Risks
Happy May Day! I hope it doesn't turn out like Earth Day did!
The memo had obviously circulated last night because a number of pundits used this same sickening line: "Every energy source has risks associated with it." Coming from the mouth of David Brooks it was particularly vile. Those who took the risks will profit, those who didn't will pay the heaviest costs.
And David,explain the risks of wind or solar or small scale hydro or geothermal or....Now compare those to coal and hydrocarbons. Just as in the financial sector of the economy (and to a lesser extent the main economy) risk aversion and risk acceptance is the real game, the way to real wealth, the way to leave the slathering wage slaves far behind and enter the rarefied world Players. But at the highest level the Masters trade other peoples (or animals, plants, whole ecosystems) risk while guaranteeing their own continued survival through hedging, shorts, derivatives, and risk management.
The "Public" News (underwritten by Exxon-Mobile) interviewed a charter boat captain who stammered incoherently about responsibility. A black guy said "shit happens". Every individual was neutered and neutralized, de-politicized, as the crud swept into the estuaries and bays. Politicians tried not to act like Bush or "Brownie".Coast Guard types talked like generals, Corporate Spokespeople lied and looked heavenward. "You have to understand how deep the well head is" they all kept saying.
Just Trust Us say the scientists, technocrats, engineers and their capitalist paymasters. We can build the Reactors and the Bombs, continue to drill deeper for oil or dig deeper for coal.We'll poison the atmosphere and water and dig out all the minerals and all the while "manage the risks". All we the people need to worry about is our portfolio and our politicians. All we need to do is recycle and vote.
Today is May Day and we are going to do what hornets do, bother and annoy and hopefully sting Capital a bit. The one thing we can't do is let May Day turn into another Earth Day.
posted by troutsky @ 6:10 AM
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15 Comments:
Happy Mayday.
Really interesting Mayday in Minneapolis. At the start of the week, there was two Mayday marches proposed. One by a more "radical" immigrants rights group, and another by even more reformist elements. Then the Arizona issue hit, and they were forced to work together. They drew easily more than 2,000 people.
Radical activists can't create such a march. It's like they are screaming until they are hoarse. Movements are caused by EVENTS, EVENTS and EVENTS.
Louisiana should be watched closely. People are still recovering from Katrina.
Michael Ruppert on the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico (not to be confused with the Persian Gulf)
"It would be so poetic if
history recorded that this was the event that marked the cliff edge of human industrial civilization. Maybe then someone will get the point. Maybe then we will find our hundredth monkey... And maybe Mother Earth will have poisoned us with the substance we have so greedily raped her -- and kill...ed each other -- for... "You want oil?... I'll give you oil."
http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/2010/04/gulf-oil-leak-catastrophic.html
We had no organized EVENT like that to attach ourselves to so our numbers are small. But they are dedicated and their analysis is becoming more sophisticated and developed. Any one of our members can demolish the liberals and conservatives in argument but there is no political space except the streets.
The Ruppert link was great kultur and an oil covered coastline is the perfect metaphor.
Your numbers always will be small. When masses move, they move through their traditional organizations. I don't belong to a party. I belong to tendency, that is the Marxist wing of the PPP in Pakistan, WP in Brazil etc.
Take the PPP in Pakistan. In a developing country like that you have combined and uneven development. The leaders of the PPP are bourgeoise and feudal. The rank and file are workers and peasant. If it split. that would be tremendous in that part of the world. This party was founded as a socialist party.
Every major communist party, came out of a social democratic party.
Activists try to artificially create a movement, even in times when there is ni motion by the masses. It's like screaming until you're hoarse.
In the mean time, you talk to the ones and twos.
I think today Obama is getting a pass, Bush couldn't on the oil spillage.
More BS from the sons of treason and class genocide.
Thank a Commie
1) Thank a commie for facilitating international terrorism as a spectator sport.
2) Thank a commie for debasing our educational system so that it is the laughing stock of the developed nation.
3) Thank a commie if you are out of work or over taxed. Needless environmental policies and endless
social safety nets really do wonders for the economy.
4) Thank a commie for aiding and abetting every enemy of the United States and for betraying this country throughout its history.
Make America a better place export
commies to North Korea, Cuba, Zimbabwe or Venezuela where they can live in the hell holes they advocate for others.
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2) Thank a commie for debasing our educational system so that it is the laughing stock of the developed nation.
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Beak, do you mean world?
Laughing stock? Well, you know I love Boston and in a small radius I've got three world class institutions, Harvard, MIT and the New England Conservatory. Not bad. Scores of great institutions like Tufts, BC, BU ... or you can drive a bit out to Worcester, Clark, Holy Cross, Amherst ... never mind dozens of others.
I doubt it's laughed at. But your bizarre silliness is a constant source of the risible.
Happy May Day, Beak. May a revolutionary consciousness smile on you.
@ Beak-idiot
3) Thank a commie if you are out of work or over taxed. Needless environmental policies and endless
social safety nets really do wonders for the economy.
What kind of drugs are you one... you morron!
Duncy
Our educational system is the laughing stock of the developed nations. IIT is known for producing the worlds best graduates. MIT is known for a Communist crank who thinks he is doing stand up.
Those New England schools are getting by on their reputations. Ask a HR professional if an IIT Grad or any of those MA schools gets the job and don't be surprised. India is not burdened by Commies watering down higher ed.
Ironically even Chinese Universities are less burdened by
Communist crackpots than those in the USA.
It is time to stop treating Education as a job programs for unemployable hacks like Che Bob and the Mazola Marxist clown.
Our Educational system is a joke and it will not get better until we
get the reds out. Of course with Charter schools some parents should
lobby to create Communist free schools as an alternative to home schooling.
Last but not least Prof Mazzola.
If you were litterate beyond reading Mother Jones and manifestos
you would be aware of the damages the Commie led environmental movement has had on the economy. People should look at energy taxes and all sorts of needless restrictions on drilling and environmental obstructionism and thank Commies for making off shoring much more cost effective.
If a person is out of work for a protracted period of time they should thank a commie.
"People should look at energy taxes and all sorts of needless restrictions on drilling and environmental obstructionism and thank Commies for making off shoring much more cost effective."
Well beakidiot, I guess that BP platform will not be so cost effective after all, eith for BP or the USA, or the 1000's of people who make their living off fishing and tourism in Florida... oh, and I guess the price of fucking crude is going to fucking escalate, so won't be too cost effective for the US driver or transportation industry either... In fact, I guess it lays the groundwordk for the demise of America's self absorbed lovefest with itself... you, my erstwhile fiend, are an anachronism, much like you jackass buddy guliani, the italian mafia boss from nyc.
And David,explain the risks of wind or solar or small scale hydro or geothermal or....Now compare those to coal and hydrocarbons.
Without cheap, abundant energy, we have to forfeit many of the gains of the industrial revolution. You're right to point out the costs of many of our energy sources, but Brooks is right: there are costs for every decision.
How would you like to spend an hour's wage firing up the computer for a five minute blog post? Cheap energy has its perks.
oh, and i forgot the most important thing beakidiot... we just killed 100's of thousands of fish and other seafood, and have permanently destroyed the ecosystem of the Gulf and Atlantic Ocean around Florida
"Cheap energy has its perks."
Why is a dollor figure (directly or indirectly) tied to everything we discuss?
Wiser... we are all the great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandchildren of first generation civilized humans... we cannot go back... that is obvious... but at least we should acknowledge how thoroughly fucked up we have made this world because of our untamable greed. What to do about it is another story.
I agree the educational "system" has been degraded, but when I see the Tea Party I wonder if it was ever teaching critical thinking skills. We were taught that we were deserving, exceptional people that could out-compete the world.
Wiser, I think this is too narrow a lens. A whole new cost-benefit analysis process would include quality of life and future generations. I would gladly sacrifice my computer but believe safe energy sources could be developed at reasonable cost once fossil fuels were abandoned.
Kultur
Since when does a Mazzola Marxist care about death. Commies worship death and are quite fond of killing whole classes.
Any extraction activity carries certain risks. Cheap energy provides jobs and the condition for growth unlike inefficient methods like solar.
If you are so concerned about pointless death you would save more lives by slapping warning labels on Commie assasins like Ren
whose policies lead to gratuitous deaths with no tangible benefits in every application.
Obviously the academic hack is on LSD or does not read beyond manifestos and Mother Jones. Rudy
G prosecuted the mob and was quite good at it. NYC was very well run in comparison to any large city in the world. Of course when crime is through the roof in Caracas his lackey will repeat excuses.
Either that or the faculty louge anti Semite has added hatred of Italians to the list of Marxist approved bigotry.
There are acceptable risks and BP will pay for the clean up. Funny but we do not hear a peep about Castro's Off shore drilling.
This is more hypocrisy.
Drill away
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