Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war. Show all posts
Saturday, January 10, 2015
Pentagon Versus Throw Away People
What do we do next?That's the question the brass at the Pentagon ask themselves before they contact congress for funding.Well, they say, after World War II we have nothing but losers.That's as per the score board. But as to action and excitement , that's a different story.We have spent trillions.Lost thousands of our own. But killed or displaced millions of throw away people around the globe.So what's next? It has to be throw away people as our targets. They are the only ones still out there.We have drones, planes, ships, missiles, chemical weapons etc. But they all have shelf lives that are expiring. Got to move them out.The throw away people only have cell phones. That's all they have. It's low cost equipment and available any where.So we can keep this going for a long time. OK. Tonight we drink tomorrow we bomb.
Saturday, June 16, 2007
Should Environmentalists Welcome The Four Horsemen Of Apocalypse?
It's truly an ill wind that doesn't bring some healthy results. Could the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse-Pestilence, War, Famine, Death- be a guilty pleasure for environmentalists?
The Audubon Society recently released its census of the U.S. bird population. In the past 40 years, 20 common birds in America have lost app. 50% of their population. Some species have suffered even more. The count of Northern Bobwhite has plummeted 82%. The Northern Pintail have lost 77% of its numbers. The Audubon Society blames urban and suburban sprawl. It also says that greedy logging and farming practices leave birds and wildlife without habitat.
During the same 40 years starting in 1967, the U.S. population increased from 200 million to 300 million. Also the U.S. GDP has expanded from app. $ 800 billion to app. $ 12 trillion. The trade off between wildlife loss and human gain is obvious. And America is only a model of what is happening on the larger world scene. Are we as a species worth the dislocation to every other species? Have we become a quantity of infestation and a non-quality personal species?
Maybe a revaluation of the Four Horsemen is in order. Oh yeah, I don't want a " New Jerusalem" as per revelations. I've got a belly full of the old Jerusalem.
The Audubon Society recently released its census of the U.S. bird population. In the past 40 years, 20 common birds in America have lost app. 50% of their population. Some species have suffered even more. The count of Northern Bobwhite has plummeted 82%. The Northern Pintail have lost 77% of its numbers. The Audubon Society blames urban and suburban sprawl. It also says that greedy logging and farming practices leave birds and wildlife without habitat.
During the same 40 years starting in 1967, the U.S. population increased from 200 million to 300 million. Also the U.S. GDP has expanded from app. $ 800 billion to app. $ 12 trillion. The trade off between wildlife loss and human gain is obvious. And America is only a model of what is happening on the larger world scene. Are we as a species worth the dislocation to every other species? Have we become a quantity of infestation and a non-quality personal species?
Maybe a revaluation of the Four Horsemen is in order. Oh yeah, I don't want a " New Jerusalem" as per revelations. I've got a belly full of the old Jerusalem.
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