The Cynical Economist

 Welcome to our brave new world, where we will live in  a repressive and controlled state, where the authority will be monitoring our every move, where nowhere is going to be safe from the big brother’s eye, where the thought police can treat us as a criminals…

 FBI warns of threat from anti-government extremists - 

 Anti-government extremists opposed to taxes and regulations pose a growing threat to local law enforcement officers in the United States, the FBI warned on Monday.

These extremists, sometimes known as “sovereign citizens,” believe they can live outside any type of government authority, FBI agents said at a news conference.

The extremists may refuse to pay taxes, defy government environmental regulations and believe the United States went bankrupt by going off the gold standard.

Never Let A Crisis Go To Waste: Holder Uses Fast And Furious To Push Congress For Stricter Gun Control Laws… - 

Attorney General Eric Holder attributed the difficulty preventing gun-trafficking into Mexico to weak gun controls laws, when he blamed on the U.S. House, with particular reference to the House investigators asking him about Operation Fast and Furious.

Drones over U.S. get OK by Congress - 

Look! Up in the sky! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? It’s … a drone, and it’s watching you. That’s what privacy advocates fear from a bill Congresspassed this week to make it easier for the government to fly unmanned spy planes in U.S. airspace.

“There are serious policy questions on the horizon about privacy and surveillance, by both government agencies and commercial entities,” said Steven Aftergood, who heads the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation also is “concerned about the implications for surveillance by government agencies,” said attorneyJennifer Lynch.

The provision in the legislation is the fruit of “a huge push by lawmakers and the defense sector to expand the use of drones” in American airspace, she added.

According to some estimates, the commercial drone market in the United States could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars once the FAA clears their use.

The agency projects that 30,000 drones could be in the nation’s skies by 2020.

LONDON MAN OBSERVED BY CCTV & WARNED BY LOUDSPEAKER

Spying on Europe’s farms with satellites and drones - 

Farmers who claim more EU subsidies than they should, or who break Common Agricultural Policy rules, are now more likely to be caught out by a camera in the sky than an inspector calling with a clipboard. How do they feel about being watched from above?

Imagine a perfect walk in the country, a few years from now – tranquillity, clean air, birdsong in the trees and hedgerows, growing crops swaying in the breeze.

Suddenly a model plane swoops overhead.

But there is no-one around manipulating radio controls. This is not a toy, but a drone on a photographic mission.

Meanwhile, hundreds of kilometres up in space, the same patch of land is being photographed by a satellite, which clearly pinpoints individual trees and animals.

What is there to spy on here? No secret military installations, just farmland.

Dependency Index Surges 23% Under President Obama - Soon the government will own us…

The American public’s dependence on the federal government shot up 23% in just two years under President Obama, with 67 million now relying on some federal program, according to a newly released study by the Heritage Foundation.

The conservative think tank’s annual Index of Dependence on Government tracks money spent on housing, health, welfare, education subsidies and other federal programs that were “traditionally provided to needy people by local organizations and families.”

The two-year increase under Obama is the biggest two-year jump since Jimmy Carter was president, the data show.

The rise was driven mainly by increases in housing subsidies, an expansion in Medicaid and changes to the welfare system, along with a sharp rise in food stamps, the study found.

Apple and Foxconn: Who made your iPhone? -  In China the Government already owns the citizens

1984 George Orwell Movie Trailer - “A nation at war, where terrorism is exploited by the state, where media is controlled, a total surveillance society and every citizen is a property of the state…”

Equilibrium – Citizen:”You can”t do this, you can not do this”….

Government Agent(cleric): “There is nothing, that we can not do”

Demolition Man - Citizen Edgar  Friendly: “I am the enemy, cause I like to think, I like to read, I am in for freedom of speech and for freedom of choice…”

Iron maiden - Brave new world - 

Dying swans twisted wings, beauty not needed here
Lost my love, lost my life, in this garden of fear
I have seen many things, in a lifetime alone
Mother love is no more, bring this savage back home

Wilderness house of pain, makes no sense of it all
Close this mind dull this brain, Messiah before his fall
What you see is not real, those who know will not tell
All is lost sold your souls to this brave new world

A brave new world, in a brave new world
A brave new world, in a brave new world
In a brave new world, a brave new world
In a brave new world, a brave new world

Dragon kings dying queens, where is salvation now
Lost my life lost my dreams, rip the bones from my flesh
Silent screams laughing here, dying to tell you the truth
You are planned and you are damned in this brave new world

Motörhead - Brave New World - 

So this a new beginning, as the new century dawns
The world’s a better place for you and me
Shouldn’t smoke or drink or watch that evil filthy porn.
Be Christian and God will set you free.
But being poor is worse than having AIDS,
The homeless live in boxes at our feet
Living in a constant state of dull frustrated rage,
The innocent shot daily in the street

Brave new world, brave new world, brave new world

The government has always been your pal, as you well know
Absolute corrupted power play,
If we all wipe each other out, it only goes to show
While the bureaucrats get richer by the day,
Smoking dope will get you more than murder one,
And even worse than statutory rape,
Don’t understand your children, so you send them all to jail,
Believe me, you will never make a worse mistake.

The government is coming and it wants to be your friend,
It wants to show you how to be a snitch
Inform upon your children, the inevitable end,
Is everyone’s a victim but the filthy fucking rich,
And religion, like the monster that it is
Keeps telling you to turn the other cheek
God is on your side, but I don’t think that you’re on his,
If Jesus showed up now he’d be in jail by next week.

LOL…

Cop chases himself after being mistaken for burglar by CCTV operator

AN undercover cop “chased himself round the streets” for 20 minutes in a town in southern England after a surveillance camera operator wrongly identified him as a suspect.

U.N. Floats Global ‘Climate Court’ to Enforce Emissions Rules - 

United Nations climate envoys have proposed the creation of a global “climate court” that would be responsible for enforcing a sprawling set of rules requiring developed countries to cut emissions while compensating poorer countries in order to pay off a “historical climate debt.”

more here

But it seems, that what happened in Beijing on December 09, 2011 doesn’t bother the UN bureaucrats at all

Beijing air goes from ‘hazardous’ to off the charts, literally - 

A dense blanket of smog covered most cities in northeast China this past week, reaching record pollution levels and grounding hundreds of flights at Beijing’s international airport. Public outrage over the quality of the air in the Chinese capital is rising high while the government insists that the problem is down to inclement weather and nothing to be overly worried about.

Daytime photo at Beijing’s international airport. Photo posted by Kim Rathcke Jensen on Twitter

Salomón Simhon is a Colombian filmmaker working in Beijing. His flight from Beijing to Shanghai was delayed for almost 10 hours on account of pollution.

“When I arrived at the airport there was no visibility at all. You could not see a single thing more than 100 metres away. They started delaying our flights, but they would only tell us it was because of the weather. My flight was pushed back every hour and the only explanation we would get was the weather. In the meantime, the airport became incredibly crowded. Hundreds of people were sitting on top of their bags and on the floor.We were finally able to board our flight, but you still couldn’t even see the plane’s wing from inside. I only learnt that pollution was the cause of the delay when I reached Shanghai.”

more here

Who told you first about these hot particles and how would they eventually reach the US and that the government here and in Japan will try to cover up how bad things are?

If you haven’t read it,  it was in my article Don’t Panic? Don’t Panic? Well…. from March 15.

Obama: My Plan Makes Electricity Rates Skyrocket – Barack Obama: “Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.” (That video is from January 2008)

Now we have those news stories in May and June 2011 ….

Coal Regs Would Kill Jobs, Boost Energy Bills –

Two new EPA pollution regulations will slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of thousands of jobs will be lost, and electric rates will skyrocket 11 percent to over 23 percent, according to a new study based on government data.

Overall, the rules aimed at making the air cleaner could cost the coal-fired power plant industry $180 billion, warns a trade group.

“Many of these severe impacts would hit families living in states already facing serious economic challenges,” said Steve Miller, president of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. “Because of these impacts, EPA should make major changes to the proposed regulations before they are finalized,” he said.

The EPA, however, tells Whispers that the hit the industry will suffer is worth the health benefits. “EPA has taken a number of sensible steps to protect public health, while alsoworking with industry and other stakeholders to ensure that these important Clean Air Act standards—such as the first ever national Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for coal-fired power plants—are reasonable, common-sense, and achievable,” said spokesman Brendan Gilfillan. [Read Rep. Darrell Issa: Obama's Bad Policy, Harmful Regulations Add to Gas Prices.]

What’s more, officials said that just one of the rules to cut sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide emissions will would yield up to $290 billion in annual health and welfare benefits in 2014. They say that amounts to preventing up to 36,000 premature deaths, 26,000 hospital and emergency room visits, and 240,000 cases of aggravated asthma. “This far outweighs the estimated annual costs,” says an official on background.

You see they are doing it for our own good….Right?

We may not have jobs but we will live longer (presumably)

Never mind that on the other side of the globe, China is using 3 times more coal than America.

What is EPA going to do about that? How are they going to prevent Chinese pollution in the air from entering through the American borders?

Answer that EPA!

China Overtakes U.S. As Top Energy Consumer

The report says China’s consumption rose by 11.2 percent last year compared with 3.7 percent in the United States. China’s surge led a 5.6 percent increase in global energy demand, the biggest one-year jump since 1973.

China was by far the world’s largest consumer of coal, taking 48 percent

China is Coal country

Obama Administration Spends $17.4 Million to Explore Market for Carbon Credits

The Department of Agriculture (USDA)announced that it has awarded $17.4 million for pilot projects that will begin exploring how to establish a market for greenhouse gas (GHG) credits, a key component of a cap and trade system, to help reduce carbon and other emissions that apparently contribute to global warming.

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In a cap and trade system, farmers, ranchers, and other agriculture producers theoretically stand to make money by selling credits to other, GHG-intense businesses such as manufacturers and power companies.

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The Agriculture Department was getting involved in the establishment of carbon markets, which currently exist only in states like California and the Northeast, was to better integrate the federal government into regional cap and trade systems, so that the government has a better understanding of how GHG offset markets function.

But in reality what is happening in Europe that instituted the cap and trade? Millions of pollution permits in Europe’s emissions trading scheme do very little for the environment….Here is a story from January 2011

Europe must ban flawed carbon credits

European emitters of greenhouse gases, mostly power companies, find it easier to buy in carbon credits from China and India to meet their targets than to cut the emissions of their own operations.

So who loses out? The environment, of course. Instead of the money going to schemes that genuinely tackle emissions and slow global warming, it pays for a scheme in which there is a massive incentive for industrial plants to keep producing the gases they are then paid handsomely to destroy.

What we are doing in America with the coal industry can be compared with what European Union is doing with their Airline industry…. Committing economic suicide

EU carbon trading scheme to burden European airlines

With the European Union’s emissions trading scheme (ETS) set to affect airlines next year, Lufthansa CEO Christoph Franz has warned the cap-and-trade plan will put Europe’s airlines at a competitive disadvantage.

Those additional costs couldn’t completely be passed on to customers because of intense fare competition in the sector, Franz explained. Chinese officials told him during a trip to the country this month they would consider imposing fees on European flights to counter the costs of ETS credits, he added.

Karin Holm-Müller, an environmental economist at the University of Bonn and a member of the German government’s advisory board on environmental policy, said airlines aren’t the first industry branch to fear cap-and-trade arrangements will dull their competitive edge.

“Considerations have been made to some degree about whether individual industries are too affected in competition [by cap-and-trade system],” she told Deutsche Welle. “One could consider how significantly air travel is affected… but in principle air travel should be included in the cap-and-trade system because it offers an additional opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”

According to Michel Adam, environment manager for the Association of European Airlines (AEA) in Brussels, airlines from other continents are only affected when they touch down in Europe under the ETS plan.

“If you travel from North America to Asia and your journey includes a stopover at an EU airport, then the whole journey will be covered by the ETS and will have to include its price,” Adam said. “So flying via Dubai or North Africa would be cheaper than flying through the EU.”

George Carlin – Saving the Planet

Charlton Heston Reads from Jurassic Park

Excuse me while I panic…

Fire at Japan nuclear reactor heightens radiation threat

Another fire broke out on Wednesday at an earthquake-crippled Japanese nuclear plant that has sent low levels of radiation wafting into Tokyo and triggered international alarm, suggesting that the crisis may be slipping out of control.

Japan suspends work at stricken nuclear plant

Japan suspended operations to prevent a stricken nuclear plant from melting down Wednesday after a surge in radiation made it too dangerous for workers to remain at the facility.

U.S. Navy Detects Radiation 200 Miles From Japan Nuclear Plant

The U.S. Navy said Tuesday that very low levels of airborne radiation were detected at Yokosuka and Atsugi bases, about 200 miles to the north of the Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Wind to blow towards Pacific from quake-hit Japan plant

The wind near a quake-damaged nuclear complex in northeast Japan, which has released radiation into the atmosphere, will blow from the northwest and out into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday, a weather official said.

In summary, what we have now is a crisis that is slipping out of control, everyone is leaving the plant, evacuations are underway and radioactive materials are blown towards USA….

Can a radioactive cloud reach US?

Theoretically YES! How do I know that?

During WW2 Japan was sending balloons with bombs into the jet-stream. Some of those bombs landed as far as MICHIGAN! In just 3 days!

If you were sleeping during history classes here is the story How Geologists Unraveled the Mystery of Japanese Vengeance Balloon Bombs in World War II

I lived trough the Chernobyl disaster and even though I was only a teenager back then I remember the scared and panicked people. We lived some 800 miles from the site. So we did not know what has happened for a few days. The government imposed an information blackout. The only way we learned that there is something serious that has happened and what was going on at Chernobyl was from the radio news coming beyond the iron curtain…

And then when the rumors spread  and everyone was talking about the accident, the government officials stated, that there is no imminent danger to the public, we should not panic, everything is under control, everyone must carry on with their daily activities as usual….

About 10 years later (after the fall of the communism) there was a spike in the number of people dying from lung cancer. After X-Ray examination they found people carrying so called ‘hot particles” in their lungs. Those were microscopical parts of the reactor blown into the atmosphere and then carried for thousands of miles…read here how many parts of Europe ( mostly Hungary, Germany, Poland, Finland, Bulgaria) were contaminated by those ‘hot particles’ .

Now we have the same situation… Uncontrollable atomic reaction and governments who say we should not panic.

At the same time Japan is desperate, cannot control the situation and is seeking DIRECT U.S. MILITARY HELP

One thing I learned years ago, is to take everything, that the government say with grain of salt (I always use Iodised salt)

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I hope and pray that this situation is not going to turn into bigger disaster than Chernobyl

BTW the same government officials that are saying that everything is OK, have on their disposal government bunkers, protective wear, food, water, energy generators, filters and many other things to insure THEIR SURVIVAL for few months.

I am not telling you to start chewing those iodine potassium tablets.

That would be dangerous.

Just get prepared you know…food, water, basic things

Do you realize that we are in the current situation, because the reactor was designed in a way that something like the events that happened(devastating earthquake, tsunami, 3 safe devices failing, unable to control water and reactor core) were considered to be so unlikely, GE never considered the possibility of them happening…

As Aristotle put it “Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.”

I am for clean air, clean water, clean environment… Just against the tyranny of the few claiming, that if we allow them to take our hard earned money,  they can fix everything “wrong” with the human progress.

I am against the enslaving of my fellow human beings in the name of the phony climate change fix – carbon trading

I firmly believe the changes in our climate are caused by the Sun and its activity and there is nothing we can do about it …

Research paper that concludes, that there is more correlation between the sun cycles and the temperature changes on Earth, than between the temperature changes … and CO2…
Warming Power of CO2 and H2O: Correlations with Temperature Changes

1,000 scientists challenge global warming in new report
2010 Senate Minority Report