This is just a sample of the news you will not hear about in most U.S. newspapers and especially on Network News. WE are a nation kept in the dark by our own Government in order to hide their machinations and corruption of Democracy.
Look at the segments of Network News: Stories about penguins, a lost dog, a kidnapped child, or woman, Gay Marriage, Creationism, New Orleans…the list of endlessly trivial information goes on.
Meanwhile, the worlds population, and in particular the U.S. populations are facing some of the gravest challenges faced by humanity…and there is no discussion about it.
Imperial Mongers of Civilization: From Gladstone to "King George"
by Pierre Tristam
Published on Tuesday, January 17, 2006 by the Daytona Beach News-Journal
“…peace tends to rouse social consciences, and with them police truncheons (on labor in the 1920s, blacks in the '50s, students and women in the '60s, anti-globalists in the '90s). Peace isn't good for certain trades, imperial power and aimless leadership among them..”
“…The transformation of America into an emerging police state, example to the world, is encouraging other democracies to follow. The European Union is readying to do what the National Security Agency has been doing for years -- track all electronic communications on the continent. Britain is readying to track every car and truck's movement on every road. Italy, Britain and France have all expanded government's power to imprison people without charge for lengthy periods. Under Prime Minister John Howard, Australia enacted into law a draconian alien and sedition act that exceeds America's Patriot Act (which reverses the innocent-until-proven-guilty standard). If elected Jan. 23, Canada's conservative candidate for prime minister vows to militarize the country's cities.
That's Bush's march for democracy for you: Autocracy on autopilot. And for what? For fascism's seducer, a pimp called security, and whose whores we all are…”
US living standards in 2005 continued downward trend
By Naomi Spencer16 January 2006
“…While homelessness is a difficult feature of US society to track, an informal survey conducted in June by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) placed the number of homeless Americans at 727,304. Four months after Hurricane Katrina, half a million displaced Gulf Coast residents are also homeless. Many of these families are set to have their rental assistance cut off this month. In a given year, an estimated 3.5 million Americans experience temporary homelessness. Many millions more live in substandard conditions, routinely go through shut-off periods without basic necessities such as water and heat because they fall behind on their utility bills, and forgo needed prescription drugs or medical treatment because of prohibitive expense…”
Bracing the world for the day when the oil runs out
By Michael Harrison, Business Editor
Published: 18 January 2006
“…when peak oil does happen, its impact on the world economy - and the consumer lifestyles so many of us take for granted - will be profound. Chris Skrebowski, the editor of the Energy Institute's Petroleum Review, believes peak oil will occur in 2008, at which point the world will move into "a land without maps where we are all likely to be poorer".
For oil is essential to almost everything we do - 90 per cent of world transport is oil-dependent; all petrochemicals are produced from oil; 99 per cent of our food relies on oil in some way, either to grow it or get the produce to market; and 95 per cent of lubricants are oil-based. And, in many cases, oil is not easily replaceable. There are no realistic alternatives to oil for fuelling aircraft and ships, producing petrochemicals or powering cars, without massive investments in technology such as hydrogen…”
Three different ‘perfect storms’ are coming: Global Warming; Peak Oil; An Islamic Christian War.
Global warming by account of the most respected scientists on the planet, all agree that Global Warming is here and it is going to change weather in ways we cannot even imaging. Droughts, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, Blizzards, record heat, record cold, and the extinction of much of the animals and plants that comprise our world. The tipping point has been reached; ironically, the only thing that is moderating the full impact of global warming is the air pollution in the form of aerosols. These tend to diffuse the heat a bit and protect us from the full impact of the heating up of our atmosphere. Understand this, despite the crap that religion teaches, the facts are that humanity and every living thing is dependent, not on their ‘god’, but on nature to keep us alive. By changing nature we may kill us. The arrogance of humanity, and the arrogance of religion, has combined to ignore the consequences of human impact on our natural world. We, and every living thing, are going to pay a high and bloody price in probably less than two to three years.
Peak Oil. The facts are the Earth’s Petroleum reservoirs are running out of petroleum. Starting now, and into the future, the price of petroleum, when it is available at all, will be astronomical. Everything we have built, our entire Western civilization is based on petroleum. In two to three years, it will be gone. This will mean mass starvation, riots, military dictatorship, war, and every ugly damn thing you can think of.
Islamic/Christian War is just around the corner. The U.S., under the flag of Israel, will attack Iran; this will then create a holy Jihad that will combine the Iraq War with Iran. The conflagration of Islamic armies against Christian Armies is going to be horrendous. Due to the fact that the much of the worlds remaining supply of petroleum is in Iraq, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, this war will only serve to accelerate the loss of petroleum on the world state. But, this war will not serve just the fundamentalists of Islam and Christianity; it will also draw in such powers as China, India, and Russia. This will be a global war.
There is some discussion that the reason why the United States is pushing ahead to become a dictatorship, is in anticipation of the coming collapse of civilization.
I don’t know, I think it is just because Bush, Cheney, Alito, Dobson, Falwell, Scalia, Delay, and all of these pukes are hopelessly avaricious. But it could be a lot of both.
Sounds like a grim picture? It is.
I have a discussion with a friend of mine who states, “I am an optimist, and I have to believe that somehow we will work our way out of all this.” I would like to say that….but I can’t. One of these ‘perfect storms’ perhaps, but not all three. The earth is going to get rid of a lot of animals and plants, including much of humanity, and I really don’t see a way out.
No comments:
Post a Comment