More than one billion to go hungry in 2009    

Have you ever had a rumbly belley? Uncomfortable, no? Mind goes, Psyche goes, Depression sets in. Cold extremiities. Death is knocking at your door. One fifth of the planet has that problem every day all day. And all night. Can you imagine trying to sleep on a pile of straw with that empty belly gnawing at your inside and fleas and mosquitoes gnawing at the outside?  MILLIONS of children go through that nightly. A good part of a BILLION is what the figures tell us.

 What can we do about this problem? Simple. Aspire to be very rich so you can correct it. Be a MOTIVATED, CHARISMATIC CAPITALIST and make a billion dollars. Just this evening not minutes before reading the brief article that I INCLUDE BELOW, I was talking with the girlfriend of an Ex Army Colonel, Ex NATO INTELLIGENCE, Mossad trained master of security, veteran of two Iraq wars AND KOSOVO war too, (having a Ruski galpal got him kicked out of the army.) He went on to teach military studies at a Jesuit College, another great romance got him fired. Now he's sad. He makes great money teaching airport security around the state but climbs the mountains all moody and unfulfilled. Selfishness is a bitch ain't it?  THE MONEY that man could MAKE with that knowledge! I know of a SECURITY CORP that made one half billion dollars last year.

So I mentioned to the girlfriend that this known security company, X-CORP, (not the name, obviously) made one half billion dollars last year, gov and corporate contracts, sent her to a website that proved it and that is not a very old corporation either and the head guy at X CORP started with a little  karate skills, zip else. Nothing like HER BF has! I told her to suggest this line of work to the moody boyfriend. With all the jobless bozos walking around, he'd staff up real quick. But always give l0% of profits to community, teaching inner city boys how to be ubermenchs. Get good P.R. But with most of his time, just do security contracts. Then when he's made his first billion, he could start one such Security biz in every crime-plagued city in the world. Teach each the art of how licensing and bonding guards, bring order to the world. A Crime free Recession. For a second I thought she didn't hear me, that she was as moody as he, just wanted to get married. And I was thinking that HOLE in people's chest is pathological when suddenly she caught fire with the idea. I emailed her websites of XCORP to show the BF, though I'm sure that HE knows how many millions these security contracts garner. Well, let's see how this story turns out.

My point is, do you think SOLUTIONS would exist if there weren't problems? Expose yourself to problems regularly. Read up on them. absorb them through your pores. See documentaries on them. It'll turn you into a millionaire or like XCORP's karate guy, a billionaire, faster than you think. So here's the article I was reading at the exact time she called.
 

 
In a report delivered before the United Nations' Food Policy conference in Bangkok Thailand on Monday, Jacques Diouf, the director general of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) warned that more than one billion people across the world were now likely to go undernourished in 2009. That number is up from the 963 million, or roughly 1 in 7 people, projected by the FAO for 2008. Diouf pointed out that while prices for essential agricultural commodities such as rice, corn and wheat have fallen from the destructive heights they reached in 2008, they remain approximately 30 percent higher than 2005 rates. Diouf told the Financial Times in an interview last week, "The food crisis is not over."   Current prices are already placing an enormous burden on poor and working class people throughout the world. However, Diouf further warned that prices could soar once again to the highs recorded between 2007 and 2008 due to the lack of credit currently available to farmers, which has affected their production and expansion capabilities. During 2007-2008 the price of corn rose 31 percent, rice 74 percent, soybeans 87 percent and wheat 130 percent. The inability of masses of people to afford basic food necessities under these conditions led to global unrest, with food riots breaking out in no less than 30 countries.

The FAO has documented at length a number of the ongoing emergencies in food security. In the most recent update on  food emergencies from February, the FAO reports that 32 countries around the world are in a state of immediate crisis  and food insecurity, requiring external assistance. The FAO has placed particular emphasis on the Gaza Strip,  devastated by recent Israeli aggression, as well as Kenya, Somalia and Zimbabwe, where "the food security situation is  precarious following drought-reduced crops, civil disturbance and/or economic crisis."

     The report notes, "More than 18 million people face serious food insecurity due either to conflict, unrest, or adverse
     weather or a combined effect" in Eastern Africa. In Kenya, the FAO reports, millions are faced with food insecurity, and
     the government "has declared a state of National Disaster and indicated that about 10 million people are highly food
     insecure including 3.2 million drought-affected people."

     "In Eritrea, [in Northeastern Africa]," the report states, "cereal prices remain high affecting the food security of large
     sections of the population" while across its Western border in southern Sudan, "despite an overall improvement in the
     supply of cereals, inadequate transport and marketing systems will prevent any significant movements from surplus to
     deficit areas."

     A report released by the International Trade Union Federation in March titled A Recipe for Hunger: How the World is
     Failing on Food, attempts to paint a broader picture of the crisis while echoing predictions made by Diouf and the
     FAO: "In Africa the poorest are hit the hardest. 160 million people are trying to survive on an income of less than half a
     dollar a day. Most of those households are net buyers of food, not producers. The result is that soaring food prices hit
     household budgets of the poor in the developing countries. An impact felt instantly because an average of 50 to 70
     percent of their budget is spent on food, leaving no room for a well-balanced, highly nutritional diet."

     The report goes on to say that "not since the 1970s and the international oil crisis have food prices across the globe been
     this elevated. ... The shock of high prices began already in 2006, and agricultural commodity prices continued to rise until
     mid-2008. Medium-term projections from FAO indicate that food prices in 2009 may fall but will still remain well above
     their pre-2004 level in the coming years."

     Having made a number of dire predictions regarding world hunger, Diouf's proposed solution for confronting the crisis is
     to appeal to the leaders of the G20 countries for funds. "The first and foremost important element," says Diouf, "is the
     need to invest in agricultural production, and this would require $30 billion a year."

     The proposed solution to the problem presented by Diouf, the FAO and similar agencies entrusted with the monitoring of
     food emergencies, doesn't approach the heart of the problem. If $30 billion per year or more is required to save
     agricultural production from a state of crisis, one must ask, under whose control and in whose interests those investments
     are to be made To leave the food supplies and their distribution to the world's population in the hands of the G20 leaders
     and the ruling elites of the nation states they represent, only leads the food crisis into continued chaos.

     The already vulnerable and anarchic state of worldwide food production was exploded by the credit crisis and the
     rampant speculation in food commodities that came as credit bubbles burst, but the root cause of widespread food
     insecurity is not the current crisis but the very nature of the capitalist system itself, from which the crisis has emerged.

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