By Clair Weaver
THE COURIER MAIL
Sunday, December 16, 2007Every Australian household should stockpile at least 10
weeks’ worth of food rations to prepare for a deadly flu
pandemic, a panel of leading nutritionists has warned.World health experts now agree a pandemic is inevitable and
will spread rapidly, wiping out up to 7.4 million people
globally and triggering rapid food shortages.But Woolworths and Coles, the nation’s two major
supermarket chains, will run out of stock within two to
four weeks without a supply chain — or even faster if
shoppers panic.This has prompted a team of leading nutritionists and
dietitians from the University of Sydney to compile “food
lifeboat” guidelines to cover people’s nutritional needs
for at least 10 weeks.Their advice — published in the Medical Journal of
Australia — would allow citizens to stay inside their
homes and avoid contact with infected people until a
vaccine becomes available. Much More
If you live in the United States and you’re a member of the lower middle-class or the poor, most residents are barely able to feed their families much less stockpile weeks of essentials to ride-out a pandemic has been forecast to kill millions if human to human transmission becomes a reality - and the WHO is extremely worried that exactly that scenario could happen at any time - and then the time to prepare has passed, and millions will die because they are unprepared because of the government’s refusal to issue the appropriate warnings and the true state of our economy.
The drought in the Midwest has caused wheat prices to rise to unheard of levels LINK, further complicated by the rise in fuel costs. A responsible President, concerned about inflation and rapidly rising costs of everything which is transported could have mitigated the high cost of gas and diesel fuel by advising Americans to stay closer to home on weekends, cut travel and conserve fuel in order to force the market, which is driven by Middle-Eastern fears of war and public consumption - however it’s evident the Bush administration favors huge profits for the energy sector at the expense of the Average American. America is at war, yet despite our financial crisis which is getting worse by the day, the President hasn’t requested personal sacrifice to help reign-in an inflation rate that is causing essential food and everyday goods that are necessary for the survival of all Americans, rich and poor. If a flu pandemic does break out, Bush and Cheney will be held responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands, possibly even millions of Americans based on their utter disregard for the health and safety of America as a whole, not the chosen few who will be able to buy-up what they need while the rest of us are wondering how to survive. I push disaster preparedness on this site - and if you Google what other countries are urging their citizens to do, we as a nation would be well-advised to heed the warnings of governments that are honest with their people rather than urging us to spend, spend, spend, not on items to prepare for disaster, but goods that prop-up the economy as it continues to spiral out of control:
Economists throughout the world predict the United States could face another “Great Depression” - and instead of a President and a responsible government dong its best to forestall such an event, instead they choose to prop-up the economy by encouraging consumer spending and pouring money into a bottomless pit that grows deeper by the day - and those who listen are preparing themselves for a fall from prosperity to poverty - and when it strikes, nothing will prevent the backlash that will drive our economy to the brink of - if not a total collapse; the article that follows is tame by comparison to those that predict dire consequences for our economy, however, it’s informative and explains why we’re in for a wild ride in 2008 -and that will only be the beginning of the mismanagement by those in Washington that are too busy attempting to stave-off despair and financial collapse by further weakening the dollar, extremely exacerbated by Bush’s mortgaging of America to fund his illegal and immoral wars:
Ominous Warnings and Dire Predictions of World’s Financial Experts – Part 2
Widening Global Imbalances
Rodrigo de Rato, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund at a recent speech at the University of California at Berkeley, stated that “while global current account imbalances have been widening, the fact that they have been financed easily thus far seems to be inducing a sense of complacency among policy makers. I think they should be more concerned. This is not to say that the risk of a disorderly adjustment is imminent, but the problem is growing, and if a disorderly adjustment does take place, it will be very costly and disruptive to the world economy.
The most visible aspect of the global imbalances problem is a very large deficit in the current account of the balance of payments of the United States – amounting to about 6.25% of GDP. The main problem is that in the United States savings are too low. These global imbalances could unwind quickly, and in a very disruptive way, with either an abrupt fall in the rate of consumption growth (i.e. increased savings) in the United States which is holding up the world economy or by investors abroad becoming unwilling to hold increasing amounts of U.S. financial asset, and demand higher interest rates and a depreciation of the U.S. dollar, which in turn forces U.S. domestic demand to contract.” MUCH MORE
2008 will be a pivotal year in American politics; our nation will throw-off the fascism that is gripping every segment of our nation, or the enemies of democracy will prevail - turning America into a sad representation of how democracies fail when corporations dictate domestic and foreign policy rather than the will of the people; there is hope, and that hope exits in the power of the Internet to awaken a sleeping America and force Congress and the MSM to represent the people - a task that only the people themselves can accomplish. We stand at the tipping-point between fascism and total economic collapse - and your voices are making a difference. Congress is beginning to listen, and the MSM will either continue to support lawlessness in our government or will rebel in favor of freedom and liberty – and it is all of us standing in solidarity that will bring upon change.
The future we face is not set in concrete, and as long as people keep reacting and demanding answers, we stand a chance - but if we let down our guard and “hope that someone else” will arise to cure our problems, we will be doomed to failure; the people of the United States must understand that Congress and the MSM have betrayed America - and all that’s left between freedom and liberty is you - and the many millions of patriotic Americans that are now speaking-up and demanding justice and freedom. Keep up the fight, make your voice heard each and every day, and as we awaken the rest of America, the sheer weight of our voices can and will move America in a different direction - but if we discontinue the constant barrage against Congress and a complicit MSM, our silence will guarantee our eventual fall into tyranny and despair. The choice is ours, and I for one still believe in the American spirit - and the universal outrage and response to S 1959 proves that we are making an impact, and that’s about the best news I have. Keep up the pressure; it’s causing a stir on Capitol Hill and the more of us that become involved, the better our chances increase at defeating the enemies of America that dwell within our own government.
William Cormier
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