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Mexico Overtakes US As World's Fattest Country; Begins Regulating Food Consumption
Mayor Bloomberg's crusade to micromanage what New Yorkers put in their mouth has so far failed, but that just means the attempt to impose the first "New Normal" nanny state, in which individual calorie consumption is regulated for the greater good by the even greater government, has simply shifted its geographic location. In this case to Mexico, which according to the OECD has surpassed the US as the world's fattest country and is "notorious for its love of sweets, fried foods and pastries" and where as the WSJ reports, the lower House of Congress passed on Thursday a special tax on junk food that is seen as potentially the broadest of its kind, part of an ambitious Mexican government effort to contain runaway rates of obesity and diabetes.
Mexico's weight problem in context:
The WSJ reports on what can only be described as Mike Bloomberg's wet dream:
The House passed the proposed measure to charge a 5% tax on packaged food that contains 275 calories or more per 100 grams, on grounds that such high-calorie items typically contain large amounts of salt and sugar and few essential nutrients.
The tax, which was proposed just this week, is sure to stir controversy among big Mexican and foreign food companies that operate here. It comes on top of another planned levy on sugary soft drinks of 1 peso (8 U.S. cents) per liter that was passed by the same committee, an effort that New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg supported.
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The taxes—both aimed at curbing consumption—have broad political support and were expected to later be approved by the Senate as part of a sweeping tax overhaul. The snack food levy is part of a bigger tax proposal from President Enrique Peña Nieto which aims to raise the government's non-oil tax collections.
"This appears to be the most aggressive strategy anywhere in the world in recent years to improve diets via tax disincentives," said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington.
Some have already cast the blame: TV zombies and undereducated "fatsos."
"We're a country of malnourished fatsos," José Antonio Álvarez Lima, a former state governor turned newspaper columnist told Mexican political news website Animal Politico. He pegged part of the blame for Mexico's high consumption of soda and snacks on incessant TV advertisements and poor education.
Mexico's attempt to centrally-plan what's for dinner naturally was met with the adoration of not just Mayor Mike, but every government apparatchik desperate to justify their non-value adding exietsnce. Such as this one:
Harold Goldstein, executive director of the California Center for Public Health Advocacy, called Mexico a role model, saying that the measures could protect the health of consumers while also shielding the economy from productivity losses and runaway public health costs.
Of course, if the "measures" fail at doing all those magical things, the government can just swoop in and start regulating the economy and productivity next, just as the Fed has been doing in the US for the past 5 years, with absolutely disastrous results.
Which is not to say Mexicans aren't fat. As noted above, according to the OECD, the average Mexican is now fatter than the average American. Which means very, very fat.
Seven of 10 adults in Mexico, and a third of children, are either overweight or obese. Mexicans have now surpassed Americans for the title of the fattest country in the OECD, according to the organization.
All that fat has contributed to an alarming rise in chronic illnesses like adult-onset Type 2 diabetes, which afflicts an estimated 15% of Mexicans over the age of 20, the highest rate for any country with more than 100 million inhabitants. Illnesses related to excess weight cost the Mexican public health system more than $3 billion a year, according to the legislation.
On virtually every street corner in Mexico, makeshift stands sell the types of packaged items that will be taxed for the first time: potato chips, cookies, ice cream, fried corn chips, chocolates, candy, puddings and local sweets.
However, while those who revel in the government's intellectual superiority, despite the vivid example of every centrally-planned economy crashing and burning in due course, some are quick to point out that this latest plan to micromanage consumption is idiocy. First, the big food companies:
Mexican industrial chamber Concamin estimates that processed food companies targeted by the new tax employ thousands of Mexicans and account for 4.1% of GDP. "We can't allow last-minute taxes," said Concamin president Francisco Funtanet, suggesting that companies might cut back on personnel and investment to absorb the tax hit.
Raul Picard, a top official at Concamin and owner of a chocolate company, argued that vice taxes could lead to a proliferation in contraband goods of questionable origin, possibly posing a threat to public health.
"There's no such thing as junk food, just junk diets," said Felipe Gómez, head of a regional food makers' group in Jalisco state. Even so-called junk food has carbohydrates and calories that the body needs, Mr. Gómez argued.
But it's not just the big corporations that are skeptical. So are normal people with some common sense.
Some ordinary Mexicans said a tax was unlikely to change their eating habits much.
Héctor Ortega, a 45-year-old operator of a street stand in downtown Mexico City, predicted that consumers may pull back briefly when prices rise, but then return to their old habits.
"Just like the cigarettes, people will go back to their old habits," said Mr. Ortega. He said junk food was obviously unhealthy, but it was often the only thing that poorly paid office workers and students can afford. "This is a restaurant zone and the food here is expensive. For some people, these products are the only food available."
Fernando González, 24, an office worker who frequents Mr. Ortega's stand, is a big fan of sodas and gum, in particular. When the new prices kick in, he said, he won't give up on his favorites, but will probably buy less chips and candy.
"It's a craving, it's an addiction, it's something people enjoy," he said of Mexicans and their treats.
The biggest irony, of course, is that the government "of the people", in its very finite wisdom, will hurt those it supposedly cares about the most: the poor. Because the rich can afford to eat healthy. It is the poor who will merely have to pay more to satisfy their "food addictions."
Academics say the move could hurt the poor because they spend a greater percentage of their income on cheap, packaged foods, but added that doing nothing was worse.
Sure. Which is why America no longer has a drug (or gun) problem. Oh wait.
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Hi fructose corn syrup made with GMOs and put into most processed food is poison. Now eat UP, proles!
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"Sure. Which is why America no longer has a drug (or gun) problem."
Gun problem?
Ross Perot did say we would all hear a giant sucking sound if we signed off on NAFTA.
He didn't realize it would be fatties from the Yukon down to Mexico City and all points of America in between sucking down Big Gulps and Chalupas.
"Yo Quiero Taco Bell"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwvdmU36i5U
The head of the OECD, source of this report, is José Ángel Gurría, a member of Mexico’s Revolutionary Institutional Party who while serving as the Mexican Secretary of Foreign Affairs (1994–1997) negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and requested financial aid during the 1994 crisis. Central role in the Mexican peso crisis was played by then U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin (formerly co-chairman of Goldman Sachs) and Goldman Sachs.
In late 1995, Patrick Buchanan wrote "[n]ewly installed President Ernesto Zedillo said he needed the cash to pay off bonds held by Citibank and Goldman Sachs, lest the New World Order come crashing down around the ears of its panicked acolytes."[5] (Wikipedia)
The Vicente Fox administration nominated Gurría to lead the OECD in July 2005. On September 30, 2010, he was reappointed by the OECD to a second five-year mandate after his first term finished on June 1, 2011.
The Institutional Revolutionary Party is a Mexican political party that held power in the country—under a succession of names—for 71 years. The PRI is a member of the Socialist International, as is the rival Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD), making Mexico one of the few nations with two major, competing parties part of the same international grouping. (Wikipedia)
Dear JR,
And????
None of that has been meaningful in altering the epidemic of obesity. sometimes, rice
I had thought that maybe the problem was in the change-over to 'rogue' GMO corn that 'invaded' the Mexican corn fields, but there is not much real information that this is the case.
What I do know is that in traveling the campo and coasts of Mexico from 1980 to 1989----I never saw a fat farmer or fisherman, and I spent time with plenty of them. The same diet always; breakfast, lunch, and dinner---beans, corn tortillas, chiles, and sometimes, rice.
They were really healthy and strong people----haven't been back, but apparently things have changed.
The last time I was in Mexico, in the late 90s, I didn’t notice an obesity problem, either, Otto, which makes me wonder about the report, which is why I was expounding on the global connectedness and PC of the OECD.
Perhaps many children in the U.S., Mexican and otherwise, are gaining weight because of lack of a home life in that their mothers are forced to work, especially single mothers, and/or prefer a career. Many children no longer go home for noon meals, they skip the school lunches (I take it few bring their lunches in public schools) and head for a nearby fast food restaurant either with money from their parents or welfare largesse, and then arrive to a dark home in the late afternoon, only to snack and watch television with the doors locked until their parents (parent) arrive.
A lonely existence, I’d say – a time that once was the happiest and most carefree experience of many a person’s life. Perhaps the little folks are compensating for their lack of family life, by eating.
Thanks, JR,
For an excellent reply!
Your point is well taken because the change has come over a single generation. Maybe, it is all of the above plus a bunch of unknowns---as yet to-be-discovered.
I love Mexico and yet did not end up there because I did not want to play an eternal macho game with the Mexicans as a gringo.
Thanks again
"Sure. Which is why America no longer has a drug (or gun) problem. Oh wait."
WTF ?
That's precisely it. This is a food education issue. This is not going to be solved with higher taxes. Tax crack cocaine--people will still smoke it. People have to learn the dangers not just of HFCS and high gluten wheat in everything we eat but also the dangers of eating a diet consisting almost entirely of cooked foods which is common in Norther Mexico, the southeastern part of the US and states like Hawaii. The cuisine of Southern Mexico in contrast is much different, much more like Cuba where people eat raw vegetables, plantains, black high fiber beens etc., and generally stay away from the processed foods common in the cities. Not surprisingly people there are much healthier and thinner. But northern Mexico is a disaster and they brought their terrible eating habits to the soutwest US. Go into your typical taqueria and look at the menu. Everything, and I mean everything is either cooked or fried or pickled. OK, maybe you can get a raw radish from the salsa bar, but that's about it. Eating this kind of diet will make you as big as a barn. It doesn't matter how much you exercise.
Ever notice how the fattest people are in the poorest neighborhood. I'm not talking big boned, I mean these people are fat as fuck, embarrassingly so (embarrassing to me as they don't seem to have any shame)
Obama is such a fuckin retard. If you pay people to not work and sit at home and eat all day you're going to have a fat problem.
Whatever, more welfare. Watching our society slowly decay under his leadership has been quite a spectacle.
Pass da Potatoes!! And da Donuts!!
Supposedly SNAP (the word for dead beat) means supplemental nutrition assistance program.
Bullshit nutrition. I see fat fucks buying candy, soda, hot dogs, etc. With deadbeat stamps you should only be able to buy vegtables and bottled water and meat once a week.
I think I read somewhere a long time ago that the largest sales of Twinkies were in inner city environs purchased on SNAP/EBT cards.
no bottled water and I would agree
"Pass da Potatoes!! And da Donuts!!"
Fuck that....we don't have time to fix both....or even eat one at a time.
I've invented the Donatoe. Donut on the outside.....creamy Idaho Golden on the inside.....with a bonus.....it's been injected with butter as well with a GMO High Fructose Glaze on the outside.
Krispy Kreme's got their Hot Fresh Now sign lit.....go get one NOW !!!!
Better yet....don't even get out of your chair....even if you can. We'll just drone one over to you 5 minutes after your order by phone or e-mail.....just leave the window open.
HFCS, and McDonalds.
By selling corn based processed fast food, they develope liver disease and diabetes, as it occurs slowly and to pretty much
everyone at the same time, it's perceived as normal.
In the third world the poor are skinny, in the US, the poor are obese.
"Obama is such a fuckin retard. If you pay people to not work and sit at home and eat all day you're going to have a fat problem."
Do you really think O gives a fuck? It's quite clear that he does not care about America one fucking bit.
+1 billion.
I can't believe those figures below. Unreal.
Seven of 10 adults in Mexico, and a third of children, are either overweight or obese.
I made the mistake of going into a Wal Mart aka EBT nirvana. Haysus Christo! It is like a mix of a weird zombie and Fellini movie. So F'ed up! Aisles and aisles of processed food filled with corn syrup, GMO and other poisons.
It is weird as shit because it was 10:30 at night and it was packed. Mostly people buy food. Do they charge up the EBT cards at the first of the month and the middle of the month.
I mean WTF! Wal Mart would have been a ghost town last night if it wasn't for EBT. Do these people just sit and watch TV until 10 pm and then run out to shop.
I never go to f***in WMT.
They did have some .223 but guns frighten me.
Well as they say, you can't have your cake and eat it too........
mexico bans GMO corn effective immediately:
this is huge:
http://www.nationofchange.org/mexico-bans-gmo-corn-effective-immediately...
Mark my words. The judge will somehow have a tragic accident, or be moved somewhere else. It will be overturned at some point. Monsanto, the fucking crooks that they are, have way too many connections that some peon obscure judge in Mexico has any teeth in this decision.
Sorry, it's going to take more than one judge in a country rife with corruption to change the way a crooked ass fucked up outfit like Monsanto does business.
Remember the fertilizer company that blew up in Texas right after the Boston Marathon false flag? Who were they in a nasty lawsuit with? Monsanto.
NSA Hacked Email Account of Mexican President - SPIEGEL ONLINE
I think obesity should be the last thing on Obungas <divide & conquer> agenda... Nice work TOTUS, you've managed to alienate most of Latin Americas' leaders.
Try the whole bloody world.
A great exercise is to spend a day... that's right, turn off the telly, no drugs or booze, just read... the offshore press... from all over the world.
The perceptions of the US are pretty ... I'm not even sure of the word or words to use... less than flowery, rotten, hateful,deeply disappointing, sorry ass disgusting and spiteful.... and not because of our freedoms, but our fiefdoms
And that's way down the drain from the low level of W.
@ knukles
I hope to make your aquaintance in the near future. If you had chosen teaching as a profession, this country would be running a(real) TIC surplus! Good on you and your family Knuks ;-)
64OZ Super Gulp
Donuts
tacos
Ice Cream
Sopapillas, Chingaso.
Exporting fat to MX USSA USSA USSA
Nice
Well I guess the mega food corps are going to have to find new markets to peddle their nutritionless quazi-food crap.
This is ultimately the crux of the problem. For thousands of years Mexicans living on their native foods, heavy on maize, have never had a over weight issue. If they return to it, I suspect their problem will end. Unfortunately they are now hooked to our GMO "food" that is as addictive as crack. And our corporations certainly like it that way.
Miffed;-)
Trillions of dollars made on making and keeping a billion people sick ...
Well Hulk, if we happen to get the opportunity, I will gladly carry away heads and clean up if you load the assholes on the guillotines.
Sorry I just slaughtered 7 turkeys and 18 chickens the other day and the gore is still fresh in my mind. Named each one a bankster before beheaded.
Miffed;-)
Sounds like to me you are primed and ready to take some heads !!!
But due to budgetary problems, there will be no guillotines, so swords it is !!!
SV30 Steel Bitchez !!!
I'm in! Mr Miffed did some with his machete. Nice quick kill. At least we don't have to pluck the bastards. Coyotes can have the meat...if theyd eat it.
Miffed;-)
We can just mix them in with my humanure compost pile, that way we are assured that every pathogen in their dieseased brains is killed off !!!
Well, don't that sound fitting! Diseased brains soaking in shit. Truly, the most just end for the bastards. You are right. I hadn't thought of those poor coyotes health. ;-)
Miffed;-)
Is it because the only people left in Mexico are the ones too fat to fit through the hole in the fence?
Or they put the U-Haul over its weight limit.
Fatties can't hike 300+ miles through mountainous desert terrain.
They no need wory, Obama will soon comandeer the railroads and send them to US via cattle cars.
Got Dependants? Got Lifelong Voters!!!
I wonder how much this has to do with NAFTA. When this trade agreement was passed, USA subsidized corn was allowed free access to the Mexican market. This flooded cheap corn and corn syrup into the Mexican food processing markets. The US delivers mass subsidies to corn growers, and after NAFTA this government subsidized grain and syrup was free to flow to Mexican markets. This did one thing, it destroyed the small Mexican grain farmers, who get no government cash for growing corn. Unlike Americans, the Mexican farmer was subject to a free market, and he was destroyed. Thus many small farmers made for Mexico City or the USA.
But now perhaps we see another side effect of USA's corn exports under NAFTA. As the product is heavily government subsidized by US taxpayers, the US farmers can flood it at cheap prices into Mexico. Food processors can increase the bottom line by filling processed foods with masses of cheap corn fillers and corn syrups. I suspect, that this stuff is making Mexican children fat and this carries on into adulthood. Especially corn syrup, which is dirt cheap and put into nearly every processed food and drink.
My guess is that NAFTA not only destroyed the honest, capitalistic, free market Mexican farmer. But is also destoying the health of the Urban food consumers of Mexico. A double hit on Mexican society. Thanks to US Soviet Agricultural Subsidies. It really is the USSA. Communistic to the core. And as in the USSR, US Soviet Communism is destroying the honest Mexican small farmer. How ironic that we lecture Mexico about economics, when their honest free market is killed by the US Soviet Agricultural System, flush will billions of our taxpayer's money.
The US is a communist system. It even has the mass spy network that all communists so dearly love and worship. USSA!
I think you are spot on JB. Its stunning how ruinous fraud, corruption and greed are...
To protect us from fraud, corruption and greed is why centrally planned societies/economies where created. No?
And yet even the small farmer in the US is getting crushed by low prices and driven off the land. This is by design.
Of course Monsanto is raking it in, and they have no problem owning the land (at any price as they're in it for the long-haul) and allowing sharecroppers (today's seasonal workers) to do the work that robots cannot yet do.
No longer are we a country of independent Yeomen, beholden only to our land, our families, and the respect and trust of our neighbors.
Monsanto is pure fucking evil...
Damn, I knew I shoulda called myself Pure Fucking Evil!
Its never too late to change PE !!!
ADM aka Corn Syrup Inc. owns The (corrupt) Senate. Ever see a line of of cars on a freight train? ADM ship corp syrup in these big tanker rail cars on trains.
http://www.adm.com/en-US/company/Facts/Pages/default.aspx
They own 26,900 rail cars and each one holds 17,600 gallons of corn syrup and other sweetners which are all ***king acids anyway.
But...
We're still #1 in:
- prison population per capita
- drug consumption
- debt per capita
- delusions of "exceptionalism"
- military spending
- bailouts
#1 at being #23 in math and science
Yet the US still manages to have most of the top 10 Ivy league Universties in the entire World? Perception managers, truth or what?
Don't be nanny state fags, look it up and prove me wrong.
Can I get a list of Universities to argue my point or are we a bunch of disillusioned bitches.
We're a bunch of delusioned bitches. Ivy League schools are nothing but grade inflated social networks.
If you want to know why the country is so fucked up then querey the educational backgrounds of all the top governmental and wall street people.
Case in point. Obama is an Ivy Leaguer.
Ivy League schools have become a haven of Marxist/Globalist ideology. I know exactly why my country and most of the Western world has become so fucked up over the last 60 yrs.
The delusion of Globalism, multiculturalism, AKA modern liberalism. Old school Fabian Socialists working under the new "progressive" label.
Still no challenge to my statement of fact. Where's Lola? She always plays along.
Perfect gift for Obama.
http://www.newser.com/story/176155/titanic-violin-fetches-3-times-more-t...
Ijole!
"the only thing that poorly paid office workers and students can afford." - this is an old saw, but thoroughly refuted several times over; shame people still believe stupid shit like this in the 21st century.
wow! El Gordo on its way to become Sumo wrestling champion !!
i want a Taco-Hell franchise to feed los cochinos... -lol
oink
Ay que rico esas tortillas! Come mierda Bernanke!!!
Speak English!!!!!!
I never press 1. I just wait for the next available representative from India. But I'm happy, we're still NO. 1 In the rest of the world you have to press 69 for English bitches!
I used to sort of care, now I don't. I see them as future renters, uneducated, little or no threat. The negroes and the whites around here in No. Ca. are as bad as the beaners; spraddle-legged, enormous hindquarters like barnyard animals, nylon pants rubbed through at the crotch, sideboobs wobbling down the aisle. Many 50-somethings are already taking to the go-carts ("Hey, these things are great! Gotta bad back yah know") which will serve nicely to atrophy their torso and lower extremities. Immobile, abject losers at this phase in the general decline. A walking symbology. I will spend the rest of my life battling to keep my $ from being used to subsidize the disaster that their Golden Years will be.
The wetbacks have gorditas built into the acceptance corral in their culture. A gorda ass is more or less ok there, particularly among the lower class. Here in the U.S. we are being conditioned to be more accepting; again particularly within the working poor. Has anyone done a correlation study of income to fat? Or education to fat? Very very few professionals let themselves totally go. Funny how that works.
There is more than enough data for U.S. peeps to realize what they are doing to themselves; and even if they can't / won't read it, do they not find themselves a little hard to bear that way?
Some do, and they get my respect out there on the track doing their best to lose it. They get frustrated because they forget exercise is only one leg on the stool - the other 2 being diet and rest.
But I'm a natural ectomorph, so it is easy for me to talk. My excesses and perversions are hidden away.
You're forgetting race and heredity which have a great deal to do with diabetes and the ability to metabolize carbohydrates. Our changing demographics are an important reason why America is statistically getting fatter. And before anybody says it, yes, I'm aware that there are many fat white Americans.
But I'm a natural ectomorph, so it is easy for me to talk.
I am a natural xenomorph. I used to live in Jersey but I moved to LV-426.
I sometimes look around at the sidewalk labor pool, you know, the illegals standing around the lowes etc.. parking lots at 6 in the morning demanding $18/hr to mow your fucking lawn, and I say to myself "wow, those guys look well fed".
You know the ones, when you offer $15/hr cash they turn their backs and walk over to their friends and say some words and then no one talks to you anymore. You know...
It's either the beer or the buritto shells or their genetics but those guys are about the same here in USA.
Last time I was down in Mexico was before 9/11 and the narco-war. It was already a corrupt and fucked up country back then. You would literally see shacks made out of whatever people could scrounge up just a few short blocks away from fucking castles. Then they got cartels fucking shit up, the US Government running guns to the cartels, and now they have surpassed the US as fatasses. They just cannot win. It's too bad, becuase there are some very warm and decent Mexicans that don't deserve that shit.
When I was walking back across the border, there wasn't anybody checking anything while we were walking down this long corridor. Somebody finally wheeled out of their office about 30 yards from us and said "Y'all American citizens?" to which we replied "Yup!" and as he was wheeling back in, he said "OK, have a nice day!" I haven't even attempted to go down there since 9/11, but I guarantee that border crossing is staffed with thugs now. The town also wound up with some heads on pikes right in front of the church since then because of the cartels trying to take control. Both the US and Mexico have fallen quite far since those days.
Third world immigration, a major part of it illegal, has changed the profile of the average American, from social and political aspects to food preferences to cultural body shape.
Enter the Manipulators. Never mind, of course, the physical and cultural ethnic differences.
Manipulation brings the communist to the table. And speaking of manipulation no one holds a candle to George Soros. And, in this case, on Mexican immigration, George Soros uses his money to manipulate the masses.
His latest is his upcoming Fly-In media trick to bring Republican “conservatives" into Washington, D.C., to help the Democrats and establishment Republican congressmen pass amnesty for millions of illegal Mexicans.
Amnesty could bring the number of Mexicans in the U.S. to anywhere from 64 to 83 million.
Nationwide, already the number of documented Hispanics in the U.S. has grown to 53 million, or nearly one-half the current population of Mexico, 115 million as of 2012.
The Leftist media will cover the event as if it were an actual grassroots effort showing how limited the Republican opposition to amnesty really is, which of course isn’t the case.
The George Soros-funded National Immigration Forum (NIF) is organizing the “fly-in” lobby effort with the help of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us, and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Partnership for a New American Economy.
The event on October 28 is to coincide with President Barack Obama’s and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s renewed push against House Speaker John Boehner for amnesty.
Demographic warfare in America , brought about primarily by more than 100 years of Jewish effort, culminated in the U.S. 1965 Immigration Act designed to end America’s white European ethnicity, limiting U.S. immigration to a Third World influx, so as, in the words of its Jewish authors, to make America "safe" for their people. It's final goal was collectivism, world government.
When there’s no truth with a capital “T.” then the system called communism seizes the void and the despots take over.
KeyWiki shows Soros’ connections with the KGB while in Hungary, then his connections with Communism through the years, his felony conviction in France, his work as a former director of CFR, his proclaimed atheism, how he made his money and where he’s putting it, the scandals with his ex-wives and girlfriends... and progresses to his current activities.
KeyWiki, a site that profiles Leftist activists, includes this in its Soros profile:
The Seven Steps of Collapse
Soros is known as the man who broke the Bank of England. The prime minister of Malaysia called Soros an "unscrupulous profiteer." In Thailand, he was branded an "economic war criminal." They also said that he sucks the blood from people.
In 1994, George Soros stated: "Just right that the former Soviet Empire is now called the Soros Empire."
The following are George Soros' seven steps for bringing down a regime and causing a currency collapse:
George Soros
http://www.keywiki.org/index.php/George_Soros
George Soros - Affiliations
http://keywiki.org/index.php/George_Soros_-_Affiliations
http://www.digitaljournal.com/blog/9525
http://www.iacenter.org/folder04/kosovo_mines2.htm
Those seven steps sound remarkably familiar, you could almost swear they were written by a fringe republican.
Soros is trying to collapse the US before he croaks. He's in a hurry.
Sue Ellen would be proud of you if I remember the soap opera that made texan hubris the tequila sunrise of Reagan's reign; not that Soros is not at par with the K bros today.
But why choose between predatory oligarchs by creating a FALSE HIERARCHY of lefty oligarchs vs righty oligarchs?
The issue today is between the people and the aristocratic oligarchs who manipulate in total impunity, both left and right handed, and who represent 50% of the nation's riches all tax free when they are less than 1% of the population. And it gets worse by the day!
What happened to the spirit of a nation built on sacrifice and common cause; not George III and contempt of the small guy?
As for illegal immigration, if the rich nations didn't RAPE the poor nations to extract their riches in total immunity we could have created a community where Mexico would be rich enuff to make living there viable for the wretched and forgotten. But when the Mafias of the third world are organised to feed the lazy hubris of new Rome and be slaves in their own lands, then you ask for the worse instincts of man to resurface. The drug cartels and the Oil oligarchs rape the nation of Mexico both ways.
We reap what we sow. Its the rich that create the MIND SET that runs the world; never the OTHER way round. Thats the lesson of old Rome and its successors.
Dallas is the name of a city that soap opera symbolically villified for its hubris, all too reminiscient of DC today; like the events of Dec 22 1963; not that the average Dallasite had anything to do with it.
Casanova was an honest guy who incarnated a natural urge to its extreme; JR was more perverse if I remember my soap opera right!
No ressemblance to avatars and living persons intended, but its worth remembering in the current meltdown.
Not that I attach any importance to it beyond making a story out of it. Either you cut off both hands or you don't cut off either; that's my point. Either way its gonna be painful.
Communism is the Left. When criminals the likes of George Soros take over your country, it’s time to label it and dissect it. And you know what? It’s time to talk about Semitism since so much of the communist movement from Lenin to the teachings of Marx to the takeover of the US financial system has been precipitated by Jewish families.
And it is clear that early and late Jewish philosophy actually supports the tenets of open borders and world communism – a one-world government.
The appeal to the masses and mob rule has not only created this immense immigration problem but it has accelerated socialism and the welfare society in America. And this appeal is synonymous with the goals of global communism, certainly not to be confused with the dreams of America’s Founders and their Declaration of Independence.
Anyone familiar with North American labor and resource problems knows that the Mexican people crossing the border are not doing it because they would rather be in the United States than in Mexico. Because of the international bankers and the corporations who put a premium on low wages and low fringe benefits--who made a deal with Mexico’s and America’s corrupt governments--Mexicans are forced to leave a homeland and a culture that they love. Mexico is favored with abundant natural resources and willing labor and most any Mexican would rather have his culture, his friends and his community than to move into a new situation with a new language and new trials.
Unfortunately, for everyone involved, Mexican laborers are being used to force American workers to accept lower wages and/or unemployment, while America’s banker/corporation system begins to mirror Mexico’s corrupt government, both now using workers as pawns.
These international corporations could have gone to Mexico to develop a free enterprise system with an emphasis on freedom, instead they chose to put both America and Mexico and the world on the road to serfdom, rather than put all on America's old road to prosperity.
Zapatista leader Subcomandante Marcos in his essay "The Fourth World War Has Begun" that originally appeared in Le Monde Diplomatique in September of 1997 documents the link between globalization and bank fraud, . Here is a brief excerpt from Marcos in an article on Zero Hedge by JS Kim:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/startling-link-between-globalisation-and-bank-fraud
Each day the big finance centres impose their laws on countries and groups of countries all around the world. They re-arrange and re-order the inhabitants of those countries. ...
The objective of neoliberalism’s migration policy is more to destabilise the world labour market than to put a brake on immigration. The fourth world war - with its mechanisms of destruction/depopulation and reconstruction/reorganisation - involves the displacement of millions of people. Their destiny is to wander the world, carrying the burden of their nightmare with them, so as to constitute a threat to workers who have a job, a scapegoat designed to make people forget their bosses, and to provide a basis for the racism that neoliberalism provokes…
With the beginning of the fourth world war, organised crime has globalised its activities. The criminal organisations of five continents have taken on board the "spirit of world cooperation" and have joined together in order to participate in the conquest of new markets. They are investing in legal businesses, not only in order to launder dirty money, but in order to acquire capital for illegal operations. Their preferred activities are luxury property investment, the leisure industry, the media - and banking....
One of its first victims has been the national market. Rather like a bullet fired inside a concrete room, the war unleashed by neoliberalism ricochets and ends by wounding the person who fired it. One of the fundamental bases of the power of the modern capitalist state, the national market, is wiped out by the heavy artillery of the global finance economy. The new international capitalism renders national capitalism obsolete and effectively starves their public powers into extinction. The blow has been so brutal that sovereign states have lost the strength to defend their citizens’ interests. ... (end)
What is George Soros but a criminal of world magnitude?
So you would misuse the word "Commie" to taint an aristocrat of the Capitalist system who has made all his money and fame par excellence playing on the "greed is good " Mantra of Reaganomics age. He is a Gordon Gekko. He is the quintessence of an aristocratic order that believes he his above the law. Royal criminality is his way of life as for Squid and Dimon.
How can anybody of your intelligence bandy words like "commie" to describe what the US elites have become of which he is an outstanding stalwart?
We are hurtling, since NWO accelerated under Clinton/Bush and now OBama, into the age of a new Aristocracy of plutocrats. A Romanoff, a Windsor is NOT a COMMIE. Dimon, Bernanke, the Squid cabal and Soros are not commies by any stretch of the imagination no more than the Bshes or the Sauds.
How can you confuse a commie with an Aristocrat. You are debasing the historical thread. The fact that Kings and Commie despots end up using the state is an evidence. But they do it from opposite ends of the social spectrum.
America is now full blown run by the sons of Goerge III, of which George Soros is a true son like all those others.
A true commie was Ho chi Minh; popular leader and patriot in his own ideological value system, like was Mao.
Soros has as much in common with Ho chi Minh as Jane Fonda had with a black pyjama'd vietcong peasant woman!
Lets put the logic and historical reference on its feet not on its head!
American capitalists now leaning on state are not socialists they are royalists! Bilderberger NWO royalists.
It’s a shame Soros might never have a chance to read your reply; what a soup mixture of isms, titles, et cetera… but an aristocrat?
No, the truth is, Soros is a communist.
He does what communists do; he uses the masses to fulfill his desire to rule. He is Lenin with the advantages of knowing the owners of the Federal Reserve personally.
He neither toils nor spins, he takes. He’s not a capitalist, and he’s not the son of monarchs. He is the son of thieves. He got where he is by stealing and lying and preaching the Communist mantra of a classless society. What son of a monarchy would flood his country with illegal workers to the disadvantage of his people; what aristocrat would work to destroy his own nation?
Here are just some of the groups Soros’ billions fund: Acorn; America Coming Together; America Votes; the American Constitution Society, a left-wing legal activist group working to change our nation's laws and approaches towards law enforcement; the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, funding prostitution, homosexuality, contraception, abortion, etc.; Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, quasi-Catholic liberal group diametrically opposed to Catholic Church teachings; Catholics United, an organization of dissenting Catholics which has received a hefty amount of funding from Soros, has announced that it will dedicate $500,000 to a campaign designed to promote the reelection of Democrats who helped to push through the massive healthcare reform bill. They also condone abortion and illegal immigration; The Center for American Progress is a Soros funded think tank with deep ties to the White House; the Center for Public Integrity, headed by former CBS News producer…...the Council on Foreign Relations.; the Democracy Alliance which has contributed $20 million to activist groups such as ACORN, supports immigration and the Democrat Party and creates pressure from the left to keep its “issues on the legislative radar”; the Group of Thirty; the Institute for Policy Studies (a Soros funded affiliate) that has urged President Obama to rule by Executive Order; the International Center for Global Communications Foundation "toward the launch of Media Channel, the first global media and democracy supersite on the Internet; Jewish Funds for Justice funded by Soros' Open Society Institute to transform society and "create a more just world” and promote "green" jobs, immigration reform and Obama's health-care bill; JStreet, an organization "founded to change the dynamics of American politics and policy on Israel and the Middle East; Jeffrey Sachs and his “strong commitment to universalist ethical principles and fiscal re-distribution” - Sachs has basically outlined the Soros agenda as the reduction of the United States to a subservient milking cow for global socialism; $3 million to the Center for American Progress, $2.5 million to MoveOn.org and $20 million to America Coming Together - groups working to support Democrats in the 2004 election --- and many more at KeyWiki George Soros- Afflications. But let me end with:
Open Society Institute
In 1993, Soros created the Open Society Institute, which supports the Soros foundations working to develop democratic institutions throughout Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.[26] …
The Open Society Institute (OSI), serves as the flagship of a network of Soros foundations that donate tens of millions of dollars each year to a wide array of individuals and organizations that share Soros' agendas. Those agendas can be summarized partially as follows:[27]
Richard Poe writes, "Through his global web of Open Society Institutes and Open Society Foundations, Soros has spent 25 years recruiting, training, indoctrinating and installing a network of loyal operatives in 50 countries, placing them in positions of influence and power in media, government, finance and academia."
http://keywiki.org/index.php/George_Soros_-_Affiliations
The Koch brothers are RINO NWOs. They were not in all the former eastern European, ex-Soviet and Baltic states like Soros and his ilk. The same people who also took over Russia from the Czar.
As an part-time resident in Kalifukya, I can say that there are many good Mexicans that work their asses off, and own businesses.
They are just as peeved as the rest of us, knowing how hard they had to work for their CITIZENISM. < Note the emphasis on citizenism<
Subsidizing food.
http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/dnpao/policy/nutrition.html
The Honourable Ann Bressington exposes the hidden agenda of the Club of Rome, UN Agenda 21, population control and world government.
luckily where I live there is this incedible thing called the french paradox.
But for Mexico to have overtaken the hyperconsumer country in terms of "GREASE" is a double whammy : being a third world country and being Capo of the Obese!
The French Paradox is easy to explain: QUALITY of food and eating culture
"Mireille Guiliano, author of the 2006 bestseller French Women Don't Get Fat, ... explains the key factors to the French's ability to stay slim as:
- Smaller portion sizes
- Savoring food to increase the feeling of satisfaction, choosing a small amount of high quality food rather than larger amounts of low quality food
- Eating 3 meals a day and not snacking
- Taking in plenty of liquid such as water, tea and soup
- Sitting down and eating mindfully (no multitasking and eating while standing up, watching TV, or reading)
- Emphasizing freshness, variety, balance, and, above all, pleasure"
I've been to France 4 times and always lose weight without even trying. What you also didn't point out is eating slowly. Most French dinners contain an appetizer, main course and dessert. The meals I had were roughly 1/3 the average size portion in USA today. Once you receive the appetizer, your main meal wont come for quite a while. Americans claim this is poor service. It is not. The French believe you need time to savor your food and enjoy the company around your table. Eating is an EVENT in France. By the time you finish your dessert you are presently satiated, not hungry nor stuffed.
Once my husband and I went to dinner at 9pm in Paris. We were laughing and talking and happened to notice the restaurant was empty. It was 2:30 am! We apologized to the proprietor for staying so late and he said they close when the last patron leaves. We were obviously having a great time and he wasn't going to disturb us. When you eat at home you get the feeling of being rushed so they can fill the tables quickly and make more money. Mindless frantic eating basically sums up the average meal in USA.
Miffed;-)
Next time you are in France, this restaurant is a must
http://www.ferme-hospital.com/
Its about 10 minutes outside of Geneva and the food is like nothing I have ever experienced !!!
Oh dear Lord! Coffret Bon Cadeau Couple. Sounds absolutely Devine! Great food, great wine, fabulous sex....what fantastic memories. God I'd love to go back. Mr Miffed requests you quit feeding my, as he put it, hedonistic Succubus-like, sensual-loving qualities. He gets less work done and we always go off budget. ;-)
Miffed;-)
LOL ! Well, tell Mr miffed that if he doesn't have the time and money...
Italy also has some good culinary traditions ... with also good health's results
And Japan too, as they generally don't eat meat, but fishes !
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/hea_obe-health-obesity
I was in the French countryside this summer. The quality of your food is simply incredible. The pastures in Switzerland and France were the best I have ever seen, by far, and that is where the quality begins. All Flesh is grass...
Mexican mestizos and Indians are likely genetically similiar to American Indian tribes of the Southwest who also have very high obsesity and diabetes rates. They just don't handle a western diet very well but with people all shopping at Walmart they are going to eat the food that is sold at the store.
They also share the traits of being poor and under stress, a noted factor in obesity for several reasons some chemical, some psychological.
I have no idea why you would be downvoted for that comment. Stress does in fact cause a chemical reaction in the body.
Stress causes the endocrine system to release cortisol which causes insulin resistance and suppresses glycogen production resulting in weight gain, particularly in the torso. (belly and hips)
Indians also do not supposedly break down the enzymes or something in alcohol. I am not sure if Irish or Scottish have any types of genetic issues with alcohol. I knew a Peruvian guy who was very nice. The poor guy could not handle any alcohol. The Peruvian people have a major indian background or genetic makeup. Sad stuff.
I wonder if they have the same issues with sugars especially corn syrup crap.
Wasn't the globalist trying to merge Mexico with the US? NAFTA is still active.
With the help of the Federal Reserve's US dollar monetization program they'll get it to become the peso.
Now similar nutrition and health.
Now let's play everyone's favorite game: "who made your car?".
Vive Napoleon! Vote the Polk / Dallas Ticket!
Looks like Mexico doesn't measure the poor, too. Otherwiise median obesity would be somehow lower - they don't have foodstamps.
No, they have rebel guerillas instead.
Junk food is mostly what the poor people can afford to eat. So they are taxing the poor. What else is new.
Ever have to sleep in a room with a fat person? Oh my god. I woke up one night in an RV down in Glamas while doing some quad racing and I swear it sounded like I was in a room full of elephant seals. The vehicle shook whenever these (2) two hundred fifty pounders breathing got in sync. I had to take my sleeping bag and sleep outside.
Oh I know what else is new. I heard on Coast to Coast am last night that Mexico banned GMO foods and began restricting Monsanto pesticides.
Why is it that the most corrupt and lawless governments are the first to regulate honest citizens eating habits while not caring if they are robbed and murdered?
Could this be a trend? Who will be the next black hearted racket boss to impose diets on the masses?
Ay, yi, yi, yi, for Pedro another Burrito
He's big and he's fat and likes it like that
As he chases it down with tequila!
Well, don't sell sell the Amerikan public short on this; give 'em a little more time now that Twinkies are back on the shelf from bankruptcy. Any trip to a local WalMart on the weekend should convince you there are plenty of overweight sheeple ready to gain even more weight. God those 88 cent generic cupcakes are good.
http://vegasxau.blogspot.com
Send Bloomberg to Mexicali!
He'll be a big hit, I'm sure (pun intended)
I'm off to "hand spin" a Mexican pizza. Gotta dice some onions and Jalapeños...
If you could completely ween yourself from processed sugar,
And completely ween yourself from Television and mass media,
Spend your time in contemplation, study of the arts and sciences and the martial arts,
Practice compassion for every living being yet wield the sword of discrimination,
Then you could call truly call yourself a Citizen of the world.
The world would be a better place.
The level of obesity is directly linked to education. "Smart" countries have low levels of obesity.
It has NOTHING to do with poverty since in "smart" countries even the poor know how to feed themselves. It's actually the lower and lower middle classes that are obese, often living on benefits or having dead-end jobs and no drive to educate themselves or to have a professional social life.
No law or tax will ever stop people from becoming fat. What you need to bring back is education, or maybe better said, civilization...
Of course this will take a generation, or two, and the drive of a people, a country to stick together and build civilization. Highly individualized countries like the US and the UK are lost in this respect...
Damn, the USA is 1st in everything. This is unacceptable. We must take back whats ours.
Fatties Away !
Fat Fuck Chris Christie: "You can't be too thin or too rich, or too fat with too much power"
Gov. Christie's head may sink below his belt line in the 2-legged pool he swishes around in and drown in his own flesh. The chubby fingers can rise up and support the GOV sign that Wm. J. Lepetomane used in 'Blazing Saddles' (1974). He's got the power, but he uses it on you, not himself.
I been saying here for long time that the US weight problem is real, but is skewed by several factors, including our illegal aliens. It's their diet. This was well known in southern Texas 10 years ago with our hospitals doing outreach to get them to take the lard out of refried beans, etc.
The data could be further skewed by the baby boomer demographic naturally getting older and fatter due to aging process -- drop in growth hormone and testosterone.
Contributing US factors of concern besides being lazy pigs: hyperglycemic index GMO foods that are now everywhere and female hormones from birth control pills that are in our water supply. This latter is well known but kept under the radar and blamed on plastic bottles. Male fertility and sperm counts are way down in Western countries, and it's also affecting fish and other aquatic species. Denmark did a good study looking into huge drops in male sperm counts but quickly scrubbed the data when they realized they'd opened a can of worms.
For one river in the UK, they are talking about spending 2 billion on getting the birth control hormones out of the local water supply because they are worried about the hermaphroditic fish that kept popping up with subsequent fish population dropping. Not one word was mentioned in the artcle about any concerns about what it could be doing to the people who drink the water.
Estrogens from birth control pills are not the only source contaminating our water ways. Cattle in CAFOS are giving continuous amounts of estrogen to fatten them. If you can stand the stench, go to one and you will see vials of female hormones attached to their necks. Not only do these animals urinate these hormones that get into the water supply, but you eat estrogen laden meat.
There is no way to adequately eliminate these hormones from drinking water. Boiling is ineffective. Reverse osmosis does the best I have read but not 100%. This is an extreme environmental problem that many seem not to be paying attention. Excess estrogens cause cell proliferation and therefore increases cancer rates. Girls are going into puberty at younger rates. Rates of boys born with gonad malformation is increasing. We are paying a great price for cheap garbage food in so many ways. When are people going to face this and wake up!
Miffed;-)
Amazing how sound science is killing us...
Range fed is better than feed lot stuff anyhow. In less than 2 months, I should have an elk in my freezer, so I shouldn't have to worry about it anyway, at least for another year.
Another thing that gets me is the prophylactic use of antibiotics in agriculture. Bacterial resistance grows because of antibiotic overuse, and might just leave me sitting high and dry if I get a real infection. Of course, putting a bunch of animals in small and often unsanitary conditions tends to breed disease.
Absolutely. People don't realize this but 70% of all antibiotic use is in farm animals. When flouroquinolone use started in chickens I watched our hospital's antibiogram go from 75% of bacteria being sensitive to Levoflox to only 30% sensitive in 3 years! We were frantically trying to curtail fluoroquinalones usage to stem it to no avail. We started to notice a dramatic increase in resistant Camphylobacter and Salmonella isolates. When you consume these animals these organisms incorporate themselves in your colon just waiting for an opportunity to strike. Literally you are what you eat. I don't touch conventionally raised meat, rarely go to restaurants and consume lots of probiotics to, hopefully, make my body inhospitable to these superbugs. In my field, I am exposed to a massive amount of highly resistant bacteria so I'm hypervigilant to protect myself and family.
Miffed;-)
It's not just limited to antibiotics and bacteria either. It won't be too much longer until Monsanto has to develop a new herbicide and a new GMO that is resistant to that herbicide because weeds are going to develop a resistance to roundup. There is a wholesale attitude in our agricultural system to fight against nature instead of working with it. You see it with mono-cropping where all individual plants are genetically very similar. You see it with the natural gas based fertilizers and the petrochemical based pesticides and herbicides. Well, weeds and bugs reproduce fairly quickly, and if it's not some super poison, that rapid rate of reproduction combined with selection will lead to resistant bugs and weeds. We don't select cultivars for flavor and nutrition nearly as much as we used to. We pick them because they don't die when we spray them with roundup, or they all mature on the same day and can be mechanically harvested, or because they will survive being shipped 1500 miles, or because they can sit in a warehouse for 3 weeks before being trucked to the store.
Our food system is all about volume and convenience. Not decent food.
Roundup is essential in monocropping because the plants are growing in nutrient dead soil. Plants need carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. Because they can't fix the nitrogen in the air we enhance their growth by dumping massive amount of chemical nitrogen which was primarily a biproduct of our WWII war arsenal. However we have massively depleted our soils with essential nutrients and have not replaced them. Yes, you can get great growth but these are not nutritious health plants. Diseased plants signal to fungus and insects their weakness so these microorganisms flock to them. Therefore we have to apply herbicides and pesticides to these frail plants creating super resistant weeds and insects.
People notice that a homegrown tomato tastes better than a cardboard factory farmed tomato. This is because it is heavy in nutrients. Our taste buds have evolved to signal us the good tasting tomato is good for us and the tasteless one should be tossed. Food chemistry is a whole industry that is trying to flavor foods artificially to trick these mechanisms with chemical additives. I don't believe in their trickery. They are getting rich at the expense of our health.
Miffed;-)
Word is that Monsanto and DuPont have developed aluminum resistant plants which will be the only thing that will grow after everything else is killed off with the aluminum, barium, and strontium in the chemtrails. Control of food is control of humanity.
Also, the Bis-phenol A in many plastic food containers is an estrogen mimetic and an important one, in addition to the estrogenic steroids entering water and nutrition. Of course this is sheer coincidence /sarc
Thanks for posting this Miffed. Its fascinating to hear this from the front line ...
I second that. I act on what I hear from Miffed and I am glad she posts here.
Thanks MsC! I love your posts too very much. We've got to be a bit thick skinned and honorable Warriers to get respect in this brimming with testosterone site. I'm so happy to share some insights from my field as exchange for all the vast amount of knowledge given here freely that has benefited me enormously. I'm so grateful I found ZH!
Miffed;-)
HooRay for estrogen !!!
Testosterone is really hot Mr. Hulk sir!
So damn true! I can drink it up by the cupful. Probably why we like it here. ;-)
Miffed;-)
Over 300 people became ill in CA last week do to antibiotic resistant salmonella in Foster Farms chicken. The chicken all came from one processing facility in the Central Valley. So far no one has died that I know of but the strain is resistant to multiple courses of antibiotics. This is a ticking time bomb, I'm telling you and one day it's gonna bite us on the ass hard.
monsanto corn in every ting
fructose sucktose sucrolose aspartame chemical cocktails.
gm corn syrup with your sweet corns.
a mortal dance in the home of the day of the dead.
Nice.
A high judge in Mexico outlawed the importation and cultivation of Monsanto GMO corn in Mexico only this week. La gente está extática. The Oaxaca valley was the birthplace of domesticated corn 8000 years ago.
yea I was trying to get some non-gmo US corn seed down into Brazil after a failed plant in the US and I could not get permission to import.
As many of you know most seed stock has a planting window to maximize yields. If you miss that window the seed becomes a liability and germination next year will have bad yields also.
So moving the seed south makes $ense. But the southern .gov's don't want American seeds in their soil. GMO or non-GMO.
They are smart.....
I usually go for a run every morning. Early> 7-8:00 A.M. my time. Yesterday it was crickets. Today it was foggy and all my neighbors were out for a walk. (go figure) ?
I wish we had fast food restaurants to blame my obese weight problem. We just didn’t have manufactured food to point the blame back in the day. I must just have a fucked up DNA that causes me to gain weight.
Round two: We failed in collecting taxes for carbon emissions on automobiles. Let’s screw them with food tax. We’ll fuck them either way, the growers and/or the consumer of food.
Round three: Water
Quieres potatas fritas con eso?
Those are "papas fritas". Or as Brad Pitt would say in The Mexican, "Which wayo to the towno?"
Wonder if Obama is going to try to take credit for the US no longer being the fattest nation in the world...
Were exporting two types of inflation, monetary and obesity.
Nice. Neither one supports real growth.
Sure, Mexico may have attained vaunted número uno status for now. But
watch out for those sneaky, fat fuck Kiwi's. They're going to make a run for number one.
"Nacho Libre" with Jack Black is a damn funny movie
Funny, or not so funny, how more theft by the thieves and murderers called government seems to be the answer to all the problems that they say exist.
I am a retired ex-pat living in southern Mexico. Only the very poorest people here drink tap water as it is quite dirty, literally. Drinking water is purchased in 5 gallon plastic, deposit jugs. The better water companies purify their drinking water quite well using successive purification steps including RO, activated carbon, and microfiltration. This has left the government with a problem unfaced in the USSA, namely how to get sufficient zombifying fluoride into the serfs. Crest and Colgate have a near monopoly on the toothpaste, so they have that vector covered. It took me months to find a non-fluoride toothpaste I liked. But their real stroke of genius is loading up all the commercial brands of salt with sodium fluoride. Of course you can still buy sea salt at the health food stores, but it comes in crystals the size of hailstones.
I love your vulture "Condor" avatar! That should be the [Federal reserve Crest] on it's letterhead...
Actually a gallinazo is a mundane turkey buzzard which makes it all the more appropriate for the Fed.
In any case. Nice Avatar! :-)
FWIW Turkey Buzzards are scavengers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey_Vulture
My buddy does barbecues in the summer and they circle like flying rats... He lives a bit inland, so I'm guessing the crows and seagulls keep them away from the coast...
Yen Cross.
Thanks for appreciating the pulchritudinous aspect of my avatar. But rats.....please. Turkey buzzards are the sanitary engineers of the planet. Also, many people don't realize just how big turkey buzzards are because they are usually seen at a distance. I had one in Sonora that use to view me with an appraising eye. I figured he had my nutritional value down to a decimal point, and I suspected that he did not wish me to live long and prosper.
They are huge. They are as big a a large turkey or peacock. Hawks and Ospreys are the same. Big.
"the rich can afford to eat healthy."
How much does it cost to buy rice, apples, eggs, and milk?
I think everyone here at ZeroHedge knows what is the real problem with the people.
Yup.
Too much freedom.
Did you forget the "/sarc"?
We love and care for you so much...
Now give us your money.
The people can't curtail their consumption so the government must do so. Amazing.
Go into a Wal-Mart store and notice all the human hippos using the electric carts.
The US has built themselves up to fail. The great depession of the 1930's created charcter. Obama and the Fed members created sheep ready for the slaughter.
The government wants to use any kind of pry bar that it can to control people. And the way you control people is to label them, get them into groups - the old people, the young people, the fat people, the poor people, the rich people - and then begin to apply more and more restrictions or wealth transfer payments or welfare/health/school programs or taxes…. It’s what dictators do.
A part of Obama’s new Common Core curriculum is to send “Fat Letters” to parents of overweight children, just to inform them that their girl or boy is over the limit “at 95 percent of their weight for age or weight for height…and considered obese.”
According to CBSLA.com, “Experts said 19 states around the country are cracking down on childhood obesity with similar letters.”
The point is, the State wants gradual control of the child and eventually it will want total control of that child to later determine everything about him. And it won’t stop until it can determine where he can work, what schools he can attend, what classes he should be denied, what promotions or demotions he should have…and what his future will or will not be.
And it’s all to be done in the name of “caring.”
As for Mexican obesity, there are generalized ethnic differences in body types – ectomorph (tall and thin), mesomorph (muscled, strong rectangular body shapes of medium height) or endomorph (short stocky build).
Louis L’Amour, in “Tucker,” wrote of Do Silva, a Mexican who rode shotgun guard for the stage line:
“He was a short man, square and heavy around the middle, but the eyes that measured me as I went into the room were sharp and steady….
“The more I talked to Silva, the better I liked him. He was thirty-five or so, not over five feet five, but he must have weighed close to two hundred pounds. Only a little of it was fat. He moved quickly and easily, and I figured he would handle himself well in battle…”
There’s no doubt about it, though. Obama’s Core Curriculum teacher, measuring with a tape around Silva’s chest to determine weight to height, would have sent him home with a “fat letter” and the OECD would have made another mark on its “Weighty” chart. And Michelle Obama’s Food Plate for Stagecoach Shotgun Guards would have pulled his Apple Banana Salad with Peanuts.
http://www.muscleandstrength.com/articles/body-types-ectomorph-mesomorph-endomorph.html
Sugar is the main culprit in all its forms. I am living in Mexico (puerta vallarta) right now and what is appalling is the amount of sugary sodas people consume. In the baby food section at the local superstore are plastic containers with corn syrup and a picture of baby on the front.... a product to be added to infant formula.
Ex presidente Fox was the president of Coca Cola Mexico and Coke is everywhere. The soda industry has also successfully turned back recycling programs... as a result the plastic bottle pollution is everywhere..on the beaches, in the ocean and every roadside in the country. Fortunately even obese mexicans get a lot of exercise from walking... they just can't compare to the pasty super obese who populate wal-mart and Nascar in the states.
High fucktose corn syrup, yummie. Gulp it down you beasts. I have never seen such waddlers as our National Wal-Mart zoos.
I posted this before in this thread. Archer Daniels Midlands, which owns the Senate, has 29,600 rail cars. Most of these are tanker rail cars that hold 17,600 gallons. Usually to move high fructose corn sweetners.
If you ever get stuck waiting for a freight ttrain - watch for them They are usually black with white ADM lettering.