Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2007 12:27 - Category: Unfiled ;
We moved from L.A. to Connecticut this year. This morning our three California-raised cats stared in bafflement out the window at the fluffy white objects falling from the sky. I took Joey outside, put his paw in snow. He look at me terrified and ran inside.
(In a month they’ll probably demand to be let outside so they can frolic in a blizzard.)
Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2007 07:20 - Category: Unfiled ;
‘Alan Greenspan really made a mess of all this. He pushed out too much liquidity at the wrong time. He supported the tax cut in 2001, which is the beginning of these problems. He encouraged people to take out variable-rate mortgages.’
– Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize winner in economics,
Finally, the mainstream financial world is seeing what a charlatan Greenspan was.
The question now is, will there be a recession? Black Friday (the shopping day after Thanksgiving, could be the tell.
Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2007 00:23 - Category: Climate change ;
Walmart is honest about it. They make no claims to being green, saying that sustainability saves them money and makes better products.
It also makes them money, as witness their plan to sell 100 million CFLs by the end of 2007 - a goal they met on Oct. 2. More than anyone else possibly, Walmart will make CFLs a mainstream product. This is a good thing. Huge amounts of energy will be saved.
We need to do everything possible to remediate global warming, and the more corporate giants that get involved in whatever way, the better. Sure, there is too much greenwash by corporations that don’t mean it, and sure, we need a better economic system, - but such new systems take decades to develop, and we don’t have decades.
Given that huge economic dislocations will take place because of global warming; dinosaur industries like coal will become obsolete, previously fertile areas will turn into deserts (and vice versa), there will be mass migrations to areas with water and arable land, new technologies will create new industries - so it’s more likely that new economic structures will be developed as a result of dealing with global warming and not the other way around.
We need to insure these new structures are people-friendly and hopefully that Khaki Green will not be needed.
Well, if politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military. If disasters get bad enough, they certainly become national-security threats and the National Guard is called in. If the National Guard never goes home because the weather never gets any better, that’s a scenario we Viridians like to call “Khaki Green.” It’s by no means a pleasant prospect, but what else is there?
What happens if an Atlanta runs out of water? Especially if the National Guard is unavailable because they are halfway across the globe fighting in wars? So, yet again, we see that all the causes are linked.
Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2007 00:15 - Category: Uncategorized Tags: Respect Party;
It’s time for the fractured Left to join together in a new coalition, says Socialist Unity, following the conferences over the past weekend in Britain by Respect and Respect Renewal. They call for an organization simply called ‘The Left,” a fresh start, free from the current heavy baggage. That way there won’t be infighting and trench warfare that would deflect from the real aims of stopping the war and opposing imperialism.
Sounds good, I hope it happens.
Bob Morris @ Nov 20th 2007 00:08 - Category: Unfiled ;
“I am a half-Buddhist, half-Marxist, ” says the Dalai Lama
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