New Continent Found - Garbage Gyre II

As was reported on this blog, a man-made garbage continent threatens life.

It is twice the size of Texas.

It is floating in the Pacific Ocean 1000 miles off the coast of California.

It is not affectionately called the Garbage Gyre I.

It is usually called the garbage patch by mariners.

Scientists recently took a close look at this northern garbage continent, and were shocked; but now we find out is has an evil twin.

Scientists will now go to the even larger southern garbage continent next, Garbage Gyre II, where they have been afraid to look up until now:

"We're afraid at what we're going to find in the South Gyre, but we've got to go there," said Tony Haymet, director of the Scripps Institution.

Only humans are to blame for ocean debris, Goldstein said. In a blog entry posted a day before the science ship arrived in Newport, Ore., she wrote the research showed her the consequences of humanity's footprint on nature.

"Seeing that influence just floating out here in the middle of nowhere makes our power painfully obvious, and the consequences of the industrial age plain," she wrote. "It's not a pretty sight."

(Scripps Paper, PDF, see this and this too). The use of the phrase "the consequences of humanity's footprint on nature" shows the continuing ignorance and erroneous duality in the mind of far too many people.

It is as if they think nature is some separate entity we can do things to without consequence to us, instead of the truth that we are nature, so to the degree that we harm "nature" is the degree to which we harm our species.

Obviously humanity is failing in the goal of long term survival, because to be able to do that the Tenets of Ecocosmology must be adhered to.

UPDATE: Some disabused children of Catholics and loving it are into the cover-up game all over again.

They can't they be happy with covering up the rapes of children, so now they are covering up the rape of the Earth?

It figures, they are Oil-Qaeda's priests.

The next post in this series is here.

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This revelation was originally given here.

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"We Will Kidnap Better" - Obama Admin

The hypothesis on this blog, concerning last November's presidential election, is that it was a rejection election.

It rejected the things that were being done by the infamous Bush II regime more so than it embraced the personality of Barack Obama.

The Obama Administration advisers do not agree, evidently, because policies of the Bush II regime are being followed even as Obama Polls Downward.

Take official kidnapping for example; now called "rendition" to try to cover up its criminal nature, which Obama will continue:

The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terrorism suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but pledges to closely monitor their treatment to ensure that they are not tortured, administration officials said Monday.

Maher Arar testified in 2007 before a House panel about his transfer by the United States to Syria, where he was tortured.

Human rights advocates condemned the decision, saying that continuing the practice, known as rendition, would still allow the transfer of prisoners to countries with a history of torture. They said that promises from other countries of humane treatment, called “diplomatic assurances,” were no protection against abuse.

(NY Times). And so it goes. Obama promised change in his campaign rhetoric, and has made a show of change as well as some change, but has not changed some of the very wrong policies of the Bush II administration.

Kidnapping suspects, promising to treat them according to international and U.S. law, then giving them to foreign governments for "interrogation" is one of those very wrong policies.

Will We Destroy Food - The Bees?

This post has been moved to the Ecocosmology blog.

The Best Wages Are Paid By Pacifists

Jobs are getting lost every day, and no one can find them in the United States, which is waging two wars and rescuing rich banksters like they had done nothing wrong.

Meanwhile Switzerland has not invaded any country for the length of an American's memory squared, and fry my grits a bit more, that little old pacifist nation pays the highest wages:

It pays to work in Switzerland: employees in Zurich and Geneva have the highest net wages in the world, a study by banking group UBS shows ...

(Reuters). Don't get me wrong, the elite rulers in the United States pay their soldier servants poorly, their mercenary servants wildly good, for doing the same murders, but das ist kapitalizm comrade.

The graph of plunder shows why nations that are not at war are doing better, and why the bloody warmongers are poverty in action.

Senator Kennedy Died

The second most senior senator in the U.S. Senate passed away at home.

We wish the family well and respect their privacy.

He was elected in the 1962 election to replace the senate seat that had been held by his brother who became President John F. Kennedy; he was re-elected seven times after that, equating to eight six-year terms of office.

He was 77 years old and was taken by brain cancer which had troubled him for the past year or so.

Of the thousands of votes he took part in, his own words described his best vote:

KING: You called Iraq the overriding issue. You voted to go there or not?

KENNEDY: No. The best vote I cast in the United States Senate was...

KING: The best?

KENNEDY: The best vote, best vote I cast in the United States Senate (INAUDIBLE).

KING: In your life?

KENNEDY: Absolutely.

KING: Was not to go to Iraq?

KENNEDY: Yes, not to go to Iraq.

(Larry King, emphasis added). All the hundreds of billions wasted in Iraq against his will would have paid for universal health care reform he worked so hard to make a reality.

Founding Fathers' Conspiracy Theories

James Madison was the 4th President, Bill of Rights author, Congressman, Cabinet Member, and was also called the "Father of the U.S. Constitution".

He voiced a conspiracy theory in 1795:

In war, the public treasuries are to be unlocked; and it is the executive hand which is to dispense them.

In war, the honors and emoluments of office are to be multiplied; and it is the executive patronage under which they are to be enjoyed; and it is the executive brow they are to encircle.

The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.

(Toxins of Power Blog, emphasis added). The above quote is from his "Political Observations," April 20, 1795, in Letters and Other Writings of James Madison, Volume IV, page 491.

This is the type of "shadow movement" or "shadow government" talked about in a previous post; meaning these conspiracies are not individual people conspiring, instead they are unseen forces at work against us all.

Mourning Joe Takes Law Off The Table

The current Attorney General, like past AG's, took the oath to be the people's lawyer, and has now appointed another prosecutor, who is a republican, to dig into the matter of the illegal torture of detainees:

In appointing a prosecutor to investigate alleged CIA interrogation abuses, including episodes that resulted in prisoner deaths, Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Monday shook off warnings from President Obama to avoid becoming mired in past controversies.

(Washington Post). I will not go over these torture issues that have been discussed on this blog in a series of posts.

This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe, the apologists for the Bush II regime are taking law off the table.

They do not want anyone prosecuted for war crimes, so they are calling the use of the laws, that have been on the books for decades, a witch hunt.

It is ok to torture because that saves babies in Kansas is the mantra of the mythology of these unabashed neoCons.

The reality that escapes Mourning Joe because the sycophants, like Pat Buchanan, who MJ likes to have around constantly, are always saying "yep yep yep" to MJ's gyrations of fact and principle.

Eugene Robinson, the prize winning journalist from the same newspaper, has a more sound understanding of these matters:

I'm under no illusion that George W. Bush or Dick Cheney is actually going to be prosecuted by the Justice Department. But I want to know -- and I believe the nation needs to know -- the full, unvarnished truth of what they and others did in our name. It's probable that painful scrutiny and lasting disgrace will be the only sanctions that Bush and Cheney ever face. But history demands at least that much.

(Washington Post, Robinson). The university professors and political scientists know that history and common sense teach that without accountability there is no democracy and no rule of law.

If you take the law off the table you have taken the United States' famous "rule of law not rule of men" off the table, which is very unpatriotic.

Will The Earth Follow The Sun?

This post has been moved to the Ecocosmology blog.

Shadow of Time Governs The Earth

This post has been moved to the Ecocosmology blog.

Octomom of Election Fraud Gives Birth

Or, how the election integrity movement within the U.S. military gets jiggy wid it.

Invade a sovereign nation, then ship them a thousand electronic voting machines and printing presses to print paper ballots.

Next, paint the fingers purple of those who stand in line at the barbed wire lined polling places and actually vote; finally, ignore the sour grapes of those who yell election fraud.

Voila, have you thereby perpetuated the spread of democracy; or have you become lonely in the midst of your vast weapons cache and committed a rape that will impregnate electomom and spread election fraud further around the globe?

The recent Afghanistan elections sound like another STD moment stimulated by the shadow movement:

Hamid Karzai's main political rival today accused the Afghan president of "stealing" last week's presidential vote by orchestrating a campaign of massive electoral fraud.

(The Guardian). Has Norm Coleman moved to Kabul to do election counselling, or is he still in Minnesota fighting the last electowar?

Obama Polls Downward

Polls indicate that people are changing their opinions about how things may go, but the pollsters say they have changed their minds about President Obama.

My take on it is that these people, for the most part, are seeing the effects of the shadow movement, and are losing their faith that any one president or congress ever can change the way things are going.

One interpretation of the poll is:

The Washington Post-ABC News survey found that less that half of Americans — 49 percent — say they believe the president will make the right decisions for the country. That's down from 60 percent at the 100-day mark of the Obama presidency.

(Yahoo AP News, [moved, so see this]). Posts on this blog a while back postulated that the advisers had forgotten that the election was a rejection election, and that such a miscalculation would lead to the talk of change but a continuation of the policies that were rejected in the election, and ultimately to another rejection of those policies:

It is time to bring some wrath down on the ideology and the perpetrators of the ideology that was rejected in our recent election.

If that does not happen, the damage that will be done as a result of that failure will not go unnoticed. I expect a 20% drop in popularity when all is said and done.

(Dredd Blog, 3/31/09). It has not reached the 20% drop from where it was on March 31, well before the 100 day mark, but it is getting there fast.

Dredd Blog also pointed out that President Obama inherited pure hell and that in and of itself would limit what he could do even if he set out to totally comply with the will of the people.

That said, if the Obama Administration continues to think it is all about the personality of Obama so that he can continue the policies of Bush II, the 20% drop may end up being overly optimistic.