Mugabe food summit visit 'obscene'?

Robert Mugabe's attendance at a UN summit on food security in Rome has been criticised by Australia's foreign minister as "obscene".

Even more obscene was the absence  of Rudd or even the Australian foreign minister himself in this growing tragedy of a worldwide food crisis.

At least Mugabe bothered to attend.

But the conference was simply seen by our foreign minister as a cheap opportunity for imperialist propaganda shots rather than an opportunity for an announcement of a doubling of aid to the third world.

We do not live on the moon.

Australia with a small population with monopoly  ownership of a whole continent including vast grain growing areas ,has a huge economic surplus, because it makes a lot of its profits from exports to the third world.

In grain ,because of that huge amount of grain lands and the benefit from scale of production,we act as  part of the international imperialist food mafia.

An imperialist food mafia that subsidises food production in its homelands and whose then cheap exports make it difficult for small third world farmers to compete.

The selfish use of food grains for ethanol for cars , coupled with western capitalist speculators  in futures markets have seized control of world food,oil ,and fertiliser commodities thereby jacking up prices to a profiteering level even the ordinary mafia would be ashamed of.

This fooed crisis is the result and the "benefit" of the ‘free trade" system economic structure imposed on the third world.

In recent years this imperialist economic system has used  "Aid" to create dependent ,debt ridden countries and as a tool to prevent their economic development.

Increased windfall tax incomes flowing to the Australian government are expected  because of a huge increase in profits for our farmers, if they can tap into  these huge increases in  food grain and other food  prices.

Coming out of a drought this may come as a welcome relief for grain farmers.

However, does already rich Australia really need to keep these expected increased windfall  in tax revenues, or should we use them as an opportunity to permanently increase our aid to the third world the source of much of our wealth.

We have got by without them in recent years and if handed back to the poor of this world would we even miss them?

To the third world peoples The dollar a day people ,we will just appear as greedy,white racialist ,blood sucking imperialists ,enforcing population control in the third world while making a quick profit from their misery.

They will not be pointing the finger at Mugabe who has so little power,But at people like our foreign minister.

Our foreign minister might consider ,instead of making cheap propaganda shots at Mugabe for attending a food conference, that an humanitarian doubling of our aid would do more to win us friends in this world than a dozen wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Or a thousand and one of these cheap shots with shoddy bombastic fake  "humanitarian" motives .

Pure Bluster from a country with a full belly, speaking with its    mouth full and lips richly dripping with vegemite.

A country that even its own prime minister now admits  carried out and still  carries out wars against the third world peoples on the basis of lies.

Beauty may be in the eyes of the beholder and so might be "obscenity" .

Our foreign minister should get off the moon and act like a human.

Double permanently Australian Aid to the third world now!