You’ve GOT to be kidding?!

I was on my way to work today with the radio on listening to music and the news came on. The commentator was saying that several large cities were having a single day strike by fast food workers to support an initiative to raise the minimum wage to $15.00/Hr. The workers were complaining that they are not able to raise their families on the current wage! Now why, might I ask, would someone even TRY raising a family on minimum wage? It seems to me that the stupid ass that is trying to resign a family to gut wrenching poverty is to blame for THAT situation, and NOT the system! Low income families are the result of ignorance and an inability to train these people out of the ignorance because idiot liberals have made this against their ‘Constitutional Rights.’ Well, it seems that the fight to preserve the rights of the poor also includes not educating them in the ways of success and accident prevention. By accident I, of course, mean stupidly not using the abundant FREE protection available to EVERYONE of child-bearing age! Not women, MEN and WOMEN both! It does take two to be utterly irresponsible to the American taxpayer!

Many of my past entries have been on the irresponsibility of the general populace and the evident disappearance of Personal Responsibility. This is no different. I am currently paying a back tax bill that was assessed because of my own complacency and it is large! Large in part due to the Government’s Biggest Bully on the block policy of doubling a debt after a certain amount of time. Now, they won’t double it if THEY owe YOU, no, that ain’t how it works. So many of us taxpayers who payed a shitload of tax but still get more assessed to their bill, continue to pay for the irresponsibility of the rest of humanity. We subsidize the richest corporations for countless billions while they hold us hostage to their demands; special session of State Congress in WA State for Boeing tax breaks, AND we get to pay for not educating the poor in common sense birth control. The squeeze on the middle class has got to end somewhere because our loyalty is starting to really wane here. I know that I’m thinking of becoming an expat somewhere in the world, because the supposed ‘Freedom’ in this country is disappearing FAST! The biggest problem is that the Government no longer fears the people, the people FEAR the Government!

I served my country in the military and have a well paying job so this does not equate to sour grapes. I pay a SHITLOAD of taxes and have done everything the way a responsible person should. The problem is is that I am loathe to stand on a street corner with a ‘will work for food sign,’ I have a great work ethic and can’t possibly look another able bodied person in the eye and collect welfare. I don’t make enough money to hide it off shore and was not born into privilege. I also did not sell out my fellow man while working my way up the ladder so politics is out! No. The American Dream has been reduced to being spied on by your own country, subsidizing the super rich AND the poor, incurring credit card debt and spending the rest of your life trying to stay healthy enough so that your family doesn’t tank! Shit man I have to tell ya, if this Obamacare actually changes anything I will be happy. Right now the jury is out on that one. If ANYONE can fix the broken school system that is helping to create people that are dependent on the system then I’m all in, the main problem is that useless trillion dollar wars seem to be more important than education! Politicians need to be reigned in on special interest so that their greedy asses are forced to STOP selling us off piece by piece to the Chinese. If you think that things are bad now, just wait until Chinese food is the main thing that is eaten here! Everyone will be doomed to being hungry a half hour after eating! Head injuries will also be rampant from striking the head on the tiny little doors built into new houses, and can you imagine the humiliation in having to dress like The Mandarin in Iron Man 3?! You can settle for this shit, not me!

Seriously, I’m wondering when or IF the public will EVER push back against the things that are happening here in our nation. Will the middle class sit by fearing losing their piece of the pie and shit on his fellow man? By shitting, I mean sitting on their laurels and letting the Government become absolutely unstoppable? Will the dystopian future of 1984 actually become reality? It’s coming via a civilian model military drone near you, and remember folks, it only serves to make YOU safer and stop the terrorists!

 

The nerve of some people!

I was sitting in the Subway sandwich shop near my house and happened to overhear a conversation by a couple of men about their Christian ministry. Now the reason that I so rudely kept listening is because I heard the word ‘Bejing’ in the discussion and began to wonder if these people were among the pompous assholes who go to other people’s countries and indoctrinate their poor ignorant citizens. Much to my expectation, these were, in fact, those type of intrusive, close-minded self-rightious idiots who believe that it is their God-given right to invade another nation and spread the poison of religion to the downtrod villagers. They went on and on about the glory of the gospel of Jesus and how God had blessed them with growing resources to pummel the Chinese with missionaries and bibles.

Let’s not go and selflessly build schools and get people to their very first appointment with a modern physician, no! Let’s go over and indoctrinate and show the love of Christ in exchange for belief! THEN we will improve your lot and say that Jesus was the reason that your fortunes changed! I always wonder what goes through these idiots feeble minds when they do this and celebrate when one of them gets a sentence of hard labor when accused of teaching sedition. These people SHOULD be charged with a crime if they go to someone elses country and break the law! I’m a fan of freedom, yes, but this is NOT giving people better lives, it is trading food education and medicine to ignorant people for the price of belief! If they wanted to do some actual service than they would start educating these people about birth control and preventing common diseases and educate them in the sciences and technology. These are real tangible things that would benefit the entire surrounding populace.

These will be more of the same people that come in and preach the evils of abortion and believing in scientific theory. They will teach myth over fact and tell them that the poor will inherit the Earth and give them  false hope about a shining hereafter. The nerve of some people! I really hope that these idiots do get arrested and put in a dark Chinese gulag where they will make poisoned lead painted toys to ship to the U.S! Side note-The Port of Portland here in Oregon just stopped a shipment of lead painted toys that the Chinese shipped out. Great of our wonderful trading partner trying yet again to stab us in the back! Back to the Christians, oh yeah! Fuck ’em. The end!

Chinese farms cause more pollution than factories, says official survey

Groundbreaking government survey pinpoints fertilisers and pesticides as greater source of water contamination

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Overuse of fertilisers and pesticides has sent agricultural pollution through the roof. Photograph: Alex Hofford/EPA

Farmers’ fields are a bigger source of water contamination in China than factory effluent, the Chinese government revealed today in its first census on pollution.

Senior officials said the disclosure, after a two-year study involving 570,000 people, would require a partial realignment of environmental policy from smoke stacks to chicken coops, cow sheds and fruit orchards.

Despite the sharp upward revision of figures on rural contamination, the government suggested the country’s pollution problem may be close to – or even past – a peak. That claim is likely to prompt scepticism among environmental groups.

 

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The release of the groundbreaking report was reportedly delayed by resistance from the agriculture ministry, which had previously insisted that farms contributed only a tiny fraction of pollution in China.

The census disproves these claims completely. According to the study, agriculture is responsible for 43.7% of the nation’s chemical oxygen demand (the main measure of organic compounds in water), 67% of phosphorus and 57% of nitrogen discharges.

At the launch of the paper, Wang Yangliang of the ministry of agriculture recognised the fall-out from intensive farming methods.

“Fertilisers and pesticides have played an important role in enhancing productivity but in certain areas improper use has had a grave impact on the environment,” he said. “The fast development of livestock breeding and aquaculture has produced a lot of food but they are also major sources of pollution in our lives.”

He said the ministry would introduce measures to improve the efficiency of pesticide and fertiliser use, to expand biogas generation from animal waste, and to change agricultural lifestyles to protect the environment.

While the high figure for rural pollution is partly explained by the immense size of China’s agricultural sector, it also reflects the country’s massive dependency on artificial farm inputs such as fertilisers.

The government says this is necessary because China uses only 7% of the world’s land to feed 22% of the global population. An industrial lobby is pushing for even greater use of chemicals. It includes the huge power company CNOOC, which runs the country’s largest nitrogen fertiliser factory in Hainan’s Dongfang City.

But the returns on this chemical investment are poor. According to a recent Greenpeace report, the country consumes 35% of the world’s nitrogen fertiliser, which wastes energy and other resources, while adding to water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

“Agricultural pollution has become one of China’s gravest environmental crises,” said Greenpeace campaign director Sze Pangcheung. “China needs to step up the fight against the overuse of fertilisers and pesticides and promote ecological agriculture which has obvious advantages for human heath, the environment, and sustainable development of agriculture.”

Wen Tiejun, dean of the school of agriculture and rural development at Renmin university, said the survey should be used as a turning point. His research suggested that Chinese farmers used almost twice as much fertiliser as they needed.

“For almost all of China’s 5,000-year history, agriculture had given our country a carbon-absorbing economy but in the past 40 years, agriculture has become one of the top pollution sources,” he said. “Experience shows that we don’t have to rely on chemical farming to resolve the food security issue. The government needs to foster low-pollution agriculture.”

But in what appears to be a statistical sleight of hand, the government said the new agricultural data and other figures from the census would not be used to evaluate the success of its five-year plan to reduce pollution by 10%.

Zhang Lijun, the environmental protection vice-minister, claimed China was cleaning up its pollution problem far faster than other countries during their dirty stage of development.

“Because China follows a different pattern of development, it is very likely that pollution will peak when per capita income reaches US$3,000,” he said, comparing this with the $8,000 he said was the norm in other nations.

If true, it would suggest the worst of China’s pollution problems may already be over. According to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, per capita incomes in China have already passed this point. If exchange rates and a low cost of living are factored in, Chinese incomes may be equivalent to more than $6,000.

But Zhang’s claim is contestable. As countless pollution scandals have revealed, many industries and local governments routinely under-report emissions and waste.

Many harmful or controversial forms of pollution are either not measured – as is the case for carbon dioxide and small particle emissions – or the data is not made public, as is the case for ozone.

Zheng said the government would expand its monitoring system in the next five-year plan.

Extracts from China’s first pollution report (for 2007):

• Sulphur dioxide emissions 23.2 million tonnes (91.3% from industry)

• Nitrogen oxide emissions: 18 million tonnes (30% from vehicles)

• Chemical oxygen demand discharges: 30.3 billion tonnes (44% from agriculture)

• Soot: 11.7 million tonnes.

• Solid waste: 3.8 billion tonnes (of which 45.7m tonnes is hazardous)

• Heavy metal discharges: 900 tonnes

• Livestock faeces: 243 million tonnes.

• Livestock urine: 163 million tonnes

• Plastic film on cropfields: 121,000 tonnes (80.3% recycled)

 

Tilapia raised on shit! Read all about it!

Rumor: Imported Chinese tilapia are often raised on feces

 

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Thai fishermen catch freshwater white tilapia fish at a fish farm in Samut Prakarn province.

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Small farms, high demands and lax oversight are inspiring fish farmers in China and Southeast Asia to feed their fish, especially tilapia, with animal feces.

TRUE:In many cases, fish farmed in Asia and imported to the US have been raised on diets of chicken and pig feces

Tilapia is a flat, white fish that comes in nearly a hundred different species, is cheap to raise, easy to cook and recently became the fourth most-commonly consumed fish in the United States, behind shrimp, tuna and salmon. About 82 percent of the United States’ tilapia comes from China, according to USDA documents. But a simple online search of the subject reveals numerous alarming accusations involving Asian fish — particularly tilapia — being raised on diets of animal manure, and thus turning into magnets for food-borne illness. MSN News spoke with a leading food-safety scientist who said that, in fact, Chinese tilapia’s reputation for being unsafe to eat is quite well-deserved.

“While there are some really good aquaculture ponds in Asia, in many of these ponds — or really in most of these ponds — it’s typical to use untreated chicken manure as the primary nutrition,” Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia said. “In some places, like Thailand for example, they will just put the chickens over the pond and they just poop right in the pond.”

Asked to estimate what percentage of Chinese tilapia are raised using animal feces as food, Doyle said “I’d say roughly 50 percent.”

Feeding fish animal feces makes them highly susceptible to bacterial infections likesalmonella and E.coli, Doyle said. Furthermore, he said that the large amount of antibiotics that are given to the fish to ward off infections makes the strains of salmonella and E.coli that the fish do catch extremely hard to eliminate.

“It’s incredible to see how much of these antibiotics are applied, and they leave large residues of antibiotics in the ponds,” Doyle said. “We have multiple antibiotic-resistant strains of salmonella coming in with these fish.”

Farmed fish now more common than farmed beef

Last month it was announced that farmed fish had overtaken farmed beef in terms of worldwide production for the first time in recorded history. This watershed moment for human food consumption was made possible by a vast network of fish-farming operations that allow enormous quantities of seafood to be raised in a minimal area and with minimal resources.

According to reports, in China and other Asian countries like Vietnam and Thailand, intense demand for farmed fish and cutthroat competition among farmers drives many of these farmers to cut corners. Feeding the fish with pig and chicken feces is much cheaper than using standard fish food.

An explosive Bloomberg News story published in October of last year and headlined “Asian Seafood Raised on Pig Feces Approved for U.S. Consumers” revealed in graphic detail fish farms and packing plants in China and Vietnam that are rife with filth and disease, and U.S. inspectors doing what appeared to be a poor job of stopping the tainted fish from entering the food supply. According to the piece, 27 percent of seafood consumed in in the United States comes from China, and yet the FDA only inspects 2.7 percent of the fish that gets imported. Of the fish inspected, the FDA has reportedly rejected 820 Chinese seafood shipments since 2007, including 187 that contained tilapia.

FDA defends inspections

In response to questions from MSN News about imported Asian seafood, the FDA defended its practices in an emailed statement, which reads as follows:

“The FDA’s priority is to ensure that both domestic and imported seafood sold in the United States is safe. The agency uses a multifaceted and risk-informed seafood safety program that relies on various measures of compliance. For imported seafood, these measures include inspecting foreign processing facilities, sampling seafood offered for import into the United States, domestic surveillance sampling of imported products, inspections of seafood importers, evaluations of filers of seafood products, foreign country program assessments, and information shared from our international partners and FDA overseas offices.”

“Seafood processors and aquaculture farmers are required to have controls in place to keep hazards out of seafood. The FDA conducts targeted risk-based testing, taking action when it finds violations.”

Despite the FDA’s assurances, Doyle said he recommends consumers pay attention to the country of origin of their seafood, which grocery stores are required by law to display.

“Personally, I always stick to seafood that’s caught in the Gulf of Mexico,” Doyle said.

UPDATE: Pressed for more details on whether seafood imported from Asia receives, or deserves to receive, more scrutiny than seafood from other regions, FDA spokesperson Theresa Eisenman flatly denied that the widespread practice of feeding feces to farmed fish occurs.

“We are not aware of evidence to support the claim that this practice is occurring in China,” Eisenman wrote to MSN News. “Both domestic and imported seafood products are required to meet the same food safety standards. If FDA had information that an aquaculture product was raised in a manner that would violate FDA’s food safety requirements, that product would not be allowed entry into the United States.”

Eisenman wrote that as far as her agency is concerned, the only food-safety issue specific to Chinese seafood has been the types and levels of antibiotics used on the fish. An official FDA “Import Alert” was issued on June 27, 2013, that names China as having frequently used potentially carcinogenic antibiotics on its fish farms. The alert vows that the agency will stop any shipments of fish that contain antibiotics like malachite green, nitrofurans,fluoroquinolones, and gentian violet.

 

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Marquis D’Crusade!

The christian crusades mark some of the most bloody and mad chapters in religious history and are a perfect reason to judge the validity of following illogical shit blindly. For nearly three centuries christianity launched an offensive against the forces of Islam due to idiological differences. Europe had expended such an exponential number of men and an astronomical amount of money to fight for it’s right for a superior mythology, that the entire continent teetered on the brink of bankruptcy if not total insolvency. Millions died of disease, injury and hunger while attempting to inflict the atrocities of torture upon the minions of Mohammed the bible thief. The Islamic religion was, in fact, stolen from the bible in the 600s and ended in 632 CE literally translated as ‘the recitation’ The Holy Quran. As with all myths, the Quran was a linchpin in Mohammed’s arsenal to unite the warring clans of the desert and put them under the banner of a ‘one true god.’

Christianity, with it’s melding of pagan holidays and appeasing of the conquered peoples of Rome created a hodge-podge religion of inaccuracies that was the greatest model for illiterates such as Mohammed and Joseph Smith to create a living document that could control an immense number of illiterate followers. This is the truth of the history of christianity. The advancement of society led to the need to modify the mythology to keep the lemmings in the pews and show that the religion was one of devine tolerance, but I digress.

1066-1099-The first crusade was a military expidition sanctioned by Pope Urban II to regain christian Holy lands taken in the Muslim conquests  of the Levant ( 632-661 ), ultimately leading in the capture of Jerusalem in 1099. The Pope, of course, responding to an appeal by Emperor Alexios I Komnenos to send westerner volunteers to his aid in repelling invading Seljuk Turks from Anatolia. The additional goal became the primary goal to conquer Jerusalem and the Holy land in order to free the Eastern Christians from Islamic rule. More to come!!