tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post4233495337421728806..comments2024-02-28T22:03:57.237-05:00Comments on The Automatic Earth: Debt Rattle, June 5 2008: Come PoundingIlargihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-89265473201052623182008-06-05T20:19:00.000-04:002008-06-05T20:19:00.000-04:00Water rights strike me as being like the salt laws...Water rights strike me as being like the salt laws in 1920's India, where is was prohibited for anyone to manufacture salt. This was extended to people going to the ocean, dissolving water, and getting salt that way. Ghandi led a movement (non-violent of course) that marched to the seas and removed salt crystals. Apparently, 50,000 were imprisoned for breaking the salt laws, but people (Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02751451454904827924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-49354633785407865232008-06-05T18:51:00.000-04:002008-06-05T18:51:00.000-04:00el pollo, No Iraq oil will be charged to Daddy's c...el pollo, No Iraq oil will be charged to Daddy's credit card. Maybe tar sands oil? but when the Alberta landscape is made a wasteland by the oil companies it won't support life, the water supply will be destroyed. This corporate crime against humanity will have an ending, a miserable ending for us in Canada.<BR/>I appreciate I sound dramatic but the outcome is clear.scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-84895286401333261202008-06-05T18:34:00.000-04:002008-06-05T18:34:00.000-04:00I have a friend born in Iraq who moved to the US a...I have a friend born in Iraq who moved to the US and is now an American citizen. He has claimed since before the war started that the war was beneficial to four groups with the following goals:<BR/><BR/>1) Iraqi expat (e.g. Chelabi) goal: Place Iraqi expats in power.<BR/>2) American oil company goal: Get Iraqi oil.<BR/>3) Isreali goal: Destroy the only military in the region capable of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-10651113601865069302008-06-05T16:43:00.000-04:002008-06-05T16:43:00.000-04:00Clean water costs money. Whether you pay for it i...Clean water costs money. Whether you pay for it in taxes or in fee for service. Folks who think clean water is a "right" cannot or will not pay money for it. They think drinking water should be provided to them for free. Good luck with that. The world isn't fair.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15089309900399973503noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-73595924490044429542008-06-05T15:18:00.000-04:002008-06-05T15:18:00.000-04:00Birthrate as a weapon.It becomes clear that pre em...<A HREF="http://www.exile.ru/blog/detail.php?BLOG_ID=19201&AUTHOR_ID=" REL="nofollow"> Birthrate as a weapon</A>.<BR/><BR/><BR/>It becomes clear that pre emptive strikes are the only way. Take them out before they out vote you.<BR/><BR/>Why is it OK for Israel and not for us?VLADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07303463697333210934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-13428646021485536952008-06-05T15:10:00.000-04:002008-06-05T15:10:00.000-04:00Pictures are priceless.<A HREF="http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.com/" REL="nofollow"> Pictures are priceless.</A>VLADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07303463697333210934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-51847944904020971222008-06-05T14:59:00.000-04:002008-06-05T14:59:00.000-04:00Ilargi-Excellent hypothesis regarding the true pur...Ilargi-<BR/><BR/>Excellent hypothesis regarding the true purpose of Iraq.<BR/><BR/>It is another item that seems to point to the conclusion that the powers that be had the basest, most crass motivations behind this "liberation".thethirdcoasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02828310354952426682noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-28297436403779074142008-06-05T14:35:00.000-04:002008-06-05T14:35:00.000-04:00" anonymous said...Just noting here a malformed li...<I>" anonymous said...<BR/>Just noting here a malformed link at "The Tragedy of the Commons" ...</I><BR/><BR/>fixed, grazieIlargihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09698428009501267664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-79015405638746208832008-06-05T14:28:00.000-04:002008-06-05T14:28:00.000-04:00"Will Americans and allies continue to throw their..."Will Americans and allies continue to throw their money and their young into the hell of war to fill a fuel tank? "<BR/><BR/>Until Daddy rips up the credit card.<BR/>_____________________________________________<BR/><BR/>I keep a tabbed window on my computer open to a real time graph of Euro/USD forex. Twice this week we have had seismic shocks of movement well over one percent in a matter of Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-74122323592775067492008-06-05T14:21:00.000-04:002008-06-05T14:21:00.000-04:00Water as a right?Isaac Asimov once noted that you ...Water as a right?<BR/><BR/>Isaac Asimov once noted that you have freedom of the bathroom as long as there are more bathrooms than people using them. As soon as there are more people than bathrooms, all sorts of interesting problems begin to crop up. When there are literally dozens per bathroom, only totalitarian total control can avoid violence to determine who can use the bathroom, and that Greyzonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03675706201111951125noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-15343332907695475552008-06-05T13:38:00.000-04:002008-06-05T13:38:00.000-04:00Just noting here a malformed link at "The Tragedy ...Just noting here a malformed link at "The Tragedy of the Commons" ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-41698441016035828512008-06-05T13:18:00.000-04:002008-06-05T13:18:00.000-04:00Ha! I have always said that the US will never leav...Ha! I have always said that the US will never leave iraq. The US Embassy in the Green Zone is built for permanence.No surprise there. However until to-day I hadn't connected the dots properly." The US military now has its own private fuel supply!" Brilliant strategy!<BR/> To think of all those poor soldiers who got hoodwinked into thinking they died for freedom! To think of the resisters seeking scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921988708619968880.post-40719265167148093562008-06-05T12:49:00.000-04:002008-06-05T12:49:00.000-04:00Ilargi, I've only read your opening comments so fa...Ilargi, I've only read your opening comments so far and had to respond to you comments about buying up water rights. I had the privelege to attnd a public meeting with Maude Barlow. She had brought with her a film,"Flow" ,about water conditions on the planet, the harrowing experience of the world's poor gaining access to potable water, the endless struggle against the water hunters, the bottled scandiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07924260428840006237noreply@blogger.com