To bring you up to speed on what you MUST know.

Its hard not to despair sometimes when you try to keep up to date with the political decisions in the world.
I cannot tell you just how much I detest the fact people are alright with these pricks in power. About as much as i detest the actual people who burn the rights and piss away countries fortunes.
I have had my homepage set as Aljazeera ever since i got sent this computer. They have some pretty sweet articles. Alot of which i post on my facebook.
For the last few weeks i've wanted to talk to someone seriously about the path we are on but no one really wants to hear my rage. So. i figured what is a blog if not a place to have my thoughts put on a public forum.
So here i go.

Do you guys know about the petrodollar?
Its an amazing idea that the US government came up with. I think its gloriously clever if it wasn't so sinister now.
In 1945 the Bretton Woods agreement established the dollar as the world currency. Everything was across the world was priced in dollars. This gave America a distinct financial advantage but the agreement stated that other countries could buy american dollars at a constant 35 dollars per ounce of gold.
1971 saw an end to that.
Now this agreement was based on the belief the american currency would remain very stable in worth. In other words the Americans weren't allowed to print too much money because the cash they had couldn't outstrip the amount of gold the Americans could give out in return.
Well. The Vietnam war taught the world what America thought of it obligations.
It became obvious to other countries that the Americans were printing large amounts of cash and so countries started trading their US dollars in for gold.

The US dollar went down until Nixon made this statement
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRzr1QU6K1o
1:05
"I have directed secretary connelly to temporarily suspend the convertability of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets..."
Oh sure it was temporary. but really it was never reversed.
Now America had the world currency but a currency backed by absolutely nothing.
worthless.
I imagine this sounds a bit boring and financey but it gets better.
Later Nixon would go on to talk to the king in Saudi Arabia into only accepting american dollars for his oil in exchange for american military guarding the oil fields in Saudi Arabia.
They said yes and this offer was extended to all key oil producing regions. By 1975 the US dollar was the only thing being traded for oil.
Which meant every country had to buy American dollars. They had an endless supply of cash as they held the every country by the balls.
Eventually some countries detested this notion and wanted to switch to a different currency or create a new one. And i'll just quickly jot down a few:
Iraq, Libya, Syria, Venezuela, Iran, China, Russia.
Anyone seeing a bit of a trend here?
Iraq moved to only buying using the euro in 2000.
Iraq was invaded in 2003

Libya had been moving to create a gold based currency called the dinar. which of course would be used for oil transactions.
The arab spring gave America the perfect oppurtunity.
Iran has made the Iranian OIl bourse in which they sell their oil for gold, euro, pounds, yen, alot of solid currencies.
Venezuala in 2006 announced their support of moving to the euro.
China and Russia. These are the big one kahunas.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1332882/China-Russia-abandon-dollar-new-bilateral-trade-agreement.html

So to break it down for it you it goes like this:
"China and Russia are renouncing the U.S. dollar for trade, their premiers have announced."
Two of the biggest countries in the world are renouncing the dollar in the current crisis the Americans are in this is a death blow.
But of course. it gets worse. oh it only gets worse.
China has been engaging in alot of diplomacy lately. Here is a list of other ways in which the world has moved away from the petro-dollar:

Indeed, officials from China, India, Brazil, Russia, and South Africa (the latest addition to the BRIC acronym, now to be called BRICS) recently met in southern China to discuss expanding the use of their own currencies in foreign trade (yet another move away from the US Dollar).
To recap:

• China and Russia have removed the US Dollar from their trade
• China is rushing its trade agreement with Brazil
• China, Russia, Brazil, India, and now South Africa are moving to trade more in their own currencies (not the US Dollar)
• Saudi Arabia is moving to formalize trade with China and Russia
• Singapore is moving to trade yuan

The trend here is obvious. The US Dollar’s reign as the world’s reserve currency is ending. The process will take time to unfold. But the Dollar will be finished as reserve currency within the next five years.

So. America is fucked. Why do we care?

Yes. Always the question on everyones lips.

Why should you care?

You know the federal reserve do you?

Well the federal reserve is the money printing facility of America. They are not, however, owned by the government. They are a private entity and do what ever the hell they want. 

Generally this place is filled with the Wall St types who caused the last economic collapse. 

These bankers own not only the money supply of the US but they own the money supply of the world.

Or atleast they did until the last few years when everyone started to move away from the dollar.

Now its uncertain. infact, its looking pretty terrible for the bankers. they have all their chips invested in this federal reserve, its how they enjoy the power they do.

What we are seeing here is alot of powerful men in a pretty desperate situation.

Desperate men do silly things.

Desperate men with the power over the money supply do evil things

Desperate men who face losing their power, their money supply and have the politicians and therefore the army in their pocket will be willing to do anything to return their stranglehold on power.

America is a ticking time bomb.  

Here are a few things you should watch or even just read the headlines to get the idea
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M84l19H68mk
A member of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy a prominent Israeli lobbyist group is seen here telling a press conference that America should use its "typical way of entering warfare" The false flag.

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestory/2012/09/201292991010816234.html
Netanyahu recently held this speech at the UN outlining just how far away Iran is from a nuclear bomb. Now it doesn't matter that it isn't true that Iran is looking for nukes what matters to Israel is that if America is not the biggest power in the world, if it falls, Israel will too. No one is on Israels side. They have been operating an apartheid state for years and there are no countries out there that will jump to Israels aid after all the atrocities they have commited.
That red line shows us how far away this ticking time bomb is. We are oh so close.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2012/09/201291194236970294.html
War with Iran would bring this world into WW3
Russia and China have said any attack on Iran will prompt them to go to war.
Russia and China have no small amount of military might as we all know but Iran itself has the 8th largest army.
The territorial disputes with Japan would come to surface and we could see an attack of Chinese on Japan. America has military bases in Japan and they would surely come under fire.
That and i don't think there is much lost love between the two countries.
Iran has allies all over the world. specially in south america.
We would be expected to jump in on side of Britain.

This is why we need to care.
We are rolling towards a war of apocolyptic proportions.
How can we sit back and allow people to tell us we should go to war? When did we give them the right to tell us when we are to live or die?
The leaders who propose such dispicable ideas must be thrown out and stomped out until their ideas blow away like dust in the wind.
We live in very turbulent times and we must be ready to stand up and say that we do not need to be governed by the poor decisions of insane men. There is no time to wait.
The time for action is now.

Cooking with Hannuman

A while back my sister bought me a cookbook for christmas. It was Jamie Olivers Ministry of food.
At first i thought it was a pretty average present but as i started to cook the recipes I realised just how awesome this present was.
The book single handedly created my love for cooking.
In the book they have this thing saying that by reading this you are obliged to teach one of your friends a recipe which will help them live better eat better and just generally have a more enriched life.
Now i liked this idea so i thought i would take it a bit further and tell all of you guys on 420chan all i know about how to cook.
I hope you find this useful.

So i'ma start with Dinner because that tends to be what you want to know anyway.
Dinners consist of
The Base:
This could be pasta, potatoes, rice, beans, bread etc etc. Its what makes up the bulk of the meal its the largely tasteless stuff that needs to have shit added to it for flavour.
The vegetables:
Now i chuck in vegetables normally not because of their flavour but to change up the texture of the meal. The vegetables i pick normally get cooked along with the Flavour so that they soak up the Flavour and eating one of the vegetables is like a burst of flavour instead of boring old vegetables
Brocolli is my favourite for this because if you chuck it into say a pasta sauce the sauce gets caught all in the buddy bits and eating it isn't like "ugh a bit of brocolli" You will actively search for the brocolli because it has taken on the flavour of everything around it.
The following vegetables can be chucked into just about anything and still taste good with the dish.
Mushrooms, Onions, Carrots, Brocolli, Bamboo shoots, Capsicum, spring onion, Green beans, Cabbage, Celery.
The Flavour:
Now this is where it gets a bit complicated and a bit easier to fuck up but there are a few things that just don't go wrong
Curry Pastes:
Meal in a jar. well. not really but the whole flavour of a meal can be made just with this shit. it'll cost like 7 bucks for a 200gm jar and that could be several meals.
They are so so so worth your money.
Cans of tomatoes:
Every fucking house needs to have like 10 of these at all times. They cost a dollar or like 1.50 per can and one can can turn tasteless base material into something worth eating for the overall price of like 3 per meal. (although that is like student food. if you want something worth not just serving to yourself you'll have to read on)
They are so goddamn versatile.
Additives:
This is what makes the meal taste like awesome.
Its hard to know at first what to use if you havent cooked much and so you will have to experiment alot with things to see what is good where. there are alot of spices that fill peoples spice rack that i just don't even understand (I'm looking at you Tumeric)
The thing is that you've just got to make meals and try it out. Also it helps to, when you are eating a dish you didnt make, ask what was in it or if you are at a restaurant try to figure it out yourself. When you start to realise what does what you can make it work with your cooking too.
Anyway. I can't really tell you any overarching things about how most spices work but i can for certain spices
Coriander:
This is a curry spice. Chuck it in just about any curry and it works. If you don't know what it will taste like go to the supermarket and find the fresh coriander. pick a leaf and rub it between your hands. Chances are youve eaten it before and it will bring back memories of a certain dish. it is very pungent and makes the whole room perfumed with its scent.
People fucking love coriander. just the smell of it makes people think you are a good cook.
It works particularly well with Green curry, Tikka masala, or anything with tomatoes in it.

Cumin:
I heard it called arabian pepper once and it certainly makes sense like that. The smell of Cumin is so typically arabic.
Use it wherever for an arabian tinge to your cooking. it works well in most things. its a very versatile spice. try a little in your cooking at first maybe a teaspoon then see whether you like it/need more
Oregano/Thyme/Italian herbs.
Use in Tomato dishes. it buffs up the flavour.

Hmm..
maybe i should just write some recipes to show you what i mean.

One of my favourite recipes goes like this:
 Hannumans Thai Green curry
Serves Four
300-400 grams of Chicken.
Crushed Ginger
Lemon juice

Fresh fucking coriander. (its not nessecary but it makes it so much better)
Three nice thick shoots of Spring Onion.
A handful of Green Beans for each person
1-2 onions depending on your taste.
Fresh chili (if that is your taste)
about 2-3 stalks of celery

Soy sauce
about 3-5 heaped teaspoons of Green curry paste (i do have a recipe for making the paste but i cant for the life of me remember it)

Coconut milk a 400ml can of it.
Bamboo shoots (not entirely nessecary but makes it much better)

Basmati rice (it really doesn't matter too much about what rice you take but i like basmati rice)
ith

So first off put some oil in the pan and get the stove going really hot.
Dice the chicken into small pieces then chuck the chicken in the pan with maybe 2-3 teaspoons of crushed ginger, the juice of a lemon and drizzle some soy sauce over it.

Put the rice on. ( i always forget the rice so i do it early but do it whenever you want)

Cut up the Vegetables
If the Chicken is well cooked through chuck the veges into the pan too then chuck the curry paste in. Mix the curry paste around to get as much

When the onions look cooked chuck the can of coconut milk into the pan and if it looks too dry add half the can of water.

Chuck however many bamboo shoots you feel like doing.

when the mixture starts boiling let it boil for a minute or two then take it off and serve!

Oh also add some coriander leaves to the curry fluid so they float around and look beautiful. Cutting up little bits of chili looks nice too.


deliciousmisio

Serves 3-4
250-400 grams of chicken.
can of chickpeas
1 can of tomatoes
Base of your choice (i used pasta) ( i wouldnt recommend potatoes for this but thats probably because i dont like potatoes much)
Veges of your choice. ( used mushrooms, celery, brocolli)
two teaspoons of red curry paste.
Additives (not nessecary but made it oh so good)
Coriander (about 6-8 shoots)
lime juice

dice the chicken.
Cut up your veges

Cook chicken stir the chicken so it dont burn homie. you might like to chuck some garlic in at this point or you might not. its up to you.
When the chicken is fully cooked chuck in The veges.
If you like your veges mushy leave them in for a bit. if not move straight on to..
chuck the can of chickpeas and tomatoes. At this point you might like to put in some chilli but again its up to you.
chuck the red curry paste in and stir it around make sure that the curry paste is well mixed in because no one wants chunks of curry paste
Boil some water, chuck the rice or pasta into the water. and cook that shit.
Once the flavour mixture starts to bubble put it on low temp and let it simmer so that everything gets nice and permeated with flavour.
Also add the additives now if yo are using them
When the base is ready you are ready to gorge yourself! 

Massive amounts of wankery

I keep a notebook with me. on the train i write things. These are those things

(i wrote this at subway one day)
We live in a society of mutes, where dissent is abhorred for the preservation of the status quo
Fear shouts at us from every surface, an epidemic of social awkwardness plagues a generation of men who have lost their fire.
Anger is associated with the naive youth and in doing so allows the rest of humanity to pass off dissent as a phase outlived.
(at this point a customer walked in and i had to serve them)

Why is it that people accept that they should be ordinary?
how can they accept living life without passion?
How can they listlessly  shuffle from one job to the next bowing to the perceived authority of another person no better than themselves and accept their word as law?
People say i have a problem with authority but to them i say they ARE the problem with authority.
They are the reason people with no experience or understanding of their position can retain that position dispite grand errors of judgement that cause others huge suffering.
To these people i say i will never stop questioning authority because when it isn't questioned it is take for granted and when it is taken for granted it is abused

Yeah so i had a interview today.
It was for a place called Grill'd
They are a healthy burger joint with a bit of social responsibility thrown in. each week they send money off to three local charities. its pretty awesome.
The interview went great lotsa smiles and good vibes. I'll get a call tomorrow if i got it.

Nothing memorable has been happening lately. more things will once i have enough money to spend it on stupid crap and interesting stories. as such i will continue to write this blog. but it will be mainly filled with random rants.

Yeah. i'll write a bit more tommorrow

Money related happenings.

Right so good news. i have money!
I Did some work. pretty high skill work.
I sorted screws for a few hours.
Ha yeah i did a bit more than that. but mainly it was lifting things sorting things and cleaning things. I dont mind because i'm being paid 18 bucks an hour. or atleast i was. it was only for two days. It netted me 270 bucks. That was great because it pays for my public liability insurance so that when i get my busking license on Tuesday i will actually have insurance which.. tends to be important when its one of the things they specifically ask of you.

So Thursday i trekked across town to get to work.
 It was pretty uneventful. I waited at the stop. There was a pretty girl in a brown dress at the stop. That was cool.
Pretty much i got on the tram (green) toddled to the train (blue) toddled along the train then pissed around when i got off because i couldnt find the bus stop that was supposed to get off and no one knew where it was and nothing showed me where it was. i found it eventually and got to work late.
worked all day. Sorted screws, cleaned, blah blah.
On my way home i was told to get on at the wrong side of the tracks. I didn't realise this and fell asleep on the train.

Green is the route i shouldve gone.
Purple is the route i did.
Now. i'll just note that that picture pretty much encompasses all of melbourne. A city of 4 million. Going to Craigieburn was akin to going to Rangiora from Burnside or Aramoana from The Octagon.
Fuck that cunt who told me to get on the wrong side.
But the silver lining is that once i got to melbourne i was in a bit of a shitty mood. understandably. But i got to the tram that would take me home and there was a familiar face waiting alongside me. That girl in the brown dress. So we got to talking.  Her name is Shannon We actually got on really well. We took the same tram home and yarned the whole way. it was good to talk to a stranger so amiably. I got her number and perhaps we will go get a beer sometime.
That was Thursday.
Friday i figured i wouldn't fucki up the whole public transport thing because i would learn from yesterday
Oh ho ho no.

So i got to melbourne central took the wrong route then got delayed 15 minutes trying to get back to melbourne central
Then i took a ride to Footscray (red cross) where i needed to catch a connecting bus. I was sitting at the bus stop when a drunk guy rambled up and took my skateboard. He ran for a while and then tried to start skating. But he was either too drunk or not a keen skater and couldnt get the speed to get away from me.
I caught him and pushed him off my board. He hit his head on a post on the way down and i took my board back. By this point i had missed my bus and the drunk dude was shouting at me and there was a significant lump growing on his forehead. I didnt want to deal with him or the stares i was getting to i skated along the line to wait at a bus stop further down the road.
I got on the bus and the green cross is where i shouldve stopped but of course i missed my stop and went to the end of the line. again.
I finally got to work... But yeah. i managed to take one line of public transport that day without any problems. and i got to work an hour and a half late.
Melbourne weather is nuts. Itll be sunny and within a minute literally a minute it will be pouring absolutely pouring.
then it will be sunny again.
Then out of nowhere, and i know the picture doesn't show it well, but it hailed SO FUCKING HARD. so hard cars stopped. so hard that it was enough to make snowballs. You can see it all piled up against the wall there.
Then it was sunny again.
WTF melbourne?

Got paid. felt pretty good. first time i've had any money of my own. feels good man. Went to a bar called La la land last night with my sister.
I know i don't look like the best kept fellow but its nuts how many stares i get when i enter a room. Melbourne people seem to have an eagle eye for who has entered a room and fuck their stares are drilling.
Yeah so that was La la land.
We went to the only bar in australia that you can smoke in.

I can't remember the name but this cigar bar was fucking rocking.

I'm so tired. i'll finish this in the morning.

Hmmm.

Couldn't find Hannuman today.
Oh well.
Took a train to town. dropped off some CVs i'm not really any closer to getting a job but thats fine. ill get one eventually.

 Not much to say really i kinda just bummed around town saw some things. They have amazing arcades and alleyway shopping centreish things. cities within cities.
There is so much around to see. I was recommended a place called Asian Bear Bar. apparently its pretty spectacular but i havent seen it yet.

 i like mosaics.

Hey adam. that picture thing i gave you. ^ is the train station it is painted of.

Got a little bit of work tomorrow and a few days later this week. should be good for paying back debts and not much else.
Yeah. thats me pretty much. nothing too grand happened today.
Seeya babefaces
Cam

The Great Escape

I enjoy Gwen stefani. Her thoughtful lyrics and impeccable dress sense set my monkey heart afire. I am also very pleased she is so aware of monkey culture. She is among the only pop artist i know that is willing to sing with the deep emotion that only the mating noise of a monkey can manage (00:16-00:32) I figure this means that she is down for a bit of playtime
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0lf_fE3HwA
I should take her out to dinner some time.

Today i escaped that hell hole. never again will i be confined to jeans or shirts or any type of cameron stanky clothes.
I took his skateboard and escaped!
Apparenly there are these cycleways that run through all the major suburbs on their way to town. Its a safe way to get to town on a bike (or skateboard) why the hell don't New Zealand cities have this?

 The concrete was smooth and it was a great ride. i can see why Cameron loves skating. It follows the Yarra river all the way to town. The Yarra was looking wonderful today. A pristine brown.
Didn't see any animals in it. Not really surprised. I wouldn't wash myself in that. It might scour off my orange tan.

Its about 7 km to the city via this path and they have convenient seats and water fountains along the way (INVEST IN PUBLIC WORKS JOHN KEY YOU PRICK) I had a nap here and thought about how goddamn awesome i am. The lady in the car looked at me funny so made a charming face at her and she scowled harder.
Australian people are funny.

 Along the path i found not one but three bouldering walls. It was amazing that the city council thought to build these. I could not use them despite having opposable thumbs i cannot actually move them out of prayer stance. Unfortunate as it was i had to move on.

Melbourne people like graffiti. I do too. i have always liked colour over grey. This is some of the Graffiti and it was pretty rocking.

I do not know what this is but it looks like a poodle. I dont like poodles because they look like prissy sheep but i like this one because its got some class.

This is me riding elephant. I do not like elephant because i feel that elephant is liked more than monkeys. Everyone know Ganesh but no one cares about Hannuman. I AM A GOD TOO DAMNIT. I show my dislike of elephant by putting my bum on his head. that will show him. I have been told that there are 50 of these elephants around Melbourne i am going to make it my mission to find them and put my bum on each and every one of them. That will show Ganesh.
1/50

 2/50

 3/50

 I like this one because it had monkeys showing love on it. it made me think i should forgive Ganesh my brother.
Then i thought about all the noogies and i continued to put my butt on things
4/50

 Peek-a-boo!
5/50

 6/50

You know what New Zealand lacks? Street vendors.
Melbourne doesnt lack this
Melbourne 1
New Zealand 0
Atheists 0
7/50

 Damn that panda is happy.
8/50

 This Elephant was incredible. it was completely covered in mosaic. it was really beautiful.
And now my butt is on it
9/50

 Person who took picture could not get camera focused. Too many people walking by meant i didn't try again.
Blurry 10/50

After all that my butt was sore so i went down some alleys and hoped my butt didnt get any sorer because i did.
In Melbourne it seems that the local government has given the alleyways to the graffiti artists. Its incredible, they do some amazing work.

 For some reason i thought these would come out good even though i took them while skateboarding.

But they didn't. regardless i like the photos. see that alcove up there ^ i sat and ate a burger there. it was mediocre but it was free.
I had a good escape today. i saw many things. talked to less people than i thought i shouldve but i had a good time. i made my way back home to take my place underneath my tree.
I think i'll call him dave.
Courage be with you
Hannuman