concrete #1 medicine=self sufficiency. HE did post my 21 minute censored antimatter video, ive been promoting antimatter for quite some months now I am more than grateful for that. Rense has said resistance is futile, not once or twice too many times. One with jordan maxwell, another one when gerald celente was on. Resistance is never futile.
Alternative media has become like mainstream media people worship people like celebrities. I got a video exposing alex jones spreading disinfo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sJZm3Nsg_4 I might do another video exposing the whole alternative media as a scam and fraud they dont care about real solutions they are trying everything except hemp! WHY?
Thanks for posting. I have had comments censored by natural news didnt think much of it but now i know.
They dont want cannabis to cure cancer they want to spread DISINFO about curing cancer with vitamin b17 and eating properly, which does not cure cancer. eating properly and b17 is anti cancer it wont cure it, cancer needs an acidic environment to thrive in that is where eating right plays a critical role, but to cure the cancer eat High THC Hemp oil like Rick Simpsons cancer cure.
http://www.phoenixtears.ca
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Gail Frances
Aug 16, 2011 @ 13:05:37
Well said!
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Christian
Aug 16, 2011 @ 05:12:43
Then he will get in bed with Monsanto who is destroying ALL seed banks and creating a monopoly on food grown by their terminator seeds! The rest of us slaves are screwed! You still have to pay the taxes/rent on it or they will take it! You really do not own just rent! Allodial title ended in 1913 with the Private Federal Reserve Bank “Act” as congress mortgaged us and our land into ‘real estate” and gave us “deeds” as tenants! To keep it maintained for them and pay the rent/tax! Truth cannot hide as light defeats DARKNESS!
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