Some 90% of farms redistributed to South Africa’s black population from white farmers are not productive, the government has said.
Land reform minister Gugile Nkwinti warned the land might be repossessed if the farms continued to fail.
Almost 60,000 sq km (23,000 sq miles) have been redistributed under policies aimed at benefiting black people who were left impoverished by apartheid.
The land was bought from white farmers who sold up voluntarily.
The BBC’s Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg says some black farmers are likely to argue that they have been struggling to get the resources and skills to develop their land.
And repossessing the land would provide a whole new problem for the government, our correspondent says, as any move to return the land to its former white owners is bound to be controversial.
Sensitive issue
The government had set a target of 2014 to redistribute one-third of white-owned land back to the black majority.
But Mr Nkwinti acknowledged that the deadline would not be kept.
He said the focus would now shift to helping the black farmers make their land productive.
“The farms – which were active accruing revenue for the state – were handed over to people, and more than 90% of those are not functional,” he said.
“They are not productive, and therefore the state loses the revenue. We cannot afford to go on like that… No country can afford that.”
At the end of apartheid in 1994 almost 90% of land was owned by the white community, which made up less than 10% of the population.
Land reform is a sensitive issue in South Africa and has been brought into sharp focus by the decline of agriculture in neighbouring Zimbabwe, where many white commercial farmers have been violently evicted.
UK, March 5, 2010 (Pal Telegraph; commentary by Peter Eyre) – The US and UK lost three nuclear weapons each (Part 3):What went missing on Prime Minister Thatcher’s watch?
As discussed in Part 2 of this series, many countries have been involved in extremely disturbing activities, spearheaded by certain leaders and their senior staff members. They left a trail of unbelievable corruption and gross neglect, without any apparent concern for the consequences of their actions.
Let’s revisit the circumstances surrounding the deal between the UK government under Maggie Thatcher, David Cameron (leader of the UK’s Conservative Party) and his entourage, the South African government and the ruthless arms dealers. I would also like you to keep in mind the connection between the missing U.S. nuclear missiles and the same questionable dealers.
As a reminder, there were originally 10 nuclear weapons; out of this batch, one was tested, leaving nine weapons in total. David Cameron went to South Africa in 1989 to investigate many aspects of the WMD program. At the same time, Dr. David Kelly (British UN weapons inspector) was very much involved in looking for chemical and biological weapons, having made several visits to his South African counterparts. He was also knowledgeable about the weapons smuggling loop that existed in Africa at the time. This also gave him access to the nuclear weapons proliferation program in South Africa, especially nuclear bombs assembled with the help of Israeli nuclear scientists at the covert South African nuclear weapons facility at Pelindaba, near Pretoria. Later in this article, it will be documented how Dr. Kelly became involved in the nuke transfer deal.
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors visited Pelindaba and the Advena nuclear facility, built by the state-owned Armaments Corporation of South Africa (ARMSCOR), in 1990 and 1991. They were tricked into believing that South Africa’s nuclear weapons had all been dismantled by the outgoing apartheid regime. However, what they didn’t know is that after they had left South Africa, activities continued as usual. I repeat that both the U.S. and UK governments were very much aware of the existence of these weapons, with Maggie Thatcher rubbing her hands together in glee at the thought of receiving a significant contribution to party funds……..David Cameron and his sidekicks also were very much part of these shady goings on!
Now we come to issue of how the weapons were transported out of South Africa and where they ended up. Let me remind you that we are talking about three armed, ready-to-use nuclear bombs, courtesy of Israeli technicians. We can then discuss who was involved, how the payments were made and the disappearance of the guilty parties.
The plan was originally to re-locate these weapons to some remote railway sidings and then load them into three standard, 20-foot ISO containers (one bomb per container) and export them with a false manifest listing them as metal cylinders. The main players were a British company called Astra and a South African company named ARMSCOR. At the government level, they dealt primarily with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), funded by the Ministry of Defense. This alone gives some indication as to why this deal became so very special and confidential. One must also consider the middleman in the deal, who brought all the parties together to get the job done. To name names, obviously the “Iron Lady” was right in there, and also her son Mark Thatcher. Then we have David Cameron and that illustrious man with the initials KW who accompanied him to South Africa. The middleman and notorious arms dealer was John Bredenkemp. We also have to add John Major into the story, since he also became part of the deal.
In order to keep the deal out of Parliament and out of the public domain, Maggie Thatcher was asked to sign off on the purchase of these weapons under an Urgent Operational Requirement (UOR) in which they were listed as metal cylinders, not nuclear bombs. This was done completely under the table, unknown to anyone else outside the inner circle. This document was signed before she left office in late 1990.
Once the weapons left South African soil, the British government reimbursed ARMSCOR (the South African arms trading company), Astra (the British arms company) and the middleman (John Bredenkemp), compliments of the British taxpayer.
It should be noted that ARMSCOR has now split and the arms side has now become a company called Denel (Pty) Ltd. However, they work together. ARMSCOR advertises itself as the “Gateway to Defense Solutions,” and Denel has branched out into a diverse empire including aviation, weapons systems, etc.
So to recap: There were nine nuclear weapons in transit to Chicago, and three of those were to be used as a standby weapon for the Gulf War, These three were sent for storage to Oman, where Dr. Kelly planned to conduct an inspection. Upon completion of the deal, the money would be paid to all those involved.
You must understand that this deal was processed via the private sector, which is difficult to believe once you fully understand the implications of buying, selling and shipping ready-to-use nuclear weapons! In this case, three South African nuclear weapons were sold to “private investors.”
These containers were specially adapted to carry the highly mobile weapons to a private storage facility in Oman for safekeeping. The containers had a special seal on the lock of the rear door of each container, along with a temperature gauge in the front that was connected to the core of the bombs to prevent them from overheating.
The nuclear smuggling operations involved top members of the British Conservative Party, including individuals close to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, her son Mark and — at a later date — other members of the Labour Party. Both parties received an increase in funds, with the Conservatives taking a massive share. Keep in mind that their presence in South Africa was totally in violation of the embargo and the Nuclear Explosions Act.
As for John Bredenkemp, one cannot even attempt to calculate how much money he made. However, as would be expected, this money was very quickly converted to gold bullion, totaling many kilos.
I will next look at what happened to these weapons once they were stored in Oman, and how the British taxpayer donated money for a very unprofessional operation that was a failure from the outset. Needless to say, the nukes all disappeared and one can clearly see that indirectly, taxpayers’ money ended up in the political funds of both the Labour Party and Conservative parties.
Many investigations have taken place since this event, all of which involved Jonathan Aitken, a Tory Party defense minister; Gerald Bull, a Canadian who worked with Saddam Hussein; Gerald James, chairman of Astra; and others. It became apparent just how sensitive the situation was when Alan Clark, DTI minister, became involved, as did Sir Ken Warren, chairman of Trade and Industry. The spider web certainly caught Tony Blair, with his connections to Bernie Eccelstone, who contributed £1 million to the Labour Party disguised as a donation from the tobacco industry (in fact, it was clearly from the gun-running episode).
Upon becoming Prime Minister in 1997, Tony Blair tried unsuccessfully to return the money to Ecclestone. However, his donation was only a fraction of what the Tory Party received. All in all, taxpayers’ money was fuelling the arms trade to both Iraq and Iran with the British government the primary engine. It is clear that both parties were playing the same game and the end result was that these weapons were used against our own forces. This same situation occurs frequently around the world.
This week we will see the commencement of the Iraq inquiry: another waste of taxpayers’ money. Will it bear fruit? I don’t think so!
What we have to remember is that both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown summoned Maggie Thatcher to a meeting after taking office, and one can assume that the missing nuke played a major role. That is why this new inquiry most likely failed before it even started, like all the others. The period of investigation does not go back far enough for it to be reveal the real truth.
To date, there have been two assassinations: that of Gerald Bull, who was killed by Mossad in Brussels in 1990, and that of our own dear Dr. David Kelly. Alan Clarke died of a brain tumor in 1999, leaving only Gerald James. The latter had a brush with death at the end of last year, when one of his relatives was killed instead (purely by accident). When one looks at such incidents as the Matrix Churchill arms smuggling scandal, you can clearly see how such inquiries fail. It is interesting to see such people as Ken Macdonald – who also happens to be a partner with Cheryl Blair — become involved in the Matrix Chambers scandal. We will have to see what Brown churns up tomorrow. This could be a make-or-break opportunity for him. But don’t hold your breath!
Stay tuned for the final installment (Part 4) of this series.
This is a report on a bit of local behavioral engineering in a local middle school here in Texas that sparked parent reaction last week.
The school in the county between south Houston and Galveston, mostly white blue collar.
A middle aged black female school board trustee was scheduled to give a ‘motivational talk’ to 6th-8th grade girls, ages 11-14, who were excused from classes to go to the assembly hall. The speaker, Shirley Price, told the school principal to leave the hall, which he did.
Then the woman proceeded with a graphic speech about how to avoid pregnancy by having oral sex. Two girls presented a ’sketch’ (skit) with an undisclosed demonstration, at the end of which Price kissed one of the girls on the cheek before the whole assembly.
Before dismissing the students Price told them not to tell their parents about the speech.
But many girls did tell their parents.
“Laura doesn’t want to give her full name in order to protect her daughter. But she says she is outraged at what she says happened at Crosby Middle School in Hitchcock on January 15. A motivational speech that was supposed to be about TAKS testing turned into an explicit talk about sex, using graphic and inappropriate descriptions.”
A mother named Laura was interviewed on KTRK-TV news, saying her 10-year-old daughter was at that assembly and is emotionally devastated.
“She is very humiliated, actually using the word sex,” Laura explained. “She will start crying. It’s very, very disturbing to her, of the things that she has heard.”
“The district has been flooded with calls from outraged parents who were unaware of the presentation until a couple of parents spoke at Tuesday’s school board meeting.”
(Price, left)
CHILDREN WISE TO SEX?
Henry, I suspect that the constant mainstream media propaganda that children are constantly watching porn from the cradle and are already doing these things is extremely exaggerated. That’s the main talking point in every blog comment in favor of Price. It’s also the first defense uttered by pedophiles when they’re caught.
98% of the comments that posted to the TV stations blog were outraged – a few plants interjected citing teen pregnancy rate in the county and that the kids are probably doing everything anyway so schools are right to teach ’safe alternatives’ to getting pregnant.
One ‘comment’:
“motherof5 said on January 23, 2010 at 5:08 PM
Unfortunately, the “speaker” didn’t do anything that was criminal. She didn’t personally ask any of the students to perform any sexual act, so she cant be charged with a crime.”
Another plant or brainwashed comment:
jumboshrimp said on January 25, 2010 at 12:16 PM
Chances are the kids already knew what Price was instructing. If you think otherwise…then you really need to spend more time with your kids. My girlfriend teaches 9th graders. Some of the stuff they’ve said/discussed would probably curl your hair. Heck, it may kill several of ya’ll outright. Kids are NOT stupid, nor are they the little innocent angels they pretend to be.”
The media is soft peddling, county government and law enforcement aren’t even mentioned, the school superintendent is ‘out of town’ for two weeks and a spokesman answered no questions – “I’m not authorized to say anything about it, take it up with the superintendent”.
There have been a series of episodes identical to this since I moved here. This one amounts to psychological rape since many of the girls were obviously traumatized.
FOLLOW UP
Galveston county parents are calling for Shirley Price’s resignation, which is only going after a symptom.
The board’s split. Some are defending Price, others are siding with parents. One board mother said, “She didn’t have our permission to talk about anything, especially sex,” said Esther Orrill, whose 12-year-old daughter was present during the discussion. “I think part of her innocence was taken that day.”
During the past few incidents of the kind, the ’soldier’ (in this case Price) has been sacrificed through resignation. But this year the City Commissioner says “We are going to defend her.”
Price isn’t taking calls and her ‘pastor’ at Galilee Missionary Baptist Church – S.D. Siverand - will be doing her speaking for her. Two other ‘ministers’ have joined up.
“If she is going to be judged by this board and this community, then I think the whole school board needs to be wiped out,” Siverand said.
That means replacing the Board with activists like Price.
Henry, S.D. Silverand isn’t pictured and the website for Galilee Missionary Baptist Church doesn’t list any Silverand on their staff. The church is co-pastored by Rev. Dr. Edwin Allen Davis, Dr. Charlotte J. Davis, 16 associate pastors, 11 deacons, and 8 trustees. Not one of them is S.D. Silverand. http://www.galileembc.org/leadership/default.asp
I think they brought in a ‘ringer’.
LATEST
The superintendent of Crosby school district announced his retirement subsequently, and his proxy told media “you’ll have to take this up with the superintendent” (the runaround). The position is effectively in limbo till June 25th when a new superintendent will take over. So this superintendent is out of it. http://www.crosbyisd.org/09_10cisdnews/CROSBY%20ISD-SUPT.%20SEARCH%20ANNOUNCEMENT.pdf
I find no more stories on this case after county official announced they would ‘back up’ Price, and Shirley Price’s supposed ‘pastor’ (who’s not listed on that church’s roster) threatened to get the whole school board removed.
The media has dropped the story (as usual). As it stood, Price had ‘apologized’ and the Board had barred her from contact with students. So without media reports I (and parents) would have to do detective work at the county offices to learn if any board members have resigned. The pressure on them is ‘off the radar’ now.
Interestingly, the churches of the parents who voiced that their daughters were traumatized have been completely silent throughout.
“The school district had sent a letter to parents shortly after the incident became known, saying Price’s remarks were “off-target and objectionable.”
Despite calls for her to resign, the board did not move to remove Shirley Price from office.
The board’s decision followed a seven-hour school board meeting that ended about 2 a.m. and concluded that the board did not have the power to force Price to resign.
Outraged parents pleaded with board members to oust Price from the board. Others, including Hitchcock City Commissioner Henry Coger, voiced support for the embattled trustee. Coger and Price’s pastor, the Rev. S.D. Siverand said any move to force Price out of office would be met by resistance by her supporters.
What kind of Christians are these? ——————————————-
MAKOW COMMENT: “SEX EDUCATION” IS THE RUSE THE ILLUMINATI USE TO GROOM CHILDREN FOR SEX, AND POSSIBLE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION. ONLY A SATANIC-PEDOPHILE CONTROLLED SOCIETY WOULD FAIL TO SEE THE VALUE OF INNOCENCE, AND FAIL TO LET CHILDREN MATURE BEFORE EXPOSING THEM TO SEX.
‘September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror,’ Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying
Iran’s hard-line president has called the official version of the Sept. 11 attacks a ‘big lie’ used by the U.S. as an excuse for the war on terror.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s comments, reported in the state media, come as the country announced the launch of a production line of highly-accurate, short range cruise missiles.
These add a new element to the country’s already imposing arsenal and come amid escalating tensions between the West and Tehran over its disputed nuclear programme.
The president’s comments show that Iran has no intention of toning itself down even with tighter sanctions looming because of its refusal to halt uranium enrichment.
‘September 11 was a big lie and a pretext for the war on terror and a prelude to invading Afghanistan,’ Ahmadinejad was quoted as saying by state TV.
He called the attacks a ‘complicated intelligence scenario and act’.
The Iranian president has questioned the official U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks before, but this is the first time he ventured to label it a ‘big lie’.
In 2007, New York officials rejected Ahmadinejad’s request to visit the World Trade Center site while he was in the city for a U.N. meeting.
The president also sparked an uproar when he said during a lecture in New York that the causes and conditions that led to the attacks, as well as who orchestrated them, still need to be examined.
The Iranian president has questioned the official U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks before, but this is the first time he ventured to label it a ‘big lie’
At the time, he also told Iranian state TV the attacks were ‘a result of mismanaging and inhumane managing of the world by the U.S’ and that Washington was using Sept. 11 as an excuse to attack others.
He has also questioned the Sept. 11 death toll of around 3,000, claiming the Americans never published the victims’ names.
It was on Iranian state TV that General Ahmad Vahidi today announced the production line for the Nasr 1 cruise missile. It is capable of destroying targets up to 3,000 tons in size.
The minister said the missile can be launched from the surface but would eventually be modified to be fired from helicopters and submarines.
This picture purports to show the Nasr1 being launched. At present the missile can only be launched from land but Iran plans to modify it so it can be fired from helicopters and submarines
Defence minister Ahmad Vahidi (left) inspects a new production line for the short-range missiles
The world is already concerned about Iran’s military capabilities, especially the implications of its nuclear program. The U.S. and some of its allies, as well as the International Atomic Energy Agency, say Iran is apparently trying to produce nuclear weapons, a charge Iran denies.
The West is considering stiffer sanctions against Iran to try to force it to halt uranium enrichment, a process that has civilian uses but can be also used for nuclear arms if the uranium is enriched over 90 percent.
Iran also has an array of missiles from short to medium range that could hit targets including Israel, U.S. military bases in the region and much of Europe.
Iran frequently makes announcements about new advances in military technology that cannot be independently verified.
Gen. Vahidi said the production of the cruise missiles, which took two years to develop, showed that sanctions on Iran have failed. He said the cruise missiles would strengthen Iran’s naval power.
Cruise missiles are highly advanced, usually subsonic rocket-powered weapons that can hug the ground and hit targets with great precision. U.S. forces used large numbers of cruise missiles in its attack on Baghdad in 2002. Most were launched from warships in the Persian Gulf.
The state TV showed a video of boxes in a warehouse containing several missiles. It also showed footage of Iran’s cruise missile test in 2007. That missile was apparently imported.
Iran began a military self-sufficiency program in 1992, under which it produces a large range of weapons, including tanks, missiles, jet fighters, unmanned drone aircraft and torpedoes.
The year is 2010 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered the greatest calamity the world has ever known:
· 35 Million Americans on Food Stamps: 12 Percent of U.S. Population on Food Stamps Highest Since Records Kept in 1969, and that’s before the Obama administration announced a planned three-year budget freeze on government discretionary spending. (My Budget 360)
· 18 Million empty houses in the United States and 39 million Americans who are no longer working or looking for work, and that’s before Federal Reserve finishes rewriting the rules of American “capitalism” as US Housing, the Automobile Industry and the American Dream are dismantled. (The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M., David E. Sanger)
“There are now well over 150 million Americans who feel stress over these things on a consistent basis. Over 60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck.” (The Economic Elite vs. People of the USA, David DeGraw)
In an effort to explain our escalating financial crisis, the American Nightmare (an Environmental Dream), the “experts” are under the erroneous impression that the Fed “missed” the warning signs leading up to the October 2008 meltdown.
The pundits are focusing their angst on the 44th POTUS, who might very well go down as the single most inept president in all of American history. (How to Squander the Presidency in One Year, David Michael Green)
Barack Obama is not inept, greedy or stupid and he isn’t one of “us”.
He rose from obscurity to power with his top economics adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the co-founder of David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission and he travels in the same circles as other members of the super-secret Skull & Bones Society at Yale University, who pretend to be running for president every four years.
To believe otherwise, is to ignore the Bradley/Palin effect and the decision by John McCain to wait until his concession speech to shed the image of a nasty “grumpy old man.”
In September 2008, when the Obama campaign seemed to be slumping and their candidate’s long-standing lead in the polls had evaporated, the senator’s supporters openly worried that a potential victory might be slipping away. Then, providence joined the campaign: The failure of the giant investment bank Lehman Brothers followed by a global financial meltdown in the month of October.
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.” John F. Kennedy
And, “speaking of change”, the escalation of the war in Afghanistan and Iraq and his policies on Guantanamo, state secrets, renditions, executive power, bailouts and the stimulus packages are for the most part identical to those of George W. Bush.
However, the policies at the Federal Reserve have changed inexplicably, monumentally and historically:
As of October 2008, the men behind the Federal Reserve, all connected to the House of Rothschild, are no longer giving up what’s left of their real wealth so the middle class can live the American Dream, a nightmare for the planet.
Brian Deese, special assistant to president Obama for economic policy, in his first government position, shuffles back and forth from the West Wing to the Treasury Department (Federal Reserve) rewriting the rules of American “capitalism” as he dismantles the US Housing, Automobile Industry and the American Dream. (The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M., David E. Sanger)
Deese’s First Rule: Withdraw Credit and Liquidity:
Causing spending to fall even further, forcing companies to cut back on inventory and staff – Creating even more unemployment…263,000 jobs eliminated bringing the total to 39 million Americans who are no longer working or looking for work. (The September Employment Rate is 90%)
And that’s before the recently announced “planned three-year budget freeze on government discretionary spending.”
Capitalism never made sense
“The Fed didn’t miss anything; the October meltdown was an inside job”
Professor Ebeling, the Ludwig von Mises professor of Economics at Hillsdale College, understood something was wrong when he wrote, “The perverse development and evolution of historical capitalism, the institutions necessary for a truly free-market economy have been either undermined or prevented from emerging.”
But when he claimed, “It is the principles and the meaning of a free-market economy that must be rediscovered” in order to overcome the burden of historical capitalism and save liberty, he should have written that principles must be rediscovered in order to prevent the planet from attempted murder (ecocide).
American “capitalism” and our consumer economy never made economic, environmental or common sense—unless the goal was ecocide.
Capitalism and a not-so-free market economy based on consumer products, that is, products we are manipulated to want, not need, was never sustainable. Consumers consume…the resources of the planet.
Who is Responsible?
The “experts” are under the impression this is the natural order of things.
Allegedly, this is another “example” of the private credit monopoly of rich and predatory moneylenders that “prey upon the people of the United States” for the benefit of themselves. [1]
“For the benefit of the middle class is a more accurate statement.”
The people responsible for the October collapse, our Federal Reserve, also get credit for the windfalls of “Monopoly Money”, created out of thin air, which financed our consumer society.
Those predatory moneylenders gave the middle class the highest standard of living in the world.
Recall when the American economy appeared headed into a recession at the end of the dot-com bubble, the Federal Reserve began slashing short- term interest rates until they reached a historically low one percent. The move re-inflated the economy by allowing homeowners to extract $750 billion in equity from their homes—up from $106 billion in 1996—and apply the dollars toward a multitude of consumer items and other credit card debt.
As interest rates plummeted and alleged home equity artificially soared, buyers were able to afford first and second homes, and they did it by taking out risky mortgages with “teaser rates” similar to those offered by the credit card industry. Even as interest rates adjusted upward, the sponsoring banks used complicated financial derivatives to resell the risky mortgages as “asset-backed paper.”
As housing prices edged downward and mortgage rates inched upward, the recession was put on hold with the help of an astonishing 10 to 12 credit card offers per month being delivered to some consumer mailboxes. The credit card companies issued 1.5 billion cards to 158 million cardholders and promised an improbable zero percent interest—some deals for up to 18 months. (Similar to mortgage debt, the credit card debt is put into pools also known as derivatives that are then resold to investment houses, other banks and institutional investors.)
Thank those rich and predatory moneylenders for the short-term interest rates and the liquidity that allowed the debt to be pooled, sold and resold.
But blame them because our hyper-shopping has wreaked havoc on the planet.
Who is Behind the Federal Reserve?
Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb and Morgan—all connected to The Global Financial Elite (TGFE), direct the Federal Reserve to create money out of thin air.
The process that the Federal Reserve, or any bank, uses to create money “consists of making an entry in a book, that is all,” said Graham Towers, governor of the Bank of Canada. “Each and every time a bank makes a loan (a debt) . . . new bank credit is created—brand new money.”
Money used to pay for the Industrial Revolution, orchestrate the Great Depression, the stagflation of the 1970’s, the dot-com and the housing market bubbles, resulted in 60 years of unprecedented prosperity for the middle class.
These scoundrels at the beginning of the 20th century, owned or controlled one-sixth of the world’s real wealth: raw materials, commodities, copper, iron ore, petroleum, lead, silver and gold.
So how do they get rich exchanging real wealth for about $500 trillion of the Monopoly money they printed?
They don’t, they are the losers, not the middle class!
Remember those trees we chopped down so just about anyone in America could afford their dream house, or those mountains we blew up so we could have that fat station wagon in our driveway? All of those resources “now used up”, were once owned or controlled by the robber barons of our history books.
Their real wealth, not yours or mine has been “cut, mined and hauled away so Americans could trash the planet with houses, second houses, cars, RVs, TVs and DVDs— the cheap stuff we associate with the good life that put the planet on the downward spiral to ecocide. (Dem Bones is Connected To De Debt Bone)
The middle class should be thanking those scoundrels for all that “stuff”—but blame them for conning us into trashing the planet.
The Story of Stuff
The Story of Stuff, an animated video about the underside of our consumer society, believes the scoundrels are a bloated corporation sporting a top hat with a dollar sign etched on its front.
Film narrator, Annie Leonard argues our environmental damage is the result of the greedy corporations externalizing costs (shift them onto the public and the environment) so they can make more money.
But that premise is contradicted on film when Annie stands in line to buy a radio for $4.99 and correctly realizes the price couldn’t possibly capture the cost of the radio but incorrectly concludes that the greedy corporations pollute the environment so they can make more profit. [2]
If profits were the motive, then why wasn’t the radio $5.99? A price anyone would consider a “throw away” or loss leader.
We have come to believe that everything wrong in America is about someone getting rich while we are getting swindled.
That our economy runs on profits is a true statement, but imagine how much those moneygrubbers would have made if the radio was $5.99.
That $1.00 would be 100% pure profit.
The swindlers and scoundrels downward-manipulate the costs of what was in 1910 their real wealth:
Raw materials, commodities, copper, iron ore, petroleum, lead, silver and gold, to industry at prices lower,
not higher as you would expect, so the corporations can still make a profit selling you a radio for $4.99.
Downward manipulation is an uneconomic aberration discovered in the precious metals market by the noted silver analyst Ted Butler.
We are conditioned to believe that prices are always inflated so the greedy corporations can make more money but Ted Butler’s research confirmed the price of silver has been manipulated to stay at the $4-5 price range for years. The beneficiaries of this type of manipulation are the consumers since industrial users can sell their products cheaply and still make a profit. (The Myth of the “Free” Enterprise Economic System)
Behind every consumer society is the reality of a credit-based monetary system and a fiat currency. Behind every fiat currency is a Federal Reserve or a Central Bank controlled by The Global Financial Elite including, Rockefeller, Kuhn, Loeb and J.P. Morgan, Ted Butler’s prime suspect in the “ongoing intentional not accidental” great crime of keeping the price of silver low so consumers can buy a lot more ‘radio’ (silver) for their dollar.” (The Real Story, Theodore Butler, Silver But No Silver Lining)
Annie should be asking herself why those scoundrels intentionally sold their raw materials cheaply so just about everyone could afford the American Dream, a nightmare for the Planet.
Ecocide Results in Cognitive Dissonance
The premise that anyone would intentionally damage the planet, which future generations will inherit, results in Cognitive Dissonance (CD). CD is the discomfort felt at the discrepancy between what you already know or believe, and new information or interpretation that contradicts a strongly held belief system.
But what if the attempted murder of the environment was the goal from the beginning and not the unintended consequence?
Then we were “conned” into shopping for stuff to intentionally because The Global Financial Elite are in a metaphysical war with mother-earth (Gaea) and hope to attain immortality in the New World Order. [3]
Now the world around you will finally make sense.
Hot, flat, and crowded Thomas L. Friedman will finally know what planet George W. Bush is on.
Bush lost the war on terrorism and the war in Iraq, but is winning the war waged on the environment.
Dubya was deadly serious about Ecocide when, after rejecting the global climate change targets of the July 2008 G8 summit, he said, “Goodbye, from the (then) world’s biggest polluter.” China is now the world’s biggest polluter, Meat, Milk and Motors: The New China Syndrome
Ecocide Eliminates the Stupid Explanations
We see the collapse of GM and Chrysler as the result of failed public policy, government action, inaction and conclude the leadership is inept, arrogant or just “stupid” because only Ecocide could explain an industry that failed to keep up with the competition and adjust to new market demands.
Did Detroit forget the Volkswagen Beetle was the most successful car in history?
An incredible 21,529,464 Beetles were produced with the same body style and the same taillight (World’s 5 Most Successful Cars).
The policies and decisions for the last 31 years aren’t inept or stupid if the goal was pollution.
The Beetle as a mobile pollution device was a failure. Its effects on the environment were minimal compared to the Detroit lineup of egocentric gas-guzzlers, all designed with a different taillight and eco-unfriendly accessories.
The “Evil” Federal Reserve made sure that shiny new automobile with the V8 engine, chrome wheels and bumpers was so cheap just about everyone in America could afford the mobile pollution device of their dreams.
Ecocide Explains Why Alaska is in the Picture
Most analysts point to the oil shock of the mid-1970s, set off by the Arab oil embargo of 1973 as the turning point for the US economy and automobile industry.
Why didn’t our then-President Richard Nixon and the rest of the U.S. government promote mass transit, renewable energy, and high-mileage vehicles?
Because the objective that makes the most sense was to disturb 800 miles of the most pristine country in Alaska with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline.
Electricity radically transformed and expanded our energy use. To a large extent, electricity defines modern technological civilization and made the Industrial Revolution and therefore our consumer society possible.
Electric power arrived barely a hundred years ago, but high costs and the Great Depression dried up most investment capital and delayed electric service to rural Americans until President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Rural Electrification Administration (REA) in 1935.
The REA loaned money created by the Federal Reserve at low interest rates and helped to set up electricity cooperatives.
Historically, energy is priced below its actual environmental and social cost in order to create excessive demand and discourage conservation. In other words such pricing diminishes the value of energy to users and causes them to use it irresponsibly and increase the amount of pollution coal-fired plants generate.
Why is electricity priced so cheap that “only the rich can afford to burn candles”?
Because cleaner alternatives like wind, solar or even natural gas don’t require mining companies to use dynamite to blast away 800 to 1,000 feet of 500 mountaintops and bury over 1200 miles of rivers and streams. [4]
Ecocide explains why 54% of electricity comes from the most abundant raw energy, coal and is the dirtiest source of power for much of the world. Coal-fired plants harm wildlife, generate smog, soot, acid rain, global warming, toxic air emissions and require billions of gallons of our most precious resource—water.
He Ruined the Country
The private credit monopoly of rich and predatory moneylenders do not “prey upon the middle class” to get rich.
You don’t become wealthier by exchanging gold, silver and raw materials for about $500 trillion of the Monopoly money you print.
Moneylenders created the middle class and then conned us into trashing the planet because Ecocide was the goal not the unintended consequence.
American “capitalism” and our consumer economy make perfect sense if the goal was the attempted murder of the planet.
Maybe ecocide is what Woodrow Wilson meant when he confessed that he “ruined the country.”
If you make people think they’re thinking, they’ll love you; but if you really make them think, they’ll hate you.”– Don Marquis
Footnotes:
[1] Congressman Louis T. McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking & Currency Committee, speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, June 10, 1932.
[2] “Corporations Rule the World”, David Korten (1995): “If some portion of the cost of producing a product are borne by third parties who in no way participate in or benefit from the transaction, then economists say the costs have been externalized and the price of the product is distorted accordingly.
[4] On March 25, Democrats introduced legislation that would prohibit the dumping of mining waste into streams. More than one million acres of Appalachia have already been affected by this practice, Senator Alexander says, “An estimated 1,200 miles of headwater streams have been buried under tons of mining wastes. More than 500 mountains have been impacted, and homes have been ruined and drinking water supplies contaminated” (Enviros Win Injunction Against Mountaintop Removal Mining).
Researchers believe they have succeeded in halting the spread of advanced cancer
Sunday March 7,2010
By Lucy Johnston
SCIENTISTS believe they have made a major breakthrough in cancer treatment after cracking the “code” behind the disease.
They have discovered the body’s immune system can kill cancer cells within a window occurring every 12 to 14 days.
By giving low-dose treatment at exactly the right time, researchers believe they have, against the odds, succeeded in halting the spread of advanced cancer.
Professor Michael Quinn has led the trial in patients with advanced ovarian cancer and suggests it could signal the most exciting development since the introduction of chemotherapy in the Fifties.
While he points out that it is still a theory, he said: “This is astonishing and could infl uence the treatment of all solid tumours in the future. We hope it will revolutionise the treatment of cancer.” Professor Quinn and his team reviewed 63 papers involving more than 1,200 patients since 2000.
They discovered that sufferers had about a 1-in-12 chance of responding to chemotherapy. During further studies they found the body has a fortnightly immune cycle during which it “switches on and off”.
When the immune system turns off, it releases “inhibitory cells” which prevent it fighting disease, including cancer.
Professor Quinn and his team in Melbourne, Australia, target chemotherapy when the immune system is not working to knock out “inhibitory cells”, dramatically improving patients’ chances of recovery.
The treatment is in pill form and patients avoid almost all the debilitating chemotherapy side effects.
Professor Quinn, originally from Glasgow, said: “Everyone, including non-cancer patients, has an immune cycle which fluctuates every 12 to 14 days.
“That’s why if someone in the family comes in with a cough or cold, only some members of the family will develop it. The immune system also attacks cancer cells, which is why we need to give chemotherapy on the right day.”
“The concept is sensational. If you can treat people at the right time it could dramatically improve their chance of a successful outcome. The research is still in its early stages, however if we are proved right this method of treatment could be applied to all cancers and in fact all diseases.”
Since last year Professor Quinn and his team at Royal Women’s Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, have given the therapy to seven women. Their advanced, recurrent ovarian cancer is almost impossible to treat successfully. Several responded positively and their tumours have stopped growing. Professor Quinn added: “These are very, very promising results.”
One patient, Melissa Campbell, went to her doctor four years ago with back pain and a bloated stomach, and was diagnosed with advanced ovarian cancer.
The disease recurred twice, and she has endured surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, as well as severe side effects from another experimental drug.
The 44-year-old said the new treatment had been a totally different experience: “It’s keeping it under control, and fingers crossed it will get rid of it down the track. It’s so much easier compared with the other times.”
The treatment is a pill taken for a few days every fortnight rather than the patient being attached to a drip in hospital. Blood tests are also carried out every two days to assess the immune system.
Preliminary work is now underway to use the same methods to treat patients with skin cancer. Professor Peter Johnson, Cancer Research UK’s chief clinician, welcomed the news: “We know the immune system may be influential in treating many cancers.
“Any research that helps our understanding may hold promise for the future.”
A high number of children are being born with birth defects in an Iraqi city where U.S. forces may have used chemical weapons during a fierce battle in 2004.
Children in Fallujah are being born with limb, head, heart and nervous system defects. There is even a claim that a baby was born with three heads.
The number of heart defects among newborn babies is said to be 13 times higher than the rate in Europe.
Birth defects: A Fallujah mother holds her little girl, who was born without a left forearm and hand
Mother’s agony: BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson is shown photographs of children with birth defects in the Fallujah clinic
The city, 40 miles west of Baghdad, was the scene of some of the fiercest fighting of the Iraq war in late 2004. U.S. Marines led Operation Phantom Fury to recapture it from insurgents.
British troops were involved in manning checkpoints on the outskirts of the city as the Americans went in. The U.S. has admitted that it used white phosphorus in the attack, but only as an illumination device.
Under international law it is illegal if used as an offensive weapon. America has never given a clear response to claims it also used depleted uranium weapons against the insurgents, such as ‘bunkerbuster’ bombs. Both types of weapons can contaminate crops and water supplies.
The BBC’s John Simpson reported on Thursday from Fallujah that, while there had been no authoritative medical investigation, there was growing evidence of an alarming incidence of birth defects
Curse of Fallujah: This little girl was born with deformed feet
Collateral damage? Another Fallujah youngster born with six fingers on one hand
‘We went to a clinic for the disabled, and were given details of dozens upon dozens of cases of children with serious birth defects,’ he said. ‘One photograph I saw showed a newborn baby with three heads.’
He said that while he was at a U.S.-funded hospital in the city, a stream of parents arrived with children who had limb defects, spinal conditions and other problems.
Mystery: An infant born with just one eye battling to stay alive in the Fallujah clinic
SHELLS WITH A RADIOACTIVE PUNCH
Radiation experts claim the birth defects have been caused by uranium. Depleted uranium, or spent nuclear fuel, is twice as dense as lead, making it an effective material for armour-piercing shells and bullets.
On hitting a tank or bunker, they disintegrate, with up to 40 per cent of the uranium, which is still radioactive, turning into fine powder.
Roger Coghill, a Government adviser on the health risks of radiation who has research labs in Gwent, said: ‘The particles are so small that they don’t fall back to earth, they hang around in the atmosphere and are still very deadly years after the conflict.’
The dust particles are not only poisonous, they can enter the bloodstream and become lodged in the lymph glands from where they emit radiation that could cause cancer.
Chris Busby, an Ulster University expert in the effects of radiation, said the uranium particles can also wreck the DNA of sperm and eggs produced by contaminated adults – causing a multitude of birth defects in any baby they conceive.
Professor Busby, who is also co-founder of environmental consultancy Green Audit, said: ‘White phosphorus is not something that specifically damages the DNA.
‘But depleted uranium, normal uranium and enriched uranium are all mutagens and cause birth defects at quite small concentrations.
A British-based Iraq researcher, Malik Hamdan, told the BBC that Fallujah doctors were swamped by a ‘massive, unprecedented’ number of heart defects and other problems.
Figures from a city doctor from 2003, before the war, showed she was dealing with one birth defect every two months at that time, but was now seeing at least one case a day.
Miss Hamdan said data from this January showed the rate of heart defects among newborns was 95 per 1,000 births – 13 times that of Europe
Simpson said that the worst problems appeared to be in a part of the city which was at the heart of the resistance to the Allies.
The Americans said they took public health concerns ‘very seriously’.
A U.S. military spokesman added: ‘No studies to date have indicated environmental issues resulting in specific health issues.’
Fallujah became infamous after the burned corpses of four U.S. contractors were dragged through the streets in March 2004. Rebel leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi had gathered up to 5,000 rebels there.
It was encircled by U.S. forces, along with the Black Watch Regiment, to ensure no rebels escaped. However, civilians were encouraged to leave and up to 90 per cent of the 300,000 population did so.
The attack began late on November 7 and by November 16, U.S. officials announced that Fallujah had been cleared. The battle cost America 51 dead but up to 1,400 gunmen were killed.
A soldier from the U.S. Army 1st Infantry Division leaps through an opening in a broken wall while clearing abandoned buildings of insurgent fighters in Fallujah in 2004
Obama Bows To Gay Pride -
Denies Patriotic Flyovers – Vid
From Spiker
Check this short Fox News video. Obama denied a flyover that’s been done for 42 years, because of the name of the event…yet he celebrated “Gay Pride Day” just to spit in the faces of Christians. He could care less about what Christians feel about homosexuality. I guarantee he would not offend Muslims, now would he?
Next he’ll change the Marine Corps motto of “God, Country and Corps.”
Send this to everyone you know! Please get this out globally. It’s time other nations saw what we’re dealing with here.
Unbelievable, isn’t it!!! Everyone needs to see this. I foresee many flyovers by the Thunderbirds and Blue Angels being canceled in the next three years too. Also demonstrations by the Golden Knights and our service bands. This guy is out of control!!! Obama denied a military flyover at the annual “God and Country” rally in Idaho, where new military recruits were inducted and all military were honored. This is the first time in 42 years that there has not been a military flyover in formation, and organizers were stunned that Obama refused to allow this. When the lady organizing the event contacted the Pentagon to ask why this was not allowed, as it had occurred every year for 42 years, she was told it was because of the event’s “Christian nature.”
The video also mentions that when Obama made a recent speech, a cross and a Christian symbol for Jesus had to be covered first.
This is beyond unbelievable action by the Commander in Chief and President, and Americans need to know about it!
by Laura Berman
Does DPS leader’s writing send wrong message?
The president of the Detroit school board, Otis Mathis, is waging a legal battle to steer the academic future of 90,000 children, in the nation’s lowest-achieving big city district.
He also acknowledges he has difficulty composing a coherent English sentence. Here’s a sample from an e-mail he sent to friends and supporters on Sunday night, uncorrected for errors of spelling, grammar, punctuation and usage. It begins:
If you saw Sunday’s Free Press that shown Robert Bobb the emergency financial manager for Detroit Public Schools, move Mark Twain to Boynton which have three times the number seats then students and was one of the reason’s he gave for closing school to many empty seats.
The rest of the e-mail, and others that Mathis has written, demonstrate what one of his school board colleagues describes, carefully, as “his communication issues.” But if these deficits have limited Mathis, as he admits they have, they have not stopped him from graduating from high school and college. In January, his peers elected him president by a 10-1 vote over Tyrone Winfrey, a University of Michigan academic officer.
“I’m a horrible writer. I know that,” says Mathis, 56, a lifelong resident of southwest Detroit. His difficulties with language were spotted as early as fourth grade, when he was placed in special education classes. His college degree was held up for more than a decade because he repeatedly failed an English proficiency exam then required for graduation at Wayne State University.
In another city, these revelations might be grounds for disqualification. But Mathis is liked and defended by many of his peers, who cite his collegiality, lack of defensiveness and leadership as more important than his writing skills. Even Winfrey, his defeated rival for the presidency, declined to criticize his qualifications.
But the story of Mathis speaks directly to Detroit’s educational conundrum, as officials try to raise standards and the proficiency of its students.
Is Mathis a success story? A man who beat the odds to win political success and career opportunities on the strength of his personality and judgment? Or is he an example of the system’s worst failings — a disinterested student who always found ways to graduate, even when he didn’t meet the requirements — likely to perpetuate lax academic standards if the board wins its court battle with Bobb over control?
“It’s kind of scary to even talk about,” says Patrick Martin, 49, a Detroit contractor whose 12-year-old son is a student at Noble Middle School.
“If this is the leader, what does it say about the followers? It explains a lot about why there’s so much confusion and infighting with the board and Robert Bobb.”
Another e-mail
Here’s another mass e-mail from Mathis, from Aug. 11, 2009:
Do DPS control the Foundation or outside group? If an outside group control the foundation, then what is DPS Board row with selection of is director? Our we mixing DPS and None DPS row’s, and who is the watch dog?
“I told him just last week that he should have his e-mails read by somebody before he sends them out,” said fellow school board member LaMar Lemmons Jr., who praises Mathis as a leader he can trust.
“I said, ‘If somebody gets ahold of this, it will become an issue that you can’t read or write. It will go around the world.’ ”
Can Mathis read?
“Yes, I can read. I’m capable of reading a lot of information and regurgitation,” says Mathis, who told me he sometimes needs to read documents two or three times to fully comprehend their contents but then masters — and memorizes — them.
Engaging and honest
Mathis is an engaging man. When I asked him about the grammatical deficiencies in his e-mails, he didn’t waffle or grandstand, instead honestly answering questions about his difficulties in school.
High school saw him bouncing back and forth between schools. “I was kicked out and kicked in and kicked out,” he says with a chuckle. He credits a high school English teacher with encouraging him to graduate, getting him to attend school “once a week instead of every two weeks” by giving him an audio version of Alex Haley’s “Roots,” one vinyl record at a time.
He graduated from Southwestern High School in 1973 with what he says was a 1.8 grade-point average but was previously reported as a .98 average. After serving in the Navy, Wayne State placed him in a special program to help academically unqualified students move forward, on the G.I. Bill.
He stayed at Wayne for 15 years, as a student and a counselor, becoming a virtual “prisoner of Wayne,” as he jokes, unable to graduate.
Mathis and another student unsuccessfully challenged the use of an English proficiency test as a requirement for graduation. In 1992, when the case went to trial, the lawsuit gained national attention. Mathis said then his failure to pass the test “made me feel stupid.” The requirement was eventually dropped in 2007, and Mathis applied to get his degree the next year, after his election.
Understands struggling kids
Mathis, who can be a persuasive public speaker, retired from Wayne in 1995. He’s served as a substitute teacher in Detroit schools, run a nonprofit and served on the Wayne County Commission.
In his career, Mathis has compensated for his rudimentary writing skills by seeking help from others and working on his listening and speech skills. “We picked him (to be president) because we thought he has the intelligence for it and the tolerance for disruptive behavior,” says Reverend David Murray. “He has that type of calm.”
Is it absurd for a man who cannot write a simple English sentence to serve as the board president? Or to lead the elected board of a district that ranks at the nation’s bottom for literacy?
The questions are more likely to elicit complex answers than criticism of Mathis.
“I know he’s a terrible writer. Oh wow, I’ve seen his e-mails,” says Ida Byrd-Hill, a parent and activist who runs a nonprofit and is a member of Mensa, the high-IQ group.
“His job, though, is to represent the community. His lack of writing skills is prevalent in the community. If anybody does, he understands the struggles of what it’s like to go through an institution and not be properly prepared.”
Mathis and some of his supporters say his story is about someone who manages his limitations, just as others manage physical disabilities.
“Instead of telling them that they can’t write and won’t be anything, I show that cannot stop you,” Mathis says. “If Detroit Public Schools can allow kids to dream, with whatever weakness they have, that’s something. …It’s not about what you don’t have. It’s what you cando.”
Because of his struggles and perseverance, Mathis describes himself as a role model.
But is he?
Laura Berman’s column runs Tuesday and Thursday in Metro. She can be reached at (313) 222-2032 or lberman@detnews.com.
From The Detroit News: http://www.detnews.com/article/20100304/OPINION03/3040437/#ixzz0hqy4VtQG
A soul-less being has no empathy for others. Lose your empathy, and you’ve lost your soul.
There is a “great divide” forming amongst mankind, and it’s often war that most often triggers that divide.
Once a combat soldier kills a defenseless non-combatant, he either likes it or feels remorse. If he likes it, he kills more non-combatants, many more. If he feels remorse, he’s likely to kill more non-combatants to anesthetized or deaden his feelings of moral anguish for having initially killed an innocent human being. In either case, such wanton killing is encouraged by “command intention,” from above, for a variety of reasons; but mainly, it’s done to spread the contagion of universal madness: a people without empathy.
In such a mad society, Israeli citizens justify burning alive Palestinian children, while American republicans still support Bush’s torture and murder of about two million innocents, and democrats overlook Obama’s expanded war and torture in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan.
Soon our madness – absence of empathy – spreads throughout the Middle East, and then around the world in the form of justifying or overlooking all governmental crimes as we are now emotionally invested in them, with our lack of empathy.
A lack of empathy blinds human beings to justice, liberty, and personal discernment, rendering them soulless – a major reason for all wars.
The year is 2010 and to anyone not in denial, the industrialized nations have entered the greatest calamity the world has ever known:
35 Million Americans on Food Stamps: 12 Percent of U.S. Population on Food Stamps Highest Since Records Kept in 1969, and that’s before the Obama administration announced a planned three-year budget freeze on government discretionary spending. (My Budget 360)
18 Million empty houses in the United States and 39 million Americans who are no longer working or looking for work, and that’s before Federal Reserve finishes rewriting the rules of American “capitalism” as US Housing, the Automobile Industry and the American Dream are dismantled. (The 31-Year-Old in Charge of Dismantling G.M., David E. Sanger)
“There are now well over 150 million Americans who feel stress over these things on a consistent basis. Over 60 percent of Americans now live paycheck to paycheck.” (The Economic Elite vs. People of the USA, David DeGraw)
So then, why is President Obama going back on his word and drilling holes in the earth?
The Interior Department under Barack Obama offered for sale more acres of dry-land drilling on public lands than the Bush Administration had at the same point in 2008.
An economy in a state of rigor mortis doesn’t need oil to lubricate an engine that blew up on October 29, 2008, and our way of life won’t come back if the oil industry creates a handful of jobs or we reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
Drill, Drill, Drill didn’t make environmental sense in 1973 or 2008
In 1973, America’s solution to the Arab oil embargo and long gas lines wasn’t mass transit, high mileage cars or alternative energy, it was the 800 mile Trans-Alaska Pipeline through some of the most pristine country in Alaska.
Then in 2008, in response to $5.00/gallon gasoline, Americans agreed to give up their last Arctic Wilderness and do more offshore drilling.
Despite the fact that the oil companies and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), an independent statistical agency within the Department of Energy, estimated that new oil from ANWR would have only a negligible impact on the world price of oil. The EIA projection for oil production in the ANWR would amount to 0.4 to 1.2 percent of total world oil consumption in 2030, assuming the U.S. congress approved legislation to drill, back in 2008.
Drill, Drill, Drill hasn’t made economic sense for at least the last 20 years!
Matt Simmons an investment banker, considered to be a mover and shaker in the oil industry thinks he, “spent his career in the wrong kind of barrels.”
[From a presentation by Matt Simmons at the 2004 Offshore Technology Conference [1]]
It will take 16 trillion dollars to replace the production we now have on line and add to it by 2030. Oil or another form of energy is an indispensable requisite for life as we know it.
But over the past 20 years, oil has been a terrible investment. A 15% return on investment (ROI) is what one expects to get from a building. Oil’s ROI has largely been less than 15%. Scotch returns 50% ROI, wine returns 15%.
Why has oil given such a lousy return?
Because spot energy pricing, where oil is bought and sold like a commodity has destroyed long term value for the oil industry. Spot markets make all contracts short term, so no one is looking out for the future.
“The not-so-invisible hand of JP Morgan Chase is guilty of the ongoing intentional, not accidental, great crime of manipulating the spot markets, lower, not higher as you would expect. So you could, prior to 2008, ‘save money and live better’ while at the same time pollute the environment.” (Silver, But No Silver Lining)
[End of the Matt Simmons Presentation]
Why has oil been a “terrible investment”?
Inexplicably, the industry picks the most expensive places on the earth to drill for oil.
Chevron spent $2.7 billion over 10 years on just the first phase of a deep-water oil project in the Gulf. Other sub-salt discoveries involve drilling more than 30,000 feet, some of the most expensive wells ever drilled.
On January 7, 2010, the Wall Street Journal published, “Cramped on Land, Big Oil Bets at Sea”
“Big Oil never wanted to be here, in 4,300 feet of water far out in the Gulf of Mexico, drilling through nearly five miles of rock. It is an expensive way to look for oil.”
“You really don’t need to know a lot about geology or oil to figure out something is wrong here, why don’t they go back to the old days and drill oil wells onshore?” (Buy Oil Stocks… No Matter What, Chris Mayer)
Drill, Drill, Drill, Environmental damage is the answer
The Environmental damage and pollution to the earth from the role petroleum products play in modern society; the intentional and accidental releases into the environment, was the Goal, Not The Unintended Consequence of the Petroleum Industry.
The Powers That Be (TPTB), are in a metaphysical struggle with Mother-Earth (Gaea) and created the middle class afflicted with “The Narcissism Epidemic: Living in the Age of Entitlement” (The American Dream) for the last 75 years, in order to weaken the planet with environmental damage and pollution. (The Question of Questions)
Until October 2008, the huddled “middle class” masses should have been thanking John D. Rockefeller and the Petroleum industry for letting former serfs and slaves drive cars, trucks, motorcycles and RVs to the mall so they could consume useless toxic products from the petroleum industry. (Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité – Providence, Miracle or What Really Happened)
But at the same time they should have been blaming them for, putting the planet, according to a massive United Nations report the GEO4, at the “unknown points of no return”
TPTB believed if they gave up their real wealth: Raw materials, commodities, copper, iron ore, petroleum, lead, copper, silver and gold in exchange for $500 trillion of the fiat currency (Monopoly money) they created out of thin air so the middle class could live the American Dream, a nightmare for Gaea, they would attain immortality in a period known as the New World Order (Millennium).
The New Heavens and the New Earth is the eternal destination and a thousand years of peace and plenty and paradise on Earth for The House of Rothschild, Global elite, Illuminati, Bilderbergers, CFR and the other secret societies (righteous people).
On October 29, 2008, TPTB determined their plan did not succeed: They were unable to defeat Gaea.
Gehenna and the abyss is the eternal destination and a thousand years of punishment for The House of Rothschild, Global elite, Illuminati, Bilderbergers, CFR and the other secret societies (wicked people).
TPTB did not wish to spend eternity in Hell, so between October of 2008 and October 2009, they threatened Gaea with World War III. “Escalation Scenarios: The Third World War and Its Aftermath” (Pakalert) and Dr. Strangelove articles were everywhere in the media.
The Book of Revelation describes the final battle with Gaea and there is no Nuclear World War III at Armageddon in the valley of Megiddo.
Therefore, the escalation scenarios were a bluff (we hope).
Rev 9:16 describes a hand-to-hand combat when the world ends. A Nuclear Armageddon would make too much of the planet uninhabitable for the One World governors and the 500 million “useful eaters” they need for slaves when they take over the world.
Google Trends confirmed the TPTB thought the bluff was successful when the Nuclear War headlines were replaced with the Swine Flu.
“President Barack Obama declared the swine flu outbreak a national emergency.” Washington Post (October 25, 2009)
The nation’s chief health officer had the power to let hospitals move emergency rooms offsite to speed up the immunization of the masses with a shot-based on genome sequencing–a biotechnology that allows a doctor to tailor medical treatments to an individual’s genetic profile:
“Here for your shot?”
“Worried about the Bird Flu? Oh of course sit here, roll up your sleeve. Oops, sorry you died.”
“Well I guess it was too late for you; next time, get here sooner!”
The controversial Swine Flu vaccine, many believe, was a ruse to start us on a slow and orderly road to a population of slaves (useful eaters). (Ominous Signs Are Aligned: Not A Particularly Good Sign (11-09))
Bluff Unsuccessful, Perpetual Check
As of November 10, 2010 swine flu articles were replaced with headlines about drilling holes in the earth indicating the bluff – the threat of a nuclear war failed.
In a futile attempt to avoid going to Hell, TPTB are drilling holes in the earth hoping to find a heretofore undiscovered vulnerability in the earth’s crust:
Interior secretary Salazar announced 38 lease sales for oil and gas on public lands and 75 days later President Obama signed an executive order to loan two billion dollars of our “tax payers dollars” to a Brazilian Oil Exploration Company to drill for oil off the coast of Brazil.
This is a strategy known in Chess as “perpetual check” – a sequence of checks from which the opponent (Gaea) can escape, used by a player (TPTB) with a worse position in order not to lose the game.
The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti – Check!
F. William Engdahl, authority on the New World Order and most of the scholars, pundits and thinkers of our time have a strongly held belief that everything wrong in the world is because someone is, greedy, corrupt or just “power hungry.”
F.W. and the “experts” believe we sent 20,000 US troops to Haiti on the pretext of humanitarian aid so “Washington and private business interests tied to it could get a geopolitical prize of the first order.”
F.W. writes prolifically about the New World Order at the Center for Global Research and would probably admit the Federal Reserve fiscal policy is as much about power as about money but without a metaphysical perspective, he would not agree the environmental damage and pollution was the goal of our consumer society.
“The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti” is his latest article that erroneously asserts that the real reason for the US military occupation of Haiti is so we can “carve up of the vast wealth of the nation.”
Haitian scholar Dr. Georges Michel, wrote that the U.S. has known about the vast oil and natural gas reserves in Haiti since 1908.
So why are we carving up Haiti now?
A clue to this enigma can be found in “The Fateful Geological Prize Called Haiti”:
“The vast oil reserves of the Persian Gulf and of the region from the Red Sea into the Gulf of Aden are at a similar convergence zone of large tectonic plates, as are such oil-rich zones as Indonesia and the waters off the coast of California.
In short, in terms of the physics of the earth, precisely such intersections of tectonic masses as run directly beneath Haiti have a remarkable tendency to be the sites of vast treasures of minerals, as well as oil and gas, throughout the world.” (2005, Caribbean Basins, Tectonics and Hydrocarbons” Institute for Geophysics at the University of Texas)
F.W. misses the significance of “determining as precisely as possible the relation between tectonic plates” but the geologists do not:
“The Jan. 12 earthquake was on a fault line that passes near potential gas reserves, said Stephen Pierce, a geologist who worked in the region for 30 years. The quake may have cracked rock formations along the fault, allowing gas or oil to temporarily seep toward the surface, he said yesterday in a telephone interview.
A geologist, callous as it may seem, tracing that fault zone from Port-au-Prince to the border looking for gas and oil seeps, may find a structure that hasn’t been drilled,” said Pierce, exploration manager at Zion Oil & Gas Inc.”
The earthquake in Haiti may have exposed vulnerability (a structure that hasn’t been drilled) in the earth’s crust and TPTB are rushing to take military advantage of their opponent. [2]
Crusextraction of the Earth, Response: Earthquakes And Tsunamis
In 2005, world oil-production alone (not including natural-gas) was an incomprehensible 80 – 100 million barrels of oil per day.
USGS coastal geologists understand these factors cannot be ignored as far as influencing earth crust stresses and confirm the earth’s response to extracting by force 3,360,000,000 – 4,200,000,000 gallons of the planets vital fluids every single day: Earthquakes and tsunamis.
While disagreement abounds on this topic, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) say that oil production at plate boundaries where hard, rocky slabs slide against each other to releases tremendous amounts of energy and could be the cause for the 2004 quake that triggered a deadly tsunami in Sumatra.
“Here’s how it works: With high-tech equipment, oil companies pinpoint oil-rich areas and use large drills to puncture the surface below the sea, sometimes as deep as 10,000 feet. As this pricey fluid gets sucked from the sediment pores, the surrounding rocks shift positions to fill in the newly vacated spaces. At a large scale, for example the volume displaced when millions of barrels of oil are produced, the land movement can actually cause a mini-seismic earthquake, said Robert Morton, a USGS coastal geologist.
During these various stages the globe of the earth is gradually being depressurized and cooled internally, causing contraction for both of these reasons. When objects cool down, they automatically shrink/contract in size. If you let high-pressure air or gas out of a cylinder, it forms ice around the outlet, and cools the entire cylinder. If you let some of the air out of a football, or basketball, the ball shrinks and goes badly out of shape.”
“Apply that to the Earth and you have earthquakes – simple common-sense – not rocket-science. A fact so simple that anyone who understands the oil-extraction process would understand, but, because they are insanely-blinded by their insatiable greed and avarice, they often overlook the obvious.” (Paul Noel, JAH, Sterling D. Allan and Mary-Sue Halliburton) [3]
The Crusextraction
During the various stages of the energy extraction process, the globe of the earth suffers limitless pain as the area where the drilling occurs. It is gradually being depressurized and cooled internally, causing cycles of contsriction, joint-rending cramps, intermittent partial asphyxiation and searing pain as they use large drills to puncture pericardium and into the heart, sometimes as deep as 10,000 feet.
As the serum gets sucked from the sediment pores, the surrounding rocks shift positions to fill the newly vacated spaces causing unbearable agony as the earth automatically contracts in size and goes badly out of shape resulting in a deep crushing pain.
“I Thirst.” “My strength is dried up like a potsherd; my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.”(Psalm 22:15)
Then another agony begins when millions of barrels of vital bodily fluids are produced. This causes deep, crushing pain as the sac surrounding the bowels of the earth slowly fill with hydrocarbon soil and began to compress the tectonic plates causing (shock) mini-seismic earthquakes.
“I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint, my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.” Psalm 22:14
When the loss of fluids reaches a critical level, the earth is struggling to pump heavy, thick, sluggish serum that is not only pressurized, but is also hot. As it is extracted, the tortured lungs of the earth are suffocating and are making a frantic effort to inhale small gulps of air.
The pressure gradually decreases, making it less profitable to take the remaining serum, but to make doubly sure of a mortal wound, the legionnaire uses external-energy to pierce and inject cold water into the sac surrounding the heart.
“They shall look on Him whom they pierced.” Psalm 22:16,17
“And immediately there came out blood and water.” John 19:34
As the sac fills with cold water, the last remaining serum floats up on top.
This escape of watery fluid from the sac surrounding the heart and the wound through the sac surrounding the interior of the heart causes painful Tsunamis. This is rather conclusive evidence that the earth was tormented but not “deceased”.
Conclusion
There are only three outcomes to this galactic metaphysical struggle that goes back, at least, to the Dark Ages: (The Question of Questions)
Gaea determines man’s future.
TPTB determine man’s future in a new World Order where they attain immortality and rid the planet of all but 500 million useful eaters.
TPTP are defeated (As I claim they were October 2008) and have three choices:
The dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan (TPTB) can accept defeat and agree to be tossed into the Abyss, be locked up for a 1000 years and then thrown into the Lake of Fire.
Make good on a threat of total world annihilation (i.e. Nagasaki and Hiroshima) and spend a 1000 years in the 700-acre, secret subterranean city, deep within the bedrock underneath Central Park in Manhattan (Manhattan Project). This assumes Gaea allows them to launch WWIII. [4]
Continue to drill holes in the earth (Perpetual Check) prolonging the inevitable looking for a heretofore-undiscovered vulnerability in the Earth’s crust.
I know not what course others may take, but as for me I hope the TPTB accept defeat and are thrown into the Lake of Fire.
Drilling holes in the earth’s crust for oil isn’t the only strategy for weakening the earth.
The U.S. Department of Energy has reported that just one geothermal location out of the hundreds that have been identified, is so powerful it has the potential to produce 50,000 times the known oil and gas reserves in the world.
The Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, sits on top of the Coso Hot Springs, one of the hottest land masses in the United States and could be vulnerability in the Earth.
To bring heat up to the surface they drill a hole deep into the Earth, tapping the area beneath the Earth’s surface that produces heat over 400 degrees. Next, they inject water into the hole. The water instantly boils and begins to produce steam that rises out of the hole.
[3] However, since A.D. 1900 [the dawn of the Industrial Age and our Consumer society], the growth in major earthquakes has been relentless. From 1900 to 1949 it averaged three major quakes per decade. From 1949 the increase became awesome with 9 killer quakes in the 1950’s; 13 in the 60’s; 56 in the 1970’s and an amazing 74 major quakes in the 1980’s. Finally, in the 1990’s, as [sic] the present rate, we will experience 125 major killer quakes in this decade (Source: U.S. Geological Survey Earthquake Report, Boulder, Colorado).
[4] Is there anything we can do to prevent total world annihilation?
This question was posed to Duncan O’Finioan at the September 2009, Awake and Aware Conference in Los Angeles put on Bill Ryan and Kerry Cassidy founders of Project Camelot.
Project Camelot Overview and mission statement: To provide researchers, activists and ‘whistleblowers’ with access to all forms of media in order to get the truth out. Our focus includes but is not limited to the following:
extraterrestrial visitation and contact, time travel, mind control, classified advanced technology, free energy, possible coming earth changes, revealing plans that exist to control the human race.
Project Camelot is clearly a disinformation project, however there is information in disinformation.
Duncan O’Finioan was a featured speaker at the September conference.
Duncan, allegedly, is a refugee from a US military program that trained super soldiers, with psychic abilities and uncommon strength –and skilled in psychotronics, that is: mind control.
[Excerpt from “We Are No Mind Control Experiment”] Kerry Cassidy
After Duncan tells you to avoid anything with the word Project on the front, (4:57, http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2197572) he responds to a question from an attendee in the audience about the Illuminati.
Duncan: Find a teacher someone who is a true white lighter, work with them let em teach you.
Attendee: And the possible solution if we can send white light, energy and love, call it prayer, call it what you will. To…you know, it’s a radical idea, but to the Illuminati or the leaders out there, so that they can help to understand really what they are doing. And so they will have more love and actually change their mind to prevent unleashing such a super soldier force. As well as helping to shield them in the same energies that are shielding you so that the negative energies that are around them will not be able to be around them.
Duncan: You raise an excellent point, however the Illuminati know exactly what they are doing. What you are saying has merit and possibly has a chance…
Then Kerry Cassidy takes over the stage and delivers the following speech:
Kerry: OK I want I want to say something here, what we are talking about is awareness. OK, being awake and being aware knowing OK, becoming aware just the act of learning and becoming aware just what we are doing right here, this creates the power. OK, its not enough to just send blind light blind love. OK, it must be intelligent it must have perception attached you must do more than just give the heart. OK, you must understand what you are seeing and why you are doing what you are doing that’s so knowing, and putting that piece together that that’s the missing piece. OK, and then, it’s awareness. OK, what you want to convey is the awareness of all the aspects of what’s going on there. OK, so if you are loving, you are loving consciously knowing all the parameters of what that means, not blindly OK, so don’t give your energy blindly. If you know if you want to give your energy… and power and light and love to the Illuminati, know what you are doing, be conscious while you are doing it.
Kerry: “If you want to give your energy… and power and light and love to the Illuminati”, to stop the Illuminati from unleashing total world annihilation, “know what you are doing, be conscious while you are doing it.”
A Rancho Cordova-based insurer Monday launched what it calls the first nationally available insurance coverage designed specifically for the medical marijuana industry.
Only 14 states allow use of medical marijuana today, but Statewide Insurance Services is nonetheless offering coverage in all 50 states.
“Given the growth in the industry, I think it’s only a matter of time” before other states allow medical marijuana, said Mike Aberle, a commercial insurance agent with the local firm and national director of its Medical Marijuana Specialty Division.
He added: “Now that we can offer (services) in all 50 states, we can start the minute they go legal, without delay.”
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah woman who lost the title to her house over an unpaid $68 dental bill has been given a reprieve.
The Utah Court of Appeals ruled Capri Ramos is entitled to another opportunity to void the sale of her house at a county auction for $1,550.
The collection agency North American Recovery sued Ramos in 1995 over the dental bill. She did not contest the lawsuit, never realizing the consequences. Her house in the Salt Lake City suburb of Glendale was sold the next year to a group of investors.
On Thursday, the Utah Court of Appeals sent the case 3rd District Court for a hearing on whether Ramos had proper notice of the sheriff’s sale and whether the sale price was “grossly inadequate.”
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Information from: The Salt Lake Tribune
(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
One of the greatest outrages of our time! By law, you cannot place a lien against a home for medical or dental bills. The same is true for credit cards (which are called unsecured debt for a reason). So, these collection agencies buy the debt for 10 cents on the dollar and then convert it into a judgement. How can ANY court lawfully change an unsecured debt with no collateral into one that can be attached to a property?
In my opinion, just more corruption in America.
Jesus said:
38 And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,
39 And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:
40 Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation. (source)
Here are some of the comments from this article: (source)
Presenter: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen April 28, 1997 8:45 AM EDT
DoD News Briefing: Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen
Q: Let me ask you specifically about last week’s scare here in Washington, and what we might have learned from how prepared we are to deal with that (inaudible), at B’nai Brith.
A: Well, it points out the nature of the threat. It turned out to be a false threat under the circumstances. But as we’ve learned in the intelligence community, we had something called — and we have James Woolsey here [*puke*] to perhaps even address this question about phantom moles. The mere fear that there is a mole within an agency can set off a chain reaction and a hunt for that particular mole which can paralyze the agency for weeks and months and years even, in a search. The same thing is true about just the false scare of a threat of using some kind of a chemical weapon or a biological one. There are some reports, for example, that some countries have been trying to construct something like an Ebola Virus [OMG! Who would do such a thing?], and that would be a very dangerous phenomenon, to say the least. Alvin Toeffler has written about this in terms of some scientists in their laboratories trying to devise certain types of pathogens that would be ethnic specific so that they could just eliminate certain ethnic groups and races; and others [LOL] are designing some sort of engineering, some sort of insects that can destroy specific crops. Others are engaging even in an eco- type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves.’
Just switch ‘yours,’ ‘others’ and ‘they’ with ‘U.S.,’ ‘U.S.’ and ‘U.S.’ This was in 1997. Imagine, after eight years of George W. Bush turbo-funding these lunatics, what they can do now. Oh, BTW. See, also, the list of dead scientists.
The most fascinating might be the Harvard scientist, Dr. Don C Wiley, ‘one of the foremost infectious disease researchers’ in the United States, who ‘got dizzy’ and his car fell off a bridge in Memphis, TN.
The bridge where his car was found is only a five-minute drive away and in the wrong direction from where he was staying, leaving authorities with a four-hour, unexplained gap until his vehicle was found. Now Memphis police are exploring several theories involving suicide, robbery and murder.
That’s just a ‘we-know-we’re-f*cking-with-you-and-there’s-not-a-damned-thing-you-can-do-about-it’ assassination that any detective on ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent’ could wrap up in the first half-hour of the episode.
High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program 27 Feb 2010 The High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is an ionospheric research program jointly funded by the US Air Force, the US Navy, the University of Alaska and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). Its purpose is to analyze the ionosphere and investigate the potential for developing ionospheric enhancement technology for radio communications and surveillance purposes (such as missile detection). The HAARP program operates a major Arctic facility, known as the HAARP Research Station, on an Air Force owned site near Gakona, Alaska. The most outstanding instrument at the HAARP Station is the Ionospheric Research Instrument (IRI), a high power transmitter facility operating in the high frequency range. The IRI is used to temporarily excite a limited area of the ionosphere… As of 2008, HAARP had incurred around $250 million in tax-funded construction and operating costs.
Click here for full DoD News Transcript. Credit to Elizabeth K. via Samantha G. on Facebook for unearthing the briefing.
Bizarre glowing cloud phenomenon in the sky was observed about 10 mins before the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake took place. This was recorded in Meixian, Shaanxi province ~550km northeast of epicenter. The phenomenon was said to last for about 1 min.
source: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_cb00XMjc…
These clouds seemed to be glowing or somewhat luminous and seemed to resemble some characteristics of the Auroras. I am not sure exactly what they were or whether they indeed had anything to do with the quake. I am no expert anyways. See if any scientists are willing to give a full explanation.
If such phenomenon can be proved for its connection with earthquake occurrences, maybe they could be used as warning signs and would be life saving. If not, just learn these clouds as yet another rare atmospheric phenomenon and no need to panic when seeing them.
After all, this might well be just a rare atmospheric phenomenon occurred by coincidence. Though, just wondering if there’s any possibility the formation of such rare clouds be catalyzed by any event??
Cecilia Lagos a journalist from Chile was just on CNN talking about how she was laying in bed awake as it was happening. It is not uncommon for there to be tremors but it didn’t stop in got louder and as she was looking out the window she noticed the sky was changing color. 6:45 AM PST I hear a woman say the sky was changing colors before and during the quake, “the scariest part was the sky changing color” and later It was like Armageddon or the Movie 2012
The Iranian president has questioned the official U.S. version of the Sept. 11 attacks before, but this is the first time he ventured to label it a ‘big lie’
Defence minister Ahmad Vahidi (left) inspects a new production line for the short-range missiles
