A Project for a New Global Future

The Telegraph is reporting that scientists have created the worlds first lab grown meat.

This is bad news.  The end result could mean growing literally millions of pounds of food cheaply using less water, land, resources, and with less pollution and greenhouse gases.

The research is backed by a large sausage corporation and just shows that greedy scientists will take a paycheck from any one in order to keep the world on the path of overpopulation.

News is coming out of the UK and Norway of a new drug resistant super-H1N1

Two are dead from the strain in Norway and the one in Wales is completely resistant to Tamiflu. Could this be the mutation we have all been waiting for to give this pandemic the kick start that is so badly needed?

So far there are just over 6000 confirmed deaths from H1N1 worldwide. The actual number is certainly much higher as not everyone who gets sick and dies is tested for H1N1, however so far we have not seen the event we have been waiting for. Let’s hope these new mutations show some promise.

In other news, the H1N1 vaccine is still in short supply, so an un-vaccinated population still offers a glimmer of hope.

Andrew Revkin recently discussed a “thought experiment” on his blog at the New York Times where he discussed the idea of getting carbon credits for not having children, since it was discovered that spending money on family planning is about the best way to stop carbon emissions.  It is a simple idea really, one that is not new to us here at NGF, but apparently it drew the ire of Rush Limbaugh who said that Mr. Revkin should go kill himself to help the planet.  The ironic thing is that in trying to offend Andrew, Rush actually supported his idea.  Be it not having a child, or just killing yourself, or even someone else.. the end result is that you make the world a little bit better.

I am not really a fan of Mr. Revkin or Mr. Limbaugh, but I am happy to see that little by little people in the mainstream are catching on to the idea that not having all sorts of children is a good thing, that there are many good reasons to reduce the population instead of constantly trying to grow it.

Here’s to hoping the idea continues to gain ground.

The results of a recent HIV vaccine trial in Thailand are out and although thankfully not significant enough to put an actual vaccine into production, it has given researchers hope that they are moving in the right direction.

This is very bad news.

HIV/AIDS Has been an incredible asset in the population fight.  Not just because it kills people. It does not really work fast enough to kill a significant amount of humans.  However, the fear of getting HIV/AIDS stops hundreds of millions of people from having unprotected sex… or even from having sex at all.

Without the fear of getting a terrible incurable disease, a vaccinated population will become sluttier than you could ever imagine, each individual could engage in sexual activities with thousands of unprotected partners every year the global birthrate would shoot up from 2.2 babies per female to more than 16.

In just a few generations we could see a population on this planet of over 100 billion.

Scary times indeed.  Maybe we will get lucky and some more earthquakes in Asia will wipe out any more vaccine progress.

Since teen pregnancy rates in the US are higher than any other developed nation, perhaps it is time to try something new: scaring teen girls into abstinence (or at least using birth control). Let them take a look at this screaming 19 pound mini sumo wrestler and imagine trying to squeeze him out of their little vagina’s and see if that does the trick! Not only is he 3 times the size of an average baby, but he is 3 times as loud, too. And he eats 3 times as much as a normal sized infant. That means (to an American teen mother) 3 times as much $$$ for infant formula (since American teen mothers don’t seem to realize that they can feed their babies with breast milk. They think you have to buy formula from the grocery store.) If that doesn’t close their legs faster than a venus fly trap, then I don’t know what will!

Today, Oxfam International released a glowing report of the future to the G8 which is meeting in Italy this week.

It says that as the weather changes, millions of people in areas suffering food scarcity will have to give up traditional crops, possibly leading to social upheavals such as mass migrations and possible conflict over water resources.  The report also went on to mention that corn crops could be widely affected by global warming.  Potentially removing a primary food source for 250 million people.

However, the news is not all good.  The most disappointing part of the report says that only 60% of the world’s agricultural potential is exploited and that with modern farming techniques the world has a good chance of supporting the estimated 9.2 billion people that will inhabit this earth by 2050.  We can only hope that they are wrong.

A 28 year old mother of nine has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for storing her stillborn fetus in the refrigerator.  Read the full story here.

Clearly this woman and her common-law husband (and thousands like them) should never be allowed to reproduce.  There needs to be a way to prevent such tragedies.  I am not referring to the ‘tragedy’ of storing an already dead fetus in the fridge. The tragedy here is that these two simpletons were able to breed.  A mandatory sterilization program is desperately needed if there is to be any hope for the future.

The WHO raised the alert level to phase 5 for the swine flu Wednesday, saying that “all of humanity that is under threat in a pandemic.” and “All countries should immediately activate their pandemic preparedness plans.”

This is quite a change of tone from yesterday when they were trying to downplay the seriousness.

Today also marked the first US death. However it was a child that came over from Mexico. We can only assume that the infection rate and density in other countries has not yet been high enough to produce more deaths. We can only hope that starts to happen within the next few days.

Track the Swine flu progress here on NGF

Purple marker is confirmed or probable
Pink marker is suspect
Yellow marker is negative
Fatal cases have no dot
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Mexico City is one of the largest cities in the world with a population of more than 20 million.  By comparison,  New York City in the US is “only” 8 million.  When the city shut down all public events and schools only a handful of people had died and less than 1000 were known to be infected.  This is leading many to believe that the situation in Mexico is much worse than the government there is reporting.  Reports from doctors and individuals suggest a much higher infection and death rate.  Some people have reported being turned away at multiple hostpitals because they are too busy or do not want to deal with the infected.

It would seem that Mexico and perhaps now the US are trying to play a delicate game of ass covering and panic prevention.

The WHO has moved ahead with declaring the situation a phase 4 outbreak, despite the fact that it now qualifies as a phase 5 by their own definitions.   The WHO is also suddenly claiming there have only been 7 deaths.  If there have been so few deaths, then why all the panic and race to contain the outbreak?  Flu ravages the world pretty much every year and hundreds of thousands of people die from it.  So why is 7 a big deal?

Something certainly does not add up.  Hundreds of school children are sick in New York it is likely they have the swine flu, but of course only a few officially have it.  The list of countries and states with infections has grown too large for me to list here.  But again, the WHO only wants to focus on Mexico.

It is interesting to see how it is all being downplayed so much, but that just makes us all the more confident that the full blown pandemic we have been wanting is finally coming.

A tornado in Kansas City, MO Saturday evening had such great potential, but alas, mother nature disappoints once again.  A crowd of thousands had gathered at the Kansas Speedway to drink beer and watch vehicles drive around a circular track for hours on end (aka: a NASCAR race).  The evening’s “entertainment”, however was interrupted by a tornado touching down nearby.  The NASCAR race had to be stopped.

Initial reports confirm just one dead and one injured.  The victims were riding motorcycles on a highway. There were perhaps tens of thousands of NASCAR enthusiasts  very nearby yet they were left completely unharmed.  You can do better Mother Nature! Next time do the planet a favor and  head directly toward the hordes of beer swilling, inbred mulletheads.