Envirohegemony

http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2012/07/19/20120719freeport-mcmoran-profits-weighed-down-by-copper-prices.html In the above article a clueless Russ Wiles takes at face value the assertion that Freeport McMoRan beat earnings estimates by a penny a share when you ignore the $53M environmental liability "one-time" charge -- because of course you must be able to safely assume the environmentalists will all stop fighting the free markets next year. Anyone w/ half a head knows that once Obama is reelected he will be twice as strict environmentally & otherwise on non-state-owned enterprises & land as he was in his first term. This will hold even more for a mining company like Freeport McMoRan, since the earth is sacrosanct & must be protected at all costs (unlike unborn babies).

Mumbai Contrasted w/ America's Spoiled College Students

http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Clean+water+supplies&view=detail&mid=289ACB8C3AE9B462C6AD289ACB8C3AE9B462C6AD&first=0&form=hphot3
In Mumbai, most residents get 1.5 h of running water at 4am or less, sometimes having to walk several miles to compete w/ others for 10 min. of water per day, while the wealthiest resident (worth $27B) uses 400,000 L of water every month, much of which goes to water his hydroponic gardens. If the Occupy Wall St. protesters saw this, I believe they'd stop griping when many of them can afford iPads & iPhones (& probably all have access to plenty clean drinking water throughout the day yet somehow fail to shower frequently enough).

Steve "Jobs" & the Jobless Recovery

Apple's "Hot News" now includes a story about how they're reforming their supplier workplace conditions in Shenzhen by inviting the Fair Labor Association to inspect Foxconn's formerly suicide-riddled plant there:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2012/02/13Fair-Labor-Association-Begins-Inspections-of-Foxconn.html?sr=hotnews.rss

What they conveniently leave out is the fact that the fair trade standards organization is Fairtrade International (fairtrade.net). Refer to the Wikipedia article on fair trade:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_trade

The reason I include this mention in my Obamerica blog is because I'm tired of hearing people laud Apple's cofounder for innovation & job creation in America. I'll give him the innovation plaudits but he creates jobs for Chinese factory workers & techies w/ H1B visas in America who send much of their income back to their families in their countries of origin. That's not helping the under- & unemployed Americans get back to work. What's more, his advertizers convince Americans to waste their hardearned dollars on overpriced technologies. Additionally, the tech sector helps the Fed pretend there's no inflation by including low-priced hardware in the items used to calculated inflation but not counting the high monthly data bills associated w/ those products. This, along w/ ignoring essentials like food & fuel & giving a 40% weighting in the average to housing (which almost no one's currently buying) drags down the headline inflation numbers so the Fed can keep up a loose monetary supply in order to keep the interest cost low on an exploding federal debt. That said, Obama's only the latest & worst of a long chain of Repubs & Dems addicted to OPM (spending other people's money to buy votes from nontaxpayers).

Obama's New Transparency: Have Surrogates Trash Competition

When Obama & Pelosi promised more transparency in Washington, they weren't referring to themselves

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington#Director

Melanie Sloan, director of CREW, which has been digging up dirt on Republican 2012 presidential candidates (Santorum, Romney, Gingrich, Paul), was a former aide to Biden in addition to Shumer & Conyers.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-01-11/santorum-becomes-millionaire-in-six-years-after-u-s-senate-loss.html

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/202591-watchdog-gingrich-may-have-violated-lobbying-laws

http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/84629/melanie-sloan-crew-ethics-for-profit

http://moorecommonsense.com/2011/09/23/buffoon-week-melanie-sloan-crew/

http://sorosfiles.com/soros/2012/01/so-called-ethics-group-exposed-as-soros-front.html


Pelosi conveniently failed to recuse herself from the anti-ANWR drilling vote due to her investments in T-Bone Pickens' (I call him that for the $12B he swindled from Texan & American taxpayers) windustrial scam:

http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2008/08/pelosi-pickens-and-corruption-of-green.html