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The stunningly violent food riots in Tunisia and Algeria show just how quickly things can change.  Just a few months ago, these two northern Africa nations were considered to be very stable, very peaceful and without any major problems.  But now protesters are openly squaring off with police in the streets.  Many of the protesters are throwing “fire bombs” or are shooting fireworks at the authorities, and the police are responding with a tremendous amount of violence themselves.  In Algeria, several protesters have been killed by police and several others have actually set themselves on fire to protest the economic conditions.  In Tunisia, more than 100 people have been killed and the president of that country actually had to flee for his life.  But on a global scale, food shortages have not even gotten that bad yet.  Yes, food prices are starting to go up and food supplies are a little bit tighter right now, but much worse times than these are coming.  So what in the world are the cities of the world going to look like when we have a very serious food shortage?

Just as we saw during the food riots of 2008, when people get to the point where they can’t even feed themselves anymore, they tend to lose it.  In the video posted below, you can really feel the desperation of these young Algerians as they riot in the streets….

This next video is of the food riots in Tunisia.  You will not want to let any young children watch this video.  In fact, if watching police beat and smash protesters laying on the ground upsets you, then you might not want to watch this video either.  The massive food riots that have erupted in Tunisia have left many city streets looking like war zones and at this point it is being reported that the violence has left over 100 people dead.  The president of Tunisia has left the country because of the rioting, and an interim president has been sworn in.  It is hoped that this will help restore order.  This video is absolutely stunning….

You see, the truth is that it is not just in the United States that people are becoming angry at government.  All over the world, frustration is boiling over.  But unlike the United States, where food is still very plentiful, in many areas of the world it is the deteriorating economic conditions that are sparking many of these riots.

According to the FAO, the global price of food hit a new record high in December.  For most Americans and Europeans, a rise in the price of food is just an inconvenience.  But in many areas of the world, even a relatively small rise in the price of food can mean that the survival of millions is suddenly threatened.

Global authorities are concerned that these food riots might start spreading – especially if the extremely harsh weather all over the globe continues to damage crops.

In fact, there are some signs that economic unrest is already beginning to spread….

*In the nation of Jordan, peaceful demonstrations were held in several locations around the country on Friday to protest rising food prices.

*In Libya, protests about the late completion of government subsidized housing entered their third day on Sunday.  Reportedly, hundreds of uncompleted units have been taken over by protesters and so far the police are not taking action to evict them.  There is also growing concern that the food riots in neighboring Tunisia will soon pour over into Libya.

*Economic protests also been reported recently in Mozambique, Morocco and Chile.

Sadly, the desperate economic conditions that are sparking these food riots did not develop overnight.  Rather, they have been building for decades.  The truth is that the new “global economy” is designed to funnel more and more of the wealth of the world into the hands of the wealthiest 0.001% of the global population.  Everyone else is left to fight with one another to divide up a pie that is increasingly shrinking.

Just consider the following five facts….

#1 Approximately 1 billion people throughout the world go to bed hungry every single night.

#2 Approximately 28 percent of all children in developing countries are considered to be underweight or have had their growth stunted as a result of malnutrition.

#3 Every 3.6 seconds someone starves to death and three-quarters of them are children under the age of 5.

#4 “Least developed countries” spent 9 billion dollars on food imports in 2002.  By 2008, that number had risen to 23 billion dollars.

#5 A study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research discovered that the bottom half of the world population owns approximately 1 percent of all global wealth.

So if things are this bad already, what kind of food riots are we going to see if all of this weird weather continues and global harvests are much lower than anticipated in 2011?

Most Americans have a really hard time even imagining such a thing, but the truth is that we are just one really bad harvest away from mass starvation in many areas of the world.

We are not going to see mass starvation in the United States in 2011, but we could see food prices start to go up significantly.  Keep in mind that more than 43 million Americans are already on food stamps.  The incredible abundance of food that we have been enjoying for so many decades is not guaranteed to last indefinitely.

Dennis Conley, an agricultural economist at the University of Nebraska,recently told MSNBC that food reserves in the United States are already disturbingly low….

“I haven’t seen numbers this low that I can remember in the last 20 or 30 years.”

So yes, there are legitimate reasons to be concerned.

The world really is on the verge of a major food crisis, and if global harvests are not significantly better than most analysts are currently projecting, then we are likely to see a lot more food riots around the globe before 2011 is over.

A shocking new report prepared by Russia’s foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) for Prime Minister Putin states that United States President Barack Obama [photo top left] is in the process of establishing his countries “Fortress America” plan against the twin crises of Global food disruption and our Sun’s potential for firing massive solar flares at our Planet in the coming months.

The Global food situation has become so dire that the United Nations (UN) ordered an emergency meeting this past week to address it as fears of riots and government overthrows rise throughout the World, with a further warning given by the award-winning Australian science writer Julian Cribb that millions of people will soon begin mass migrations in search of food and water, and supporting the old Spanish proverb that says “civilization and anarchy are only seven meals apart.”

Fueling Obama’s fears for his countries food security, this report continues, was the US Department of Agriculture’s August 12th World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) warning that our World’s grain supply had fallen to 72 days of consumption, a dire situation that is brining us dangerously near to the 64 day mark that sparked the Global food riots and chaos of 2007-08.

Even worse for the World was this summer’s catastrophic drought in Russia, Ukraine Central Asia which decimated these regions grain crops and setting the stage for unprecedented food price hikes, a situation made more critical by Prime Minister Putin ordering an export ban on all grains from the Motherland.

So dire has this situation become the UK’s Guardian further warned last week that “World food supplies are caught in a pincer as China becomes a net importer of corn for the first time in modern history and Russia’s drought inflicts even more damage than expected, raising the risk of a global grain shock in 2011. Ominously, a corn crunch is also creeping up on the world. Global stocks are at their lowest level for 37 years.”

To understand how grim our World’s grain situation is one must know that the top 10 producers in the World, in order, are: China India United States Russia France Canada Germany Ukraine Australia and Pakistan.

Of these top 10 producers the following countries have experienced catastrophic failures in 2010:  China due to unprecedented flooding, India due to flooding,Canada due to drought, Russia due to unprecedented drought, Ukraine due to unprecedented drought, Australia due to drought and locust plague, andPakistan, whose loss of crops due to never before seen flooding is near 100%.

True information on the grain supply situation in the United States, unlike those of the World’s other top producers, is hard to ascertain due to the many conflicting reports their government puts out.  What can be said, however, is that following their worst harvest ever seen in 2009, this current crisis has been likened to a“financial Armageddon”, and as we quote from a December, 2009 report by the Market Skeptics news blog:

“The 2010 Food Crisis is different. It is THE CRISIS. The one that makes all doomsday scenarios come true. The government bailouts and central bank interventions, which have held the financial world together during the last two years, will be powerless to prevent the 2010 Food Crisis from bringing the global financial system to its knees.”

Equally concerning to Obama as the dire situation of our Planet’s food supply, this report continues, is his growing fears over the potential of our Sun’s unleashing upon us all massive solar flares, and which a number of top US scientists have warned is soon to happen, and as we can read, in part, as reported by the World Net Daily News Service in their article titled “U.S. warned of threat worse than Katrina, plague, WWII” which says:

“More horrifying than the plague of Black Death across Europe. More costly in lives than World War II. Financially, it could make the Katrina repairs look like a pocketful of change. And it’s not a matter of if, but when.

That’s the alarming warning issued by John G. Kappenman, owner of Storm Analysis Consultants and an expert on the dangers of electromagnetic pulse damage to modern society, with a list of qualifications after his name as long as a phone book.

The issue of EMP dangers to the Earth – either from a CME, a coronal mass ejection, which is an eruption of power from the sun, or from a nuclear-triggered EMP wave intended to destroy a society – have been the subject of multiple reports in recent months.”

Most important to note about Obama’s fears concerning our Sun are the warnings issued by NASA in 2006 that what is called the Solar Maximum was set to accelerate in 2010 leading to potentially catastrophic solar flares in 2011 and 2012 hitting the Earth. More ominously, on July 14, 2010, NASA upgraded their 2006 warning that our sun is now passing through an interstellar energy cloud which excites/energizes it beyond anything they have ever seen.

When award winning Russian Astrophysicist Alexei V. Dmitriev, a physics professor at Moscow State University, was asked what the effect upon our Earth would be due to our Sun’s passage through this interstellar energy cloud he gravely responded, “Global catastrophe! Not in tens of years from now, but in ones of years.”

Important to note about the coming Global chaos to be caused by the massive eruption of solar flares from our Sun is that Russia has ordered the immediate building of 5,000 additional bomb shelters in Moscow to protect the citizens of the Motherland and ordered them to be completed by 2012.

Sadly, the same cannot be said of America’s elite classes who have opted not to protect their citizens with their US Senate last month dropping a House-approved plan that would prepare the United States to defend itself from an attack from any electromagnetic pulse source, whether it would be from a natural solar flare or the detonation of a space-located nuclear weapon by enemies intent on destroying America’s infrastructure, according to US Congressman Roscoe Bartlett.

What the American elite classes led by Obama, however, are doing, this report says, is adopting the “Fortress America” plan called for by the Pentagon in their “hair raising” 2003 report on Global Climate Change about whose authors we can read: “The report wasn’t penned by members of the “Chicken Little sky-is-falling crowd” (as Republican leaders like to call global- warming activists), but by Peter Schwartz, former head of planning for Shell Oil and sometime CIA consultant, and Doug Randall of the Global Business Network, a California think tank. Commissioned by esteemed Department of Defense planner Andrew Marshall, the report paints a scenario under which global warming could pose a threat to the world “greater than terrorism” — complete with mega-droughts, widespread famine, and rampant rioting.”

Note: “Fortress America” also refers to book by the same title written in 1999 by the American author William Greider who warned that under their then current regime, and which Bush, and now Obama have accelerated, the US military-industrial complex would devour itself, literally and tangibly, and would bring the rest of America down with it.

Interesting to note about Obama’s “Fortress America” plan, this report says, is that it includes all of North America, and which towards that end the Americans are financing the building of a giant separation wall between Mexico and Guatemala to keep out from their new region the starving masses from both Central and South America they fear will migrate towards them as the Global food and water situation deteriorates.

Obama has also expanded the reach of US Special Forces, who are now operating in seventy-five countries across the globe, up from sixty under Bush, and has instigated an FBI crackdown on antiwar dissidents opposed to him.

And, in perhaps one of the greatest outrages against a free Nation, Obama yesterday, in a midnight filing in a US Federal Court, imposed what is called “the state secret doctrine” in his bid to thwart a case filed against what he claims is his right to assassinate any American citizen he so chooses without trial.

As we begin a week where millions will march throughout the Continent in protest of European Union directives to, like America, support corrupt bankers and their political elitist allies, and as fears of Global food unrest rise, and our Sun, according to scientists, is about to wreck further havoc on us all, the United States and her once great people remain asleep and oblivious to what is really happening around them.

And from a report in London’s Guardian Newspaper this past week it is no wonder as the majority of these Americans, especially their younger people, are said to now be getting most of their news from a comedian named John Stewart who is host of a 4-day a week programme called the Daily Show (and we’re not making this up) that airs Monday-Thursday on the Comedy Channel.

So today, and as our World descends ever faster into chaos towards Total Global War, those Americans who are laughing now will, most assuredly, be crying tears over the graves of those they once loved, who more than anything will have died of sheer stupidity and ignorance to what is soon coming.  May God have mercy upon them all.

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Gerald Celente

Infowars

June 30, 2009

Empire America is on the verge of collapse. Its social, economic and political systems are failed and failing, observes Trends Research Institute Director, Gerald Celente, in the Summer Trends Journal.

“The measures taken by successive governments to save the politically corrupt, morally bankrupt, physically decrepit giant from collapse have served to only hasten its demise. While the decline has been decades in the making, the acceleration of ruinous policies under the current Administration is leading the United States — and much of the world — to the point of no return,” says Celente.

The “green shoots” sighted by Field Marshall Bernanke this past Spring were a mirage. The 2010 economic “recovery” predicted by the same experts, authorities and financial boy scouts and cheerleaders who didn’t see the economic crisis coming is pure delusion.

By 2012, even those in denial and still clinging to hope will be forced to face the truth. It will be called “Obamageddon” in America. The rest of the world will call it “The Greatest Depression.”

We provide the hard data and indisputable facts that support our forecast for an unsettling future. There will be opportunities to seize and measures to take to withstand, and even profit in the increasingly turbulent times.

Laura Martin
Media Relations

The Trends Research Institute

lmartin@trendsresearch.com

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