tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post7000558720903269653..comments2024-03-22T05:20:44.167-07:00Comments on The Disaffected Lib: First, We Throw Out the MonstersThe Mound of Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-43645251912587547802019-01-29T08:00:38.485-08:002019-01-29T08:00:38.485-08:00
That got wildly off topic, BM.<br />That got wildly off topic, BM.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-10220082678410158112019-01-29T03:18:40.476-08:002019-01-29T03:18:40.476-08:00And the neoliberals and wealthy right wing of the ...And the neoliberals and wealthy right wing of the USA just love Bolsonaro, the new head honcho right wing dud/strongman running Brazil. Social regression in six months, whadda guy! He wants to exploit the Amazon rainforest even further than it has already been ruined. Of course he does, what could be better than unrestrained growth when righteous people know from the voices in their head that exploiting nature is God's way? Too bad about the peons forced into a hard day's work just to eat! The wealthy must have their share - which is everything. <br /><br />And by the way, the Lima Group thinks that a left-wing strongman is baaad, so Maduro who is hoarding Venezuela's oil for a Bolivarian revolution of the people has been turfed out by politicians from other countries, employing the most egregious of well-paid-for made-up lies. He apparently doesn't understand that his country's oil belongs to the worldwide wealthy. Can't have that, now can we? My God, he might turn out to be a Castro, thinking for himself and his country instead of following the US line! Shudders all around in neoliberal land. So, some nonentity has been recognized as the new president - now the US can resume toilet paper shipments, Similac, and other processed food to feed the starving millions caused by sanctions, export restrictios and the US/Saudi engineered oil price crash, which almost took out Alberta too four years ago. Never mentioned in newscasts - spoils the narrative that the Western cavalry is riding in to save the serfs after trashing the place. We can pretend we're saints! Guaido, if he ever gains effective control of Venezuela, and backed by JT and all the "democracies" spouting nonsense repeated by the talking head servants of corporate media, will certainly lop off a few heads and get those peons back in neoliberal line. And then the oil pumping can really begin! Yessir, untramelled growth! Just like the good Lord intended.<br /><br />Hey, Russia "interfered" in US elections, but the West just disenfranchised Venezuela with its righteous attitude. No interference there, eh? Sickening two-faced pigs slurping at the trough with a straight face.<br /><br />BMAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-77482869244308647332019-01-28T21:57:06.462-08:002019-01-28T21:57:06.462-08:00One of the points I was trying to make, Sal, is th...One of the points I was trying to make, Sal, is that these modern Conservatives are adrift from the principles of conservatism. Today the Conservative/Liberal dynamic sits well to the right of what would have been considered conservative by previous generations. It's more hyper-capitalist neoliberal and that has pervaded both ruling parties. This wanton abandonment of the public interest in support of narrow, private interests is a contagion of both parties, something that we must find a means to purge while there's still time.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-23696332553924537772019-01-28T18:42:27.734-08:002019-01-28T18:42:27.734-08:00.. fascinating article, Mound.. I have trashed man..... fascinating article, Mound.. I have trashed many a response.. they usually went off somewhere somewhere and rhen I was mjst swimmkng to get out of it. If in doubt, I copy and paste it, email or text it to myself. Right now I'm in focus on the Jason Kenney residency scandal. We don't even know if he was an eligible candidate in Alberta ! Its stunning, astonishing. The Canadian taxpayers paid him, paid his gold plated pension & helped pay off his pricy condo in walking distance of Parliament ! A Monster ? Of course ! Clinging to his wet dream of power & willing to rip us all off and mislead us. He's just a lesser light monster.. but the damage he can do is stunning. He's super glib, Has polished his grift to the highest degree.. as nave they all, except Trump, who can barely talk.. and uh, ah Trudeau who ah can jam ah aj so many ah's and ih's into a sentance, that its shocking. He needs speech therapy, seriously.. and an environmental stumblebum.. that you need no lecture on. The monsters need to be removed from their protective shells.. ie the protective shells stripped away. Then there's Scheer who I'll leave for now.. such a typical Conservative gsrbage gasbag & grinning smilely fool & toolthe salamanderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06853337802990122289noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-4353644821338406922019-01-28T18:25:48.880-08:002019-01-28T18:25:48.880-08:00Change does take time, TB, but bursting that Carbo...Change does take time, TB, but bursting that Carbon Bubble, when it occurs, is expected to be quite rapid and wipe out most of that subscribed wealth. I'm guessing no one wants to wear that so they'll just kick it down the road, pro forma.The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-22318010967045049882019-01-28T17:53:51.707-08:002019-01-28T17:53:51.707-08:00What we've learned is that economic activity d...What we've learned is that economic activity doesn't collapse with the switch to alternate energy, quite the opposite.<br /><br /><br />Yet; I forever hear.<br />Those ,rice burners will never catch on.<br />But they did.<br />It took about 15 years but it happened.<br />Like it or not change takes time.<br />BUT; we must be aware not to go backwards as world politics seem driven to do so.<br /><br />TB Trailblazerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03436709163754934547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-24829141523497799532019-01-28T16:45:15.008-08:002019-01-28T16:45:15.008-08:00John, you didn't orchestrate this. That was do...<br />John, you didn't orchestrate this. That was done by a narrow group of folks many pay grades above our own.<br /><br />What we've learned is that economic activity doesn't collapse with the switch to alternate energy, quite the opposite.<br /><br />Why do you imagine our governments are still shelling out billions each year in subsidies and freebies to the fossil energy giants? Why do governments have no interest in doing what must be done if future generations are to have a fighting chance?<br /><br />Fossil energy has us over a barrel. With some $28 trillion of proven reserves subscribed on the stock markets and bourses of the world, politicians are now too cowardly to do the one thing that can make a difference, what Hans Joachim Schellnhuber aptly described at the 2015 Paris climate summit as the "induced implosion" of the fossil fuel industry.<br /><br />We now favour the global economy over everything, even the survival of our own species and civilization. Didn't Bruce Springsteen write a song about that sort of predicament?The Mound of Soundhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09023839743772372922noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32931256.post-23312830297076416102019-01-28T15:51:39.345-08:002019-01-28T15:51:39.345-08:00I always stumble back on thinking about the guy wh...I always stumble back on thinking about the guy who isn’t sure of how he’s going to pay for next month’s rent or next week’s groceries. That guy lives in every corner of the world. I’ve been that guy and I know that I could soon be him again if I don’t catch a share of the turnover work scheduled to take place at an out-of-town refinery in May. I won’t even have a stab at that unless the locals decide to take travellers before they go to their retirees list. I look and can deport a decade or more younger, so I can get away with the fraud if nobody there knows me. I guess I should have learned to do something else but I didn’t, and I’m sure that nobody’s going to feed me for expressing these or any other of the thoughts that might occur to me.<br /><br />Back in the ‘60’s, I was convinced that humanity’s collective wisdom would prevail. And then I got my time in and hit the snooze button. It appears as though, sooner than we’d hoped, the Next Big One isn’t going to be one that figured in our plans.<br /><br />I’m in the monster gang too, but I didn’t know what I’d become when I joined it.<br />John B.noreply@blogger.com