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Haiti- US Rice - Arsenic

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U.S. rice exports to Haiti have unhealthy levels of arsenic, study finds

Americascategory · February 24, 2024

U.S. rice exports to Haiti, which account for the bulk of supplies of the country's key food staple, contain unhealthy levels of arsenic and cadmium, - heavy metals that can increase risks of cancer and heart disease, according to a recent study by the University of Michigan.

ZIONIST'S ASSANGE?

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Assange- Kosher Controlled Opposition 

https://truthpodium.org/watch/assange-kosher-kontrolled-oppo_OEYaaSEmg8tdDCr.html

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So why is this done from the UK.? 

The answer is because that is where he is the closest to his masters, the super powerful dynastic Rothschild banking and zionist family.......... 

Assange's lawyer is the prominent Mark Stephens whose law firm Finers Stephens Innocent is legal adviser to the Rothschild Waddesdon Trust 

- which is concerned with the "maintenance, improvement and payment of certain of the outgoings in respect of Waddesdon Manor (Rothschild's most prestigious property in the UK) in the Vale of Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire."

The Waddesdon Trust's board of trustees is chaired by the Queen''s former Private Secretary Lord Fellowes and has three Rothschild family members as trustees, Lord (Jacob) Rothschild, Lady Rothschild (his wife) and Beth Matilda Rothschild.

It is domiciled 14 St James's Place in London which is also the London address of Lord Jacob Rothschild and his high profile wealth management business St. James's Place Group (formerly J. Rothschild Assurance Group).

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The Family | Official Trailer | DocPlay

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Mind controlled?

Anne Hamilton-Byrne first ever interview reveals The Family cult secrets...

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"The BRITISH killed Alexei Navalny and here's why" | Redacted

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Yorkhill Kids "I'm on my way"

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Happy Holidays in Malaysia



Malaysia



Kids Dance

Eastern & Oriental Express

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From 1993 until the  'Covid scamdemic', the Eastern & Oriental Express ran from Singapore to Bangkok via Kuala Lumpur and Penang. 

Like the Venice-Simplon Orient Express, it is owned by Belmond. 

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E&O has relaunched with a several nights Essence of Malaysia journey, with the original carriages.

https://www.ft.com/content/7383d9a9-1a1f-4a49-9038-59cd8fd66618

Eastern & Oriental Express – Essence of Malaysia



Guests board and disembark at Singapore’s Woodlands station for a round-trip journey with stops in Penang and Langkawi.

On Penang, there are private guided tours of the historic shophouses of George Town, today full of art galleries, artisan boutiques and design studios, and excellent restaurants.

You can also grab a map and a trishaw (like a rickshaw but with the driver at the back) and explore the Old Town yourself. 

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On Langkawi, where the beaches are heaven and the rainforest more than 10mn years old, the activities skew to snorkelling, paddle-boarding and massages.

Belmond has enlisted André Chiang – his Restaurant André in Singapore was the city’s top-rated venue for years – to oversee the galleys here. 

belmond.com, from $2,400    

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Malaysians

Executing handcuffed kids

Top general locked away evidence of SAS executions

BBC

16 Nov 2023 — ... SAS soldiers were claiming to have executed handcuffed detainees in Afghanistan.

UK forces committed war crimes in Afghanistan: UK Minister.

PressTV

https://www.presstv.ir › Detail › 2024/02/23 › UK-Air-S...

He said they included accounts of the SAS executing detainees, including children, who had already been restrained and posed no threat.

UK minister for veterans tells of 'horrific' testimony about ... the SAS executing detainees, including children, who were restrained and posed no threat..

Arab News

1964

Found in 'a shop in Asuncion'.
 

Haiti, Gates, Mongols, Doctors ...

Haiti

The Destabilization of Haiti: 

Anatomy of a Military Coup d’Etat


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Gene Edited Catastrophe in Brazil. Mosquitos. A Gates Foundation Project

Israel’s Skin Bank Raises Ethical Concerns on Organ Consent

Biden Nearing Decision to Send Long-Range Missiles to Ukraine. Attacks on Russia Contemplated?



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Google Rolls Out ‘Pre-Bunking’ Censorship Regime to Rig EU Elections

'Hamas is Controlled by Mossad.'

Edward Hendrie - 'Hamas is Controlled by Mossad.'

https://henrymakow.com/2024/02/edward-hendrie--hamas-

https://www.instagram.com/bdsnationalcommittee/reels/

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SNP Gaza Vote - Flynn - Hoyle - Starmer

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snps-stephen-flynn-calls-for-investigation-following-chaotic-gaza-vote-4528450

The SNP's Stephen Flynn

“Mr Flynn told the PA news agency: 

‘Every single member of Parliament knows that (Sir) Lindsay Hoyle was meeting with Sir Keir Starmer and Alan Campbell, the Labour chief whip, before a decision was taken today.

“‘Indeed it was suggested to me that was a reason the Speaker was jumping in and out of the Speaker’s chair in advance of proceedings, which will obviously all be on camera for everyone to reflect upon.

“‘I think we probably need a wee bit of an investigation into what has happened here, and all those individuals who have been involved …’”

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snps-stephen-flynn-calls-for-investigation-following-chaotic-gaza-vote-4528450

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snps-stephen-flynn-calls-for-investigation-following-chaotic-gaza-vote-4528450

https://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/snps-stephen-flynn-calls-for-investigation-following-chaotic-gaza-vote-4528450

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CIA plot to murder Assange?

CIA plot to murder Assange.

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/509738/julian-assange-too-ill-to-attend-as-court-hears-of-breathtaking-plot-to-poison-him



UK High Court hears of CIA plot to poison Julian Assange

Mark Summers KC describes ‘compelling evidence’ of extralegal CIA plan

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One of Julian Assange's barristers, Mark Summers KC, “on Tuesday told the [High Court] there were several ‘red flags’ the previous judge should have considered, including a ‘truly breathtaking’ CIA plot to poison or kidnap his client.

“The barrister pointed out that, while the plan was presented as evidence at the time of Assange's hearing in January 2021, more details had emerged in a news story published by Yahoo later that year.

“‘Whatever her reasons for not considering the evidence of the plot to kidnap or poison the defendant, there is compelling evidence now in existence that the plot was real,’ Summers KC told the court.

“The lawyer told the court that the news story had detailed how ‘murderous sketches, plans and options’ were requested by, and presented to, then-US president Donald Trump in 2017 …

“Outside court, Stella Assange described her husband as a political prisoner whose life was at risk.

"’He should never be extradited to the United States,’ she said.

"’He would never be safe. The United States plotted to murder my husband …’”

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/509738/julian-assange-too-ill-to-attend-as-court-hears-of-breathtaking-plot-to-poison-him

Totally corrupted with Zionism

@AnneMacRae4

@UKLabour totally corrupted with Zionism and now the House of Commons. Zionism is being embedded in every institution in the country. We’ll be goose stepping soon.

https://x.com/AnneMacRae4/status/1760360911594717397?s=20

Nicholas Watt, Political Editor BBC Newsnight
@nicholaswatt

Senior Labour figures tell me @CommonsSpeaker was left in no doubt that Labour would bring him down after the general election unless he called Labour’s Gaza amendment

https://x.com/nicholaswatt/status/1760315363542122769?s=20

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UK controlled by the friends of Israel?

Leon Brittan was the cabinet minister rsponsible for the police and MI5 security service. 

Comment -

Roshan M Salih, Editor of British Muslim news site 5Pillars   @RmSalih

The Labour Party effectively prevented a meaningful vote on a Gaza ceasefire in Parliament tonight.

They did this by 'blackmailing' the Speaker …

All this was done so that Keir Starmer wouldn't suffer a Labour rebellion and so his own genocide supporting MPs wouldn't have to face the anger of their constituents.

Yet another reason to remove this Labour cancer from our communities.

https://x.com/RmSalih/status/1760438797005635761?s=20

Switzerland & Covid

Switzerland -

'Cantonal and national votes can also be cast by mail, a system that has great potential for manipulation worldwide.

'Last June, Nidwalden voted on the continuation of the Corona legislation: 55% voted apparently in favour. 

'In November, there was another vote on restricting compulsory vaccination in schools: over 80% were apparently against.' 

- Caveman 

'Switzerland operates a peaceful foreign policy.'

A Swiss giant.

DANIEL G. JENNINGS: ‘Why, unlike other Western countries, Switzerland operates a peaceful foreign policy.

And its different ethnic, linguistic, cultural, and religious groups stay together


“ … [The] sources of Switzerland’s high level of freedom are its unique political structure and system of government.

“In particular, Switzerland has NO head of government.

“[A] Federal Council … resembles the British Cabinet, but there is NO prime minister. Thus … NO head of government …

“Instead … Switzerland’s executive authority [is split] into three parts:



“1. THE FEDERAL COUNCIL

“[The highest executive authority, the Federal Council consists of 7 members representing the country's major political parties and language regions. The 7 members of the Federal Council are elected by the Swiss parliament. Collectively the Council make decisions and set policy].


“2. A PRESIDENT

“[The president serves a one-year term and exists for diplomatic purposes, performing the role of head of state. The Swiss presidency is a purely ceremonial position with NO powers].


“3. A FEDERAL CHANCELLOR …

“A professional administrator …

“[Switzerland] hires a PROFESSIONAL to run its government — just as corporations do …”

“… [This] dilution of executive power is conducive to freedom …”

“[And] the Swiss Confederation has stuck together since 1848 …

“[Partly because] the Swiss Constitution affirms the sovereignty of Switzerland’s states or cantons …

“Accordingly, Switzerland has a two house parliament … [The] popularly elected National Council, and the Council of States that represents the cantons …

“This gives regions representation, which keeps the country together …

“Switzerland has much to teach the world …”

https://archive.is/i81LF

Who are the real Nazis?

 
The chief planners of the Holocaust were reportedly of Jewish origin?

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Euromaidan Was Part of West’s Proxy War Against Russia – CIA Veteran

Euromaidan Was Part of West's Proxy War Against Russia

By Ekaterina Blinova – Sputnik – 21.02.2024

Illegal Settlers Attack Shepherding family in Masafer Yatta

International Solidarity Movement | February 21, 2024

Masafer Yatta – On Tuesday, February 20th, armed illegal Israeli settlers attacked a shepherding family and their sheep near the villages of Al Jawaya and Tuwani, in Masafer Yatta. The settlers reportedly let their dog loose on the sheep, injuring three, discharged a weapon, and hit a child.

Shepherd Hamze Shawaheen reports that 2 armed assailants dressed in army fatigues (believed to be from Susiya or another nearby settlement), came upon him and his family mid-morning. They beat and pushed to the ground one of his sons and many of his sheep, and then sent a dog among them to harm and break up his flock. Hamze attempted to film, but they pointed a gun at him and threatened to shoot him. He states they fired a weapon towards the herd, but no gunshot injuries were noted. … continue

Palestinian child killed in Israeli occupation forces shooting in Qalqiliya

Palestinian Information Center – February 21, 2024

QALQILIYA – Israeli occupation forces (IOF) shot and killed a 14-year-old Palestinian child in Azzun town to the east of Qalqiliya governorate on Wednesday.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health said that the child Fadi Suleiman was hit with an IOF live bullet in the heart, adding that he succumbed to his critical injury in hospital.

Earlier at dawn Wednesday, a Palestinian young man was killed by IOF shooting in Jenin refugee camp.

Local sources said that Aref Al-Qaddoumi, from Kafr Qaddoum village in Qalqiliya, was killed in the Jenin camp while seven others were wounded in the IOF storming of the refugee camp.

Israeli air raids leave multiple casualties in Syria, Lebanon

The Cradle | February 21, 2024

At least two people were killed and one injured by an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in the Syrian capital of Damascus on 21 February.

“At approximately 9:40 this morning, the Israeli enemy launched an air attack with several missiles from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, targeting a residential building in the Kafr Sousa neighborhood in Damascus,” a military source told the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA).

The attack on the Syrian capital came a few hours before Israeli warplanes hit the town of Majdal Zoun in southern Lebanon, which killed 40-year-old Khadija Salman and six-year-old Amal al-Durr, and injured several other bystanders.

'We are no longer a sovereign nation'

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There's voluminous evidence now that judges are simply paid prostitutes, delivering the decisions that the US/Israel want? 

We are no longer a sovereign nation; we just do what alleged mass murderers and genocidalists order us to do?

Hang on! The U.S. government is POISONING American cities with Fluoride?...

SNP: 'Israel committing atrocities'

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SNP: 'Israel committing atrocities'

"Brendan O’Hara, the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesperson [said:]

"'... What no country has the right to do [is] to lay siege to a civilian population, carpet bomb densely inhabited areas, drive people from their homes, erase an entire civilian infrastructure, and impose a collective punishment involving the cutting off of water, electricity, food and medicine, from civilians.

"'And no country, regardless of who they are, in the name of self-defence can kill civilians at such a pace and on such a scale that in just 16 weeks almost 30,000 are known to have died, with a further 80,000 injured' ...

"O’Hara said the international rule-based order was 'created to protect people from atrocities, not to be used as a smokescreen to hide the execution of them'..."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/feb/21/kemi-badenoch-post-office-scandal-rishi-sunak-keir-starmer-pmqs-uk-politics-live

COLIN PARK ~ world-class artist.

COLIN PARK

COLIN PARK - ARTIST

Painting by Colin Park.

'At one point, I saw a picture I particularly liked - a painting of Solway Firth by a fellow named Colin Park.....

"I was prepared to buy it then and there even if I had to carry it all the way to John O'Groats under my arm."

- Bill Bryson, Notes From A Small Island.

Colin Park at work

Paintings by Colin Park

om a Small Island"from: "Notes from a Small Island"

HSBC world's first to offer multi currency digital bonds.

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"Only the beginning." 

HSBC became the world's first to offer multi currency digital bonds. 

"Ashurst (advisors to Rothschild) advises HSBC as the platform provider to HKMA on the world's first multi-currency digital bond offering. 

"This follows Ashurst’s role in advising on the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People’s Republic of China (HKSAR Government)’s first tokenised green bond issuance in February 2023. The cross-border team at Ashurst was headed by Hong Kong managing partner and financial regulatory partner Ben Hammond, Hong Kong-based global finance, funds and restructuring finance division co-head and debt capital markets partner Jini Lee and London-based bank industry global chair Etay Katz. The partners were assisted by counsel and senior associates Janet Ouyang and Jamie Jefferson Ng. The wider team comprised Hong Kong-based senior associate Sean Ching and associate Do Yeon Kim, global markets associate Thomas Yau and regulatory associate Anna He, as well as London-based financial regulatory associates Clara Yeo and Joy Yeh. HSBC Orion is a technological platform which utilises distributed ledger technology designed for use in conjunction with the issuance of digitally native assets. The platform utilises a private permissioned with nodes managed by the platform operator, CMU. Investors directly participating in HSBC Orion have the capability to hold legal title to the Digital Green Bonds." 

https://iclg.com/news/20123-ashurst-counsels-hsbc-on-the-first-multi-currency-digital-bond-issuance?

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Boris Johnson wanted $1 million for interview – Tucker Carlson

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Boris Johnson wanted $1 million for interview – Tucker Carlson
“Boris Johnson is a lot sleazier, a lot lower than Vladimir Putin”

“American journalist Tucker Carlson has said former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson would only agree to an interview if he received a $1 million fee …

“Hoping Johnson would ‘explain his position on Ukraine’, Carlson said he soon heard back from Johnson’s staff, who revealed the former prime minister would agree to the interview – but only on one condition.

“‘Finally an adviser gets back to me and said, “He will talk to you, but it’s going to cost you a million dollars”…

“‘So you’re telling me that Boris Johnson is a lot sleazier, a lot lower than Vladimir Putin? So this whole thing is a freaking shakedown’, Carlson [said] …”

https://swentr.site/news/592821-tucker-johnson-million-dollars/

'ISRAELI NAZIS SUPPORTED BY THE WEST'

Israel has the same Western support as Hitler – Maduro

The president of Venezuela backed the assessment of the Gaza conflict made by his Brazilian counterpart Lula da Silva

“Modern Israel enjoys ‘the same encouragement, the same funding, and the same support’ of the collective West as Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Germany before World War II, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has said …”

https://swentr.site/news/592798-israel-hitler-comparison-maduro/

UK High Court REJECTS suspending arms exports to Israel

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The UK High Court REJECTS suspending arms exports to Israel

“The London High Court rejected a petition to suspend British arms exports to Israel, the lawyers for the plaintiffs said on Tuesday.

“A coalition of legal advocacy groups had asked the High Court in January to expedite a judicial review of the UK government's decision to keep selling military parts and arms to Israel.

“Britain's strategic licensing criteria states that weapons should not be exported when there is a clear risk they could be used in international humanitarian law violations …

“Israel's [war] has killed at least 29,195 people, mostly women and children …”

https://www.barrons.com/amp/news/london-court-rejects-suspending-arms-exports-to-israel-bf6a2071

BlackRock Is Planning To SHOCK The World - Whitney Webb Bitcoin Prediction

FARMERS - INDIA

https://www.globalresearch.ca › 

farmers-protest-india-reignites.

By Colin Todhunter

In 2021, after a year-long protest, India’s farmers brought about the repeal of three farm laws that were intended to ‘liberalise’ the agriculture sector. 

Now, in 2024, farmers are again protesting. The underlying issues and the facilitation of the neoliberal corporatisation of farming that sparked the previous protest remain and have not been resolved.

The World Bank, the World Trade Organization, global agribusiness and financial capital are working to corporatise India’s agriculture sector. 

Watch the share prices - Google, Facebook, Tesco ....

Mumbai (Vile Parle)

This plan goes back to the early 1990s and India’s foreign exchange crisis, which was used (and manipulated) to set this plan in motion. This ‘structural adjustment’ policy and process involves displacing the current food production system with contract farming and an industrial model of agriculture and food retail that serves the above interests.

The aim is to reduce the role of the public sector in agriculture to a facilitator of private capital, which requires industrial commodity-crop farming. The beneficiaries will include Cargill, Archer Daniels Midlands, Louis Dreyfus, Bunge and India’s retail and agribusiness giants as well as the global agritech, seed and agrochemical corporations and the big tech companies with their ‘data-driven agriculture’.

The plan is to displace the peasantry, create a land market and amalgamate landholdings to form larger farms that are more suited to international land investors and industrial farming. 

As a result, there has been an ongoing strategy to make farming non-viable for many of India’s smallholder farmers and drive hundreds of millions out of farming and into urban centres that have already sprawled to form peri-urban areas, which often tend to contain the most agriculturally fertile land. The loss of such land should be a concern in itself.



And what will those hundreds of millions do? Driven to the cities because of deliberate impoverishment, they will serve as cheap labour or, more likely, an unemployed or underemployed reserve army of labour for global capital — labour which is being replaced with automation. They will be in search of jobs that are increasingly hard to come by the (World Bank reports that there is more than 23% youth unemployment in India).

The impoverishment of farmers results from rising input costs, the withdrawal of government assistance, debt and debt repayments and the impacts of cheap, subsidised imports, which depress farmers’ incomes.

While corporations in India receive massive handouts and have loans written off, the lack of a secure income, exposure to volatile and manipulated international market prices and cheap imports contribute to farmers’ misery of not being able to cover the costs of production and secure a decent standard of living.

The pressure from the richer nations for the Indian government to further reduce support given to farmers and open up to imports and export-oriented ‘free market’ trade is based on nothing but hypocrisy. For instance, according to policy analyst Devinder Sharma, subsidies provided to US wheat and rice farmers are more than the market worth of these two crops. He also notes that, per day, each cow in Europe receives a subsidy worth more than an Indian farmer’s daily income.

 

The World Bank, the World Trade Organization, global institutional investors and transnational agribusiness giants require corporate-dictated contract farming and full-scale neoliberal marketisation for the sale and procurement of produce. They demand that India sacrifice its farmers and its own food security for the benefit of a handful of billionaires.

Farmers are merely regarded as producers of raw materials (crops) to be fleeced by suppliers of chemical and biotech inputs and the food processing and retail conglomerates. The more farmers can be squeezed, the greater the profits these corporations can extract. This entails creating farmer dependency on costly external inputs and corporate-dominated markets and supply chains. Global agrifood corporations have cleverly and cynically weaved a narrative that equates eradicating food sovereignty and creating dependency with ‘food security’.
Neoliberalism Coupled with GMO: Farmers’ Struggle Not Over, Corporate Takeover of Indian Agriculture Still Looms

Farmers’ Demands

In 2018, a charter was released by the All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee (an umbrella group of around 250 farmers’ organisations). The farmers were concerned about the deepening penetration of predatory corporations and the unbearable burden of indebtedness and the widening disparities between farmers and other sectors.

They wanted the government to take measures to bring down the input costs of farming, while making purchases of farm produce below the minimum support price (MSP) both illegal and punishable.

The charter also called for a special discussion on the universalisation of the public distribution system, the withdrawal of pesticides that have been banned elsewhere and the non-approval of genetically engineered seeds without a comprehensive need and impact assessment.

Other demands included no foreign direct investment in agriculture and food processing, the protection of farmers from corporate plunder in the name of contract farming, investment in farmers’ collectives to create farmer producer organisations and peasant cooperatives and the promotion of agroecology based on suitable cropping patterns and local seed diversity revival.

 

These demands remain relevant today due to government inaction. In fact, the three farm laws that were repealed after a year-long protest by farmers in 2021 aimed to do precisely the opposite. They were intended to expose Indian agriculture to a massive dose of neoliberal marketisation and shock therapy. Although the laws were struck down, the corporate interests behind them never went away and are adamant that the Indian government implements the policies they require.

This would mean India reducing the state procurement and distribution of essential foodstuffs and eradicating its food buffer stocks — so vital to national food security — and purchasing the nation’s needs with its foreign exchange reserves on manipulated global commodity markets. This would make the country wholly dependent on attracting foreign investment and international finance.



To ensure food sovereignty and national food security, the Mumbai-based Research Unit for Political Economy (RUPE) says that MSPs, through government procurement of essential crops and commodities, should be extended to many major cops such as maize, cotton, oilseed and pulses. At the moment, only farmers in certain states who produce rice and wheat are the main beneficiaries of government procurement at the MSP.

Since per capita protein consumption in India is abysmally low and has fallen further during the liberalisation era, the provision of pulses in the public distribution system (PDS) is long overdue and desperately needed. The PDS works with central government, via the Food Corporation of India, being responsible for buying food grains from farmers at MSPs at state-run market yards or mandis. It then allocates the grains to each state. State governments then deliver to ‘ration shops’.



Today, in 2024, farm union leaders are (among other demands) seeking guarantees for a minimum purchase price for crops. Although the government announces support prices for more than 20 crops each year, government agencies buy only rice and wheat at the support level and, even then, in only some states.

State agencies buy the two staples at government-fixed minimum support prices to build reserves to run the world’s biggest food welfare programme that entitles more than 800 million Indians to free rice and wheat. Currently, that’s more than half the population who per household will receive five kilos per month of these essential foodstuffs for at least the next four years, which would be denied to them by the ‘free market’. As we have seen throughout the world, corporate plunder under the guise of neoliberal marketisation is no friend of the poor and those in need who rely on state support to exist.



If public procurement of a wider range of crops at the MSP were to occur — and MSPs were guaranteed for rice and wheat across all states — it would help address hunger and malnutrition, encourage crop diversification and ease farmer distress. Indeed, as various commentators have stated, by helping hundreds of millions involved in farming this way, it would give a massive boost to rural spending power and the economy in general.

Instead of rolling back the role of the public sector and surrendering the system to what constitutes a transnational billionaire class and its corporations, there is a need to further expand official procurement and public distribution.

The RUPE notes, it would cost around 20% of the current handouts (‘incentives’) received by corporations and their super-rich owners, which do not benefit the bulk of the wider population in any way. It is also worth considering that the loans provided to just five large corporations in India were in 2016 equal to the entire farm debt.

However, it is clear that the existence of the MSP, the public distribution system and publicly held buffer stocks are an impediment to global agribusiness interests.

Farmers’ other demands include a complete debt waiver, a pension scheme for farmers and farm labourers, the reintroduction of subsidies scrapped by the Electricity (Amendment) Bill 2020 and the right to fair compensation and transparency concerning land acquisitions.



In the meantime, the current administration is keen to demonstrate to international finance capital and agricapital that it is being tough on farmers and remains steadfast in its willingness to facilitate the pro-corporate agenda.

After the recent breakdown in talks between government and farmers’ representatives, the farmers decided to peacefully march to and demonstrate in Delhi. But at the Delhi border, farmers were met with barricades, tear gas and state violence.

Farmers produce humanities’ most essential need and are not the ‘enemy within’. The spotlight should fall on the ‘enemy beyond’. Instead of depicting farmers as ‘anti-national’, as sections of the media and prominent commentators in India try to, the focus needs to be on challenging those interests that seek to gain from undermining India’s food security and sovereignty and the impoverishment of farmers.

Richard Willett - The Counter Narrative

Richard Willett The Counter Narrative 




RICHARD WILLETT THE COUNTER NARRATIVE
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