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Threat 4. The Anglo-Dutch-Swiss commodity cartel.Why do they represent a global threat to mankind? The answer is simple. The cartels decide who eats, and who doesn't. There are four regions in the world that export food, which comprise 15% of the world's population. The remaining 85%, or 4.7 billion people, depend on this export. Richard Freeman of the EIR states the problem quite bluntly: "Very little food moves on the face of the earth without the food cartel having a hand in it." Considering the enormous imbalance in supply, and considering the resulting profit potential for the traders, one should not wonder that everything possible is done to prevent the importing nations from developing their own potential, becoming self-sufficient in food. The sheer size of the cartels is unimaginable. According to the article by Richard Freeman, just one company of a singe cartel, Cargill, all by itself, "raises 350,000 hogs, 12 million turkeys, 312 million broiler chickens. In the United States it owns 420 barges, 11 towboats, two huge vessels that sail the Great Lakes, 12 ocean going ships, 2,000 railroad hopper cars, 2,000 tank cars. Cargill and its subsidiaries operate 800 plants. It has 500 U.S. offices, 300 foreign offices. It operates in 60 countries."*(EIR Dec.8, 1995) And that is just one company. The cartels also operate an elitist public relations group, which is essentially a public brainwashing apparatus with a background in Malthusian ideology. The cartel in turn is tied into the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss oligarchy, which thereby has near total control over all food movement on the planet. The cartels have the capacity to create famine at will, to cause the slow, universal starvation of mankind by price manipulation if they so wish, or to shut food distribution down totally for specified periods for whatever reason. The Cartels have begun to play God, to no small degree, and have a large capacity to do so on a greater scale that they have done so far. To allow the private manipulation of the food supply of mankind, and to allow it to such an enormous extend as to give the cartels, and thereby the oligarchy, power over the very life of humanity, contravenes every rational principle of civil conduct. In the light of the enormity of the economic impact that the cartels have in their hands, it is easy to understand why they are the prime movers of the free-trade principle that underlie the structures of NAFTA and GATT, which appear to be tailor made as a protection mechanism for the cartels - a legal provision that prevents national governments from effectively protecting the food supply of their nation. Ironically, though the cartels profit from the world's economies, the universal destruction of the economies of the world through the cartel-demanded free-trade system, appears to be of no great concern to the cartels, as though it were but a necessary side side-effect that cannot be avoided. The free-trade legislations that support GATT give the cartels free reign to play havoc with the food supply of humanity, and thereby control its existence. The violation of fundamental principle that is involved in the creation of these types of absolute monopoly, is so deep reaching that the existence of mankind is put at risk. Another global threat against mankind, from the cartels, arises from their growing monopoly position in biotechnology. For instance, W.R. Grace, one of the cartel companies, has sweeping patent rights on all genetically engineered cotton, of any type, by any means. Monsanto has sweeping patent rights for engineered wheat.*(EIR Dec.8/1955 p.33) At present the cartels seek to acquire exclusive control over biotechnology in food production. With this near science fiction capability, it easily becomes possible for the controllers of the cartels to introduce genetic agents into the food chain to achieve reproductive deficiencies, accelerated aging, or cause the outright destruction of selected populations. This threat, which may be more serious than nuclear war, must not be ignored, especially in light of the ideological objectives of the cartel's central controlling agents who have placed the world-population reduction game high on their agenda. The cartels provide a perfect technological tool to achieve this long cherished objective of the oligarchy at will, in the very near future. || - page index - || - chapter index - || - Exit - ||
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