The huge food production concentrations west of the Mississippi River — e.g., 30+% of U.S. beef and dairy cattle from four High Plains states (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska); 30% of U.S.

In the Obama FY2014 budget plan, released last week, were evil new proposals to end the longstanding Public Law 480/Food for Peace policy, to instead now conform with demands from London-centered financial interests for depopulation. U.S. farmers, merchant marine unions, and others have denounced the proposals.

As the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) begins its rosy predictions about the level of plantings, especially of corn, this Spring, the latest U.S. Drought Monitor Report gives a foretaste of the disaster-in-the-making, caused by the sabotage of major water projects in the Midwestern and Western United States.

Biofuels cannot possibly represent a solution to Mexico's energy problems, says Dr. José Ricardo Gómez Romero, a professor in the Dept. of Basic Sciences and Engineering at the Iztapalapa campus of Mexico's Autonomous Metropolitan University. Instead, he recommends the country direct its research efforts to nuclear energy and forget about biofuels altogether.

In January 2011, the Obama Administration unveiled its new ecolabel, "USDA Certified Biobased Product," with a logo of a rising sun over sloping fields, to go on various qualified consumer products, along with a figure giving the percent of the inputs which came from agriculture, instead of that farm output going into food for people.

"My Lords and Members of the House of Commons," the Queen began on May 8 in her oversized purple hat, as she exposed her legislative program to the Commonwealth, and the rest of the world. The priorities the Queen read were then taken up for debate in the House of Commons: immigration, welfare, competitiveness, climate change, and the deficit.

A bill to curb biofuels, because of the U.S. food and farm crisis, the false claims for bio-energy, and the intransigence of the Obama Administration, was filed this week in the House of Representatives by a bipartisan foursome of Jim Costa (D-California), Peter Welch (D-Vermont), Bob Goodlatte (R-Virginia) and Steve Womack (R-Arkansas).

Italian voters have overwhelmingly voted against the EU-dictated austerity and created a shock wave across the Eurozone, but a large chunk of the anti-austerity sentiment has been channeled by a proto-fascist movement, Beppe Grillo's Five Star Movement (M5S) which has become the largest single party in the Parliament.

On 13 February, 2013, the Canadian House of Commons passed on the third reading Bill C-383, to amend the International Boundary Waters Act (1909) and the International Rivers Improvements Act (1955), to prevent the bulk export of water out of Canada. The import of this bill, if sustained in the Senate, as expected, would be to kill the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA).

One of the British Empire's leading spokesmen for their policy of intentional genocide, Sir David Attenborough, told Radio Times in the United Kingdom on Jan. 21: "We are a plague on the Earth. It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde.