sixth_queen (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sixth_queen) wrote,@ 2006-07-25 08:47:00 |
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Here's a nice post from DailyKos to start my day:
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"It's clear to me that as the US transitions away from a consumer society driven by purchase of gadgets and toys, to a penurious lumpen society of largely underpaid and underemployed, the PTB have planned to milk the last drops by preying on the basic human needs for water, food and shelter. While it may be possible for some to forego oil-based transportation, we are dependent on electricity. The repeal of PUHCA last year was an advertisement, along with revelations of the ENRON complicity in the California blackouts, that the plan is to extort every possible cent from the populace's dependence on electricity. The people of Baltimore are already experiencing this plan in spades. This is parallel to the extortion of our healthcare dollars and gas money. The PTB know that they are impoverishing us, and that we will not be able to purchase the imported manufactured products that enrich them. No problem. They manufactured a housing bubble, and passed a new bankruptcy bill that will assure them of our monthly payments until we die. There are plans to privatize aquifers and force homeowners in rural areas to cap their wells and buy metered water. The USDA does the bidding of corporate agribusiness to put family farms out of business, forcing us all to eat corporate food. We are viewed by the PTB as 'fodder units' and our existence will soon resemble that of battery chickens.
I have no doubt that the breakdown of the electrical grid marks the beginning of the end of petroleum-based civilization. And it wouldn't surprise me to learn that rural areas will find themselves permanently without electricity as decisions are made to only maintain the grid where the largest profits can be made.
by Halcyon on Tue Jul 25, 2006 at 05:11:03 AM PDT"
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Oh bloody hell -- that's what this world is turning into. Between the recent crap in the ME and global warming, I mean that literally.
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"It's clear to me that as the US transitions away from a consumer society driven by purchase of gadgets and toys, to a penurious lumpen society of largely underpaid and underemployed, the PTB have planned to milk the last drops by preying on the basic human needs for water, food and shelter. While it may be possible for some to forego oil-based transportation, we are dependent on electricity. The repeal of PUHCA last year was an advertisement, along with revelations of the ENRON complicity in the California blackouts, that the plan is to extort every possible cent from the populace's dependence on electricity. The people of Baltimore are already experiencing this plan in spades. This is parallel to the extortion of our healthcare dollars and gas money. The PTB know that they are impoverishing us, and that we will not be able to purchase the imported manufactured products that enrich them. No problem. They manufactured a housing bubble, and passed a new bankruptcy bill that will assure them of our monthly payments until we die. There are plans to privatize aquifers and force homeowners in rural areas to cap their wells and buy metered water. The USDA does the bidding of corporate agribusiness to put family farms out of business, forcing us all to eat corporate food. We are viewed by the PTB as 'fodder units' and our existence will soon resemble that of battery chickens.
I have no doubt that the breakdown of the electrical grid marks the beginning of the end of petroleum-based civilization. And it wouldn't surprise me to learn that rural areas will find themselves permanently without electricity as decisions are made to only maintain the grid where the largest profits can be made.
by Halcyon on Tue Jul 25, 2006 at 05:11:03 AM PDT"
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Oh bloody hell -- that's what this world is turning into. Between the recent crap in the ME and global warming, I mean that literally.
