EU and U.S. biofuel policies have resulted in a rush to buy land in third world countries , threatening areas that are used for growing food, according to a new World Bank report. A recently released report by Friends of the Earth said that 5 million hectares of land across 11 African countries are currently in the process of being acquired for biofuel development.
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West’s Biofuel Policy Spurs Third World ‘Land Grabs’
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Dacia Nichol Taylor Iran is about to become our next big problem. Forget Afghanistan. Forget Iraq. The center for world insecurity is Iran, hands down, and they’re about to cause an uproar because we’re falling into their trap. Iran has its hands in everything. Last month, I opined about why Russia was getting involved with Iran. Russia used to be public enemy number one around here, but the more I draw the lines and connect the bad guys to Khamenei and Co., the more Russia seems to just be a huge looming distraction from the real issue. Actually, Russia looks more like one of a number of pawns that Iran has orchestrated in its favor. Let me break this down. Puppet master. Iran is aiding our enemies. They’re training Taliban to kill Americans in Afghanistan and Pakistan, they’re helping al Qaeda in Iraq, and they’re helping Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon and Palestine. Oh bonus! They’re trading missile and nuclear technology with North Korea, which leads me to my next point. Iran secretly has or will soon have nuclear weapons. The Bushehr facility is a ploy. It has to be. There is no logical reason to make a huge public display about a facility that has the ultimate purpose of generating energy alone. Enrich materials there, ship it off elsewhere. Kick out the inspectors right before the excess is trimmed and sent to another facility. Build weapons accordingly. We’re all huffing around about the decoy while they’re secretly building what the world doesn’t want them to have. They’ve been working with North Korea for quite some time now, and the whole Russian-fuel thing is just masquerading the real ball. Russia wants to have legitimacy. North Korea doesn’t give a damn. Iran wants Israel to attack. As Ahmadinejad has recently proclaimed, if Israel attacks Iran’s facilities, there will be blood. Usually, we can just cast this off as hot air coming from a mad man, but let’s put this together: If Israel is set off by an advance it deems threatening – say UN inspectors come in one day and say Iran is one week from having weapons-grade uranium – it will attack to defend itself. Newly attacked Iran now has the right to retaliate. It unleashes all of its recent technology and weapons buildups, showing no mercy, and when the U.S. comes to side with its ally, Iran drops the verbal bomb: Not so fast, guess what we have? That’s right baby – nukes. Now Iran has had a dummy facility as its only loss, has done God knows how much destruction to Israel, and the world is frozen to respond because the clock is 30 seconds to midnight. Iran is not Iraq 2.0. With mutually-assured destruction on the table courtesy of Iran, is there anything we can do? What about another coup? We did that in 1953 and installed the pro-Western Shah. Um, did you see what happened in 1979? Iran’s people might have had a potential revolution last year, and we can glean from this that they do not have Iranian leaders in their good graces. But if there’s one thing the Iranian people hate more than oppression, tyranny and stoning, it’s foreign occupation. So that means our job would be largely hands-off. Then, who’s controlling the outcome? What if Iran is nuclear at that point? What does that mean for Israel? One of the biggest no-no’s in Arabia is being friends with Jews. And guess who broke that rule? The Shah. And where is he? This isn’t looking good. I am no conspiracy wonk, but when we’re all freaking out at work one day because the clock is about to strike midnight, you’ll know why.
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Iran is playing everyone, and it’s getting awfully close to midnight
Much has been said about Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” as it related to last week’s attempted terrorist attack by James J. Lee on the Discovery Channel headquarters. Much less has been said about the book he referred to by Daniel Quinn titled “Ishmael”. Get to know it and you will know much about a movement that may be much bigger than you imagine. At this point, you may be wondering why we should have any concern with a small segment of people who believe this stuff? Well, it’s not such a small segment and some of them are in very powerful places. This is a similar line of thinking to those with the money and power to act on their vision, including Al Gore , Ted Turner , James Cameron , Van Jones , Oprah Winfrey , Maurice Strong , Robert Muller , Mikhail Gorbachev and many, many more. There are ample examples of their associations and actions along these lines. Although other followers of “Ishmael” may not choose to take a crazy, terrorist path to enact their ideology, the ideology itself isn’t really much different from the ranting manifesto you may have read by Lee. Hating on humans (especially white, male ones) is very much in vogue and “Ishmael” is one of their favorite sources. Ishmael, a telepathic and enlightened gorilla, divides mankind into two groups, the Takers and the Leavers. In a nutshell, the Takers are those (white European men) who developed more sophisticated methods of agricultural to fill their never ending need to consume. The more they produced, the more they populated. Their insatiable greed caused them to invade the peaceful Leaver lands, taking and destroying anything in their way. The Leavers had lived in a more hunter-gatherer way, worshiping the goddess and taking only what they needed. They were the true pathway to a peaceful, balanced world. Just a few thoughts from “Ishmael” the all-knowing gorilla: On his theory that advancements in agriculture exacerbate overpopulation: Increasing food production to feed an increased population results in yet another increase in population. On his false theory that the natural world only takes what it will eat and leaves the rest: Okay. As I make it out, there are four things the Takers do that are never done in the rest of the community, and these are all fundamental to their civilizational system. First, they exterminate their competitors, which is something that never happens in the wild. In the wild, animals will defend their territories and their kills and they will invade their competitors’ territories and preempt their kills. Some species even include competitors among their prey, but they never hunt competitors down just to make them dead, the way ranchers and farmers do with coyotes and foxes and crows. What they hunt, they eat. Next, the Takers systematically destroy their competitors’ food to make room for their own. Nothing like this occurs in the natural community. The rule there is: Take what you need, and leave t he rest alone. On the theory that takers starve the world: Next, the Takers deny their competitors access to food. In the wild, the rule is: You may deny your competitors access to what you’re eating, but you may not deny them access to food in general. In other words, you can say, ‘This gazelle is mine,’ but you can’t say, ‘All the gazelles are mine.’ The lion defends its kill as its own, but it doesn’t defend the herd as its own. On white man’s hateful, destructive tendencies: Again . . . Our policy is: Every square foot of this planet belongs to us, so if we put it all under cultivation, then all our competitors are just plain out of luck and will have to become extinct. Our policy is to deny our competitors access to all the food in the world, and that’s something no other species does.
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Discovery Channel Ecoterrorist Reveals the Ishmael Network
Last night my wife April and I watched this fascinating, entertaining documentary about the world of advertising and the creative revolution that occurred within it over the last 40 years. It’s a definite MUST SEE.
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NRB Film Club: Art & Copy
From circa 1977, economist Milton Friedman eats a snot-nosed young liberal for breakfast in “Milton Friedman Puts A Young Michael Moore In His Place” [via Fox Nation ]: [ YouTube direct link ] Now… is that REALLY Michael Moore, or is the guy who uploaded the video just using “Michael Moore” as a generic epithet meaning ANY snot-nosed young liberal? I don’t know, Google is decidedly unhelpful, and it really doesn’t matter. The important thing is that you get to watch a scrumptiously epic intellectual beat-down. UPDATE: I Own the World makes a convincing case that it’s not actually Michael Moore.
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Capitalist Propaganda: “Milton Friedman Puts A Young Michael Moore In His Place”
This excerpt is taken from the introduction to Student , 1962. It was the first book about the New Left, and these chapters were in effect its first Manifesto . I was 21 when I wrote it, and needless to say, I don’t agree with many of the sentiments expressed. “I have prayed just one prayer in my life: Use me.” These are the words of Spegel, the actor, in Ingmar Bergman’s film The Magician . For my generation that is no strange prayer, no unknown request; it has been on our lips, silently, for a long time. We have said very little, but we have experienced much. We have been made to live, as no other generation has, on the edge of the world’s doom…. It is no exaggeration to say that we began our maturity with Hiroshima. For although many of us do not remember it as a once-present happening in our lives, with Hiroshima a new age began that was to shape and direct us, and so characterize the course of our futures…. Even then they were coming to us with their “Cold War,” and we were being asked to recognize new enemies, to seek new struggles, to sacrifice new lives…. My generation has been witness to more offers to sacrifice the world for freedom, for country, for God Himself, than we are likely to take without some revulsion and disgust. And every time we have heard the call to rally behind the “free world,” to prepare ourselves for ultimate sacrifice for the “free world,” don’t you think we’ve thought of Rhee, of Chiang, of Trujillo and Salazar, Batista and Franco, Somoza and the others? Don’t you think we thought of Mississippi and Emmet Till And don’t you think we’ve paled a little at the hypocrisy of it all? Does it help to think of the Russian crimes? Do you think we can think of Hungary and not remember Cuba?… No sooner were we called on to support their “free world” crusade, than they began to witch-hunt in our ranks. I say “our ranks” because it was the intellectuals whose silence they sought, and among them were our instructors, our professors…. I remember Einstein’s letter to The New York Times . “Don’t cooperate with any committees that investigate ideas,” he said…. When McCarthy was finally stopped, it was only because he abused his power. He violated certain proprieties among elites by attacking the military. He ought to have been stopped for being a threat to the very principles on which the nation was founded; he ought to have been stopped because the methods of his committee were effectively destroying every safeguard of free speech and free association that the Constitution affords to the individual, every protection for the innocent against unjust trial. But even the President, who disliked him, said nothing. Every year of the last six of President Eisenhower’s office, this nation has faced the responsibility of completing its task begun 175 years ago. Every year since the Supreme Court decision in 1954, President Eisenhower abstained from his moral duty to lead the nation in the fulfilling of that task. No President in the history of the country could have accomplished more than he with less effort. President Eisenhower was, and still is, the most respected man in this country. The majority of the white citizens in the South regard him as a sincere and pious man. If he had appealed to them, as citizens of this nation, to learn to live as Americans ought to live, side by side, all colors, all creeds, he might have won a more meaningful and far-reaching victory for our country than he was summoned in all his life to win. – Student , reprinted in Left Illusions – If you have a favorite Horowitz quote you want to highlight for others then click here to submit . Please include: “Horowitz Quote of the Day” in subject line. A link to where the quote is from. (No need to include this if it’s from a book.) Any remarks you’d like published explaining what value you take from it. Your preferred name and a link to your blog or homepage (if you have one.)
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From the Pen of David Horowitz: September 3, 2010
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