Friends, In my widely distributed article, "The Post-Bush Regime: a Prognosis" (http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7693), I developed the theme that biofuels amount to an intentional program of global genocide. It seems that events are moving even more quickly than I anticipated in this regard, and that the effects are even more far-reaching than I discussed in the article. Let's consider first current plans re/biofuel production. Here are some excerpts from an article published in World Politics Review, by Henry I. Miller, a physician and fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, "The Global Poor Will Suffer the Worst Ethanol Hangover" (http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/article.aspx?id=1680): "The European Union has announced that it wants to replace 10 percent of its oil consumption with biofuels by 2020. President George W. Bush announced last year a goal of replacing 15 percent of domestic gasoline use with biofuels over the next 10 years, which would require almost a five-fold increase in mandatory biofuel use to about 35 billion gallons. In June 2007, the U.S. Senate pushed the target to 36 billion gallons by 2022, of which 15 billion are mandated to come from corn and 21 billion from other more advanced but largely unproven sources. China is aiming for 15 percent conversion to biofuels. "The reality is that with current technology, almost all of this biofuel would have to come from corn because there is no other feasible, proven alternative. But because of the inefficiencies inherent in producing ethanol from corn and the relatively meager amount of energy yielded by burning ethanol, the demands on farmland would be staggering. An analysis by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development suggested that replacing even 10 percent of America's motor fuel with biofuels would require that about a third of all the nation's cropland be devoted to oilseeds, cereals and sugar crops. Achieving the 15 percent goal would require the entire current U.S. corn crop, which represents a whopping 40 percent of the world's corn supply." What we see here is that biofuels are not 'creeping in' due to the high price of petroleum. Rather biofuels are being forced on the marketplace by government policy. If gasoline distributors are compelled to include X% ethanol, then that is what creates the market, the need to conform to government requirements. --- Now let's consider some of the consequences of this aggressive policy of compelling biofuel production. Here's an article from the Financial Times, "High food prices may force aid rationing" (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/451604c4-e30b-11dc-803f-0000779fd2ac.html): "The United Nation's agency responsible for relieving hunger is drawing up plans to ration food aid in response to the spiralling cost of agricultural commodities. "The World Food Programme is holding crisis talks to decide what aid to halt if new donations do not arrive in the short term. "Josette Sheeran, WFP executive director, told the Financial Times that the agency would look at "cutting the food rations or even the number or people reached" if donors did not provide more money. "Our ability to reach people is going down just as the needs go up," she said. "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. "The world's poor countries will have to pay 35 per cent more for their cereals imports, taking the total cost to a record $33.1bn (in the year to July 2008, even as their food purchases fall 2 per cent, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation." So at the very same time that food becomes less affordable to those living in poverty, the available aid is also being cut back. These excerpts are from an article in the Washington Post, "Soaring Food Prices Putting U.S. Emergency Aid in Peril" (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/29/AR2008022904029.html) "The U.S. government's humanitarian relief agency will significantly scale back emergency food aid to some of the world's poorest countries this year because of soaring global food prices, and the U.S. Agency for International Development is drafting plans to reduce the number of recipient nations, the amount of food provided to them, or both, officials at the agency said. "USAID officials said that a 41 percent surge in prices for wheat, corn, rice and other cereals over the past six months has generated a $120 million budget shortfall that will force the agency to reduce emergency operations. That deficit is projected to rise to $200 million by year's end. Prices have skyrocketed as more grains go to biofuel production or are consumed by such fast-emerging markets as China and India. "USAID officials said the administration, facing a tight budget year, was not planning to request funds to cover the projected $200 million shortfall from the price increases. USAID purchases grains in the same domestic commodities market as the U.S. companies that serve up Wonder bread or Big Macs, meaning they pay the same high market rates. As a result, officials said, the program cuts are necessary. "At this point, this is the administration's request," Borns said yesterday." So we have the same administration in Washington forcing the biofuels program even as it knows one of the consequences is to cut back on US food aid in a time of rapidly increasing food prices. --- All of these excerpts have been from mainstream sources. The facts are clear. For a marginal percentage gain in energy supply, global starvation is going to be massively increased. Is Mr. Al "Green" Gore talking about this? Are any of the Presidential candidates? Do these issues play any part in the campaign? Where is Bono and Bill Gates, the ones who were going to 'end world hunger'? I cannot accept that any of this is accidental. We are in the midst of an intentional genocide regime, a holocaust against the South, with Africa as the first major victim. I suggest that all the hoopla about global warming is a smokescreen to distract us from the real crisis of the day, which is mass starvation. rkm -- -------------------------------------------------------- cyberjournal: http://cyberjournal.org cyberjournal archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/ How We the People can change the world http://www.governourselves.org/ Escaping the Matrix: http://escapingthematrix.org/ The Phoenix Project http://www.wakingthephoenix.org/ The Post-Bush Regime: A Prognosis http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7693 Community Democracy Framework: http://cyberjournal.org/DemocracyFramework.html newslog archives: http://cyberjournal.org/show_archives/?lists=newslog Moderator: •••@••.••• (comments welcome)
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