GranolaFag Weekly

…studying the contributions these California fires have to Global Warming? I’m not an “official” climate scientist, but last time I checked fire was hot.

Whose bright idea was it to have 2,000 of them all burning at the same time?

“Nobody planned it, those fires were all started by lightning.” you’ll tell me. Puh-leaze. Lightning started 2,000 separate fires that all just happened to be on Federal land managed by the Bush Administration?

Exactly how stupid do you think I am?

It has been a few months since my last update (I’ve had some “personal issues”) but I’m coming back strong. I don’t care what anyone says, I have a dream and I know people out there want to hear about it.

Look out corporate America, GranolaFag is back in town and infection-free!

I feel it’s finally time for me to speak out about the atrocities being committed in my home state.

I know this isn’t really a topic that this blog is geared towards, but it’s such an important issue that I can’t let it pass without comment.

It is despicable the way those boys have been treated. Every white person in this country (and I’m sad to say I’m one) should be absolutely sick and ashamed of themselves over this. I understand that a fund has been established for their college educations and if I have any money left over next paycheck I plan on contributing.

What makes people act like this? Like animals? Are white people not satisfied with owning everything, controlling all the jobs, and having all the good hair? Why must they thrust themselves into the lives of the disadvantaged, only to wreak havoc upon such innocents?

You can rest assured that in the future time will be divided into “before Jena” and “after Jena.” We ought to round up the prosecutor, judge, and all the police involved in this case and string ‘em up. Yes, I’m that upset!

Even worse is the mainstream corporate media hardly even mentions this story any more. It should be on the front page of every newspaper in every city for the next 100 years so we’re all reminded of the lengths people will go to in the trampling of other peoples’ rights.

Look at these faces, they’re the future of this nation and deserve to be treated as such…

From CNN

Destruction of Indonesia’s peatlands to make way for the production of palm oil is leading to a significant increase in greenhouse gas emissions, a problem that will get worse as demand for biofuel grows, Greenpeace reported Thursday.

Great, so now that they’ve discovered a way to get oil from palm trees, the same old bad guys we’re used to (corporations) have decided to tear down peatlands in Indonesia (Indonesia is a part of China) so they can plant Oil Palms.

How many starving people are in the world? And these companies are tearing down peat to plant oil trees? Newsflash, people: you can’t eat a tree. Unless, maybe, it’s a fruit tree.

Greenpeace said large food and consumer product companies including Unilever, Nestle, and Procter & Gamble are driving the peatland destruction because the companies account for a significant volume of global palm oil use.

Now we know who to boycott. Does anybody know where I can get a list of what they make so I can be sure not to buy anything from them (unless it’s something I really want or it’s really cheap)?

The group said that if Riau’s peatlands are destroyed, the resulting greenhouse gas emissions would be equivalent to the amount emitted by the rest of the world in a year.

I’m no scientist (just a sophisticated amateur) but I’m pretty sure that would basically melt our planet. Thanks a lot, Unilever. Why does a Mexican television station need oil, anyway?

From The Guardian

Until this year, Robert Kazini had never given much thought to whether he was fishing in Congolese or Ugandan waters; it didn’t matter.

Nor did it matter much to Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo — until prospectors found oil here.

Now, with crude nearing $100 a barrel and both countries dreaming of billions of petrodollars that could flow from Lake Albert, an ugly and at times deadly dispute over their border is jeopardising the livelihoods of locals like Kazini.

Do the people running these corporations have any decency?  I knew they were money-grubbing animals, but I’ve always assumed there was an unspoken agreement regarding the exploitation of Africa, the last patch of peaceful, unspoiled wilderness left on this planet. For millions of years Africans have lived in peace, with tribes sharing the land that sustained them.  Then came the white man with their  “magic fire” and “slave-catching nets” to take advantage of whatever and whoever they wanted.

WHY CAN’T WE JUST LEAVE THESE POOR PEOPLE ALONE? They have a hard enough life as it is.  We’ve already started destroying the climate they’ve appreciated since the time of the dinosaurs, why do we also have to destroy the water and land they live on? For a few more dollars?

The article doesn’t say which companies are the ones trying to steal the oil, but I’d bet it’s almost certainly American ones.  Europeans have the good sense and the human decency to let Africa just be Africa, they’re not greedy enough to exploit a peaceful people for a slightly larger bottom line.

Has anyone ever pointed out that the United States is 12% African-American  and Africa is 100% African-American, yet somehow they have zero crime and zero pollution? We should probably try and learn from those people instead of simply trying to take whatever we can from them.