Bassnectar – Wildstyle Method

Green NIMBYs

NY Times: Green development? Not in my (liberal) backyard

But policymakers in the United States have been repeatedly frustrated by constituents who profess to worry about the climate and count themselves as environmentalists, but prove unwilling to adjust their lifestyles or change their behavior in any significant way.

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Odyssey Dawn (apologies to Tanya Tucker)

Odyssey Dawn, what’s that gunbelt you have on Could it be a deja vu from days gone by And did I hear you say the bombing was starting again today This time will be different, don’t you cry

Empire State Rebellion: An idea whose time has come

This video was posted by Anonymous. They are planning something major and it’s aimed directly at Wall Street. Let’s not forget when private security / gov’t spook company HBGary recently boasted they could take down Anonymous, they ended up getting disemboweled by Anonymous instead, who broke into their supposedly secure servers and distributed their [...]

The Underpants Gnomes ponder their plan for Libya

Like the business plan of the South Park underpants gnomes, the game plan for invading Libya has no discernible Phase 2.

I mean, what could go wrong with destroying major parts of the infrastructure of a country you claim to want to save while killing civilians at the same time? Hey, that’ll win their [...]

The Dollyrots – Because I’m Awesome

How to save taxpayers $6 billion a year

Repeal the subsidy on corn ethanol, says Sen. Jim Webb and Sen. Dianne Feinstein. They have introduced a bill to do so.

Corn ethanol is wasteful and an obvious giveaway to agribusiness. Other methods of making ethanol are much more promising, like from leftovers / waste from crop, animal, and wood processing, and especially algae. [...]

UN says small farms can feed the world

Small-scale farms that practice agroecology – sustainable, indigenous techniques including animal husbandry – can double worldwide food production in ten years, experts say. A new report by the United Nations says world hunger and weather-related crop losses are issues which can only be addressed by scaling back industrial farms worldwide.

Agroecology projects in 57 [...]

The Manichean anti-imperialist left and the Libya bombings

Harry’s Place dissects the arguments of the UK Stop the War Coalition (which basically is a front for UK-SWP) on why to oppose intervention in Libya. But they make it too complicated. Groups like SWP believe anything US /UK does is always Bad therefore any opponent of them must always and without question be a [...]

WSJ confirms my theory on disaster capitalism

It’s the new disaster capitalism. Capitalism creates disasters through greed while captured governments stand by idly.

It’s the new disaster capitalism. Capitalism creates disasters through greed while captured governments stand by idly.

Tepco, the operator of the crippled nuclear plant, delayed using seawater to lessen radiation because it would damage the reactors and hence [...]