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ROME.- President Leonel Fernandez will speak at 10:45 a.m Wednesday and head the debates as vice president of the Summit’s Plenary, in the U.N. Conference on the world’s food crisis, said Presidency Press director Rafael Núñez.
During his speech he’s expected to reiterate his position that the United Nations and regional organisms firmly confront with the talks on the topics of food security and bioenergy.
As Summit vice president, the Dominican leader represents the 33 Latin American and Caribbean countries and occupies the dais which will hear the positions of the member nations on second day, through their heads of State, as well the the delegation chiefs.
Within the Summit’s framework, the heads of the delegations and the heads of State will analyze how the recent spate of rises in the main staples’ prices have come about, the highest in the last 50 years.
Experts forecast continued high food prices for the next few years, and developing countries expect to be jeopardized the most.
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At the Conference in Rome, 19 participants spoke this morning and 36 this afternoon.
It seems LF will not speak today.
About 80% of the participants who spoke .... crawled with their face down and ... echoed the US imperialist line on the world famine almost word-for-word with the slick US position paper which, as usual, is full of lies and tricks.
See:
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/scp/2008/105279.htm
Lula, the president of the Brazil, was perhaps the most engaging lackey who spoke this morning.
http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user....limate/statements/brazil_lula.pdf
Lula parroted every point of the US imperialist line, but he added a few points that were inconsistent with the imperial line.
(1) Brazil works with the US imperialists to relieve world famine.
(2) Brazil is upset because developed countries, not only heavily subsidized their ag products, they impose tariffs on Brazil's ag exports, contrary to free trade.
CON'T (Lula)
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(3) Brazil believes production of biofuels doesn't cause rising food prices or world famine.
Lula knows that it is not the increased production of "biofuels, but rather the cruel and savage US imperialist insistence on the use of STAPLE CROPS rather than NON-STAPLE or even non-food crops to produce biofuels that greatly contributes to rising food PRICES in developed countries and to spreading worldwide FAMINE for millions in less developed countries.
He pretends he doesn't know this. He hopes by means of this lie to win unfettered access to the US and EU markets from Brazilian ag products.
He ridiculously pretends that a huge diversion of staples, like corn, from food consumption to fuel production doesn't reduce world food supply.
(4) Lula says there're a lot of causes of rising food prices. True, but the imperial decision to divert a third of the world corn crop to fuel production triggered this episode of runaway food inflation.
CON"T (Lula)
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Then surprisingly, Lula says this:
(5)"We may take the particularly dramatic example of Haiti. That country, the poorest in the Americas, was once one of the Caribbean's major rice producers."
"Even so, macro-economic policies imposed from abroad and focused solely on monetary policy, together with surpluses of highly subsidized food from other countries, meant that Haiti stopped planting its own rice, with the tragic result of which we are all aware."
Of course, Lula is far too timid to name the country that imposed macro-economic policies from abroad and that supplied Haiti with temporary surpluses of highly subsidized food that undermined and destroyed the Haitian ag base.
But everybody except pro-US imperialist scum knows whom Lula was refering to.
Lula seems to be saying that countries like Haiti, Mexico, and DR which let the US imperialists impose such unjust and exploitative ag policies on them, deserve whatever they get.
THE END ( Lula)
"What do you mean, a choice of hells?" "You can go to the capitalist hell or the communist hell".
"Ok, fair enough, but what's the difference between them?" "Well, the capitalist hell has fire and brimstone and torture." "And the communist hell?" "That has brimstone and torture and fire".
"I don't understand. They sound exactly the same. Which should I pick?"
"If I were you I'd choose the communist hell."
"Why should I do that?"
"Well, you know what these socialist places are like. Sometimes there's no fire, sometimes there's no brimstone, sometimes there's no torture......