Aggregated Awareness

This story is a bit old. It is from last Wednesday 23rd Feb 2011. However, it is a very significant piece of news, little reported outside of financial news services, such as The Australian Online Business section, which is a joint venture with the Wall Street Journal.

The bigger picture view from this article, is that the current de facto global reserve currency, the US Dollar, is seeing a secular trend away from it's usage in trade. This trend has been ongoing for a few years now starting at the margin, however, it is now gaining momentum. And as such...

From the Center for Hydrometeorology & Remote Sensing, at the University of California Irvine, with funding from UNESCO's International Hydrological Programme and with the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), and its Irvine Division, comes this useful tool by CHRS which allows near real time mapping of global precipitation patterns using Google Earth as the application platform. (ed. Click on the above link to download the .KMZ file which can be opened using Google Earth by double clicking).

From Fast Forward comes this tale of the North American use of Clothianidin, a US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved chemical, produced by German giant, Bayer.

It was approved for use as a Pesticide on crops in the US, when there were known, well documented, harm to bees from the use of the chemical.

From the Sydney Morning Herald comes this tidbit of news that the Australian Federal Government will be destroying 7.8 million, and donating 3.8 million doses, of the Swine Flu vaccine: Panvax H1N1; that it had acquired last year.

This, out of a total of 21 million doses acquired at a cost to taxpayers of $200 million. The overall loss to taxpayers is $100 million.

With the continuing trend of government encroachment onto personal liberty, comes this recent report from the UK's Big Brother Watch website, reporting on the total cost of CCTV installation by the UK's Local Councils.

Throughout history, countless examples prevail of "the slave" paying for their own servitude. In this case, UK rate payers and parking law infringers, are paying, to the tune of £321 million, the cost of CCTV installation by Local Councils.

It's taken 11 years for this book to surface on fringe blogs. Hopefully, the reading of it will spread, because this is actually about survival and the future, which always requires eternal vigilance. If one wishes to have any semblance of "freewill" or "liberty".

"The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America" is an excellent chronology by author: Charlotte Iserbyt, of the process, that continues to this day, of the deliberate, malevolent actions of 'change agents' in the US Public education system in executing a plan to not teach about morality, what is right and what is wrong, nor even grammar.

From Zerohedge, the Wall Street Journal, the India Economic Times and newsnow.co.uk comes various stories covering this event, which kicked off at about 2:43pm Korean time today:

• North Korea Attacks South Korea Yellow Sea Island, South Korea On Highest Non-Wartime Alert in Response, USDJPY goes parabolic
• In Pictures: North Korea Fires on South Korean Island
• newsnow.co.uk Korea feed for the latest on the events on the Korean Peninsula
• Korea Tension Will Have Short-Term Effects on the Markets: JP Morgan