Thursday, February 24, 2011
Cui gigabono?
So I sez Ho Kay....
Let's say you've been rigging the agriculture markets. Under your watchful eye, governments have imposed ethanol requirements, taken farmland out of production to protect "endangered species", eliminated pesticides in rich countries, and used superstitions in poor countries to stop genetically modified crops that could save them from famine.
Your speculative bets have paid off, but a few paltry trillions are no longer enough to satisfy your Aleph-One greed.
Now you realize that your high food prices are starting to cause unrest in countries that have lots of oil.... so you get your slaves in the Western media to start a Twitterfest that takes the Arab masses over the brink.
Now your oil speculation, which you had so carefully rigged in the same way (inducing governments to forbid drilling to "cut carbon emissions") is finally paying off again! Environmentalism was cancelled out by the loss of demand in 2008, but now Arab chaos is bringing oil futures back up to $200!
Aaaaaahhhh!!! More trillions! And double the pleasure, double the fun, EXTRA BONUS!!!! EXTRA BONUS!!!!! Millions of people died as a result!!!!!! Oh! Oh! Oh Gaia! Oh Gaia! Oh Yessssssssssssss. Mmmmmmmmmm. For a while anyway....... ¶ 9:53 AM
Let's say you've been rigging the agriculture markets. Under your watchful eye, governments have imposed ethanol requirements, taken farmland out of production to protect "endangered species", eliminated pesticides in rich countries, and used superstitions in poor countries to stop genetically modified crops that could save them from famine.
Your speculative bets have paid off, but a few paltry trillions are no longer enough to satisfy your Aleph-One greed.
Now you realize that your high food prices are starting to cause unrest in countries that have lots of oil.... so you get your slaves in the Western media to start a Twitterfest that takes the Arab masses over the brink.
Now your oil speculation, which you had so carefully rigged in the same way (inducing governments to forbid drilling to "cut carbon emissions") is finally paying off again! Environmentalism was cancelled out by the loss of demand in 2008, but now Arab chaos is bringing oil futures back up to $200!
Aaaaaahhhh!!! More trillions! And double the pleasure, double the fun, EXTRA BONUS!!!! EXTRA BONUS!!!!! Millions of people died as a result!!!!!! Oh! Oh! Oh Gaia! Oh Gaia! Oh Yessssssssssssss. Mmmmmmmmmm. For a while anyway....... ¶ 9:53 AM
