The stock markets are reacting to global concerns and not just US job numbers.

When the USA job losses are significant it can make the reality about the rest of the global economies all to real and not speculative.


Some of the USA job numbers is due to end of season temporary work, but, I also believe the people being called 'new' to the unemployment situation are actually repeatedly returning to unemployment because companies are finding it more cheaper to hire temporary and contract workers rather than permanent employees.


There is a problem with unemployment globally because of cheap products putting long standing manufacturers out of business.  


For every unemployed worker in the global market place there is economic contracture.  In small and isolated instances that does not mean much, but, on long term and consistent basis that is a problem.

...New Zealand Comfort Group (click here) general manager Chris Taylor said Dunlop Living's furniture division had been devastated by competition from cheap imports and the global economic downturn and its bed manufacturing would be shifted to Sleepyhead's plant at Otahuhu.

Taylor said the furniture division could not be supported as a "long-term sustainable business model".

Representatives of New Zealand Comfort Group met with Dunlop Living staff yesterday to let them know how they would be affected by the restructuring of the business....

I have to question whether global unemployment numbers and dynamics  should be explored at the World Trade Organization.

There has been a shift by Wall Street to produce products cheaply in countries where people work for impoverished wages.  India and China are seeing higher manufacturing rates, but, yet the quality of life of their people lag behind in that reality.  Labor does not equate to quality of life.


The governments and critics of The Globalists can say what they want, but, the demonstrators have a point at times that cannot be understated.


The problem of course is that established capitalistic societies as found in Europe and North America have a difficult time competing with impoverished labor.  There needs to be an equation countries like China and India have to meet in order to participate in a real way in the global market place.  That means the people working to produce the goods these countries sell improve their quality of life, education and health.  What is occurring instead is the 'cheap labor market' is literally destroying the global economies.  If there aren't good standards of living and quality of life there is NO market place for goods as everyone is poor and unable to achieve status.

Unemployment the greatest economic challenge: WTO chief  (click title to entry - thank you)

By Hao Li | November 22, 2010 4:08 PM EST

"The most serious [economic] challenge today is that of unemployment," said Pascal Lamy, the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO) last Friday at the Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry....

...Moreover, Strauss-Kahn said unemployment marginalizes people from society and even undermines their belief in institutions and democracy.


IF one looks objectively at the goals of capitalism it is actually a self-defeating strategy.  It is to make higher profits while reducing costs.  Well some of that cost is the very labor that participates in the market place where goods are purchased.  When Capitalists don't hire people and mechanize and downsize and seek cheap labor markets they in turn are destroying their own market places.


Labor unions are not the problem.  Labor unions when they are as concerned for a company and its MARKET SHARE can be good partners in maintaining a healthy market place.  The quality of life Labor Unions bring to the table of any negotiation has to be as important as the products the company produces and why they need to be taken seriously and treated like parasites.  Labor Unions are not parasites, they have a very important role in insuring safe working conditions, good wages, health benefits and retirement provisions.  How can any worker make a life time commitment to a job without some sort of reassurance that retirement will be maintained in the standard of living and quality of life they are accustomed.


Capitalism is not the friend of the market place if it is draconian to labor.  It just isn't.  It is also draconian to governments when companies and the wealthy do not participate in sovereign issues that provide stability and solvency to governments.


I have to laugh when I hear comments that blame on problems in the market place.  You know, I've never been handed a fist full of money by the government after they printed it and told to distribute this.  Have you?  So, how does the money get from the government's WEALTH to reinvestment in the private sector?  How do contracts become 'real income' to companies that supply services to the government.  The government is the people.  It's silly to blame a 'philosophy' as the reason for economic trouble.  There is no law in the country stating Keynesian Economics is required in every market place the USA government participates.  By the way, without Keynesian Economics how does the government participate in the market place and receive services?

Keynesian economics (click here) is a theory of total spending in the economy (called aggregate demand) and its effects on output and inflation.   Although the term has been used (and abused) to describe many things over the years, six principal tenets seem central to Keynesianism. The first three describe how the economy works….

The fact of the matter is there are larger dynamics at work on the USA economy that is observed globally and it has been nearly impossible for the USA to push back against falling incomes to their Middle Class and Poor.  That isn't good.  The American Way DICTATES there is a ladder to success for everyone and that door is rapidly closing.  So while the Executive Branch is doing everything it can to prevent further contracture of an economy that has impact on global conditions there are elements with the legislative branch that simply plays politics without any solutions for the concerns of the Executive Branch.  Cutting taxes for the wealthy in HOPES that USA labor markets will increase is idiocy when there are global forces at work to prevent that.


I don't care if politically no one wants to look at these realities.  They are realities and until they are addressed it will be increasingly difficult to 'drive' the USA economy back to health and vitality in the way we understood it before 2007 and 2008.  


What I believe happened during the Bush/Cheney administration is that "W" looked across the labor wasteland of the USA and saw no jobs being created.  He also knew his USA policies would drive economies outside the USA to flourish.  So, "W" and his administration 'took an attitude' that every American could be a million if they could own a house.  Right.  So, how to Americans maintain house payments without expanding job markets?  The strategy of the Bush/Cheney administration was designed to support the perception of a growing economy while in fact it was literally creating debt that would skyrocket.  No one is going to tell me Bush didn't know this was occurring.  It was occurring in his administration and it was covered up to some extent by exorbitant spending by the federal government. 


The challenge now is to recover the USA economy, stabilize it against the global tide to have it otherwise and protect the jobs it creates.  The global economy, including Europe, has to participate in policies that protect their economies as much as they see the military as a requirement to protect their sovereign borders.  It is the same thing and a country cannot have one without another.  There are very clear reasons to view agreements within the WTO include fair wages for work, growing economies and stable sovereign countries.  It is ridiculous to see it otherwise..

See the Petroleum Industry and Murdoch's FOX News wants to call the USA government liars.

It always looked like a woodpecker to me.


Megan What's Her Name never bothered to present a 'counter point' to the FOX exclusive.  No other media service is covering lies the way FOX does.

...The recent placing of three Colorado wildflowers on the federal endangered and threatened species  lists will make it harder to exploit untapped fuel resources in the Rocky Mountain State, a group representing the energy industry tells Fox News, an assertion the government denies.

“What we're seeing here is the federal government coming in and adding another layer of regulation,” says Kathleen Sgamma, director of government and public affairs at Western Energy Alliance. Regulators are “saying we don't care about ... what the states are doing and what industry and nonprofit groups are doing to protect those species.”...

Link:  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/17/new-flower-species-protections-pit-energy-industry-against-conservationists-in/

The article below about the coneflower was also featured on 


NPR.

Flower Once Thought Extinct Will Come off Endangered List

Link:  http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/04/138989104/flower-once-thought-extinct-will-come-off-endangered-list

The point is that Murdoch's FOX is always the 'poisoned pill' media without sincerely BALANCING anything.  The federal government is not lying.  The FOX network treats the Federal AUTHORITY as if it were some kind of SINISTER PLOT against every business enterprise in the country.  The truth of the matter is there is federal legislation that dictates the actions of its agencies requiring them to protect Threatened and Endangered Species.

The lies of FOX in this instance is nothing more than GREED.  Plain and simple.

During the "Bush Era" at FOX it was important to set up a plan for "The Lord God Bird."  

Evidently, even species for protections have to be Religious Icons or they don't matter to the Right Wing Nut Jobs in the country.

No Longer on the "Endangered Species List."

The Tennessee purple coneflower (click title to entry for video about the come back of this Tennessee flower) that was among the first group of plants ever listed as endangered has rebounded to a healthy status after three decades.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife plans to officially remove the wildflower by Sept. 2, from its list of plants that are near extinction.

“The Tennessee coneflower’s recovery is an example of what can be achieved through the combined efforts of dedicated partners,” said Cindy Dohner, the Service’s Southeast Regional Director, in an emailed announcement.

Long-term recovery efforts of multiple agencies and groups made it possible, she said. They include the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, The Nature Conservancy, the Tennessee Division of Forestry, the National Park Service and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers….

Who knew, huh, Megan?

Mrudoch's Allan West is an Uncle Tom.

When is the FCC going to remove Murdoch's license?  This is blatant racism whereby innocent African Americans had their words twisted for political fodder.  There is no respect for the African American at Murdoch's Media services.  We don't need it in the USA.  


In this exchange alone he exhibits hatred for military members serving openly as gay. Then he akins the removal of DADT with Hassan and the violence at Fort Bragg and how ? INMIDATED ? subordinate officers were in dealing with Hassan's reality. He portrays a man afraid of the hierarchy of THE COMMAND when it comes to any ? problem ? due to repealing DADT as ? existed ? with Hassan and his actions at Fort Hood.  Hell, I didn't know Hassan was gay.  Oh, yeah, he wasn't.  

All day today the Murdoch Manufacturing Media went all to far and Allen West was a willing participant at the end of the day regarding 'The Black Man in the Black Bus."

Perhaps, unlike other Murdoch Superstars West didn't realize that his GOP was campaigning in Iowa and it was there that President Obama saw it best to discuss the fact Washington, DC's GOP is grossly dysfunctional.  Seems logical to me.  If one wants to make an impression on his opposition take to their neighborhood.  YA KNOW?

The MYTHOLOGY of Murdoch and his blond bombshells were attempting to enlist high profile members of the American Black Community in condemning President Obama in riding around the country in his Black Bus without going into Black Neighborhoods.

Hello? But, ah, did any of the GOP do that?   I mean Uncle Tom wouldn't be caught dead in a Black Bus now would he?  Or she depending on whether one is discussing Palin or not.  Oh, I forgot, she is one of those White Women again.

Not only that but the idiocy that is MURDOCH's Media where a white woman named Laura Ingram fills in for a White Man named Bill O'Reilly then conducts ? news commentary ? regarding the deeply troubled rumblings of the American Black Community while Uncle Tom Allen West simply serves his TEA BAGGER Masters on FOX by agreeing with every aspect of this hideous conversation is too outrageous to ignore. Maybe that was the purpose as they are trying to start a political dialogue that will be a wedge issue and serve to 'DIVERT' the attention of SOMEONE from the issues of the day.


I find Allen West unworthy to serve anywhere near Generals, as his comments at the committee level of condescending as if Generals can't think for themselves.  I find him unworthy to serve in the US House of Representatives as he is a religious bigot where it serves his political ambitions and a homophobe that is dangerous to our nation's security as he continues to attempt to find fault where there is none in regard to the removal of DADT.  I mean for real already, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" sounds like a Kindergarten allegiance.


So, the Uncle Tom's at FOX need to realize the stupidity outweighs any of their ? commentary ? and they are outragously out of line.  President Obama left Harvard Law School and served as a community organizer and then was elected to the Senate.  Hello?  He worked within the community on the South Side of Chicago once referred to a "The Black Belt."  I do believe he knows something about racism, oppression and the strife and suffering of the American Black Community.


Allen West should return to Military RETIREMENT where he can play with his guns all day long without hurting anyone.

Conducting leadership training in the 1980s. (click title to entry - thank you)

(Obama for America)

Which country will win the 2011 Rugby World Cup? (click title to entry - thank you)

Let the games begin !

I happen to believe the Eurozone is correct in their decisions regarding their current economies.

Australia has finally given the green light for accepting New Zealand apples. File photo / NZ Herald

The Global Plutocrats have gotten too big for their britches.  They need the governments more than the governments ever needed them.


The global governments did not cause the problems faced in today's economies.  We need to remember whom EXACTLY caused this disaster in the first place and it wasn't any government that did.  It was unregulated and out of control private sectors that turned homes into commodities.


One has to realize the 'so called' power thee Plutocratic Organizations believe they have.  They wanted and may have downgraded New Zealand's financial structure because of earthquakes.  I believe Japan is receiving the same 'once over.'  This is hideous unless the Plutocrats live in "Cloud City."

By Ana Nicolaci da Costa

LONDON | Wed Aug 17, 2011 7:44am EDT

(Reuters) - German government bonds (click title to entry - thank you) rallied on Wednesday and were likely to remain supported as French and German plans for closer fiscal integration in the euro zone did little to soothe concerns that the regional debt crisis could still spread.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel unveiled plans for economic governance, seen as essential first steps to the eventual fiscal integration within the single currency area many in markets say is needed.

But the meeting revealed no concrete measures to tackle the region's immediate concern: funding for weaker euro zone states.

"Investors are a bit disappointed…

Gee, what a shame they are disappointed.  Wow.   No free money for Wall Street today.  I guess they’ll actually have to stop sitting on gold and actually invest in expanding economic growth and INVESTING their money instead of counting it.  Oh.  My.  God.  They might loss a dollar or two to make a buck in a decade.  

Power generation emissions lowest in a decade (click here)

6:22 PM Wednesday Aug 17, 201

Greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation are at their lowest in a decade, the Government said today.

Acting Energy Minister Hekia Parata said a report from the Ministry of Economic Development showed that last year 74 per cent of New Zealand's electricity came from renewable sources.

Greenhouse gas emissions declined 11 per cent on the previous year.

- NZPA

It would seem as though New Zealand and its citizens are thriving and achieving goals anyway.  And Wall Street should be grateful for that unless they want to sit on top of gold bars forever that will stagnate over time anyway.  Since when are sovereign countries less important than Plutocrats?  Since the USA Republicans sold their souls?  I don't think so.

NZ apples cleared for importation into Australia (click here)

5:55 PM Wednesday Aug 17, 2011

The way has been cleared for the importation of New Zealand apples to Australia after 90 years of waiting.

Australia today gave the green light for accepting New Zealand apples although growers will have limits placed on them to prevent the spread of diseases such as fire blight and European canker.

Only commercially-mature fruit will be allowed to be imported, under guidelines proposed by the Australian director of Animal and Plant Quarantine.

Fruit will need to be washed by high-pressure water spraying and brushed in the packing house to remove surface contamination of pests and trash such as leaf litter.

The import conditions require that NZ growers be registered to export to Australia and apply in-orchard controls for fire blight, European canker and apple leaf curling midge, including ongoing targeted monitoring, spraying and pruning…

Why isn't there more research into these obscure viruses? Hendra. Nipah.

These viruses effect livestock, but, also take human lives.  In this case there is a very vital thoroughbred race horse industry.  It would seem as though some of them are being becoming very ill and being destroyed from the Hendra virus.


The index case, (click title to entry - thank you) a mare, was housed with 23 other horses after falling ill and died two days later. Subsequently, 19 of the remaining horses succumbed with 13 dying. Both the trainer and a stable hand were involved in nursing the index case and both fell ill within one week of the horse’s death with an influenza-like illness. The stable hand recovered while the trainer died of respiratory and renal failure. The source of virus was most likely frothy nasal discharge from the index case....


Rarely do Americans experience Australian Thoroughbred Horse Racing.  They are beautiful animals.  Valuable animals.  But, what appears to be benign negligence of research on the surface into these 'modern day' viruses (Hendra was first realized in 1994, I believe.) really is a collapse of a research institution I once worked for.  This is exactly the kind of work we did, successfully and profitably.


The research institution was the Agricultural Division of American-Cyanamid  in West Windsor, New Jersey.  It was a fascinating place to work.  Very exotic.  Very engaging.  There was never a challenge to great and its activities were backed by the international community.  


I was there two summers ago after decades of absence and the place was shuttered and abandoned.  It was a damn shame.  When I pulled up to the guard house there were a couple of people inside and when I told them I once worked there they could not get enough of me.  We went on a tour of the place while I was there.  They wanted to know more about what occurred there.  So I told them.  I also told them American Cyanamid got a bad rap for being a chemical company.  Not that they were saints, their Bound Brook plant was a huge disaster with its chemical pools, but, the research that went on including their Lederle Lab division did really vital work.


I think a German concern bought them out and then closed it down for whatever reason they did.  But, the place is enormous.  The labs are still there unless the township did something with them.  The greenhouses must be worth at least a million or more a piece.  They were state of the art and I am not sure they still aren't.


What the Ag Division did was to act a 'a global research and development' lab.  Literally.  The scientists there would bring 'problems' of any kind from around the world for research and cures.  Heck, there was a time we even had India's cows there for research into a disease they were ailing from.  The animals were isolated.  We never had a case of a disease entity that escaped into the USA population of any animal or plant.  Besides, we had the cure anyway.


It was a great place.  The main research building had three wings, animal, plant and chemical.  It was very productive.  The American Cyanamid Hannibal, Missouri plant was built because of the work from the Ag Division.  We had some incredible stories to tell.  As a matte of fact, I believe our beagles were among the first to be free of heartworm.


I took one of them home after he was cured.  He lived a long time afterward.  He was a great dog.


That was in the mid-to late 70s.  It was unfortunate all the divisions of American Cyanamid were sold to the highest bidder to allow such valuable people, facilities and activities to end.  It is a tragedy actually.  Then people wonder what happened to the economies around the world.  


That complex was part of a 'culture' in the Princeton area.  We had a Princeton address.  But, in New Jersey there were other companies in the area, Squibb was one of them.  We really enjoyed the 'juice' of investigative disease research.  I think there was a company in Somerset County called "Boroughs Wellcome" and I am probably misspelling that.  And of course, Johnson and Johnson is still around.  We were in research when J&J built their Baby Products Division in Skillman, New Jersey.


Its a darn shame.  The WHO should obtain that old American Cyanamid facility if it is still available.  They could find some real value in that property and its research complex in West Windsor.  If it is still there.  It was still there in the summer of 2009.


But, these new viruses need that kind of intense attention.  They mutate quickly and cause human death.  There is absolutely nothing saying they will remained contained in an international venue where transport by plane and ship is nothing.  Currently there is a big argument about the mistreatment of live cattle from Australia to Indonesia.  The humanitarian focus is interesting, but, more to realize the 'ease' in which disease processes can be exported with entities that take a month or more to manifest symptoms.


There needs to be more than record keeping and tracking by the WHO.  They need an active research staff that actually finds cures.  This research of such entities to end their impact both on life and economies is mostly abandoned by the Plutocrats.  They don't find it profitable the way they LIKE to make vast amounts of money.  This research is vital and MORAL.  Those 'qualities' are not valued in the modern day market place and the world shows it.


...Right now on the east coast of Australia where I live, (click here) we have an outbreak of the deadly Hendra Virus (HeV) which kills horses and humans and even infects dogs and I have to admit that I’m scared, especially as I own 3 horses and 3 dogs. Over the last month of July 2011, 14 horses have died and have potentially infected 55 people who are being tested for HeV and remain under observation along with any horses, dogs and cats that also came into contact with the sick horses. This is required even when that contact occurred before the infected horses started to exhibit any symptoms of the virus, as they were potentially infectious for at least 2 days beforehand while they were still outwardly symptom free....

Sixth NSW horse dies from Hendra virus  (click here)

August 17, 2011 - 1:34PM

A sixth horse has died from the Hendra virus in NSW, the NSW Department of Primary Industries has confirmed.

The horse died at a property near Ballina, on the far NSW North Coast, on Monday.

"The property has been quarantined and the infected horse has been euthanised and buried on the property," NSW Chief Veterinary Officer Ian Roth said in a statement today.

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Dr Roth said the horse was noticeably ill late on Sunday, and deteriorated rapidly during the night and into Monday.

Two other horses on the property were at risk, he added.

"These horses will be closely monitored and, following an initial test, further laboratory testing will be carried out 16 and 32 days following the last contact with the infected horse," he said….

What is this negative language about President Obama?

Congress is in recess.  It is summer break for the First Daughters.  He goes on a bus tour to speak with people about what occurred in DC over the last couple of months in which he refused to let Congress recess over July 4 holiday and the media calls this a vacation.


I don't think so.  

Obama Tours Rural America To Talk Jobs (click title to entry - thank you)

Then...


Palin goes on a bus tour for what would seem no reason at all and the media calls it a Photo Op Tour.  


What's "W"rong with this picture?


President Obama doesn't even have his name on the bus or his web address for a PAC with his name attached to it.


Hello?


To add insult to injury, Former President Clinton states a Texas Governor is good looking?


To whom?


President Obama isn't exactly chopped liver, okay?


Then Palin wants to 'take the country back.'


Back to what?


It seems as though the media needs a more FAIR AND BALANCED approach to their commentary.  

Okay then.  It would seem as though 'the hair' has it.


Worrisome.  Very..  President Clinton sure about this?


CHICAGO, Aug. 15 (UPI) -- Former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's corruption conviction means others charged in the federal investigation will soon know their fate, officials said.

Blagojevich (click here) will be sentenced Oct. 6 for his role in what federal prosecutors have called "Operation Board-Games," the Chicago Sun-Times reported Monday....

Desalination plants NOT aqueduct.. Aqueducts expose water to the heat and evaporation.

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There is an 'energy' balance with desalination plants.  The more GREEN the land the more CO2 absorbed.


It ain't rainin'.  Have to start somewhere.






The GREENER the land the higher the biotic content and the higher the water vapor in the air. 


THINK "Rainforest."


When the desalination plants outlive their NEED because it is raining.  Shut 'em down.

Why isn't Jim Hightower nationally syndicated??????

There are only three left of his hardcover book.  This book was copyrighted in 2008.  Now we know where Palin got her 'fish comments' that she made in July 2009.

I like what he has to say.  You know there is something average homeowners in Texas can do to reverse the 'impression' drought is making on that state.

Ever hear of "Drip Trickle Irrigation?"  It is a form of irrigation that uses 'minimal' amount of water to irrigate crops.  But, homeowners can reclaim their lawns and start to return biotic content to the parched land by applying that slowly and methodically.  

Article from Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service:

"Drip (Trickle) Irrigation Systems" (click here)

Let me explain slightly more.

To the right is a drip trickle irrigation hose.   This one is 500 feet long.  It is flat with holes in it every few inches to allow the water coming through the hose to 'leak' out.  That is the way it is suppose to work and there are suppose to be holes in the hose.


The land in Texas is far too, too parched to launch into lawn sprinkler or massive irrigation projects.  It won't accomplish anything sustainable.  But, if homeowners, as the sun is going down, puts drip trickle 'hoses' across their lawns, even if they are only dirt right now,  and allows the soil to get moist, not muddy, but wet looking; the land will start to turn around.  It won't be difficult.

To put these techiques  to work during daylight hours will be self defeating.  The water will dry up and never serve any good purpose during a hot sunny day on parched land.

Then an Australian method  is really, really interesting.  The Aussies have profound drought and are experts at this , but, they place 'tarps' over ground at night.  If there is enough of a temperature drop to develop a 'dew' from whatever moisture might be in the air, they pick up the tarps in the morning before the sun comes up to secure the water gathered there overnight.

The image to the left is how the hoses are used to 'water' crops in a garden.

Now the 'idea' of using tarps over the ground can actually serve two purposes.  To gather moisture in the air that might be there, but, also to protect the ground 'newly' watered with the irrigation method that just dampened it.  The tarps will keep the ground from 'giving up' its acquired moisture from the evening before and will be ready to add more moisture to it the next evening.

It doesn't matter at this point if the ground is covered with a tarp during the day to create a shadow over it as there isn't anything growing yet.  Start to get this picture.  The soil is starting to build up moisture that will eventually 'saturate' it enough to allow seeds to be planted.  There has to be a loose and good soil bed for the seeds.  Seeds will germinate in the dark, so to preserve their integrity under a tarp until they push through the soil is just fine.  It will protect them until they are ready to develop small roots and photosynthesis.  It is fairly delicate work, it isn't as though one can simply saturate the ground and expect this to work, it might not.  More than likely saturation will wash away valuable nutrients that might still be there for the seedlings.


Initially, a vigorous grass without necessarily a decorative quality, such as 'switchgrass' might be the best start.  It is fairly hardy and won't succumb to daytime sun even if it is strong.  The tricky part is nurturing the grass once it is sprouting to continue to thrive.  Adding water to dampen the soil and enough shade, even by tarp, to prevent it from drying up.  What will eventually occur is a 'crop like' grass lawn that will provide shade to its own roots.  Once that is in place the more decorative grasses can be added in between the Prairie Grass while it is then trimmed back slowly to prevent it from going to seed but yet preserving the moisture in the ground.

The picture to the right is a 'drip trickle ring' for trees. Trees are vital to the re-establishment of 'water vapor' in the air.  Their root systems take ground water and move it up the trunk of the tree to the leaves.  There is evapotranspiration that occurs at the leaves in order to move more water up the trunk of the tree along with more nutrients.  The more trees that can be 'estalished' the better.  It is the water vapor that will reverse the trend of the drought.

Gardeners should love this stuff.  It is a real challenge and if done correctly and with dedication there will be neighborhoods and even large areas depending on the resident that will see moisture back in the soil.  That is not the best part though.


Even if the biotic content of the land returns to 'neighborhood' type setting, such as one sees in Bakersfield, California, that will start to create and nurture its own 'moisture content' in the air.  As that occurs it will become easier and easier to bring back biotic content in the surrounding areas of the communities, then onto ranges and then before everyone knows it there will be prairie rather than parched land.  That dynamic sometimes takes a season or so, but, with vigilance it is possible.  The important aspect to fighting drought is to MAINTAIN the biotic content of the land without question.  Vigilance and dedication to the land as a 'commodity' no different than cattle is the only way to stop this emergency, reverse its effects and start to keep 'water vapor' in the region of Texas so good things can happen.


Texas can do this.  If Jim Hightower is worried about it and uses resources he can trust to achieve insight, I know Texas can do this.  They will be doing it for themselves, the beauty of their state, their local economy and the well being of the nation and its economy.  Humans can't live without water and a biotic content that drives that capacity is the only way anyone should consider to be important.


Good luck.  

Australia has all kinds of problems with the illegal drug trade conducted within Indonesia. Not funny. This mess never stops.

Convicted ... (click title to entry - thank you) 

Mark Standen at the Supreme Court. 

Photo: Brendan Esposito

A corrupt ex-cop has been convicted over the importation of illegal drugs ("Just the tip of the iceberg", August 12). Headlines have shouted this wrongdoing as if it is shocking and unexpected.

And for this to be in the organisation charged with preventing drug trafficking.

I am not surprised. There are huge profits to be made and Mark Standen was just a middleman. It is a temptation some cannot resist, even those in positions of trust.

We try to stop the drugs and spend about $2.2 billion each year doing so but less than 20 per cent is captured. The high street prices of the drugs means that a user with a desperate need who cannot afford it from his or her own income resorts to dealing, stealing or prostitution. Added to the user's misery is that of his or her family and of anyone who is unfortunate enough to be robbed to pay for the drugs. And there is no guarantee about the safeness of the drug….

Years back Shapelle Corby wanted to try to convince the world she wasn't involved in the drug smuggling between Indonesia and Australia.  Then her brother was caught red handed a few years later.  There is always this corruption with the entire drug cartel that pays off government and law enforcement providing the venue they want for continued illegal trade.

Corby to await sentence cut news  (click here)

August 17, 2011 - 2:44AM

Convicted Australian drug smuggler Schapelle Corby will learn on Wednesday if she will have her 20-year sentence reduced further as part of Indonesia's Independence Day celebrations.

Authorities at Bali's Kerobokan Prison have recommended that Corby's jail term be cut by five months.

Corby will learn if her sentence for drug trafficking has been cut during a ceremony at the jail to mark Indonesia's Independence Day.

Renae Lawrence, the only female member of the Bali Nine, is also in line for a sentence cut with authorities having recommended her term be reduced by six months.

The two women had their sentences reduced by similar amounts on Independence Day last year, and by 45 days at Christmas.

Corby, who was sentenced to 20 years in jail after she was caught at Bali's international airport in 2004 with 4.1kg of marijuana in her bodyboard bag, has already had her prison term cut by almost two years….