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Here is what FUBAR stands for: F---d up beyond any recovery -- From military situations in WWII . >> Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler Wednesday, 30 October 2013 >> [image: nauru_map.png] >> >> *Nauru*. Welcome to the world's smallest country - a tiny isolated rock >> in a remote part of the Pacific, right on the Equator, 8.1 square miles >> with 9,300 people living around its 10-mile circumference. No one lives in >> the interior and we'll soon find out why. Of all 193 Member States of the >> United Nations, Nauru is the smallest in population. Only Monaco (less >> than 1 square mile on the French Riviera) is smaller in area. >> >> I wanted to reach the three most unknown and hidden nations in the South >> Pacific on this excursion. I found >> Tuvalu<http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/5628/2/> entrancing, >> and Tarawa <http://www.tothepointnews.com/content/view/5638/2/> in >> Kiribati repelling - but now I have made it all the way to the bottom of >> the Pacific's barrel. >> >> I have been to almost all of those 193 UN countries (189 in fact), and I >> can confirm that Nauru is more FUBAR than any other. Actually, that's an >> understatement. You all know what the acronym means, and Nauru takes it to >> a whole new dimension, a higher standard of fubaredness than the rest of >> the world which is unlikely to be surpassed in our lifetimes if ever. >> >> Better get comfortable in your favorite chair with at least three fingers >> of your favorite adult beverage at the ready to get through this. You'll >> find it hard to believe but this is a true story. Kafka himself couldn't >> have made it up, although he would have relished the irony in how it >> applies to us. The photos are all mine. >> >> We'll start with what Nauru unbelievably looks like. Note the green >> strip around the perimeter and the vast gray uninhabited interior. >> >> [image: nauru_island2.png] >> >> Nauru is a coral outcrop built up over five million years on top of an >> ancient volcano summit that eroded to sea level. There's no lagoon, just >> the solitary island in the middle of a vast ocean. For those five million >> years, countless nesting birds pooped on the coral depositing millions of >> tons of guano. Polynesians showed up in their outrigger canoes a couple of >> thousand years ago to eat the birds, fish, gather coconuts, and make war >> between the dozen clans they divided the island into. >> >> The Germans claimed the place in the 1880s and put an end to the >> inter-clan warfare. The Brits stole the island from the Germans after >> World War I, and began a mining operation of the island's interior >> containing one of the richest and highest-grade deposits of phosphate in >> the world. >> >> This came to a halt when the Japanese seized the island during WWII, but >> resumed after the war. Nauru was now a UN Trust Territory run jointly by >> the Brits, Aussies, and Kiwis - who were jointly stupid enough to grant >> Nauru full sovereign independence in 1968. >> >> When the Japanese surrendered the island at the war's end, there were >> less than 800 Nauruans left alive. By 1968 there were still less than >> 2,000 - while agricultural production in both Australia and New Zealand had >> become dependent on Nauru's "superphosphate" for the fertilizer making that >> production possible. >> >> Yet this tiny number of Nauruans somehow intimidated these huge countries >> into full sovereign ownership of the island and all phosphate >> production. Mining the phosphate had been hard labor-intensive work, >> chipping the solidified guano out of fossilized limestone coral >> pinnacles. Yearly production in the 50s and 60s was in the thousands of >> tons. >> >> The new Nauru government wasted no time in creating the government-owned >> Nauru Phosphate Company that went full-bore to produce as much phosphate as >> possible by strip-mining. Soon, Nauru was producing 1-2 *million* tons >> per year. During the 1970s and 1980s, Nauru was making $100-$200 million a >> year in phosphate profits, giving Nauruans the world's highest per capita >> GDP (over $50,000 per person per year, higher than any other country on the >> planet). >> >> For 30 years, from 1968 to 1998, Nauru produced 43 million tons of >> phosphate at a cumulative profit of $1.8 billion. Yes, billion - for a few >> thousand people. And they blew it all. >> >> Everyone had a brand-new car. Nauruans' favorite pastime was driving >> around the island - which takes about 20 minutes - over and over like a lab >> mouse running on a circular treadmill, while drinking Pale Blonde Aussie >> beer and throwing the empty cans out the window. >> >> No one paid any taxes, everything was paid for by the government as Nauru >> became a total welfare state. Nauruans changed governments like musical >> chairs so that everyone was on the gravy train. >> >> Nauruans became fully sedentary. Consuming enormous quantities of beer >> and rice, Nauruans became and still are the most obese people on >> earth<http://ajw.asahi.com/article/globe/feature/obesity/aj201205270051> - >> it is astounding how fat they are - and have the world's highest rate of >> diabetes (e.g., 53% of Nauruan women over age 55 have diabetes). >> >> During Nauru's go-go days, the police chief bought himself a $200,000 >> yellow Lamborghini. Off-loaded at the dock all shiny spanking new, the >> chief was the proudest guy on the island - until he tried to take it for a >> spin only to discover he was too fat to squeeze into it. >> >> Nauru's circular road was littered with car wrecks crashed by >> drunks. The politicians in charge of the Nauru Phosphate Trust Fund >> squandered incredible fortunes on expensive real estate buys they trashed >> like office buildings in Australia, or hotels on Waikiki in Hawaii and the >> Grand Pacific in Suva, Fiji, then letting them go kaput. They spent >> millions on a play, *Leonardo (da Vinci) the >> Musical*<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html?curid=7854630>, >> panned by critics and audiences as one of the worst in history of theatre, >> and to which the entire cabinet and their families flew to London in their >> private jet for the disastrous debut. >> >> They insisted on having their own prestige airline, Air Nauru, with five >> Boeing 737s and two 727s flying routes all over the Pacific at 10-20% >> capacity. Often, the president or one of his cronies would commandeer a >> plane ready to fly in order to take his family on a shopping spree in Hong >> Kong or Tokyo, leaving all the passengers and their luggage stranded on the >> tarmac. By 1990 Air Nauru was losing $100 million a year. By 1996 it was >> down to a single 737. >> >> As phosphate production began winding down in the 90s, the politicians >> began borrowing against the trust fund to bankroll their lifestyle and the >> Nauru welfare state. General Electric Capital Division lent them $236 >> million. Phosphate production fell off a cliff in 1998 and was down to >> almost zero in 2006. GE foreclosed in 2004. Air Nauru ceased operating in >> 2005 with its one plane seized by creditors. >> >> The state was so bankrupt it couldn't pay its satellite phone bills and >> lost contact with the world for several months. >> >> Today, Nauru is kept on life support through aid and handouts of various >> kinds from the governments of Australia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. Nauruans >> think the world owes them a living. Very few have any drive or >> incentive. The population has quintupled since independence as Nauruan >> women have an average of 4 children - yet parents could care less if their >> kids go to school. Truancy is rampant, with Aussie teachers here telling >> me their students have almost no desire to learn anything. >> >> People here are fatter than ever and dying like flies from diabetes, >> smoking, heart disease and booze. Men die on average at age 56, women a >> few years later. At least a quarter of Nauruan children are stunted from >> malnutrition, eating sugar junk food and white rice. Most Nauruans live in >> destitution. Most of the island looks like Detroit in the Pacific Ocean. >> >> There are no banks here or insurance companies. There is no Nauru >> currency - the official currency is Australian dollars. Every transaction >> is cash. Almost all real jobs are done by ex-pats, mostly from Australia, >> or elsewhere in the Pacific like Tarawa or the Marshall Islands. Almost all >> businesses and shops, mostly tiny tin shacks, are run by Chinese. Defunct >> Air Nauru has been restarted with one 737 bought as a gift from Taiwan. It >> operates as, I kid you not, Our Airline <http://www.ourairline.com.au/>. >> That's >> the actual name of Nauru's airline now. >> >> As of 2013, according to the New Zealand government, Nauru's public debt >> is around $869 million. After wasting or stealing $1.8 billion, not one >> single Nauru politician has been prosecuted, much less jailed. One reason >> is because of any 5 Nauruans, 2 are related. They were all in the scam >> together. >> >> Now let's take a look at the Island of Fubar. Remember I asked you to >> note the vast gray patch of the island in the picture above? 80% of the >> island has been rubble-ized by phosphate strip mining, leaving countless >> stone coral pinnacles. >> >> Nauruans call this area "Topside," and you have to see it to believe >> it. Pinnacles up to 20 feet high as far as you can see. It's a >> mind-boggling ecological catastrophe. Topside - 80% of Nauru - is utterly >> uninhabitable and always will be. >> >> [image: nauru_topside.png] >> >> [image: nauru_topside4.png] >> >> [image: nauru_topside3.png] >> >> Nauru's beaches exist only at low tide, and are also studded with coral >> pinnacles. They are natural formations, but make the beaches jeopardous >> and unswimmable. >> >> [image: nauru_big_pinnacle_beach.png] >> >> [image: nauru_pinnacle_beach.png] >> >> That beach front home you see? Here it is close up. Completely trashed, >> it's not abandoned - people live here. I love the thoughtful touch of old >> blue jeans as window curtains. >> >> [image: nauru_beach_home.png] >> >> Most Nauruans live in trashed tenement homes. Here's another - note the >> loving attention paid to front yard landscaping, given that this is a lush, >> tropical South Seas island: >> >> [image: nauru_home.png] >> >> Trashed office buildings are everywhere also. >> >> [image: nauru_office.png] >> >> There's an idyllic lake called Buada Lagoon... >> >> [image: nauru_buada.png] >> >> But it's trashed too. >> >> [image: nauru_buada2.png] >> >> There's also the gigantic wreckage of the abandoned phosphate operation. >> >> [image: nauru_pwreckage.png] >> >> [image: nauru_pwreckage2.png] >> >> Recently, however, it's been revived to extract "secondary" lower-grade >> phosphate. The enormous processing plant has been reopened. >> >> [image: nauru_pplant.png] >> >> With the emission of huge clouds of phosphate dust... >> >> [image: nauru_pdust.png] >> >> That everyone in Nauru's largest community of Aiwo below the plant has to >> breathe. Adding insult to injury, the government put up this hilarious >> sign in Aiwo. Note the processing plant behind it. >> >> [image: nauru_sign.png] >> >> I'm quite sure by now that you see the irony reeking in all of this, that >> it has dawned on you that Nauru is what Zero wants to turn America into, >> that he wants to turn Americans into Nauruans. The latest headlines >> proclaim it: >> >> 90,609,000: Americans Not In Labor Force Climbs To Another >> Record<http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/90609000-americans-not-labor-force-climbs-another-record> >> . >> >> U.S. Spent $3.7 Trillion On Welfare In Last 5 >> Years.<http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/report-us-spent-37-trillion-welfare-over-last-5-years_764582.html> >> >> Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov't Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time >> Year-Round >> Workers.<http://cnsnews.com/news/article/terence-p-jeffrey/census-bureau-means-tested-govt-benefit-recipients-outnumber-full> >> >> We were the richest people on earth and now the most indebted, borrowing >> trillions to maintain our welfare addiction and dependency. It is this >> addiction and dependency that got Zero elected and reelected. What has >> destroyed Nauru is what is destroying America - especially when we are >> governed by a president and a party determined to do so, and have an >> opposition party too stupid and cowardly to prevent it. >> >> There is no hope for the Nauruans, for they have passed the point of >> recoverability, of no return. Their state must soon cease to exist, with >> the island abandoned and its inhabitants scattered elsewhere. (What is >> going on as an insane attempt to prevent this fate will be discussed next >> week.) >> >> Is there hope for us? Sure there is. Americans are not Nauruans, no >> matter how much Zero attempts to "fundamentally transform" them. Just look >> at the utter FUBAR of Obamacare, the lynchpin of his presidency, for >> evidence. >> >> There is nothing fubared in America that a President Ted Cruz can't >> rectify - especially if he's teamed up with a Vice-President Ben Carson, >> MD<http://www.amazon.com/America-Beautiful-Rediscovering-Nation-Great/dp/0310330912/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1383136649&sr=8-1&keywords=Benjamin+Carson+MD> >> . >> >> So ends my odyssey to the Remote Pacific. Soon I head back to America, >> from a land of no hope to a land where there is still hope, and where we >> have the opportunity to turn that hope into reality. Cruz-Carson '16! >> > > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. 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