post 324. Is the Middle East in Crisis? .
Is the Middle East in Crisis?
The sudden mass-demonstrations against Midle Eastern leaders hitherto either accepted or, at least, tolerated, have had me puzzled. I have no access to statistical data, and like ancient Greek philosophers and men of wisdom, of whom I am, admittedly a puny and poor imitation, I rely on pure speculation and educated intuition...........either genetically held in my ancient and highly bred DNA together with a graced, undeserved wisdom of some sort.
Many scientific minds among you shall protest there are no such avenues of learning or understanding, but since I am not making you pay for my writings, which reach you by the courtesy of GOOGLE-BLOGSPOT, I do not have to justify myself............take it or leave it ..................mates!
Some of us know on an educated intuitive basis, those who have at least studied some geography, economics, world climates, etc. at College Level, and have kept a little in touch with world events through the course of History, that Nations like Russia and the regions of the Middle East have always been poor in food supplies, however rich in mineral resources since the discovery after WWI of natural gases and fossil fuels and their extraction from their natural deposits.
The West, owing to its escalating quest for progress, higher standards of living, the stress imposed by an attempt at humane and equitable distribution of wealth, population growth, has gradually seen its natural deposits emptying, and has had therefore to become increasingly dependent on non-western sources, i.e., the Middle East in particular.
In 1972 the Organization called OPEC, if correct, decided to have the producers directly determine the price of oil products and by products etc. independently from the Market. And prices went up.
It appeared then as if the Middle East had the power to put the West on its knees, and they ( the Middle East ) achieved that for a while.
Islamists were overjoyed and every islamic leader was being considered a GENIUS, a financial Napoleon Bonaparte.
I remember this event well as, as a Public Servant in the Department of Civil Aviation,
I saw the Commonwealth Government Gazette reduced to a half, meaning the jobs expectations in the Public Service had been reduced to a fraction of what these were before OPEC's move.
I also remember that there then began an effort at forcing every Government Organization to try to pay its own way.
Which was a good thing, but enormously stressing those who, for various reasons, were marginal workers and achievers. The bloody Islamists never thought ( can they really constructively think at all? History says-: NO!) that our paying higher oil prices to them would mean that they would have to pay for increased prices of our supplies to them. I do not know how our food-prices are determined, but food produced on our lands, even if owned by Islamists could not and should not be free from our national controls as food supplies are to be considered strategic material, more valuable than weapons.
And although they could buy and install complete production lines in their Nations, they could not buy all the food-producing structures on our lands.
Besides, special skills cannot readily be acquired in the course of a few generations and some Japanese, Chinese, and Europeans have been bred for millennia to what they are.
It is a matter of DNA, dear Watson........
So, the Achille's heal of Russians, Chinese, Japanese and Middle Easterners is their dependence on imported foods. In fact, even in a war against the West, all the latter has to achieve is make it last long enough.
And they would begin dying of hunger.............and eat their leather shoes, after they have run out of horses, as General Kutuzov said during his retreat away from Napoleon.
Another measure the West has been forced to adopt to avoid Islamic malice has been the production of bio-fuels which means that less food has become available for food importers, food prices being consequently increased.
I believe Brazil is totally self-sufficient in relation to fuels via its production of bio-fuels. But Brazil has got the WATER to grow bio-fuels to the scale of self--sufficiency.
This has meant a somehow relatively reduced expectation of oil-sale-growth by the Middle Eastern producers, therefore less revenue to use to pay for food imports, the whole scenario escalating to a stage of the masses screaming for relief, in view of the unwise, criminal, escalating demographic growth of Islamic populations.
When in Europe in 2004 a medium-sized baguette with salad, cheese and salami in Marseille's Railway Station costed 7 Euros.....14 dollars. At Brisbane International Airport an equivalent Australian large roll costed 7 dollars Australian.............Good on yeeeee mates!
Nice to be an Australian sometimes!
If only the girles were gentler and more understanding.....Allelujaaaa!
he.....he.....he.....he.....
I wonder how much a large Pita bread full of chicken, salad, and cheese would cost in Cairo. Or a good shishkebab.
Perhaps I am wrong.
I remember though the sense of guilt I felt in Marseilles when eating my baguette with young french people somehow looking at me hungrily and enviously. But.....what could I do?
Put the blame on OPEC or Zarkozy?
And remember that the Middle East is either running out of water (i.e., Yemen) or arable fertile soil, a problem compounded by Global Warming and in a relative way by the escalating demographic growth.
How does one talk some common sense to an Iranian Ayatollah or to an Egyptian or Libyan peasant?
The Ottoman Turks knew exactly HOW and romantic, naive, Laurence of Arabia did not like it!
But the English Secret Service had to bump him off to avoid more of his bloody utopian interferences, halas taken up by those modern hipocritical fools........the Americans
( sorry Tim Farr and others ), who, unlike Europe, have the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans between themselves and Islam.
But remember September 11 and the 5,000 wasted brains, murdered in a few minutes.
And we the bloody Australians and others similar to us, have our own bloody fools who are prepared to claim western production of bio-fuels is inhumane.
Crucify the bastards.........oh Romans, or send them to the Tuaregs to work in their Oasis!
Note-: Kelvin Thomson MP, says in his WILLS Report dated February 2011, and I quote-:
"Every day brings new evidence of the need to tackle runaway population growth. I have no doubt that the present uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have unsustainable population levels as their root cause."
...............................................
"Food riots are spreading across Algeria. Russia is importing grain to sustain its cattle herds until spring grazing begins. India is wrestling with an 18% annual food inflation rate, sparking protests. China is looking abroad for potentially massive quantities of wheat and corn."
................................................
"And in many countries, grain harvests are shrinking. In the Middle East spreading water shortages are shrinking the harvest. In India and China, water tables are falling as aquifers are depleted. Irrigate areas are shrinking in the United States. In France, Germany and the United Kingdom, wheat yelds are no longer rising. Suburban sprawl, and paving of land for roads, highways and parking lots have claimed cropland in California, in the Nile River basin in Egypt, and in China and India. Soil erosion is lowering yields and destroying agricultural land. For more information on this issue, look up " The Great Food Crisis 2011 ", by Lester R. Brown.
Many scientific minds among you shall protest there are no such avenues of learning or understanding, but since I am not making you pay for my writings, which reach you by the courtesy of GOOGLE-BLOGSPOT, I do not have to justify myself............take it or leave it ..................mates!
Some of us know on an educated intuitive basis, those who have at least studied some geography, economics, world climates, etc. at College Level, and have kept a little in touch with world events through the course of History, that Nations like Russia and the regions of the Middle East have always been poor in food supplies, however rich in mineral resources since the discovery after WWI of natural gases and fossil fuels and their extraction from their natural deposits.
The West, owing to its escalating quest for progress, higher standards of living, the stress imposed by an attempt at humane and equitable distribution of wealth, population growth, has gradually seen its natural deposits emptying, and has had therefore to become increasingly dependent on non-western sources, i.e., the Middle East in particular.
In 1972 the Organization called OPEC, if correct, decided to have the producers directly determine the price of oil products and by products etc. independently from the Market. And prices went up.
It appeared then as if the Middle East had the power to put the West on its knees, and they ( the Middle East ) achieved that for a while.
Islamists were overjoyed and every islamic leader was being considered a GENIUS, a financial Napoleon Bonaparte.
I remember this event well as, as a Public Servant in the Department of Civil Aviation,
I saw the Commonwealth Government Gazette reduced to a half, meaning the jobs expectations in the Public Service had been reduced to a fraction of what these were before OPEC's move.
I also remember that there then began an effort at forcing every Government Organization to try to pay its own way.
Which was a good thing, but enormously stressing those who, for various reasons, were marginal workers and achievers. The bloody Islamists never thought ( can they really constructively think at all? History says-: NO!) that our paying higher oil prices to them would mean that they would have to pay for increased prices of our supplies to them. I do not know how our food-prices are determined, but food produced on our lands, even if owned by Islamists could not and should not be free from our national controls as food supplies are to be considered strategic material, more valuable than weapons.
And although they could buy and install complete production lines in their Nations, they could not buy all the food-producing structures on our lands.
Besides, special skills cannot readily be acquired in the course of a few generations and some Japanese, Chinese, and Europeans have been bred for millennia to what they are.
It is a matter of DNA, dear Watson........
So, the Achille's heal of Russians, Chinese, Japanese and Middle Easterners is their dependence on imported foods. In fact, even in a war against the West, all the latter has to achieve is make it last long enough.
And they would begin dying of hunger.............and eat their leather shoes, after they have run out of horses, as General Kutuzov said during his retreat away from Napoleon.
Another measure the West has been forced to adopt to avoid Islamic malice has been the production of bio-fuels which means that less food has become available for food importers, food prices being consequently increased.
I believe Brazil is totally self-sufficient in relation to fuels via its production of bio-fuels. But Brazil has got the WATER to grow bio-fuels to the scale of self--sufficiency.
This has meant a somehow relatively reduced expectation of oil-sale-growth by the Middle Eastern producers, therefore less revenue to use to pay for food imports, the whole scenario escalating to a stage of the masses screaming for relief, in view of the unwise, criminal, escalating demographic growth of Islamic populations.
When in Europe in 2004 a medium-sized baguette with salad, cheese and salami in Marseille's Railway Station costed 7 Euros.....14 dollars. At Brisbane International Airport an equivalent Australian large roll costed 7 dollars Australian.............Good on yeeeee mates!
Nice to be an Australian sometimes!
If only the girles were gentler and more understanding.....Allelujaaaa!
he.....he.....he.....he.....
I wonder how much a large Pita bread full of chicken, salad, and cheese would cost in Cairo. Or a good shishkebab.
Perhaps I am wrong.
I remember though the sense of guilt I felt in Marseilles when eating my baguette with young french people somehow looking at me hungrily and enviously. But.....what could I do?
Put the blame on OPEC or Zarkozy?
And remember that the Middle East is either running out of water (i.e., Yemen) or arable fertile soil, a problem compounded by Global Warming and in a relative way by the escalating demographic growth.
How does one talk some common sense to an Iranian Ayatollah or to an Egyptian or Libyan peasant?
The Ottoman Turks knew exactly HOW and romantic, naive, Laurence of Arabia did not like it!
But the English Secret Service had to bump him off to avoid more of his bloody utopian interferences, halas taken up by those modern hipocritical fools........the Americans
( sorry Tim Farr and others ), who, unlike Europe, have the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans between themselves and Islam.
But remember September 11 and the 5,000 wasted brains, murdered in a few minutes.
And we the bloody Australians and others similar to us, have our own bloody fools who are prepared to claim western production of bio-fuels is inhumane.
Crucify the bastards.........oh Romans, or send them to the Tuaregs to work in their Oasis!
Note-: Kelvin Thomson MP, says in his WILLS Report dated February 2011, and I quote-:
"Every day brings new evidence of the need to tackle runaway population growth. I have no doubt that the present uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt have unsustainable population levels as their root cause."
...............................................
"Food riots are spreading across Algeria. Russia is importing grain to sustain its cattle herds until spring grazing begins. India is wrestling with an 18% annual food inflation rate, sparking protests. China is looking abroad for potentially massive quantities of wheat and corn."
................................................
"And in many countries, grain harvests are shrinking. In the Middle East spreading water shortages are shrinking the harvest. In India and China, water tables are falling as aquifers are depleted. Irrigate areas are shrinking in the United States. In France, Germany and the United Kingdom, wheat yelds are no longer rising. Suburban sprawl, and paving of land for roads, highways and parking lots have claimed cropland in California, in the Nile River basin in Egypt, and in China and India. Soil erosion is lowering yields and destroying agricultural land. For more information on this issue, look up " The Great Food Crisis 2011 ", by Lester R. Brown.
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