Europe - Asleep At The Wheel

Earth Change Report - Issue 010 Sept 23 07

First in this issue:

A special report from Europe about Europe - post Communism but afflicted by somnambulism. (Sleepiness).

by Klaus Rahikainen

Dear Michael

Europe and Europeans do not really want to know about all this (earth changes), they have great difficulties in accepting that the civilisation as they know it is about to come to an end.

With all their roots in Roman and Greek history they feel like being on top of it all, being both the root and the greatest blooming of the whole plant of Western civilisation. How could it come to an end?

We are so old, there is so much history of which we are still proud of - even though the reality arising from this history is actually a huge but still glamorous mess.

We are still infatuated by the false sense of freedom that many of us felt after the Soviet empire fell in the late eighties, and unwilling to see the invisible prison that the newly created European Union is becoming for all of its nations and inhabitants.

The communist and fascist ideologies, that we have so ferociously fought and eventually beaten, are arising again in the disguise of economical freedom which has become the only acceptable choice, the only real freedom left to fight and live for.

The elite ruling the masses is becoming stronger and the masses are getting weaker and thus easier to rule and control.

The fascist communism described by authors like Aldous Huxley "Brave New World" and George Orwell "1984" is already here, it is just cleverly cloaked in the disguise of freedom.

Culturally Europe is still divided, even though economically and politically it is already ruled as one entity. All the different languages and cultural barriers keep us blind for the big picture, for what is happening for the Europe and the world as a whole.

"Divide and conquer" was an old Roman maxim still cleverly used to keep us uninformed. Thus there does not seem to be any greater effort to really grasp the seriousness of what we are to face in the coming five to ten years.

Our media lulls us in a false urgency by repeatedly saying that if we do not do something about the climate change now we end up in troubles after 50 years. And at the same time the solutions we are asked to accept in the face of the climate threat are higher taxes and building of more nuclear energy - none of it has anything to do with the real solutions or even with the survival of individuals in the face of what really is taking place.

Many of us are lulled in a dream of the "Big Brother" or "Mother Society" benevolently knowing what is best for us individuals, thus relinquishing our divine responsibility over to the social structures that we ourselves have created in our will to be taken care of.

Many of us are too well taken care of, too lazy to stand up and live our own life. We follow the stream of common consciousness that has always led us to death, only this time the death is going to be real big time.

And we do not want to face it! We want to give the responsibility to our politicians whom we trust to work for our best. We are wrong - they only think of their own best - just like we all do. Nobody but ourselves are ever going to save us!

When the Golf-stream (Atlantic Current/Great Conveyor Belt) stops the scenes from the film "Day after tomorrow" will be cruel reality here in Europe. Most of it will face never-ending blizzards that eventually cover all our cherished history under a thick cover of ice - just like Atlantis once was covered by ice and became what we now know as Antarctic.

The survivors will be found near the Mediterranean sea and on the Pyrenean Peninsula.

The areas bordering Europe have their own challenges to face, Africa its droughts and floods, Middle East has all the wars and hatreds on top of the climate changes and Russia lives a life of its own.

Russia has many things in common with USA, it is big and powerful, cruel and imperialistic. Also I know that in Russia there are people that are conscious of these coming changes but the cultural and language barrier keeps us apart.

But first and foremost I as an individual need to awaken from my own illusory slumber, I need to face the challenge and do what can be done, and most importantly I need to live and enliven the future life beyond the catastrophic times ahead of us.

Thus I will be provided a way to get there, a passage through these tumultuous changes.

Yours ever so sincerely -

Klaus.

Greenhouse Gas Trading Scheme In New Zealand

Have you ever heard anything so politically expedient but at the same time so unimpeccable as this linkage of global warming and economics?

New Zealand is set to create what are called “emission credits” that can be traded between the biggest and smallest polluters so that we the public will imagine that something serious is being done about greenhouse gases.

Europe introduced something similar two years ago under what is called a “cap and trade” system.

Our politicians are obviously between a rock and a hard place. They rely on citizens for votes – so they tout their efforts to maintain an upbeat and exponentially expanding economy. But they also rely on big business for campaign funds so they are not going to mandate greenhouse gas reductions.

Instead, they have turned those gases into a tradable commodity…and they will probably hire someone from the polluting industry sector to advise them on how to set ‘reasonable’ emission targets and standards.

What it actually does is put international industry in the position of setting its own trading rules and prices so the national and global corporations can bypass most if not all governments and their regulations.

It’s the good old bad old story – deception disguised by a pseudo solution and the appearance of good intent.

World Weird Weather Week

Some of the heaviest rainfall in decades battered North Korea last month leaving around 600 dead or missing and over 100,000 people rendered homeless. Huge areas of cropland were destroyed as well as nearly 520 miles (837 km) of road and rail lines.

For a country that was planning to go nuclear, North Korea has suffered not a nuclear strike, but a “Nature Strike” – and when Nature strikes, the results are deadly indeed.

WARM SUMMER IN U.S. ENDS WITH RECORD HEAT IN SOUTH, WIDESPREAD DROUGHT CONTINUES IN SOUTHEAST, WEST —

The June-August 2007 summer season ended with a long-lasting heatwave that set more than 2,000 new daily high temperature records across the southern and central U.S., according to scientists at NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C.

At the end of August, drought affected almost half of the continental U.S. The global surface temperature was seventh warmest on record for the June-August period.

“It was first predicted that Wipha might be the most powerful storm to hit China in a decade. This prompted authorities to order the evacuation of more than 2 million people from the provinces of Shanghai, Zhejiang and Fujian. …”

Press.TV reports that “Typhoons regularly hit China, Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea towards the end of August and in September.

Earlier this month Typhoon Fitow hit Japan, killing seven people, while on Sunday Typhoon Nari killed at least nine in South Korea.”

Dear Diary - Preparing Step By Step

Speaking of eating, the fact that I'll be butchering our own meat (and blessing them in the process) reminds me of something Dr Ledwith said at James’ last conference, and that was that on this planet everything eats something.

Or to put that another way everything is being eaten – or will be eaten – by something else. Even you and me eventually.

I wonder who figured out or came up with that symbiotic concept? How could creation or evolution or intelligent design include such a weird yet obvious survival mechanism?

Strip it back to “the beginning” – or the beginning that many scientists assume is correct, and that is that the first bacteria somehow created itself from hydrogen carbon oxygen and nitrogen and moved in the slime of earth and everything evolved from that.

Let's shoot that theory right out of the slime. If the something-eats-everything-or-vice-versa concept holds true, then as soon as there was something other than slime to eat (another bacteria for instance) it would have been eaten by the first bacteria (or is that bacterium?). End of story. In fact, it would have been the end of the beginning before the beginning began.

Wednesday: To the studio to cut a couple more trailers for the DVD. Chase Savage does an awesome job. Which reminds me, it’s time I gave credit to Greg and Tamara Penniket from NZCrews for their work as camera/sound operators for the DVD.

He’s had another op since he went back, but still sends me strange Kiwi humor jokes by email (e.g.: Then there was a woman who said,”I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then, it was too late.") I’ve known a few to say that about me:-)

Thursday: Visited a friend with some knowledge of these changing times. He thinks concrete structures should be considered if there are going to be raging storms and earthquakes.



Terra Dome is one such specialty company.

And then there are

monolithic domes that can survive fire and hurricanes.

I figure if it's good enough for your tax dollars to be spent on preserving you-know-who (as pointed out in the Planet X docko) then it's good enough to spend what's left on something similar.

But it's an individual choice of course...so do not take this as advice.

Judith (note the bold letters - they match her way of getting my attention when I'm out in the yard) bought a couple of large organic tomatoes at the supermarket, specifically to keep the seeds. She also dried some acorn squash, cantaloupe, green pepper and apple seeds. The last for when Johnny comes marching home again.

Friday: Meet the funny Money Guru.

The funny Money Guru is George Ure, a very untraditional economics writer with a sense of humor (or is it irony) about the way the dollar works. Or doesn't.

He's saying that the US economy has been on the verge of plummeting into oblivion because all the indicators are similar to the "valley of death" that the world fell into in the Great Depression.

Not being any sort of a stock market person myself, I nevertheless follow his musings through his daily reports that often refer to climate change and the "time monks” who use an arcane (mysterious) system to monitor language used on the Internet to foretell possible future events such as earthquakes

Here’s an example of his work from today under the headline Don't Overlook Climate Changes, Either.

“One of our tea-drinking readers, who gets the daily newsletter from the UK's Nothing But Tea web site and tea store, said that yesterday's newsletter basically advised customers that climate change might have some impact on tea prices sooner than later:

"This has had an impact on tea production, this years teas from China where they have been suffering from drought, are available in lower quantities and some differ in appearance from previous years, though they still have the same great taste.

“Assam has been hit by floods and tea production has dropped significantly as a result.

“South India where the Nilgiri teas are grown has experienced severe drought and frost with just a single company losing around £120,000 worth of their crop. Due to the severe damage caused the tea bushes may take some time to recover and crop loss will last at least six months.

“Due to a freak hailstorm in Kenya which lasted over two hours, 10,000 workers were sent home for two months while tea bushes recover. This caused Unilever alone an estimated $1,000,000 worth of crop loss!"

Ure says “They pointed out some positives too, but I got the sense that weather would impact my periodic sips of orange spiced tea, a habit on hold for the past few months due to the high temps here in East Texas.

“Remember that food prices are a combination of input costs - and oil is among those, too. So if you have bad weather and rising oil (which hit $84 yesterday), you have to figure that what's in the supply chain will be going higher.”

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All the more reason to quit those weekly restaurant outings and put some money into buying and storing food instead. In inflationary or emergency times, food in the fridge (or freezer or stored in buckets or cans or jars) is better than money in the bank. You can be eating one while inflation is eating the other.

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Lastly - a note from Karen. Karen writes: "I am interested in attending or facilitating a preparedness class for Southeast Missouri. I would appreciate anyone with information on an existing class to email me, as well as, anyone wanting to attend such a class. I am a former firefighter and first responder, current RSE student and avid James Gilliland fan." karentropf@yahoo.com (You'll have to clip and paste the email address. We do not use an automatic email sender on these pages because spammers get their dirty little sniffer-spiders out and before you know it, you have a gazillion emails you never asked for).

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