Obama Expands Free Trade While Nato Bombs

Europe gets much of its oil from Libya.  So they demanded that NATO invade.  Now that the Europeans gave us the green light, out comes Obama: ‘We cannot stand idly by’.  Obama isn’t idle.  Since becoming President, in between using Predator missiles to kill civilians (unlike Gaddafi, we kill someone else’s people, not our own) he runs around the planet finishing off America by signing endless ‘free trade’ agreements.  

 

These are like a burning nuclear power plant: reactive.  This thing has grown and grown and grown since NAFTA.  Our trade deficit has grown and grown and grown since NAFTA.  All the deals make it worse and worse and worse.  Here is an example from today:  Obamas in Brazil to build US trade ties

• The numbers tell it all. In 2003, the United States exported $11.2 billion in total goods and services to Brazil, while it imported $17.9 billion. In 2006, those numbers had exploded to $19.2 billion in exports and $26.4 billion in imports—still a deficit, but a significantly narrowing one.

So, in 2002 there was a $6 billion trade deficit with Brazil and today it is a $7 billion deficit?  And this narrows the deficit?  Good gods, talk about insane math!  Our trade deficit GREW over time!  That is, even if the differential shrank, the hard fact is, we had more deficits rather than less, overall!

That is, at this rate, if we add another billion every year, even if we trade $100 billion in exports to Brazil and Brazil ships $110 billion here, we then have a $10 billion deficit which is bigger than a $6 billion deficit even though the percentage differential is even tinier.  You can’t ever catch up, of course.

I hate this sort of infantile reasoning which seems to cluster around global free trade.  Why do people think this way?  Why do they go out of their way to tell these insane stories, set up to deliberately fool people who don’t do basic logic?

Obama and the EU Nato people are weeping alligator tears over the dead in Libya but seem awfully dry eyed when it comes to unarmed civilians in the Yemen protests: Evidence snipers shot to kill.

 

• Photographs and amateur video footage have provided the first compelling evidence that professional snipers shot to kill when they opened fire on an anti-government demonstration in Yemen that left at least 52 protesters dead.

The dead are nearly all Shi’ites.  There is this blind spot with the US. If Shi’ites are being massacred by Sunnis, we are fine with this.  It is probably one of the more disgusting parts of our foreign policy positions.  Palestinians get treated this way, too.  We just don’t care if they are massacred.

 

If 5 Israelis are killed by Palestinians who resent them invading the West Bank illegally, the US huffs and puffs and demands Abbas apologize and grovel.  He did and Israel slapped him good by planting even more illegal alien outposts deep inside the West Bank.  The US shrugs.

 

In Bahrain, the mad ruler there massacred unarmed civilians, too and then Bahrain Tears Down Pearl Monument.  Again: the US shrugs.  Why shoot missiles and fly war jets over Bahrain?  Why kill the alien Saudi forces sent in to crush a bunch of annoying Shi’ite demonstrators?

 

We owe the King of Saudi Arabia:  Report: Saudi Arabia Paid Raymond Davis’ ‘Blood Money’ — News from Antiwar.com.  Yup, I believe this story.  Someone paid off someone else.  That is certain.  The CIA assassin fled to the US where he will hide.  Another has replaced him since the insane assassin program has resumed with stellar mistakes scattering blood and guts all over the place.

 

 

• The Wednesday release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis came after the payment of $2.34 million in Diyat (blood money) to the legal heirs of the two people he killed on the streets of Lahore. The real mystery, however, is where that money came from, as US officials denied paying it….But the latest report seems to be that the Saudi Arabian government actually paid the money in an attempt to rescue the US-Pakistani relationship. The payment was said to be temporary, however, and again reimbursement by the US is expected at some point in the future.

 

 

It is nice to know the world continues to be insane.  I feel most secure.  Assured by many environmentalists who are terrified that the world will come to an end if it is as warm as during the dinosaur eras…who knows?  Tyrannosaurus Rexes might go crazy and assassinate Pakistanis!—so we are assured that having many, many mini-nuclear power plants, as Gore said yesterday, we will be saved from a Stegasaurus future death:  Executives May Have Lost Valuable Time at Damaged Nuclear Plant – NYTimes.com

 

• The question is whether they waited too long before pumping seawater into the plant, which would ruin a valuable investment.

 

• Kuni Yogo, a former atomic energy policy planner in Japan’s Science and Technology Agency, said he believed that the executives at Tokyo Electric Power, or Tepco, did not recognize the risks soon enough. They failed to cool the reactors on the Friday of the disaster, and even after a hydrogen explosion the next morning, they waited until that Saturday evening to start dousing the reactors with seawater — and did not even try to put water into the spent fuel pools for several days.

 

The gnomes running and then destroying the global financial systems refused to stop the Derivatives Beast and when it went into full meltdown, when first Lehman Brothers and then AIG went down in flames, we had to dump trillions and trillions of dollars and euros into this flaming nuclear money reactor to put out the fires.

 

But before this, many people including myself, warned about this and talked about how to stop it and were ignored.  Why?  Greed, of course!  So, rather than lose the nuclear reactors, they refused to put out the fires and let them burn.  Now, it is too late.  The reactors are destroyed, the power plant is destroyed, the lands around are ruined, 100,000+ thousand people are thrown out of their homes, Tokyo is blacked out and…this is what is wrong with nuclear power plants.

 

You can’t trust the idiots running it to do a sane job.  They can’t.  They won’t.  Anymore than the gnomes can run a banking system.  The banking system continues to be a looting expedition.  They won’t make it run safer or better.  They want it to be a looting expedition.  It makes them filthy rich.  Everyone running all the systems want a looting expedition which is why Obama is working day and night to expand ‘free trade’ even as it makes our trade deficit worse and worse.

 

Things aren’t going so hot or rather are way too hot in Japan as Japanese officials report radioactive iodine in Tokyo water.  Click on the link here to see the nuclear pollution as it mostly moves out to sea except for one period when it was rather nasty and rotated over Tokyo:  ZAMG – Aktuelle Informationen

The lunatics running Japan into the ground are trying to scramble to provide housing for the victims of the tsunami and nuclear madness:  Construction of prefab housing gets under way | The Japan Times Online

 

• In the wrecked city of Kamaishi, also in Iwate, plans to build temporary housing at a baseball field were postponed because of gasoline shortages that are hampering the delivery of building materials, local authorities said.

 

• The Iwate Prefectural Government plans to build a total of 8,800 houses for evacuees…In total, about 387,000 evacuees from the disaster are staying at 2,200 shelters.

 

I did the math: 44 people per temporary house.  Sounds more crowded than a Tokyo subway car.  Maybe the government will provide guys with white gloves and blue caps to shove everyone into these small houses.   The people running ShelterBox are shipping tents to Japan:

Japan has tents.  But it is very cold (yes, COLD) right now so people want warm houses with heat.  Coal or kerosene heat.  I know these are dangerous fuels.  But freezing to death has its own downside, too.  I know what that is since I live where it is very cold and tonight it will be 19 degrees F.  Brrr.

 

Here is another story about how the Japanese people seem unable to go after their own rulers and whack them.  I do admire the brave people in Arab countries: they actually fight back when ruled by demented or evil entities:  Japan crisis: ‘There’s no food, tell people there is no food’ – Telegraph

 

• Amazingly, many residents in Ichinomaki refuse to criticise the local or national authorities, excusing any shortcomings by blaming them on the sheer scale and breadth of the destruction that has made delivering aid such a mammoth task.

 

• Perhaps that too is hiding Japan’s shame, but they might be less sanguine if they could see the empty highways that remain closed to all to but emergency vehicles, yet still connect Tokyo to Ichinomaki in just four-and-a-half hours’ drive and could, surely, be used to carry some emergency food and fuel….“There’s no food, tell people there is no food,” says a man filching petrol, who declined to be named. “They say on the television that aid is being delivered, that food is coming, but you can see for yourself it is not.

 

• “I thought we were a wealthy country, but now I don’t know what to think,” he adds, explaining that he is surviving on slowly defrosting food from his home freezer. “You must tell people what is happening here because the Japanese media is too frightened to tell the truth.”

 

• It is true that coverage of the quake in Japan tends to show the brighter side of the relief efforts, while in reality for many the experience is humiliatingly grim.

 

Japan IS wealthy but the government is going bankrupt.  Japan’s corporations have great profits, have expanded all over the planet and are very powerful in countries like the US where they lobby Washington successfully to keep a ridiculous trade imbalance and even get our own government to sell Japanese yen to weaken it so they can export even more stuff to the US.

 

Meanwhile, these same rich people running Japan have utterly decimated the public.  They have exported jobs, crushed wages, forced hideous overtime work with no rewards, have let the infrastructure rot, allowed wild overdevelopment with no transportation improvements, etc.  A nightmare world is unfolding where the masses fall into greater and greater poverty.

 

Too many Japanese live worse off than the inner city poor in the US.  Their condition is deteriorating rapidly.  The very rich know that many of the people in the northern half of Honshu are the elderly or people who aren’t needed in the robot-run factories.  So if they die, this clears out more land for other uses.  These are all ‘useless mouths’ to feed.

 

As we see in the US, the GOP took over from the Democrats and they are cutting social services to the bone.  Everything is being reduced rapidly and of course, social and public systems will collapse to Japanese levels.  No surprise.  In Europe, this causes greatest rage:  Tens of thousands protest austerity in Portugal – Times Union

 

• Tens of thousands of trade unionists are holding a rally in downtown Lisbon to protest the debt-laden government’s austerity measures.

Perhaps here we shall see this sort of rage.  In Wisconsin, we got a hint of what may lurk under the surface.  Many people across the planet are very unhappy.  And rightfully so!  This collapse of world banking was totally avoidable.  So is the US trade deficit.  So is the Japanese nuclear accident.  And the only way to make our leaders listen to us is to scare them to death.  Otherwise, they slam the door shut and talk to only each other at Davos or various secret Bilderberg meetings.

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