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G8’s Scam on Poverty Eradication
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Since when did the people at the top have even the slightest inkling about what the poor people down below, the ones that we have trampled on, might be in need of to help them get out of the poverty that is entrenching their lives? Since when did the people at the top ever have the knowledge that the poor trampled masses actually existed? Isn’t it always the way? The rich little kid that believes that nobody lives in high-rise blocks and that everyone has a lawn that gets cut by the gardener. Others just couldn’t live any other way, could they? That’s what the G8 used to be like, anyhow. Today, the leaders are more than aware that the poor exist, since they have a right to be heard today. There are too many of them not to be heard and we have started listening to Africa only because there are growing numbers of poor in our own backyard, these days. But, theNew Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition that was launched by the G8 is nothing more than a hell-bent drive for money-making and profit of private companies, rather than actually doing much to help the ones that are in need of food.
It’s covert colonialism by the G8 countries. That’s rich, harking back to the past when we are having trouble dealing with the present and at the same time closing our own frontiers to immigration. Still, the poor die of hunger anyhow and people won’t be able to hear them complaining. In the meantime, the West, the G8 gets a much-needed boost to their economies and the state coffers. At the same time, the populations of the G8 countries get to sleep peacefully at night thanking their lucky stars that they have a government that is altruistic and benevolent, even charitable. More like malevolent. The people always need dazzling, so they can’t see what’s really going on behind the scenes.
The New Alliance means that agribusiness will be sitting alongside governments and that African governments will make changes in their laws, policies and regulations so that it will sweep in a new attractiveness for the private sector that wishes to invest there. The G8 has, in its patronizingly over-bearing tone declared that it was going to be the sole decision-maker on this and local farmers weren’t going to be consulted. Of course they weren’t consulted. They don’t get heard because they are the poor. They haven’t been able to get themselves out of poverty so why would the G8 give them a role to play other than the one that is given to them?
But, it gets worse, since now the governments of those countries have decided to change land and tax laws so that private businesses from the west are favored over the local farmers. Export controls have been eased and enormous pieces of land have been taken over to be given to private firms. Malawi has set aside 200, 000 hectares of land for such commercial use. Nigeria has promised to allow energy companies to be privatized. New Alliance was meant to be for food production for Africa to stop them farming, but much of the land will be used to produce cotton, biofuels and rubber. That way they will die a quicker death. 50 million people were meant to be on the road to having enough food to survive by the year 2022.
Taxes on seed were also part of the agreement, meaning that seed will have to be imported in the future by the local farmers. Smallholder farmers will simply disappear for the profit of the large Western companies that will be running the land in large-scale commercial farming.
It was under Barack Obama’s initiative that the scheme was launched at Camp David in 2012. Eradicating poverty had already been promised at the G8 meeting in L’Aquila in Italy in 2009 and there are countless examples of how we were going to solve the problem of the starving millions. We never have. Although, this means that we will put another nail in their coffin and at the same time look retrospectively back at the colonial past.
The G8 is hiding behind apparent admirable values of getting African countries out of the rut of poverty and into the new world of consumerism. But, covertly, it’s just a scam to get rich countries richer in the process and favor private enterprises from our economies rather than the African ones. In essence, in the end, the G8’s poor attempt called New Alliance will do nothing more than make the rich richer, and the poor will just meaninglessly lag behind the rest of us in the world’s economies. Governments today and even citizens still believe that we need to have the poor so that we can be the rich, anything else would be tantamount to sharing equally, and we don’t share todays with the little poor kids that live down the next block.
Originally posted: G8’s Scam on Poverty Eradication
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Peak water is greater than Peak oil ? Fantastic - Britain has just hit the jackpot this winter....
What's with the "we" ?
Eradicate povery = eradicate impoverished people.
Problem solved in their minds.
Oh dear, this will not go down too well with the average, Libertarian ZHer who is all for so-called "private property", but what is really always corporate ownership.
I submit http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_3699576961&feature=iv&src_vid=Q2Cl8lSv9Is&v=x2nNtynZAiI for anyone with a fairly open mind.
BTW I post in ZH as Setarcos - a somewhat backward person compared with Socrates - but on YouTube I use my real name, Gerry Hiles, so if you click the link you will find my comments about Putin/present-day Russia.
Its their own fault really, they just need to buy the dips! Its basically free money!
Gotta do something with all their cash rather than just resting it on the sidelines I mean c'mon now seriously, get with the program.
Here is my plan for "food security": Guillotine all the blood sucking criminal banksters, pols and crats. More food for the actual producers in the world. "Now discuss..."
"Have rope and a guillotine, will save the world."
45 million people died in 4 years in china due to govt managing crop exporting. in 1959-1963. The elites can easily ignore millions dying of hunger. Better give planning some thought. Where the heck do you live?
My father has mentioned this before. Apparently these people were not very well armed.
Sov man telling me to move to Chile and now this guy telling me to check out Shrilanka, this place is starting to look like some trolling site trying to nab people with assets they are trying to get out of the country, What happened to the old get across the Mex border with the cash you stole from some bank and live on tequila and tacos for the rest of your life, under an assumed name of course.
Besides they lie I have very little to say. I could say that the ruling class doesn't have a clue about how bootstrapping works, but that assumes that they care.
is a little wierd that the USA has the biggest energy production boom in history and prices are going through the roof and Government has basically done nothing but sign off on the export licenses.
At some point someone might look at this at this as...well, "not why we vote."
Of course the bulk of the USA has already gotten the memo and left for the South and West.
The bulk of the Northern Cities in the USA have been abandoned.
What is weird about this?
Easy-oil ended for the US back in the 1970s, since when it has become increasingly expensive to access oil, whether by military conquest, deep water drilling, tar sands, fracking, etc.
There is nothing weird about it costing at least $100 per barrel to make the oil industry viable, as against the early days of Texas "gushers" which any fool could tap - as parodied in "The Beverley Hill Billies".
I wonder just how involved that evil monster Monsanto with their patented GMO seeds is going to be in this initiative?
"Thief! You stole windblown GMO pollen from my fields! $100,000,000 fine and your firstborn!"
Monsanto isn't a GMO monopoly. The Oligarchy of Monsanto, Dow AgroSciences, DuPont-Pioneer, Syngenta (Swiss) and Bayer CropScience (Germany) are begining to get some contenders, some in open source mode.
Whether we like it or not, genetically engineered foods are widely adopted, have ecological and climate advantages over traditional plowing, and will help feed more nutritious and weather tolerant food to a population headed for about 10 billion people. Industrial ag and GE crops aren't going anywhere soon, though the breaking of the oligarchy would be a welcomed surprise. Those opposed can always chose other options for themselves and if it's that important they can take up farming.
I don't know anything about the G8 initiative other than what this article says. Crop production is likely a large aspect of the initiative. I like to think that starving to death isn't the route out of poverty they have in mind. Then again...
Then again ... thousands of Indian farmers have commited suicide since Monsanto entered India.
GMOs are a recipe for disaster. With monoculture of food crops just one unknown to date insect or disease problem can destroy the whole crop. Look back in history to the Great Famine in Ireland with the potatoe blight as an example of the power of crop failure.
History? In the 1960's papaya ringspot virus wiped out the Oahu industry so they moved to Puna. In 1992 the virus was detected in the 53M pound crop. Transgenic papayas with a gene from the virus worked like a vaccine. Today 90% of all Hawaiian papayas are transgenic. Hawaiian virologist Dennis Gonsalves.
Remember that monoculture has been around a lot longer than genetically engineered foods. 10B people are not gonna make it on '3 sisters' gardens and at the current rate humanity is headed for 80% urban by 2050. Farmdominiums baby! (I'm lookin at you Cali, Detroit, Haiti)
I suggest you look at the history of Cambodia when Pol Pot ran the people out of the cities 'back to the land'.
So what?
Ever wonder why they're all starving? Because they don't know how to produce sufficient crops. They don't have most modern techniques -- that includes irrigation, cover crops, soil health/fertility (yes, chemicals - oh dear!), not to mention modern seed varieties (GMO and non GMO) that have been breed over time for better yields, quality, defensive traits, etc. Just as ALL of our crops have been evolved over time. And just like the climate keeps on changing, It's the way it is in nature.
Adapt and leverage nature. Or fuck off and die. Really, those are the options in life.
So some modern experts come help them GET INTO THE MODERN FRICKIN ERA (bitchez) and at least they can feed their people.
Or maybe we can just keep shipping them tons of grain each year.
Why not food stamps then.
This is far bigger and older than New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition. It's regulatory capture at the supra-national level, and a "recycling" scheme for big business dollars than makes petro-dollars look like the product of a juvenile intellect.
There are plenty of farmers in Africa who understand agriculture, and in some respects- they understand it far better than some dumb-ass American redneck with a John Deere and easy credit...
Ohhhhhhhhhhh, looka heer boys, we have an eeeeeeeeeexpurt on ag issues, bet this guy knows all about setting a head of water (term in irrigation for all you city dwellers). Bet this guys knows all about running a combine in harvest, especially crawling up inside that damn thing and cleanin out a plug. I'l just betcha he know how to cut calves too, (thats castration) and how to dehorn 'em.
With you on this, having worked with dairy cattle, sheep and pigs ... and with a passing knowledge of crop production.
I sure do, brother.
I've castrated plenty of pigs, too.
Born and raised, through and through.
Farming is fight club, really.
bitchez.
You are so right the "fight club"! I have been calving here in sub zero weather for the last 1 1/2 months. I gotta give this shit up one of these days! Gettin too old for it!
Yep -- don't talk about fight club 'less you held animal nuts between your fingers or spit hog balls at your buddies!
Ethiopia has a lot of fertile land. Very rich soil for planting crops. Problem is, they have no way to distribute it in mass. I think foreign investment would do Africa quite a bit. Particularly in the areas of agriculture. For example Ethiopia.
"Ethiopia has a lot of fertile land" .............uh, magic, better check that one out a little more, most of it is a wind swept enscrapment with absolutely NOOOOO water to raise nothing more than a few goats per 40 acres. Sory to pop your little baloon but I recommend not investing their either!
Mark Twain (or someone):
Whiskey's for drinking. Water's for fighting (over).
Peak oil is nothing compared to peak water, IMHO.
...although I do agree the War on Poverty is a total sham that's hurt more than helped...
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