Tuesday, December 25, 2012
So this is Christmas...
So this is Christmas and what have we done?
Seeking eternal happiness or just having fun?
Undying commitment or just riding the fences?
Seeing true light or through rose colored lenses?
Opening our hearts or deluding with pretences?
Hating distant neighors or loving Earth as one?
Only the present or the past and future tenses?
Mired in the old or has the new world begun?
These are the questions beyond our five senses
giving us purpose under the stars and the sun.
by Anthony Marr
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTkbLeabfRA
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
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Monday, December 24, 2012
The Vegan Police
I was on my motorcycle, with the letter "V" on its tank, stopped at a red light, when another motorcycle, with the letters "VP" on its side fairing, pulled along side me.
The rider shouted over at me, "WHAT DOES THE 'V' STAND FOR?"
"For 'Vegan', and for 'Victory'." I answered. "And you 'VP'?"
"FOR 'VEGAN POLICE'!"
"Wow!"
"HOW VEGAN ARE YOU?"
"I'd say about 99%."
"THEN YOU ARE NOT VEGAN AT ALL!"
"And you are 100% vegan?"
"DO YOU DOUBT ME?"
"I know you're not."
"HOW DARE YOU!!!"
"Well, maybe you can enlighten me. How much time do you spend on attaining your first 99%?"
"HARDLY ANY TIME AT ALL!"
"And on attaining your last 1%?"
"99% OF MY TIME, AND WORTH EVERY SECOND OF IT! WHAT IS YOUR POINT!?"
"Hey, nice bike by the way. Synthetic seat?"
"NO LEATHER, IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE ASKING!"
"Its frame?"
"COLD HARD STEEL, STRAIGHT FROM THE GROUND."
"And the switches?"
"PLASTIC, FROM PETROLEUM."
"And the tires?"
"RUBBER, FROM TREES."
He should know that none of these are vegan in their manufacturing processes.
The light turned green, and he laid rubber on the asphalt, which is not vegan either.
His Holier-than-thou attitude, however, probably involved no animal product at all, except perhaps a good dose of testosterone.
I'm about as vegan as the next vegan, but apparently, not vegan enough for the Vegan Police (VP).
VPs are bullies who happen to be vegans, nothing more, nothing less.
The latest unwarranted arrest-attempt is by one initialled B.C., who insults all horse-lovers, horse-devotees and equestrians as being "Welfarists" (see the first [HORSE-LISTENER] thread on my wall), and me by name on her wall as a "Slaveowner", with "sexist" and of course "ego" thrown in somewhere in the mix. She also grouped me in the same sentence with the HSUS, God forbid. I wonder how "ego" entered the equation, since the entire blog was about horses, though I have a good idea from where, and from whom, it had sprung.
An ear-mark of the VP is that they seldom know anything about what they are attacking. This B.C. obviously knows nothing about horses, yet presumes to lecture those who have cared for horses their entire lives.
Another ear-mark is that they seldom read carefully, if at all, what they almost always prematurely launch in criticising, which causes them to miss their mark by miles. Another VP initialled O.P., in the previous VP post, looked at the first few lines of the [Horse-Listener] blog, which uses my personal experience as a lead in to the main body which is entirely about horses, and slammed the entire blog as being "self-absorbed".
Another ear mark of the VP is their self-contradiction. When pushed to the logical limit, their argument breaks down. A prime example is their main thrust - "human domination of animals", which up on their Cloud-9 they believe they're above. I'd bring them back down to earth with the questions: How many wild animals - bears, deer, raccoons, skunks, snakes... live in your house, which occupies the piece of land that used to be their habitat? How non-dominantly did you take over their homeland for your own, and evict them from their homes? I recommend the Eric Clapton song [Before You Accuse Me, Take a Look At Yourself] for their self-reflection, if they are capable of it.
Some say that vegans should tolerate the VP as a matter of mere differences of opinion. No, it is not. It is a matter of the VP's arrogant, aggressive, offensive, superior, belittling, insulting and holier-than-thou ATTITUDE.
Besides, VPs give the Vegan Movement a negative image in the public eye, and are therefore counter-productive to the vegan aim. As long as Veganism is ruled by the Vegan Police, I will still be a vegan, but will not belong to the Movement. They have no power over me.
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
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"... all oppression shall cease..."?
Of all the Christmas songs, my top favorite is [O HOLY NIGHT], by lightyears. Musically, I rank it as a masterpiece, and I play the song year round.
Plus, it is meaningful, infinitely more so than "jingle bells" I'd say, honoring the birth of one of the most courageous people in the history of the world.
But it is not perfect. There is a glitch in the lyric somewhere. Every time I come across a certain line, I shake my head in disbelief. The line says, "... and in His name all oppression shall cease..."
Really? Let me offer a proof of its fallacy. The attached picture depicts Giordano Bruno being taken to the stake to be burnt alive, in 1600AD, and that was after 8 years of imprisonment and daily/nightly torture - for teaching the Copernican model that it was not the Sun that revolved around the Earth, as the Church then maintained, but the Earth around the Sun, as we now know to be the truth.
And pray tell: How many women were burnt at the stake as "witches" during those three horrid centuries (15th, 16th and 17th) of the Dark Ages?
Sure, it can be argued that it was in the past, but what about "JESUS HATES FAGS!", which I just saw on the internet last week?
To acquit myself from blasphemy, it was/is not the fault of Jesus himself, but of his followers.
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.facebook.com/AnthonyMarr001
www.facebook.com/Global_Anti-Hunting_Coalition
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www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.DearHomoSapiens.blogspot.com
www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
Plus, it is meaningful, infinitely more so than "jingle bells" I'd say, honoring the birth of one of the most courageous people in the history of the world.
But it is not perfect. There is a glitch in the lyric somewhere. Every time I come across a certain line, I shake my head in disbelief. The line says, "... and in His name all oppression shall cease..."
Really? Let me offer a proof of its fallacy. The attached picture depicts Giordano Bruno being taken to the stake to be burnt alive, in 1600AD, and that was after 8 years of imprisonment and daily/nightly torture - for teaching the Copernican model that it was not the Sun that revolved around the Earth, as the Church then maintained, but the Earth around the Sun, as we now know to be the truth.
And pray tell: How many women were burnt at the stake as "witches" during those three horrid centuries (15th, 16th and 17th) of the Dark Ages?
Sure, it can be argued that it was in the past, but what about "JESUS HATES FAGS!", which I just saw on the internet last week?
To acquit myself from blasphemy, it was/is not the fault of Jesus himself, but of his followers.
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.facebook.com/AnthonyMarr001
www.facebook.com/Global_Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.facebook.com/AnthonyMarr13
www.youtube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.DearHomoSapiens.blogspot.com
www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
Sunday, December 23, 2012
Deer-Vehicle Collisions
I posted this pic a while back and someone asked me why didn't the motorist avoid the deer. Through my 7 Compassion for Animals Road Expeditions (CARE-tours) throughout the US, each covering 30-44 states over 4-7 months, I've seen hundreds of dead deer along highways. Let me tell you, deer dash out onto to the road without warning, and when you see them, it'd be too late.
Often, deer do so during the hunting season, being spooked by hunters in the woods. Also, hunters need/want 10 million plus deer for hunting purposes and deliberately boost deer populations by these numbers by means of rich food plots. This causes 100 extra human fatalities year after year, and the hunters know it. And yet, their blood lust drives them to do it. I call it pre-meditated mass murder.
I have narrowly missed deer on my motorcycle more than once, and each time, it was by some cosmic grace that I survived. Here is a short video of a near miss. You will see how close it was.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRuiRyOKufE&feature=share&list=PL2D91904FC6DD
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
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www.DearHomoSapiens.blogspot.com
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Thursday, December 20, 2012
Ancient traditions could be revered, but should be abhorred
There is an article from New Delhi today titled: "OUTRAGE GROWS IN INDIA OVER GANG RAPE ON BUS". Before I share it with you, let me first tell you a personal story.
From 1996-1999, I went to India three times to work in the Bandhavgarh and Kanha National Parks to help save the Bengal tiger from extinction (the third serving as the background of my book [OMNI-SCIENCE and the Human Destiny]).
Let me first say that there are many things I love about India, but were I a woman rather than a man, I would love it a little less.
The female volunteers I brought with me, all Caucasian, would not go to the nearby towns on their own without a male escort, and they felt the same about all the towns and cities we had travelled through across the country.
Once, while crossing a busy intersection in New Delhi, I heard a woman's voice calling, "Excuse me!"
I looked behind me, and saw a Caucasian woman, about 30, in T-shirt and jeans, who had passed me from the opposite direction, looking directly at me. "You are not Indian by any chance, are you?" she said earnestly.
"No, I'm a Chinese Canadian," I said.
"Thank goodness! Would you mind walking me back to my hotel please?"
"How far?" I asked, somewhat wary.
"About two kilometres."
That would take me back ten blocks in the wrong direction. "Why?"
"I'm sorry to inconvenience you, but I've been sexually harassed like you won't believe."
"And you're from?"
"Toronto."
I checked my watch. I had the time. So I agreed.
In the first block, I noticed how the men loitering along the street unabashedly staring at us. This was not exactly new to me, since I had received the same disconcerting attention everywhere I went on account of my long hair and foreign appearance. But this time, the stares were directed mostly at my companion, often tinted with sneers.
This piqued my curiosity. "Hey, I have an idea. How don't you walk ahead of me by, say, 10 metres. I want to see what will happen. Don't you worry. If thing get out of hand, I will intervene."
She was game for that. Sure enough in the next block, she was verbally harassed, along sexual lines, no less than three times, and in the middle of the block that followed, two men physically approached her. I did have to intervene.
And this was in the historical background of wives being required to voluntarily lie down next to their deceased husbands to be burnt alive on his funeral pyre, and the still prevalent (though recently made illegal) wife-burnings on account of insufficient dowry - to the unofficial figure of about 10,000 per year throughout the country.
These, in my humble opinion, are present social ailments stemming from the cultural maladies of the past.
And having spent enough time in various cultures (China, Canada, America, Africa, India and Japan), I see this as a universal situation not specific to any one country.
Ancient traditions could be revered, but should also be abhorred.
Now, the article.
"NEW DELHI (AP) — The hours-long gang-rape and near-fatal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi triggered outrage and anger across the country Wednesday as Indians demanded action from authorities who have long ignored persistent violence and harassment against women.
In the streets and in Parliament, calls rose for stringent and swift punishment against those attacking women, including a proposal to make rapists eligible for the death penalty. As the calls for action grew louder, two more gang-rapes were reported, including one in which the 10-year-old victim was killed..."
For the rest of the story, read:
http://news.yahoo.com/outrage-grows-india-over-gang-rape-bus-142705241.html?grcc2=88068fa9722787dc616a84507cb56a7a~1356013798260~494d6e560c95708877ba0eff211c02f3~b569c9bebdb5c908de001e33be32f2f2~1356013798258~570~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~2~22~10~44~-1~3254625345441277499~~~
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.facebook.com/AnthonyMarr001
www.facebook.com/AnthonyMarr13
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www.youtube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.DearHomoSapiens.blogspot.com
www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
From 1996-1999, I went to India three times to work in the Bandhavgarh and Kanha National Parks to help save the Bengal tiger from extinction (the third serving as the background of my book [OMNI-SCIENCE and the Human Destiny]).
Let me first say that there are many things I love about India, but were I a woman rather than a man, I would love it a little less.
The female volunteers I brought with me, all Caucasian, would not go to the nearby towns on their own without a male escort, and they felt the same about all the towns and cities we had travelled through across the country.
Once, while crossing a busy intersection in New Delhi, I heard a woman's voice calling, "Excuse me!"
I looked behind me, and saw a Caucasian woman, about 30, in T-shirt and jeans, who had passed me from the opposite direction, looking directly at me. "You are not Indian by any chance, are you?" she said earnestly.
"No, I'm a Chinese Canadian," I said.
"Thank goodness! Would you mind walking me back to my hotel please?"
"How far?" I asked, somewhat wary.
"About two kilometres."
That would take me back ten blocks in the wrong direction. "Why?"
"I'm sorry to inconvenience you, but I've been sexually harassed like you won't believe."
"And you're from?"
"Toronto."
I checked my watch. I had the time. So I agreed.
In the first block, I noticed how the men loitering along the street unabashedly staring at us. This was not exactly new to me, since I had received the same disconcerting attention everywhere I went on account of my long hair and foreign appearance. But this time, the stares were directed mostly at my companion, often tinted with sneers.
This piqued my curiosity. "Hey, I have an idea. How don't you walk ahead of me by, say, 10 metres. I want to see what will happen. Don't you worry. If thing get out of hand, I will intervene."
She was game for that. Sure enough in the next block, she was verbally harassed, along sexual lines, no less than three times, and in the middle of the block that followed, two men physically approached her. I did have to intervene.
And this was in the historical background of wives being required to voluntarily lie down next to their deceased husbands to be burnt alive on his funeral pyre, and the still prevalent (though recently made illegal) wife-burnings on account of insufficient dowry - to the unofficial figure of about 10,000 per year throughout the country.
These, in my humble opinion, are present social ailments stemming from the cultural maladies of the past.
And having spent enough time in various cultures (China, Canada, America, Africa, India and Japan), I see this as a universal situation not specific to any one country.
Ancient traditions could be revered, but should also be abhorred.
Now, the article.
"NEW DELHI (AP) — The hours-long gang-rape and near-fatal beating of a 23-year-old student on a bus in New Delhi triggered outrage and anger across the country Wednesday as Indians demanded action from authorities who have long ignored persistent violence and harassment against women.
In the streets and in Parliament, calls rose for stringent and swift punishment against those attacking women, including a proposal to make rapists eligible for the death penalty. As the calls for action grew louder, two more gang-rapes were reported, including one in which the 10-year-old victim was killed..."
For the rest of the story, read:
http://news.yahoo.com/outrage-grows-india-over-gang-rape-bus-142705241.html?grcc2=88068fa9722787dc616a84507cb56a7a~1356013798260~494d6e560c95708877ba0eff211c02f3~b569c9bebdb5c908de001e33be32f2f2~1356013798258~570~0~0~0~0~0~0~0~2~22~10~44~-1~3254625345441277499~~~
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.facebook.com/AnthonyMarr001
www.facebook.com/AnthonyMarr13
www.facebook.com/Global_Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.youtube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.DearHomoSapiens.blogspot.com
www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Collapse of Biosphere within one generation
This diagram is from a video of a speech by Prof. Guy MacPherson of the U. of Arizona. Unless you are illiterate, or in denial, or in a "positive" state of oblivious bliss, this diagram alone should knock your socks off. But even it represents understatements in every case, because the methane feedback loop was not factored into the computations.
In short, the phytoplankton in the ocean, which supports the entire marine food pyramid as well as regenerate 50% of the world's oxygen supply, cannot withstand a 4 degrees Celsius temperature rise, due to both the heat and the acidity. The plants on land, responsible for the other 50%, likewise, though somewhat less so. Above a 4C temperature rise, life on Earth will by and large be extinguished.
Even without factoring in the methane feedback loop, the latest linear estimate still pegs +4C within 3 decades. With it factored in, one latest estimate pins +4C within one decade. Good bye children, good bye biosphere, Good bye world-as-we-know-it.
Prof. MacPherson's speech does end on a "positive" note of sorts, what I have touched upon in an earlier blog of mine, that the coming Global Economic Collapse will slow down the Global Ecological Collapse a little, by drastically reducing the human population, halting fossil fuels combustion, terminating the planet-destroying status quo, and buying our children a little time to seek a solution to Runaway Global Heating.
Keep your heads in the sand if it will keep you happy, bash "doomsday prophets" again if it will make you feel superior, but for those truly concerned about life on Earth and our children's future, this video is a must.
http://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/only-economic-collapse-will-prevent-runaway-global-climate-change/
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
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www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
East-West Wisdom Parallel
There is a Western saying, "BURN THE BRIDGE BEHIND YOU AFTER CROSSING IT."
There is a Chinese saying, "SINK YOUR INVASION FLEET AFTER IT HAS LANDED."
They have the same meaning: CUT OFF YOUR RETREAT ROUTE, SO THAT YOUR ONLY OPTION IS TO ADVANCE.
It is an idiomatic way of defining DETERMINATION. It is DO OR DIE.
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
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www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
Tuesday, December 11, 2012
What humans can learn from dogs
There are many ways in which we humans pride ourselves for being superior to other animals, and I'm not going to list them to consolidate this mindset. But I would like to mention at least one way in which a non-human animal is superior a human, and I'm not talking about the sense of smell.
Let me exemplify with a dog. Drea, our 3-year-old Boxer, like all dogs, at least compared to cats, is somewhat "needy". When I'm home, she would always sit as near to me as possible. When I walk from the kitchen to the livingroom, I can be assured that there'd be six feet walking, not just two. And when I get ready to go out, she would be sitting by the door expectantly. When I close the door behind me, I would hear her whimper, and scratch on the door.
The following is what differentiates the dog from the human.
When I come back home after a few hours, she would be right there at the door, wagging her tail a thousand beats a minute. All she'd be saying would be, "Welcome home! I'm so happy to see you!" Were she a human, what she might say could be, "Fuck you!"
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
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www.DearHomoSapiens.blogspot.com
www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
Thursday, December 6, 2012
200 Police Officers vs 100,000 Gang Members
"Lock your doors, load your guns," advised the city attorney of San Bernardino CA where the murder rate is up 50%, but city-bankruptcy proceedings have laid off 80 police officers.
"Enter the city at your own risk," warned the police of Detroit, where "justifiable" homicide increased by 79% 2010-2011, while there are 1,000 fewer police officers than in 2002.
In Oakland CA, more than 11,000 homes, cars or businesses have been broken into so far this year – translating to about 33 burglaries a day.
Bellingham WA has 82,000 citizens; Santa Barbara CA has 90,000. Chicago has 100,000 GANG MEMBERS! And only 200 police officers in the Gang Enforcement Unit. 200 vs 100,000 - imagine.
And this is before SHTF. After SHTF, the 200 may dwindle down to zero, due to the worthlessness of their pay cheques and the need for them to defend their own families. If you're still living there, good luck.
Crime is on the rise in major cities across the nation, while police forces are dwindling due to budgetary constraints. Come next year, Fiscal Cliff measures, meant to delay SHTF for as long as possible, may cut police budgets even further, though it would still be better than the big fat 0 otherwise.
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.facebook.com/Anthony.Marr.001
www.facebook.com/Global_Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.myspace.com/AnthonyMarr
www.youtube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.DearHomoSapiens.blogspot.com
www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
"Enter the city at your own risk," warned the police of Detroit, where "justifiable" homicide increased by 79% 2010-2011, while there are 1,000 fewer police officers than in 2002.
In Oakland CA, more than 11,000 homes, cars or businesses have been broken into so far this year – translating to about 33 burglaries a day.
Bellingham WA has 82,000 citizens; Santa Barbara CA has 90,000. Chicago has 100,000 GANG MEMBERS! And only 200 police officers in the Gang Enforcement Unit. 200 vs 100,000 - imagine.
And this is before SHTF. After SHTF, the 200 may dwindle down to zero, due to the worthlessness of their pay cheques and the need for them to defend their own families. If you're still living there, good luck.
Crime is on the rise in major cities across the nation, while police forces are dwindling due to budgetary constraints. Come next year, Fiscal Cliff measures, meant to delay SHTF for as long as possible, may cut police budgets even further, though it would still be better than the big fat 0 otherwise.
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.facebook.com/Anthony.Marr.001
www.facebook.com/Global_Anti-Hunting_Coalition
www.myspace.com/AnthonyMarr
www.youtube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.DearHomoSapiens.blogspot.com
www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
Twilight of the Petrodollar, nightmare to follow
In 1973, two years after President Richard Nixon dislodged gold from beneath the US Dollar, making it a baseless fiat currency, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger struck a deal with King Saud of Saudi Arabia whereby all oil transactions with any country were to be via the US Dollar only, thus making it the "Petrodollar", in exchange for US protection against the Soviet Union and other covetous Arab neighbors, who, not long afterwards, all fell in line. This, in addition to the 1944 international conference which established the US Dollar as the "World Reserve Currency", gave the US global economic hegemony on an unprecedented scale, where all countries needing to buy or sell oil were obligated to accumulated huge amounts of US dollars, bonds and treasuries, which raised the Dollar to Money-God status.
This worked well for several decades, when there were few if any global economic contenders. Even the powerful Yen bowed down to the Almighty Dollar, though faint murmurs of discontent have been heard from various quarters. "We have our own stable currency. Why can't we trade in oil directly with it?", which is exactly what China, Russia the EU, the UAE, India, Iran, Brazil, and a host of other countries are saying today. And can we blame them? How would Americans feel if they were told that they could not use the Dollar for buying oil, but were required to used the Russian Rouble or the Chinese Yuan?
In the last three years, China alone has made bilateral agreements with a number of powerful economies on trading with their own currencies rather than through the US Dollar:
- with Russia (Nov. 2010)
- with Japan (Dec. 2011)
- with Australia (Mar. 2012)
- with the UAE (Mar. 2012)
- with Brazil, India, Russia and South Africa (Mar. 2012)
- with Brazil (Jun. 2012)
- with Chile (Jun. 2012)
- with Germany (Aug. 2012)
- with most oil producing and consuming countries (Sep. 2012)
Obviously, all of these countries consider this fair and square - to themselves and each other.
Except the United States, of course, for which, if it develops into a runaway situation, would be a disaster. It is not as much a matter of losing prestige or power, which are luxuries, but of value, which is downright a matter of economic survival. When those countries currently holding vast quantities of dollars no longer need them, they would sell it, and where else except back to the US. If/when this happens, the Dollar will plunge. This in itself may not be lethal, but when the system is already at the "Fiscal Cliff" domestically, a nudge from beyond could just push the economy over the edge.
Are these countries doing this for themselves, or against the US? A bit of both perhaps, but I think more the former - the long suppressed finally standing up for themselves. A stabilizing factor is that China still holds close to $2 trillion in USD, and Japan $1 trillion. If the Dollar gets wiped out, they too stand to lose, and lose big. The thing to look for is if/when they begin making moves to dump the USD in a big way; then, the "shit will hit the fan".
Anthony Marr, Founder and President
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition (GAHC)
Anthony-Marr@HOPE-CARE.org
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.facebook.com/Anthony.Marr.001
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Sunday, December 2, 2012
The Top-5 Places not to be when the SHTF ("Shit Hits the Fan")
The Top 5 Places not to be when the SHTF (shit hits the fan = $ collapse = hyperinflation): Israel, Los Angeles, England, New York City, Washington DC.
The following video is hot off the oven (Nov. 25, 2012), and is a MUST SEE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8j38-oPuB0
Take it the way you want. Just bear in mind an Ayn Rand saying: "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." Here is reality:
As early as 1972, the Club of Rome published a book titled [The Limits to Growth] - WE CANNOT EXERT INFINITE DEMAND ON THE RESOURCES OF A FINITE PLANET!
Of course it was ignored, not only by governments and corporations, but by the people themselves. Now, we have reached the tipping point. A point of no return.
The background of this video is laid out in Anthony Marr's speech titled [The Economic/Ecological Collapse Double Jeopardy].
https://vimeo.com/54105752
Also, see his blogs on the subject in
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
We need a new global sustainable paradigm. Now that the old unsustainable paradigm that has ruled the world is falling apart, the time is at hand. Survive this coming calamity, then, when the dust settles, lead Humanity on to a brave new path.
See, feel, think. act!
The following video is hot off the oven (Nov. 25, 2012), and is a MUST SEE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8j38-oPuB0
Take it the way you want. Just bear in mind an Ayn Rand saying: "You can ignore reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality." Here is reality:
As early as 1972, the Club of Rome published a book titled [The Limits to Growth] - WE CANNOT EXERT INFINITE DEMAND ON THE RESOURCES OF A FINITE PLANET!
Of course it was ignored, not only by governments and corporations, but by the people themselves. Now, we have reached the tipping point. A point of no return.
The background of this video is laid out in Anthony Marr's speech titled [The Economic/Ecological Collapse Double Jeopardy].
https://vimeo.com/54105752
Also, see his blogs on the subject in
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.AnthonyMarr13.wordpress.com
We need a new global sustainable paradigm. Now that the old unsustainable paradigm that has ruled the world is falling apart, the time is at hand. Survive this coming calamity, then, when the dust settles, lead Humanity on to a brave new path.
See, feel, think. act!
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