Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog U.S. Austerity

U.S. Austerity

U.S. Austerity

U.S. Austerity

Obama set to unveil austerity plan

US president to release a tough and tight fiscal budget, but House Republicans want deeper cuts.

Barack Obama, the US president, is set to unveil his fiscal 2012 budget on Monday, an election-year plan forged from conflicting needs to cut spending and stoke the economic recovery.

With vast crisis payments and sharply lower tax revenues making it difficult for the government to balance its books, Obama will set out an austerity plan that will help set the tone for next year’s presidential race.

It is expected to address widespread public anger that the government is living beyond its means, detailing sweeping spending cuts while including some investments.

To square the circle, Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal 2012 will seek to cut the record federal deficit, slashing energy subsidies for the poor and freeze public workers’ pay.

But faced with high unemployment and an economic recovery that is still struggling to escape the orbit of the 2008 economic crisis, Obama will also give states more flexibility to pay for unemployment benefits.

Most of the projected savings would be achieved through two changes would require congressional approval.

At 2,448 pages and a weight of 4.5kg, the budget will contain something for most members of congress, but plenty more that will be loathed.

Congressional battle

On the eve of the budget’s publication, Republicans have been promoting ever-deeper spending cuts and criticising Obama for not doing enough.

Republicans argue spending cuts will help boost growth, while the Obama administration argues cuts are needed, but should be carefully measured for fear of derailing the recovery.

For example, as Obama seeks $53bn for high-speed rail over the next few years, House Republicans are trying to pull back $2.5 bn that has already been promised.

Their budget also includes $1.1 bn cut to Head Start pre-kindergarten education programmes.

Bringing the two sides together is likely to be a long process that takes up most of the year. Congress has yet to approve the fiscal 2011 budget.

“There’s no limit to the amount we’re willing to cut to help get our economy moving again,” said John Boehner, the House speaker, promising a $100bn cut in spending to the 2011 budget, with more to come.

But experts say cuts in discretionary spending, like those proposed by Obama and the Republicans, are just a drop in the fiscal bucket.

“This spending accounted for just one-fifth of total outlays last fiscal year,” Augustine Faucher of Moody’s Analytics says.

“Even if it had been entirely eliminated – wiping out the budgets for running the government, education, national parks and the like – the fiscal 2010 deficit still would have topped $600bn.”

Growing fears

Fears are growing that the inability of the US to get its budget under control could eventually lead to a debt crisis and a possible default that would plunge the globe into crisis.

This week, Ben Bernanke, US Federal Reserve chairman, warned that dramatic change was inevitable.

“The question is whether these adjustments will take place through a careful and deliberative process that weighs priorities and gives people adequate time to adjust to changes … [or] as a rapid and painful response to a looming or actual fiscal crisis,” Bernanke said.

The US budget deficit is currently at the highest levels since World War II, and is projected to hit $1.48tn this year, or 9.8 per cent of gross  domestic product, according to the congressional budget office.

source: Obama set to unveil austerity plan – Americas – Al Jazeera English

Editors Note: Head Start pre-kindergarten. Can you imagine how little backbone it takes to  take food out of the mouth of kids.

Billions subsidizing  large corporations, agra, oil, the military, the banks, tax breaks for billionaires, and you pick on hungry kids.

These guys just do not care. Shifting the burden to the states will not work, because the states are bankrupt aswell. The stimulus is over.

As the world raises interest rates, the U.S. CANNOT. It can only print money. Interest on the debt will only raise the debt. We will soon be paying ONLY the Interest.

The debt ceiling will be raised, again and again and again.

 

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Israel

Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Isreal

Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Isreal

Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Isreal

Oil spill in Gulf of Eilat would be disastrous for city

Knesset Health and Environment Committee told that State not prepared for a massive spill, which would have severe repercussions.

The Knesset Health and Environment Committee spared a moment on Monday to consider the future implications of increased activity on the part of the Eilat Ashkelon Pipeline Co. (EAPC) on the Gulf of Eilat. If a massive oil spill occurred in the gulf it would have severe repercussions, the committee was told.

EAPC runs a pipeline from Eilat to Ashkelon that carries all types of oil north. Since 2003, the pipeline has had the capability to carry oil south as well. However, the Arab boycott has prevented ships from docking at Eilat to take on oil for points south for fear that Arab countries would not let their ships dock after loading up oil in Israel.

As such, only about four to six tankers come into the Eilat Port a year. However, if the “reverse flow” project were to get off the ground, then activity at the Eilat terminal would increase exponentially.

EAPC, the Eilat municipality and the Environmental Protection Ministry are prepared for Type I or Type II spills – local or regional spills. However, a massive spill in which a 250,000 ton tanker were to catch fire and rupture would be more than the state could handle, Environmental Protection Ministry Sea and Beaches Branch head Rani Amir told the committee.

Such a spill would likely destroy the coral reef. No spill of such magnitude has ever occurred off of Israel’s coast and, in fact, according to a Knesset Research Center report prepared for the committee’s session, the amount of spills from tankers has been decreasing over the last decade.

EAPC’s terminal is located at one of the most sensitive locations along the Eilat coast – just a couple of hundred meters north of the coral reef and just south of the dolphin reef, according to the Knesset Research Center report.

Moreover, because the water is relatively deep in the gulf, ships can reach as little as 200 meters offshore, whereas in other ports, they have to dock much farther out.

The head of the rapid response station which is situated between EAPC’s terminal and the coral reef described the incredibly fast response time necessary to prevent damage.

 “We have 15 minutes to respond and to get equipment in the water. Moreover, the conditions in the water are such that any oil spill won’t stay in the port but will always drift south into the coral reef,” he told the committee.

There is active cooperation and training between Israel and Jordan, but none with Egypt, he added. While there’s no active oil terminal in Akaba, there is a tanker permanently anchored in the gulf storing oil, he said. Committee Chair MK Dov Henin (Hadash) was perturbed by the obvious threat of a permanent tanker filled with oil and demanded that the Foreign Ministry reach out to Jordan on this issue.

Over and above the damage to the coral reef and thus to tourism, an oil spill could have a disastrous effect on water quality in Eilat, the Health Ministry representative warned. There’s an older desalination plant in Eilat that provides drinking water for the city that would have a hard time dealing with water contaminated with oil.

The Foreign Ministry representative raised the issue that if the Red-Dead Conveyance was actually built, it would pump two billion cubic meters of water a year out of the gulf to desalinate and replenish the Dead Sea.

“A massive oil spill could force any desalination plant to close, at least temporarily,” he pointed out.

The Red-Dead Conveyance is far from a sure thing, however. The World Bank is still conducting feasibility studies until at least the middle of 2011. Once the feasibility studies are completed, it will be up to Israel, Jordan and the PA to decide whether it should be built. The cost of construction is already estimated to run to billions of dollars.

source: Oil spill in Gulf of Eilat would be disastrous for city

Eilat  is Israel‘s southernmost city, a busy port as well as a popular resort, located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, on the Gulf of Eilat (or Gulf of Aqaba). Home to 46,600 people, the city is part of the Southern Negev Desert, at the southern end of the Arava. The city is adjacent to the Egyptian village of Taba to the south, the Jordanian port city of Aqaba to the east, and within sight of Saudi Arabia to the south-east, across the gulf. Eilat’s arid desert climate is moderated by proximity to a warm sea. Temperatures often exceed 40 °C (104 °F) in summer, and 21 °C (70 °F) in winter, while water temperatures range between 20 and 26 °C (68 and 79 °F). The city’s beaches, nightlife and desert landscapes make it a popular destination for domestic and international tourism.

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog Pipeline Repaired Dalian China Oil Spill

Pipeline Repaired Dalian China Oil Spill

Dalian China Oil Spill

Dalian China Oil Spill

Pipeline repaired after China oil spill

IJING — China National Petroleum Corp. said Thursday a vital pipeline has resumed operations after an explosion caused the country’s largest reported oil spill.

Cleanup efforts — marred by the drowning death of a worker, his body coated in crude — continued over 165 square mile (430 square kilometer) stretch of water blanketed in thick, dark oil Thursday, after an official warned the spill posed a severe threat to sea life and water quality. The slick emptied beaches as its size doubled Wednesday.

It remained unclear exactly how much oil has escaped the pipeline six days after it exploded for reasons unknown at a busy northeastern port. State media has said no more oil is leaking into the Yellow Sea.

China Central Television earlier reported an estimate of 1,500 tons of oil has spilled. That would amount roughly to 400,000 gallons (1,500,000 liters) — as compared with 94 million to 184 million gallons in the BP oil spill off the US coast.

Officials, oil company workers and volunteers were turning out by the hundreds to clean blackened beaches, but questions were raised about the effectiveness of the efforts.

The cause of the explosion that started the spill was still not clear. Friday’s images of 100-foot-high (30-meter-high) flames at China’s second largest port for crude oil imports drew the immediate attention of President Hu Jintao and other top leaders.

source: Pipeline repaired after China oil spill

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog Mobile County Schools

Mobile County Schools

Mobile County Schools

Mobile County Schools

County schools to sue BP for lost revenue

Rena Havner Philips, Press-Register By Rena Havner Philips, Press-Register

MOBILE, Ala. — Mobile County’s school system plans to sue BP PLC to recover property taxes being lost now and likely in years ahead as a result of the oil spill, its leaders said Friday.

Prior to the litigation, schools Superintendent Roy Nichols said he would conduct a study to estimate the effects of reduced property values, vanished jobs and other diminished revenue sources.

He said he has no idea how high that dollar figure will be, but anticipates it will far exceed the $4 million that Baldwin County schools are trying to recoup from BP.

“I believe we will get some money because we deserve it,” Nichols said. “We’ve been harmed and we need to be made whole.”

Besides spill woes, the school system has been hit hard by two years of state cuts that have stripped away $80 million. Officials expect the cuts to continue for another two years.

Local tax revenues supply about $150 million to the system’s present annual budget.

During a work session Friday, the school board seemed to agree on allowing Nichols to negotiate a contract with the system’s lawyers, The Atchison Firm, to pursue legal action against BP.

BP owns the well that spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico all last summer, after an explosion April 20 on the Deepwater Horizon rig.

Nichols said that the Atchison Firm would probably receive 15 percent and 25 percent of any damage award.

School officials have talked about asking BP to build a career-technical high school that would help train the future workforce. Nichols said he’d still like one of those but, at this point, the system should go after cash.

“I certainly believe that’s an appropriate move,” said board member Levon Manzie. “At the end of the day, our tax loss is going to be more than one school building. We may experience losses for a decade or longer.”

The county school system is the largest in Alabama, enrolling about 62,000 students.

source: Mobile County schools to sue BP for lost revenue | al.com

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog Worley Catastrophe Response

Worley Catastrophe Response

Worley Catastrophe Response

Worley Catastrophe Response

Former BP oil spill claims adjusters sue Louisiana subcontractor over commissions, overtime

David Hammer, The Times-Picayune By David Hammer, The Times-Picayune

Three class-action lawsuits have been filed against the Hammond company that processed and evaluated oil spill damage claims for BP and still does so for Kenneth Feinberg’s Gulf Coast Claims Facility.

The complaints, two in federal court in New Orleans and the other in state court in Baton Rouge, were filed this week by former adjusters who were laid off by Worley Catastrophe Response in September, shortly after the claims process was transferred from BP’s direct control to Feinberg’s purportedly independent operation.

In one federal case, John Altier of Ben Wheeler, Texas, alleges Worley had its 1,300 adjusters work more than 40 hours a week and paid them a daily rate that didn’t account for overtime. Altier filed a second case on behalf of the current and former Worley adjusters, claiming the company failed to live up to a contractual obligation to pay its adjusters a 65-percent commission on what Worley billed BP contractor ESIS. The state lawsuit filed by five other former Worley adjusters makes the same allegation, contending that ESIS paid Worley $1,200 a day for each adjuster. A 65-percent commission would have yielded the adjusters at least $812 a day, but Worley paid them no more than $550 a day, the suits contend.

Worley said it is committed to treating its employees fairly and within the law.

“While the company is unable to comment on the details of pending litigation, the company denies any allegations of wrongdoing and will vigorously defend itself against them,” said Allen Carpenter, Worley’s manager of corporate compliance. “The company expects to continue the important work it is doing as part of the spill recovery process and will not be distracted by this pending litigation.”

Worley laid off about 350 people in September and October and is in the process of releasing 150 more at the Hammond warehouse.

source: Former BP oil spill claims adjusters sue Louisiana subcontractor over commissions, overtime | NOLA.com

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog Deylam Iran Oil Spill

Deylam Iran Oil Spill

Deylam Iran Oil Spill

Deylam Iran Oil Spill

Iran oil spill hits Gulf coast

TEHRAN (AFP) – An aging oil pipeline has ruptured in southern Iran, contaminating vast patches of the coast and farmland near the town of Deylam on the Gulf, the official IRNA news agency reported on Monday.

“Over 20 kilometres (12 miles) of Deylam coast and 500 hectares (1,200 acres) of farmland have been contaminated by the oil spill,” said Behrouz Atabakzadeh, the environmental protection chief in Bushehr province.

Atabakzadeh said the breakage in the pipeline between Aghajari and Deylam had happened last week, and described the damage caused by the oil spill as “irreversible.”

Mohammad Baqer Nabavi, a deputy head of the Environmental Protection Organisation, said an operation to clean up the coast was under way but admitted that it could take at least two months to be completed.

“If weather conditions are favourable, it will take at least two months to clean up the contaminated areas,” Nabavi was quoted by ISNA news agency as saying.

A storm has hampered the operation, a senior environmental official told Mehr news agency. “All equipment is ready to clean up the spill but the work is being slowed down by the storm,” Omid Sadighi said.

Iran is the second largest crude producer in the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).

 Source: Iran oil spill hits Gulf coast – Yahoo! News

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog Inflation Saudi Arabia

Inflation Saudi Arabia

Inflation Saudi Arabia

Inflation Saudi Arabia

Costly food to keep Saudi inflation high

Inflation in kingdom to stabilise but remain relatively high in 2011

A slight decline in food prices depressed the inflation rate in Saudi Arabia to a nine-month low in January but an expected rise in those prices will keep the rate relatively high through 2011, a key investment company in the Gulf kingdom has said.

Year-on-year inflation in January slipped to around 5.3 per cent from 5.4 per cent in December, the Riyadh-based Jadwa Investment said in a brief study sent to Emirates 24|7 on Saturday.

It said the rate in January, as cited by the government, was the lowest since April 2010 and marks the fifth consecutive month inflation in the world’s dominant oil power has eased.

“In year-on-year terms, inflation declined across most components of the cost of living index,” the study said.

“The most notable fall was in food price inflation, which dropped from 7.6 per cent to 6.8 per cent. Although global food prices have risen so far this year, large falls in the prices of some key food stuffs were recorded in the kingdom last month. Given the continued rise in international food prices, it is likely that food price inflation in Saudi Arabia will remain high.”

The report showed inflation in the rental sector, another key component in Saudi Arabia’s consumer price index, maintained its downward trend, dropping to 8.3 per cent, its lowest level since July 2007, from 8.5 per cent in December.  “As monthly rental inflation tends to pick-up in the first half of the year, as was the case in January, the year-on-year rate of change will probably not fall much further in the coming months.”

It showed year-on-year inflation for the other components of the cost of living index was fairly stable.  The only rises were for clothing, owing to higher international cotton prices, and medical care, which hit its highest level since March 2009, according to Jadwa.
“Outside of rents, there remains very little domestic price pressure in the economy. For 2011, international commodity prices are likely to be the main source of inflation.”

Jadwa forecast annual inflation in Saudi Arabia, the largest Arab economy, would average about 5.3 per cent in 2011, equivalent to the 2010 rate but slightly higher than the 5.1 per cent in 2009.

Inflation in Saudi Arabia climbed to one of its highest rates of nearly 9.9 per cent in 2008 due to a surge in food prices and rents, strong domestic demand, and the weakening in the US dollar, to which the national currency, riyal, is pegged. The other Gulf oil exporters reeled under record high inflation rates before they were pushed down by the 2008 global financial crisis.
At 5.3 per cent, inflation in Saudi Arabia is considered high given the minimal low rates of around 0.8 per cent recorded during a period of nearly 15 years after 1990.

“Price pressures are likely to ease slightly this year due to comparatively lower rental inflation, although food price inflation could remain elevated due to global price pressures. Inflation this year remains historically high for a country that experienced average inflation of 0.8 per cent between 1990 and 2006,” Banque Saudi Fransi said in a study last week.

source: Costly food to keep Saudi inflation high  – Emirates24|7

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog U.S. Asset Deflation

U.S. Asset Deflation

U.S. Asset Deflation

How overseas inflation could hurt investors

By DAVID K. RANDALL

NEW YORK – Inflation isn’t hitting your wallet hard, but it is lurking in your stock portfolio.

Core inflation in the U.S. is 0.8 percent, well below the 4 percent rate that starts to worry economists. Though food costs are rising, the overall inflation rate is expected to hold steady due to stagnant real estate prices.

So what’s the worry?

Fast-growing economies in places like China, Brazil and India are growing too fast — at more than 5 percent a year. That is resulting in higher prices for raw materials and consumer goods, leading to interest rate hikes that are already sending stock markets plunging in those countries. These are ominous developments for U.S. investors who have fattened their portfolios by investing in emerging markets and by buying shares of domestic companies that do business there.

Globalization long ago spread the revenue and profits of the companies in the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index beyond the shores of the United States. Fifteen percent of the profits of companies in the index are from emerging markets.

Growth overseas has helped lift the S&P 500 up 23 percent over the past 12 months, pushing company revenues higher despite the slow economic recovery in the U.S. Companies in businesses from trucks to toothpaste continue to expand into the developing world. Caterpillar Inc. made 12 percent of its revenue from Latin America in 2009, a 4 percentage point jump since 2004. Procter & Gamble, the company behind household staples like Crest toothpaste and Pampers diapers, made 32 percent of its revenues from emerging markets the same year, an 11 percentage point jump since 2004. Ford Motors Co. sold 9.2 percent of all of its vehicles in South America in 2009, a five percentage point jump from five years earlier.

“Investors are not aware of how important emerging markets are for the valuation and earnings for so many U.S. companies,” says Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx Group. Caterpillar, for instance, jumped 84 percent over the past 12 months largely due to sales of construction equipment in China and Brazil.

Investors have assumed that profits in emerging markets will continue to grow as millions join the global middle class. But if central banks take drastic steps to halt growth and tame inflation, then the stocks of U.S. companies that do big business there will fall.

“That is what I’m most fearful of right now,” says Nick Kalivas, vice president of research at MF Global, a financial services firm in New York.

China said Tuesday that its central bank was raising interest rates for the second time in just over a month. Brazil said Wednesday that it would slash $30 billion in spending to cut inflation that jumped to 5.9 percent in 2010. India’s central bank raised interest rates in late January for the seventh time in little over a year after its inflation rate hit 8.4 percent. By raising interest rates, central banks hope to slow borrowing and other economic activity that can push prices higher.

Inflation makes companies that sell consumer goods compete with the basic costs of living. Every increase in the already high cost of food cuts directly into the money that consumers in emerging markets have to spend on small luxuries or electronics. Hershey Co., for instance, could find that the 12 percent jump in the cost of cocoa this year will cut into its expanding revenues in China if consumers decide that they can’t afford more expensive candy bars.

There isn’t the same worry at home. “The U.S. economy has an enormous capacity to absorb increases in demand without causing dramatic widespread inflation,” says Burt White, chief investment officer at LPL Financial.

Investors in overseas markets have already taken a hit. India’s stock market has fallen 15 percent this year. Brazil is down 6.5 percent, and China is off 5 percent.

There are already signs that overseas inflation is creeping into the U.S. stock market. Materials companies in the S&P index — which sell basic goods like steel — have lagged behind the market since the start of the new year, rising only 3 percent compared with the 5.7 percent rise in the broad index. Consumer staples, another group of companies that are affected by inflation, are up less than 1 percent for the year.

Energy companies, meanwhile, are the most likely to benefit from global inflation because people will buy gas even if it costs more. They are up 8.8 percent so far this year, the most of any company group in the S&P index.

source: How overseas inflation could hurt investors – Yahoo! News

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog American Deurbanization

American Deurbanization

American Deurbanization

American Deurbanization

American cities are ghost towns after hyperinflation. Food supplies dry up, and people leave for the country to grow their own food.

The process begins when food prices rise. Then food becomes scarce. Then grocery stores close. Then people are put on rations. Then people Deurbanize.

Which is the opposite of  Urbanization. Urbanisation or urban drift is the physical growth of urban areas as a result of global change. Urbanization is also defined by the United Nations as movement of people from rural to urban areas with population growth equating to urban migration. The United Nations projected that half of the world’s population would live in urban areas at the end of 2008.

Urbanization is closely linked to modernization, industrialization, and the sociological process of rationalization.

In sociology, rationalization (or rationalisation) is the process where an increasing number of social actions become based on considerations of teleological efficiency or calculation rather than on motivations derived from morality, emotion, custom, or tradition. It is regarded as a central aspect of modernity, manifested especially in Western society; as a behaviour of the capitalist market; of rational administration in the state and bureaucracy; of the extension of modern science; and of the expansion of modern technology.

Many sociologists, critical theorists and contemporary philosophers have argued that rationalization, as falsely assumed progress, has a negative and dehumanizing effect on society, moving modernity away from the central tenets of enlightenment. Sociology itself arose primarily as a critical reaction to it: Marx and Engels associated the emergence of modern society above all with the development of capitalism; for Durkheim it was connected in particular with industrialization and the new social division of labour which this brought about; for Weber it had to do with the emergence of a distinctive way of thinking, the rational calculation which he associated with the Protestant Ethic (more or less what Marx and Engels speak of in terms of those ‘icy waves of egotistical calculation’

source: Rationalization (sociology) – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Editors note: after the fall, people moved to the land, and grew their own food, and grew hemp for fuel, and lived forever.

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Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Blog Organized Seafood Association of Alabama

Organized Seafood Association of Alabama

Bob Riley Organized Seafood Association of Alabama

Bob Riley

Organized Seafood Association of Alabama

“There’s no scientific evidence of seafood contamination, and there’s evidence that marine populations are recovering,” said Ernie Anderson, president of the Organized Seafood Association of Alabama. “The crisis to get past now is public opinion.”

He says oil on seafood is nothing new. He says oil from boats have been known to taint the animals so distributors know how to inspect the meat to make sure it’s safe.

But seafood officials plan to take it further.

“We’ve located an instrument that will detect hydrocarbons in meats,” added Anderson.

He says talks are being held with BP to bring the machines throughout the Gulf.

Leaders of Alabama’s seafood industry are applauding Gov. Bob Riley’s decision to create a state panel focused on marketing the state’s seafood after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Riley says he plans soon to create the Alabama Fisheries Marketing Board, an idea recommended last week by the Alabama Coastal Recovery Commission.

 Ernie Anderson, president of the Organized Seafood Association of Alabama, says he’s grateful the governor recognizes the need after the BP oil spill to convince consumers that fish and shrimp caught in the Gulf are safe to eat.

Riley says the seafood panel could get $9 million in funding from BP.

Editors note: It’s convenient that Riley is no longer Governor. And, it’s a conflict of interest when the people selling you seafood are the same people testing the seafood. And did those machines come to the gulf? This smells more like swiss cheese than fish.

Food and Depopulation: Rockefeller Family

Cassandra Anderson Infowars.com June 8, 2010

Part 1 of 4.

The purpose of this article is to give a brief outline of how the elites, and the Rockefellers in particular, are using food as a weapon.

Since the Rockefeller family came to power (especially after gaining a monopoly with Standard Oil) they have manipulated our government into ruining our financial system by way of the Federal Reserve, energy through oil dependency and food with GMOs (Genetically Engineered Organisms).  The intention is to rob us blind and kill us.  It’s time to wake up.

The official name of this program is Agenda 21 Sustainable Development.

It the overarching blueprint for depopulation and total control over America and the rest of the world.  There is no question that Americans are targeted for depopulation: GMO (Genetically Modified Organism) food has saturated American farmlands. GMOs are dangerous and the proliferation of corn crops (used as sweetener, animal feed, processed food, etc) in America is shortening our life spans.(1)  Our water is polluted, containing over 60,000 chemicals, most of which have never been tested for safety.(2)  Our air is toxic, and the US is one of the most targeted areas for chemtrails.(3)  This is just the tip of the iceberg, the things we know about.  The focus of this article is revealing the link between the Rockefellers and their intended use of food as a weapon, which is more powerful than military domination and energy control.

While Agenda 21 was introduced in 1992, the elite collectivists, lead by the Rockefellers, have been pushing population control on America and the world for generations.  In 1992, this depopulation and control policy was modernized and given a name: Agenda 21, or the Agenda for the 21st century.  The premise for depopulation and control is to preserve the environment. One would have to be an idiot to disregard environmental concerns, however, the solutions that Agenda 21 offers fail to address the real issues.  The primary tools that Agenda 21 Sustainable Development uses are global warming lies, water shortages (like the man made drought in California, which also causes food shortages) and the Endangered Species Act (designed to take away private property, which is the base of wealth creation and freedom).(4)

Food control goes hand in hand with population control.  The eugenics (improvement of humans through selective breeding, often using brutal methods like genocide and forced sterilization) program of the Third Reich in Nazi Germany was revealed after WWII.  Obviously, people did not have a high opinion of eugenics, so, according to William Engdahl, author of “Seeds of Destruction”, the Rockefeller strategists shifted their profile to champion the causes of the environment, resource scarcity and overpopulation.(5)  The policy of population control remained, despite the illusion of caring concern- which is simply marketing; the word eugenics has been renamed as “human genetics”.  This scheme for improving their image worked for them before, using “philanthropy” and tax-free foundations, when the Rockefellers became very unpopular following the Ludlow Massacre.

The Ludlow Massacre took place at a Rockefeller owned coal mine in Colorado.  The mines were notoriously unsafe, which caused many deaths and the workers were paid in scrip (currency substitute that is often credit), to be spent at the Rockefeller company stores.  When the workers went on strike, they were evicted from their homes and lived with their families in tent cities.  Then they were provoked through murder, machine gun spray, harassment, etc, in order to goad the workers into violence.(6)  This was used as a pretext to get the National Guard involved; the state militia opened fire on the tent cities, resulting in up to 53 deaths, 13 of whom were women and children.  So, the Rockefellers created a propaganda campaign to polish their tarnished image through tax exempt foundations.  These foundations are hardly philanthropic; they are used to fund the destruction of America (please read this excellent interview transcript by G. Edward Griffin to discover the true nature of tax exempt foundations).(7)

Why do you think Senator Jay Rockefeller is pushing so hard to censor the Internet?(8)

Today, the Rockefellers use coercive population control tactics and food as a weapon through a front organization, CGIAR (Consultative Group on Agricultural Resources) as the Rockefellers are trying to distance themselves from public- just like the Rothschild clan has done.  Engdahl reports that CGIAR operates under the umbrella of the UN World Bank, and its primary focus is the spread of GMO crops.  CGIAR was created by the Rockefellers and the Ford Foundation, along with the UN World Bank in 1971 with $350 million dollars a year in funding.

The Rockefeller’s “Green Revolution”, which was the implementation of new farming methods in developing countries, like Mexico, India and Asia, increased crop yields, but ended in disaster; the program lasted from the 1940′s- 1970′s.(9)  The “Green Revolution”, funded by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations and the US government, was a farming experiment with these results:

•  Hybrid rice was planted that is often sterile in subsequent generations

•  Intensive water usage, which depleted water sources

•  Use of pesticides and herbicides, which causes cancer but made the manufacturers wealthy

•  Use of synthetic (petroleum based) fertilizers that damaged the environment, but created untold wealth for the Rockefeller owned Standard Oil

•  Created a monoculture (only a single crop is grown), which means that the food supply can be destroyed in one season

Bill Gates wants to have a new “Gene Revolution” in Africa.  Bill Gates has teamed with the Rockefellers, Monsanto and the government of Norway in the Doomsday Seed Vault, in which organic seed is stored for some vague anticipated world catastrophe.(10)

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund created the ISAAA (International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications) and the Rockefeller Foundation is a major donor.  The ISAAA is involved in promoting proprietary GMO seeds to developing countries.  Its sponsors include Monsanto (USA), Dow AgroSciences (USA), Cargill (USA), Bayer CropScience (Germany), and a mysterious “Anonymous Donor “(USA), and US-AID of the State Department, per William Engdahl.

It is worth mentioning that Robert Deitch’s book, “Hemp: American History Revisited” explains that the Great Depression was not caused by the Wall Street stock market crash of ’29, but by Prohibition (the 18th Amendment that prohibited alcohol from 1920 until it was repealed in 1933).  Other businesses, besides the production of alcoholic beverages, that used alcohol were ruined.  Deitch claims that the big oil interests, like Rockefeller (Standard Oil) and Mellon  (Gulf Oil) demonized alcohol, not on propagandized moral grounds, but to  eliminate competition.  The automobile industry was in its infancy and they wanted to corner the market on energy, so they devised a plan to knock out the competition of alcohol powered vehicles.

Later, in 1937, after relentless lobbying, they did the same thing with hemp, and through deception and demonization of marijuana, hemp was outlawed.  Hemp contains only miniscule trace amounts of THC (the active agent in marijuana), yet it is considered a ‘controlled substance’.

Hemp is a low maintenance plant that needs no pesticides or herbicides, and can produce oil, paper products, biodegradable plastics, medicine and textiles (it is also a super nutritious food).  Because the Robber Barons (Rockefeller and Mellon- oil, DuPont- chemicals and Hearst- paper) were threatened, they joined together to outlaw hemp.

Hemp was later needed during WWII, so its cultivation was allowed in the US.  Hemp was a threat to the Rockefellers not only because it produces oil, but also because Cannibis has uses as a medicine, thereby threatening their pharmaceutical drug monopoly.  Nelson Rockefeller, as governor of New York, in 1973, established marijuana as a Schedule I narcotic drug, through the “Rockefeller Drug Laws” which had harsh penalties for the possession and sale of drugs (including marijuana) that could result in a sentence of 15 years to life.  As other States followed suit, this became the cornerstone of America’s abysmal ‘War on Drugs’.(11)

California was the first State to defy the federal government in de-criminalizing marijuana for medical use, through the 10th Amendment (States’ rights).  Fourteen other States have followed suit.  California will be vote on marijuana legalization in November; this may pass because the government wants to tax it.  Ironically, in 2006, a bill to allow hemp farming passed both houses of the California legislature, but collectivist Arnold Schwarzenegger, in another act of cowardice, vetoed the bill because he said that marijuana and hemp are indistinguishable under federal law.  Hemp could go a long way toward saving California’s bankrupt economy.

Fifteen other States have introduced or enacted legislation to grow hemp, but they fear the federal Drug Enforcement Agency.(12)

Interestingly, California will have an initiative on the ballot in November to legalize marijuana.  This means that if it passes, anyone can smoke marijuana for any reason, as opposed to limiting it to medical marijuana use.  This is important for 2 reasons; first, it would open the door for hemp cultivation for food, oil, natural plastics, paper, etc.  The second reason this is important is because it would nullify the federal drug law, thus enforcing the Tenth Amendment for state sovereignty.

Thanks to F. William Engdahl, author of “Seeds of Destruction” for all of his fine research and articles.

For more information, pleas visit www.MorphCity.com

1  http://www.theholisticoption.com/Pages/Video_King_Corn_Documentary_219.aspx

2. http://www.naturalnews.com/028638_EPA_water_supply.html

3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD9ezi55mO4&feature=related

4. www. MorphCity.com <http://MorphCity.com>

5. http://www.mindfully.org/GE/2005/Geopolitics-GM-Food6mar05.htm

6. http://www.newdemocracyworld.org/Bill-Gates-3.pdf

7. http://www.realityzone.com/hiddenagenda2.html

8. http://www.infowars.com/murder-of-the-internet-and-the-free-market/

9. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Revolution

10. http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7529

11. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_drug_laws

12. http://www.naturalnews.com/020625_hemp_farming_politics.html

Source:  Food and Depopulation: Rockefeller Family Alex Jones Infowars: Theres a war on for your mind!

Organized Seafood Association of Alabama

Amoco Corporation, originally Standard Oil Company (Indiana), was a global chemical and oil company, founded in 1889 around a refinery located in Whiting, Indiana.

It later absorbed the American Oil Company founded in Baltimore in 1910 and incorporated in 1922 by Louis Blaustein and his son Jacob. British Petroleum acquired Amoco in 1998.

Aon Center Organized Seafood Association of AlabamaThe firm’s innovations included two essential parts of the modern industry, the gasoline tanker truck and the drive-through filling station. Its headquarters were located in the Amoco Building (now the Aon Center) in Chicago Loop, Chicago, Illinois.

Standard Oil was a predominant American integrated oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refiner in the world[3] and operated as a major company trust and was one of the world’s first and largest multinational corporations until it was broken up by the United States Supreme Court in 1911.

John D. Rockefeller was a founder, chairman and major shareholder. As it grew exponentially and engaged in business strategies, tactics and practices that were lawful but drove many smaller businesses under, Standard Oil became widely criticized in the public eye, even as it made Rockefeller the richest man in modern history. Other notable Standard Oil principals include Henry M. Flagler, developer of Florida‘s Florida East Coast Railway and resort cities, and Henry H. Rogers, who built the Virginian Railway (VGN), a well-engineered highly efficient line dedicated to shipping southern West Virginia‘s bituminous coal to port at Hampton Roads.

source: Food and Depopulation: Rockefeller Family

Editors Note: do you think ernie knows?

A Hemp crop should replace corn as ethanol, which is causing food to inflate.

HEMP Clean Air,Sustainable Fuel

Q. How are the answers to our environmental, farming and energy crises linked?

A. Farming environmentally sustainable biomass fuels can tap the energy of plant life to replace the burning of fossil fuels which lead to extinction.

We can be energy independent, without nuclear power.

Biomass is the term to describe all biologically produced matter. World production of biomass is estimated at 146 billion metric tons per year, mostly as wild plant growth. Biomass conversion to fuel has proven economically feasible in laboratory tests and continuous operation of pilot plants since 1973. It has a heating value of 5000-8000 BTU/lb, with virtually no ash or sulfur produced by combustion.

About 6% of contiguous U.S. land area cultivated for biomass could supply all our current demand for oil and gas. This is the basis of the emerging concept of “energy farming,” wherein farmers grow and harvest crops for biomass conversion to fuels.There is one farm crop that can fill all our energy needs. Hemp is the only biomass resource capable of making America energy independent. Both Thomas Jefferson and George Washington grew hemp. But, under pressure from the oil and timber industries, our government outlawed it in 1938.

Hemp biomass technology can meet our energy needs.

Pyrolysis is the technique of applying high heat to organic matter (lignocellulosic materials) in the absence of air or in reduced air to produce charcoal, condensable organic liquids (pyrolytic fuel oil), non-condensable gasses, acetic acid, acetone and methanol. The process can be adjusted to favor charcoal, methanol, pyrolytic oil or gasoline, at 95.5% fuel-to-feed efficiency. It uses the same technology now used to process crude fossil fuel oil and coal.

Pyrolytic fuel oil has similar properties to #2 and #6 fuel oil and can be transported economically by trucking, creating even more jobs for Americans. Pyrolysis charcoal has nearly the same heating value in BTU as coal, with virtually no sulfur. Charcoal can be transported by rail to power plants generating electricity.

Clean energy for America.

When we use sulfur free charcoal instead of coal, the problems of acid rain will begin to disappear. And when the energy crop is growing it takes in CO2 from the air, and releases oxygen, so when it is burned the CO2 released creates a balanced system. Global greenhouse warming and adverse climactic change will automatically diminish.

Farms — a natural resource.

Farmers must be allowed to grow an energy crop that produces at least 10 tons per acre in 90-120 days, and grows in all climactic zones in America. Hemp is drought resistant, making it an ideal crop in the dry western regions of the country.

Hemp is one of the best biomass producers on earth: up to 10 tons per acre in about four months. Hemp is pest resistant and can be grown in rotation with food crops or on marginal land,. where food production is not profitable. This energy crop can be harvested with equipment readily available. It can be “cubed” by modified hay cubing equipment, and the cubes are ready for conversion with no further treatment.

Real National Security:

By the year 2000, America will have exhausted 80% of her petroleum reserves. Will we go to war with the Arabs for the privilege of driving our cars? Will we stripmine our land for coal, and poison our air so we can drive our autos an extra 100 years? Will we raze our forests to make fuel? Or will reason prevail? The main argument against using hemp does not hold up to scrutiny: Hemp grown for biomass will not make you high if you smoke it. The 20 to 40 million Americans who smoke pot would loath to smoke such hemp, so the crop is worthless as an intoxicant. In the former Soviet Union, where farmers are free to grow hemp, they tell of students who sneak into the fields to steal some hemp branches. “But they never come back for more.”

Only certain strains of hemp, grown under special conditions can produce ‘marijuana.’ There is virtually THC-free hemp to be grown, but even that is blocked.

During World War II, our supply of hemp for industrial feedstock was cut off by the Japanese. The federal government solved that emergency by suspending marijuana prohibition. Patriotic American farmers were encouraged to apply for licenses to cultivate hemp, and responded enthusiastically. Hundreds of thousands of acres of hemp were grown, without any problems-just benefits.

It is time for our leaders to end our national energy/economic emergency as they once stopped Hitler: Permit our farmers to grow hemp, so America can once again become energy independent and smog free.

For more on hemp biodiesel production at home: http://www.freeenergy.co.za/Bio%20feuls/HempCyberFarm%20Bio-Diesel_files/HempCyberFarm%20Bio-Diesel.htm

source: Hemp for Fuel

Editors note: Well?

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