Daily Archives: April 16, 2008
The Great Biofuel Famine
Your SUV Ate My Dinner!
Euthanol strikes again!!
This is no way to treat people:
biofuel policies will significantly contribute to the early, avoidable deaths of between 10 and 20 million people in the year 2008 alone.
P.S. For those that didn’t read my previous post, ‘euthanol’ is my own ‘mashed’ term combining ‘euthanasia’ and ‘ethanol’.
Monsanto Documentary
Watch the video here:
http://bestdocumentaries.blogspot.com/2008/03/world-according-to-monsanto.html
Enjoy while you’re munching on some soya burgers!
Meltdown of $US as China Sells
The continuing decline is taking global health with it. The dropping value of the US dollar is resulting in rapid price increase in global commodity prices, including wheat, gold, oil, rice and corn. All of these increases are creating global food shortages that are unprecedented.
My gut still remains in the same place: is there a way to bypass US dollar pricing for commodities, with the expectation that international pricing, as opposed to American pricing, will smooth the complex tsunami wave of changing prices?
(Virtually All of) Canada Opposed to SPP
Canadians are not confident with the current approach that the Harper or Liberal government has with our international agreements, treatment of natural resources or national water policy.
These are virtually unanimous numbers.
The remaining 10% are probably those folks who also believe Bush is a good president.
These numbers are an indictment of the policies of both the Liberals and Harper government:
- 89 per cent want an energy policy guaranteeing Canadian supply and protecting the environment, “even if this means placing restrictions on exports and foreign ownership of Canadian supplies.”
- 88 per cent of Canadians want a comprehensive national water policy that bans bulk exports of fresh water and recognizes water as a basic human right. There are concerns water is not protected by trade agreements.
- 87 per cent agree Canada should set its own independent environmental, health and safety standards, “even if it might reduce cross-border trade opportunities with the United States.” Council researcher Stuart Trew said the product-safety legislation introduced last week by the Harper government includes SPP goals for harmonization by allowing greater corporate oversight of products.
- 86 per cent agree the SPP should be debated in the House of Commons and submitted to a parliamentary vote.
I have never seen more conclusive numbers than these in my life.
Meanwhile, anyone who challenges the SPP, even in fiction seems to face an early retirement:
CBC Drops Intelligence
The History Channel & “Red Dawn”
I go to the gym every Saturday to work and always look forward to a good crappy movie on one of the new machines they have that have TV screens (they’re really cool!).
I get on and set up my routine and then start browsing the channels for something that’ll help me pass through my work out on the elliptical trainer.
I came across the History Channel and I recognized the movie instantly, despite missing the first few minutes. The panicked and erratic driving of Patrick Swayze in his pickup truck bringing a small group of kids (Charlie Sheen, C. Thomas Howell, etc) into the mountains to avoid getting caught by a battaliion of Cuban paratroopers that had just landed in Texas as part of an invasion and onslaught of WWIII.
I was enjoying the fun little flashback to my youth where me and my buddies had seen this flick half a dozen times, and then I flashed forward to the present and reminded myself that this is the biggest pile of propaganda bullshit that could ever inhabit the planet. Goebbels would be proud.
The context, the scenario, the series of events are all fictional and all manufactured to inspire a generation of Americans (and Canadians) to hate and despise the Russians and to bring the Cubans into the mix.
And that would all be fine, but then I thought “WTF does this have to do with History?” It didn’t happen. The Wolverines didn’t lead a rebellion against the occupation of America. There was no WWIII.
So why is it part of the History Channel’s regular roster of movies to play?
The last thought (and a mildly serious one): this is why we’ve got to oppose any kind of net filtering and do everything we can to ensure that no one tells us what qualifies as “history” and what does not. If that does happen, it’s painfully obvious to me that we’re going to be buried with that kind of propaganda with all other “unfiltered” channels and have our options limited when it comes to understanding what the situation actually looked like.