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Blackwater and black water
Posted by D-Rock on 01/31/07 (Books, Commentary, Links, News)
I’ve been meaning to post this for over a week … the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was leaked to The Observer (UK newspaper) recently, and although it’s not quite finished yet, it basically says this: listen up dipshits, this whole climate change due to CO2 thing is for real, so let’s wise up before we’re all spending our days in Speedos, swimming in what will then be called Shit’s Creek (formerly Sparkling Paradise Stream) without – as they say – a paddle.
Sea levels will rise over the century by around half a metre; snow will disappear from all but the highest mountains; deserts will spread; oceans become acidic, leading to the destruction of coral reefs and atolls; and deadly heatwaves will become more prevalent.
The impact will be catastrophic, forcing hundreds of millions of people to flee their devastated homelands, particularly in tropical, low-lying areas, while creating waves of immigrants whose movements will strain the economies of even the most affluent countries.
Read the article in the Guardian … and a follow-up related to Bush’s brainiac plans to reverse it.
The other bit of reporting that left me concussive from shaking my head was this piece on Democracy Now! by Jeremy Scahill on the extent of involvement in Iraq by the private mercenary army Blackwater USA. (Be sure to check out the Pro Shop. Unreal.)
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Comment by tim on January 31st, 2007 at 7:29 pm:
At exactly which point do you stop shakin the old noggin???!!!
Comment by Belinda on February 1st, 2007 at 10:51 am:
YES! I was just thinking to myself that I should get my wife a new magazine clip holder for her machine gun. She’s been saying that her freedom fighting equipment was getting a bit worn. Wow, they have something for everybody, and I’m so glad they wish us all
a “Happy new year!”
Comment by Hairhole on February 2nd, 2007 at 2:58 am:
Fuck, I can’t wait to sit in a lawn chair, in the middle of the desert (formally my back yard), wearing nothing but blue socks and my speedo, forced to eat my own seman, and seman-looking liquid oozing from my open soars (due to an agricultural collapse, and a perfuse sun-blugeoning), listening to Sacrifice’s ‘as the world burns’ on repeat, while laughing hysterically and slowly bleeding to death, due to the flesh-injury sustained from petting the sharp skeleton, that once was my weiner dog.
Anyways, apparently tomorrow there’s a world wide demonstration: everyone is to turn off all their appliances (and cars!) for five minutes to show politicians etc. that this is, indeed, a serious, worldwide issue(don’t ask me, it was forwarded to me on hotmail. Kinda makes sense though…). 10:55-11:00a.m here in B.C, 1:55p.m-2:00p.m in Ottawa (those of you few and far between, you do the math).
Seriously though, this was a powerful post. For some reason ‘Superbowl Patriot XXXVI’ keeps running through my head…
Comment by Hairhole on February 2nd, 2007 at 3:06 am:
Oops. By “apparently tomorrow there’s a world wide demonstration” I mean Feb second, technically today.
Save Mother Earth, Kill Bush.
Comment by Danarcho on February 4th, 2007 at 5:13 pm:
I heard some responses of a bunch of politicians on the BBC radio thing, and it sounds like all of them want to pass off all the problems to the next ruling generation. Well, I’m from that generation (I guess)…we can only hope we’ll make it to then.
Comment by Danarcho on February 4th, 2007 at 5:20 pm:
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