“They’re rioting in Africa, they’re starving in Spain, there’s hurricanes in Florida and Texas needs rain.” A snippet out of a Kingston Trio song, true then, true now. A typhoon has killed off at least 100,000 of us according to the latest estimates. It wasn’t all that long ago that one that hit Bangladesh took the lives of over 200,000. The world paid little attention to the losses among that mass of teeming, terribly impoverished humanity then and is paying almost the same attention to this one. The numbers are too big and it’s too far away. We don’t want to think about it.

What we do notice, however, is a breakout in fighting in Lebanon and what that may mean to the price of oil. Of course, we also notice the price of oil. We notice it a lot, actually, and many of us are pretty scared about it because our wages aren’t keeping pace and the cost of oil is driving up the cost of literally everything else except our rent. And that’s coming, we know it is.

We pay closer attention to an Arab of African and American parents who is trying to take up the power seat of the worlds most powerful nation, than we pay to the deaths of 100,000 humans in one awful storm. We don’t pay any attention at all to this mans racist minister, this mans racist wife, this mans underworld and terrorist friends. We pay no attention at all to this mans stream of lies. That he’s an inveterate liar and storyteller matters much less than that he can orate well. Because he can, many people say they admire his “wisdom”.

What I admire is the incredible stupidity of my fellow man. I admire the shallowness of us. I deeply admire our false caring, our utter and total incapacity to admit being wrong or in error. I wallow in the luxurious ecstasy of pain suffered by those who are forced to actually apologize. I shudder with violent paroxysms of glee as we rise with one voice in our denial of any possibility outside of our own narrow, cretinously opinionated view.

But most of all, I adore, yes, adore, how really marvellously stupid we are. We who are so very clever at making gadgets, we are the master toolmakers. After millions of years of evolving, we have finally outdone the web spider in creativity while we still have the same mindset as the spider. We don’t care what we kill as long as we eat for another day.

Henry David Thoreau once remarked that if you read a newspaper once, you never needed to read another because the news never changed. The very few of you who stop in and read my rants will have noticed that my rants are coming fewer and farther between. I think it’s because I’ve said all I can say on the subjects I chose as the blog’s mainstay. If another war starts, all it is, is just another war.

Right now, you know, I’m just worn out on stupidity. I don’t say things here that stupid humanity is at all interested in reading. You can have your blog popularity contests and that’s fine, I just wanted to reach people, which is proof of my own stupidity.

It should be obvious to everyone in the country now who the real racists are. When a preacher who preaches Afrocentrism and hatred of America is cheered by blacks both in all-black churches and by blacks on TV, we see who they are.

when a black candidate for president is voted for by 90% of black people simply because of his skin color, we see who they are.

This same candidate was getting fully half of the votes of those of us who are white, oriental and Hispanic. That’s been changing with the changing view. More and more this man is emerging as a black persons candidate and his claim that he will be a “uniter” is getting lost in that black view.

Hillary Clinton and John McCain couldn’t have asked for a better campaign gift than the “Reverend” Jeremiah Wright. This man just can’t keep his mouth shut. He’s glorying in having been Obama’s friend and pastor for the last 20 years and is blatting on non-stop and showing the world the trash he’s been stuffing into Barack Hussein Obama’s brain for twenty full years.

Wright is a selfish and vindictive man. Ever since he was literally kept in the basement when Obama announced his candidacy instead of giving an opening prayer as originally planned, and then has been denied repeatedly by his former pupil, Wright has been seeking revenge, and getting it. His speeches have been worse than unrepentant, they’ve been insulting, not just to Obama (”He’s a politician. He says what he has to say to get elected.” “This isn’t about me, this is an attack on the black church.”) to defending anti-Semitic Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan as “one of the most important voices in the 20th and 21st century”, to mocking Pres. Kennedy’s accent. Anything that white people might consider an icon or hold dear in some way, this man attacks, and now he has Obama in his gunsights.

Jeremiah Wright is trying to control Barack Obama. He’s trying to dominate him with shame, vilify him before the black community, force him to come back into the fold, to openly espouse the Black Power, Black Supremism, Afro-Centrist, Anti-American Fascistic doctrine that he’s been packing down Obama’s throat for 20 years, and of course if Obama does this, that will be the death of any chance at the Presidency. Yet until he does, Wright is going to keep right on glorying in the limelight, taking the media spotlight away from Obama and making Barack look very, very bad in the process. This is the depth of this mans racism and hatred. Take a good look at Barack Hussein Obama’s long-term teacher.

Obama’s radical muslim family, his muslim upbringing, his muslim-associated minister, all rolls off the public like rain off oilskin, but his lack of patriotism and his racism are the growing motes now caught in the eyes of the Public. Every time we hear Wright screaming “God Damn America”, each time we’re reminded that Obama won’t recite the Pledge of Allegiance or wear that little flag pin, every time we see him surrounded by other blacks, we the Public grow a little wiser.

If half the black people who vote for him aren’t racist, then the other half are. Considering that only 10% of them voted for Hillary, yet nearly all Hispanics voted for Hillary, the math is simple. 45% of all blacks, at least, are anti-white.

I heard Wright say that we’re all immigrants except the Indians. Excuse me? The Indians were also immigrants at one time. I’m not an immigrant. All of my long-dead relatives were but I was born here! Wright spouts that “immigrant” crap to justify his claim that all blacks are actually Africans and only owe allegiance to that continent. God Damn America. God Damn whites, who are the enslavers of black people.

Well, God Damn you, Wright, you couldn’t be more Wrong. None of my ancestors was a slave or a slave owner and who gives a damn if they were? That has nothing to do with us today except its use as fuel to be dredged up over and over by scum like Wright to keep fanning the flames of racial hatred and keep him in nice suits. Wright is a two-bit carny barker who sells racist hatred to black people, and the black people suck it up and blame all their problems on “the whites” instead of making something of their lives.

It isn’t white or brown or yellow people who are keeping the black people down. It’s the black people. Because they buy into being “different” (”We use a different tone scale”, “we think on the right side of our brains”, we’re different. We’re different”) No, you’re not. That 5-note tone scale is AFRICAN, not GENETIC. Everybody thinks on both sides of their brains, one side is logical, the other is creative. You don’t have a patent on that. Wake up!

Wright preaches that blacks are different from everyone else and the blacks suck it up. Hitler taught that Germans were “different” from the rest of humanity and the Germans sucked it up. Wright is just another tinhorn Fascist preaching the same lying garbage that we hear from the Islamists, only this lying tinhorn claims to be a Christian. You show me a Christian who says God Damn America or God Damn - any - country and I’ll show you a false Christian.

This is Obamas religious teacher. Obama says “Oh no, we’re just friends, I don’t go along with all that he says.” Really? You were a muslim until he “converted” you! He’s a lying, hate-filled, supposedly “former” muslim, and a racist, and you hung out with this man for TWENTY YEARS and didn’t soak up his philosophy? A man who reminded you greatly of your own Islamist father?

What you are is slowly becoming clear to even the densest of us. You’re just another lying racist and you’re not what America needs. You deny your teacher and you deny the teachings that you’ve believed in and followed for 20 years in order to gain a power in this country that you have no right to have. That’s your 20 pieces of silver, you Judas.

Rupert Murdoch, may he die of a painful stroke, is getting closer all the time to owning all the media in the world. The Chicago-based Tribune Co. is reporting that Tribune owned Newsday has reached an “agreement in principle” to sell the Long Island based newspaper to Rupert Murdoch owned News Corp for $580 million.

New York has a little something called “media ownership issues,” which “could restrict the number of properties…Murdoch could own in the New York Area”. I certainly hope so. Enough is enough.

This wrinkled up old f**k is 77 years old and thinks he’s going to live forever. His goal in life is to control every word we see and hear on TV, radio and in print and on the Internet. Seriously. That’s what he’s after and makes no secret of it. To what egomaniacal purpose, who the Hell knows? No wonder the planet is so screwed up.

An 84 year old Jewish guy, speaking of older types, has been arrested for passing military secrets to Israel back in the 1980’s, including nuclear weaponry, the F-15 fighter jet program and the U.S. Patriot missile defense system. So now he’s going to be prosecuted.

I have a better idea. Deport him to Israel where he can live out the rest of his days as the National Hero that he is. We should have been giving Israel the info anyway and we probably did but don’t want to admit it because our military is so paranoid.

This happened in 1985, 23 years ago. There’s no statute of limitations on this? I always thought that just applied to murder. Give an old spy a break.

Hugo Chavez, the Benito Mussolini of Venezuela, is yelling about soaring food prices, calling them a “massacre” of the world’s poor that are creating a global nutritional crisis. “It is a true massacre what is happening in the world,” Chavez said in a televised speech, citing U.N. statistics about deaths caused by hunger and malnourishment.

His comments came only hours after the United Nations’ World Food Program called more expensive food a “silent tsunami” that threatens to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger. “The problem is not the production of food … it is the economic, social and political model of the world. The capitalist model is in crisis.”

Well, he’s not a stupid man even if he looks it, and even tho he’s a communist, he’s right on all counts about the food crisis and its cause. Where he goes overboard is in saying that capitalism is in crisis. Nope. Not. What’s in crisis are all those people making about a dollar a day or less who are starving as I type. About 100 million of them and more on the way as food prices continue to rise way faster than wages.

My money is on the starvation deaths of 500 million, that’s 1/2 Billion dead people in the next 3 years. Any takers? I’ll give you odds….

From the U.K. “New Statesman”: “World cereal stocks are at an all-time low, food-aid programmes have run out of money and millions face starvation. Yet wealthy countries persist with plans to use grain for petrol. The U.K.’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation introduced on 15 April, mandates petrol retailers to mix 2.5 per cent biofuels into fuel sold to motorists. This will rise to 5.75 per cent by 2010.”

The concern is legitimate as biofuel from corn has proven to be very inefficient. The end cost is actually higher per gallon than gasoline.

Using our farmland to make ethanol instead of food is only a small part of the problem. There are other threats, such as wheat rust. A strain named Ug99 emerged in Africa in 1999. Despite containment efforts, winds carried spores to the bread baskets of the Middle East. It is now poised to infect prime wheat growing regions in Europe, Ukraine, Russia, India and Pakistan.

Should even one major wheat producer have a crop failure, the effect on the world’s ability to feed itself would be immense, which explains why crash programs to develop new rust resistant strains are now underway.

However, if Ug99 spreads swiftly, devastating crops before science can breed resistant strains, already grave food security problems will expand. So this isn’t simply a distant problem for poor nations, it looms over rich ones like Canada and the United States, too.

World Bank president Robert Zoellick has bluntly warned the world’s richest countries that a potential planetary catastrophe is unfolding with frightening speed. Jacques Diouf, head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, warns that with 37 countries are already in crisis and each day brings greater risk of global famine. India’s finance minister was more direct. “It is becoming starker by the day,” Palaniappan Chidambaram said. “Unless we act fast for a global consensus on the price spiral, the social unrest induced by food prices in several countries will conflagrate into a global contagion, leaving no country — developed or otherwise — unscathed.”

The consequences for the world’s poor are brutal: we drive, they starve. The mass diversion of grain harvests into ethanol plants for fuel is reaching its political and moral limits.

The UN says it takes 232 kilograms of corn to fill a 50-litre (about 13 gallons) car tank with ethanol. That is enough to feed a child for a year. Last week, the UN predicted “massacres” unless the biofuel policy is halted.

Biofuels is one cause, but just one. The reason for food “shortages” is speculation in commodity futures following the collapse of the credit markets. Needing quick returns to offset the huge loan losses, dealers are taking trillions of dollars out of equities and mortgage bonds and ploughing them into food and raw materials. It’s called the “commodities super-cycle” on Wall Street, and it is likely to cause starvation on an epic scale because this competition is massively driving up prices.

The rocketing price of wheat, soybeans, sugar, coffee - you name it - is a direct result of debt defaults that have caused financial panic in the west and encouraged investors to seek “stores of value”. These range from gold and oil at one end to corn, cocoa and cattle at the other; speculators are even placing bets on water prices.

This is a bubble to end all bubbles and one that can only burst with the deaths of millions of people through starvation. The price of oil is not going to come down because the Arabs and Russians and Venezuelans, etcetera, are glorying in the huge rush of wealth. Oil drives food production. Commodities speculation and investment drive up prices right along with oil increases, which show no sign of stopping.

Profit-taking may doom the 2.8 billion people who live on less than $2 a day, almost half the world’s population, to pay for these profits with their lives, and long before then there will be wars.

When mass starvation sets in, which it will, disease controls and any efforts at sanitation will fall apart and plagues will roam the planet like they’ve always done in times like these.

The rise of Islam is going to have to take a back seat to global starvation. I don’t think all those super-rich sheiks in Dubai are going to open their purses to feed the starving masses of muslims, nor the Saudis, either, as their dreams of a new global Caliphate come crashing down when hundreds of millions of muslims begin starving to death.

They will, because the truth is that the countries that have been taken over by Islam are the most backward, worst managed and poorest in all the world, except for those that have oil reserves, and those people will be the first to starve. In Darfur, for example, it is muslims who are killing off all the Christians in order to Islamize the country, and in the process they are killing all the farmers who’ve been providing them with food. Those who still survive are without work or income and surviving in camps off what little charity they can get.

In the sprawling slum of Haiti’s Cité Soleil, Placide Simone, 29, offered one of her five offspring to a stranger. “Take one,” she said, cradling a listless baby and motioning toward four rail-thin toddlers, none of whom had eaten that day. “You pick. Just feed them.”

Mother Nature always seeks a balance, and she always finds it. Most people in the “Have” nations will survive. In fact, they’ll hardly notice all the starvation while most of those in the “Have Not” nations die. Between the grain shortage, rising oil prices, increasing inflation and wars and pending wars, we are hurtling over the brink.

PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of “inciting racial hatred” over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers.

Prosecutors asked that the Paris court hand the 73-year-old former sex symbol a two-month suspended prison sentence and fine her 15,000 euros ($23,760) for saying the Muslim community was “destroying our country and imposing its acts”.

Since retiring from the film industry in the 1970s, Bardot has become a prominent animal rights activist but she has also courted controversy by denouncing Muslim traditions and immigration from predominantly Muslim countries.

She has been fined four times for inciting racial hatred since 1997, at first 1,500 euros and most recently 5,000.

“I am fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its acts,” the star of ‘And God created woman’ and ‘Contempt’ said.

She’s absolutely correct. The woman should be considered a hero, but instead she’s being prosecuted for saying what she thinks instead of kissing muslim ass like the simpering appeasers in her government. Every time I think the French are finally growing some hair, they prove me wrong. “Inciting racial hatred”. Since when did a fascist creed become a race? Muslims are white, black and all colors in between.

The muslims in France, meanwhile, can riot and loot and burn cars literally by the 1000’s, and be called “angry youths”. Their preachers can exhort them to kill every non-muslim they can find, and demand that the government of France give muslims special treatment that ordinary French citizens don’t get, and the French murmur apologies and meekly comply. But be prosecuted for tromping all over the laws and rights of French ciitizens? No. The government of France is such a cadre of cowards that instead they go after a 73-year-old faded movie star who has more courage than all those politicians put together, to show their muslim bullies that they’re being dutifully compliant.

For Sale: French Military Rifle. Never Fired. Dropped Once.

A federal agency has authorized the killing of up to 85 California sea lions that prey on migrating salmon and steelhead at the base of Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River. Sea lions are wiping out the salmon returning to the rivers to spawn, as they only take one bite out of the salmons bellies where all the fish’s fat is deposited. They just want the fat, not the meat, and of course the injury kills the fish. A full grown sea lion is a huge animal which will kill many 100’s of salmon daily.

So now The Humane Society of the United States wants a federal judge to head off the capturing or killing of the salmon-eating sea lions at Bonneville Dam in the Columbia River, no doubt figuring that live sea lions are better to have around than 1000’s of dead salmon rotting in our drinking water. It said a much larger-than-normal run is predicted this year and that the quota for fishermen has been raised by 33 percent.

What? Where do they get that? Are they nuts? No it isn’t. No it hasn’t. The salmon season has just been closed down along the entire Western coast from California to mid-Oregon because of this!

So I have this suggestion for the Humane Society: Go ahead and let the sea lions wipe out the Columbia River salmon entirely. Then all those sea lions will starve to death in slow agony.

They will. No food, no eat. You dumb bastards.

Then after all the sea lions are dead and gone, we can re-plant the Columbia with baby salmon, and we won’t have to deal with morons like you in the managing of our wildlife, since you only care about furry animals and clearly don’t give a hoot in Hell about us or the fish.

All animals eat and multiply to the limit of their food supply. When they overpopulate, there’s a die-off.

Sea otters eat shellfish and have really nice fur. For a long time they were hunted for their fur until they nearly became extinct, but in the meantime the shellfish industry swelled and thrived. Then it became illegal to kill even one sea otter and now the shellfish industry is wiped out by the sea otters, which then died off and now there are exactly enough otters to eat exactly enough shellfish with none left over for us. When was the last time you enjoyed a plate of abalone strips?

If we did a yearly cull of sea lions and sea otters, the animals would keep a balanced population and we could share in the oceans bounty instead of letting them eat it all.

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About 20,000 workers rioted over high food prices and low wages on Saturday close to the Bangladesh capital Dhaka, police said, amid spreading global unrest over soaring grocery costs.

Food riots seem to be happening around the world on a near-daily basis lately. U.N. peacekeepers fired rubber bullets and tear gas at an angry mob that tried to storm the National Palace in the Hatian capital, Port-au-Prince today. Riots began in Haiti last Wednesday and five people have already been killed in the violence.

Food Riots in Egypt

The UN secretary general has warned that millions of people are at risk of starvation as global food stocks have fallen to their lowest levels for decades. The most acute effects have been seen in Egypt, where thousands of people have resorted to violence due to the unavailability of basic food products such as bread, rice, sugar and cooking oil, and rising food prices. At least 10 people have died over the past two weeks, in riots that erupted at government subsidised bakeries.

Besides Haiti and Egypt, there’s been food riots in 8 African nations, mostly along the western coast, as well as in Mexico, Milan, India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Yemen, and the food shortage is just beginning. The poorer nations suffer starvation first and so the riots also start there first, but the food shortage is steadily becoming more widespread.

I’ve posted on this before and I’ll be posting on it again before it’s all done. The world is heading into global famine, and with famine comes war, disease and death. Those of you who live in affluent countries, thank your lucky stars but keep your powder dry, because if this situation isn’t reversed soon, global famine alone is enough to spark a global war. Starvation and plagues go together. Always have and this time will be no different.

Now is a good time to kill off those mice and rats that you’ve been putting off doing. Fleas…..

See April Cooper in the top row? She’s only 14 years old and she may be going to prison for the rest of her life. Five of the other seven juveniles shown here range from age 15 to 16, and the two boys are 17 for the doofus with the mustache and 18 for the goose on the lower right.

These excuses for young adults videotaped their kidnapping and revenge beating of 16 year old Victoria Lindsay, who apparently “trash-talked” the others online. Then these geniuses posted the video on MySpace and YouTube. She suffered a concussion, permanent hearing loss in her left ear and blurred vision in her left eye.

The parents of these young monsters are making it very clear why their kids act that way. “Look at their ages, they’re not adults,” said Christina Garcia, the mother of Mercades Nichols. “They still have a teenage mentality.” Garcia has denied that her daughter beat Lindsay even though it’s on videotape.

Lindsay (the victim) “embarrassed these girls,” Garcia told News Channel 8 on Sunday. “She said she was going to kick their you-know-what’s,” and called them “slutty.”

Oh. Well sure, then. Any 16 year old girl who says things like that deserves to be imprisoned and beaten senseless for over a half hour and suffer permanent injury. With a mother as stupid and selfish as Christina Garcia is, it’s no wonder her daughter is a callous, vicious monster.

“Grady Judd (the Polk County sheriff) is a big showboater,” said Robert Schumaker, the father of Stephen Schumaker. “He’s got this blown out of proportion.” Earlier, Robert Schumaker had denied his son’s involvement, saying neighbors told the Schumakers that Stephen and Zachary Ashley were not at the house acting as lookouts.

What? Did he just apologize for his sons help in brutalizing that girl? No? I’m mistaken? Well why the Hell didn’t he, then?

Brittini Hardcastle’s grandfather, Charles Platt, said his granddaughter gave a different version of events than Lindsay did.

Therefor Lindsay, the victim, is lying?

Not one of the parents of any of these eight miserable excuses for young Americans has made the slightest sound of apology that I’ve heard of yet. All that’s coming out of them is denial. When these kids were arrested, they were laughing in the holding cell and one of the girls was asking if this was going to make her late to cheerleader practice. They showed no concern for the seriousness of their acts.

I know that most kids don’t behave like this. I know that most kids aren’t that socially maladjusted and dysfunctional, but some are. Some take guns to school and kill everyone they can shoot.

This isn’t some new phenomenon, or a “sign of the times”, the result of violence on TV and blah blah blah. Kids have been doing rotten stuff and ganging up on others since forever. The difference is that the victims of these bullies are finally getting some justice instead of being told that “it’s part of growing up”. If getting beat up by bullies is part of growing up, then being prosecuted for bullying should be, as well.

The reason bullies have been getting away with it is because we let them. It’s a simple proposition that when kids know a harsh penalty is certain to follow such behavior, they’ll turn aside and unclench their fists whether they want to or not.

I’m glad to see this prosecution. Maybe we’re finally becoming a truly civilized society? It would be kinda nice for a change to see us protecting our kids from each other instead of letting them brutalize each other and calling it “part of growing up”.

Blue-suited Chinese thugs in downtown London.

Well, They Are Famous For Their Terrible Cuisine so it should come as no surprise that the UK is serving up a lot of Fresh Hot Crow to their oppressed citizens. The latest meal is the presence of 30 Chinese paramilitary elite thugs who made sure no one got near the Olympic torch as it was carried through London, and they did so by brutally attacking anyone who came too close.

This obscene degrading of British national sovereignty was apparently set up by Scotland Yard, with the Chinese thugs having been allowed into the UK under “tourist” visas.

Kudos to the British people though: The Daily Telegraph has learnt that organisers, including Chinese officials, discussed “pulling out” of the day-long relay after just a few hours, as police fought running battles with wave after wave of anti-China protesters.

Kevin Rudd, the Australian Prime Minister, warned Beijing yesterday that he would not allow the Chinese thugs to guard the Olympic torch when it is carried through Canberra this month. He said that their behavior would not be repeated in his capital.

“All security, repeat all security, is provided by Australians,” he told The Times during a visit to London. The Olympic torch is due to be carried through Canberra on April 24 and is likely to attract anti-Chinese demonstrations similar to those seen in London, Paris and this morning in San Francisco.

The beginning of the relay in San Francisco is hours away as I write this, and I can find no mention of the possible participation of the Chinese thugs. There will be a two-and-a-half-hour relay along this city’s waterfront, involving six miles of pavement, 79 runners and untold scores of law enforcement officials.

Major protests by those upset with China’s human rights record and recent crackdown in Tibet are expected and even supported by the city’s Board of Supervisors, which voted on April 1 to condemn China’s human rights record. Chris Daly, the supervisor who wrote the resolution, went further on Monday, posting a blog entry calling on followers to “build on the message that’s been delivered” in Paris and London. That’s pretty straightforward and has upset the Chinese no end.

The San Francisco Police Department canceled days off for patrol officers and called in state and federal agencies and officers from nearby cities to help patrol the relay route. A no-fly zone was established overhead, the Coast Guard beefed up its fleet and Bay Area police planned on a pair of motorized water scooters patrolling the waterways. It’s going to look like a war zone instead of the celebration it’s always been before.

“I can only confirm that the route is dynamic,” said Nathan Ballard, a city spokesman. “We got monks tomorrow, Desmond Tutu and Richard Gere here today, and a nude torch relay in the works,” he said, “And I have no hope of leaving here without tripping over hundreds of members of the foreign media. I’ll tell you one thing: it won’t be boring.”

Yep. A nude torch relay. Only in San Francisco would you expect to see some of the torch bearers running NAKED! Wah hah hah, I wonder how China will like that?

Well, unlike England, San Francisco is famous for its fine cuisine. It’s going to be fascinating as all Hell to watch what they dish up today.

The chief of U.N. humanitarian operations, John Holmes, said Tuesday that poor people around the world are facing worsening hardship because of the expense of food. He said food prices had risen an average of 40 percent over the last year.

“The security implications should also not be underestimated as food riots are already being reported across the globe,” Holmes said during a conference in Dubai. “Compounding the challenges of climate change in what some have labeled the perfect storm are the recent dramatic trends in soaring food and fuel prices.”

MAHALLA EL-KOBRA, Egypt (AP) — “Egypt rushed Tuesday to grant bonuses to workers after two days of deadly riots over high food prices and low wages wracked this northern industrial city, fueling government fears that economic angst might boil over across the country. Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif hurried to Mahalla al-Kobra on Tuesday with several top economic ministers to meet with workers at the 50-year-old, state-owned Misr Spinning and Weaving factory complex that employs 25,000 people and announced they would receive a bonus of 30 days’ pay and promised to address their demands for better health care and higher wages.

30 days pay is $34. The average Egyptian worker is desperately poor and is the head of a family of 5. Food prices have risen 40% in Egypt and world-wide over the past year. You can’t afford tires on a bicycle on $34 a month.

A top United Nations official warned that many poor nations are in danger of such unrest as inflation heats up around the globe.

Unrest? You mean food riots that sweep away entire governments? Open warfare between government soldiers and police, and the population at large? Widespread famine, and the raging disease epidemics that go with it? The return of Bubonic Plague to Africa, plus Cholera and Dysentery and God knows what other filth-borne, insect-borne, rat-carried diseases?

I’d posted on this looming future sometime ago, maybe a year or more, I forget now. It was easy to see it coming then and now everybody gets it.

This isn’t entirely due to population increases or changing global weather conditions. In fact their contribution is small and not very significant. The shortage of food is due mostly to its rising cost combined with the switch of millions of farm acres to methanol production, and hoarding.

The huge increase in oil from $20 a barrel to $108 currently drives up food production costs. Much of the fertilizer is a byproduct of petroleum. The farm machines run on it, the food is harvested and transported and packaged and preserved using petroleum products.

Food producers, rice, wheat, corn and soy, are hoarding these products against higher prices as the market futures spiral up, thus creating an additional shortage.

This level of greed is foolish and these people are going to lose it all when the starving population rips open their doors and carries off the bags of grain, leaving a lot of dead bodies behind who will never run this business again. That means no more food distribution at all, which means a rapid increase in mass starvation and no nation will step in to help.

Why not? Because there will simply be too much of it going on to cope with. The price of oil needs to come down to no more than $50 a barrel immediately. Fat chance in Hell. The corn/methanol farmers need to switch back to food corn. A lot of them are, in fact, doing this and others are switching over to soy beans, an excellent food source, and the hoarders need to open up their warehouses and start selling their stock at fair prices. Unlikely but who knows, after the first few warehouse raids, perhaps the rest will wake up.

Otherwise, those hoofbeats are going to get awful loud. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. War, Famine, Plague and Death are on the road now and now, anyone can see it.

Imagine, if you will, the repeatedly re-lit Olympic  torch finally entering the Olympic stadium built by the horribly oppressive and  genocidal Chinese, who have murdered over 38 million of their own people, who have supported 6 years of murders and rapes in Darfur with the blood of over 400,000 dead on their hands, who are still practicing genocide in Tibet with the blood of over 1,000,000 dead on their hands…

The torch that has been attacked by virtually every country it’s passed through, whose flame has been repeatedly snuffed out in protest of Chinas gross violation of the spirit of the Olympics, which is to bring people together in peace, not to destroy their cultures and peoples….

Imagine, if you will, this repeatedly re-lit torch finally reaching the Chinese stadiums Olympic Flame Font and setting it ablaze and…

Hundreds of athletes rush to the Olympic Flame, and surround it,

and urinate on it.

A few of the many blogs following this subject:

Pub Philosopher,
A Tangled Web,
Operation Free Viet

In 17th century Europe, wealth was in gold and silver coins. As ones wealth increased, this became a load to carry around, so, the jewelers being the ones with the strongest safes, wealthy people began leaving their coinage with them for a small fee. The jeweler would in turn give them a receipt for their money. These receipts soon became useful as a form of money in large transactions. In other words, the jewelers were printing the worlds first paper money.

Over time, the jewelers noticed that only about 10% of the coins stored with them were ever actually taken back. That is, at any given time they always had $9 on deposit for every $1 taken back out and it occurred to them to start making loans based on the average amount of money which remained. They started loaning out other peoples money without consent, only they didn’t just loan the coins, they also wrote receipts of credit that represented the coins.

If you have $10,000 that doesn’t belong to you and you loan out $9000 of it , and you still have a large portion of that in coins, you now have people indebted to YOU for $9000, plus interest. You have printed $1000’s in paper money and created $9000 of indebtedness to you without owning anything more than the safe the money is kept in.

Since the interest rate back then was 20%, in one year you will have collected $1,800 in interest on other peoples money. If everyone pays you back all that you loaned at the end of the year, then you also have back all the paper money you issued, often in the form of paper issued by other jewelers.

Then the jeweler-bankers took the next logical step, which was to loan out 10 times more money than they actually had, in the form of paper receipts redeemable for other paper receipts but backed 10% by coinage. In other words, they created wealth out of thin air simply by printing it. In this way the jewelers created massive wealth for themselves almost overnight.

This is called Fractional Banking and is still how banking is done today. Making loans covered by only a fraction in actual assets, that the bank doesn’t own anyway, of the amounts loaned.

Sometimes, economic crises occurred, a war or famine, and people would rush to the bank to withdraw their money. This is what caused banks to go bankrupt, because they never had as much money as had been placed with them. This resulted in the creation of account insurance by the Federal Reserve. Accounts are now automatically insured, so if the bank collapses, the Fed will print up enough paper to pay off the accounts. Why not? All it costs them is the paper.

The Federal Reserve is not Federal. It’s a group of nine of the worlds largest banks. They print all our money. Look on any bill at the top. It says “Federal Reserve Note”. Our government mints coins only. These banks print our money and sell it to us, pretty much at cost, plus face value. So if the Fed prints up an extra 200 billion dollars, they have just made themselves 200 billion dollars at no cost to them. The owners of these banks are creating vast wealth for themselves by printing money.

Last year they inflated our money supply by about 11% because Bush needed money to finance the war in Iraq. He borrowed from China, Mexico and Saudi Arabia, and has to pay it back. Who knows how much they’ll increase inflation by, this year? Depends on how much more money we need out of thin air to pay back more debt. Our national debt is over 9.4 trillion dollars now and is climbing at the rate of over 1 trillion per year.

Is your mind blown yet? Did you know that our money is literally based on nothing? It’s a credit system and the banks hold all the credit cards. They create wealth out of nothing. When you go to the bank for a mortgage loan, say for $100,000, the banker makes an entry in a ledger that says you now have $100,000. That’s it. The banker has created $100,000 out of thin air. All the other banks accept this, so you get your house, the seller gets the money either as another ledger notation or as pieces of printed paper, and so on down the line until it all trickles away.

As you pay back the banker, his wealth increases for having used a pen.

We have long been off the gold standard that used to back up our money. There was a time when we had a dollars worth of gold for every dollar in paper. No longer. Now it’s all based on credit. Even Silver Certificates that used to say “redeemable in silver” all disappeared at the same time our silver money was sucked up by the banks in 1964. Now we get greasy-feeling clad coins that aren’t worth a 20th of what the silver ones are, and the banks made another killing off the silver.

The Fed, that private group of banks, is steadily creating more and more money. Their greed is expanding, which is expanding inflation. When there’s $2 where there used to be just one, then each dollar buys half what it did before. That’s simple economics. It’s the same as if you have 10 apples but only 5 people want an apple. The price of apples drops a lot.

This means that permanent assets like real estate and precious metals are going to continue to rise in price to keep up with inflation. These constitute real wealth and will also rise in value with population increases. Commodities, stuff we use every day like oil, will also of course rise in price, but being consumables, take away from our wealth. In the meantime, wages don’t rise as fast as inflation. Wages always lag way behind.

This means that the faster inflation increases, the harder it is to make a decent living, and the more poverty spreads among the population. Inflation is exactly the same as taking a weekly pay cut, every week.

There’s many conspiracy theories out there but as usual, the theories are always outdone by the facts. This isn’t a banking conspiracy created by secret money moguls, this is simply the actual monetary system that has developed. These people do conspire, constantly, to manipulate governments in ways that will constantly increase their wealth, and they do buy up massive influence in national governments. What keeps reducing their fortunes, mostly, is wars. Wars destroy everything and that includes the accumulated wealth of these non-producing leeches.

The way out of this trap is to nationalize the monetary system. Start printing our own money and giving the sole authority to do this to our government only, with strict limitations on the quantity and a strict setting of the value based on precious metals such as gold. The amount of gold available has been almost constant now for about 2000 years. The money cannot be redeemable in gold or all our gold would quickly leave the vaults. The money simply has to be pegged to gold by law and only a certain amount allowed to be in circulation.

We are only allowed to take a small amount of cash out of the country now. This should be further limited to countries with which we have a trade balance or surplus, so that the cash flow is at least equal both ways. None of our money should go to any country in which trade swings to the deficit side. Trade should then cease.

We should repudiate all national and foreign bank debts just as many countries have done with us, and refuse to do business with any nation that will not do equal business with us. We should no longer borrow money from any foreign nation for any purpose. These may seem extreme measures but remember that the debts we owe were created out of thin air to begin with, and there is no actual loss. Like a pyramid scheme, and all such schemes must eventually collapse.

I expect to see blue pigs flying around before any of this happens, of course. But in the meantime, do everything you can to prepare yourself as food, fuel and all commodity prices are going to increase, and faster than you may think, even though your wages will not.

Kudos to Jordon for bringing documentation on this to my attention.
It’s always nice to be noticed. Midnight Sun has a corresponding article including excerpts from this one.

The Chinese have murdered over 1 million innocent Tibetans, destroyed most of their places of worship, and are still doing their worst to stomp the Tibetan culture into non-existence. The idea of Chinese happiness is for everyone in the world to do exactly what a few fat, evil little old men tell them.

The Chinese have been murdering people by the tens of millions ever since the Peoples Republic of China came into being, and they’re not slowing down. The Chinese excel in repression, forcing any citizen who dares to complain into forced labor slavery. A prison sentence in China doesn’t mean you sit in a cell. It means you are worked hard and fed little, and many of the products from China that we’re consuming were made by slaves. People locked up in prison factories for wanting freedom.

It’s an acute embarrassment to America that our uncaring president, George Bush, supports the Chinese Olympics, when Germany, France, Amnesty International, (who have helped Free American Prisoners,) and many politicians and world leaders have spoken out against the Chinese hosting of the Olympics.

British athletes are now told they must sign away their Free Speech rights if they want to join the games in China, by agreeing to a “No Criticism” contract promising not to speak out about China’s appalling human rights record – or face being banned from travelling to Beijing.

1000’s of pet cats are being killed off by the Chinese government to “clean up” Beijings streets before the Olympics. Crammed into cages too small to turn around in, the Chinese authorities show their usual compassion toward pets and their owners, as the cats are rolled off to their deaths.

Power and arrogance go together, and arrogance kills compassion. If we have enough compassion to care about the treatment of our meat animals, then we have enough to care about us, too. The human race has been practicing slavery for far too long and those of us who honestly believe in freedom have to stand up and say so. It’s simple enough, just don’t help them. Don’t buy any cutsie little Olympic buttons or toys or other Made in China crap. Speak out against them even if it’s just to your neighbors and the local store clerks.

Avoid food and toys and clothes made in China. Read the label. Buy made in Cuba stuff, those poor people can use the money. Made in the Philippines, made in Denmark. Especially Made in Denmark, they’re getting boycotted by the muslims over cartoons!

We Americans have a huge hammer, and it’s called Buying Power. With our Buying Power we can bring nations to their knees, even a nation like China. It’s our Buying Power that brought them all their prosperity. Now they think they own us and shower us with their arrogance.

Let’s teach them a little lesson in humility. It’s past time we did so.

Speaking of America’s enemies, look what the Islamists in California are doing.

Here we see a horde of angry sheep attacking a Humvee…

And here is a video taken from a drone of 3 sheep infiltrators… Strong Language Warning.

This Iraqi sheep insurgent isn’t fooling anybody…

These sheep are not all Sunnis, as evidenced by the sheep Shiite everywhere.

Lastly, for those who still think Obamas 20-year close friend and religious guru, J. Wright, is okay, watch this: (You might change your mind.)
Update: Never mind, it’s been deleted off Google. Too bad…

A trade deficit is when you earn $20 an hour and buy a car for $180,000 on a 3 year contract. Since you earn less than $40,000 a year before taxes, even if you don’t eat, you’ll still be at least $90,000 short when it’s last-payment time. Obviously, trade deficits are for stupid people.

The United States trade deficit is $800,000,000,000. Or, Eight hundred billion dollars, if that’s easier to read. A year! Not just total, but recurring every year.

If we are spending overseas nearly a $trillion$ more than we earn back every year, how are we paying for it? By borrowing! From China. By borrowing from Saudi Arabia. Americans borrowed more than $6 trillion from foreigners to pay for two decades of trade deficits. Our current national debt is over $9.4 Trillion.

Most of our oil comes from the Saudis, which we’re paying for with increasingly inflated dollars. Every time they raise the price of oil, the corresponding value of our dollar goes down, as it takes more and more dollars to buy the same amount of oil. The Saudis then take this money and loan it back to us, as well as buy up our manufacturing, our banks, our finance institutions, our real estate, anything of value they can get.

The Chinese have put their money on the dollar standard, and sell their goods to us at exchange rates that are becoming more and more artificial as the value of their yen goes up while our dollar goes down. Meanwhile we’re buying $250 Billion more from China than we sell to them. According to Forbes, Chinese growth has pushed up global petroleum prices nearly five fold in six years. 5 times increase. From about $23 a barrel to $110 a barrel in 6 years!!!

The Chinese loan our money back to us and also are buying up as much of our country as they can. Plus, they’re literally holding vast sums, hundreds of billions of dollars.

In the meantime our wages have not increased nearly as much, so we have flocked to Wal-Mart and other stores that sell goods produced much cheaper in China than we can now make them, because they use slave labor. So our manufacturers shut down here and our we lose our jobs.

You see how simple all this is? It’s no great mystery.

Our US living standards have been stagnant for years and will worsen once China goes off the dollar peg. So far prices of the Chinese made goods on Wal-Mart shelves have not risen, because the Chinese currency, pegged to the dollar, falls in value with the dollar. In a word, tottering US living standards are being supported by China’s willingness to subsidize US consumption by keeping its currency grossly undervalued. This according to Global Research.

China will have to raise the prices of their goods dramatically soon because the rising cost of oil will force them to. When they do, everything we buy will cost more but we will still be getting paid the same wages as before because wage increases always lag way behind cost increases.

Meanwhile the world population is rapidly increasing and everyone is building on flat land, which of course used to be farm land. Fuel is necessary for food production, from the tilling and fertilizing to the harvesting and processing. Less land, more people and higher costs combined with lower wages in comparison to rising inflation.

Food riots are already happening. “Bangkok, Thailand - - Rice farmers here are staying awake in shifts at night to guard their fields from thieves. In Peru, shortages of wheat flour are prompting the military to make bread with potato flour, a native crop. In Egypt, Cameroon, and Burkina Faso food riots have broken out in the past week.”

We have all noticed the rapid increase of food prices. Food and fuel threaten to overtake our rent or home payment as our largest monthly expenses.

Summation: A major recession is unavoidable. Prices of all goods and services are going to dramatically increase while wages stay the same or even decline as less jobs become available and competition for them increases. Simply put, things are going to get worse.

All the illegal aliens that are sucking at the tit of our economy are going to come under increasingly hostile fire as more enforcement is demanded to shoo them back to where they came from and free up their jobs for Americans. They’re costing us fortunes in our prisons and on our welfare doles and forcing the closure of hospital emergency rooms because they have no insurance and won’t pay. They’re driving up our auto insurance costs by having non-insured accidents. Things are going to come to a head. With less work available here anyway, a lot of them are already giving up and going back.

This mess we’re in is entirely the result of the policies of George W. Bush. All of it is his fault. All of it has happened during his tenure and is directly caused by him. He’s had over 7 years to correct any problems he may have inherited. Instead of making things better, he’s made everything worse.

You can see how simple all this is and surely you can see what you would have done differently to prevent it. If you can’t, then you are probably one of the people now hoping for a government bailout on your oversized mortgage as referred to in the first paragraph of this article.

Baaa.

Reuters reports: A Dutch film, Fitna, the Movie, accusing the Koran of stirring violence is “unfair to the world’s Muslims and may provoke confrontation,” Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller said on Friday.

What? You mean the Religion of Peace muslims might start burning and killing again? Oh, surely not.

“I do not agree with the film because you cannot say 1.3 billion Muslims are potential terrorists,” Moller told reporters during a meeting of the Euro foreign ministers.

Sure you can. Watch: “1.3 billion Muslims are potential terrorists.”

There ya go. See how easy that was? Why, hell, man, anyone can do that.

The film by the patriotic Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, launched on Thursday, urges Muslims to tear out “hate-filled” verses from the Koran. It starts and finishes with a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad with a bomb under his turban, one of a series originally published in Danish newspapers.

Titled “Fitna”, an Arabic term sometimes translated as “strife”, the movie intersperses images of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States and Islamist bombings with quotations from the Koran, Islam’s unholy book. (8:39) “So fight them until there is no more disbelief (fitnah) and all submit to the religion of Allah alone”. Nice, huh?

In other words, fitna is pretty much anything that is counter to being subjugated by the fascist doctrine of Islam. Is it coming clear now why that movie was made? Have you seen it yet? No? Are you afraid to?

Running scared, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moller said “If you only come up with provocations, you will reach those who want to be provoked and those who then want to use this provocation to inflame the situation instead of having cooperation.” In 2006 Denmark was hit by boycotts and international protests over the Prophet cartoons. Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden last week threatened the EU with unspecified reprisals over the Mohammad cartoons and now the cowardly Danes like Moller are crapping in their pants and this particular coward is talking about cooperation with terrorists. Good luck.

Likewise sayeth the mealymouthed sycophants in Britain such as this fool: “It is very important that we hold fast and firm to European values about the freedom of speech,” said British Foreign Secretary David Miliband. “But that we also recognise that … there are legal and judicial systems that ensure that that freedom is not used to incite religious or racial hatred.”

Right. You can say anything you like as long as you don’t offend muslims because if you do they will attack England. So pass laws prohibiting any criticism of Islam and keep England safe. Baaa.

LiveLeak and Youtube have joined the ranks of Network Solutions in banning Free Speech about Islam. In Youtubes case it appears to be simply not wanting to offend all those muslims out there. LiveLeak says their employees are in danger so they too are opting out.
What does that tell you about Islam?

Google is hosting Fitna, click here to see it and a lot of other related movies. There’s some great stuff posted from our troops, too.
There are a lot of blogs now that are hosting Fitna. One is the anti-Islam site, IslamaNazi.com and the link is found here.

Baaa.

Fitna, the movie

Thanks and a hat tip to Xoggoth at Xoggoths Bloggoth.

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister vowed Thursday to fight “until the end” against Shiite militias in Basra despite protests by tens of thousands of followers of a radical cleric, Muqtadi al Sadr, in Baghdad and deadly clashes across the capital and the oil-rich south.

The Iraqi leader made his pledge to tribal leaders in the Basra area as military operations continued for a fourth day with stiff resistance. Mounting anger focused on Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, who is personally overseeing operations against the militias dominated by Muqtada al-Sadr’s supporters amid a violent power struggle in Basra, Iraq’s southern oil hub.

“We have made up our minds to enter this battle and we will continue until the end. No retreat,” he said in a speech broadcast on Iraqi state TV.”

Blah blah blah. We all, and I do mean EVERYBODY, knew that this guy was going to be a big problem even when he was still small potatoes, and that he should have been shot or imprisoned a long time ago. Instead, our hired idiot al Maliki, whom we made president of that festering abscess of a nation, played politics thinking Sadder would be of use to him. Now he’s the one who’s sadder along with our soldiers who are stuck with having to deal with this screwup at the peril of their lives.

Al Sadr’s picked men, “Sadrist” lawmakers, were installed in the Iraqi government and are now fighting against reforms from within. Good job, all you who are involved. By just worrying about your own power bases instead of all those people around you, the tortures, the mutilations, the murders, the slaughters, the explosions, the flying body parts of infants in the market place, will all continue unabated. Well done.

What wonderful people, so gentle and kind with their Religion of Love. Let’s build a mosque near you, so you can share in the love. Just imagine it, the call to prayer blaring from giant loudspeakers atop tall picturesque minarets five times a day, bearded men threatening you with knives, your little 10 year old daughter getting gang raped…

Built in Germany and sunk in Dubai harbor, this underwater restaurant offers a unique dining experience. Yes, those are palm trees.

Dubai is one of the little emirates in the United Arab Emirates in OPEC, UAE for short. The UAE is considered as one “country” among the OPEC nations, even though the emirates are actually a group of 7 little kingdoms banded together the same as states in a country.

Dubai is one of the richest because of its oil production and is engaged in massive housing projects.

Here’s the kicker: One FIFTH of all the construction cranes in the world are in little tiny Dubai. Dubai is fast becoming the new Mediterranean, and a favored vacation spot for Europeans. The sheiks who own the joint are out spending money like water, buying up toys all over the planet. This week in Australia, one Sheik Mohammed went a long way towards not just talking about the Australian racing industry but owning it. He paid $500 million to buy the country’s biggest thoroughbred breeding and racing operation, which now makes him Number One in Australia.

Dubai’s rulers are heavily investing in other world markets, such as a partnership agreement with Gaussin SA, France, in a joint venture to set up AED130 million (about $35.3 million) plant for hi-tech port trailers & industrial vehicles. This is all small change compared to these futuristic plans. You really should look at that one. And this one. Unbelievable! You really have to see this to understand why Europeans are flocking there and why oil prices have risen so high.

Capitalism is what runs the marketplace, competition sets the prices and what they do with their wealth is their affair as long as they aren’t using it to attack us. Of course, they’re destroying their desert ecology and depleting their source of wealth like crazy, which makes them a lot more like us than I care to delve into deeply, but at least they aren’t building war machines with the money. Now if Iran and the Saudis would just do the same.

The Pentagon announced Tuesday it mistakenly shipped part of the triggering mechanism for four nuclear warheads to Taiwan a year and a half ago, and only realized the mistake last week and recovered the material “in recent days.” “BUT”, they say, “the missile nosecones contained only electrical components and had no nuclear material. ”

OH, no NUCLEAR material. No kidding? Thanks for the misdirection and spin doctoring, fellas. Nuclear warhead triggering mechanisms never had any nuclear material to begin with. The bombs are triggered with high explosives. Jeez…

How fortunate that this screwup went to one of our allies. This is very high technology stuff! WARHEAD TRIGGERS FOR MISSILES! Can you imagine the pile-up tumult of glee the Iranians would be in right now if this had been sent to them instead?

The Defense Department says they shipped four nosecones for Minuteman nuclear missiles to Taiwan in late 2006, containing batteries and electrical fuses that sense proximity to the ground and initiate the missiles’ triggering sequence. They say the actual triggers were not shipped. Of course not. The actual triggers would be shaped explosive charges that are built into the bomb itself. So if you had the bombs, then here’s 4 nice complete nosecone firing mechanisms for you, all ready to go, batteries included. Presto! Four completed nuclear bombs, ready to be dropped.

They say the missile fuses and battery systems were specifically designed for Minuteman missiles in the 1960s, are outdated and could not be used to help trigger any other weapon. I think otherwise. Outdated for our technology, perhaps, but not for those just now getting into the game. The trigger itself, by the way, is merely an electric pulse that sets off a chemical explosive, which then forces two chunks of fissionable material together into a critical mass which then goes Boom.

Remember the Air Force bomber that was flying around the United States with six nuclear-armed missiles last August? Come on, you flyboys. Wake up!