Day May 8, 2008

The US electrical grid. Aging and inadequate

The Oil Drum explains why, in one of their long, well-researched and thought-out posts, hos the US electrical grid came to be in such precarious shape. Their sombre conclusion. I am having a very difficult time seeing how this can…

The food crisis. Misery is profitable

Celcias details how “free trade” and onerous terms forced by banks upon Third World countries directly cause food prices to rise. Recipients of IMF and World Bank loans must open their borders to the influx of highly subsidised agricultural produce…

More Fugs

Ed Sanders explains how the Fugs ran into censorship problems from mass media and police problems when they started doing music (but were never hassled when just doing poetry prior to that.) This from about ’65 or so. Somethings never…