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Consumption in the United States
http://www.mindfully.org/Sustainability/Americans-Consume-24percent.htm
In the United States:
 Reducing consumption without reducing use is a costly delusion. If undeveloped countries consumed at the same rate as the US, four complete planets the size of the Earth would be required. People who think that they have a right to such a life are quite mistaken. |
- Americans constitute 5% of the world’s population but consume 24% of the world’s energy.
- On average, one American consumes as much energy as
- 2 Japanese
- 6 Mexicans
- 13 Chinese
- 31 Indians
- 128 Bangladeshis
- 307 Tanzanians
- 370 Ethiopians
- The population is projected to increase by nearly 130 million people – the equivalent of adding another four states the size of California – by the year 2050.
- Forty percent of births are unintended.
- Americans eat 815 billion calories of food each day – that’s roughly 200 billion more than needed – enough to feed 80 million people.
- Americans throw out 200,000 tons of edible food daily.
- The average American generates 52 tons of garbage by age 75.
- The average individual daily consumption of water is 159 gallons, while more than half the world’s population lives on 25 gallons.
- Fifty percent of the wetlands, 90% of the northwestern old-growth forests, and 99% of the tall-grass prairie have been destroyed in the last 200 years.
- Eighty percent of the corn grown and 95% of the oats are fed to livestock.
- Fifty-six percent of available farmland is used for beef production.
- Every day an estimated nine square miles of rural land are lost to development.
- There are more shopping malls than high schools.
Percent of World Total
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Other Facts:
- 250 million people have died of hunger-related causes in the past quarter-century — roughly 10 million each year.
- 700 to 800 million people, perhaps even as many as a billion, don’t get enough food to support normal daily activities
- Africa now produces 27% less food per capita than in 1964.
- 1.7 billion people lack access to clean drinking water, and by the year 2000, the number of urban dwellers without access to safe water and sanitation services is expected to grow by 80%.
- 0.1% of pesticides applied to crops reaches the pest, the rest poisons the ecosystem.
- Each year 25 million people are poisoned by pesticides in less developed countries, and over 20,000 die.
- One-third of the world’s fish catch and more than one-third of the world’s total grain output is fed to livestock.
- It takes an average of 25 gallons of water to produce a pound of wheat in modern Western farming systems. It takes 5,214 gallons of water to produce a pound of beef.
- Each person in the industrialized world uses as much commercial energy as 10 people in the developing world.
source: Paul Ehrlich and the Population Bomb / PBS [the PBS website is defunct but the book by the same name is available]
SOPA Mutates Into Much Worse CISPA, the Latest Threat to Internet Free Speech
‘Just because SOPA and PIPA, the infamous internet “kill switch” bills, are largely dead does not mean the threat to internet free speech has become any less serious. The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA), also known as H.R. 3523, is the latest mutation of these internet censorship and spying bills to hit the U.S. Congress — and unless the American people speak up now to stop it, CISPA could lead to far worse repercussions for online free speech than SOPA or PIPA ever would have.’
Read more: SOPA Mutates Into Much Worse CISPA, the Latest Threat to Internet Free Speech
Our Universe Is A Gigantic And Wonderfully Detailed Holographic Illusion
‘In our daily life we are not aware that we may, in fact, live in a hologram and our existence is a holographic projection, nothing more. All what we believe is real, our whole physical world, is – in fact – an illusion being proved by the holographic universe, one of the most remarkable theories of 20th century.
Energy fields are decoded by our brains into a 3D picture, to give the illusion of a physical world. Despite its apparent materiality, the universe is a kind of 3-D projection and is ultimately no more real than a hologram.
“Our brain mathematically construct objective reality by interpreting frequencies that are ultimately from another dimension, a deeper order of existence that is beyond both space and time.’
Read more: Our Universe Is A Gigantic And Wonderfully Detailed Holographic Illusion
The European Stabilization Mechanism, Or How the Goldman Vampire Squid Just Captured Europe
Thursday, 19 April 2012
‘In September 2008, Henry Paulson, former CEO of Goldman Sachs, managed to extort a $700 billion bank bailout from Congress. But to pull it off, he had to fall on his knees and threaten the collapse of the entire global financial system and the imposition of martial law; and the bailout was a one-time affair. Paulson’s plea for a permanent bailout fund—the Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP—was opposed by Congress and ultimately rejected.
By December 2011, European Central Bank president Mario Draghi, former vice president of Goldman Sachs Europe, was able to approve a 500 billion Euro bailout for European banks without asking anyone’s permission. And in January 2012, a permanent rescue funding program called the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) was passed in the dead of night with barely even a mention in the press. The ESM imposes an open-ended debt on EU member governments, putting taxpayers on the hook for whatever the ESM’s Eurocrat overseers demand.’
Mandatory ‘Big Brother’ Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015
Thursday, 19 April 2012 08:51
‘A bill already passed by the Senate and set to be rubber stamped by the House would make it mandatory for all new cars in the United States to be fitted with black box data recorders from 2015 onwards.
Section 31406 of Senate Bill 1813 (known as MAP-21), calls for “Mandatory Event Data Recorders” to be installed in all new automobiles and legislates for civil penalties to be imposed against individuals for failing to do so.’
Read more: Mandatory ‘Big Brother’ Black Boxes In All New Cars From 2015
Iran To Shut Down Internet Permanently; ‘Clean’ National Intranet In Pipeline
Millions of Internet users in Iran will be permanently denied access to the World Wide Web and cut off from popular social networking sites and email services, as the government has announced its plans to establish a national Intranet within five months.
In a statement released Thursday, Reza Taghipour, the Iranian minister for Information and Communications Technology, announced the setting up of a national Intranet and the effective blockage of services like Google, Gmail, Google Plus, Yahoo and Hotmail, in line with Iran’s plan for a “clean Internet.”
The government is set to roll out the first phase of the project in May, following which Google, Hotmail and Yahoo services will be blocked and replaced with government Intranet services like Iran Mail and Iran Search Engine. At this stage, however, the World Wide Web, apart from the aforementioned sites, will still be accessible.
The government has already started the registration procedure to apply for procuring Iran Mail ID, which mandates authentic information pertaining to a person’s identity, including national ID, address and full name. Registration will be approved only after verifying it against the government data on the particular applicant.
The second and final stage of the national Intranet will be launched in August, which will permanently deny Iranians access to the Internet.
“All Internet Service Providers (ISP) should only present National Internet by August,” Taghipour said in the statement.
For a country like Iran that exercises high levels of government control across sectors, establishing an insulated Internet shouldn’t be too much of a technical hassle. The new system would be more or less similar to the corporate intranet, where one can only access pages approved by the system administrators.
Iranian ISPs already face heavy penalties if they fail to comply with the government filter list. By establishing the Intranet, the government control is set to become stricter.
Foreign sites can still be accessed over the Intranet provided they are mentioned in a “white list” set up by the government. The government is also believed to be planning for better control on proxy servers which allow users to access banned sites.
Unveiling a six-point plan to implement the Iranian Intranet, Taghipour said last March that the Internet “promotes crime, disunity, unhealthy moral content, and atheism,” and that government’s goal is to eliminate the online “scourges.” In October last year, an Iranian official – who called Facebook users a threat to Islamic values – expressed concern that expansion of social media networks was harming the nation and society.
Describing the blogosphere as one of the “most effective elements of soft war” against Iran, Mehdi Jafari, head of the technology and intelligence section of the Pupil’s Basij militia, said arrogant and imperial powers (like the US) were using social-media sites to push their agenda.
Internet censorship has been in place for quite a long time in Iran as the authorities fear an anti-government revolution like the Arab Spring that rocked countries like Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen, Iraq, Bahrain and Jordan. The Islamic regime of Iran has a bad track record with regard to Internet freedom as it has made several attempts in the past to temporarily deny access to the Internet.
Taghipour was added to the European Union sanctions list on Mar. 23, due to his involvement in the human rights violations during the 2009-2010 Iranian election protests. According to the EU, the Iranian Communications minister was one of the top officials in charge of censorship of the Internet and Internet-based activism.
By creating a complete blockade on free Internet, Tehran could be setting a dangerous precedent for authoritative nations that may harbor similar plans in the future. In fact, the Iranian government has already announced its plans to “export” the winning formula for an isolated Intranet to the rest of the world.
100 Year Old Political Cartoon – Still as Accurate as Ever
Princess Diana Death: French Authorities May Arrest British Police, Conspiracy Re-ignited
Wednesday, 27 July 2011 07:57
‘French authorities may seek an international arrest warrant for two former police chiefs, who withheld a prophetic note in which Princess Diana seemingly predicted her assassination by car crash.[1] Something she stated on more than one occasion.
Former Scotland Yard chief Lord Condon and former Assistant Commissioner of Specialist Operations Sir David Veness, have been ordered to attend an interview in Paris to address why the note was under lock and key for 3 years following Diana’s death. If they fail to attend they will be treated as suspects. The note remained hidden even when Lord Condon’s successor Lord Stevens took over as Metropolitan Police Commissioner, suggesting the orders may have came from a higher authority.’
Read more: Princess Diana Death: French Authorities May Arrest British Police, Conspiracy Re-ignited
Denver airport murals explanation and photos courtesy of Dr. len horowitz
THE FOLLOWING ART SOURCES FROM DR. HOROWITZ’S PHOTOGRAPHY WITHIN THE DENVER “NEW WORLD AIRPORT” NOT LONG AFTER THE FACILITY OPENED IN 1994.
A gas-masked Nazi-alien stabs the dove of peace, a Christian symbol, with a Muslim sabre. The Nazi connection sources from IG Farben, the initial petrochemical cartel based in Germany, connected to the drug industry and the holocaust. The blade is swished through the air leaving a rainbow chemtrail polluting the air of the people below, suffering from the toxicity and genocide. The children are closest to the sword (lower left) and a image much like the 911- twin towers destruction (lower right) is also depicted.
Close -up of gas-masked Nazi alien.
Close-up of mostly ethnic populations dying.
Against a backdrop of horrific destruction, and the extinction of various species, including whales and sea turtles, only children are seen in the center sobbing over three open caskets. The funeral service is for the Black African people on the left, the Native Red people in the center, and the White Judeo-Christians on the right.
Close up of African woman in her coffin.
Native aboriginal groups are represented in the center casket.
This Anglo-American woman, lying on and American quilt, hugs a Jewish star and Christian bible, divided by the red rose, symbolic of the Rosecrucians and the Illuminati. To the left of the rose is locket containing an image of the girls’s family. This indicates the termination of family traditions.
Notice also the flowers at the top left of the image is a Columbine blossom, suggestive of the Columbine massacre.
Finally, the Nazi alien is vanquished. It lies dead in the foreground. A German lad strikes his Muslim saber, like an anvil, with his hammer–and image of facism and Communism.
Notice there are not adults here. Only children are left to celebrate the New World Order.
The White girl holding the rose, holds the Black baby doll next to the sword, as “peace” is celebrated by song and dance.
The celebration of the one world religion begins, paying tribute to the illuminated lotus blossom in the center.
Closer look at the focus of spiritual practice–the “light” (obviously of Lucifer.)
Notice the dance line begins, and is directed, by the Scottish-Rite Freemason.
In the floor between the above murals is a mining cart showing the symbols of silver and gold (Au and Ag, respectively).
Au-Ag symbols also code for the “Australian Antigen.” This was the first name given to the hepatitis B vaccine virus. Dr. Horowitz’s book, Emerging Viruses: AIDS & Ebola–Nature, Accident or Intentional?, proves the hepatitis B vaccine was used to trigger the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
The dedication capstone at Denver International Airport heralds the Masonic symbol and “New World” designation. There are two separate Masonic lodges cited. They are segregated Black and White lodges.
Believe nothing 