Rhino Poaching Follows Fiat Money: China , Thailand, Korea Wealth Kills Endangered Species

South Africa's Rhino population is being slaughtered at an unprecedented rate. Using a baseline starting in 2000 and extending to 2007, a total of 117 Rhinos were killed for their horn during that period. Rhino horn  brings app $37,000 per pound in the black market.. Asian peoples in China, Thailand, Korea, Hong Kong think it helps with sex and health issues. Starting in 2008 and extending through six months of 2013, a total of 2168 Rhinos have been killed in South Africa. Why the increase? It must be tied to wealth. Considering the pricey Rhino horn, money is the effective tool for this kind of horror. Starting in 2008 world central banks opened the floodgates on heretofore "normal" money creation. In the view of central bankers and their governments ,an increase of money in circulation plus easier credit was needed to restart Western economies. This was was a boon to Asian emerging countries economies. Money flooded into those countries and made instant multi-billionaires in a very short period.

With all that money, the primative ids of the Asians reached out for ancient status trophies -Rhino horn dagger handles and presumed aphrodisiac brews and health prescriptions. In the beginning we lived on a planet that looked largely like present day Africa. Now the planet is looking more like filthy China.Boycott Asia.

First Lady Michelle Obama: An Example of Severe U.S. Decline

Michelle Obama's recent trip to the dark continent included time spent in Johannesburg ,South Africa. She visited Sweto which was the seen of large violent demonstrations against apartheid. Apartheid is now gone but Sweto looks largely the same. Anyway, Michelle addressed the crowd and thanked them for their help in fighting racism. She even went as far as allocating a portion of the Obama's success to South Africans. Really?

My history books and calender show South Africans having a segregation problem long after civil rights issues were settled in the U.S. Actually it was American boycotting of South Africa along with most of the world that brought apartheid to an end in South Africa. So it's the other way around. The crowd that she addressed were largely women and children. If World Health Organization sub-Sahara demographic surveys apply to the group that witnessed gushing Michelle giving thanks to them, then those women and children were probably HIV infected and also unwed single parents to an approximate minimum of 25%.

That's what it has come to in America- an affirmative action African-American with a law degree from Harvard who is also a first lady and who doesn't know her history except she knows how to sell guilt to stupid buyers.

News Release: Caterpillar World Cup Ad Features Bill Clinton

The Caterpillar Co. has signed former president Bill Clinton for an advertising spot during the upcoming soccer World Cup in South Africa in 2010. CAT figures there will be at least 2 billion real-time viewers of the game and the ad.

Briefly the ad will feature CAT's largest Waste Handling Tractor. It's known as the D10 TWH. It weighs in at 70 tons (144,000 lbs.) and has a 580 horsepower. The ad/skit will have a microphone between Bill and the D10. Bill's challange will be to get to the microphone and recite as many good deeds he did during his life. The operator of the tractor will be me. I will have a camera mounted on my construction helmet. The camera will have crosshairs aimed at his mouth. The camera will not have a deep-focus feature so if Bill wants to be recognized he will have to get very close.

Las Vegas bookmakers have published an even money bet that Bill can speak briefly enough to avoid being plowed under. It will be great fun. We all will see Bill either made into hamburger or suicidal with a loss of air time.

Hybrid Cripples Invade Olympic Games

When does a cripple's crutch make him more competitive than an able bodied athlete? When a double-amputee uses the trademarked Cheetah Flex Foot. Yesterday South African Oscar Pistorius was granted the right to try out for the Olympic games. The liberal Court Of Arbitration For Sport created in 1984 overturned the 1912 founded International Association Of Athletic Federations' determination that the Flex Foot was indeed a performance enhancer that was unfair to normal competitors.

Sounds familar. And now unfair affirmative action has made a beachead in the Olympic Games in the form of hybrid technology. Cheetah gives Oscar, who is already 30 pounds lighter because of the missing limbs below the knee, the ability to run down the track on ultra- light carbon fiber blades that effectively mimic pogo-like springs attached to his thighs. There is less wind resistance with the blades, there are never the problems of sore feet or sore lower leg muscles. Also with less body mass, the vital dynamic of oxygen distribution is concentrated in a smaller muscular areas.

Enough already. With the human population approaching 7 billion on the planet we should be celebrating excellence and not degrading the heretofore ultimate physical competitions of the Olympic games. Handicapped people have their own Paralympian games. Oscar should stay where he belongs.