j_b

Uranium is a finite resource and the cost of extracting and refining low grade ore is prohibitive (and energy intensive), and we still don't know what to do with waste. So, it doesn't seem too sustainable to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peak_uranium#World_peak_uranium

Sustainable agriculture is a business. So is sustainable fishing, etc.. sustainable harvesting of resources has been practiced for centuries. I don't know whether there are fully sustainable manufacturing plants at the present because it's likely quite difficult to avoid all supplies/energy that are produced non-sustainably, but the technologies to do so sustainably exist. I am not sure what you are referring to but co-generation has been around for a long time and it's very efficient.

Dershowitz is a pro-torture warmonger and Israel apologist at every turn who is far from being a lefty. Always trust PP to spew as much disinformation as possible. I suspect in fact that PP's post has less to do with Palin than disparaging the UN Goldstone report that condemns Israel for its wanton attacks of Palestinian civilians. I really don't understand the people here who claim that PP is only trolling when he is clearly very far to the right.

Another media deceit is that these outbursts of violence aren't prevalent, and becoming more so. true, and the more you point it out, the harder they try to ignore it. in other news: Gabrielle Giffords' Arizona shooting prompts resignations by Edythe Jensen - Jan. 11, 2011 06:29 PM The Arizona Republic A nasty battle between factions of Legislative District 20 Republicans and fears that it could turn violent in the wake of what happened in Tucson on Saturday prompted District Chairman Anthony Miller and several others to resign. http://www.azcentral.com/community/ahwatukee/articles/2011/01/11/20110111gabrielle-giffords-arizona-shooting-resignations.html

Our cultural media certainly doesn't show it.

I bet not. We are too high in the food chain to be eating each other on a regular basis.

I certainly agree with much of the above, and it is what is missing in the various hypocrisy going on in the media. I personally think it has to do with how we legitimize violence as a valid conflict resolution method through culture in order to justify policies, both internal and foreign. The media climate of the last 3 years would fulfill more the role of a triggering set of events.

follow link for details: http://www.sarep.ucdavis.edu/concept.htm

fucking trolls

A history lesson for the queens of de nial: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. President, Waterkeeper Alliance; Professor, Pace University Tucson: Time for Another Examination of Conscience [..] Neither Beck, Hannity nor Savage nor the hate merchants at Fox News and talk radio can claim to have invented their genre. Toxic right-wing vitriol so dominated the public airwaves from the McCarthy era until 1963 that President Kennedy, that year, launched a citizen's campaign to enforce the Fairness Doctrine, which required accuracy and balance in the broadcast media. Students, civic and religious groups filed more than 500 complaints against right-wing extremists and hate-mongering commentators before the FCC. The Dallas, Texas, airwaves were particularly radioactive; preachers and political leaders and local businessmen spewed extremist vitriol on the city's radio and TV stations, inflaming the passions of the city's legions of unhinged fanatics. There was something about the city -- a rage or craziness, that, whether sensible or not, seemed to have set the stage for Jack's murder. The Voice of America, half an hour after the assassination, described Dallas as "the center of extreme right wing." The Texas town was such a seething cauldron of right-wing depravity that historian William Manchester portrayed it as recalling the final days of the Weimar Republic. "Mad things happened," reported Manchester. "Huge billboards screamed 'Impeach Earl Warren.'" Jewish stores were smeared with crude swastikas. Fanatical young matrons swayed in public to the chant "Stevenson's going to die -- his heart will stop stop stop and he will burn burn burn!" The mercantile elite that ruled the city carefully cultivated the seeds of hate. Radical-right broadsides were distributed in public schools; the Kennedy name was booed in classrooms; junior executives who refused to attend radical seminars were blackballed and fired. Manchester continued: Dallas had become the mecca for medicine show evangelists of the National Independence Convention, the Christian Crusades, the Minutemen, the John Birch Society and Patrick Henry Societies and the headquarters of right wing oil man H.L. Hunt and his dubious activities... The city's mayor, Earl Carroll, a right wing co-founder of the John Birch Society, was known as 'the socialist mayor of Dallas' because he maintained his affiliation with the Democratic Party. Dallas's oil and gas barons who routinely denounced JFK as a "comsymp" had unbottled the genie of populist rage and harnessed it to the cause of radical ideology, anti-government fervor and corporate dominion. Uncle Jack's speech in Dallas was to have been an explosive broadside against the right wing. He found Dallas' streets packed five deep with Kennedy Democrats, but among them were the familiar ornaments of presidential hatred; high-flying confederate flags and hundreds of posters adorning the walls and streets of Dallas showing Jack's picture inscribed with "Wanted for Treason." One man held a posterboard saying, "you a traitor [sic]." Other placards accused him of being a communist. When public school P.A. systems announced Jack's assassination, Dallas school children as young as the fourth grade applauded. A Birmingham radio caller declared that "any white man who did what he did for niggers should be shot." As my siblings and I visited the White House to console my cousins John and Caroline, a picket paraded out front with a sign, "God punished JFK." Jack had received myriad warnings against visiting the right-wing Texas city. Indeed, there had been a sense of foreboding even within our family as he and Aunt Jackie prepared for the trip. Jack made an unscheduled trip to Cape Cod to say goodbye to my ailing grandfather. The night before the trip, Mummy found Jack distant and brooding at a dinner for the Supreme Court Justices. He was very fond of Mummy, but for the first time ever, he looked right through her. Jack's death forced a national bout of self-examination. In 1964, Americans repudiated the forces of right-wing hatred and violence with an historic landslide in the presidential election between LBJ and Goldwater. For a while, the advocates of right-wing extremism receded from the public forum. Now they have returned with a vengeance -- to the broadcast media and to prominent positions in the political landscape. [..] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr/post_1548_b_807713.html

Stop blaming the angry rhetoric when there are plenty justifiable reasons to be angry, like our being permanently at war all over the globe.

Don't confuse a valid concept like sustainability with commercial attempts to co-opt the concept to sell their junk. and NO, sustainable development doesn't imply growth in all industrial/energy sectors, only in those that are environmentally and socially sustainable.

A little late for your crocodile tears, pal. The left has been subject to the attention of the security state and witch hunts "under the pretext of promoting public safety" forever. Hypocrite!

I posted a link to it because it is the only comprehensive listing showing how violence by anti-government whack jobs correlates to inflammatory rhetoric by right wing media and politicians since Obama took office.

whatever the interpretation of the court decision, the chronology of hate mongering and violence stands.

just "wack-jobs" though, so it can't be all that bad

i hope that's true, but i'm not holding my breath - like i said here, this incident ought to make any palin presidential bid stupid easy to derail remember the dude who tried to kill andrew jackson? yeah, he was fucking batshit too. its as american as apple pie. in his case, a double malfunction of his firearms saved jacksons life. it would be nice if the 2nd amendment didn't apply to post 18th century weapons technology obviously, nobody is saying that terrorism hasn't been used before but not all periods see the same amount and form of violence. Even wack-jobs can be manipulated into creating a climate of insecurity.

according to ttk and j_b, yes liar.

MOre smears from the thug. Even if it were true (which it isn't) only a nincompoop would compare some dude venting on an internet site and Limbaugh, Beck, O'reilly, Coulter's millions of hours of syndicated hate and fear mongering.

and the thugs' smear job goes on

liar. I have never advocated restriction on speech in any form. One favorite tactics of the right wing is to accuse their opponents of what they do. Take the example of Clear Channel, the largest radio network in the US (over 1200 stations) and GOP propaganda network, employer of hate monger Limbaugh, network that fired DJ's opposed to the Iraq war, with employees that organized pro-war demos, Dixie Chicks CD burning events, blacked out anti-war musicians, etc ... http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/25/opinion/channels-of-influence.html

it hasn't made a difference because it hasn't been broad enough. The main problem is the huge bandwidth given to enable hate speech. All of Fox advertisers should be targeted for boycotts. A divestment campaign of companies that work with hate mongers could be quite effective as well.

could boycott advertisers on hate cable and radio to start with? it worked with Beck who is now wholly subsidized by the Murdoch hate machine.

you must be joking. I am certainly not going to advocate or practice what I believe is antithetical.

Do you see a pattern? Link isn't it odd how "wack-jobs" want to kill libruls?