DEAD. The oil-based credit-is-good paradigm is over. Do not try to resurrect it, especially with dollars that do not exist. You will only make the future worse, President Obama. Just as when an individual, for whatever reasons, slips into bankruptcy, so should organizations of individuals be allowed to slip into bankruptcy. AIG wants to change its name or already has changed its name, probably to AIU Holdings, after its toxic financial waste unit is separated from the rest of the company. Don't know if it would make sense to, but a special entity for toxic financial waste could be created. Perhaps then computers could identify and classify that waste, and determine how best to eliminate it. Besides, a vast majority of this nation's citizens have on their own chosen saving over borrowing; and a further besides: If we don't immediately begin to reduce the toxins in Earth's atmosphere, the financial mess will be a moot concern, because we will lose our planet, and most likely our lives. 2009-03-26: See money.cnn.com/ and search colin barr truth about credit default swaps - Also: Treasury Secretary Geithner will be apprising Congress today. PM 1:11 -- ----------- Search Geithner March 26, 2009 financial system overhaul or Play Geithner testimony video here. PM 2:00 -- ----------- See this post by Mike Hewitt America's Forgotten War Against the Central Banks on his DollarDaze blog. One sentence from this long insightful post: "The more abundant the money, the lower its value." PM 2:45 -- See DollarDaze by Mike Hewitt ---------- in Unlike List in sidebar. rho00322
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
America as we have known it is dead
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Christmas Island
from salon.com "This place is the bomb" by David Wolman about a Sooty Tern invasion Rho00167
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
saving planet Earth three
From the International Herald Tribune: "Experts ponder the hazards of using technology to save the planet" by Cornelia Dean 2008-08-12 urgent action and oversight Rho00148
Friday, July 11, 2008
atmospheric chemist Paul J Crutzen
One of three winners of the 1995 Nobel Chemistry Prize, Anthropocene, the name for the present geological age, is attributed to him. Links of interest: biofuels and global warming ..... Holocene geological age ..... Anthropocene geological age ..... some information about Paul J. Crutzen ..... Professor Crutzen's personal page ..... Of related interest: - A recent article by Mike Davis which is at several sites and can be found by Google-searching Mike Davis welcome next epoch - Rho00110 *
Sunday, April 27, 2008
saving planet earth two
At Linh Dinh's site, part of a speech by Richard Heinberg out of which the following extensive entries at Wikipedia: Permaculture and Biointensive These three center on the international move away from industrial agriculture, and engage the reasons why. Planet Earth can be saved, and it is intriguing that Jeffersonian and Emersonian thinking are at the heart of it. Yet, as Richard Heinberg says, the necessary new culture will not be like any of the older cultures. So much more is known now than was then, and so much more becomes known with each new day. - Perhaps train travel will return after all. Instead of two cars in every garage, one food garden (or a part of a food garden) for every family. I know/ this is not a possible, but our communities can be made more environmentally-friendly than they now are. O O Rho00066
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Saving Planet Earth
I am no Earth-wise holy person, but here are some links to articles worth reading and to some sites worth exploring: "The Web Way to Save Planet Earth" by John McConnell Near the bottom of this page is a link to the associated Earth site: www.earthsite.org At the BBC this Saving Planet Earth page. At money.cnn.com "The race to save Mother Earth in 8 years" by Chris Taylor, Business 2.0 Magazine senior editor Today (04/26/08) at Linh Dinh's site: "The World's Worst Population Problem" featuring Albert A. Bartlett's "Is There a Population Problem?" To learn more about this University of Colorado Physics Professor Emeritus and his contributions take the Albert A. Bartlett link Linh provides. At Alan Contreras's site, this April 14, 2008 post: "Civilized and Uncivilized Societies" Do not be put off by this title. His post is well-researched and thoughtfully presented. One sentence from it is: "A government is due respect only insofar as such respect is earned by conduct." For those who are willing to buy a book, here are two: Jorie Graham's Sea Change, about which there is an online review and Tony Juniper's How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change a Planet?: 95 Ways to Save Planet Earth. One more site of interest: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service This search: saving planet earth returns many results, some of which may interest you. 04/27/08: a 12/09/07 addition from The New York Times Sunday, April 27, 2008 Expert Roundtable - China: Choking on Growth answers from Michael P. Walsh O Rho00065
