tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post5015682429210082247..comments2023-12-23T19:04:18.739-05:00Comments on The Crow's Eye: How It SpreadsJack Crowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07499087036876745723noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-65937195456457976012011-03-15T20:04:21.928-04:002011-03-15T20:04:21.928-04:00drip -
it survives by taking in animal skins from...drip -<br /><br /><i>it survives by taking in animal skins from the slaughterhouses in the Americas and killing it's people and degrading it's water and land by turning the skins into leather goods.</i><br /><br />Remember Jonathan Harr's <i>A Civil Action</i> ? Remember the origin of the history of pollution in Woburn and the source of some of the worst toxins? Tannery operation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-54821813058315599592011-03-15T19:52:11.313-04:002011-03-15T19:52:11.313-04:00Gold. And the comments too. I would only like to...Gold. And the comments too. I would only like to add that bananas and oil are an endangered species. Perhaps one day our bones will pick up where we left off.davidlyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04754707934311038544noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-87164965320793039002011-03-15T19:09:36.486-04:002011-03-15T19:09:36.486-04:00drip, bleg please. I two-pint dare you.
My reason...drip, bleg please. I two-pint dare you.<br /><br />My reasons are selfish.BDRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06557941385560728052noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-32641538331525597412011-03-15T17:56:05.163-04:002011-03-15T17:56:05.163-04:00Wow, drip. That was worth reading more than once. ...Wow, drip. That was worth reading more than once. Thank you.Jack Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499087036876745723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-40916873531799414242011-03-15T17:25:26.567-04:002011-03-15T17:25:26.567-04:00In Nicaragua we see the opposite of Japan's fa...In Nicaragua we see the opposite of Japan's failure. It is not a symbol either. It is a country so poor only Haiti rivals it in this hemisphere. It was only the failure of the banana crop due to environmental disaster, followed by an eartquake and the theft of the aid sent that finally allowed it to break free of the cycle of invasion. (Nobody told Reagan this and he and his henchmen were only interested in Somoza as a conduit for illegal drugs and arms anyway). Now, apart from modest amounts of money from Venezuala and technical support from Cuba, it survives by taking in animal skins from the slaughterhouses in the Americas and killing it's people and degrading it's water and land by turning the skins into leather goods. Two years ago the largest source of export income in the country was remittences sent from illegal workers in Salvador to their families. The Salvadorans get their money from the remittences of illegal workers sent from the US. The only hope I see for the wretched of the earth, is that their lack of resources is such that they will be bypassed by capitals search for growth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-41261867905566542202011-03-15T17:20:59.240-04:002011-03-15T17:20:59.240-04:00Resp,
I think the corporate outlets' failure ...Resp,<br /><br />I think the corporate outlets' failure to report the "no shit Sherlock" aspect of the story is deliberate. It's willful refusal to follow the facts. There's probably malice there, too. These are the same people who reported the 2008-2009 financial collapse, in its initial stages, as the fault of blacks and other historically poor people getting loans they couldn't afford because redlining prohibitions weren't loosened. Only after the perpetrators were immunized from consequences and heeled up with TARP funds did the Wall Street blaming start, and then in a muted, whatchagonnadoaboutit fashion.<br /><br />Anony,<br /><br />Thx.Jack Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499087036876745723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-78618375990162872302011-03-15T17:14:38.785-04:002011-03-15T17:14:38.785-04:00goddam jack. well-said.goddam jack. well-said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-26141503133855962682011-03-15T17:13:12.962-04:002011-03-15T17:13:12.962-04:00Nuclear power plants built on major faults in eart...<i>Nuclear power plants built on major faults in earthquake prone zones along tsunami threatened coastlines...</i><br /><br />this point is woefully absent in the reportage up to now. of course that's not supposed to really be a criticism as i do understand tact and to inveigh a <b>'no shit sherlock'</b> does nothing good for the awful, still deteriorating situation. <br /><br />but, really, look where the goddamned thing is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-46217045400666384472011-03-15T16:31:29.037-04:002011-03-15T16:31:29.037-04:00Good point about the persistence of oil, Charles. ...Good point about the persistence of oil, Charles. <br /><br />UFC showed them how to do it, but the oil-state axis is far more vital to "national security" than cheap sugar and bananas.Jack Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07499087036876745723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9102937856333775840.post-41435054527115693072011-03-15T16:27:35.091-04:002011-03-15T16:27:35.091-04:00United Fruit lost Central and South America, and t...<i>United Fruit lost Central and South America, and the CIA failed to prevent a socialist awakening. It may in fact have hastened one. </i><br /><br />Yep. Though one might say that fruit doesn't run an industrial empire, while oil does, and that's what explains the loss of United Fruit's interests while ...uh... Tenneco's interests continued to prosper.<br /><br />The interesting point in my mind about UFC is how many low-level Mafia folks are/were involved in produce wholesaling. Nice vector of control, giving a piece of the UFC pie, eh?<br /><br />The final wheezing gasps, the death rattles, they are good to witness when I look over a long-term view, but when I shift back to here-and-now, they are painful. The panicked thieving of the US Treasury in such a short timeframe is high evidence of their knowledge of the collapse, and their attempt to be vampires and coprophages, maximizing return on the dying corpus and eventual corpse.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com