BACK TO SLEEP

Going Back to Sleep

January 5th/6th, 2011

last night

BBC World Service

reported how many women and girls are being raped in Haiti

in the camps

in the night I heard

that the inoperable, now flooded, coal mines in Queensland mean that the quarter of the world's

coal supplies customarily mined there has come to a grinding halt so

there’ll likely be a shortage of steel....for washing machines and cars

this morning I heard the Australian military are shipping water into the flooded area because their water plants are under water

last night I heard that Argentina has had a bad yield of corn and its one of the biggest producers of corn on the planet

and because of the US subsidizing ethanol, on top of that

coupled with reduced wheat harvests

mean there is likely a food crisis ahead

and prices are going up 

because oil is now $90+ a gallon

and in Abu Dabi

50% of the population are diabetic

but the country has a small population so it will be manageable

and Ireland and Greece and Portugal and probably Spain

are putting inordinate pressures on the Euro because their debt has not decreased in 6 months

and so that is freaking the Bond Markets who are keeping them afloat

so they’ve increased the interest rates to 3.6% something, from 1% something

or even more which makes the countries debt burden bigger and bigger
and the world increasing interdependence more and more vulnerable

and if the Euro falls apart

because Germany doesn’t want to prop everybody else up....?

it will shake global currency

and two nights ago on Charlie Rose

the blonde British editor of the Economist said the same thing about the US

if the US doesn’t face the pain and make the people pay

it will shake the global currency

because countries, goverments, are not going to want to cut wages of the people

after the people have been screwed by bank bought politicians

‘too unpopular’ -- there is, after all, an election coming up in 2012

it was a question of

domestic economy vs sticking to the gold standard --

voters dont want to pay the price

short term

so what

so when... long term

-- a month? a year? or two?

Because we’re intended to ignore these facts and successfully do

it means

this finite Planet has little more to give

Her penguins and Ring Seals and Killer Whales and Polar bears, and

Narwals who need ice to survive
are not able to cope

because ice is becoming water again

on this litle blue Earth

that is not ours

it is we who are hers.