10.04.2009
10.03.2009
I'm Learning now; Growing. That is Central why I had to leave the Matrix.
Early in my career in industry I BEGAN to learn the Lesson that ESSENTIAL
in life is to learn FROM WHAT YOU DO. As I began to take charge of my
career this, in my better moments, became my #2 selection criterion
from among what ever alternatives I could generate, #1 being
ethics - would it Help others (as I badly understood it then).
Central to why I had to leave Industry, the Matrix, was because so much
of my time was diverted from what Humanity needed me to learn!
I am learning so much now, these days, weeks, years... - that is of consequence,
that is of Hope, that can matter to Humanity.
From my interactions, from my freedom of time to devote my attention to the
central issues OF Humanity now, every waking second.
LIFE. LOVE. JOY. PEACE OF HEART.
Spotlights on we sheeple. We'll NEVER have better than the Obamas. EVER. Sooooo...
If we can't make the US work NOW, IT IS A CERTAINTY THAT WE WILL NEVER
MAKE IT WORK.
Ending apartheid did NOT depend on "the right government," but on
the right
CITIZEN ACTION.
Civil Rights in US did NOT depend on "the right government," but on
the right
CITIZEN ACTION.
Women's Suffrage did NOT depend on "the right government," but on
the right
CITIZEN ACTION.
Ending the Vietnam War did NOT depend on "the right government," but on
the right
CITIZEN ACTION.
If Strong HC Reform fails WE THE PEOPLE FAILED.
If Strong Climate Change Legislation Fails WE THE PEOPLE FAILED.
If the Afghanistan policy is wrong WE THE PEOPLE FAILED.
If Jobs Don't Materialize WE THE PEOPLE FAILED.
If Wall Street BLEEDING OF US CONTINUES WE THE PEOPLE FAILED.
Do you always consult with Terrorists, Traitors? Your News Source Does.
consult the Faux Republicans (hijackers of Republican party
and Conservative cause) - Boehner, McConnel and the other ReTHUGlicans
on the Hill? Traitors. Terrorists. Fascists. The Wrecking Crew.
HIJACKERS of America - IF WE LET THEM.
Yes, the FEW exceptions include DemocracyNow.org, BuzzFlash.com,
Rachel Maddow Show.
"Died" is much less useful than "Passed On."
The character of each of us is in large part bits and pieces of the Spirit
of others that now reside in us; out of which we are constructed.
Our culture, technology... is entirely woven out of the immortal impact
of those that have passed on into, and now comprise these things.
Our hate groups / shock jocks / Zionists of today are repositories,
reincanations of Hitler, Nazis, McCarthy.... and our Limbaughs,
Becks, Hannitys, O'Reilly's... will pass on into us to immortality, if
we let them.
Gandhi, King, were truly in significant part reincarnations of Jesus.
It matters what we are, and what we become, and who we allow to
"Pass on" into us - comprising us, constituting us. We do not die. We
live on strengthening, giving life to, or weakening, killing - the body of
Humanity.
This is inescapable.
Who will we manifest?
Who will we give Life to?
Who will we pass on?
10.02.2009
Life's, Love's, Joy's DNA
"Stay with God (Universal Love / Conscience) and all will be Good." SL
"Love is Universal, or it is not Love. Love is Joyful, or it is not Love. Love
is entirely about the-least-of-these, or it is not Love. Love involves Courage,
or it is not Love." SL
"I adore Jesus, and you, far too much to be "a Christian."" SL
'My problem is not the violent racists. My problem is the Good folks that say -
this is terrible, but we can't fix it yet, not in this way, not so fast, I'm not quite
ready to put MY life on the line, I can't devote myself now because....'
MLK Jr paraphrase
"The Perfect (and only) Solution for Joy and eliminating all needless suffering
both personal and interpersonal, individual and global IS UNIVERSAL LOVE
(total and complete devotion to the least-of-these our Family in the world).
To BE this Solution is why our genes have us here. Entertaining ourselves is
NOT why were created, and can never satisfy us; but it will destroy us." SL
"God (Universal Love) with certainty thrusts us INTO "life's storms," to save
the Life of the drowning, for the Joy of it." SL
"You have chosen one of two possible lives - Family with ALL or Family with
some. Family with ALL IS Joy, Life, Love, Peace-of-Heart, Heaven. Family with
some is Cancer - the Death of your Humanity and our death as Humanity." SL
"WAR IS INESCAPABLE; Hostility, Blood and Killing are NOT; only Heroic, Loving
Self Sacrifice is the alternative." SL
"Leadership is clawing yourself, and therefore maybe others, away from
cowardice, off of the sidelines and into the good fight." SL
"Good IS God. They are identical. IDENTICAL. Period." SL
"We're born to work for Humanity; NEVER for money." SL
"Live for Joy; never for pleasure." SL
"There is but one True Religion - that practiced by Jesus, Badshah Kahn,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Teresa, Rabbi Heschel, Gandhi, Romero... - Universal
Love. There are no True Organized Religions today, but there are individuals
OF the True Religion - Universal Love - including some of you!" SL
"Life is found [only] in total devotion to the-least-of-these. Run there,
and Live!" SL
"Ask not what Pres. Obama can do for you. Ask what YOU can do for your
brothers and sisters in need." SL
YouTube just DELETED my StartLoving1 Chan along with my 230 Friends and
650 Subscribers. Please RE-Subscribe, Friend, and PROMOTE.
"If you value pleasure then you believe what you Please. If you value Love,
Life, Joy, Peace-of-Heart then you value Truth of what serves the least of
these. No 3rd option is available." SL
"Live for JOY, never for pleasure." SL
"Wealth of Life, Joy, Love and Peace-of-Heart are found in the service of the
least of these. If not there, not Joy, Life, etc, but rather pleasure." SL
"Love is the greedily taking of responsibility for the-least-of-these, or it is not
Love. Love is Universal, or it is not Love. Love involves Courage, or it is not
Love." SL
"Do unto the least of these all that you would have them do unto you." JC
Repeat, Sleep, Repeat, Sleep....
"Golden Rule - if it is more or less than your share, don't take it."
Gandhi paraphrase.
"Example is not the major thing in influencing people; it is the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer
"If you see another man he is either your brother in religion, or your brother in
humanity." Muslim Cleric Imam Ali
"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
Works of Love:
http://jesusgodgoodetcnjay....
http://prop1.org
http://HomeEarthSecurity.bl...
http://facebook.com/StartLo...
http://LovingUSActivists.bl...
"Leadership is the unleashing and focusing of energy." SL
"Leadership is going and standing where others need to arrive." SL
"It is not WHAT you do. It is THAT you do with Universal Love / Total Commitment /
Complete Devotion, Period." SL
"This is your "Freedom:" Choosing existence IN The Matrix, or Life outside The Matrix.
No 3rd choice exists." SL
"VISION is EVERYTHING. Our eyes as a 6 year old are different than those at 25,
right? We need to reclaim those of 6. Hurry." SL
Vision is EVERYTHING. Our eyes as a 6 year old are different than those at 25, right? We need to reclaim those of 10. Hurry.
We need to reclaim those of 6. Hurry.
Before lust.
Before hate.
Before greed.
Before fear.
Before division.
Before "foreigner."
Before "enemy."
Before "kill."
Before "bomb."
Before "other."
They are totally different eyes, aren't they?
We need the original ones. These new ("adult") ones are wrong, distorted, blind.
They are deeply UN-civilized, profoujdly DE-humanized.
'The Kingdom of God (Universal Love) is within you;
be like a Child and enter in.' JC
God (Universal Love) with certainty thrusts us INTO "life's storms," to save the Life of the drowning, for the Joy of it. SL
Actually, God (Universal Love) with certainty thrusts us INTO "life's storms," to save the Life of the drowning, for the Joy of it. SL
WAR IS INEVITABLE; Hostility, Blood and Killing are NOT; only Heroic, Loving Self Sacrifice is the alternative.
What's your choice - war of Destruction or war of Construction?
Your life announces your choice.
10.01.2009
DON'T MISS THIS!!!! Proposition One In 2010 Campaign
Nuclear Disarmament "Cells" (my word) in the states that support the
legal process called - Citizen's Initiative. PLEASE:
* Enjoy her most recent post (below)
* Explore her site (Link below)
* ENCOURAGE AND SUPPORT THEIR EFFORTS.
We win the war of words and legislation today,
or we die in the war of blood and murder - tomorrow.
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From Idaho to Utah to Colorado, with a side trip to Wyoming and Montana.... Posted: 01 Oct 2009 11:36 AM PDT So, now, it's two weeks later already, and again we're going to have to encapsule the multitude of experiences. Traveling takes so much TIME! Idaho was beautiful, and so were the activists in Boise, where we had two great events. Liz Woodruff of Snake River Alliance did an incredible job of planning, promoting and hosting the "Dinner For Disarmament" at the Shangri-La Tea Room (a wonderful event!). She also kindly included us in the "Peace Corner" at Boise's annual Hyde Park Street Fair at Camel's Back Park, combining forces of SRA, Vets for Peace, the Idaho Peace Coalition & Prop1 to hold down the peace vibe in a blue corner of red Idaho. And Liz's family provided us elegant hospitality (Thanks, Dr. & Mrs. Briggs!). After Boise, we went to West Yellowstone and spent the night with the Buffalo Field Campaign folks before heading through Yellowstone National Park. The Buffalo Field Campaign was established to protect the buffalo from cattle ranchers who want them killed when they leave the Park. People come from all over the country in the dead of winter to go into the park and not only keep watch, but respectfully (with head lowered and body in a non-threatening pose) turn buffalo around if they're headed in the wrong direction. The young people at the lodge were incredibly healthy! They spent the summer cutting, hauling, and splitting wood to heat the lodge all winter. During our day-long drive through Yellowstone, we saw bubbling mud pits, spouting geysers, elk, antelope, and numerous buffalo. We had a profound experience with one old bull who chose to walk across the road right in front of the van. On the way out of Yellowstone on the last day of summer, it snowed! We spent the night in Bozeman, Montana, with Jim MacDonald and Genevieve Calmes, and their boy River, hiked up to a waterfall, then took off for Pocatello, Idaho, where (former DC teacher and Statehood activist) Tom Briggs arranged a room at the university and hosted us in his home. Early the next morning we went to the Idaho National Labs, where (thanks to Beatrice Brailsford of Snake River Alliance) we were given a VIP tour of the cleanup currently underway. We'll post separately about that experience. We then rejoined allies Snake River Alliance and HEAL Utah in Salt Lake City for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission "workshop" (hearings) about re-classifying depleted uranium (DU) as a waste stream, affecting whether DU should be brought in massive quantities into Utah. (Vanessa Pierce and Chris Carpenter of HEAL Utah, and Beatrice of the SRA, were at the table for the good guys!) Then, with the public allowed only 15 minutes of testimony at the very end of two full days of hearings, Jay managed a quote in the Salt Lake Tribune with his testimony: Before we left, we got a glimpse of HEAL's downtown offices as they were busy preparing a follow-up press conference on the Utah state capitol steps, and caught an interview with their newest staff member, brought on specifically to focus the public (and Utah's two red senators) on ratifying the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) when it comes up in the spring. Go, HEAL! From Salt Lake City we drove to Colorado, by way of Canyonlands and Arches national parks, incredibly beautiful places to wake up in the morning. We drove through Moab, Utah, and visited the site where uranium mine tailings are finally being cleaned up from where they've been resting beside and polluting the Colorado River for the past 50 years, 2 miles from downtown. It was disturbing to see that the only thing keeping the dust from flying as they dig was a sprinkler. At Idaho National Labs, the contractor has built a structure around where they're working so none of the dust escapes. In Colorado Jay gave a great talk at the University in Boulder (thanks to Duke Austin of Students for Peace & Justice). Meanwhile Ellen videotaped a presentation by Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center which was happening simultaneously in another building across campus. Leroy Moore, a co-founder of RMP&J, passed around a petition asking that Rocky Flats not be opened to the public as a nature preserve, as currently planned. We also visited RMP&J offices and heard about their work. They have a wonderful photograph of some of the 16,000 people who linked hands and surrounded Rocky Flats in 1983, one of the many citizen actions which ultimately led to the temporary shutdown of that plutonium pit four years later, and final shutdown in 1992. We visited Rocky Flats, and were surprised to discover that there's virtually no security, and perhaps a dozen construction firms have offices right beside or on Rocky Flats. So now, as the leaves are turning yellow and red and the nights are turning cold, we're on our way home, and ready to be back. Today we leave for Oklahoma, where we'll be speaking in Oklahoma City (on the 4th) and Norman (Oct 3rd), where we came through early on our tour back in June. Then we'll be going to Kansas City, where we have a series of events the 5th - 7th, Columbia (the 8th), and St. Louis, Missouri. In St. Louis we'll be at St. Louis Public Library, Carpenter branch, 3309 S. Grand Ave., on October 10th at 3 pm. From there we drive to The Farm in Tennessee on the 11th, then to Aiken, South Carolina, then back home to DC. Ellen will be going on to North Carolina and Florida, Jay will stay in DC. Meanwhile we're planning our next tours. Ellen will be in Vermont for town hall meetings in February, and hopes to connect with folks who have already expressed interest in Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York. Jay may go to support the Los Alamos Blockade over spring break (proposed at Think Outside the Bomb by Lisa Fithian), and will join Ellen in New York the first week in May for the NPT review at the UN. Then we'll head north and west and try to get to all the other states we weren't able to visit on this tour. Please let us know if you want us to visit your town & group! Ellen, Jay, Troy and Sophia the Peace Dog |
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Another stunning catch by BuzzFlash.com: Robert Parry: U.S. Press Corps Fails Again on Iran 10/2
Bear with Buzz's habit of slamming the president and congress, and going
murderously easy on we sheeple. They've not fully regrouped from their
heroic work to stop Bush/Cheney. But BuzzFlash.com seems finally to be
adjusting, learning to become constructive and in the process is again becoming
indispensable (I pray) . Pls support them, encourage them, READ THEM.
http://www.buzzflash.com
ps: At the upper right of their page, down just a little, is a wonderful little
tool that lets you filter the articles - last 2 hours, last 6 hours.... TRY IT!
BuzzFlash Headline: Nancy Pelosi Backs Grayson
she has been doing fine, courageous, people centered
work this year. A rare Shero.
WE'VE GOT TO COURAGEOUSLY STAND AGGRESSIVELY WITH OUR
HEROES - OR WE ARE THE WORST FORM OF
HYPOCRITES and
COWARDS.
WE MUST STOP WAITING FOR CERTAINTY,
OR FINALITY, OR PERFECTION
IN OUR CHAMPIONS.
WE LAMBASTE, WE REVILE TENTATIVENESS
IN THEM! NO MORE HYPOCRISY.
NO MORE EXCUSES
FOR US!
NO MORE DOUBLE STANDARDS,
HOLDING OURSELVES, WE
GRASS-ROOTS TO SUCH A
LOWER STANDARD.
THANKS FOR
YOUR HEADLINE.
Start
ps: Use and support BuzzFlash.com , please.
pps: BuzzFlash.com headline - Nancy Pelosi Backs Grayson:
"Apparently Republicans hold Democrats to a higher standard than
they hold members of their own party. … There's no reason for Mr. Grayson
to apologize. If anyone should apologize, everyone should apologize."
Prospect of my death just doesn't bother me. Other's needless suffering, Other's Lovelessness? THAT bothers me.
Other's needless suffering, Other's Lovelessness? THAT bothers me.
I've just come out the other side of what almost certainly was some sort
of cardiac event over this last week. It may have been NO threat to me, but
certainly it had the hallmarks.
Consistent with other times these last 11 years or so that I've faced the
prospect of death - it doesn't bother me. Oh, it isn't like I WANT death.
NO!!!!!!!!!!!! I WANT TO BE HERE TO TRY AND HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But oh does it bother me the Death of Hearts among all but a few of my fellow humans,
and within me much of the first 50 years of my life -
THAT I would Die to bring to an end.
That, I AM dying to bring to an end.
This guy spent an hour with me this morning at the Vigil
and validation of Life.
Trust me - look at his work: http://www.wendellphillips.com/world/03.asp
What is it worth to maybe impact, and encourage such a soul?
:-)
9.30.2009
IF WE DO NOT JOIN AND WIN THIS VERBAL / LEGISLATIVE US WAR, THERE WILL BE A BLOODY US WAR.
And the blood will be on the hands of those that do not commit their very lives, now.
"How do you get money?" "I won't work for money; I'll always work for Humanity," Start replies. "That's what we are ALL BORN to do - nothing more, nothing less, nothing else; ever."
"I won't work for money; I'll always work for Humanity," Start replies.
"That's what we are ALL BORN to do -
nothing more, nothing less, nothing else; ever."
9.29.2009
So Congress/Pres can't close HC/Climate without us. That's bad?????????????
As an organizational leader there was never a time that I could bring about a
miracle WITHOUT dragging many other others into the fight alongside me.
In fact, dragging those from the sidelines into the battle - IS THE BATTLE!!!!!!
Here we sit in late Sept with THE CHANCE OF STRONG HC AND CLIMATE
LEGISLATION - THIS YEAR!!!!!!
BUT ONLY IF WE THE SHEEPLE GET ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Is this circumstance here in late September by accident? THE HELL IT IS - NOT.
Do we really want Pres. Obama to be as blind, as stupid as we who are
sane in this society have been up until now? Really? Well, he is not, thank God.
He is not blind, but visionary. And it is time for us to take the blinders off,
stop scapegoating, stop making excuses for our cowardly inaction,
get on the field of battle, and win this war,
this final chance for Humanity (ours).
Start
Walking a balance beam (Universal Love) isn't hard; Avoiding falling off is hard, 'till you are practiced.
'till you are practiced. Then it is Life itself - easy, Normal, Joyful... HOME.
Heaven.
As some of you know.
Care about Humanity? MUST STUDY -
DN! Arundhati Roy (1\4) on the Human Costs of India's Econo...
NOW.
Frankly, you should subscribe to http://www.youtube.com/StartLoving2
and watch everything that goes up there every day. I do, and must -
The best of Rachel Maddow, a true Prophetess, by Midnight,
The best of Amy Goodman/DN! by Noon every day.
Neither have yet found the Wisdom or Courage to point the finger at
the real culprit, we the sheeple, but their work is the best out there
by far. I upload the best, the most constructive of each program.
M-F.
Start
ps: EVERY day - M-S.
pps: Try it.
ppps: SHARE.
9.28.2009
Last week I was more ready to dismiss my chest pain...
ongoing Health Care legislative battle, oh, I mean the, one-sided Killing
by the Death-mare Industry I decided to share.]
But the pain today got my attention a bit more - several hours of tightness
over my heart and mild pain in my left arm. As God is my witness I'm guessing
I'll be around, I hope I'm able and around to fight for humanity in person
for many more decades. The discomfort has largely subsided now.
Now, maybe I'm a bit of a hypochondriac, probably am. But if we were
in a country, or a world, that Loves Life as Jesus does, I'd seek help, accept help,
and receive help. But as is clear by the current Death Care fight (I mean, slaughter) we
with-insurance-Americans don't really give a shit about those without. Oh sure,
we have enough energy to shake our lips at the issue, but actually fight
like it was part of OUR Human family on the line; a matter of life or death for OUR
Family whether a STRONG public option passes? Nah. Cuz they are NOT
our Family. OBVIOUSLY!!!
Even if the the best case legislation were approved I expect I would neither
seek nor accept care. 2 reasons:
1. "Owe no man anything except to Love one another." John(?). I reject a system
and society that is so cold and cruel. I will not participate in its Deathliness.
"It is as much a duty to not cooperate with evil as it is to not do evil." Gandhi paraphrase.
2. 'The Golden Rule is to take neither more nor less than your share.' Gandhi paraphrase.
1-3 billion of my family exists on a dollar a day. Just a checkup would cost
someone $50-500, 3-16 months of what we allow 20% of our brothers and sisters
to exist on in this world, happily allowed by this Godless country. A checkup and
care is my share? I don't think so. Period.
Oh my, our coldness and hatefulness in this society is just too hideous. God damn us.
Your entirely Joyful, Outraged and Loving brother,
Start
ps: I've copied you on this, you few, because I know you know me,
Love me and respect me. I DESIRE ZERO discussion or concern
for me or with me on this matter. PLEASE DON'T. PLEASE DON'T.
Good's will will be done. Whenever Good is ready for me, I'm ready
to go. Whatever best serves, whenever it best serves.
9.27.2009
Climate Progress
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- Energy and Global Warming News for September 25: Schwarzenegger says he's ready to work for Obama; Clean-energy jobs touch off bidding wars between states
- SurvivaBalls Take Manhattan — and Pittsburgh
- Melting ice caps expose over 100 secret Arctic lairs
- GE CEO Immelt: Government has to play a 'key role' in clean energy investments
- Dust Bowl-ification hits Eastern Australia — next stop the U.S. Southwest. Anti-scientific WattsUpWithThat says it has "nothing to do with the dreaded Climate Change" and "has an unappreciated benefit"!
- PRESS ADVISORY: Energy experts in Pittsburgh to discuss U.S. climate policies, global priorities at G-20
- Energy and Global Warming News for September 24: India weighing emissions curbs; Buildings offer emission-cutting projects that pay for themselves
Posted: 25 Sep 2009 10:32 AM PDT Schwarzenegger: ready to work for Obama, go green California
Clean-energy jobs touch off bidding wars between states
Vietnam Finds Itself Vulnerable if Sea Rises
Recession slows U.S. wind power growth rate
Stimulus Is Greenest in South Korea and China
Droughts, melts signal climate change quickening: U.N.
Houston a Hub for Renewable Energy?
The possibility of carbon-trading fraud elbows into Senate debate
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SurvivaBalls Take Manhattan — and Pittsburgh Posted: 25 Sep 2009 05:01 AM PDT A repost from Wonk Room. This Tuesday, as President Barack Obama and other world leaders addressed the United Nations on the need to tackle global warming, some entrepreneurs hoped to demonstrate their own solution. Notably, this solution allows humanity — at least those who are sufficiently wealthy — to completely ignore climate change. The Yes Men displayed SurvivaBalls, self-contained survival suits impervious to the ravages of global warming, on the banks of the East River:
Although the demonstrators of "Halliburton's solution to global warming" hoped to reach the United Nations headquarters, they were detained by New York City police. However, CNN's Jeannie Moos was able to file a report on the pranksters' novel approach to a planet under siege [Video above]. Just as Yes Men activists were detained on Monday "when they handed their own version of the New York Post (headline: 'We're screwed!') to the paper's conservative owner, Rupert Murdoch, the group's founder was arrested during the roll-out of the SurvivaBall." After all charges were dropped, Yes Men founder Andy Bichlbaum has been released. Update: Huffington Post's Jason Linkins interviews Andy Bichlbaum about the New York Post action, the new Yes Men Fix the World movie, and how his group is beating the media at their own game. Update2: I also saw photos of SurvivaBalls at the big G20 party last night, here in Pittsburgh. No partying for me, yet! |
Melting ice caps expose over 100 secret Arctic lairs Posted: 25 Sep 2009 05:00 AM PDT ZACKENBERG RESEARCH STATION, GREENLAND—Claiming it to be one of the most dramatic and visible signs of climate change to date, researchers said Monday that receding polar ice caps have revealed nearly 200 clandestine lairs once buried deep beneath hundreds of feet of Arctic ice. "We always assumed there would be some secret lairs here and there, but the sheer number now being exposed is indeed troubling," said noted climatologist Anders Lorenzen, who claimed that the Arctic ice caps have shrunk at the alarming rate of 41,000 square miles per year. "In August alone we discovered 44 mad scientist laboratories, three highly classified military compounds, and seven reanimated and very confused cavemen.. That's more than twice the number we had found in the previous three decades combined." "This is no longer conjecture," Lorenzen added. "This is a full-blown crisis." According to oceanographers, the Arctic Circle has been devastated by the effects of global warming in recent years, threatening hundreds of men and women who use the frozen tundra as a place to conduct bizarre experiments in human-animal grafting, carry out massive government cover-ups, or simply as a hidden headquarters from which to battle the forces of evil and fight crime. "Last week a giant ice sheet broke off and split my prized underground complex nearly in half," said Dr. Raygun, a self-described psychotic mastermind best known for his diabolical thought-control experiments. "Now millions of dollars in state-of-the-art doomsday devices are gone—all because of the environmental carnage wrought by the human race." "You spend your whole career concocting a brilliant scheme to wipe out all of mankind, and what happens?" Dr. Raygun continued. "They bring about a major global catastrophe completely on their own, those fools!"
Scientists predict the problem will only get worse as rising temperatures release methane trapped in Arctic permafrost, perpetuating the warming cycle and threatening the habitats of those who depend on the ice caps for safety from the prying, meddling public. Earlier this week a flying saucer surfaced and is reportedly still pulsating with increasingly intense, unearthly colors.. And late last month, a mystical order of Nazi occultists emerged from an underground bunker where they had spent decades communing with the Hyperborean gods and attempting to breed a new Aryan super-species destined to destroy Homo sapiens and rule the earth for untold millennia. The 12 elderly Germans were detained by local law enforcement in Wainwright, AK. According to a Natural Resources Defense Council survey, 78 percent of sinister one-eyed industrialists based in the Arctic have been forced to relocate their powerful underworld shadow governments, with many now secretly orchestrating world affairs from dormant volcanoes on remote islands. Many villains have also been forced to change their entire way of life. Zawallah, the super-intelligent ape whose gold-teleporter crippled the global economy during the 1980s, recently ceased operation of his orbital heat cannon. Others, meanwhile, are genuinely concerned about the effect that increased temperatures may have on the future of humanity. "Gwaahhhhrrr-huaawwwrr-gwaahhhrrrr," cried test subject PR-433809-21, the ghastly result of a human cloning experiment gone horribly awry. "Pwwwuuuagharrgh!" But not all inhabitants of the polar ice caps are upset by global warming. Last month saw the thawing out of a team of British explorers frozen in 1848. Expedition members told reporters they were confident that, if more ice melts, they can finally complete their original mission of discovering a Northwest Passage. For the time being, most researchers have shifted their attention away from the ice caps and toward finding a way to contain the giant reptile monster Bizarricus, who was trapped in an ice floe by Japanese scientists in the 1950s and has now returned to teach the world a lesson about the folly of man. |
GE CEO Immelt: Government has to play a 'key role' in clean energy investments Posted: 25 Sep 2009 04:58 AM PDT This is a Wonk Room repost. WR has been reporting from the Clinton Global Initiative conference this week. Earlier this year, the American Society for Civil Engineers roundly panned America's disintegrating infrastructure, giving it an overall D grade and estimating that "it would take a $2.2 trillion investment … over the next five years to bring it into a state of good repair." One of today's discussions at the Clinton Global Initiative focused on how to develop infrastructure in both the U.S. and the rest of the world, and the role that government plays in such development. General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt — who has been critical of the business community for investing too much money in preserving America's status quo — noted that successful infrastructure improvements, particularly in creating the capacity for clean energy, means coordinating government standards with private investment:
Listen here: In Immelt's world, the government would set the standards, and then let the private sector loose to achieve them, or, as in China, lay out five-year plans for infrastructure development. This is a distinctly different take from most of the rest of the business community, which recoils from standards, aided by conservatives who claim that if we just "let the free market work," everything will take care of itself. Of course, Immelt must see a way for GE to come out ahead under such a policy, but that doesn't mean that his viewpoint doesn't make sense. Smart standards, regulation, and a cohesive policy from the government would make energy investment — and infrastructure development as a whole — much less scattershot and much more effective. |
Posted: 24 Sep 2009 12:21 PM PDT
We have seen the future, and it is Australia — and it isn't pretty (see "Absolute must read: Australia today offers horrific glimpse of U.S. Southwest, much of planet, post-2040, if we don't slash emissions soon"). NASA's Earth Observatory reported yesterday:
Australia is the the driest inhabited continent on earth, with a fragile ecosystem, which makes it the canary in the coal mine for how global warming will create Dust Bowls in the SW and around the globe (see "Australia faces collapse as climate change kicks in": Are the Southwest and California next?). It is, sadly, probably too late to save much of Australia. But it is not too late to save the U.S. Southwest and other key regions in or near the subtropics. We can still prevent the worst. Two years ago, Science (subs. req'd) published research that "predicted a permanent drought by 2050 throughout the Southwest" on our current emissions path — levels of aridity comparable to the 1930s Dust Bowl would stretch from Kansas to California. The Bush Administration itself reaffirmed this conclusion in December (see US Geological Survey stunner: SW faces "permanent drying" by 2050.) And a major new study led by NOAA found that if we don't act to reverse emissions soon, these global Dust Bowls will be irreversible for a long, long time (see NOAA stunner: Climate change "largely irreversible for 1000 years," with permanent Dust Bowls in Southwest and around the globe). The anti-scientific website WattsUpWithThat happily assures us that we should simply ignore all of the well-known climate science predictions that this part of Australia would become hotter and drier — even though Australia's 1000-year drought is strong evidence the predictions were right. Watts finds a 'reader' who claims the epic Dust Storm has "nothing to do with the dreaded Climate Change." Seriously! Watts also points out a bright side: "dust headed to sea has an unappreciated benefit – it will fertilize the ocean with its mineral rich dust." Yes, the record drought wipes out land-based crops, and we're in the process of poisoning the oceans for millennia, but hey, a massive Dust Bowl may create "some interesting blooms of sea life in the weeks to come." Ah, yes, the "unappreciated benefit" of a disastrous dust storm. You can't make this stuff up! But what do you expect from a guy who offered the 'inanity defense' for his effort to censor Peter Sinclair's video, saying he was "doing him a favor." Back in the real world, the ABC story Watts cites notes:
Record heat with record droughts — who ever would have predicted that (see "Must-have PPT: The 'global-change-type drought' and the future of extreme weather")? More from NASA:
Here's the amazing satellite picture of the Wall of Dust [click to enlarge]:
The rest of this post is an exclusive commentary on the great dust storm by Paul Gilding, former executive director of Greenpeace International, who blogs on The Great Disruption here. You may remember Gilding from Tom Friedman's Ponzi scheme column (see here).
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Posted: 24 Sep 2009 10:48 AM PDT I'm going to be on a panel at the G20 meeting in Pittsburgh Friday afternoon. Details below:
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