[Plagues and drought have ravaged the U.S. food supply with unusual ferocity in recent years. The near-absence of rainfall throughout much of California has pushed produce prices to record highs and threatened to turn the state’s agricultural land into a dust bowl. Elsewhere, a global fungus called TR4 could virtually wipe out the type of banana that Americans eat, the Cavendish, which accounts for 45% of the fruit’s global crop. In Florida, something called citrus greening disease has reduced the orange harvest to the smallest in 30 years. And porcine epidemic diarrhea has spread to 27 states, killing as many as six million pigs since first surfacing a year ago. For the farmer, these are decidedly interesting times. But are they so interesting as to be properly described as accursed? For an answer to that question, we sought out a friend who has weighed in here before on the subject of Nostradamian prophesy. Turns out that, at least for now, he is more worried about the rise of corporate fascism than by the role of accursedness in making these times so wretchedly interesting. His opinions do not necessarily reflect those of your editor. RA]
There are plagues in our future, and in the end we will use all the weapons at the military’s command — it was ever thus. There is one human-disease plague coming soon that will primarily victimize younger women, according to the 16th Century prophecies of the noted French seer, Nostradamus. The food supply is in real danger — not just from plagues, but from the consolidation of independent seed companies by a handful of agribusiness giants that are limiting food- genetic diversity in favour of copyrighted GMO foods. Their final goal is corruption of our former, naturally re-generating seed-based food system with the development of Terminator GMO seed strains for most of our major basic foods. Terminator GMO seeds are strains that are designed to produce sterile seeds that will not fructify if harvested and planted, forcing farmers to buy commercial producing GMO seeds from only these GMO agri-businesses for each successive crop planting.
That is only one of several contributing factors and a reason why, after the end of the upcoming two world wars, the final, major killer of the world’s remaining population will be worldwide famine (one of the Four Horsemen of the coming apocalypse). It will be global in its sweep and so severe that cannibalism will emerge in the worst-hit areas. In the not-so-distant past, when the business world worked with a more naturally based agriculture industry and used cross-breeding instead of cross-species gene-splicing, we were able to grow sufficient plant-based food naturally. Today, however, in North America, almost all corn, soy, potatoes, tomatoes — and soon, wheat — is primarily GMO-based.
Single-Strain Weakness
With GMO plants and seeds, there are now a fraction of the types and varieties of these major vital food groups, and with the loss of the natural genetic diversity to massive crops now based on only a very few GMO strains – non-diverse GMO crops can therefore be widely decimated by a vulnerability to a few single-plant diseases. The GMO companies now also own many of the remaining natural seed companies, which for the moment still retain the bulk of the wide varieties of the non-GMO food seeds. Thank goodness for the Norwegian world-seed repository, although it is one natural disaster away from costing us the loss of so many of the diverse plant-based food seeds that feed humanity. When a handful of companies control the seeds, they can raise prices at will and so shut down family farms and facilitate further consolidation of their food monopoly via the continuing and growing industrialization of agriculture. Look at factory farms for chickens, hogs and cattle and you will see the planned future of plant-based agriculture.
They are also pursuing this mega corporatization game plan in energy, pharma, food, banking and finance, media and soon will be in a position, through both buying key individuals in leadership positions in the government, to increasingly support and propagate the sinister agenda of mega-corporations. The combination of government control of education curricula and the pricing of education beyond the reach of the masses have transformed us into “adequately” trained, compliant serfs who are largely dependent on doing whatever is chosen to be “best” for us.
The Media’s Insidious Role
Finally, through technology, we have the means, through the enormous intelligence community, telecommunications industry, police and military, to exercise control of the masses down to the individual level. Our conditioning proceeds apace via the media, as witness so many movies and TV shows that bend the former American lifestyle and native freedom into a fearful, cop-and-military-worshiping, compliant people – people who think individual rights, privacy and freedom of independent personal action have been transformed into being either extremely leftist or even the hallmarks of the omnipresent TERR____ bugbear. Watch FOX if you want to see the propaganda machine in full flush in both their entertainment and the laughable stream of vitriolic neo-fascist crap they call “news.” Goebbels would be so proud of how we have raised his baby.
Fortunately there is a spiritual reality to life that is temporarily and presently being overwhelmed by all this negativity; this world is due for a savage re-balancing via the upcoming apocalypse. The present human cycle is not the first turning of this “wheel,” but it is the worst so far, Biblically, the last turn of the wheel had a watery demise via inundation; the coming one will be a fire cleansing (sigh). I always remember that “time wounds all heels.” Good eventually triumphs over evil. The wheel that is presently rotating into “merde” will keep turning and rise into the sunshine again. Biblically the apocalypse ushers in a thousand years of peace in a new spiritual age, and the meek will inherit the Earth.
I know one thing that corporate farming has lost is “taste”.
For example does anyone remember what a ripe tomato…one grown on a small farm or in ones own garden…tastes like?
If not I can tell you that such a tomato is a beautiful red that when bitten into is a combination of sweet , tangy and meaty. Compare such a tomato to ones that are found in the local supermarket today. Today’s tomato is usually half- green, hard and tasteless.