Attack of the Tiny Particles – be slightly afraid

Attack of the Tiny Particles – be slightly afraid

• On the one hand, I want to say, “Well, okay, this is something the EPA can address in the Obama administration.”
• On the other hand, I have to keep reminding myself that environmental problems have long ceased to be a merely national concern.
• So I guess I’d wish for leadership on a new wave of environmental treaties from the new President.

Google hits to warn of flu epidemics

Google hits to warn of flu epidemics

• This looks like a classical double-edged sword to me.
• Before you know it, those with access to search engine trails will be able to pinpoint the hangouts of godless heathens, foreign language speakers or even Democrats.

Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes

Mini nuclear plants to power 20,000 homes

• So, how much nuclear waste is going to be produced by those 4,000 plants, and where do they propose to put it?
• Let me guess: waste disposal is “somebody else’s problem”.
• If outlawing nuclear power is the only way to protect the commons, then that’s what needs to happen. It would have to be an international treaty, since waste emissions don’t respect national boundaries.

On the enigma of Consciousness

This morning I received an interesting paper from Iona Miller, contributor to Fourth Wave, and also creator of a site for which I am an advisor, on the workings of consciousness. I found this paper, by Chris King, Mathematics Department, University of Auckland, to be very much up my alley in terms of my own thinking.

Paper: The Central Enigma of Consciousness

 

As we proceed into our future, it would be a good thing to understand who we might be. This paper sheds some light on that phenomenon and I recommend reading it.

Democracy in the Age of the Internet

VoterStory.org

• This outfit is providing a one-stop service for voter suppression complaints. It’s the Internet that makes it work.
• Those trying to suppress voters will never be able to put the toothpaste back into the tube.

What’s Wrong With Economics?

What’s Wrong With Economics?

• Just about everything. But we already knew that. Good post for the uninformed.

What’s At Stake With Bailing Out Bankers: Money as Debt

• Watch this video. It could be the most important 47 minutes of your life.

It’s the macroeconomy, stupid!

It’s the macroeconomy, stupid.
Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 09:33:30 AM PDT

Tell me again how borrowing 10B/wk from China to fight the war in Iraq, with money on the ground in Iraq, was a good idea? With the world facing credit swaps in the high trillions, and no liquidity, banks and agencies globally are addressing the problems of It’s a Mad, Mad World.

FIND OUR MONEY and PUT IT BACK

Smoke and mirrors. What is to be done? Find the money. Put it back. This message will mean something to those to whom it means something, and probably not much to anyone else. If you don’t “get it” go back to the mall.

Now hear this. From Bush 41 and Bush 43 we have the following: I lost my money, now I need yours, and it will be 15 kopeks please in taxes to boot. Oh, and while you are at it, don’t tell anybody or we’ll blow your kneecaps off.

Mathematicians have found a new prime number with a whole lot of digits. Trust me, the money that has mysteriously been lost over these last 8 years esp. is orders of magnitude higher.

This is a simple message: “Find” our money and PUT IT BACK. STAT. And let “Warren Buffet” go, and the rest of your hostages in the American Press Corps.

For anyone who needs a refresher course in Bushco’s failed fiscal policies and just plain skullduggery, I have two sets of memes to remind you: Bush 43 and the Pentagon. That story was the tip of the iceberg during the first administration of these pirates and its orders of magnitude worse now. It’s ruined our credit rating, and choked us to death.

This is the money that didn’t go out in stateside pork projects. This is the money that went into the pockets of the people who support the offshore expansion of the military-industrial complex. You know, what Eisenhower said he never wanted to see happen?

Get on it. NOW. Transparency. NOW. Find our money and put it back.

As to the creative financing Treasury has had to do just to preserve the No News is Good News myth, sorry guys, the jigs up. I don’t like you much, but your conscience has to be your guide. Some people think you’re ok. We have a killer IRS here for internal revenue. And we’re supposed to have an Inspector General for external. So where’s he been? WHERE’S THE MONEY? To the people of our Congress who vote their core principles and want to see this credit crisis resolved in a way that will NEVER AGAIN occur: get our money back. Put it back in the treasury. Improve our credit with the world, and while you are at it, demand the release of the hostages this adminstration is holding — the press corps in particular.

Fiorina was partially correct. Bushco should have been her target. It can’t run a major corporation, let alone the US government, which in many respects is “smaller”. Thanks, lady, for the meme.

– the Sicilian Mafia princess

Update #1: hmm, it seems we owe the Iraqi’s some 709 bil. Number sound familiar? More details on this story can be found at dkos here.

A = A. Or, A = A + 9 Bil, if you want to get ticky about it.

A Brief World History of Plutocracy

A Brief World History of Plutocracy

• It will be interesting to see how the little poll thingy turns out.
• It’s interesting that “religious fascism” seems to be the predicted outcome unless the plutocracy remains unchanged. This is particularly interesting in that neither religion nor fascism are mentioned in the diary itself.
• The idea of our plutocracy evolving into a “netroots democracy”, in third place on the little poll thingy, is perhaps wishful thinking — DailyKos is a bastion of netroots activism, after all.