This is no different than Network TV news showing Reginald Denny getting his brains smashed all over the pavement during the LA Riots in 1992. Should the news networks be held responsible for running those stories? I think not!

One article I read said “It’s not clear who posted the video on the Internet.” Trust me, it’s clear. Anyone that knows anything about technology knows that information can be obtained. Last time I checked there is something called IP addresses and every single computer on the internet has a unique signature (unless of course you are using an ip address cloaking device).

I know of at least one method of IP cloaking that is free, legal, and completely blocks your IP address. But you’ll have to find it for yourself. :->

MySpace is NOT to blame here people. If you leave the technology out of the picture for a moment this is just a bunch of kids that decided to beat the crap out of another kid because they didn’t like what she said about them. The mistake they made is they decided to film the whole thing.

It’s like they can’t tell the difference between reality and video. In the real world, there is no rewind button and you can’t record over and erase. Most people have a pretty good grip on that fact. But not all, apparently.

You can find the videos here. About 5 seconds was all I could take of psychopath cheerleaders pummeling a terrified girl.

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Those six teenage girls in Florida who severely beat another girl then posted the video online - ah, what planet are they from? It’s not just their sickening savagery and lack of remorse, but also that they are apparently so disconnected from reality that they didn’t comprehend that posting the video could get them into serious trouble. Which it most certainly did.

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A suburb eating robot.

The two front legs crush and process the suburban houses, and turn them into materials ready for recycling (naturally, being giant robots, the compacted materials are fired off in missiles to the recycling plants). The middle and rear-legs slowly but surely terraform the earth left behind. Flora and fauna are brought to the site via these behemoths, and Mother Nature is restored.

This would appear to be extreme technophilia being used in a Luddite manner, a high tech destruction of abandoned human habitat then restoring it to nature. Will the housing crisis, peak oil, and climate change actually result in a world where the suburbs are emptied out and people return, voluntarily or not, to the cities?

Or maybe, just maybe, we can combine clean, renewable power and transportation with smart energy conservation and avert such a Malthusian world.

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Infectious Greed wonders about Kevin Phillips new book, Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism. Is everything really going off a cliff? Maybe not, he thinks.

So many now are predicting doom and gloom, and not just from the edges either, that while they may be right, we could also be seeing some sort of bottom forming politically, economically, spiritually, etc.

When the mainstream starts sounding like Marxists wondering if this current bust will be the final death rattle of the boom - bust cycle of capitalism then, hmm, I’m guessing it won’t be.

“Marxists have predicted eleven of the past six crises.” Is the mainstream doing it now too? Not that we don’t face huge problems, because we do. But the solutions are there too.

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