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Middle Class May Be Subject To Food Rations, Warns UN
Paul Joseph Watson
Monday, February 25th, 2008
http://www.infowars.com/?p=444

Experts warn of food riots as foreign troops cleared to patrol American
cities.

The UN is warning of a food shortage crisis and drawing up plans for food
rations which will hit even middle-class suburban populations as inflation
and economic uncertainty causes the prices of staple food commodities to
skyrocket.

The United Nation¹s World Food Programme cautions today that if it
doesn¹t receive more funding, it will have to halt food aid to developing
countries like Mexico and China.

"The WFP crisis talks come as the body sees the emergence of a ³new area
of hunger² in developing countries where even middle-class, urban people
are being ³priced out of the food market² because of rising food
prices," reports the Financial Times.

The warning coincides with a speech by William Lapp, of US-based
consultancy Advanced Economic Solutions, who cautioned that rising
agricultural raw material prices would translate this year into sharply
higher food inflation.

It also parallels a prediction by Don Coxe, a Chicago-based global
portfolio strategist for BMO Financial Group who correctly forecast the
fall of the dollar and the rise in price of gold and oil years in advance,
who last week spoke of a "global food crisis" which will cause the world to
enter into, "A period of food shortages and swiftly rising prices," leading
to government embargoes.

With the U.S. on the verge of a recession and, as many analysts have
warned, a potential second great depression, those long scoffed at for
hoarding vast quantities of storable food may unfortunately be able to say
"I told you so" if the dollar continues to deteriorate and people begin to
be priced out of the food market.

Global food prices have skyrocketed by as much as 60 per cent in the past
year, while UN officials warn of the likelihood of food riots.

"If prices continue to rise, I would not be surprised if we began to see
food riots,² said Jacques Diouf, director-general of the UN¹s Food and
Agriculture Organisation, last October.

Many see the food shortages, whether real or manufactured, as simply
another pretext for the implementation of martial law and the introduction
of foreign troops to patrol major U.S. cities.

A recent announcement by Northcom confirmed that U.S. and Canadian troops
will be allowed to patrol each other¹s countries in the event of a
national emergency.

"U.S. Air Force Gen. Gene Renuart, commander of North American Aerospace
Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, and Canadian Air Force Lt.-Gen.
Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, have signed a Civil Assistance
Plan that allows the military from one nation to support the armed forces
of the other nation during a civil emergency," reads a Northcom press
release.