Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Welcome to Lasco X's Rants

This is my first blog using the google blog forum. I have blogged in the past on my facebook page but I decided to move it over to this site. I normally concentrate on one topic but since this is my first blog here I will be going over subjects all over the map on this one. So on to the rant .... or in the case of this blog, some observations on the world events going on around us.

The great global warming info (or dis-info) hack. Last week some hackers stole roughly 61 megabites of confidential files from the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit. The 1079 emails and 72 documents allegedly obtained from there seem to give indications of a conspiracy/collusion to exaggerate the problem of global warming and down play the more recent trend of global cooling. Some in the Global warming camp will surely say this is a manufactured attempt at discrediting global warming. Though I personally dislike hackers and don't condone what they did, I have to say I personally find this information to be believable and considering it was suppose to be obtainable threw the British version of the freedom of information act, it was highly enlightening. It has been common knowledge for a long time that government funding for research has been skewed in favor of pro global warming at a rate of 85% pro to 15% objective ,sceptical ,natural environmental caused weather patterns. The pro global warming camp routinely glossed over the medieval warm period and the geologists perspective of natural trends of global warming and cooling. In their cries of "the ice caps are melting" they payed little attention to ancient maps that depicted the coast lines of Antarctica. Sun and other cosmic cycles have much greater bearing on the global temperatures than man. This is not to say man does not have an impact on his environment. It is foolish not to think we do not have any impact on the world around us. Mankind has been polluting this world since we first started walking on the face of it. With our ever increasing numbers we need to be aware of our impact on on this world. The problem with those bowing at the alter of global warming is that they are concentrating on CO2 and are ignoring the true toxic hazards that plague the planet. Industries spew toxins into the air and water that are far deadlier than simple CO2. In the USA we have worked hard to eliminate the needless emissions of these toxins. We have come a long way from the Ohio river catching fire in the 70's. In the emerging industrial giants such as China these safe-guards are not being pursued as well as they should be. The plans to basically sell and tax hot air do nothing to protect the environment and cripple our economy in the process. Speaking of the economy.....

What a damn mess we are in! I guess the powers that be aren't worried about hurting our industry with cap and trade policies because our industrial base has already been gutted to the core and now they are trying to destroy the seeds of industry. The only thing that will turn our economy around is manufacturing and exporting products! America can not just be a consumer/ service nation, it has to regain it's status as a manufacturing power house. This is much easier said than done. Organized labor jacked up wages so high it is hard to compete with the dirt poor wages they pay in sweat shops around the world. The corporate leaders that use to be content with earning 10 times what the floor worker earned now believes they are worth 100 to 1000 times more in a year. And what do these CEO's do when they run a company into the red, they bail out with their "Golden parachutes" and retire to their estates! Since when do people earn bonuses for running companies into the red? Maybe the next time a CEO runs a company into the ground he should be taken up in a plane and given his bonus in a backpack full of gold bullion and told if he wants it, he needs to take his "Golden Parachute" and jump out, if he wants it so bad and he truly feels he has earned it! If he doesn't want to jump then he forfeits it! Bonuses are earned by turning a profit! Not by raping the workers,share holders and consumers!
On top of corporate greed and the loss of manufacturing we are in the same over expansion of militaristic power that toppled the Roman Empire. Currently we are waging two major military campaigns that are designed to protect oil interests in the middle east while we maintain military bases in almost every counties in the world. We are not in the mid Eurasian continent to promote democracy, we are there to secure our access to the oil fields! I understand the need for this in the eyes of some people but if we had started working seriously towards alternative energy sources back in the 70's when we had the first oil crisis we would not need to be dependant on the middle east. The truly ironic thing is , The USA actually gets only a small amount of the oil we use from the Mideast. Mostly the oil is exported to our allies in Japan and Europe as well as the growing consumption in China.
The economy of the USA was decimated over the past couple of years. In reality though we have been driving up to the edge of the cliff for a long time now. It didn't take much to push it over the edge. The collapse of the dollar has been orchestrated by a few to both hide past indiscretions and to create bargain basement prices for American assets so they could be swept up and consolidated. Make no mistake about it, if you follow the money you can see the current economic troubles has been engineered to benefit the few at the expense of the many!
So with these problems facing our nation what are our leaders doing about it? Not a whole lot! The masses still buy into the Left /Right paradigm not realizing that the true power base lies with the Power Elite of the world. The Power Elite is a conglomeration of old money and some new money that has been controlling world events for a very long time. They are the true owners of this and other countries, to them we are only just sheep to be lead and cattle to be exploited! George Carlin nailed it in his rant about education and the owners of this county, look it up on you-tube sometime. Its good for a laugh as well as being an accurate statement on the state of things. I realize that not everybody in the government is in on it and there is some good and decent people in the system. It does have some bearing on matters that a large portion of our legislators are millionaires. It also has a lot to do with the apathetic nature of the electorate! The sad fact is that most people just don't care about politics and how it affects their lives. They are to wrapped up in survival , or worse Survivor , to pay attention to what is going on around them. The dangerous thing is - those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it! Last century saw the USA take over world leadership from the British Empire. Is this going to be the century the USA stumbles and lets lose of the reigns and if so what is going to happen to the fragile world balance where we have some sense of world order. The future is uncertain at best and our political leaders seem to be asleep at the wheel! At times I feel the blind are leading the one eyed!

At the end of the day all you can believe in is God and yourself. It is good to remember that God helps those that help themselves. Prepare for the worst and hope for the best. Things will probably get worse before they get better so be ready for a bumpy ride the next couple of years. Also , always remember the golden rule is Not "he who has the gold makes the rules!" It Is... "Treat others as you would like them to treat you" If we all lived by that the world would be a much better place to live in!
Until next time
Lasco X

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