Watch for this code phrase to start working its way around the Plutocrat social circles and then the media: Peak Everything.

It means the theory that overpopulation is causing scarcity and this is driving up the cost of everything.

Mind you this might be partially correct - but the problem is the working class and the poor of the world will be the ones who get their populations targeted by these rising prices. The rich won't have to sacrifice anything. They'll get their gas guzzler vehicles and endangered tuna and drinkable water for free while the world's 99% pays through the nose for it until they start dying off.

This is the part of population control that you're never told about - it's all about controlling the 99%. Bend over and find something to bite down on, folks, because here comes the big one.

Well, at least a handful.

http://news.yahoo.com/lemming-exodus-manufacturers-look-u-165814959.html

After "lemming" exodus, manufacturers look to U.S.
By Scott Malone | Reuters – 1 hr 1 min ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Big manufacturers moved their production out of the country too quickly over the past decades and now see a competitive advantage in building up their footprints back home, top executives said on Monday.

The chase for lower-paid workers drove the migration, which resulted in employment in the U.S. manufacturing sector falling by 40 percent from its 1980 peak. But big companies including Boeing Co and General Electric Co are now finding that the benefit of lower wages can be offset by higher logistics and materials costs.

"We, lemming-like, over the last 15 years extended our supply chains a little too far globally in the name of low cost," said Jim McNerney, chief executive of world No. 2 planemaker Boeing. "We lost control in some cases over quality and service when we did that, we underestimated in some cases the value of our workers back here."

Boeing in particular ran into extensive delays in the launch of its 787 Dreamliner aircraft, handing off much of the manufacturing responsibility to outside suppliers, leaving the launch of the fuel-efficient aircraft some three years behind schedule.

"You are going to see more (manufacturing) come back to the United States, and that's in part for business reasons and in part because we want to be good citizens," McNerney said.

McNerney spoke at a Washington event organized by GE aimed at promoting the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. The nation has been slow to recover from a brutal 2007-2009 downturn and high unemployment -- 8.3 percent in January -- stands as one of the main barriers to a brisker recovery.

Perhaps this should answer your question.


And now people who send jobs overseas are starting to hide their behavior, because America so stridently opposes this:

We've bled our country dry to give jobs to the poor in other nations. Now it's time to stop the bleeding and bring those jobs back.

http://www.dailytribune.com/articles/2012/02/04/news/doc4f2dc72aaffb8873454233.txt

Bill would clarify which companies outsource jobs
Published: Saturday, February 04, 2012

By Daily Tribune Staff

U.S. Rep. Gary Peters, D-Bloomfield Township, has introduced the Outsourcing Accountability Act with lead cosponsors U.S. Reps. Timothy H. Bishop, D-N.Y., and Jerry McNerney, D-Calif.

The legislation would help consumers and investors make informed choices about whether they want to spend their dollars on companies that create American jobs or companies that outsource them.

Now, when publicly traded companies file their annual SEC reports, they are required to disclose the number of employees they have. The Outsourcing Accountability Act also would require these companies to disclose these same figures except they would need to break down the numbers by country and state in the Americas.

From 2000-2009, multinational corporations cut 2.9 million U.S. jobs while adding 2.4 million overseas.

“We need to do everything in our power to fight the outsourcing of American jobs and this bill gives consumers and investors the information they need to make an informed choice,” said Peters. “The families I represent in Michigan want to see their hard-earned dollars supporting American jobs. By making corporate outsourcing data transparent, consumers will have the power to stand up for American companies while holding outsourcers accountable.

“People have the right to know which companies are shipping jobs overseas, and which companies are creating jobs for well-qualified Americans,” said Peters.

http://news.yahoo.com/indias-global-pharmacy-role-threatened-eu-pact-150344933.html


And I don't think these concerns are exactly unwarranted.


Imports from India are going up over 150%. That's a LOT of jobs leaving Europe.

Teddy or FDR?

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/echelon-rising-everything-you-say-write-or-tweet-is-analyzed-processed-and-prioritized_022012

Echelon Rising: Everything you Say, Write, Or Tweet Is Analyzed, Processed and Prioritized
Mac Slavo
The Daily Sheeple
February 1st, 2012

I hope the bankers and corporate elite who bet on these austerity cuts get absolutely positively ZIP out of this.

http://news.yahoo.com/romanias-government-collapses-protests-151141275.html

Romania's government collapses after protests
Associated PressBy ALISON MUTLER | Associated Press – 1 hr 11 mins ago

BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania's government has collapsed following weeks of protests against austerity measures, the latest debt-stricken government in Europe to fall in the face of raising public anger over biting cuts.

Emil Boc, who had been prime minister since 2008, said Monday he was resigning "to defuse political and social tension" and to make way for a new government. Thousands of Romanians took to the streets in January to protest salary cuts, higher taxes and the widespread perception that the government was not interested in the public's hardships in this nation of 22 million.

President Traian Basescu quickly appointed Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu, the only Cabinet member unaffiliated with a political party, as interim prime minister to serve until a new government is approved.

Basescu also nominated Mihai Razvan Ungureanu, the head of Romania's foreign intelligence service, as the country's new prime minister and asked him to form a Cabinet. Parliament must approve Ungureanu and his ministers in 60 days, or the legislature will be dissolved and new elections held.

Frankly, I don't know how much I can say that will get people to realize the horrendous magnitude of hypocrisy present in America's environmental policy. It's even worse when you consider the contributions to environmental degradation from our half of America.

Democrats pushed America to reduce industrial pollution and carbon emissions, we led the fight on this. Yet we're being hoodwinked into believing that we have made big progress in this area. On the surface, we have. Factories in America, while still being sources of intolerable levels of pollution, are nonetheless held to far stricter emission standards and pollution controls than they were decades ago.

However, if Democrats seriously realized how this was achieved, we would be staggering under the emotional weight of remorse and guilt. And those wise folks among us who wouldn't feel guilt over the truth, would at least know fear of the inevitable price that all of humanity will at some point pay.

First, let me make up a story for you to read.



The reality we live in is not much unlike that of this made-up story I just wrote.

The fact is, we're contributing to the destruction of the world's ecosystem... but instead of generating the pollution in our own back yard, we've tricked the Chinese into doing it in their own back yards.

In doing this, we sidestepped the expensive task of forcing industries to clean up their act and produce goods with a lower carbon footprint and less pollutants going into the air, water and soil. Industries told us this was far too expensive and when we didn't back down, they took their factories overseas, where emissions laws are more relaxed. We said fine, go ahead, and as a result computers and consumer electronics (with the help of Moore's Law as well) started dropping in price. We closed factories here and sent 100% of our pollution over to China. Our life expectancy went up, and goods became cheaper.

Meanwhile, in China and other nations, people commit suicide in ultra harsh factories and leave work to get sick from the pollution we've outsourced to them. The Chinese Government cares little, if any, and is at best sluggishly creating committees to look at the problem. Meanwhile many people, particularly those who live in factory cities and those who consume water downstream from them, are dying of things like lung cancer and emphysema, their water is increasingly becoming poisoned, and the problem is even endangering their soil for agriculture. That's their food supply.

But we don't have to worry... all that is happening in China, not here.

Is this a good attitude for America to take? Of course not. But what is America doing about it? We're certainly not pressing China to adopt Western anti-pollution standards for their industries. Why? Because it would make consumer goods a lot more expensive, primarily, and you know what the argument is about consumer goods becoming more expensive - it makes America poorer. Who cares if China's environment becomes our industrial toilet - we need our cheap goods. We can't bear to take the hit on our standard of living, so we make the Chinese take the hit on their environment instead. Who here wants to say this does not make us poor global citizens? We may not be arguing that pollution is okay, but our actions clearly say it is... as long as it happens elsewhere, that is.

Now, you must also ask, is this for real? Is Zalatix just being alarmist? That's a legitimate question. Do I have an agenda? HELL YES. Free trade is flawed at its core. There, it's out in the open. Now what's your agenda? Do you care about the environment as all of us Democrats are called upon to care, or not?

If you do care, then these hard numbers should grab you, real fast.


1) Almost 25% of China's pollution is created by making goods for other nations.

2) You, as a Democrat party member of the United States of America, produce an average of 2.5 tons of carbon dioxide not in America, but in other nations, such as China, India, Mexico, etc. The third world is the first to pay the price for your standard of living; America and the world, of course, pays the price later, in the form of global warming.

Peoples in other nations have a right to a better lifestyle. They're not going to maintain that increased standard of living, though, when they cannot even see the sun or stars because of smog and an increasing percentage of their water is too dangerous to even wade in, much less drink. We're destroying other countries for our benefit. How is this being a good global citizen?

What can we do about this? We can demand that President Obama and the Democrats in Congress make a big stink about using other nations as our industrial toilet. Demand high pollution control standards for all nations that we buy goods from. Free trade is one thing... but taking an industrial-sized toxic dump on other peoples is terrible negligence when you are unaware of it, and downright criminal once you are made aware and refuse to stop.

Until then, someone needs to compile an outsourced pollution footprint website to match the slaveryfootprint.org website. Call it the environmental hypocrisy index, or something.

You wouldn't want this in your country, would you?
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Then why would we inflict this on foreigners? Don't they have a right to a healthy environment, too?

Let's get real. Cheap consumer goods, produced here or abroad, have a terrible, measurable price when they are produced with relaxed emissions and pollution standards. America should never be allowed to consume stuff made by factories ANYWHERE that pollute more than technology has the power to control. Again that means here, or abroad. We may be afraid of TVs going up in price but we'll pay a bigger price if we don't knuckle down and deal with it.

Other nations should be pressured into curbing their emissions and pollution standards, too. We are in a position to apply that kind of pressure so they can have a better standard of living that doesn't include mortgaging their environment in the process. We can still have globalism and free trade, but we can have it without turning other nations into our toxic dumps. However it will mean far less production is sent out of the country (especially that which is done to escape pollution regulations), and other countries' factories will be producing more for themselves and not just for export: which means prosperity for everyone.

If this doesn't raise awareness to our environmental hypocrisy, well, I dunno what will.