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Battle for a Place in the Sun
What I have been trying to accomplish with my articles on TOQ Online and Occidental Dissent is to get people to understand the elemental nature of our struggle. It is, in the end, not a war of words. It is a Mind-War, but not one that is decided by winning arguments. The Mind-War is decided by collective consciousness that leads to the needed individual and collective action.
I want to make you aware of the precarious nature of our lives as a result of the industrialization of agriculture in America. I hope you will take your re-oriented consciousness and do what you can, to contribute to what needs to be done.
The collective consciousness we need is a consciousness of the sun. We take the sun for granted. Does that sound crazy? Maybe it would be more accurate to say that we take our right to a place in the sun, for granted. It’s effectively the same thing.
The sun is the first source of energy. It is the source of our very existence. But we have permitted a tiny elite to take over food production. Industrial agriculture is essentially a monopoly on places in the sun. In Greek mythology, this would be analogous to Hades, god of death and wealth, controlling Demeter, goddess of agriculture — and not just for part of the year, during fall and winter, but all year long. Hell has taken over the planet, and wants to cover it with genetically engineered monocultures.
In the 1930s, the Soviet government attacked the Ukrainian farmers, and somewhere between 7 million to 11 million Ukrainians were killed. Despite the human cost, Ukrainian food production has recovered. You can find food gardens in front of urban apartments in Ukraine. Ordinary Ukrainians own “dachas” where they can go grow gardens and buy meat from the peasants. Ukrainian peasants sell food on the sidewalks and food bazaars in Ukrainian cities.
As terrible as the Ukrainian famine was, industrial agriculture makes the United States far more vulnerable to mass famine. Fewer than 1 percent of our population produces the food for the rest. That 1 percent’s activities are controlled by an even tinier elite. This is a highly centralized system, which grants enormous power to those who have access to the controls at the top.
Imagine that our rulers decide, like Stalin did, to murder millions of us with planned starvation. Perhaps they want to speed up the process of replacing us with grateful, obedient brown people. Yes, they are that evil. That is exactly what they are already doing in slow motion. They just don’t see an angle in speeding up the process. Yet. Not Ukrainians, not Russians, but Americans can be “starved out” by just shutting down the highways.
Demeter with some of her bounty
A more likely scenario is the breakdown of the current system. We know that it is politically, demographically, economically, and environmentally unsustainable. We know it will fail. We just don’t know when.
Most Americans take their place in the sun for granted. The supermarkets overflow with oil-fueled abundance — and tremendous waste. This is not sustainable. When the system fails, the supermarket shelves will empty rapidly. Your paper money and checks and credit cards won’t buy you anything, and you can’t eat them. What will you do? It takes three months to starve to death. It can happen here.
If you were truly conscious of what has happened to us here in America, you’d be panic stricken. The need to relocalize agriculture is a national emergency. By the time we become conscious of this emergency “the hard way” it will be too late. If you are a serious individual with any freedom to act and make choices, you will find a way to become a mini-farmer.
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This Valentines Day 2010, a sunny Sunday morning, I went out to my 12 by 8 greenhouse. They say a natural cure for depression is to work in a greenhouse, because it’s like being in the light of heaven. You are inside a structure, and the diffuse sunlight is easier on the eyes yet warmer on the skin, because of the sealed up nature of the greenhouse. I managed to get a morning temperature of 100 degrees Fahrenheit on a clear, sunny but wintry day in Connecticut.
Pluto/Hades: The God of Wealth and Death and Darkness
I put a blue tarp on the crushed stone floor, and the tarp extends along the walls about 4 inches up, for insulation, and I lined the inner walls with 18 Home Depot leaf bags full of fresh horse manure, and two garbage cans full of fresh horse manure. The horse manure creates heat and humidity. Not enough heat, but certainly enough humidity. The greenhouse isn’t ready to plant until I can buy a roll of polyethylene 6 mil plastic sheeting, and put more bags of horse manure along the outside, some hose slung over the greenhouse several times to create the air pocket between the 6 mil plastic sheeting and the polycarbonate frame of the greenhouse. Though I can get 100 degrees during the day, I lose all the heat at night.
Walking around under the morning sun accomplishing an endless succession of plant cultivation projects to get Nature working for you, is a taste of Heaven on Earth. It’s so quiet, and so light, and you are moving and thinking and experiencing real life. Heaven is living as your being was meant to live. It wasn’t meant to sit in offices endlessly finagling over the surplus wealth created by the Petroleum Age.
Human scale farming is not a frivolous occupation. It is the farthest thing from frivolous. This is true colonization of the Planet. The food supply is literally “a place in the sun.” If you are deprived of your place in the sun, you starve to death in Hades/Hell, a cold, dark, and dreary place.
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Hades abducting Persephone, Demeter's daughter
We have allowed government/corporate farming to colonize the food supply on the planet. A powerful few can literally pull the plug on billions. They have a lever of control that reaches into our stomachs, and they abuse this power by turning the food supply into 90 percent genetically modified corn. If you care about your health and the health of your children, you won’t eat anything made from high fructose corn syrup.
An example of the food control lobby is the Mid-America Croplife Association (MACA). This is the organization that pitched a hissy fit when Michelle Obama planted an organic garden. Here is some of the damage control propaganda occasioned by Mrs. Obama’s gesture:
The CropLife Ambassador Network, a program of the Mid America CropLife Association, consists of over 160 ambassadors who work and many of whom grew up in agriculture. Their mission is to provide scientifically based, accurate information to the public regarding the safety and value of American agricultural food production. Many people, especially children, don’t realize the extent to which their daily lives depend on America’s agricultural industry. For instance, children are unaware the jeans they put on in the morning, the three meals eaten daily, the baseball with which they play, and even the biofuels that power the school bus are available because of America’s farmers and ranchers.
This propaganda is priceless. What kind of monster can oppose industrial agriculture? After all, they’re doing it for “our children,” whose “daily lives depend” on the Mid-America Croplife Association’s sponsors. But let’s get real. Do you want your children’s lives to depend on industrialized agriculture or any other aspect of our dysfunctional and anti-white system?
MACA trumpets the fact that in 1930 one farmer fed ten people, whereas today one farmer feeds 144 people as progress. From a purely economic point of view, I am sure it is.
But we have to train ourselves to look at things from the point of view of white survival, white freedom, and white flourishing. And from that point of view, is the increasing centralization of food production a good thing? Would you feel safer with 10 percent of the population in control of the food supply, or less than 1 percent? Why not become part of that 10 percent?
Our work is cut out for us. We need to build decentralized, relocalized economies and become independent of industrialized agriculture.
We need to fight our way out from the cold and dark of this industrialized Hades and regain our rightful place in the Sun.
Read The War in the Country & The End of Food by Thomas Pawlick. Okay, you RF, probably have, but maybe no one else here has.
Rob,
In early 1930s Ukraine, it was the farmers who starved. The men with guns ate.
If a totalitarian regime were established in the USA, wouldn’t the organic farmers of America be just as vulnerable as the Ukrainian peasants were?
Americans are armed to the teeth. Let the elite try to starve out the backbone of this system. The whole house of cards would collapse! Our biggest problems today are more psychological than the sort to posit.
Whites Unite,
Certainly the American organic farmers will be vulnerable. But what’s worse, having something they can take away from you, or having nothing at all?
Most Americans are in the latter situation, which in a way is even more frightening than the Ukrainian situation. We are already paupers and don’t even realize it.
In terms of how to lead a movement, e.g., toward organic farming, the following video is surprisingly informative.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW8amMCVAJQ
The key points are:
1- that the original innovator should stress equality with his followers and
2-that the first follower is the most important person, because he transforms a lone nut into a leader, and
3- the movement must be easy to imitate.
Another paradigm-creating article by R. Freeman. I have been arming, hardening my money, and stockpiling food for sometime now in expectation of systemic collapse. But it did not occur to me that the ZOGsters could massacre most of us simply by cutting off the food supply; for a fact, even at the retail end, every single one of the big grocery chain stores where I live – Vons, Gelsens, Ralphs etc. – are all Jew-owned. Now I will buy those seeds and get to planting. Oh, and by the way…a book announced for publication about 6 months ago – CHURCHILL’S CHOICE – about a 7,000,000-death terror-famine arranged in eastern India by the original neo-con during 1942-43 ( in order to pre-empt a pro-Japanese uprising) has just been surpressed by TPTB.
When Americans had more food security:
From http://english.pravda.ru/world/americas/105255-0/ :
Pravda
May 22, 2008
Another online scandal has been gathering pace recently. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, deleted an article by a Russian researcher, who wrote about the USA’s losses in the Great Depression of 1932-1933. Indignant bloggers began to actively distribute the article on the Russian part of a popular blog service known as Livejournal. The above-mentioned article triggered a heated debate.
The researcher touched upon quite a hot topic in the article – the estimation of the number of victims of the Great Depression in the USA. The material presented in the article apparently made Wikipedia’s moderators delete the piece from the database of the online encyclopedia.
The researcher, Boris Borisov, in his article titled “The American Famine” estimated the victims of the financial crisis in the US at over seven million people. The researcher also directly compared the US events of 1932-1933 with Holodomor, or Famine, in the USSR during 1932-1933.
In the article, Borisov used the official data of the US Census Bureau. Having revised the number of the US population, birth and date rates, immigration and emigration, the researcher came to conclusion that the United States lost over seven million people during the famine of 1932-1933.
“According to the US statistics, the US lost not less than 8 million 553 thousand people from 1931 to 1940. Afterwards, population growth indices change twice instantly exactly between 1930-1931: the indices drop and stay on the same level for ten years. There can no explanation to this phenomenon found in the extensive text of the report by the US Department of Commerce “Statistical Abstract of the United States,” the author wrote.
The researcher points out the movement of population at this point: “A lot more people left the country than arrived during the 1930s – the difference is estimated at 93,309 people, whereas 2.960,782 people arrived in the country a decade earlier. Well, let’s correct the number of total demographic losses in the USA during the 1930s by 3,054 people.”
Analyzing the period of the Great Depression in the USA, the author notes a remarkable similarity with events taking place in the USSR during the 1930s. He even introduced a new term for the USA – defarming – an analogue to dispossession of wealthy farmers in the Soviet Union. “Few people know about five million American farmers (about a million families) whom banks ousted from them lands because of debts. The US government did not provide them with land, work, social aid, pension – nothing,” the article says.
“Every sixth American farmer was affected by famine. People were forced to leave their homes and go to nowhere without any money and any property. They found themselves in the middle of nowhere enveloped in massive unemployment, famine and gangsterism.”
The then state of affairs in the US society can be seen in Peter Jackson’s movie King Kong. The movie starts with scenes of the Great Depression and tells the story of an actress who did not eat for three days and tried to steal an apple from a street vendor. There is food in the city, but many people had no money to buy it in unemployment-paralyzed New York. People starve in the streets against the background of stores selling a variety of foodstuffs.
At the same time, the US government tried to get rid of redundant foodstuffs, which vendors could not sell. Market rules were observed strictly: unsold goods should always be categorized as redundant and they could not be given away to the poor because it could cause damage to businesses. A variety of methods was used to destroy redundant food. They burnt crops, drowned them in the ocean or plowed 10 million hectares of harvesting fields. “About 6.5 million pigs were killed at that time,” the researcher wrote.
The consequences of those policies were predictable, the author of the article wrote. “Here is what a child recollected about those years: “We changed our usual food for something for available. We used to eat bush leaves instead of cabbage. We ate frogs too. My mother and my older sister died during a year.” (Jack Griffin).”
So-called public works introduced by President Roosevelt became a salvation for a huge number of jobless and landless Americans. However, the salvation was only a phantom, Boris Borisov wrote. The works conducted under the aegis of the Public Works Administration and the Civil Works Administration were about building channels, roads or bridges in remote, wild and dangerous territories. Up to 3.3 million people were involved in those works at a time, whereas the total number of people amounted to 8.5 million, not to count prisoners.
“Conditions and death rate at those works are to be studied separately. A member of public works would make $30, and pay $25 of taxes from this amount. So a person could make only $5 for a month of hard work in malarial swamps.”
The conditions, under which people were working for food, could be compared to Stalin’s GULAG camp.
“The Public Works Administration (PWA) bore a striking resemblance to GULAG. The PWA was chaired by “American Beria,” the Secretary of Interior Affairs, Harold Ickes, who threw about two million people into camps for the unemployed youth,” Borisov wrote. “Harold LeClair Ickes (1874–1952) later interned USA’s ethnic Japanese in concentration camps. The first stage of the operation took only 72 hours (1941-1942).
“In 1940, the US population was supposed to make up at least 141.856 million people upon the preservation of previous demographic trends. As a matter of fact, the USA had the 131.409-strong population in 1940, of which only 3.054 million can be explained with changes in migration dynamics. Thus, 7.394,000 people simply do not exist as of 1940. There are no official arguments to explain the phenomenon,” Boris Borisov wrote.
It is worthy of note that modern-day Russian patriotic historians reject methods of research based on the general estimation of demographic losses. They believe that demographic processes are not linear and depend on a number of factors. Such historians think that victims of communism estimations made on the base of demographic research works by Stephan Kurt and Richard Pipes, which George Bush and Helen Bonner announced at the opening of Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation in Washington, are false.
On the other hand, these methods are widely used in contemporary science of history. Ukrainian historian Stanislav Kulchitsky used the method to calculate the number of victims of the Ukrainian Holodomor (famine), which was subsequently officially recognized. Parliaments of eleven countries that recognized Holodomor use those numbers in their research works. To crown it all, the US Congress and the European Union also use Kulchitsky’s numbers considering the problem.
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I’m disinclined to write off Gerald Celente’s prediction that we’re headed for the Greatest Depression, and since I believe the Holodomor, the Great Depression and our current crisis were all of them manufactured by essentially the same clique I think it’s sensible to prepare for the worst in every way we can.
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Rob, I recently heard about Walipini underground greenhouses:
http://bensoninstitute.org/Publication/Manuals/Walipini.pdf
Makes sense, I intend to give one a go.
Also, Matt Johnson did a recent show on agrarianism in an American context:
http://reasonradionetwork.com/?p=6408
and Doreen Hannes has a useful radio show on the bureaucratic and corporate attack on smallholders and independent farmers:
http://libertynewsradio.com/shows/tf/
Whites Unite,
Yes, historically, you are right. But our government does not have the firepower or manpower to set up a totalitarian regime by force in this country. There are simply too many guns out there and too many of us. They could, however, take actions to shut down the food supply relatively easily, which I think is the main point of the article. All it would take would be shutting down a few major highways or a sudden gas shortage and the supermarket shelves would be empty in a few days (I read somewhere that most supermarkets only keep a three day supply of food on the shelves).
In this sort of scenario (or even in the event of an unplanned natural disaster), a food supply could be your key to survival while the masses starve. Personally, I think there are numerous good reasons for keeping a small garden, but a potential government shutdown of the food supply isn’t one of them. I just don’t think it will happen, mostly because those “obedient brown people” would be the first to suffer. Most inner-city blacks do not even have enough food in their homes to last more than a day or two because their diets consists mostly of fast food. Just look at Katrina — blacks flipped out after only a day or two because they had absolutely no food or clean water stored in their homes.
If the food supply were cut off, America’s cities would be burning in a matter of days. The feds entire manpower would have to be used to keep some relative order in the cities. Any attempt to blockade highways or keep food supplies from reaching the suburbs would be squashed fairly quickly by hundreds of thousands of rampaging suburban whites with years of pent up aggression. Who do you think bought all those billions of rounds of ammo that flew off the shelves last Winter?
A garden is good, as you say, Larry; and putting some of this produce by even better. Best of all is buying 100-lb. bags of legumes. Cooked straight, they are high in protein & carbo. Sprouted, they are a source of Vit. C and other vitamins. A one-size-fits-all-in-hard-times food. And even when times are not hard. And cheap as borshch.
White people are going extinct. And there is no reason for it except genocide aimed at them
http://www.whiteextinction.wordpress.com
Africa for Africans, Asia for Asians, White Countries for Everybody
Annihilation by Assimilation. It is genocide.
Kievsky, listened to you on VOR recently. Great ideas! The above is from Bob Whitaker and an excellent (I believe) propaganda message.