Ready to Rumble? China Sends War Ships

Ready to Rumble?  China Sends War Ships.

I think China is serious. She is sending a huge warship to the Syrian coast line along with some other ships (Paul Joseph Watson (9/5/2013 Telegrafist.org.). Syria’s coastline is getting crowded.  However, the main sun bathers are the personnel on the war ships.  Aside from the Russian warships already stationed around the Syrian coastline keeping the more numerous US warships company, Russia has also announced that they are sending three more warships to the area.

 If Obama has any good sense left he will rethink a strike on Syria in a hurry.  China has stated repeatedly that she will protect Iran.  And China knows that all strikes on Syria are aimed at eventually getting at Iran and ultimately at encircling China.  China knows this.  And she also knows the main reason behind why the Obama administration is so gung ho to make such a big mess in the world, and why Obama doesn’t even care that he is appearing  to have no good sense left even if he started out with some. Did Obama just take a wrong turn somewhere?  Whatever, he has run too far with the devils to turn back now, that is with the neocons and the military industrial complex, Israel and Saudi Arabia, and yes , that other entity bent on destroying the future of the world.  I am referring, of course, to The Conglomeration of World Banksters!

Muslims don’t believe in charging interest.  It follows that the banks in Muslim countries are public, not private banks.  In an article by Ellen Hodgson Brown entitled “Making the World Safe for Banksters” (Information Clearing House 9/5/2013) Brown points out that private banks can’t make money from public banking systems.  Public banking systems have no need for interest rate swaps, credit default swaps, or packaged derivatives.

 But it isn’t just the Muslim countries that don’t have private banking systems.  Neither does China.  Or Brazil or Russia or India.  And these countries passionately resist the US and Western central bankers invitations to turn their public banks into private ones for the Banksters to loot.   However, 60% per cent of the world has been caught in the trap of deregulated banking of the private banks.  And that 60% of the world (people in the US, EU, Africa, South America (excluding Brazil) Mexico, Canada, parts of Asia, etc.) now has to deal with overwhelming interest payments on their governments bank loans and the austerity plans imposed by the same banks.  How did this happen?

In her article Brown cites a posting by Greg Palast of evidence that in the late 1990’s US Treasury Officials and Wall Street conceived a plan to open all banking to the lucrative derivatives business.  Brown continues:  …”To pull this off required the relaxation of banking regulations not just in the US but globally.  The vehicle to be used was the Financial Services Agreement of the World Trade Organization.”

So banking regulations that kept some of the worst practices of private banking in line began to eat dirt, so to speak.  But why did the governments of the countries who signed on to this massive global banking deregulation do it?  Why would these countries deliberately put not only their own people at risk (stipulations that customer’s deposits could be confiscated if the banks fell into trouble, i.e. the Bail-In template) but the very idea of national sovereignty?

Brown continues:  “WTO members were induced to sign the agreement by threatening their access to global markets if they refused; and they all did sign except Brazil.”  Brazil was threatened by a boycott for refusing to sign but nothing came of it.  And then, the most hair raising admission by U.S . General Wesley Clark (Ret.) in a 2007 interview on Democracy Now…”Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.  These seven countries were named by U.S. General Wesley Clark (Ret.) as being “rogue” states being targeted for take down after Sept. 11, 2001. He said that about 10 days after 9/11 , he was told by a general that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq.  Later, the same general said they planned to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and Iran.”

The Banksters are actually doing well as far as scoring.  Libya is down, along with Iraq. Syria is bleeding, but as yet still standing.  The situation may be different with Syria.  Russia and China are both in the area.  Obama may not be so anxious to rumble…especially with China.  We’ll see.

Breast Milk and Bees

Breast Milk and Bees

While the world seems to be on hold until US President Obama decides how many Syrians should die directly by American hands (the missiles don’t launch themselves without somebody pressing a “go” button), here at home we have some pressing life skills that we are all failing.  I don’t think I would be exaggerating if I claimed that the fundamentals of life are under siege.  Human breast milk, the symbol and certainty of the continuation of life is not what it used to be.  And bees, those tiny, industrious workers of the world whose tireless  pollinating of food and beauty, are dying out.  Both bees and breast milk need strict and prompt attention if we, as a race, are to survive with a reasonable amount of food and health security.

Words are things.  Words have power.  So much power that I am almost afraid to bring up all the chemicals accumulating in human breast milk lest this in some way adds to the mounting  evidence that might turn women off breast feeding their babies altogether.  But most people, particularly women, already know about the chemicals in breast milk .  We know, but file this kind of information away in the storage unit of things we’d rather not consciously think about.  Why?

Because the subject of chemicals in breast milk seems impossible to address.  And the consensus still seems to be, in spite of the pollutions in breast milk, that mother’s milk is still the very best food for babies.  Mother’s milk has evolved over hundreds of thousand, nay, millions of years to be the perfect human food for babies. Still, we must talk about these things.  Openly and urgently.  And there is a glimmer of hope on the horizon regarding getting rid of some of the pollution in mother’s milk.   That’s because much of the rest of the world seems to be trying, more or less, to move away from some of the chemicals that are showing up in breast milk.

Among the most worrying of pollutants in breast milk are chemicals called POPS.  What are POPS?  According to the report from the 2013 UN Stockholm Convention on protecting human health and the environment, POPS are described thusly:

 “Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPS) are organic chemical substances, that is, they are carbon based. They possess a particular combination of physical properties such that, once released into the environment, they:

(a) Remain intact for exceptionally long periods of time (many years);

(b) Become widely distributed throughout the environment as a result of natural processes involving soil, water and, most notably, air;

(c)  Accumulate in the fatty tissue of living organisms including humans, and are found at higher concentrations at higher levels in the food chain; and

(d)  Are toxic to both humans and wildlife.

And the UN report goes on to say…

“…Specific effects of POPS can include cancer, allergies and hypersensitivity, damage to the central and peripheral nervous systems, reproductive disorders, and disruption of the immune system.  Some POPS are also considered to be endocrine disrupters, which, by altering the hormonal system, can damage the reproductive and immune systems of exposed individuals as well as their offspring; they can also have developmental and carcinogenic effects.”

So what are the products that contain POPS?  The report lists three categories;  Pesticides, Industrial chemicals and By-products.  For a list of the names of various POPS visit http://chm.pops.int/

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Canada is a party to this UN organization and has ratified our membership.  Even Afghanistan has joined and ratified. The US has not. The biggest chemical polluter on this earth has evidentially refused to give up polluting the earth, mothers’ breast milk be dammed.  But much of the rest of the world is moving toward trying to limit or eliminate these toxins.  Same story with the bees.  Coming up. 

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Obama's Kill List Expands

Obama’s Kill List Grows

Yes, Obama’s kill list is readying an expansion to include some sections of Syria.  A surgical strike(s) is what Obama is calling for.  Not to replace Assad, he claims.  That’s because the White House and Israel both fear the Muslim Brotherhood  with their Al Qaeda connections more than they do Assad.  So why is the US, Britain and Israel supporting the Syrian rebels at all?  Especially considering that according to some reports, the Syrian rebels now consist mostly of foreign fighters who are radical Islamists of one kind or another.

It’s all because the developed countries need energy.  Lots of it.  And certainly England knows the value of the fruits of invading energy rich countries as well as the US.  But Syria isn’t an energy rich country, you say?  True enough.  However, the goal for the US and Britain along with multinational banks and corporations has always been to use Syria as the means to bring Iran to heel. Iran is energy rich. Syria is the gateway to Iran’s oil and gas.  There is a lot of frustrated greed out there for the last of the earth’s easy energy and  this has reached new highs among the energy slurping nations when they learned of the new pipe line gearing up  to start in Iran’s South Pars gas field.

From The Vietnamese newspaper Thanh Nien News (8/10/13) we learn that the new 10 billion ($US) pipeline will run from Iran through Iraq and Syria. The article’s author (Pepe Escoba)r tells us: “…this prospective (pipeline) is one of the fundamental reasons for the proxy war in Syria.  Against the interests of Washington, for whom integrating Iran is anathema, the pipeline bypasses two crucial foreign actors in Syria…prime “rebel” weaponizer Qatar  (as a gas producer) and logistical “rebel” supporter Turkey…”

Again, for the Western powers, particularly the US and England, it’s all about confiscating easy energy resources. And the “shock and awe” of pillaging these foreign countries is also really good for US military weapons manufacturers along with replenishing US bases, and halfheartedly rebuilding bombed out cities. Lots of money to be made there, like in Libya and Iraq.  Only there may be more snags in shocking and awing Syria than Obama (nee Bush) and David Cameron may have anticipated.

For one thing, in an all-out attack on Syria the US would have to ratchet up the printing presses and try to sell inflated bonds to China.  China has been very quiet through this entire Syrian crisis.  Hardly saying anything, just a few words here and there in the China Daily newspaper.  But then maybe China doesn’t need to say much.  Why should she?  She holds most of the cards.  No UN resolution is going anywhere without her approval and if China refuses to buy bonds to furnish funds for a US invasion of Syria, well, where would the US look?  So the very most that Obama could possibly pull off at this time would be what he is now proposing…that is, some kind of a surgical strike.  Just enough to punish Assad for what Obama claims is proof that it was the Syrian government who launched the gas attack.  However, as yet Obama hasn’t produced any proof.

 The Obama administration and Britain’s conservative government are both claiming that it is enough that they are convinced that it was the Syrian government who made the gas attack and they don’t have to show any proof.  And Obama seems determined.  Assad must be punished.  Obama wants to expand his kill list to include hundreds, even thousands of innocent Syrian people. Something has to be done, Obama says, to punish Assad.  It’s as if they are saying they can’t think of any other punishment, so it’s time to go kill some more Syrian civilians.  But there may be lots of trouble with this.