Phase Four Of The Currency Wars?

Uncle Tad

We recently asked if phase three of the currency wars had taken place.

There have been a series of events that show the world is in fact aligning against us since we became overpowered by idiot warmongers and idiot economists.

Now it looks like we have moved on to the fourth phase:

In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

Secret meetings have already been held by finance ministers and central bank governors in Russia, China, Japan and Brazil to work on the scheme, which will mean that oil will no longer be priced in dollars.

(Independent). The damage that was done to the U.S. reputation and economy during the Bush II years is breath taking, and may have done us in for real as an empire.

Dredd Blog House Cleaning & Change

Some of the subject matter covered on this blog seemed better suited for more specialized blogs.

So Ecocosmology blog and Toxins Of Power blog are where some of the material which used to be here has been moved.

Posts that have been moved have a "This post has been moved to the [blog link] blog" and will have a link to the post on the other blog.

Additionally, "Open Threads" that had no comments on them were deleted.

Now there is room for more posts.

Happy Christmas Bob Dylan

Starvation in the U.S. is being fought by Bob Dylan.

He has made arrangements to have all artist proceeds from his new album Christmas In The Heart, be used to feed the hungry in the United States.

Hopefully his vision will catch on and others will help as the hunger crises increases.

There are many reasons that a food production decrease could lead to lasting hunger here.

There is a danger to the bees, which we talked about here, that could threaten a substantial portion of U.S. food production.

The economy shows no signs of increasing job production, and our economic power in the world is slated to decline.

So, since the government is doing everything to help the banks and the military oil complex, it may be left to artists to help the hungry Americans.

The Obvious As Wisdom

"What economic problems?" was the exclamation of John McCain, a man educated in the war colleges, and who was benefiting from the prosperity of the military oil banking complex that was plundering America as it said it was making us all free.

Within a short time the administration of Bush II was telling the congress our economy was going to completely collapse if big banks did not get billions immediately.

Now the World Bank is saying our economic power is declining, as if that was wisdom instead of simply the obvious.

Why the plunder is taking place in the name of patriotism is the only mystery.

The He Said She Said Stupid Wars

One general says, in a form of military holy doctrine, that more troops have to go the nation being built for the umpteenth time, because more destruction and killing is required so that peace and democracy will come to them.

This is the compulsive mantra they learn in the war colleges which fools them into thinking they are really intellectuals.

It is a form of "doublespeak" like what was in Orwell's book "1984", where "war is peace" was oft repeated.

Today "dumb ass is intellectual" might be the favorite little ditty for the glorification of being brain dead.

The warsters are battling themselves in the halls of power where they have spent us into financial ruin chasing a few homeless terrorists who were said to manage the 9/11 attacks from caves, and who now, all 100 of them in Afghanistan, threaten our ego's existence:

In a confidential report that was leaked to The Washington Post, McChyrstal stated that he needs more troops in Afghanistan, or the war "will likely result in failure." McChrystal believes that 40,000 more troops are needed in Afghanistan, according to officials.

(Huffington Post). Leaking to the press by a top general seems way cheesy and disrespectful, unless in fact they are the ones in power and the civilians should do their bidding.

The White House General had another opinion to render:

General Jones asserted that he does not believe Afghanistan is "imminent danger of falling" to the Taliban and that the presence of al Qaeda "is very diminished."

"The maximum estimate is less than 100 operating in the country," he said. "No bases. No buildings to launch attacks on either us or our allies."

(NY Times). Meanwhile the poppy crops are still booming and supplying the world with all the heroin and opium it wants, for a fee of course.

UPDATE: A UN official was fired for rocking the boat too much concerning the fraud in the Afghanistan election. So who would want that to be kept quiet?

UPDATE 2: The U.S. government admitted to the torture of detainees, and that they had video taped the episodes of torture, so a court ordered them to produce the videos.

The Damage Has Been Done - 2

The meaning of "the damage has been done" in the context of earth's biosphere does not always mean we can see the effects of the damage at this moment.

It is like when the engines on an aircraft cease to function, the damage has been done but the full effects which cannot be avoided do not appear until contact with the ground takes place.

The U.N. reports that the damage has been done when it comes to worldwide drought and great catastrophe:

"If we cannot find a solution to this problem... in 2025, close to 70 percent [of the earth] could be affected [with drought]," Luc Gnacadja, executive secretary of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification, said Friday.

Drought currently affects at least 41 percent of the planet and environmental degradation has caused it to spike by 15 to 25 percent since 1990, according to a global climate report.

"There will not be global security without food security" in dry regions, Gnacadja said at the start of the ninth UN conference on the convention in the Argentine capital.

"A green deal is necessary" for developing countries working to combat drought, he stressed.

The next meeting on the convention is scheduled to take place in South Korea in 2010.

(Independent). About half of the planet is suffering, at this moment, from drought. This is not a case where substantial damage can be avoided by congress all of a sudden becoming sane, because there really is such a thing as being too late.

Perhaps that is why it appears more and more that all that world governments can do is prepare for the damage.

The next post in this series is here, the previous post in this series is here.

Innocent Tortured To Cover Up What?

A humanitarian went to Afghanistan near 9/11/01 to help those in need.

After the U.S. invasion there, he met soldiers there who were "fighting to preserve freedom" for Dick Cheney.

Either those soldiers or some lying bounty hunters accused the humanitarian of being a bad guy and took him to and fro to torture him, and he eventually ended up at GITMO.

A federal court has found that there is no evidence to support the military theory, but that his testimony of being a humanitarian is the true story:

The unclassified version issued Friday of U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly's opinion directing the U.S. government to release Kuwaiti detainee and Pillsbury client Fouad Al Rabiah from Guantanamo Bay recounts the grueling eight-year-long ordeal the 50-year old aviation engineer and father of four has experienced, including being subjected to abusive and coercive interrogation methods to extract a false confession.

In the opinion, the Court denounces the government's case from the very opening lines. "The evidentiary record on which the Government seeks to justify [Fouad's] indefinite detention is surprisingly bare," Judge Kollar-Kotelly wrote on page one. "If there exists a basis for Al Rabiah's indefinite detention, it most certainly has not been presented to this Court."

Moreover, Judge Kollar-Kotelly notes on page 44 that Al Rabiah was subjected, among other abuses, to the "frequent flier program" which "violated the Army Field Manual and the 1949 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War" by deliberately disrupting and withholding sleep from detainees by perpetually moving them from cell to cell every few hours.

(Pillsbury Law). This is not the first person to use habeus corpus to show innocent people are being tortured for years in the name of the people of the United States against our will.

In the final analysis the torturing of America is being done by criminal elements within our own government.

Will Humans Evolve Into Machines?

This post was moved to the Ecocosmology blog.

Global Bad Air Day & Parochial Fantasy

Have you seen the CAT scan which shows your lungs on global air?

Regular readers know that parochial opinions about a global subject matter get short shrift on this blog because global realities require a global mentality.

The very air we breathe is starting to cross our borders presenting an immigration problem for our lungs:

"Air pollution does not recognize national borders; the atmosphere connects distant regions of our planet," said Charles Kolb, chair of the committee that wrote the report and president and chief executive officer of Aerodyne Research Inc. "Emissions within any one country can affect human and ecosystem health in countries far downwind. While it is difficult to quantify these influences, in some cases the impacts are significant from regulatory and public health perspectives."

(Science Daily). Becoming robust citizens of the earth will require a robust United Nations which will require dropping parochial fears and fantasies.