Nader was right about both Bush and Gore, he presented America the viable option of a new direction for the health and welfare of its citizens and its environment; yet he is now reviled and bears the wrath of many liberals for getting us into Iraq and the environmental degradation of the Bush backlash.

Al Gore, the pied piper of the CO2 centric global warming explanation has the world believing that there is good and bad carbon dioxide. The lesser of the two evils star is now shining with his award winning docu-drama An Inconvenient Truth.

Fossil fuel CO2, bad. Biofuel CO2, good.

There isn’t enough cropland on the planet to replace the oil and eat, but we’ll just sweep that little known fact under the rug and forge ahead with biofueling the waste.

Now George W. Bush is sliding under the environmentalist radar with new energy deals to maintain the car culture and the “American way of life is not negotiable” stand touted by his father, George H. W. Bush at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992.

Power over principal, the Monroe Doctrine remains in effect.

So much for poverty and the poverty stricken in Brazil.

And our climate.

Sometimes no Peace,

It’s not going to happen. The commodification of biofuel is not going to happen. Everyone is waking up. Can’t you see the pace? Everyone is waking up faster and faster. We’re gonna be fine.

Just keep on being pissed. Bush ain’t gettin under any radar and neida ah his friens.

It is happening and fast, ethanol plants are springing up across the Midwest and most are coal fired.

And Gore is lining ‘em up right now, not waking them up.

Got to save the planet.

SOS

The ethanol plants in the US aren’t just coal fired, they’re corn based. That’s a problem and the solution. I just hate for it to be at the expense of the Brazilian and Haitian workers. Just as I hate to see the ritual sacrifice of the Chinese worker and Iraq’s poor – yah. Because the rich got out. Didn’t they? And those guys that got left behind are draining the MIC of its last life’s blood. That’s happening. It’s gross. But that’s the Big Algebra.

The first thing we have to do is replace coal as a source for stationary energy grids. We can do that. The trick is to offer an alternative. Not just say no. The ideal application is obviously not corn based ethanol plants and hyper-pooled profit margins. But we should feel okay about taking everything we can get until the R&D gets out of infancy. Who would buy an 8088 or an Apple IIe today? Except as collector’s item. But they were the beginning.

Those poor Red States have no self-reliance. They’ve been living off of farm subsidies since NAFTA ported all their manufacturing jobs to the global south. Because they’re clueless. They’re not doing it because they want to destroy life on earth.

[ For the newbies in town : taxpayer subsidized farming in the US & Europe subsidizes the ability of Big Agro to undercut global south farming by dumping the proceeds on global markets and forcing the Campesinos of the world to sell off their land and make a b-line for the cheap labor pool (in the US or Europe or their Gulag Archipelago of Sweatshop labor camps) — it’s a fundamental cog in the machine of Predatory Capitalism. ]

The Red States are also ‘surviving’ on the proceeds of the booming Prison Industrial Complex.

They have no business sense. Sheep to the slaughter. So the Changemasters have to go in there and re-engineer their manufacturing and farming sector. All that big agro is GMO. We can’t use that land for farming until the GMO fields have been quarantined and discontinued. Our re-engineered agricultural sector is going to have to be incubated elsewhere.

It’s true. OK. The first thing we have to do is re-engineer our changemasters. But that really is The Beginning.

The ‘agreement’ Bush is sealing with Brazil is for ‘joint’ Research. The US wants to get their hands on the sugar by-product ethanol recipe and appropriate it. The deal is, “Lula, you give us your recipe and we’ll make you rich by commodifying the product and pumping it through the veins of the waste receptacle also known as the hyper-industrialized states.” It is a deal with the devil. It most certainly is.

Here’s an interesting twist :

Europe Grapples With the Future of ACP Sugar Imports

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You’ve quoted that Solar Power “expert” before, Junta, and I gotta tell ya, I think the guy’s just shy. But I was hot and heavy with the PC to Internet revolution, so I have a visceral sense of how 256k and 1200 baud can turn into Gigabytes and the speed of light — overnight.

But there’s no question. The hyper-industrialized states are going to have to attenuate their consumption patterns. That’s definitely gotta go. We have to start looking at everything we’ve been taught to think of as wealth and see waste instead. Look at the Mercedes Benz Cadillac SUV and think “basura”. Look at the mink coat, the limousine, the Oscar gala glitter — and systematically think “basura basura basura”. Because that’s what it is : profligate, unsustainable, waste.