Zimbabwe’s Marxist dictator, Robert Mugabe, who has “nationalized” 95% of rural land and plunged what was once Africa’s leading food producing nation into chaos, put it bluntly: “Absolute power is when a man is starving and you are the only one able to give him food.”
(this is re the FMD outbreak in England a few years ago)
What caused the outbreak? Was it the “accidental result of testing genetically-engineered vaccines?” Or was it, as some claim, a UK government “dark-side,” bio-terrorism operation? The bio-warfare research lab at Porton Down was reportedly “missing” a vial of foot-and-mouth virus two months before the outbreak. The June 29, 2001, Evening Chronicle reported, “Government scientists in four countries were preparing for a foot and mouth outbreak months before it swept Britain.” Leaked papers from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency stated, “This exercise is the first of its kind and provides [Canada, the USA and Mexico] with a unique opportunity to apply their emergency response plans in the event of a real disease outbreak.” Simultaneously, the UK government coordinated its contingency plans. The UK’s 2002 official inquiry report asserted it is unlikely the outbreak’s origin “will ever be identified.”
Similarities between Porton Down and the UK’s 2001 foot-and-mouth epidemic, and Fort Dietrich/Dugway Proving Grounds and the 2001 US anthrax letter attacks raise disturbing questions. Contaminated US mail reached key Senators who suddenly changed their minds and voted for the USA Patriot Act. In both instances, investigations amounted to shams. In both instances, the consequences were less freedom and more centralized power in “free” nations.
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The Ukrainian Republic, a fertile land with a tradition of private property rights, was known as “the breadbasket of Europe.” During two years, 1932-1933, as many as 5 million Ukrainians died from famine, related disease, and genocidal murder as Stalin and his comrades forcibly collectivized Soviet agriculture.
.......Stalin desperately needed agricultural exports in order to finance the Soviet military-industrial empire, exploitation of agriculture was essential. Farmers could not be allowed to own property. Soviet agriculture would be industrialized.
----------Villages were surrounded and laid waste…Districts were stripped of their stocks of grain and seed, then cordoned off to die of famine and plague.”
All food and livestock were expropriated from the rural population. “Famine was quite deliberately employed as an instrument of national policy, as the last means of breaking the resistance of the peasantry to the new system where they are divorced from personal ownership of the land and obligated to work on the conditions which the state may demand from them...”—William H. Chamberlin, British correspondent.
While Ukraine starved to death, Stalin industrialized agriculture and exported its grain and butter.
As much as 50% of the rural population vanished, swept from the land into the gulag or the grave.