[Mr_Tracys_Corner] NWO and the Farmer

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At 04:10 AM 10/12/06, you wrote:

>Re: The Machinations Of The New World Order - The Farmer

>Posted by: " Tracy " tracyjones23 tracyjones23

>Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:35 pm (PST)

>The one and only requirement for Absolute Freedom is to become once again

>a farmer so you can grow your own food. That's all the work that's

>required and very necessary to make sure the food you eat will be of such

>high quality there will be no disease.

>

>Quit trying to patch a non-working system to begin with. When are people

>going to wake up and realize this?

>

>* * *

>

> " This is no more an Indian or American or Chinese issue. Every one on this

>one earth is now under death sentence. There is no time lose. I think we

>all should unite, exchange information, and forget about making money from

>writing so long as the threat lasts. We should fearlessly expose every

>corporation and every politician and every bureaucrat EVERYWHERE. Take

>their bloody pants off in full public view. "

>* * *

>With Absolute Freedom you don't need to expose anyone. The human

>controllers too will see the light and follow suit for there will be no

>need for money and that's really what it's all about when it comes to

>humans controlling one another living in a system that doesn't work and

>never has for everyone.

>Tracy

>

>chrisgupta wrote:

>.... " the independent farmer is the greatest threat to the power of the

>ruling elite the world over because the farmer can produce for himself. He

>can't starve. If all independent farmers produced only for personal

>consumption, the rest of the world can starve, the ruling elite can also

>starve [unless they eat Martian wheat or Plutonian meat], the square mile

>of Delhi, where the Indian ruling elite dwells will definitely starve, but

>not the farmers. If the independent farmer and the SMFs refused to sell

>their surplus to the food-MNCs (Multinational Corporations), that decision

>can destroy the global US$3.2 trillion food racket and make people so

>healthy that it would in turn destroy the US$466 billion pharmaceutical

>industry as well. Oh no, too much money is involved. Hence, the elaborate

>charade of " farmer-friendly " government, an elaborate mechanism to steal

>tax-payers money in the name of poor farmers, brilliantly engineered by

>the Leftists and Socialists [chiefly

>Jawaharlal Nehru and his minions] since 1947. And all this money, running

>into trillions of rupees since 1947, has neither improved the lot of SMFs

>(Small to Medium Farms), nor helped create sustainable rural

>infrastructure. The money has simply evaporated and no questions are being

>asked....

>

>...The global food industry is worth 3.2 trillion US dollars and growing,

>possibly worth US$ 4 trillion. The food industry can maximize its profits

>only if it controls the farm workers and their land; that is the logic of

>food business. " ...

>

>Further to Fighting Globalism with Common Law the following paper, while

>based on the Indian situation, by Arun Shrivastava has a common thread to

>all. It is an incredible prospective on how control of our basic needs has

>systematically controlled. Exposure of these tactics is vital! Resistance

>creates time to awaken populations to disaster! A must read.

>

> " It demonstrates how conventional method of farming traps small and

>marginal farmers into debt, a system of farming that was promoted by

>Swaminathan, a Rockefeller plant. Swaminathan exploited the desperate food

>situation in 1966 to the hilt: without critical appraisal of our

>indigenous system of farming, he vigorously pushed industrial farming

>methods, trapping farmers into spiraling cost of production financed by

>debt. This is how small independent farmers in North America were

>destroyed, to be replaced by industrial farmers. This is how Indian

>farmers are being destroyed.

>

>Despite the fact that 70% of India?s voters are SMFs (Small to Medium

>Farms) living in 600,000 villages, and despite the fact that every

>politician ritually genuflects to these impoverished peasants at election

>time, not once the Government of India, or any state government of any

>political hue, has shown seriousness to pull them out of poverty, poor

>health, malnutrition, and illiteracy....

>

>....A common strand in nearly all development programmes for rural India

>is that they neither benefit the people, nor the local communities. In

>fact, these programmes not merely cause colossal wastage of tax-payers

>money; they actually create conditions for slow death by ignorance and

>filth and diseases while large corporations profit....

>

>...Dr John Coleman's research sheds a new light that forces one to view

>the present agrarian crisis in a new perspective, possibly never explored

>before by the Indian intellectuals, whatever that term means, particularly

>those who claim to represent the civil society; the official intellectuals

>are anyway deadwoods, co-opted side-kicks of the Rockefellers. " ...

>

>Mass dissidence primarily by the intellectual community is needed.

>Unfortunately they are so easily bought, just about in every field, else

>we should not be in this mess. They will continue to do the bidding of

>their controllers totally oblivious to the fact that they are next in line

>in the gravy train!

>

>See also: Global - The Decline of Transcendent Markets and the Rise of Fascism

>

>Following is a note by Arun.

>

>Chris Gupta

>http://tinyurl.com/4ulxd

>------------------

>

>Dear friends

>

>I am writing against mass culling of India's farmers. My friends have

>already lodged a Public Interest Litigation to stop all " slipping in " of

>GE seeds, GM foods. Can't write much about it because the matter is

>pending in the court.

>

>I have written many articles on DU contamination of western India,

>published by globalresearch, the peoples voice, uruk.net, and others. I am

>now concentrating on how six forces are converging on all of us on

>earth.......to cull " useless eaters " [Kissinger's language] we are all

>useless eaters....the bastards who control your country are the only

>useful eaters. Let's see.

>

>This is no more an Indian or American or Chinese issue. Every one on this

>one earth is now under death sentence. There is no time lose. I think we

>all should unite, exchange information, and forget about making money from

>writing so long as the threat lasts. We should fearlessly expose every

>corporation and every politician and every bureaucrat EVERYWHERE. Take

>their bloody pants off in full public view.

>

>I am sending an article to the people's voice, copied to you. It was

>published under the same header by www.GlobalResearch.ca last month. The

>editor of the Peoples' Voice has agreed to publish it.

>

>You tell me how can I help you from India. I desperately need a column in

>as many websites as I can.

>

>I have met ordinary villagers in over 2000 India villages, researched

>every issue that affects their life.

>

>let us first just discuss some possibilities.

>

>regards to you all

>

>arun shrivastava cmc

>new delhi

>--------------------------

>

>Mass suicides by Indian farmers

>………………….shape of things to come

>By Arun Shrivastava CMC

>20 August 2006

>The truth is slowly emerging. A Home Ministry report, monitoring deaths by

>suicide, says that roughly 100,000 farmers committed suicide over six

>years to 2003 in India. On 18th May 2006, Sharad Pawar, the Minister of

>Agriculture [MoA], Government of India, presented the data to the Upper

>House [Rajya Sabha] adding that investigations by state governments on

>agrarian distress show that the main “cause of suicide is indebtedness.”

>In the dehumanized statistical gimmickry, the utter devastation of the

>100,000 households of dead farmers comprising women, children and elders

>was quietly buried under the soft thick carpet of the Indian Parliament.

>

>India, with adequate rainfall, warm climate, enormous biological

>diversity, and excellent traditional agricultural practices, has no reason

>to face agrarian crisis and, given nature’s bounty, its farmers have no

>reason to commit suicide. This paper deals with how the rule of one

>British company and its buccaneers started a process in 1760 that

>continues to this day, ravaging the farmers of the sub-continent and how

>independent farmers everywhere are under threat of extinction.

>

>Indian farmers before the “Company rule”

>

>An average Indian peasant at the beginning of 19th century earned

>significantly more than his British counterpart and there was no

>substantial difference between the diets of a peasant and a rich landlord

>in India. Most significantly, there was a tradition to feed outsiders

>first, including beggars, before a family sat down to eat. The affluent

>households did not sell milk and milk products; they were distributed free

>within the community, a practice that continued right up to 1960s in many

>parts. The destruction of India’s agriculture and destitution of its

>farmers is a story of corporate greed and the utter ruthlessness of a

>small group of people in Europe and the United States who do not value

>human beings: whites, browns, yellow, or black. The sooner we realize this

>and take effective action, better will it be us and the farmers.

>

>The genesis of agrarian distress

>

>Agrarian distress starts with colonization of eastern India by a British

>company, the East India Company [EIC] around 1760, their system of

>extortionate land tax, combined with forcing farmers to grow cash crops

>[chiefly indigo and cotton] on the best lands and not paying appropriate

>price for the produce. They systematically destroyed a sustainable

>agriculture system that’d fed millions for over 6,000 years and then

>introduced money lenders and rack renters to trap farmers in debt.

>

>The colonial system of land use led to frequent collapse of India’s farms

>resulting in food shortage, famine, mass deaths, destruction of fertile

>lands, and destruction of age-old symbiotic system of farming, animal

>husbandry, and forestry. While doing nothing to alleviate agrarian

>distress, the Colonial officials kept repeating, parrot-like, that there

>are too many Indians! Henry Waterfield’s paper on India’s population

>density and comparison with some of the regions/countries of Europe is

>most illuminating: whilst the population density of British Indian Empire

>was 165 per square mile in 1875, the density of Belgium was 447, England

>422, Saxony 377, the Netherlands 291, Italy 237, German Empire 193,

>Prussia 180, and Switzerland 175. Only France, Denmark, Scotland,

>Portugal, Spain and Greece had lower population density as compared to

>India. [Henry Waterfield , (1875), Memorandum on the Census of British

>India 1871-72 , London , Eyre and Spottiswoode , p. 6;

>

>The British fixed the tax from land at fifty percent of the average gross

>produce and collected the tax in cash [rupee] that forced the farmers to

>first sell their produce, earn cash, and then pay tax. This was a unique

>experience for the Indian peasantry. The costs of maintaining cultural and

>religious institutions, healthcare facilities, schools, irrigation

>infrastructure, roads, serais [places where a person could halt at night,

>somewhat like Inns in England], etc., were extracted in addition to the

>land tax at least during the first eight decades [1780-1860]. No mercy was

>shown in matters of tax collection: if harvest was less than normal, the

>tax could be more than 100% of the value of produce. If price of crops

>collapsed because of bumper harvest, again the farmer lost to the tax

>collector.

>

>Economic historians, like Dharampal, have calculated that, for example, in

>Madras presidency [present day Tamil Nadu state], from 1830s onward,

>around one-third of the most fertile land, probably larger in area than

>the available cultivable land in major counties of England, went out of

>cultivation by 1840 because, even with 100% produce sold for cash, land

>tax demand could not be met. The British called it “substantial ‘decay’ of

>revenue.”

>[Dharampal. India Before British Rule and the Basis for India's

>Resurgence. 1998. Gandhi Seva Sangh, Sevagram, Wardha, Maharashtra; . It

>should be noted that Sevagram was established by Mahatma Gandhi.]

>That substantial revenue decay did not stop their territorial expansion.

>John Stuart Mill wrote in 1858 that not a penny was spent by British tax

>payers for the conquest and control of India and the region from St.

>Helena on the west coast of Africa to Hong Kong in China. The resources,

>every single penny, were extorted from India’s farmers. India was an

>awesome cash cow to the company.

>

>For Indian farmer to go hungry, or even remain undernourished, was a new

>experience, and they retaliated; the history of 1780-1858, is one long

>list of spontaneous uprisings throughout India.

>

>Indian farmer again begin to feed the millions

>

>The population of India was 238.4 million in 1900. The Colonialists said,

>“too many, can’t feed ’em all.” It went up to 252.1 million in 1911 and

>the colonialists said, “too many, can’t feed ‘em all.” In 1947, when India

>became independent, India’s farmers could feed all of the 325 million. In

>1991 there were over 844 million and the farmers fed them all; no famine

>and no collapse of agriculture as happened time and time again during the

>British period. Agrarian distress and consequent mass suicide since 1997

>once again starts when India exposed its agriculture to foreign companies

>in 1991. It is again driving India’s farmers to hell and this time with

>full support of the Indian government, officers of the Ministry of

>Agriculture, and the Ag-scientific establishment. This time there is

>method in the madness.

>

>Agrarian distress and the Warehousing Act

>

>In 1945, economists of the Reserve Bank of India, in anticipation of

>India’s independence, studied farmers’ indebtedness and made four key

>recommendations:

>(a) Farmers be provided with facilities for scientific storage of produce

>in proper warehouses to minimize post-harvest losses;

>(b) Farmers be issued warehousing receipts against their stocks which

>could be used to borrow cash from normal banking channel, thereby

>eliminating dependence on private money-lenders who often charged a

>minimum of 60% interest;

>© Each warehouse to have a trained technical team who would work closely

>with agriculture scientists, provide extension services including advice

>on seeds, fertilizers, and scientific storage of produce; and

>(d) The warehouse superintendent would advice the farmers when to sell

>their produce in order to maximize revenue and prevent distress sale.

>

>Whilst the recommendations were excellent, it was only nine years later,

>in 1956, that the Warehousing Act was passed by the Parliament. From 1956

>to 1971, nearly every state constructed a number of warehouses. The

>technical people employed in these warehouses were generally competent and

>highly motivated; they worked with the farmers, helped them, and brought

>about a degree of stability within rural farming communities.

>

> From 1971 onward the focus of warehousing corporations shifted. The

> scheme of warehousing receipt was allowed to fall into disuse for various

> reasons including corruption within warehousing corporations, and

> pressure from fertilizer and chemical companies to allocate more space

> for their products. It was a convenient arrangement: the companies got

> highly subsidized warehousing space and the warehousing corporations got

> assured income by way of rent with the added comfort of reduced paperwork

> and virtually no fieldwork with the farmers. Thus, an excellent strategy

> to pull farmers out of desperation was allowed to fail.

>

>In 1966 the food situation was desperate following three consecutive

>draughts. The US Government refused to allow sale of wheat to India

>because of India’s refusal to fall in line with US policies in Asia.

>

>On the advice of MS Swaminathan, the Government decided to make available

>fertilizer, pesticides and hybrid seeds to the farmers through these

>warehouses, at the same nominal rent which was actually meant for the

>farmers. This is still true in 2006. Thus, the many private and public

>sector seeds, fertilizer and chemical companies benefited a lot more than

>India’s peasants from the existing warehousing facilities. Also, the big

>farmers benefited.

>

>The economics of farming in India: a simple illustration

>

>The following analysis is based on agriculture practice in one of the

>largest regions [roughly 700 square kilometres] growing potato and onion

>and some vegetables. The region is south east of Patna and falls within

>the Gangetic plains. Potato crop is taken in three and half months, onion

>in about five and half around May. During rainy season the area gets

>inundated so people have stopped growing paddy. Most of the farmers have

>forgotten the rejuvenating role of paddy: the algae that grows on stagnant

>water is nature’s way of fixing nitrogen to the soil, a reason as Sir

>Albert Howard found why farmers of the Gangetic plains had been growing

>food, season after season, year after year, since hoary antiquity. It

>should be noted that when the British forced Indian peasants to grow

>cotton and indigo on lands that were best for paddy, they also destroyed

>the system of fertility recovery, which caused collapse of winter crops.

>But let us fast forward to 2004. I found that seeds

>accounted for 20% of input costs, chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides)

>about 32%, diesel (to draw water out of the underground aquifers for

>irrigation) about 10%, and labour 38%. Give or take a few percentage

>points, this is the break-up of input costs, together for potato and onion

>crops and is broadly representative of the average costs of farmers in

>northern India.

>

>With this input, the farmers take about 7 metric tonnes each of potato and

>onion per bigha (1.59 bigha in this area equals one acre). The five-year

>average ex-farm price for potato is about Rs 200 per quintal [1

>quintal=100 kgs] and Rs 250 for onion. Wastage can be pegged anywhere

>between 10 to 40% on account of drying, rotting, and losses in transit

>(various government estimates). If the farmer is lucky, and responds to

>market prices intelligently, he can average about Rs 2000 per tonne for

>potato and onion. In other words, from two crops he can generate revenue

>of about Rs. 44,500 per year per acre [about US$ 1,000]. With input costs

>per acre of about Rs. 38,000, the ex-farm return is about 6,500 plus

>savings in labour costs that is achieved because the entire household

>works these farms. This calculation does not include post harvest losses

>due to rotting, drying, and spoilage during transportation nor does it

>include cost of borrowed capital.

>

>The Rs 14,440 computed for labour costs if saved can give the household a

>net income of Rs 20,900 per acre per year, that is about the same if a

>family of six were living below the poverty line. Majority is small (below

>2 hectare holding) and marginal (below 1 hectare) farmer. So, SMFs can

>generate a maximum income of about Rs. 50,160 per hectare (Rs 20,900 x 2.4

>acre) (or US$ 1,114 per annum per hectare), excluding cost of capital.

>Rarely do farmers achieve this level of notional mean income.

>

>If a farmer finances 50% of his input costs from borrowings, even at 36%

>(3% flat rate per month) interest he lands up in serious financial

>trouble. Many borrow 75-100% of their input costs sometimes at 40% rate of

>interest. Invariably at harvest time, when there is glut, prices crash.

>Small and marginal farmers do not have the resources to hire storage space

>and obtain better price at some future time. Distress sale further erodes

>a farmer’s financial viability. Those who store their surplus end up

>losing 10-20% stock due to spoilage and drying shrinkage neutralizing any

>gains through seasonal price fluctuation.

>

>If the market price drops by 20%, even if the farmer has not borrowed

>money, he would be in loss to the tune of Rs 2,384 [uS$ 53] per acre.

>Every third year or so, prices crash by as much as 30-50%, largely

>engineered by traders, leaving farmers deeply in debt. Therefore, the talk

>of helping farmers with greater access to market, a promise that has been

>repeated by every politician and every Agriculture Minister since 1947, is

>unlikely to resolve the problem of assured minimum income. As shown above,

>SMFs can’t benefit from market access; rather the market left to its own

>devices works against the interest of SMFs.

>

>It demonstrates how conventional method of farming traps small and

>marginal farmers into debt, a system of farming that was promoted by

>Swaminathan, a Rockefeller plant. Swaminathan exploited the desperate food

>situation in 1966 to the hilt: without critical appraisal of our

>indigenous system of farming, he vigorously pushed industrial farming

>methods, trapping farmers into spiraling cost of production financed by

>debt. This is how small independent farmers in North America were

>destroyed, to be replaced by industrial farmers. This is how Indian

>farmers are being destroyed.

>

>Despite the fact that 70% of India’s voters are SMFs living in 600,000

>villages, and despite the fact that every politician ritually genuflects

>to these impoverished peasants at election time, not once the Government

>of India, or any state government of any political hue, has shown

>seriousness to pull them out of poverty, poor health, malnutrition, and

>illiteracy.

>

>The failure of development programmes in India

>

>Since 1951, India ostensibly started its Five Year Plans for “planned

>development” under the influence of Soviet Russia but surprisingly its

>agriculture policy was directly under control and influence of the

>Rockefellers, Ford Foundation and USAID. In every Five Year Plan,

>agriculture and rural development was top priority on paper but the ground

>reality is quite different.

>

>Older farmers remember that in 1960s, every agriculture extension officer

>would go around villages encouraging them to take the “free kit”

>containing hybrid seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. Initially, output did

>rise phenomenally. For example the output of wheat went up by 500%, rice

>by 300%. But in the process many farmers stopped saving their seeds and

>became heavily dependent on purchased hybrids, a deliberate policy of

>deskilling farmers.

>Irrigation canals were dug up for the farmers, all over the country but

>many of these never got water; even after three or four decades majority

>is bone dry. Only few, those dug up in Punjab and Haryana, have water

>because the engineers diverted perennial Himalayan rivers. The irrigation

>departments of most states are now infamous more for their corruption and

>for harassing farmers than for constructing working canals.

>The Rural Electrification programme, started with much fanfare in 1970s,

>ostensibly for farmers, has failed. In villages after villages one sees

>electric poles and wires, some have existed for over three decades, but

>the people are still waiting for electricity. So farmers came to depend

>upon diesel engine to draw water from underground aquifers. As they drew

>more water, the water table dropped, requiring more diesel oil to pull

>water up. Forty years ago one could hit water six feet under ground and

>construct a perennial well about 12-15 feet deep. Today one would be lucky

>to get water at less than 120 feet.

>World’ largest supplementary nutrition programme run by the Indian

>government since 1974, with financial assistance of UN agencies [Food &

>Agriculture Organisation, UN-World Food Programme, UNICEF] and the World

>Bank, supposed to feed pregnant women, nursing mothers, adolescent girls

>and children under 6 years of age 25 days per month, operates for four or

>five in majority of distribution centres in the most populous state of

>India, Uttar Pradesh. The feed is often sold to local traders, which in

>turn ends up as cattle feed in factory farms or as raw material in food

>processing industry, or ends up in local grocery stores. The

>inter-generational cycle of malnutrition has been perfected to the level

>that the SMFs are walking skeletons in most places.

>The Adult literacy programme started in 1950s failed; thirty years later

>the number of illiterate adults actually doubled in India. In 1988 another

>“National Literacy Mission” was started but by 1993 it was tottering.

>Whilst many districts returned fudged figures, the Census 2001 actually

>reveals that majority of rural people in India is still illiterate. There

>are villages where not one woman is literate. The resources have been

>siphoned off but not one officer has been prosecuted. The farming

>community remains illiterate.

>Majority of farmers do not have access to safe drinking water. The

>drinking water programme now has provision for restoring traditional

>rainwater harvesting structures at community level but in majority of

>villages only water tank, electric pump to draw underground water and

>expensive pipes are being laid, benefiting manufacturers of these items.

>Underground aquifers are laced with leached pesticides rendering them

>unfit for consumption. Because there is no electricity and energy crisis

>is already reaching explosive proportion, many of these assets will soon

>become inoperable. Consequently water borne diseases and chemical

>poisoning are endemic in India and farmers suffer the most.

>Majority of villages do not have sanitation. There are districts where 93%

>rural households do not have a toilet. Under Total Sanitation Campaign of

>the Indian Government, toilets have been constructed with waste water

>draining out in the streets. Simple solutions like composting toilet

>system have been ignored. These toilets are actually the world’s biggest

>sanitation disaster in the making.

>

>With few exceptions, the story is the same right across India.

>

>A common strand in nearly all development programmes for rural India is

>that they neither benefit the people, nor the local communities. In fact,

>these programmes not merely cause colossal wastage of tax-payers money;

>they actually create conditions for slow death by ignorance and filth and

>diseases while large corporations profit.

>

>So, all programmes seeking to alleviate rural poverty, educate the

>peasantry, and create rural infrastructure are made to fail but no officer

>and no politician can be held accountable for the failure. The

>administration operates with rules that ensure that persons in positions

>of authority can’t be held accountable, ever, for failure. There are

>indeed excellent officers and effective politicians, but they are

>invariably marginalized. There is a method at work which few can cope with

>in this country.

>

>The machinations of the New World Order

>

>Why is it that the elected leaders and the professional civil servants in

>the world’s largest democracy deliberately keep 70% of its people, the

>SMFs, in perpetual servile subjugation? Something very sinister is

>happening here in India, something as despicable as happened in the Soviet

>Union about 70 years ago and something that happened in the US over the

>last 100 years: utter decimation of the independent farmer.

>

>According to John Coleman “One of the principal but little known

>operations of the Rockefeller Foundation has been its techniques for

>controlling world agriculture.”

>

>Its director, Kenneth Wernimont, set up Rockefeller controlled

>agricultural programs throughout Mexico and Latin America. The independent

>farmer is a great threat to the World Order, because he produces for

>himself, and because his produce can be converted into Capital, which

>gives him independence. In Soviet Russia, the Bolsheviks believed they had

>attained total control over the people; they were dismayed to find their

>plans threatened by the stubborn independence of the small farmers, the

>Kulaks. Stalin ordered the OGPU to seize all food and animals of the

>Kulaks, and to starve them out.”

>

>In the United States, the foundations are presently engaged in the same

>type of war of extermination against the American farmer. …… The Brookings

>Institution and other foundations originated the monetary programs

>implemented by the Federal Reserve System to destroy the American farmer,

>a replay of the Soviet tragedy in Russia, with one proviso that the farmer

>will be allowed to survive if he becomes a slave worker of the giant trusts.”

>Dr. John Coleman, a former intelligence agent of British MI6

>

>Dr John Coleman’s research sheds a new light that forces one to view the

>present agrarian crisis in a new perspective, possibly never explored

>before by the Indian intellectuals, whatever that term means, particularly

>those who claim to represent the civil society; the official intellectuals

>are anyway deadwoods, co-opted side-kicks of the Rockefellers.

>

>First, the bankers, chiefly the Rockefellers, were responsible for

>destroying the independent farmer in the US and that story is being

>repeated in India: destroy the will of SMF in order to control 700+

>millions Indians forever, condemned to perpetual slavery. This was started

>by the British colonialists who kept them perpetually hungry for 180

>years. In free India the same policy is being continued by the co-opted

>Indian ruling elite by keeping SMFs illiterate, malnourished, and without

>any basic services like healthcare, sanitation, clean water, schools, and

>roads.

>

>Second, the independent farmer is the greatest threat to the power of the

>ruling elite the world over because the farmer can produce for himself. He

>can’t starve. If all independent farmers produced only for personal

>consumption, the rest of the world can starve, the ruling elite can also

>starve [unless they eat Martian wheat or Plutonian meat], the square mile

>of Delhi, where the Indian ruling elite dwells will definitely starve, but

>not the farmers. If the independent farmer and the SMFs refused to sell

>their surplus to the food-MNCs, that decision can destroy the global

>US$3.2 trillion food racket and make people so healthy that it would in

>turn destroy the US$466 billion pharmaceutical industry as well. Oh no,

>too much money is involved. Hence, the elaborate charade of

>“farmer-friendly” government, an elaborate mechanism to steal tax-payers

>money in the name of “poor farmers,” brilliantly engineered by the

>Leftists and Socialists [chiefly Jawaharlal Nehru and his

>minions] since 1947. And all this money, running into trillions of rupees

>since 1947, has neither improved the lot of SMFs, nor helped create

>sustainable rural infrastructure. The money has simply evaporated and no

>questions are being asked.

>

>Third, the independent farmers or SMF need capital for labour, inputs and

>knowledge. Knowledge (to reduce risk) and inputs like fertilizers,

>pesticides, and seeds are all controlled by big business and under

>tutelage of big business by government officials, including scientists of

>the Indian Agricultural bureaucracy. The money to buy these critical

>inputs is supplied by the bankers in the US/EC/Australia and New Zealand

>AND not supplied by the Indian banking system, now effectively under

>control of the World Bank and the IMF, which in turn is controlled by the

>plutocrats like Baring, Hambros, Lazard, Erlanger, Mirabauld, Fould,

>Mallett, Rothschild+Morgan, Schroeder, and of course the Rockefellers.

>

>Fourth, the SMFs are under pressure in India to produce for Food-MNCs,

>like Pepsico and others. The name of PepsiCo comes up time and again when

>I meet SMFs in northern India. Their field staff has been offering

>“lucrative” deals for contract farming, a new concept in India. Started by

>the previous BJP Government, [Hindoo Nationalists, as the British

>Blabbering Corporation would have us believe, as if Hindooo Nationalists

>are siblings of the Taliban], the scheme seeks to rent land from SMFs to

>grow crops that these MNCs need for their food processing business. This

>will displace millions of SMFs from their farms and further erode India’s

>farming skills. Where will they go, how they will spend their time, how

>much these MNCs will pay them, whether they will pay them at all, and

>whether they will return the land to the rightful owners are questions

>that do not occupy the minds of Indian ruling elite. It has the

>machinations of East India Company written all over. And the

>same agenda, of the previous Hindooo Nationalist party is being perfected

>under the present “secular” government, great favourites of Fox, CNN and

>of course the Leftist BBC, ably supported by the Rightist and

>Centrist-leftists of India. So, all governments and all political parties

>are implementing the agenda of the Rockefellers and their ilk, through

>powerful food-MNCs; we are back in the 1760s, only the names have changed.

>

>Fifth, backward and forward linkages of SMFs’ supply chain are now under

>control of the big business. Multinational seed companies have set up

>operations in India, some are frequently in the news for stealing local

>seeds [Monsanto and Syngenta]. They, along with illustrious names like

>Swaminathan, are responsible for the destruction of India’s bio-diversity.

>It should be noted that India had 100,000 rice varieties; today barely 50

>are available. Farmers are now dependent upon these multinational seed

>companies and the first step they have taken is to push hybrid seeds,

>often stolen from indigenous people. To add icing to their thievery, these

>seed MNCs are now deliberately contaminating local seeds with genetically

>engineered ones. Local seeds in 39 countries are now contaminated with

>genetically engineered seeds as reported by Dr Mae Wan Ho of ISIS-UK.

>

>“In his major expose, “The Great Gene Robbery”, Dr. Claude Alvares reveals

>how the US government stole genes from India through [active connivance

>of] scientists such as Dr. M S Swaminathan, who was once widely hailed as

>the father of the Green Revolution” and still influences decisions in

>India’s Agriculture Ministry. “Alvares describes the marginalization of

>the brilliant rice specialist, Dr. R H Richharia, who single-handedly

>fought to preserve a precious… national heritage [the rice seeds] - only

>to lose to the agents of the US.” [The Illustrated Weekly of India; pages

>6-17, March 23-April 5, 1986]. This is not India-specific problem; farmers

>everywhere are fighting a losing battle in matters of seeds.

>

>Similarly fertilizer and pesticides manufacturers now cover the whole of

>India, with local retail outlets selling potent poisons and the farmers

>use them without shoes, without facial masks, while women and children are

>sitting nearby. Recent reports by an NGO reveal that cotton farmers in

>Punjab state have high levels of pesticide residue in their blood.

>Incidences of cancer have soared; farmers are dying of pesticide poisoning.

>

>There is no difference in the action of the thieves of East India Company

>[1760-1857], the looters of British India [1857-1947] and the co-opted

>Indian Government [since 1947].

>

>

>Except that the form of extortion has changed

>

>Each acre under onion and potato gives the MNCs sales worth US$523 in

>terms of seeds, diesel oil, fertilizers and pesticides, and gives a

>maximum of US$ 464, under ideal conditions, to the farmer.

>

>Income of farmers [Per annum, per acre]

>Farmers : US$ 144.00

>Savings in labour : US$ 320.00 [if no bought-in labour cost is incurred]

>Gross surplus : US$ 464.00 [excluding cost of capital]

>

>Income for corporations [per annum, per acre]

>Seeds : US$ 168.89

>Diesel : US$ 84.45

>Fertilizers and pesticides : US$ 270.23

>Total to corporations : US$ 523.57

>

>If the farmer is taking $464 to an acre, the social cost of $320

>additional revenue is enormous: children remain out of school, women work

>a back-breaking 16-hour day, and the family barely scrapes through two

>meals a day, sometimes not even that. On the other hand, the environmental

>cost of $523 going to US and European multi-nationals, their distributors

>and retailers is also enormous: depleted water resources, poisoned land,

>dead soil, destroyed bio-diversity, contamination of natural seeds with

>genetically engineered ones, destruction of the habitat, contamination of

>natural water bodies, emergence of unknown diseases and widespread health

>problem including cancer, diabetes, immune disorders, etc.

>

>Shape of things to come

>

>The global food industry is worth 3.2 trillion US dollars and growing,

>possibly worth US$ 4 trillion. The food industry can maximize its profits

>only if it controls the farm workers and their land; that is the logic of

>food business.

>Table 1 GLOBAL MARKETS

>

>US$ million

>% of total

>Seeds

>21,000

>0.55%

>Fertilizer

>80,000

>2.10%

>Pesticide

>35,400

>0.93%

>Food industry

>3,200,000

>84.16%

>Pharmaceutical

>466,000

>12.26%

>Total

>3,802,400

>100.00%

>

>Table 1 shows that people purchased food worth US 3.2 trillion dollar on

>earth. In order to generate 3.2 trillion dollar worth of sales for the

>food industry, the farmers paid 21 billion dollars to the seeds industry,

>80 billion dollars to the fertilizer industry, and 35.4 billion dollars to

>the pesticide industry. And each industry is a silent killer. When people

>got sick and debilitated, they paid an additional US$ 466 billion to the

>pharmaceutical industry to cope with the after effect of that food, remain

>sane and survive. The plutocrats who control the banks control seeds,

>fertilizers, and food industries and also control the pharmaceutical

>industry. Through well funded AID agencies and research foundations they

>promote spurious technologies and destroy sustainable indigenous systems.

>The Indian Government’s complicity is all over: [a] It has signed

>Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture [KIA] with mass murderer George Bush

>in Hyderabad [Match 2006] knowing fully well

>that the initiative seeks to slip in technologies destructive of India’s

>food security and indigenous farming methods; there is a major attempt

>underway to de-regulate food safety in favour of transnational food

>corporations; [c] farmers in UP and Bihar have frequently complained of

>their inability to store seeds, which indicates that genetically

>engineered terminators are present in the market despite laws banning GM

>seeds; [d] the Genetic Engineering approvals committee [GEAC] of Ministry

>of Agriculture is nothing more than rubber stamping body; [e] western

>governments and the transnational food corporations under WTO are

>rewriting all rules covering all foods (Codex). All this will push the

>SMFs into debt and slavery. Today, nearly all systems that support health

>and longevity have been destroyed and people are forced to depend upon the

>corporations for their survival…from seeds to food and medicines and in

>this globalization without consent the survival of SMFs is

>not an issue.

>

>The truth

>

>A poor farmer of India today earns US$ 144 from his back-breaking effort:

>exactly 12 dollars per month. If the entire household works an acre,

>including children as young as five, they just might earn US$ 464 from

>their meager holdings, provided all factors are favourable, which rarely

>happens. But the corporations, their distributors and retailers extract

>US$ 523.57 from each acre worked whether the farmer earns even a dollar or

>not. The Rockefeller-engineered destruction of the independent farmers in

>the US is being repeated here in India.

>

>The suicides of Indian farmers serves two purposes: one, it is reducing

>the population of India and reducing the pressure on natural resources for

>reasons that have been engineered by neo-conservative thinkers controlling

>Washington’s policy. World population must be reduced to 1750 level of 770

>million if the planet is to survive in post oil era. This was known to a

>small group in the US back in 1974 and the plan for culling world

>population was set in motion by Henry Kissinger, endorsed by Jimmy Carter,

>furthered by Reagan, George Bush senior, Clinton, and now being expedited

>by baby George. And two, while the plutocrats implement their agenda

>through the co-opted Indian ruling elite, they’d extract as much profit as

>they can, while simultaneously killing as many on earth. Profit must be

>ensured, no matter how many die. And the Indian governments have been

>active co-conspirators in this agenda since 1947. Earlier it was Nehru and

>his daughter Indira Gandhi who ruled

>India for 34 years. Then Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi’s son, who ruled this

>hapless nation. Today, Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh, Chidambaram, Karat,

>Sitaram, and the entire Indian political and bureaucratic establishment is

>responsible for creating conditions for culling India’s population.

>

>The tragedy of it all is that every person on this earth is under death

>sentence from depleted uranium contamination of the earth’s atmosphere:

>every person of every class, colour, creed, or religion. The ruling elite

>of Delhi are particularly vulnerable. They have been breathing depleted

>uranium contaminated air since 1991 and they are all under death sentence.

>How long they will lead a normal life before dying a painful, prolonged

>death is their problem, not mine. But they are as much responsible for the

>death of farmers as they would be for their own death and the death of an

>ancient civilization because they failed to read the writing on the wall.

>

>World’s two greatest democracies are writing the epitaph of the

>independent farmers and their own people. The irony of it all is that

>gravestones for American farmers are actually produced in the stone

>quarries of India by surplus farm hands, while the wood for funeral pyres

>of India’s dead farmers are sourced by bribing forest officials here,

>directly or indirectly. The Illuminati rules, okay!

>

>Arun Shrivastava MBA, CMC, is a certified management consultant. He can be

>contacted at: arun1951

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Re: [Mr_Tracys_Corner] NWO and the Farmer

 

 

At 04:10 AM 10/12/06, you wrote:>Re: The Machinations Of The New World Order - The Farmer>Posted by: "Tracy" tracyjones23 tracyjones23>Wed Oct 11, 2006 9:35 pm (PST)>The one and only requirement for Absolute Freedom is to become once again >a farmer so you can grow your own food. That's all the work that's >required and very necessary to make sure the food you eat will be of such >high quality there will be no disease.>>Quit trying to patch a non-working system to begin with. When are people >going to wake up and realize this?>>* * *>>"This is no more an Indian or American or Chinese issue. Every one on this >one earth is now under death sentence. There is no time lose. I think we >all should unite, exchange information, and forget about making money from >writing so long as the threat lasts. We should fearlessly expose every >corporation and every politician and every bureaucrat EVERYWHERE. Take >their bloody pants off in full public view. ">* * *>With Absolute Freedom you don't need to expose anyone. The human >controllers too will see the light and follow suit for there will be no >need for money and that's really what it's all about when it comes to >humans controlling one another living in a system that doesn't work and >never has for everyone.>Tracy>>chrisgupta (AT) alumni (DOT) uwaterloo.ca wrote:>...."the independent farmer is the greatest threat to the power of the >ruling elite the world over because the farmer can produce for himself. He >can't starve. If all independent farmers produced only for personal >consumption, the rest of the world can starve, the ruling elite can also >starve [unless they eat Martian wheat or Plutonian meat], the square mile >of Delhi, where the Indian ruling elite dwells will definitely starve, but >not the farmers. If the independent farmer and the SMFs refused to sell >their surplus to the food-MNCs (Multinational Corporations), that decision >can destroy the global US$3.2 trillion food racket and make people so >healthy that it would in turn destroy the US$466 billion pharmaceutical >industry as well. Oh no, too much money is involved. Hence, the elaborate >charade of "farmer-friendly" government, an elaborate mechanism to steal >tax-payers money in the name of poor farmers, brilliantly engineered by >the Leftists and Socialists [chiefly>Jawaharlal Nehru and his minions] since 1947. And all this money, running >into trillions of rupees since 1947, has neither improved the lot of SMFs >(Small to Medium Farms), nor helped create sustainable rural >infrastructure. The money has simply evaporated and no questions are being >asked....>>...The global food industry is worth 3.2 trillion US dollars and growing, >possibly worth US$ 4 trillion. The food industry can maximize its profits >only if it controls the farm workers and their land; that is the logic of >food business."...>>Further to Fighting Globalism with Common Law the following paper, while >based on the Indian situation, by Arun Shrivastava has a common thread to >all. It is an incredible prospective on how control of our basic needs has >systematically controlled. Exposure of these tactics is vital! Resistance >creates time to awaken populations to disaster! A must read.>>"It demonstrates how conventional method of farming traps small and >marginal farmers into debt, a system of farming that was promoted by >Swaminathan, a Rockefeller plant. Swaminathan exploited the desperate food >situation in 1966 to the hilt: without critical appraisal of our >indigenous system of farming, he vigorously pushed industrial farming >methods, trapping farmers into spiraling cost of production financed by >debt. This is how small independent farmers in North America were >destroyed, to be replaced by industrial farmers. This is how Indian >farmers are being destroyed.>>Despite the fact that 70% of India?s voters are SMFs (Small to Medium >Farms) living in 600,000 villages, and despite the fact that every >politician ritually genuflects to these impoverished peasants at election >time, not once the Government of India, or any state government of any >political hue, has shown seriousness to pull them out of poverty, poor >health, malnutrition, and illiteracy....>>....A common strand in nearly all development programmes for rural India >is that they neither benefit the people, nor the local communities. In >fact, these programmes not merely cause colossal wastage of tax-payers >money; they actually create conditions for slow death by ignorance and >filth and diseases while large corporations profit....>>...Dr John Coleman's research sheds a new light that forces one to view >the present agrarian crisis in a new perspective, possibly never explored >before by the Indian intellectuals, whatever that term means, particularly >those who claim to represent the civil society; the official intellectuals >are anyway deadwoods, co-opted side-kicks of the Rockefellers."...>>Mass dissidence primarily by the intellectual community is needed. >Unfortunately they are so easily bought, just about in every field, else >we should not be in this mess. They will continue to do the bidding of >their controllers totally oblivious to the fact that they are next in line >in the gravy train!>>See also: Global - The Decline of Transcendent Markets and the Rise of Fascism>>Following is a note by Arun.>>Chris Gupta>http://tinyurl.com/4ulxd>------------------>>Dear friends>>I am writing against mass culling of India's farmers. My friends have >already lodged a Public Interest Litigation to stop all "slipping in" of >GE seeds, GM foods. Can't write much about it because the matter is >pending in the court.>>I have written many articles on DU contamination of western India, >published by globalresearch, the peoples voice, uruk.net, and others. I am >now concentrating on how six forces are converging on all of us on >earth.......to cull "useless eaters" [Kissinger's language] we are all >useless eaters....the bastards who control your country are the only >useful eaters. Let's see.>>This is no more an Indian or American or Chinese issue. Every one on this >one earth is now under death sentence. There is no time lose. I think we >all should unite, exchange information, and forget about making money from >writing so long as the threat lasts. We should fearlessly expose every >corporation and every politician and every bureaucrat EVERYWHERE. Take >their bloody pants off in full public view.>>I am sending an article to the people's voice, copied to you. It was >published under the same header by www.GlobalResearch.ca last month. The >editor of the Peoples' Voice has agreed to publish it.>>You tell me how can I help you from India. I desperately need a column in >as many websites as I can.>>I have met ordinary villagers in over 2000 India villages, researched >every issue that affects their life.>>let us first just discuss some possibilities.>>regards to you all>>arun shrivastava cmc>new delhi>-------------------------->>Mass suicides by Indian farmers>………………….shape of things to come>By Arun Shrivastava CMC>20 August 2006>The truth is slowly emerging. A Home Ministry report, monitoring deaths by >suicide, says that roughly 100,000 farmers committed suicide over six >years to 2003 in India. On 18th May 2006, Sharad Pawar, the Minister of >Agriculture [MoA], Government of India, presented the data to the Upper >House [Rajya Sabha] adding that investigations by state governments on >agrarian distress show that the main “cause of suicide is indebtedness.” >In the dehumanized statistical gimmickry, the utter devastation of the >100,000 households of dead farmers comprising women, children and elders >was quietly buried under the soft thick carpet of the Indian Parliament.>>India, with adequate rainfall, warm climate, enormous biological >diversity, and excellent traditional agricultural practices, has no reason >to face agrarian crisis and, given nature’s bounty, its farmers have no >reason to commit suicide. This paper deals with how the rule of one >British company and its buccaneers started a process in 1760 that >continues to this day, ravaging the farmers of the sub-continent and how >independent farmers everywhere are under threat of extinction.>>Indian farmers before the “Company rule”>>An average Indian peasant at the beginning of 19th century earned >significantly more than his British counterpart and there was no >substantial difference between the diets of a peasant and a rich landlord >in India. Most significantly, there was a tradition to feed outsiders >first, including beggars, before a family sat down to eat. The affluent >households did not sell milk and milk products; they were distributed free >within the community, a practice that continued right up to 1960s in many >parts. The destruction of India’s agriculture and destitution of its >farmers is a story of corporate greed and the utter ruthlessness of a >small group of people in Europe and the United States who do not value >human beings: whites, browns, yellow, or black. The sooner we realize this >and take effective action, better will it be us and the farmers.>>The genesis of agrarian distress>>Agrarian distress starts with colonization of eastern India by a British >company, the East India Company [EIC] around 1760, their system of >extortionate land tax, combined with forcing farmers to grow cash crops >[chiefly indigo and cotton] on the best lands and not paying appropriate >price for the produce. They systematically destroyed a sustainable >agriculture system that’d fed millions for over 6,000 years and then >introduced money lenders and rack renters to trap farmers in debt.>>The colonial system of land use led to frequent collapse of India’s farms >resulting in food shortage, famine, mass deaths, destruction of fertile >lands, and destruction of age-old symbiotic system of farming, animal >husbandry, and forestry. While doing nothing to alleviate agrarian >distress, the Colonial officials kept repeating, parrot-like, that there >are too many Indians! Henry Waterfield’s paper on India’s population >density and comparison with some of the regions/countries of Europe is >most illuminating: whilst the population density of British Indian Empire >was 165 per square mile in 1875, the density of Belgium was 447, England >422, Saxony 377, the Netherlands 291, Italy 237, German Empire 193, >Prussia 180, and Switzerland 175. Only France, Denmark, Scotland, >Portugal, Spain and Greece had lower population density as compared to >India. [Henry Waterfield , (1875), Memorandum on the Census of British >India 1871-72 , London , Eyre and Spottiswoode , p. 6;>>The British fixed the tax from land at fifty percent of the average gross >produce and collected the tax in cash [rupee] that forced the farmers to >first sell their produce, earn cash, and then pay tax. This was a unique >experience for the Indian peasantry. The costs of maintaining cultural and >religious institutions, healthcare facilities, schools, irrigation >infrastructure, roads, serais [places where a person could halt at night, >somewhat like Inns in England], etc., were extracted in addition to the >land tax at least during the first eight decades [1780-1860]. No mercy was >shown in matters of tax collection: if harvest was less than normal, the >tax could be more than 100% of the value of produce. If price of crops >collapsed because of bumper harvest, again the farmer lost to the tax >collector.>>Economic historians, like Dharampal, have calculated that, for example, in >Madras presidency [present day Tamil Nadu state], from 1830s onward, >around one-third of the most fertile land, probably larger in area than >the available cultivable land in major counties of England, went out of >cultivation by 1840 because, even with 100% produce sold for cash, land >tax demand could not be met. The British called it “substantial ‘decay’ of >revenue.”>[Dharampal. India Before British Rule and the Basis for India's >Resurgence. 1998. Gandhi Seva Sangh, Sevagram, Wardha, Maharashtra; . It >should be noted that Sevagram was established by Mahatma Gandhi.]>That substantial revenue decay did not stop their territorial expansion. >John Stuart Mill wrote in 1858 that not a penny was spent by British tax >payers for the conquest and control of India and the region from St. >Helena on the west coast of Africa to Hong Kong in China. The resources, >every single penny, were extorted from India’s farmers. India was an >awesome cash cow to the company.>>For Indian farmer to go hungry, or even remain undernourished, was a new >experience, and they retaliated; the history of 1780-1858, is one long >list of spontaneous uprisings throughout India.>>Indian farmer again begin to feed the millions>>The population of India was 238.4 million in 1900. The Colonialists said, >“too many, can’t feed ’em all.” It went up to 252.1 million in 1911 and >the colonialists said, “too many, can’t feed ‘em all.” In 1947, when India >became independent, India’s farmers could feed all of the 325 million. In >1991 there were over 844 million and the farmers fed them all; no famine >and no collapse of agriculture as happened time and time again during the >British period. Agrarian distress and consequent mass suicide since 1997 >once again starts when India exposed its agriculture to foreign companies >in 1991. It is again driving India’s farmers to hell and this time with >full support of the Indian government, officers of the Ministry of >Agriculture, and the Ag-scientific establishment. This time there is >method in the madness.>>Agrarian distress and the Warehousing Act>>In 1945, economists of the Reserve Bank of India, in anticipation of >India’s independence, studied farmers’ indebtedness and made four key >recommendations:>(a) Farmers be provided with facilities for scientific storage of produce >in proper warehouses to minimize post-harvest losses;>(b) Farmers be issued warehousing receipts against their stocks which >could be used to borrow cash from normal banking channel, thereby >eliminating dependence on private money-lenders who often charged a >minimum of 60% interest;>© Each warehouse to have a trained technical team who would work closely >with agriculture scientists, provide extension services including advice >on seeds, fertilizers, and scientific storage of produce; and>(d) The warehouse superintendent would advice the farmers when to sell >their produce in order to maximize revenue and prevent distress sale.>>Whilst the recommendations were excellent, it was only nine years later, >in 1956, that the Warehousing Act was passed by the Parliament. From 1956 >to 1971, nearly every state constructed a number of warehouses. The >technical people employed in these warehouses were generally competent and >highly motivated; they worked with the farmers, helped them, and brought >about a degree of stability within rural farming communities.>> From 1971 onward the focus of warehousing corporations shifted. The > scheme of warehousing receipt was allowed to fall into disuse for various > reasons including corruption within warehousing corporations, and > pressure from fertilizer and chemical companies to allocate more space > for their products. It was a convenient arrangement: the companies got > highly subsidized warehousing space and the warehousing corporations got > assured income by way of rent with the added comfort of reduced paperwork > and virtually no fieldwork with the farmers. Thus, an excellent strategy > to pull farmers out of desperation was allowed to fail.>>In 1966 the food situation was desperate following three consecutive >draughts. The US Government refused to allow sale of wheat to India >because of India’s refusal to fall in line with US policies in Asia.>>On the advice of MS Swaminathan, the Government decided to make available >fertilizer, pesticides and hybrid seeds to the farmers through these >warehouses, at the same nominal rent which was actually meant for the >farmers. This is still true in 2006. Thus, the many private and public >sector seeds, fertilizer and chemical companies benefited a lot more than >India’s peasants from the existing warehousing facilities. Also, the big >farmers benefited.>>The economics of farming in India: a simple illustration>>The following analysis is based on agriculture practice in one of the >largest regions [roughly 700 square kilometres] growing potato and onion >and some vegetables. The region is south east of Patna and falls within >the Gangetic plains. Potato crop is taken in three and half months, onion >in about five and half around May. During rainy season the area gets >inundated so people have stopped growing paddy. Most of the farmers have >forgotten the rejuvenating role of paddy: the algae that grows on stagnant >water is nature’s way of fixing nitrogen to the soil, a reason as Sir >Albert Howard found why farmers of the Gangetic plains had been growing >food, season after season, year after year, since hoary antiquity. It >should be noted that when the British forced Indian peasants to grow >cotton and indigo on lands that were best for paddy, they also destroyed >the system of fertility recovery, which caused collapse of winter crops. >But let us fast forward to 2004. I found that seeds>accounted for 20% of input costs, chemicals (fertilizers and pesticides) >about 32%, diesel (to draw water out of the underground aquifers for >irrigation) about 10%, and labour 38%. Give or take a few percentage >points, this is the break-up of input costs, together for potato and onion >crops and is broadly representative of the average costs of farmers in >northern India.>>With this input, the farmers take about 7 metric tonnes each of potato and >onion per bigha (1.59 bigha in this area equals one acre). The five-year >average ex-farm price for potato is about Rs 200 per quintal [1 >quintal=100 kgs] and Rs 250 for onion. Wastage can be pegged anywhere >between 10 to 40% on account of drying, rotting, and losses in transit >(various government estimates). If the farmer is lucky, and responds to >market prices intelligently, he can average about Rs 2000 per tonne for >potato and onion. In other words, from two crops he can generate revenue >of about Rs. 44,500 per year per acre [about US$ 1,000]. With input costs >per acre of about Rs. 38,000, the ex-farm return is about 6,500 plus >savings in labour costs that is achieved because the entire household >works these farms. This calculation does not include post harvest losses >due to rotting, drying, and spoilage during transportation nor does it >include cost of borrowed capital.>>The Rs 14,440 computed for labour costs if saved can give the household a >net income of Rs 20,900 per acre per year, that is about the same if a >family of six were living below the poverty line. Majority is small (below >2 hectare holding) and marginal (below 1 hectare) farmer. So, SMFs can >generate a maximum income of about Rs. 50,160 per hectare (Rs 20,900 x 2.4 >acre) (or US$ 1,114 per annum per hectare), excluding cost of capital. >Rarely do farmers achieve this level of notional mean income.>>If a farmer finances 50% of his input costs from borrowings, even at 36% >(3% flat rate per month) interest he lands up in serious financial >trouble. Many borrow 75-100% of their input costs sometimes at 40% rate of >interest. Invariably at harvest time, when there is glut, prices crash. >Small and marginal farmers do not have the resources to hire storage space >and obtain better price at some future time. Distress sale further erodes >a farmer’s financial viability. Those who store their surplus end up >losing 10-20% stock due to spoilage and drying shrinkage neutralizing any >gains through seasonal price fluctuation.>>If the market price drops by 20%, even if the farmer has not borrowed >money, he would be in loss to the tune of Rs 2,384 [uS$ 53] per acre. >Every third year or so, prices crash by as much as 30-50%, largely >engineered by traders, leaving farmers deeply in debt. Therefore, the talk >of helping farmers with greater access to market, a promise that has been >repeated by every politician and every Agriculture Minister since 1947, is >unlikely to resolve the problem of assured minimum income. As shown above, >SMFs can’t benefit from market access; rather the market left to its own >devices works against the interest of SMFs.>>It demonstrates how conventional method of farming traps small and >marginal farmers into debt, a system of farming that was promoted by >Swaminathan, a Rockefeller plant. Swaminathan exploited the desperate food >situation in 1966 to the hilt: without critical appraisal of our >indigenous system of farming, he vigorously pushed industrial farming >methods, trapping farmers into spiraling cost of production financed by >debt. This is how small independent farmers in North America were >destroyed, to be replaced by industrial farmers. This is how Indian >farmers are being destroyed.>>Despite the fact that 70% of India’s voters are SMFs living in 600,000 >villages, and despite the fact that every politician ritually genuflects >to these impoverished peasants at election time, not once the Government >of India, or any state government of any political hue, has shown >seriousness to pull them out of poverty, poor health, malnutrition, and >illiteracy.>>The failure of development programmes in India>>Since 1951, India ostensibly started its Five Year Plans for “planned >development” under the influence of Soviet Russia but surprisingly its >agriculture policy was directly under control and influence of the >Rockefellers, Ford Foundation and USAID. In every Five Year Plan, >agriculture and rural development was top priority on paper but the ground >reality is quite different.>>Older farmers remember that in 1960s, every agriculture extension officer >would go around villages encouraging them to take the “free kit” >containing hybrid seeds, fertilizers and pesticides. Initially, output did >rise phenomenally. For example the output of wheat went up by 500%, rice >by 300%. But in the process many farmers stopped saving their seeds and >became heavily dependent on purchased hybrids, a deliberate policy of >deskilling farmers.>Irrigation canals were dug up for the farmers, all over the country but >many of these never got water; even after three or four decades majority >is bone dry. Only few, those dug up in Punjab and Haryana, have water >because the engineers diverted perennial Himalayan rivers. The irrigation >departments of most states are now infamous more for their corruption and >for harassing farmers than for constructing working canals.>The Rural Electrification programme, started with much fanfare in 1970s, >ostensibly for farmers, has failed. In villages after villages one sees >electric poles and wires, some have existed for over three decades, but >the people are still waiting for electricity. So farmers came to depend >upon diesel engine to draw water from underground aquifers. As they drew >more water, the water table dropped, requiring more diesel oil to pull >water up. Forty years ago one could hit water six feet under ground and >construct a perennial well about 12-15 feet deep. Today one would be lucky >to get water at less than 120 feet.>World’ largest supplementary nutrition programme run by the Indian >government since 1974, with financial assistance of UN agencies [Food & >Agriculture Organisation, UN-World Food Programme, UNICEF] and the World >Bank, supposed to feed pregnant women, nursing mothers, adolescent girls >and children under 6 years of age 25 days per month, operates for four or >five in majority of distribution centres in the most populous state of >India, Uttar Pradesh. The feed is often sold to local traders, which in >turn ends up as cattle feed in factory farms or as raw material in food >processing industry, or ends up in local grocery stores. The >inter-generational cycle of malnutrition has been perfected to the level >that the SMFs are walking skeletons in most places.>The Adult literacy programme started in 1950s failed; thirty years later >the number of illiterate adults actually doubled in India. In 1988 another >“National Literacy Mission” was started but by 1993 it was tottering. >Whilst many districts returned fudged figures, the Census 2001 actually >reveals that majority of rural people in India is still illiterate. There >are villages where not one woman is literate. The resources have been >siphoned off but not one officer has been prosecuted. The farming >community remains illiterate.>Majority of farmers do not have access to safe drinking water. The >drinking water programme now has provision for restoring traditional >rainwater harvesting structures at community level but in majority of >villages only water tank, electric pump to draw underground water and >expensive pipes are being laid, benefiting manufacturers of these items. >Underground aquifers are laced with leached pesticides rendering them >unfit for consumption. Because there is no electricity and energy crisis >is already reaching explosive proportion, many of these assets will soon >become inoperable. Consequently water borne diseases and chemical >poisoning are endemic in India and farmers suffer the most.>Majority of villages do not have sanitation. There are districts where 93% >rural households do not have a toilet. Under Total Sanitation Campaign of >the Indian Government, toilets have been constructed with waste water >draining out in the streets. Simple solutions like composting toilet >system have been ignored. These toilets are actually the world’s biggest >sanitation disaster in the making.>>With few exceptions, the story is the same right across India.>>A common strand in nearly all development programmes for rural India is >that they neither benefit the people, nor the local communities. In fact, >these programmes not merely cause colossal wastage of tax-payers money; >they actually create conditions for slow death by ignorance and filth and >diseases while large corporations profit.>>So, all programmes seeking to alleviate rural poverty, educate the >peasantry, and create rural infrastructure are made to fail but no officer >and no politician can be held accountable for the failure. The >administration operates with rules that ensure that persons in positions >of authority can’t be held accountable, ever, for failure. There are >indeed excellent officers and effective politicians, but they are >invariably marginalized. There is a method at work which few can cope with >in this country.>>The machinations of the New World Order>>Why is it that the elected leaders and the professional civil servants in >the world’s largest democracy deliberately keep 70% of its people, the >SMFs, in perpetual servile subjugation? Something very sinister is >happening here in India, something as despicable as happened in the Soviet >Union about 70 years ago and something that happened in the US over the >last 100 years: utter decimation of the independent farmer.>>According to John Coleman “One of the principal but little known >operations of the Rockefeller Foundation has been its techniques for >controlling world agriculture.”>>Its director, Kenneth Wernimont, set up Rockefeller controlled >agricultural programs throughout Mexico and Latin America. The independent >farmer is a great threat to the World Order, because he produces for >himself, and because his produce can be converted into Capital, which >gives him independence. In Soviet Russia, the Bolsheviks believed they had >attained total control over the people; they were dismayed to find their >plans threatened by the stubborn independence of the small farmers, the >Kulaks. Stalin ordered the OGPU to seize all food and animals of the >Kulaks, and to starve them out.”>>In the United States, the foundations are presently engaged in the same >type of war of extermination against the American farmer. …… The Brookings >Institution and other foundations originated the monetary programs >implemented by the Federal Reserve System to destroy the American farmer, >a replay of the Soviet tragedy in Russia, with one proviso that the farmer >will be allowed to survive if he becomes a slave worker of the giant trusts.”>Dr. John Coleman, a former intelligence agent of British MI6>>Dr John Coleman’s research sheds a new light that forces one to view the >present agrarian crisis in a new perspective, possibly never explored >before by the Indian intellectuals, whatever that term means, particularly >those who claim to represent the civil society; the official intellectuals >are anyway deadwoods, co-opted side-kicks of the Rockefellers.>>First, the bankers, chiefly the Rockefellers, were responsible for >destroying the independent farmer in the US and that story is being >repeated in India: destroy the will of SMF in order to control 700+ >millions Indians forever, condemned to perpetual slavery. This was started >by the British colonialists who kept them perpetually hungry for 180 >years. In free India the same policy is being continued by the co-opted >Indian ruling elite by keeping SMFs illiterate, malnourished, and without >any basic services like healthcare, sanitation, clean water, schools, and >roads.>>Second, the independent farmer is the greatest threat to the power of the >ruling elite the world over because the farmer can produce for himself. He >can’t starve. If all independent farmers produced only for personal >consumption, the rest of the world can starve, the ruling elite can also >starve [unless they eat Martian wheat or Plutonian meat], the square mile >of Delhi, where the Indian ruling elite dwells will definitely starve, but >not the farmers. If the independent farmer and the SMFs refused to sell >their surplus to the food-MNCs, that decision can destroy the global >US$3.2 trillion food racket and make people so healthy that it would in >turn destroy the US$466 billion pharmaceutical industry as well. Oh no, >too much money is involved. Hence, the elaborate charade of >“farmer-friendly” government, an elaborate mechanism to steal tax-payers >money in the name of “poor farmers,” brilliantly engineered by the >Leftists and Socialists [chiefly Jawaharlal Nehru and his>minions] since 1947. And all this money, running into trillions of rupees >since 1947, has neither improved the lot of SMFs, nor helped create >sustainable rural infrastructure. The money has simply evaporated and no >questions are being asked.>>Third, the independent farmers or SMF need capital for labour, inputs and >knowledge. Knowledge (to reduce risk) and inputs like fertilizers, >pesticides, and seeds are all controlled by big business and under >tutelage of big business by government officials, including scientists of >the Indian Agricultural bureaucracy. The money to buy these critical >inputs is supplied by the bankers in the US/EC/Australia and New Zealand >AND not supplied by the Indian banking system, now effectively under >control of the World Bank and the IMF, which in turn is controlled by the >plutocrats like Baring, Hambros, Lazard, Erlanger, Mirabauld, Fould, >Mallett, Rothschild+Morgan, Schroeder, and of course the Rockefellers.>>Fourth, the SMFs are under pressure in India to produce for Food-MNCs, >like Pepsico and others. The name of PepsiCo comes up time and again when >I meet SMFs in northern India. Their field staff has been offering >“lucrative” deals for contract farming, a new concept in India. Started by >the previous BJP Government, [Hindoo Nationalists, as the British >Blabbering Corporation would have us believe, as if Hindooo Nationalists >are siblings of the Taliban], the scheme seeks to rent land from SMFs to >grow crops that these MNCs need for their food processing business. This >will displace millions of SMFs from their farms and further erode India’s >farming skills. Where will they go, how they will spend their time, how >much these MNCs will pay them, whether they will pay them at all, and >whether they will return the land to the rightful owners are questions >that do not occupy the minds of Indian ruling elite. It has the >machinations of East India Company written all over. And the>same agenda, of the previous Hindooo Nationalist party is being perfected >under the present “secular” government, great favourites of Fox, CNN and >of course the Leftist BBC, ably supported by the Rightist and >Centrist-leftists of India. So, all governments and all political parties >are implementing the agenda of the Rockefellers and their ilk, through >powerful food-MNCs; we are back in the 1760s, only the names have changed.>>Fifth, backward and forward linkages of SMFs’ supply chain are now under >control of the big business. Multinational seed companies have set up >operations in India, some are frequently in the news for stealing local >seeds [Monsanto and Syngenta]. They, along with illustrious names like >Swaminathan, are responsible for the destruction of India’s bio-diversity. >It should be noted that India had 100,000 rice varieties; today barely 50 >are available. Farmers are now dependent upon these multinational seed >companies and the first step they have taken is to push hybrid seeds, >often stolen from indigenous people. To add icing to their thievery, these >seed MNCs are now deliberately contaminating local seeds with genetically >engineered ones. Local seeds in 39 countries are now contaminated with >genetically engineered seeds as reported by Dr Mae Wan Ho of ISIS-UK.>>“In his major expose, “The Great Gene Robbery”, Dr. Claude Alvares reveals >how the US government stole genes from India through [active connivance >of] scientists such as Dr. M S Swaminathan, who was once widely hailed as >the father of the Green Revolution” and still influences decisions in >India’s Agriculture Ministry. “Alvares describes the marginalization of >the brilliant rice specialist, Dr. R H Richharia, who single-handedly >fought to preserve a precious… national heritage [the rice seeds] - only >to lose to the agents of the US.” [The Illustrated Weekly of India; pages >6-17, March 23-April 5, 1986]. This is not India-specific problem; farmers >everywhere are fighting a losing battle in matters of seeds.>>Similarly fertilizer and pesticides manufacturers now cover the whole of >India, with local retail outlets selling potent poisons and the farmers >use them without shoes, without facial masks, while women and children are >sitting nearby. Recent reports by an NGO reveal that cotton farmers in >Punjab state have high levels of pesticide residue in their blood. >Incidences of cancer have soared; farmers are dying of pesticide poisoning.>>There is no difference in the action of the thieves of East India Company >[1760-1857], the looters of British India [1857-1947] and the co-opted >Indian Government [since 1947].>>>Except that the form of extortion has changed>>Each acre under onion and potato gives the MNCs sales worth US$523 in >terms of seeds, diesel oil, fertilizers and pesticides, and gives a >maximum of US$ 464, under ideal conditions, to the farmer.>>Income of farmers [Per annum, per acre]>Farmers : US$ 144.00>Savings in labour : US$ 320.00 [if no bought-in labour cost is incurred]>Gross surplus : US$ 464.00 [excluding cost of capital]>>Income for corporations [per annum, per acre]>Seeds : US$ 168.89>Diesel : US$ 84.45>Fertilizers and pesticides : US$ 270.23>Total to corporations : US$ 523.57>>If the farmer is taking $464 to an acre, the social cost of $320 >additional revenue is enormous: children remain out of school, women work >a back-breaking 16-hour day, and the family barely scrapes through two >meals a day, sometimes not even that. On the other hand, the environmental >cost of $523 going to US and European multi-nationals, their distributors >and retailers is also enormous: depleted water resources, poisoned land, >dead soil, destroyed bio-diversity, contamination of natural seeds with >genetically engineered ones, destruction of the habitat, contamination of >natural water bodies, emergence of unknown diseases and widespread health >problem including cancer, diabetes, immune disorders, etc.>>Shape of things to come>>The global food industry is worth 3.2 trillion US dollars and growing, >possibly worth US$ 4 trillion. The food industry can maximize its profits >only if it controls the farm workers and their land; that is the logic of >food business.>Table 1 GLOBAL MARKETS>>US$ million>% of total>Seeds>21,000>0.55%>Fertilizer>80,000>2.10%>Pesticide>35,400>0.93%>Food industry>3,200,000>84.16%>Pharmaceutical>466,000>12.26%>Total>3,802,400>100.00%>>Table 1 shows that people purchased food worth US 3.2 trillion dollar on >earth. In order to generate 3.2 trillion dollar worth of sales for the >food industry, the farmers paid 21 billion dollars to the seeds industry, >80 billion dollars to the fertilizer industry, and 35.4 billion dollars to >the pesticide industry. And each industry is a silent killer. When people >got sick and debilitated, they paid an additional US$ 466 billion to the >pharmaceutical industry to cope with the after effect of that food, remain >sane and survive. The plutocrats who control the banks control seeds, >fertilizers, and food industries and also control the pharmaceutical >industry. Through well funded AID agencies and research foundations they >promote spurious technologies and destroy sustainable indigenous systems. >The Indian Government’s complicity is all over: [a] It has signed >Knowledge Initiative in Agriculture [KIA] with mass murderer George Bush >in Hyderabad [Match 2006] knowing fully well>that the initiative seeks to slip in technologies destructive of India’s >food security and indigenous farming methods; there is a major attempt >underway to de-regulate food safety in favour of transnational food >corporations; [c] farmers in UP and Bihar have frequently complained of >their inability to store seeds, which indicates that genetically >engineered terminators are present in the market despite laws banning GM >seeds; [d] the Genetic Engineering approvals committee [GEAC] of Ministry >of Agriculture is nothing more than rubber stamping body; [e] western >governments and the transnational food corporations under WTO are >rewriting all rules covering all foods (Codex). All this will push the >SMFs into debt and slavery. Today, nearly all systems that support health >and longevity have been destroyed and people are forced to depend upon the >corporations for their survival…from seeds to food and medicines and in >this globalization without consent the survival of SMFs is>not an issue.>>The truth>>A poor farmer of India today earns US$ 144 from his back-breaking effort: >exactly 12 dollars per month. If the entire household works an acre, >including children as young as five, they just might earn US$ 464 from >their meager holdings, provided all factors are favourable, which rarely >happens. But the corporations, their distributors and retailers extract >US$ 523.57 from each acre worked whether the farmer earns even a dollar or >not. The Rockefeller-engineered destruction of the independent farmers in >the US is being repeated here in India.>>The suicides of Indian farmers serves two purposes: one, it is reducing >the population of India and reducing the pressure on natural resources for >reasons that have been engineered by neo-conservative thinkers controlling >Washington’s policy. World population must be reduced to 1750 level of 770 >million if the planet is to survive in post oil era. This was known to a >small group in the US back in 1974 and the plan for culling world >population was set in motion by Henry Kissinger, endorsed by Jimmy Carter, >furthered by Reagan, George Bush senior, Clinton, and now being expedited >by baby George. And two, while the plutocrats implement their agenda >through the co-opted Indian ruling elite, they’d extract as much profit as >they can, while simultaneously killing as many on earth. Profit must be >ensured, no matter how many die. And the Indian governments have been >active co-conspirators in this agenda since 1947. Earlier it was Nehru and >his daughter Indira Gandhi who ruled>India for 34 years. Then Rajiv Gandhi, Indira Gandhi’s son, who ruled this >hapless nation. Today, Manmohan Singh, Montek Singh, Chidambaram, Karat, >Sitaram, and the entire Indian political and bureaucratic establishment is >responsible for creating conditions for culling India’s population.>>The tragedy of it all is that every person on this earth is under death >sentence from depleted uranium contamination of the earth’s atmosphere: >every person of every class, colour, creed, or religion. The ruling elite >of Delhi are particularly vulnerable. They have been breathing depleted >uranium contaminated air since 1991 and they are all under death sentence. >How long they will lead a normal life before dying a painful, prolonged >death is their problem, not mine. But they are as much responsible for the >death of farmers as they would be for their own death and the death of an >ancient civilization because they failed to read the writing on the wall.>>World’s two greatest democracies are writing the epitaph of the >independent farmers and their own people. The irony of it all is that >gravestones for American farmers are actually produced in the stone >quarries of India by surplus farm hands, while the wood for funeral pyres >of India’s dead farmers are sourced by bribing forest officials here, >directly or indirectly. The Illuminati rules, okay!>>Arun Shrivastava MBA, CMC, is a certified management consultant. He can be >contacted at: arun1951 ******Kraig and Shirley Carroll ... in the woods of SE Kentuckyhttp://www.thehavens.com/thehavens (AT) highland (DOT) net606-376-3363

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