Water Wars Looming, Worse than Oil

Global Poverty, Food Riots, and the Economic Crisislink Excerpt from: "The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century" by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, January 25, 2011 Email this article to a friend Print this article 0diggsdigg 53Share   As Tunisia's government collapsed under the protests of its citizens, in part spurred on by dramatically increasing food prices, with protests spreading to more countries in the region and around the world, this excerpt from the most recent publication by Global Research, "The Global Economic Crisis: The Great Depression of the XXI Century," provides an insight into the background of the current crisis: The sugar-coated bullets of the “free market” are killing our children. The act to kill is instrumented in a detached fashion through computer program trading on the New York and Chicago mercantile exchanges, where the global prices of rice, wheat and corn are decided upon. People in different countries are being impoverished simultaneously as a result of a global market mechanism. A small number of financial institutions and global corporations have the ability to determine the prices of basic food staples quoted on the commodity exchanges, thereby directly affecting the standard of living of millions of people around the world. Spiraling food prices are in large part the result of market manipulation. They are largely attributable to speculative trade on the commodity markets. Grain prices are boosted artificially by large scale speculative operations on the New York and Chicago mercantile exchanges. Is the world's largest super-volcano set to erupt for the first time in 600,000 years, wiping out two-thirds of the U.S.? 25 Jan 11 - That's the headline today on the UK's Mail Online. See Largest super-volcano to wipe out two-thirds of the U.S.?

Guess what has been heating the seas
Look at this 24-second video, multiply it by several thousand, and see if you can guess what has been heating the seas. http://www.gohawaii.com/perfect/blitz#/lava

Sickening - ABC Blames Global Warming for Extreme Cold and Snow
24 Jan 11 - On Friday, ABC correspondent Linsey Davis filed a one-sided report blaming the recent cold and snowfall on global warming.
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Water Wars Looming, Worse than Oil

Writing about the 1967 Six Day War in his 2001 memoirs, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said that "While the border disputes between Syria and ourselves were of great significance, the matter of water diversion was a stark issue of life and death." "People generally regard 5 June 1967 as the day the Six Day War began," Sharon later told the BBC in 2003. "That is the official date. But, in reality, it started two-and-a-half years earlier, on the day Israel decided to act against the diversion of the Jordan [River]."
Throughout history, access to water has spawned and escalated both domestic and international conflicts. In recent decades, population growth and global warming have both played a major role in raising the demand for and availability of potable water. The US government has predicted that by 2015 almost half of the world's population will be "stressed" for water. Water -- rather than oil -- could become the world's next biggest catalyst for conflict.
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FEMA Requests Information on the Availability of 140 Million Packets of Food, Blankets, and Body Bags - But Why?

FEMA has issued multiple RFI’s(Request For Information) in regards to the availability of 140 million packets of food specifically for a disaster in the New Madrid Fault System. Normally this sort of information would seem like disinformation or fear mongering but this particular situation is heavily documented.

Interestingly enough, FEMA is also requesting information on millions of blankets for the EXACT same reason. Does FEMA know something we don’t or are they doing this to simply prepare for a disaster in order to help the American people? Most educated people understand that history repeats itself and the history of FEMA is that of an agency that has been completely unprepared and at times, unwilling to help the American people.

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The Department of Homeland Security is also looking for a vendor that can supply “various fuels in support of disaster relief.” DHS specifically cites the states that it will be needed in. North Carolina, South Carolina, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Florida. That’s right, the Gulf of Mexico.
FEMA is also looking for Hydration Supplies for a disaster in the New Madrid Fault System just as they are looking for food, blankets, and underwater body bags.
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Parasitic weed destroying grassland habitats in Nepal

Posted on January 26, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 25, 2011 – NEPAL – Chitwan, Nepal – Some 200 kilometers south-west of the Nepalese capital Kathmandu, a non-native weed is rapidly destroying plants, with menacing implications for local wildlife. The South American native is locally known as banmara (forest killer) or “mile-a-minute.” It was first identified in Nepal in 1975. The weed grows about 2.5 centimeters a day and has covered large sections of the 932-square-kilometre Chitwan National Park. “It produces up to 40,000 seeds a day, which are scattered in the forest by various means,” said Chanda Rana, researcher and maker of the film Mile-a-minute – A serious threat to the Chitwan National Park. “If we don’t make collective effort within five years, about 50 per cent of the habitat will be wiped out.” Conservationists said the plant is one of the biggest threats to wildlife, besides poaching. The area is home to the rare one-horned rhino and the endangered Royal Bengal tiger. Nepal has been battling rampant poaching of the animals, especially the rhino, whose horn is prized in China for its alleged aphrodisiac qualities.    The rhino population in Nepal stands at just over 400. More than 25 were reported dead in 2008-10. Nearly 100 were killed in 2001-02, when the country was at the peak of the Maoist insurgency. Two years ago, the government initiated a biological control campaign to check the weed’s growth. “We induced a gall fly in the plants that ate up nodes and checked the growth,” said Ram Babu Paneru, senior scientist at the Nepal Agriculture Research Council. “It worked to a point but lateral branches grew, so it was given up.” In January 2010, Rana initiated a campaign to eradicate the weed, which the prime minister joined. “The invasive plant is threatening the existence of flora, fauna and unique ecosystem of Chitwan,” Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal said at the time. “It is high time all should participate in controlling the invasion of the wild weed.” -Earth Times

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Massive storm rips across Florida spawning tornadoes

Posted on January 25, 2011 by The Extinction Protocol

January 25, 2011 – TAMPA – The National Weather Service has issued tornado warnings for Sarasota and Manatee counties. Several tornadoes were moving east at 30 mph in central Manatee County. A tornado also has been spotted moving near Siesta Key and one near Vamo road north of Venice, moving east, in Sarasota County. Severe thunderstorms with 60-mph wind gusts are tracking across the area and damaging winds are also moving through Manatee and Sarasota counties in the next hour. The National Weather Service has issued a severe storm warning and is urging people in the warning area to stay indoors and away from windows. The warning area includes Hillsborough County, Southern Pinellas County, and northwestern Sarasota and Manatee counties. A tornado warning has also been issued for the St. Peterburg area. National Weather Service forecasters spotted a tornado on the doppler radar near St. Petersburg, moving eastward toward MacDill Air Force Base and Tampa. The warning is in effect until 5:45 p.m. Earlier, North of Tampa Bay, near Port Richey and Chassahoitzka, National Weather Service forecasters spotted tornados on the radar. Those areas and areas just northwest of those locations were under a tornado warning. A large mass of thunderstorms is moving across Southwest Florida from the west. The storm system is expected to progress south along the coast today with the worst conditions arriving south of the Tampa area this evening. Warm air moving in from the south is colliding with a cold air mass moving in from the northwest, creating conditions for strong thunderstorms that could spin off tornadoes.  –Herald Tribune