Middle Class May Be Subject To Food Rations, Warns UN

February 26, 2008 in Food Shortages, Health, Military, New World Order, police state, Rationing, riots, tyranny

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, February 25th, 2008

Experts warn of food riots as foreign troops cleared to patrol American cities

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.

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.

Things to Come?

February 13, 2008 in Food Shortages, New World Order

Butter under lock and key as prices soar

Original Article

By Madeleine Coorey

February 12, 2008 03:05pm

AUSTRALIAN pastry chef Tracy Nickl never imagined he would have to tighten security at his country bakery to ensure nobody stole his butter.

But when he realised the value of his yellow stockpile had reached more than $20,000, he decided it was time to put in an alarm system and have a security guard patrol his business at night.

“It’s incredibly valuable,” he said. “Its price has gone from 100 boxes being worth $6000 or $7000… now it’s worth $20,000.”

“You don’t have that kind of money sitting around without protecting it.”

Drought victims

Australian bakeries are the latest in a long line of victims of increased global demand for dairy products and the country’s long-running drought — with the all-important ingredient butter becoming harder to find and more expensive.

Nickl, who owns the Gumnut Patisserie in the Southern Highlands southwest of Sydney, said he orders butter every week from three different suppliers “and (we) just hope and take whatever arrives”.

“It’s a commodity that’s incredibly hard to get,” he said. “You’ll go for weeks and weeks with a specific supplier not being able to give me any.”

Nickl said he noticed the butter shortage begin to bite in June 2007, just as the country was praying for rain to end the worst drought in living memory.

Nailed from every angle

Since the beginning of last year, the price of butter has tripled, he said.

“Whereas once upon a time I used to scream if I was paying more than $70 a (25 kg) box, now if I am paying less than $200 I am pretty happy,” he said. “It’s horrifying.”

“Obviously the ongoing drought in Australia has affected the Australian supply. And on top of that our flour price has gone up 100 per cent. So we’re getting nailed from every angle.”

The frustration is echoed by Sydney cake maker Michael Hughes who has been forced to lift prices and to be more stringent with butter to conserve his supply.

“We’ve been a lot more careful about it, gone for product lines that don’t have lot of butter,” Hughes said.

“My suppliers keep telling me, ‘Brace yourself, because it’s only going to get worse.”

Butter hoarding

Bakers say it is the convergence of two factors — skyrocketing global demand for dairy and the drought in Australia — which have caused the price blow-out.

And because butter, unlike milk, can be safely stored for months, some producers are believed to have built up stockpiles which are further squeezing supply.

Add to that flourishing demand from Asia, and it’s a recipe for disaster for small cake shops, patisseries and bakeries.

“The Chinese market has just increased its appetite for things like cream cheese,” Hughes said. “China has just discovered cheesecakes.”

Joanne Bills, manager of strategic knowledge at Dairy Australia, downplayed the impact of exports on the butter supply, saying drought was the main factor.

“We have had a fairly severe impact from drought,” she said. “And so milk production for the first half of this current season is about 8 per cent down.

“So that is really driving the fact that overall there is a lot less butter being produced, a lot less of everything being produced since we’ve got less milk.”