Food and Depopulation: International Takeover by the UN

Food and Depopulation: International Takeover by the UN

Cassandra Anderson
Infowars.com
June 16, 2010

Part 3 of 4

Most people think that the United Nations is a noble enterprise and they don’t understand the history and malignant character of the UN.

Christina Aguilera, Drew Barrymore and Sean Penn are probably unaware, even though they are UN Ambassadors to the World Food Program (WFP), that the intent of the UN is to implement one world government (see videos below). The UN WFP, which spreads GMOs in poor countries, is just one tool used for advancing the goals of Agenda 21, the overarching blueprint for depopulation and total control.

The WFP is corrupt to its core, as evidenced by a leaked UN document about Somalia which exposed that most of the aid goes to UN workers, Islamic militants and contractors.

The UN grew out of the League of Nations, which withered after Woodrow Wilson ( Edward House’s puppet), failed to convince Congress that international treaties and entangling alliances were good for America. Later, Rockefeller was able to advance the globalists’ cause and even donated 18 acres of land for the UN headquarters, located in New York. The Rockefellers have conceived and funded most of the destructive UN programs.

The origin of the food monopoly began with the Rockefeller Dynasty, even before they funded biotech research and industry.(1) The major GMO seed companies like Monsanto, DuPont, Dow, etc. are based in America and the patent laws that protect their monopoly are American.(2) Therefore, it should come as little surprise that the forces behind toxic GMOs promote GMOs internationally by way of the United Nations, using American tax dollars.

USAID

USAID (US Agency for International Development) is a an independent federal agency that is concerned with economic growth and advancing US foreign policy and interests, under the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. The agency is funded by taxpayer money. These interests are often private companies, like Monsanto, that champion so-called humanitarian aid in the name of the American people, using our tax dollars. USAID’s humanitarian efforts include imposing GMO seeds on poor nations by way of complex methods that circumvent the laws of poor countries.(3) Poor countries rarely stand up to the US government directly and are under constant pressure, plus they risk losing financial benefits from the US. So, these poor and transitional countries sell out their own farmers and the population suffers because GMO crops are unhealthy, GMO crops yields are lower and they foster monopolies, resulting in ongoing dependence.

USAID funds many NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations) that carry out USAID’s objectives- here is a list nearly 200 pages long- of the NGOs that are supported by US taxpayers.(4) It is interesting to note how many of these NGOs are concerned with ‘reproductive rights’, which is a fancy term for eugenics (selective breeding programs, often brutally enforced via forced sterilization and genocide). Further, USAID entered into a Public- Private Partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, with the help of Bill Clinton, in order to use investments to “address” social and environmental problems, under the shelter of a tax free organization.(5) This means that the tax free organization will be able direct ‘impact’ investing which is designed to have an effect on social and environmental problems. In other words, be on the lookout for large investors using their overwhelming influence upon infrastructures, utilities, sewage systems, water sources, etc, which will likely lead to corporate privatization, and total control in pursuit of the final goals of Agenda 21.

UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM

The UN WFP (World Food Program) receives most of its funding from USAID.

The WFP is corrupt to its core, as evidenced by a leaked UN document about Somalia which exposed that most of the aid goes to UN workers, Islamic militants and contractors.(6) Another example is in Ethiopia where only 12% of the food aid was delivered to the intended poverty stricken area. Additionally, there are more examples of corruption with shipping and trucking fees inflated up to 300% over cost. Of course, NGOs are deeply complicit in this international scheme of theft and incompetence with zero accountability.

Further, USAID director, Rajiv Shah worked for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the USDA, is also the director of A Green Revolution in Africa (Gates and Rockefeller funded). In fact, just last week, Shah said that the UN WFP is creating food systems that will eliminate “humanitarian” food aid over time; a cynic could interpret this as a depopulation plan, consolidation of monopolies and/ or privatization of all resources. Shah also wants to engage the private sector, which means establishing more PPPs (Public- Private Partnerships) which is the modern mechanism of fascism.(7)(5)

UN collectivists, trying to coerce governments to adopt GMOs, use urgent threats of starvation in poor countries to convince the masses that GMOs are beneficial, when the truth is that they have lower crop yields. The WFP, pushing GMOs, have exploited Africa’s famine problem by offering GMO seeds as the only aid/ help offered, in a ‘GM or Death’ ultimatum.(8)

UN WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION

The UN WTO (World Trade Organization) influences tariffs and can impose fines (of hundreds of millions of dollars) on countries when they trade internationally. While they promote the phrase “free trade”, it is anything but a free market, due to the favorable or unfavorable tariff taxes that the WTO sets. It fosters monopolies on a grand scale. It prohibits competition and true free market Capitalism.

F. William Engdahl, author of “Seeds of Destruction”, explains in detail how the Biosafety Protocol, a policy that requiring GMO testing and proof of safety, was undermined. This was done by forcing a clause into the Biosafety Protocol making its rules subordinate to the UN WTO, using the argument that banning GMOs was a barrier to trade under the WTO rules, because the concern over safety was “unproven”. Therefore, the burden of proof for the safety of GMOs was removed from Monsanto and the other manufacturers, which leaves consumers, independent farmers and anyone else harmed by GMOs the costly task of proving, scientifically and in court, that GMOs are unsafe.

In a related UN WTO decision, member countries were forbidden from using their own domestic standards for testing, their own food safety laws and their own product standards, claiming that it would set an “unfair barrier to trade”. Thus, the US government can threaten any government that bans GMOs with violating UN WTO so-called “free trade” rules which have resulted in costly monetary sanctions. The UN WTO settles international trade disputes in secret. Please read Engdahl’s excellent article about the WTO for more information on their manipulative policies.(9)

Incidentally, the Director of the WTO is Rufus Yerxa, former employee of the the US government and Monsanto. Vandana Shiva explains how the WTO imposed trade restrictions on India that limited exports and increased imports, crippling the market and increasing food dependency. The GMO crops also had lower yields because the seed was imported and not adaptable to India’s farming conditions, which resulted in the suicides of over 200,000 Indian farmers- often from drinking Round Up Ready herbicide. (Note that we do not agree with Shiva’s assessment of global warming):

UN NAFTA LAW

The UN NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and other WTO agreements were signed introduced into law as “agreements”, instead of treaties. Under special legislation, NAFTA was passed into law after Congress authorized George W Bush to enter into tariff agreements and bypassed the usual process to make a treaty a law (requiring 2/3 Senate approval). After Bush entered into the agreements, both houses of Congress passed them into law (a mere 51% majority was needed) on a fast- track. The Supreme Court, acting as agents of the federal government, denied review of this misdeed.(10)

NAFTA has adversely affected both the US and Mexico because it promoted GMO farming in Mexico, contaminating their corn crops, which is a staple food. US grain and food subsidies were used to lower the prices of US food, which flooded the markets of Mexico, wreaking havoc on them. The subsidies were bankrolled by the unsuspecting US taxpayers. Mexico was once food self sufficient, but now it spends 78% of its oil exports to purchase food from the US. US food exports have decreased as a result of NAFTA because some educated countries reject GMOs.(11)

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND

The UN IMF (International Monetary Fund) and UN World Bank are sister agencies that impose harsh conditions and penalties on loans made to governments, resulting in austerity and privatization. In fact, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Prize winner in 2001, former chief economist of the World Bank and formerly one of President Clinton’s economists, exposed the corruption of the UN IMF and World Bank’s practice of keeping developing countries on the loan repayment treadmill, which can lead to harsh measures when the countries fail to repay the loan, instead of allowing a country to go bankrupt and then start over. In 2003, The IMF actually admitted that its policies have often failed for over 60 years.(12)

The IMF and World Bank, working closely with the WTO, offer financial aid and guarantees to multinational companies to privatize in poor countries. Even worse, the IMF and World Bank pressure countries, crippled by debt, to privatize utilities and other resources, especially water. Remember, water is a resource that affects food production. The US Treasury funds 51% of the World bank. The UN derives much power from indebted countries and then is able to make outrageous demands upon the debtor nations, that then benefit corporations and individuals like Bill Gates.(13)

CODEX ALIMENTARIUS

Codex Alimentarius, the UN program to control food and health products internationally with the goal of HARMonization of food, means that plants, seeds, livestock, farming and how all food is processed is to become uniform. Of course, GMO food is a major component of this scheme. Codex Alimentarius is a program to codify food worldwide; it won’t work because there is a lack of consideration for local conditions (local weather, soil conditions, water availability, etc). This appears to be just plain stupid until one realizes its true intent: depopulation. Codex Alimentarius operates under two UN agencies: the WHO (World Health Organization), notorious for pushing unsafe vaccines for the H1N1 flu and insider deals with Big Pharma, and the corrupt FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization). Kevin Miller’s excellent film “We Become Silent” is recommended for more details.(14)

There are several unpopular US “food safety” bills currently under consideration. By simply reading the short summary of Senate bill S 510, it is clear that the bill is not designed for food safety, but for government (Department of Health and Human Services, the EPA and the CDC) expansion, control and monetary gain. There are only a few representatives in Washington that are even remotely interested in true food safety and a real solution, which would include the abolition of GMOs, or at least the labeling of GMO food, so that consumers can make an informed choice. Barack Obama issued an Executive Order on June 10, 2010 that opens the door to Codex Alimentarius.(15)

In conclusion, it is obvious that the time is over-ripe for the US to get out of the UN. This action would result in the withering of the UN as it is funded primarily by US tax dollars. The American people will hopefully come to understand that our hard earned money is being used to poison and bankrupt us, and the rest of the world. Education of the masses is the key, and Americans must exert our power and sovereignty, especially now, with the November elections right around the corner.

Christina Aguilera

Drew Barrymore

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Please visit Cassandra Anderson’s website at http://www.MorphCity.com for more information about the construction of Agenda 21 and how to stop it

Notes:

1. http://www.infowars.com/food-and-depopulation-rockefeller-family/

2. http://www.infowars.com/food-and-depopulation-monsantos-monopoly/

3. http://www.grain.org/seedling/?id=331

4. http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/private_voluntary_cooperation/volag2009.pdf

http://www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2009/pr090930.html

5. http://www.morphcity.com/agenda-21/ppp

6. http://www.american.com/archive/2010/april/how-corrupt-is-the-world-food-program

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/03/23/food-for-naught.html

7. http://www.wfp.org/stories/usaid-says-wfp-positioned-build-sustainable-food-systems

8. http://www.saynotogmos.org/global_south2.htm

9. http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/GMO/World_Trade_Order/world_trade_order.html

10. http://www.nationalaglawcenter.org/assets/crs/97-896.pdf

11. http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/ra03/geff16.html

12. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2766706/Stiglitz-rebel-with-a-cause.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2846604/IMF-admits-its-policies-seldom-work.html

13. http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/IMF_WB/Plunder_Profit_IMF_WB.html

http://www.foodfirst.org/en/node/2905

14. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6530770946071047491#

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/36064/

15. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=s111-510&tab=summary

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Here’s How to Fight Back

Posted by LesLeopold at 6:51 pm
June 12, 2010

The Wild, Inhumane Market Rules Our Lives — Here’s How to Fight Back

Senate and House conferees are about to reconcile a financial reform bill that is virtually designed to institutionalize “too big to fail.” And when they do we’ll lose another battle in the ongoing war between global financial markets and democratic nation-states.

This war has been going on for decades — but democracy hasn’t always been in full retreat.

The New Deal Conquest: During the Great Depression democratic forces gained the upper hand in the war. We realized that financial markets, which are driven by the largest banks and financiers, had to be tightly controlled. We knew that global speculation on currencies only deepened the Depression and had to be strictly limited. We knew that an iron curtain was needed between commercial and investment banking to protect Main Street depositors from market madness (that was the Glass-Steagall Act). And most importantly we knew that the key to preventing economic upheaval was to limit the wealth of the super-rich and to increase the wealth of working people through progressive taxes, Social Security, wage and hour laws, and the promotion of unionization. The Bretton Woods agreements forged by the Allies during WWII set up strict rules for global finance, rules that kept financiers in check for more than a quarter century.

And it worked pretty damn well. As economist Joseph Stiglitz points out, this era saw only one financial crisis (Brazil, 1964), and working people in western democracies made huge gains. Since the era of deregulation took hold in the late 1970s, the world has suffered over a hundred financial crises and middle-class incomes have stagnated.

The Deregulatory Counter-Offensive: By the late 1970s, bankers regained the advantage through the spread of a new faith in self-regulated markets. The economic apostles of unfettered markets lobbied against progressive taxes, unions, and social welfare programs. The new orthodoxy was: Let the elites collect the money–they’ll invest wisely (instead of consuming), and all boats will rise. This near-religious revolution rapidly spread through the economic and policy establishment. Regulations were dismantled right and left, and the revolving door between government and Wall Street started spinning. The American financial catechism ruled the world. And on Wall Street, the money tap was open. It did not trickle down.

Then, suddenly, in 2008, the market gods destroyed themselves as the unregulated financial casinos crashed and burned, just like they did in 1929. For a few months, it seemed like the deregulatory theology become a global heresy. It was obvious that Wall Street’s reckless speculation and its bold new wave of financial engineering had caused the Great Recession. (See The Looting of America for an accessible account.). It was also clear that if government didn’t come to the rescue, Wall Street would lay in ruins, along with the rest of the economy. This was the perfect moment for democracy reassert democratic control on financial markets, just as we did during the New Deal. We blew it.

The Victory at Too Big to Fail: At the moment when Wall Street was on its knees, we decided to bypass serious reform. Instead, we rebuilt Wall Street, using taxpayer money and guarantees – more than $10 trillion worth. We let bankers use our bailout money to pay themselves $150 billion in bonuses — at a moment when over 29 million Americans were jobless or forced into part-time jobs. We allowed the top hedge fund managers to walk off with over $900,000 an hour (not a typo) in 2009. Windfall profits taxes? No. In fact we let hedge fund honchos pay an extra-low tax rate by calling their income “capital gains.” We didn’t restore Glass-Steagall, we didn’t break up “too big to fail” financial institutions. In fact the biggest banks became even bigger, courtesy of the U.S. government.

The Invasion against Democracy: The war is escalating. Right now, financial elites aren’t just fighting a defensive battle against new regulations. They’re playing offense: They’re whipping up deficit hysteria around the globe and calling for drastic cuts in middle class programs. Why? They want to ensure that their loans to governments aren’t threatened by rising public debt. Ironically, the public debt they’re so worried about was created in large part by them — the result of huge bailouts and other expenses stemming from the crash they caused. Although the bankers want us to dismantle what remains of our worker-oriented policies, welfare for the financial elites is still fine and dandy.

This is the most dangerous counter attack in the history of finance. We had better know a great deal more about the attackers. Who makes up this shadowy force called “global markets”? Who fights their battles? Do they have a high command?

Not really. There is no executive committee of financial elites. There’s no international conspiracy, no Elders of Zion. Instead these markets are pulled and pushed by about 50 very large banks and financial institutions. This is where much of the nation’s $2 trillion in hedge fund money roams. This is where the top six US banks frolic. They don’t have to sit around a table strategizing. They instantly sense threats to their power. They instantly smell profitable openings and they’re poised to grab what they can, whenever they can. They thrive on turmoil, which gives them new “proprietary” trading opportunities to exploit. Volatility means big bucks, especially now that the largest players know that the government will back up even their wildest gambles. History has just proven that they are way too big to fail.

Of course they still have to lobby government officials–many of whom either were bankers, or will be once they leave office. But their most powerful lever on government is through the market itself: Here, by moving vast quantities of money around, they can instantly veto policies they don’t like. If the EU talks seriously about financial transaction taxes, the markets go down the Euro grows weaker, and interest rates rise–making it more expensive for governments to borrow the money they need to operate. Politicians have learned to “listen” to the markets and are conditioned to placate them.

Should a nation state get out of line (Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal, etc), the markets slap them silly. Politicians rush to the scene and start slicing social spending. If instead they demand new taxes on financial elites to reduce public debt, the markets respond with even more fury. Money flees.

All the external machinery of democracy still clanks along. We still pull the levers in the voting booth. But the decisions that affect us the most are made in a profoundly undemocratic way. Faceless financial markets exercise far more control over politicians than the voters who elected them.

So the problem isn’t just the corporate campaign contributions, or corporate media control or the academic consensus supporting our financial theocracy. It’s the raw power of the markets. They’ve been roaming free and virtually unregulated for more than a generation, and now their power is unparalleled. Just months after they brought our economy crashing down, they’re right back to their old tricks, setting the stage for the next crash and the next bailout while getting filthy rich along the way.

Bill Clinton nailed it on the head when he reportedly said:

“You mean to tell me that the success of the economic program and my reelection hinges on the Federal Reserve and a bunch of fxxxing bond traders?” (See Agenda by Bob Woodward)

No Retreat, No Surrender? There’s no room for pacifists in this war. Clearly, Wall Street and its global minions are not seeking a truce. Instead, they’re coming after our Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid programs. They want us to work longer before we retire and get less when we do. They want us to pay more for health care and get less of it. They want less public money to go to schools, teachers and public infrastructures. And they want us to get used to a jobless recovery with double digit unemployment rates. (And when millions and millions of people are unemployed, we can’t maintain high labor standards, and our wages and benefits erode.) In short, they want to undermine all the policies and programs that have built and sustained middle class life.

Already government officials in the UK, Germany and here are telling us we must endure austerity for “decades to come.” As Fed Chair Ben Bernanke candidly put it:

“We can see what problems can arise in a country if investors lose confidence in the fiscal position of that country, so it is very important that we address this problem.”

Of course, he’s not going to point out that this austerity is only for the masses, definitely not for the financial elites. Or that the underlying cause of the debt investors are so worried about is the giant economic crater caused by the very same financial elites who now might “lose confidence” in financing a middle class society.

We shouldn’t kid ourselves about the pitched battles ahead. Fighting back won’t be easy, and winning will be even harder. People in country after country will have to mobilize themselves in defense of real democracy, in defense of each nation’s right to provide its people with a decent quality of life. In my opinion, that includes sustainable jobs with decent benefits and a solid public infrastructure that promotes equity, protects the vulnerable and enriches the environment.

Unfortunately, no one can guarantee that democracy will prevail in the war against financial theocracy — just recall the totalitarian chaos in Europe during the Great Depression. But don’t count it out, either. It’s true that many of us regular folks have been diverted by the media, distracted by the Internet or lulled into a stupor by pharmaceuticals. But when we realize that we’ve been shoved into a corner with no way out, we’ll act. A popular struggle will begin. And when it does, we’ll at least have a fighting chance to recapture our democratic souls.

Les Leopold is the author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance destroyed our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2009.

After graduating from Oberlin College and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (MPA 1975), Les co-founded and currently directs two non-profit educational organizations: The Labor Institute (1976) and the Public Health Institute (1986). He designs research and educational programs on occupational safety and health, the environment and economics. He is now helping to form an alliance between the United Steel Workers Union and the Sierra Club. Leopold is the author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance destroyed our Jobs, Pensions and Prosperity, and What We Can Do About It, Chelsea Green Publishing, June 2009.

Violence at Iraq Central Bank Kills 15

Violence at Iraq Central

Bank Kills 15

By ANTHONY SHADID

The New York Times, June 13, 2010

BAGHDAD – Attackers wearing military uniforms tried to storm the Central Bank of Iraq on Sunday, setting off explosions and triggering gun battles with the police and soldiers that lasted hours during the afternoon rush and paralyzed parts of the capital. At least 15 people were killed and 50 were wounded, officials said.

The bedlam in the crowded neighborhood, filled with banks, markets and shops, came a day before Iraq’s new parliament was to convene, underscoring the deep sense of uncertainty here over when a new government will be formed after months of deadlock. The scene itself was reminiscent of the strife that the country experienced during the worst sectarian bloodshed in 2006 and 2007, when Iraq teetered on the edge of anarchy.

In the pandemonium, bystanders, employees and shoppers ran for cover. Witnesses said many were killed or wounded in the crossfire between attackers and the police. For hours, ambulances ferried the wounded from the neighborhood.

“A disaster. The scene was terrifying,” a shop owner. Raji Mohammed, said “I didn’t know whether they were roadside bombs, mortars, suicide bombers or car bombs.”

Fires burning into the evening in the bank’s parking lot sent black plumes of smoke into the sky. Frightened employees remained huddled inside the Central Bank, afraid to leave even after the shooting had subsided, witnesses said.

Police speculated that the attackers may have been trying to rob the bank. Sunday is the first day of the week in Iraq, when banks are thought to carry particularly large deposits. Gunmen made off with gold from jewelers last week in the southern city of Basra, killing three people, and a similar gold heist last month in Baghdad killed 15.

“You can’t count out theft,” said Abdul Hussain al-Yasiri, head of the neighboring Rafidain Bank. “The gunmen tried to enter” the Central Bank, “but guards fought them off.”

But the attack also bore hallmarks of past insurgent campaigns — strikes requiring a degree of planning against high-profile targets in the hope of unleashing a deadly spectacle.

There were conflicting accounts over how Sunday’s carnage began — whether the explosion were the work of suicide bombers or roadside explosives, and how many there were.

But most accounts suggested a high level of planning for the attack, which began about 2:30 p.m., when most bank employees were leaving.

“All of a sudden it was like a battlefield, with gunfire and explosions,” said Mr. Yasiri, whose bank shares the neighborhood with the Central Bank and Rashid Bank.

Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta, the military spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command, said the assailants tried to storm two bank entrances and traded gunfire with guards. Two of the men, strapped with explosives; another two explosions occurred at a third bank entrance, General Atta said.

Other officials said the blasts set fire to gas tanks supplying a nearby generator. Fires also burned inside the bank, General Atta said, destroying some records and files. It took hours for firefighting crews to extinguish the blazes.

“Given the importance of the target, the operation was well planned,” he said.

The fighting paralyzed parts of Baghdad, as authorities shut down at least four bridges that connect the city across the Tigris River. Police prevented journalists from entering the area of the clashes, where gunfire lasted into the late afternoon.

The neighborhood around the Central Bank is one of the more fortified in a barricaded city, with traffic banned from some nearby streets.

“All this happened, even with a thousand security guards here?” asked Omar Hakim, the owner of a café down the street from the explosions and gunfire.

The attack came amid growing frustration over the lack of progress in forming a government, more than three months after the March 7 election. Negotiations have picked up ahead of Monday’s scheduled session of parliament, but even optimistic politicians acknowledge that progress has been limited and it could be weeks, even months before a government is agreed on.

“I just want to know what the politicians are doing other than fighting for their thrones,” said Yasser Mohammed, an employee of another bank. “People are being killed every day, our money is being taken in front of our eyes, and no one can do anything.”

Reporting was contributed by Duraid Adnan, Khalid D. Ali, Omar Al-Jawoshy, Riyadh Mohammed and Yasmine Mousa.

La Banque centrale doit prêter à 0 % aux Etats

Le Monde, 02 juin 2010

Dette : “la Banque centrale doit créer de la monnaie et prêter à 0 % aux Etats”

J’ai interrogé plusieurs économistes dans le cadre d’une “enquête” pour Le Monde dans sa version “papier” sur le thème suivant : “s’il veut vraiment tenir son engagement de ramener le déficit public à un niveau de 3 % du produit intérieur brut (PIB) en 2013, et donc de réduire également la dette publique, le gouvernement ne devra-t-il pas se résoudre à jouer de la carte fiscalité, c’est-à-dire augmenter les prélèvements ?”

Cette enquête est publiée aujourd’hui, mercredi 2 juin. On peut la lire ici (mais pour cela il faut être abonné, ce que je vous invite à faire).

A l’occasion de cette enquête, j’ai notamment rencontré Thomas Piketty, qui est directeur d’études à l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) et professeur à l’Ecole d’économie de Paris.

Sans exonérer la France d’“efforts sur les finances publiques” - il considère qu’ils seront “nécessaires”, mais qu’ils doivent être mis en place “de façon équilibrée, sans coupes brutales du jour au lendemain” - il “décale” la problématique au niveau européen. En tout cas une partie de la problématique : comment résorber la partie du “trou” qui est directement liée à la crise financière et à la crise économique qui a suivi.

Voici, ci-dessous, ce qu’il dit, sachant qu’il faut avoir en mémoire les chiffres suivants : le déficit public français était équivalent à 7,5 % du PIB fin 2009 (soit 143,8 milliards d’euros) et devrait atteindre 8,2 % cette année; la dette publique atteignait 78,1 % du PIB fin 2009 (soit 1 489 milliards d’euros), et devrait se situer à 83,2 % cette année.

“Ce n’est pas avec la rigueur, les coupes dans les dépenses publiques et les hausses d’impôts qu’il faut sortir de cette crise. La réduction des coûts publics pour sortir d’une récession cela mène toujours au désastre. Cela ne marche pas.

Serrer la ceinture des citoyens et des contribuables, cela risque de retarder la sortie de crise, d’aggraver les choses : l’impact sur la croissance notamment pourrait être négatif et, au final, on va se retrouver avec plus de déficit et plus de dette”.

Le problème étant de résorber la dette publique, une solution consiste à monétiser une partie de cette dette, le surplus lié à la crise.

Il faut que la Banque centrale européenne (BCE) fasse avec les Etats ce qu’elle a fait avec les banques : émettre de la monnaie et leur prêter à 0 % ou 1 % pour que les Etats se débarrassent du surplus de dette créé par la récession.

L’exemple américain

Les banques centrales européenne et américaine ont en effet prêté à un taux voisin de zéro aux banques sur une période relativement longue : entre septembre et décembre 2008, elles ont créé près de 2 000 milliards d’euros de monnaie nouvelle, soit 10 points de PIB européen et américain, pour les prêter.

Pourquoi a-t-on pu prêter aux banquiers et pourquoi les citoyens devraient-ils se serrer la ceinture pour payer les effets d’une crise dont le secteur financier est responsable ?

C’est d’ailleurs exactement ce que fait la Federal Reserve américaine depuis début 2009 : en achetant à 0 % des centaines de milliards de bons du Trésor américain, elle allège le fardeau des contribuables américains, et permet de sortir de la récession plus vite qu’en Europe.

Si les Etats-Unis sortent aussi vite de la récession, c’est parce qu’ils ont agi ainsi et qu’ils n’ont pas fait de réduction des dépenses, de hausse d’impôts. Il y a un pragmatisme américain qui nous fait défaut.

Dans les circonstances actuelles, il n’existe pas d’autre solution que de monétiser une partie de la dette publique. Cela permettrait de remettre les compteurs à leurs niveaux d’avant crise.

Cela ne se traduirait pas forcément par de l’inflation. Dans le cas des prêts aux banques, cela n’en a pas créé par exemple. On était au bord d’une dépression, d’un déflation (baisse des prix, baisse des actifs). En injectant de l’argent, on a évité cette déflation et il n’y pas eu d’inflation derrière.”