In addition to food riots, the Canadian government is paying ham producers to kill their capital, pigs. Why? Feed for pigs “costs too much”.
Déjà Vu: The Fed’s Interest Rate Dilemma, BrianWesbury (chief economist,First Trust Advisors, L.P.), 30/4/08, Wall Street Journal
Ottawa to pay struggling pork producers $50 million to kill 150,000 pigs by fall
EDMONTON — In what is being called an unprecedented move, the federal government will pay Canadian pork producers $50 million to kill off 150,000 of their pigs by the fall as the industry teeters on the brink of economic collapse.
The animals are being destroyed at slaughter plants and on pig farms in a bid to cull the swine breeding herd by 10 per cent…
Canadian Press, 14/4/08.
“It’s really a perfect storm,” says Schlegel, a hog farmer himself.
“I’m going to try to weather the storm,” he says. “We’ve been successful over 30 years … but we’re trying to reduce costs, we’re trying to buckle down and become more productive. We believe long-term that the hog business will be profitable.”
Schlegel says that is not the case for many other farmers who are facing three main obstacles. First is the unprecedented rise in the value of the Canadian dollar — now trading about par with the U.S. dollar — which means pork prices north of the border have halved. Meanwhile, feed prices have almost doubled, which Schlegel says is primarily due to ethanol demand and fuel policies. (Radio station NPR, 1/5/08).
Well, its because grain supply has been blasted and heading towards zero because of the ethanol criminal fraud. It’s a criminal fraud on a massive scale Australia’s Right supports, as one of their foghorn’s, Andrew Bolt, has made plain a number of times, and was implemented by their Rightwing heroes who stuffed the Howard Cabinet.
Bolt hears no evil, sees no evil, and speaks no evil because he is a propaganda tape recorded message for the scumbags behind a scheme that beats the also Green’s dictated ban on DDT for the sheer scale of the murderous scheme. What’s Tim Blair’s excuse?! Let’s not forget Kennett and his Rightwing buddies who, if they had their way, would have perpetrated this horrendous crime in the 1990’s, just to make Bolt’s buddies even wealthier by savaging Australians (oh, Timbo, crickets only disturb silence from you, and it’s broad daylight.)
Ah, should the scam be killed stone-dead, the Right have their fall back position, direct carbon taxes. A number of Rightwing thugs hope to enrich themselves to the tune of billions of dollars from these measures. Who can forget Hugh Morgan and his pal Ron Walker pushing for the federal Government to kill off capital in efficient, clean, coal based energy firms and shovel billions of dollars of stolen property into their bank vaults in the name of not efficient nuclear power (if it were efficient, entrepreneurial firms would build them on a genuinely free market basis).
There are also the likes of the CIS, in particular Mr. Yates and his interest in the Peony Company – based in China! The pseudo-business of this company is to rake in fortunes out of carbon taxes.
I’ve not heard Tim Blair attack the scumbags for their vicious actions against Australians. Types who claim to be ‘free market Liberals”. These are the scumbags Bolt acts for, and Blair persists in shielding, while attacking the hardcore Left for pursuing the same violent aims. But wait, there’s more joy in the morning:
Announced this morning: Rudd and his Cabinet have decided to literally cut power supply to all Australians
Rudd has announced a planned take-over of Australian coal based energy companies by an external major. Radio news reports this morning also related, this will drive up energy prices for Australians. Well, no, not on a free market basis, but the Rudd backed and planned takeover will do it. The reason it will punish Australian firms and consumers is:
The objective is to reform the Australian firms on the mercantilist definition of exchange, which ignoramuses equate with free trade. The ignoramuses are not all leftists. Many ignoramuses happen to be on the Right. Numbers of these treacherous ignoramuses happen to be Liberal MPs, and others recently retired Liberal MPs. These types, in the decade of the Howard Cabinet, pushed mercantilism. The objective is to dedicate power production to, guess whom, the regime Rudd sucks up to, the Peking Geriatric Buggery Club.
The plan is to cut supply of cheap, efficient coal generated electricity to Australians, and export the energy to Rudd’s ‘mastahs’ in Peking. That’s correct, readers, this is the grand mercantilist scheme Rudd has devised. Needless to say, and it’s a guess but a good one,there will be Rightwingers who will be in on it, to grab a slice of the billions of dollars to be stolen from Australians by the Rudd Cabinet by this fraud. After, all that’s what they are good at, aiding the hardcore Left in order to enrich themsleves by means that spell ruination for millions of Australians.
The great thing about this wheeze is, Rudd will be able to:
1. Blame a foreign company for the consequent misery it will cause.
2. Blame capitalists.
3. Blame free market economists.
To this wonderful political boon, he will be able to stir up the passions of Australians against large scale firms, and direct those passions into solid backing for what I was sure of long before he was flung into office. Rudd is a National Socialist and that is how he and his fellow dictators in Cabinet are proceeding, imposing an undiluted fascist regime. (However, the reality is, the following are to blame: the Right, their pals the Left and Kevin Rudd.)
Between the windmill fraud in Victoria, which the Right in Victoria also supports to the hilt, carbon taxes, and now this grand fascist plan Rudd has cooked up overnight, Australians are in deeper trouble than I had hitherto conceived. This is before contemplating the fact, the Left and the Right are driving towards totalitarianism - it’s just that Rudd has put the pedal to the metal and is shooting along at a few hundred miles an hour.
The Right also pump the Green lie Co2 causes no longer global warming but climate change. The mystics dropped “global warming” when this was killed stone dead by sound science, and seized on climate change. Right wing MPs pushed it when in Federal Cabinet, and they push it from the opposition benches of States’ and Federal Parlaiments. This is before we take into account their think tanks:
The CIS fully agrees with the lie, as their Humphreys’ position paper shows. The Rudd Cabinet is using their ‘case’ to justify the imposition of capital destruction via carbon taxes, which is also what the ethanol crimninal fraud is. It’s jsut that, in view of Rudd’s announcement, it will be effected far sooner than expected. I now await in anticipation for the forthcoming extravaganza: why killing efficient coal power production is economically good for Australians.
The IPA’s stance is to have a leg in both the Yay and the Nay camps. One thing it has done for some time now is to argue they can aid governments in imposing Kyoto compliant, capital smashing, immiserating ‘regulations’ the Right way. In view of Rudd’s declaration, I await their bumber extravaganza on why cutting off power the mercantilist way to Australian companies and millions of consumers is a good thing.
Spot, readers, another problem - oh darn, I only set it out during the last couple of days. Hmm let’s develop it further with another problem that follows, which is rooted in the Green cult of death and destruction and their Lie Co2 emissions cause climate change.
The lie is rooted in nothing more than a pack of primitive magical beliefs. A complete fraud, boosted by pseudo-scientists. However, the Green’s lie is a front for the real aim, the demolition of capitalism, thus free markets, and thus civilisation. Here’s a chap who forthrightly states this again, as so many have over very many years now - except the thugs of Australia’s Right:
The Left’s latest excuse for imposing totalitarianism on free men and women, Co2. This is being achieved through nationalism as opposed to patriotism, the subjugation of the individual. It is not only, for example, the Bracks-Brumby Cabinets who have imposed totalitarian measures. The Right when in office have through regulation overthrown real rights, and what is more, beaten the Nationalist drum, including that congenital idiot Peter Costello, who desires with all his heart, body and the peanut he has for a brain to chuck out Rudd so that he, instead, will emerge the triumphant Grand Pooh Bah in jackboots. Ah, this is what I’m looking for:
Rise of Nationalism Frays Global Ties,, The Wall Street Jounral:
During the long march toward globalization, international borders and trade barriers came down. Communism fell. Protectionist walls in Latin America and elsewhere were dismantled. Governments — long prone to meddling in trade — took a back seat to broader market forces…
No longer. The global economy appears to be entering an epoch in which governments are reasserting …
What was that the CIS is pushing again, ah yes, carbon taxes. They are oblivious to not only the fact it is dictated large scale capital destruction, but also to the fact it entails elimination of more property rights, subjugation of Australians, stripping them of their inalienable rights. Oh, you don’t have to take my word for it. Von Mises stressed this point, but here’s another gentleman making the same point:
1. The theoretical net benefits of a carbon tax (AGW cost reduction — reduction in output created by diverting behavior to activities that will produce less economic output) are not a free good. We have to “purchase” them with incremental compliance costs plus incremental deadweight loss that the political process might create. It is unknowable, but highly plausible, that in the expected case these would outweigh the theoretical benefits of the tax.
I do disagree with ‘theoretical benefit’. There is no theoretical benefit, for this assumes it’s rooted in sound scientific theory. It’s not, it’s root is belief in voodoo and magic. Apart from this, Mr. Manzi lists more reasons why the tax is a packet of nuclear missiles aimed at civilisation.
As for two ‘journalists’:
Bolt and Blair, they arethe media’s carboard cutout of an awesome duo. They fight for untruths, totalitarian plans and generally, screwing Australians, and protecting the bastards responsible for bringing about the current dangers, the Right, and joining in on the great game of smearing genuine Liberals. Well done – Ah:
Australians are being well done in, and the thugs who are really responsible for the fascist regime of Kevin “brown pants” Rudd, the Right. The Right, over ten years on the Treasury benches, did in delivering much of what the Greens’ demand. The Right, during that decade, and with other measures they rammed down that suit the hardcore Left, prepared the way for Rudd. They trumped their great efforts by flinging the little fat parasitic slob into office. With pals likes this lot, genuine Liberals don’t need other enemies but sadly, they are saddled with the official Leftist foe too.
As for Bolt, scientists shame him - they are making him appear a determined liar, noting that “A World Bank study has estimated that corn prices “rose by over 60 percent from 2005-07, ‘argely because of the U.S. ethanol program” combined with market forces”. Bolt likes invoking science against the Co2 lie per se, but not when it comes to what he is pushing, and he is deliberately ignoring economic analysis:
Food scientists say stop biofuels to fight world hunger
WASHINGTON - Some top international food scientists Tuesday recommended halting the use of food-based biofuels, such as ethanol, saying it would cut corn prices by 20 percent during a world food crisis.
But even as the scientists were calling for a moratorium, President Bush urged the opposite. He declared…
If leading nations stopped biofuel use this year, it would lead to a price decline in corn by about 20 percent and wheat by about 10 percent from 2009-10, said Joachim von Braun. He heads the International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington, the policy arm of CGIAR…
Another scientist, not associated with the group, agreed with their call for a halt on the use of grain for fuel.
What is shocking is watching a good man go off the rails and join the thugs crushing Australians, and deliberately starving millions more around the world:
Energy security is what Bush emphasized in his press conference. When asked about the conflict with world hunger and the rising cost of food at home, he said the high price of gasoline would “spur more investment in ethanol as an alternative to gasoline.
“And the truth of the matter is, it’s in our national interest that our farmers grow energy, as opposed to us purchasing energy from parts of the world that are unstable or may not like us,” Bush said.
Still, Bush said the international food crisis “is of concern to us” and said the U.S. government earlier this month added another $200 million in food aid.
Shocking, truly appalling, and so is Australia’s treacherous Right. Boy, are Bolt and Blair hot.
Note: I know Bolt was warned about the force of the ethanol criminal fraud 12 years ago. He chose to ignore it then and has steadfastly refused he was fully apprised of it. Now we know why he chose to ignore it, his Righwing mates.
Oh, and this:
Cuts of food supply in Australia now emerging :Australians facing food shortages
Spiralling food prices mean, for Bolt’s benefit, and his Rightwing pals, a cut in supply, which means a cut in production, and here it is:
Monthly grocery bill up $139
SOARING food prices have added $139 to the average family’s monthly shopping bill in the past year.
According to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures released yesterday, in three years bread prices have jumped 99c, or 39 per cent.
This is the beginning only of the obvious, spiralling reductions, matched by shooting prices.
Starvation is a real prospect, as well as capital destruction, now power and a fascist regime in place. Australians know who to blame, the Right. Remember this: it was these bastards who brought this fast developing hell about.