Floods

I've been thinking about the Iowa Floods, besides just the devastation to city, infrustructure, and all the usual immediate things. I think in terms of part of the future collapse of alleged civilization.

HURRICANE KATRINA

As Shusli pointed out in her blog, Death and Conscience, in her post "Heckuva Job, FEMA!" I first learned of how the Federal Emergency Management Agency witheld important things such as foodstuffs, untensils, and many other physical items to assist those who suffered under Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region. We also know that modular homes, besides many being contaminated, were witheld from helping citizens. We know that FEMA fudged the numbers of the dead like the U.S. always fudges with the numbers to make themselves look better (look at the numbers in Iraq, for instance).

Another thing FEMA helped further was the ethnic cleansing of New Orleans, better known as "Making the world a more profitable place for the already excessively wealthy." Blacks were "forcibly transferred," their public housing which came through unharmed was destroyed for GOLF COURSES (I wish I was kidding), poor folks and other "unsightlys" were criminally removed from the area by the U.S. government. This is what FEMA has become under the genocidal Bush administration. FEMA is now designed to take a disaster and make it much worse.

No doubt the Bush U.S. government organization known as FEMA will make conditions after the flooding much worse than they were during the flooding itself.

Life After the Oil Crash has many good articles about the impending disaster including facts about the loss of crops and what that will do to foods and biofuels in an already rapidly inflating economy where wages remain stagnant except for those of CEO's of major corporations.

Kunstler: Status Quo-OH

How A Midwest Flood Can Drag Down A Nation

UPDATE 1-Union Pacific enacts force majeure amid US floods

In Midwest Floods, a Broad Threat to Crops

Midwest Floods Push Grain Prices Higher, Weigh on Ethanol

In these articles you will find much good analysis for the future of food, grain prices, ethanol prices, the conditions upon life about to be imposed upon folks like you and me because of the fiasco known as "The Bush Administration," etc.

You should EXPECT the Bush administration's version of FEMA to make conditions worse should they follow thier clear and consistent patterns. Folks in the Midwest, folks like you and me (the not so privileged of the privileged), will suffer greatly. We on the periphery will suffer with higher prices and stagnating wages.

co-King George is safely away in Europe on what is being called his "farewell tour." I read today on Al Jazeera that he is BLASPHEMING Northern Ireland with his presence. Makes me wish the IRA didn't disarm... All of this on our tax dollars, the same tax dollars that will be used to make the current floods in the Midwest even worse. And we have King Dick and co-King George to thank for it. They will have gotten away with these crimes against humanity AND MANY OTHERS...FREE AND CLEAR!

APOLOGIES

(The puppy is sorry, and not guilty of genocide, the man on the right in the photo to the right says he is sorry and is guilty of genocide.)

Now, imagine if you will, in say, another 20 or thirty years, should this alleged civilization actually be able to maintain this bullshit order that much longer, you can probably expect something like this:

"I [bullshit leader's name here] apologize for the suffering caused to thousands of people by the flood in the Midwest in 2008."

Don't expect financial compensation. Don't expect apologies for governmental complicity and idiocity that will soon be making the conditions in the Midwest much worse. Don't expect apologies for intergenerational damages. DON'T EXPECT ANY FORM OF JUSTICE! DON'T EXPECT APOLOGIES FOR FEMA!

The Canadian governments apology to those who suffered through residential schools is not an apology for genocide. It is not an apology for the abuses. It is not an apology for the state sanctioned act of genocide. It is not an apology for stealing and occupying indigenous land. It is not an apology for the FORCED conditions of indigenous folks on the Native Reserves of that nation. There is no apology for the lack of justice. There is no apology for the forced poverty. There is no apology for current conditions. They are safely distanced and can say things like, "it wasn't me," or "it wasn't my ancestors."

However, if current patterns are followed in the 20 or 30 years to come, should this alleged civilization last that much longer, good chance that the best the victims of the floods in the Midwest and soon to be victims of FEMA (including the victims of FEMA after Hurricane Katrina), THE BEST they can expect from their government is a tax paid for lame ass apology.

I often have unfounded fantasies that the U.S. military will stop murdering innocent folks half way across the world for the ultra privileged in this nation, and turn those guns on the ultra privileged and help the common folks of this nation take everything back from those fucking theives that will steal it all from us until it collapses. At least I have that collapse to look forward to.

SPEAKING OF COLLAPSE!

Shusli informed me this morning that Wall Street took ANOTHER dump and dropped about 200 points today. The dollar is on its continued downward spiral. Oil is on its continued upward spiral. Riots all over Europe because of oil prices are causing heavy financial damages. Truckers in the U.S. are going under. Small businesses are going under because of oil prices. The illegal war in Iraq is costing us TRILLIONS OF DOLLARS in our tax money (which won't be going to victims of the Midwest Floods, but definitely to the salaries of FEMA execs and employees). The U.S. will soon be spending BILLIONS if not TRILLIONS in Bush's upcoming illegal war with Iran (not to mention the thousands of folks murdered, millions displaced and forced into poverty, pollutants from DU and other genocidal munitions, etc.). China has control of a large hunk of our economy. The U.S. government sold it to them.

Combine the factors of illegal war, dumping dollar, dumping stocks, dumping mortage rates, bank crises, natural disasters, the fact that a major hunk of control of the U.S. economy is in the hands of China, and I'd have to say the U.S. is more vulnerable than it ever has been.

Jim Craven, Blackfoot Solicitor General to the Traditional Government and Economics Head at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, says we are undoubtedly headed to a global economic collapse. When it will happen and what it will look like is not exactly known. But it will happen.

COMMUNITY

(When a community gets together, you can accomplish ANYTHING!)

What I think might help is if we get together in our communities. I always think of how the Lost Boys of the Sudan stuck with each other, helped each other survive with whatever skills the inidividual had to help the group.

In Coquille, they are working on food sustainability.

Cuba is a great example of food sustainability. They have programs in place so folks can be fed sustainably.

Here, when folks can no longer get their food at the supermarket (see what is going on in Europe with the drivers strikes), most will not be able to feed themselves. Imagine, as those in Europe are feeling for REAL right now, that you go to the store and find no food on the shelves. How are you going to feed yourself and your family? What will you do?

FLOODS

The floods will recede, but the damages will be felt for decades. It may help in bringing communities together. It may bring folks closer and help each other. It may make folks aware that the U.S. government is not there to help them and is indeed the most DANGEROUS TERRORIST ORGANIZATION EVER TO HAVE EXISTED. It may motivate folks into action. Or, as is typical of the average publicly educated U.S. citizen, they will take it up the ass like a good victim. They will think that their government wouldn't do such a thing to them. They will become depressed. Their depression will lead to inaction and surrender to sources outside of themselves (like belief in religion), and they will believe they deserve it and there is nothing they can do about it.

But there is something they can do about it. They can force the issue should they get together and stop the stupid belief in the John Wayne style "Rugged Individualism." Nobody got where they are in life without help...NOBODY! If we all help each other, then help in getting the genocidal U.S. government off of our backs and bring in local governments to maintain the health, happiness, and well being of the people in good times and in bad, then we just may have a chance. There may be other probable solutions available that I'm not thinking of. ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS?

So, here we are, the U.S. government is collapsing, the Midwest is collapsing, there is a genocidal war going on in Iraq, there is a genocidal war about to begin against Iran, gas and food prices are going up, wages are staying the same (unless you are a major corporate head), etc.

In Europe, there are riots and strikes to FORCE their governments to pay attention to the conditions of life being forced upon them as the same thing happens there. Here, no such luck...yet.

Our governments are forcing us to suffer. In this nation, the U.S., the folks are, so far, taking it up the ass like good American citizens. They misname this "freedom." So far, a majority still have their 253 channels with nothing to watch. They still have cellphone service. They still have their MTV. They can still joyfully recreate because the food and gas prices have yet to make enough suffer, though more are everyday. Will the average U.S. citizen get off their ass and stop taking it up the ass? Only time will tell, and there ain't much of that left, either.

IN OTHER NEWS

In other news, Condaleeza Rice was misquoted by me as saying, "The co-King's dick is only this big, and I ain't talking about Dick Cheney," she was misquoted as saying. "I should know! Why do you think I look so pissed off all of the time? Why do you think I'm the cold hearted unempathetic asshole that I am?"

She was further misquoted as saying,"If your dick was this big, you'd be a genocidal criminal also. I mean, admit it, if your dick was this big, wouldn't you want to kill a lot of people for the injustice god dealt ya? I mean...C'MON!

"That's why he is slaughtering Iraqi's and why he wants to slaughter Iranians! It has NOTHING to do with oil. We've been telling you the truth that one time all along. At least there we've been honest.

"IT'S...ONLY...THIS...BIG!" she stressed with the hand gesture shown in the photo. "Why do you think I'm so fucking pissed off?! I wanna be the queen, but the co-King's dick is only this big." She used the hand gesture throughout this misquote.

"But what about the co-King's incerdible bulge displayed when he pretended to land that military jet on that aircraft carrier when he declared military operations in Iraq had come to an end?" the congressional delegation was misquoted as asking.

"IT WAS A CODPIECE," Rice was misquoted as saying. "Don't you remember the disco days when men would stuff their tight pants with socks and sausages to make their equipment look bigger?

"IT'S ONLY THIS BIG!" Rice stressed with her crawdad like claw gesture.

"Does anybody in here have a gun?" Rice was misquoted as asking. "I wanna kill somebody directly for a change. Like when King Dick (with a small one [gesture included]) tried to with that shotgun incident to the face."

The secret service refused to oblige her request which brought up questions from Rice about the size of their equipment and their guns being an extension of their small packages.