Any line on the Pols these billion-dollar babies own?
Because they certainly own no few of them.
What about presidential contenders they have in their portfolios?
We know Bombin' Johnnie CorpoRat bona fides...

War ain't cheap. When one spends 20 times what more than what the rest of the world spends for defence then it'll cost 20 times more than what one needs, but then the whole world may turn on US after all the shit WE've pulled.

Here's another one from Tom's Dispatch -

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174949/mike_davis_welcome_to_the_next_epoch

"As the United Nations Development Program emphasized in its report last year, global warming is above all a threat to the poor and the unborn, the "two constituencies with little or no political voice." Coordinated global action on their behalf thus presupposes either their revolutionary empowerment (a scenario not considered by the IPCC) or the transmutation of the self-interest of rich countries and classes into an enlightened "solidarity" without precedent in history. From a rational-actor perspective, the latter outcome only seems realistic if it can be shown that privileged groups possess no preferential "exit" option, that internationalist public opinion drives policymaking in key countries, and that greenhouse gas mitigation could be achieved without major sacrifices in upscale Northern Hemispheric standards of living -- none of which seems highly likely.

[snip]

"In light of such studies, the current ruthless competition between energy and food markets, amplified by international speculation in commodities and agricultural land, is only a modest portent of the chaos that could soon grow exponentially from the convergence of resource depletion, intractable inequality, and climate change. The real danger is that human solidarity itself, like a West Antarctic ice shelf, will suddenly fracture and shatter into a thousand shards.

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A local writer/video producer came out and shot a little video of my rooftop garden.

Check it out - http://skyfullofbacon.com/blog/?p=17

Tying in with your interest in global warming, there's this from Tom's Dispatch - http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174949/mike_davis_welcome_to_the_next_epoch

"As the United Nations Development Program emphasized in its report last year, global warming is above all a threat to the poor and the unborn, the "two constituencies with little or no political voice." Coordinated global action on their behalf thus presupposes either their revolutionary empowerment (a scenario not considered by the IPCC) or the transmutation of the self-interest of rich countries and classes into an enlightened "solidarity" without precedent in history. From a rational-actor perspective, the latter outcome only seems realistic if it can be shown that privileged groups possess no preferential "exit" option, that internationalist public opinion drives policymaking in key countries, and that greenhouse gas mitigation could be achieved without major sacrifices in upscale Northern Hemispheric standards of living -- none of which seems highly likely.

[snip]

"In light of such studies, the current ruthless competition between energy and food markets, amplified by international speculation in commodities and agricultural land, is only a modest portent of the chaos that could soon grow exponentially from the convergence of resource depletion, intractable inequality, and climate change. The real danger is that human solidarity itself, like a West Antarctic ice shelf, will suddenly fracture and shatter into a thousand shards.

................

A local writer/video producer came out and filmed a little of my rooftop garden.

Check it out - http://skyfullofbacon.com/blog/?p=17

"(annoyed grunt)"