Michael Chossudovsky clearly establishes in this article that we should expect more of the same, despite a President-elect who is promising ‘change’.
By the way, if you’ve read Shock Doctrine , you’ll appreciate the section on ’1997 Asian Crisis: Dress Rehearsal’.
Here’s a Fox clip (of all sources, yes) from InfoWars, that showcases an interview with Gerald Celente .
Summary of his predictions for America:
I’d like to explore a few of his ‘ideas’ in a little more detail. Feel free to comment as we move along.
With most people still avoiding the word ‘recession’ in their dialogue, it’s hard to assume that Conservatives will do anything but cut back, cut budgets, and raise taxes as they ‘pretend’ to be surprised by changes in the economy. I actually count Obama in that camp, despite Reagan-like accusations that he’s a socialist.
The killer question: what do we do to anticipate these changes? Don’t spend on wasteful things.
A self-fulfilling prophecy? Kind of. The smart thing to do? Absolutely.
It’s important for people to understand that they don’t have to spend in order to preserve the health of the economy. It’s important for all of us to appreciate that saving money is not a recent phenomenon. My parents and their parents did it. They kept their financial houses in order. And they are (or were) never ashamed to admit it. Saving instead of spending still ensures that GOOD jobs are created. Spending usually ensures that more demand is placed on short-term, low-wage jobs that offer no benefits and no future.
All we have to do is a little more of the same and avoid the ads, the hype and the mania of the holiday season. I say ‘why wait until 2012′? Why not stop buying crap from thousands of kilometres away today and start saving it or donating what we have left over to local non-profits and charities that are trying to make a different for people?
When we start really understanding the roots of the economic and financial crisis – that people aren’t buying the big-box globalized market structure that’s being rammed down our throat – only then will we realize that things are actually ok. For most of us. The ones that are panicking are the Wal-Marts and the MacDonald’s of the world that might be making money now, but have no hope of a future as we learn how to respect our neighbours again and buy local, build community and pay attention to politics.
Conservatives are meeting in Winnipeg to develop a platform.
Gee … it would have been nice to see that BEFORE the Canadian election.
First, they squandered our budget surpluses and gave them away to corporations, most of which aren’t even Canadian-owned any more.
Then, they said that they would never run a deficit before the election and announced that deficits would become all the rage after the election. I’m looking for a ‘before/after video clip to post here – if you have one, please let me know.
Now, they’re telling us they’re going to start selling Canadian-owned properties . Into a soft market. Killing industrial real estate prices. Giving buddies and friends a steal of a deal on federally-owned assets in a shitty market.
‘Have we got a deal for you’.
They have now, in my books, earned the title The Pirates of Parliament. They will loot, pillage and molest any economic situation and will tell us anything in order to get re-elected, using US election-style bullying and political tactics and tearing Canada apart bit by bit until there’s nothing left.
As economists, they’ll tell you that they couldn’t see it coming, especially just before the election. But I could and I don’t even have a Master’s in Economics, Steve.
And why – if balancing the books is such an issue (and it should be) – don’t you just gut the $500 billion defense spending plan in order to avoid having a massive deficit. $500 billion would go an AWFULLY long way to making your jobs a lot easier.
Oh yeah … it’s because you don’t really want Canadians to be made aware that you’re initiating the largest military expansion / expenditure in Canada’s history as a free nation.
This video summed things up nicely:
According to this article , research efforts related to the impact of corn on our society are difficult, stymied by the fast food industry and generally unpopular within the academic circles.
For years now, chickens and cows have been force-fed a food product that isn’t even part of their original diet. With cows, the effect of eating corn is particularly disturbing:
Corn fattens up cows prior to slaughter at a higher rate than grass, their natural diet, but it also causes them a number of health problems. Cows’ stomachs in particular do not react well to corn – it makes them susceptible to the deadly bacteria E. coli – so their feed has to be spiked with antibiotics to prevent them from getting sick.
What’s more, most corn is not grown for direct consumption:
Of the more than 263 million bushels of corn produced in this province this year, 55 to 60 per cent of it will go to make to animal feed, 15 to 20 per cent will become ethanol, and much of the rest is used to manufacture, yes, the ubiquitous corn sweeteners found in soft drinks and snacks. (The iconic, butter-smeared, sweet cobs most of us picture when we think of corn accounts for only a tiny, specialized sliver of corn production in North America.)
More about the original article can be found here . It’s titled "Carbon and nitrogen stable isotopes in fast food: Signatures of corn and confinement" and was published by A. Hope Jahren of the University of Hawaii. I tried to get a copy, but couldn’t quite figure out the downloading process.
This type of research describes what many are discovering: that meat is murder, to borrow a headline from The Smiths. While it’s hard for me to pulll away from meat completely, my family has basically banned most of the things that corn is over-used for in North America:
Of course, this research now has me doing a double-take on the classic promotional tidbit that came with ‘good’ meat: grain fed and free range.
I should have always known this, but they both seem more like lies.