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Bob Morris
southern California
Blogging since 2002
Interests: Cleantech, the economy, antiwar, progressive politics
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Indeed, how many ISIS sympathizers lurk within Saudi Arabia, quite possibly among the ruling elites?
Jihadi Entrepreneurs and the IPO of the Century
NOTE: this is a non-traditional approach to thinking about warfare and ISIS. I use it, and so should you, to generate new insights into the problem. This framework explores the impact of the entrepreneurial mindset on modern warfare. One of the most interesting aspects of ISIS? The diversity ...
The rolling drone link is broken
How to Roll Out Dronet
The tough part about the Dronet (a simplified version of the made up word: dronenet) idea isn't coming up with the idea, it's figuring out how to make it real and when it could become real (means and timing). If you can't figure out means and timing and communicate it to people, the idea is m...
4GW (4th Generation Warfare) posits the growth of such organizations as governments hollow out and can't effectively do what they used to.
"Drug money worth billions of dollars kept the financial system afloat at the height of the global crisis, the United Nations’ drugs and crime tsar has told the Observer."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/dec/13/drug-money-banks-saved-un-cfief-claims
All that money has to get in the system somehow. That means dirty banks, dirty hedge funds, etc. There's lots of folks with a vested interest in the status quo. Of course, most of them don't live near the AZ / Mexico border.
My view: legalize marijuana. That's where the vast bulk of drug lord profits comes from. (Your view may differ.)
"Pinal County Sheriff: Mexican drug cartels now control parts of Arizona."
Here is an excerpt from MaryEllen Resendez's article on ABC15.com: "Two men shot earlier this week could be the result of the ongoing battle between Mexican drug cartels now spilling over deep into Arizona, officials say. Pinal County investigators say an area known as the smuggling corridor n...
I see populist on the rise. And that crosses traditional political boundaries. Have been reading about the 1890's populists. They railed against banksters too. For a while, they had major political power.
Kunstler's most recent column posits the very real possibility of serious violence against Goldman and hopes Obama acts against the banks before it happens.
If you don't agree that wealth is both deserved and earned...
you must be insane or delusional (according to Paul Sullivan at the New York Times). Oh my. This guy is an absolute idiot. He definitely drank the kook-aid. _______ Torrential greed without any hint of moral constraint or responsibility is not a future worth believing in, fighting for, or par...
He's neither insane or delusional. He deliberately twists the facts so as to blame the rest of us for our anger, even piously saying he's afraid it'll hurt us. How touching.
As the class war and populism continue to build, there will be many more such deliberate distortions from the apologists for the banksters.
Y'know what's completely bizarre? The far left, the Marxists who have dreamed of a crisis of capitalism for decades, have been almost completely absent. No organizing, no protests. Apparently they're all snoozing.
Instead, it's been libertarian blogs like Zero Hedge and Naked Capitalism that have broken major stories, like High Frequency Trading, that have gone mainstream and forced Congress to act.
Also, quite a few more mainstream financial blogs, like The Big Picture, Mish, Calculated Risk have been doing great stuff too. In both cases, we're talking about financial insiders who are getting seriously pissed about what's happening.
While the far left sleeps during the organizing opportunity of a lifetime.
I have no explanation.
If you don't agree that wealth is both deserved and earned...
you must be insane or delusional (according to Paul Sullivan at the New York Times). Oh my. This guy is an absolute idiot. He definitely drank the kook-aid. _______ Torrential greed without any hint of moral constraint or responsibility is not a future worth believing in, fighting for, or par...
Re Plutonomy
"A capitalist will sell you rope on Monday for a revolution on Tuesday in which he gets hung on Wednesday."
-- old socialist saying
LINKS: 15 OCT 09
Some items of interest: Global villages network. RC networking effort. Open farm tech is nearing the release of its earth brick fabricator (for construction of robust buildings). Open source design, ease of use/repair, etc. Donate plz. Ferfal's book (on survival lessons from Argentina's col...
The Patriot Act made it much harder to launder money in the States. So that money went someplace else. Supposedly. But with Allen Stanfords and the like allegedly laundering drug money, maybe much of it tried to come back here anyway.
BLACK GLOBALIZATION: TED talks
Here's a presentation at TED that may be of interest to global guerrillas readers (no video links yet -- too bad it isn't live). It's great to see GG themes get play like this. Loretta Napoleoni (researcher on the economics of terrorism): She also discovered that the life of a terrorist was...
Not sure what you mean by alt energy is centralized. Most plans and current installations are decentralized and that seems to be the trend. A smart grid would help here.
Solar thermal looks hugely promising, as it can sort the energy in the form of heat, usually in molten salt and is thus available upon demand.
CENTRALIZED OR DECENTRALIZED ENERGY?
There's little doubt that the centralization (the current approach) of alternative energy production is more efficient than decentralization. It enables location optimization (better wind/sunlight), less management/industrial overhead per kWh, etc. It also leverages the existing industry desig...
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