The bacteria Candidatus Liberibacter (aka yellow dragon) is jeopardizing more than 520,000 hectares (1,285 acres) of Mexico’s citrus trees.
Federal officials said symptoms were detected in Colima, Nayarit and Michoacán. The disease has appeared in Nuevo Leon and threatens states from Tamaulipas to San Luis Potosi.
Mexico is the fourth largest producer of citrus.
Four university professors in four days, that’s how many have been assassinated by so called ‘democracy’ demonstrators in Syria. What does killing professors have to do with achieving democracy?
The latest professor to be killed was a nuclear engineer. Mmmm, does anybody suspect Israeli Mossad?
Along with the professors a police commander was also assassinated in the past four days.
“I think that the fact that there are links that exist between the Pakistani government and the Haqqani network, the nature of those can be assessed and is complicated. But there is no question that they have safe havens in Pakistan.”– Jay Carney, White House spokesman
September 28, U.S. President Barack Obama has endorsed the claims of Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, who accused Pakistan’s intelligence agency of “exporting” violence to Afghanistan.
In 1969 President Nixon (a Republican) secretly ordered the bombing of Cambodia and Laos (Operation Menu), believing they were helping the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. The Operation Menu bombing lasted from March 1969 to May 1970, and failed to stop Viet Cong, or North Vietnam’s efforts to unite the country. The failure led to Nixon making peace with the Viet Cong and North Vietnam.
Will Obama (a Democrat) follow in Nixon’s footsteps?
But wait, we’re already bombing Pakistan with our UAVs. Oh, but the U.S. was already secretly bombing Cambodia under President Johnson (a Democrat), four years before President Nixon! It turns out that Nixon’s bombing of Cambodia and Laos were simply an escalation of Johnson’s actions.
U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, said Obama had to consider military action against Pakistan.
“The changes that have taken place in the Middle East sent oil prices up, and that gave a shock to the world economy.”-Barack Obama, President of the United States
First off, President Obama, oil prices are no where what they were a couple of years ago. What’s been driving up the price of gas (which is just as high as when oil was more than $100.00 per barrel) is not the current price of oil, but refineries that’re purposely keeping production of gas below the demand for gas (which makes the price go up).
Secondly, it was your attack on Libya, President Obama, that caused oil prices to go up!
President Obama also blamed the Europeans: “Some of the challenges that we’ve had over the last several months actually have to do with the fact that in Europe we haven’t seen them deal with their banking system and their financial system as effectively as they needed to.”
First off, if the U.S. banking system wasn’t so involved with the European banking system the U.S. wouldn’t be as affected by their problems.
Secondly, many of the actions taken by European banks, that got them into trouble, were the same mistakes that got U.S. banks into trouble. By the way, those banking troubles started here in the United States, and have yet to be resolved!
Stop passing the buck President Obama!
U.S. President Barack Obama just finished a three state campaign; California, Washington and Colorado. There’s one problem, the White House press credentials indicate Wyoming, not Colorado.
According to the press credential Obama made stops in San Diego, San Jose and Los Angeles, California; Seattle, Washington and Denver,…Wyoming?
I did a quick check, and no Denver, Wyoming showed up. I guess there’s only one Denver, and that’s in Colorado. Is this a Freudian slip, showing just how out of touch those on the east coast are with those on the west coast?
The boss of south Florida’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is in jail facing charges of child pornography.
“According to the indictment, between March 2010 and September 2010, Mangione allegedly transported and received visual depictions of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. The indictment also alleges that Mangione possessed electronically stored messages that contained additional images of child pornography during the same time period.”-U.S. Justice Department statement
The arrest brings into question the competency of all ICE agents, because not only is the former Miami ICE boss charged with child pornography, but he is being evaluated for psychological problems, at his attorney’s request!
Also, one of the tasks of ICE agents is to investigate human trafficking, which includes child pornography!
Current ICE officials say they are cooperating with the Justice Department’s ongoing investigation.
For those of you who think things are the same all over the world, think again.
Until the beginning of this year China did not have property tax. Now two regions/states have instituted property tax, officially it’s to try and curb inflation, and real estate speculation.
In Chongqing and Shanghai, a property tax has been imposed on high end real estate. The lowest price at which taxes are charged is for properties that sell for 9,941 yuan ($1,554) per square meter.
In Chongqing, the tax applies to existing residential properties, while in Shanghai it falls only on properties that were purchased after its adoption date.
The new taxes are due in October, and those who fail to pay will be subject to fines, restrictions on their ability to go abroad, or exposure in the media.
“Right now there is a very serious threat to global peace: a new cycle of colonial wars, which started in Libya, with the sinister goal of refreshing the capitalist global system, within a structural crisis today, but without any limit to its consumer and destructive voracity.”-Nicolas Maduro Moros, Foreign Minister of Venezuela
Moros says the war in Libya was pushed by the mainstream media: “The logic of war having its spearhead in transnational mass media: let us bear in mind that the ‘Libyan Case’ was brought before the Security Council on the basis of intense propaganda by the western mass media, who lied about the alleged bombing of innocent civilians by the Libyan Air Force, not to mention the grotesque media setting of the Green Square of Tripoli.”
Moros points out that the so called no fly zone was anything but: “It’s worth wondering: what has the no-fly zone established by Security Council resolution become? How could NATO perform more than 20,000 missions against Libyan people if there was a no-fly zone? After the Libyan Air Force was completely annihilated, the continued ‘humanitarian’ bombing shows that the west, through NATO, intends to impose their interests in North Africa, turning Libya into a colonial protectorate.”
Moros points out that NATO violated the arms embargo they were supposed to be enforcing: “How can we say that an arms embargo was imposed on Libya, when it was NATO itself that introduced thousands of heavy weapons to support a violent upheaval against that country’s legitimate government? The embargo was, of course, meant to prevent the Libyan government from defending its sovereignty. This shows, once again, the cruel logic of international relations, where the law only applies to the weak.”
Moros warns that the United Nations is a puppet of Europe and the United States, and that will be the UN’s undoing: “If its secretary-general, along with the president of the International Criminal Court, take part in an act of war, as in the case of Libya, nothing can be expected from the current structure of this organization and there is no longer time for reforms: the UN does not accept any reform whatsoever, the illness within it is deadly.”
I stated in earlier postings that the U.S. Congress is behind the USPS crisis! Now postal workers, risking job loss, are protesting the actions of Congress in destroying the Postal Service.
Recently, PBS Newshour’s interviewed U.S. postmaster general, Patrick Donahoe, and Fredric Rolando, president of the National Association of Letter Carriers. They both pointed out that the U.S. Congress is holding back on money earned by the USPS, and that was a primary reason the Postal Service is in trouble.
Also, U.S. Congressman, and the main stream media, continue the false notion that the USPS gets money from taxpayers, and therefore cutting the USPS would help the government’s budget cuts. Many citizens still believe that the USPS is paid by tax money!
The United States Postal Service does not make money off taxpayers, they are solely funded by the postage they charge (prices are controlled by U.S. Congress, not the USPS), and other products they sell. The cuts being made to the USPS will have no affect on U.S. government debt!
Now members of all five unions representing postal workers will go on strike, violating their contracts (to be safe the postal unions are not calling them strikes, they’re calling them “rallies”). Why violate their contracts? Why not? It’s become obvious that the U.S. Congress wants to shut them down anyway!
Congress is demanding that USPS make another $5.5 billion in payments to Congress (supposedly to meet required Federal benefits). But this is what’s causing the problems. Last year Congress overcharged the USPS, then refused to give a refund!
One union official says the U.S. Congress has actually overcharged the USPS to the equivalent of 75 years worth of Federal retirement plan contributions. This leads me to believe the Congress is using the non-taxpayer Postal Service funds to pay for running a broke government!
The Daily Telegraph (aka Telegraph) reports that even though evil British Prince Charles made more than 4 million pounds (U.S.$6.3 million) from his A G Carrick company, he has donated zero to charity!
A G Carrick (a pseudonym for Prince Charles) sells artwork created by the the Prince, and his web site claims that they donate profits to charity.
Clarence House, spokesman for the Prince admitted “no charitable donations were made in the year”. House went on to trip over his own statements regarding the profits of the company: “A profit of £25,590 was made by A G Carrick and dispersed to charity.” Forty-five minutes later, House changed the statement to “No profit was made and therefore the accounts do not show a dispersion of profit to charity.” Then House confirmed “The profit was used to cover A G Carrick’s loss from the previous financial year as is standard procedure.”
Can you say; lies, lies and more lies?
The Telegraph article goes on to explain that most of the money goes to pay employees of the Prince, who’re involved with selling his paintings. It also says that financial statements from A G Carrick show the company is 1 million pounds (U.S.$1.6 million) in debt, and that debt is being passed on to the future King of England! So either they’re lying, or even elites are idiots when it comes to financial management!