As any and every Environmentalist knows, the earth, water and atmosphere are all one completely inter related system. When developing or regulating anything in the environment, we do so at our complete peril when we fail to remember this fact.
This week the California Air Resources Board voted to implement a 3000 page cap and trade regulation on those industries that remain in California. Under this regulation, those industries remaining in California will have a number assigned to them of the maximum units of carbon they can consume, if they go over that maximum number they can buy credits through an exchange, much like the exchange that led to California's electricity debacle that we as a state have yet to recover from. The credits would allow the industry to use more carbon than the State of California allows. The credits would be created by those industries using less carbon than their allowance selling them at a fixed price to the exchange who would then be allowed to sell the credits at any price above the fixed price. Call it what you will its a gigantic tax , the state estimates worth $20Billion in 2020, on California manufacturers.
What this means is that in the middle of the deepest recession in seventy five years, where California's unemployment rate is 30% higher than the nation as a whole, the California Air Resources Board has passed a new tax that companies outside of California are not subject to. California already has the tightest most difficult regulations in the world for industry. One major reason we have such high unemployment is that our industry is fleeing because in a one world economy, even with the most efficient machines and workers on earth, they can't compete when the horrific costs of California's regulations are added to their backs.
Many small companies have relocated to Arizona, New Mexico and Idaho. Each of those states has more relaxed regulations than California now has. These regulations are more like California's regulations of the late 1980's and represent a burden that these companies can already meet or do better than. They don't have to spend all their capital meeting California's ever changing ever more demanding regulations, or trading with enviro thieves on an exchange just to keep their doors open. Many of the remaining California industries will relocate to other States, rather than attempt to stay in business with a new back breaking tax that no one else in America faces. This of course will increase un employment in California and the states economic crisis.
Many more larger companies have moved their manufacturing to Latin America and China. With this new California only carbon tax, they will continue to do so. In those countries where there are either no regulations or local government officials co-operation can be bought cheaply, these companies usually operate completely filthy dirty factories that look like something directly out of late 19th Century photographs of disgusting inhumane industrial conditions. There are no filters or masks for the workers, no scrubbers in the smokestacks, no detention and clean up facilities before the industrial waste hits the water. Communist China is where the most base industrialists with the least care for the workers and the Earth go to supply our lust for shiny glittery things. Workers paradise indeed.
When I complain about these and many other California regulations people say to me "Yes, but the air here is so much cleaner than it was thirty years ago." Indeed it is. This is not, however, because the products we use are being made in a more environmentally friendly and safe manner. There are in fact, in the main, being made in a less environmentally safe and friendly manner than they were made thirty years ago. We are just under two delusions:
First that it's SOMEONE ELSE'S air, water and soil being polluted and
Second that this is PERFECTLY FINE, since our air, soil and water are not being polluted.
Friends, this is an obscenity. It is also environmental classism, nationalism, xenoism and racism. The thinking goes that pollution to make my toys is fine as long as I don't have to deal with it and if the Mexicans, Bolivians, and Chinese are "willing" to choke themselves to death making my Nikies, Apples, Ipods and so on, well HooRah for the one world economy! Really? This is I again repeat, nothing more than colonialism, classism, racism and stupidity done in the name of the environment. It is morally, scientifically, and even politically bankrupt. There will be a overall world system increase in pollution, directly due to this California only cap and trade law, even if that pollution is reduced in California. That's not good for the planet, or for California.
What we need instead is a national carbon and pollution tax on all products sold in the United States. Not an exchange where some enviro pirates can get rich, but a direct tax on every product that taxes the pollution used in it's manufacture and shipping to our market, NO MATTER WHERE IT WAS MADE. This would, with America still the world's chief consumer, tend to make companies worldwide clean up their act to sell to us. It would also tend to bring jobs and manufacturing back to the United States and back to California, while filling the national budget deficit. Its a win for the united States, a win for California, and a win for the Earth, Water and Sky.
P.S. Hey- Who ELECTED the California Air Resources Board? Think about it.
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Monday, November 22, 2010
Now we know who killed those Kennedy's
Forty seven years. For most of human history, that span has been an entire lifetime. I was a small child forty seven years ago, but I remember that day better than any day last week. It's the day of the American Coup D Etat. It's the day the national Military Intelligence Industrial Complex shot an American President down like a rabid dog on Elm Street in Dallas Texas.
It was always a hinkey kill. That business a couple days later killing Oswald in the police station alerted even my six year old mind that there was something rotten in the cotton. Conspiracy theories sprouted almost instantly. Some believed LBJ did it. Some thought the Russians did it. Some said it was the Cubans. Dan Smoot the Conservative Texas commentator was the first to claim in public that the Intelligence community may have done it, and Dan was a former FBI man. I used to read my fathers copies of the Dan Smoot Report as a kid.
As a young adult, I met and befriended the Investigative Reporter, Mike Canfield. Mike and his co-Author, A. J. Weberman fingered three guys from the CIA as being the lead team that was responsible for carrying out the assassination of President John Kennedy. Those guys were stopped shortly after the Assassination by rail road police, dressed as tramps, hanging out in the train yard in back of Dealy Plaza. One guy was the famous CIA assassin, Frank Sturgis who Fidel Castro said was the most dangerous CIA agent ever. Another was E. Howard Hunt, and the third is an unknown man believed to be a Lebanese contract assassin. Canfield and Weberman wrote a ground breaking book Coup D Etat in America. They detailed the CIA mafia interlinks in the Assasination of President John Kennedy. Oddly enough, E. Howard Hunt, famous for his role in Watergate (Along with Sturgis) sued Canfield and Weberman for Libel and Slander. The suit never went to trial and was primarily designed to destroy book sales and keep the authors bottled up in litigation for years.
So here forty seven years is some GREAT news:
E. Howard Hunt confessed on his deathbed,in an interview taped by his own son, Saint John Hunt, that he indeed had involvement in the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Not only that, Hunt said it was instigated by his case officer, who was also the CIA agent in charge of the Bay of Pigs.
Case closed. The CIA Killed President John F. Kennedy. That's right, as a pair of young journalists, A. J. Weberman, YIPPIE extraordinaire and Mike Canfield, Jesus Freak got it right way way way back in the early 1970's. Good work boys!
But friends there is more to know:
Jack Ruby was Mob from the get go and ran all the strip clubs, porn and male and female prostitution ofr the mob in the American Southwest. The mob had him assassinate and silence Lee Harvey Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald, was indeed exactly what he claimed to be: He was a Patsy. But he was more than that- Lee harvey was a CIA double agent. He had been Francis Gary Powers radio man and interviewed Powers while he was in captivity, supposedly for the Soviets, but? Oswald defected to the Soviet Union, married the daughter of the Soviet equivalent to the FBI and then was repatriated to the USA and had his passage paid for by the American State Department. Strange huh?
There were lots of Ruby/Oswald tie in's to Texas Oil Men. Some of those dirty no good so and so's are still alive. Even after forty seven long years, some of them are left alive to be brought to justice. Even Hunt's CIA case officer is still alive and could be brought to justice, except of course, the John Kennedy Assassination was a Coup D Etat, and justice, once a occasional visitor in America is now a stranger.
Yet on this cold November day we must remember the courageous who knowing it had been a Coup D Etat, none the less pursued the Assassins and the enemies of the American Republic: Dan Smoot, Judge Garrison, Congressman Henry B. Gonzales, Mort Saul, A. J. Weberman, and my good friend Mike Canfield. You each deserve the Medal of Freedom and the eternal gratitude of the American People.
All Power to the People!
It was always a hinkey kill. That business a couple days later killing Oswald in the police station alerted even my six year old mind that there was something rotten in the cotton. Conspiracy theories sprouted almost instantly. Some believed LBJ did it. Some thought the Russians did it. Some said it was the Cubans. Dan Smoot the Conservative Texas commentator was the first to claim in public that the Intelligence community may have done it, and Dan was a former FBI man. I used to read my fathers copies of the Dan Smoot Report as a kid.
As a young adult, I met and befriended the Investigative Reporter, Mike Canfield. Mike and his co-Author, A. J. Weberman fingered three guys from the CIA as being the lead team that was responsible for carrying out the assassination of President John Kennedy. Those guys were stopped shortly after the Assassination by rail road police, dressed as tramps, hanging out in the train yard in back of Dealy Plaza. One guy was the famous CIA assassin, Frank Sturgis who Fidel Castro said was the most dangerous CIA agent ever. Another was E. Howard Hunt, and the third is an unknown man believed to be a Lebanese contract assassin. Canfield and Weberman wrote a ground breaking book Coup D Etat in America. They detailed the CIA mafia interlinks in the Assasination of President John Kennedy. Oddly enough, E. Howard Hunt, famous for his role in Watergate (Along with Sturgis) sued Canfield and Weberman for Libel and Slander. The suit never went to trial and was primarily designed to destroy book sales and keep the authors bottled up in litigation for years.
So here forty seven years is some GREAT news:
E. Howard Hunt confessed on his deathbed,in an interview taped by his own son, Saint John Hunt, that he indeed had involvement in the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Not only that, Hunt said it was instigated by his case officer, who was also the CIA agent in charge of the Bay of Pigs.
Case closed. The CIA Killed President John F. Kennedy. That's right, as a pair of young journalists, A. J. Weberman, YIPPIE extraordinaire and Mike Canfield, Jesus Freak got it right way way way back in the early 1970's. Good work boys!
But friends there is more to know:
Jack Ruby was Mob from the get go and ran all the strip clubs, porn and male and female prostitution ofr the mob in the American Southwest. The mob had him assassinate and silence Lee Harvey Oswald.
Lee Harvey Oswald, was indeed exactly what he claimed to be: He was a Patsy. But he was more than that- Lee harvey was a CIA double agent. He had been Francis Gary Powers radio man and interviewed Powers while he was in captivity, supposedly for the Soviets, but? Oswald defected to the Soviet Union, married the daughter of the Soviet equivalent to the FBI and then was repatriated to the USA and had his passage paid for by the American State Department. Strange huh?
There were lots of Ruby/Oswald tie in's to Texas Oil Men. Some of those dirty no good so and so's are still alive. Even after forty seven long years, some of them are left alive to be brought to justice. Even Hunt's CIA case officer is still alive and could be brought to justice, except of course, the John Kennedy Assassination was a Coup D Etat, and justice, once a occasional visitor in America is now a stranger.
Yet on this cold November day we must remember the courageous who knowing it had been a Coup D Etat, none the less pursued the Assassins and the enemies of the American Republic: Dan Smoot, Judge Garrison, Congressman Henry B. Gonzales, Mort Saul, A. J. Weberman, and my good friend Mike Canfield. You each deserve the Medal of Freedom and the eternal gratitude of the American People.
All Power to the People!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Well Whose playing Chess now?
I TOLD you So! Is such a annoying phrase both to use and to hear. In spite of this fact, I can not help but say "I told you so." to my friends within the Democratic Party who have their panties in a bunch that the Tea Party is gaining on them and that the Republicans may overtake them in the November Congressional elections.
While I was predicting this gloom, my more insider more well connected would be beltway dwelling friends were telling me to SHUT UP! That I was stupid, that Rham and Obama played Chess and I only played Checkers, and that opposing Obama meant that i had unrespolved buried below the surface racism in my pea picking little heart. Uh huh... I kept telling them pass REAL EUROPEAN STYLE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE and SCREW the INSURANCE INDUSTRY and you will have a electoral majority for forty years. Fail to do that and you won't see yourselves hold onto Congress in two years.
I said "Hey dont sell Chrysler to Italy, bail her and GM out", oh Noooo I was playing checkers. I said don't bail out the banks without relief for the underwater unemployed homeowners. Oh Noo I was playing checkers with Bull Connor in my heart...I said no no no more breaks for corporations, rebuild the bridges, the roads, the electrical grids and the national parks. Build a nationwide railway/streetcar system. I was playing checkers on a cracker barrel.
Well whose playing chess NOW ? The Democratic Party, and hello to my friends on the State Committee has been so smart, so confident that the voters had nowhere else to go, so delusional about the depth of love the average voter had for Obama that they managed to lose a mid term election. They could have won. They could have taken both houses. They could have done a major generational shift that would last for thirty years by standing tall for the interests of the 95% of the country. They could have had such a deep loyalty from the American People that they wouldn't need corporate dollars for a decade.....BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Alas. They wont get the message the People are sending them by staying home. They will sit at the expensive lunches in the expensive restaurant where some corporate shill is paying the bill and fret about how much they wish they could really do some little thing for the People and be appropriately loved for it....
When I was young I would read Abbie Hoffman railing against liberal politicians and what total limp schmucks they were. I could not then, but clearly do now appreciate his viewpoint.
While I was predicting this gloom, my more insider more well connected would be beltway dwelling friends were telling me to SHUT UP! That I was stupid, that Rham and Obama played Chess and I only played Checkers, and that opposing Obama meant that i had unrespolved buried below the surface racism in my pea picking little heart. Uh huh... I kept telling them pass REAL EUROPEAN STYLE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE and SCREW the INSURANCE INDUSTRY and you will have a electoral majority for forty years. Fail to do that and you won't see yourselves hold onto Congress in two years.
I said "Hey dont sell Chrysler to Italy, bail her and GM out", oh Noooo I was playing checkers. I said don't bail out the banks without relief for the underwater unemployed homeowners. Oh Noo I was playing checkers with Bull Connor in my heart...I said no no no more breaks for corporations, rebuild the bridges, the roads, the electrical grids and the national parks. Build a nationwide railway/streetcar system. I was playing checkers on a cracker barrel.
Well whose playing chess NOW ? The Democratic Party, and hello to my friends on the State Committee has been so smart, so confident that the voters had nowhere else to go, so delusional about the depth of love the average voter had for Obama that they managed to lose a mid term election. They could have won. They could have taken both houses. They could have done a major generational shift that would last for thirty years by standing tall for the interests of the 95% of the country. They could have had such a deep loyalty from the American People that they wouldn't need corporate dollars for a decade.....BUT NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
Alas. They wont get the message the People are sending them by staying home. They will sit at the expensive lunches in the expensive restaurant where some corporate shill is paying the bill and fret about how much they wish they could really do some little thing for the People and be appropriately loved for it....
When I was young I would read Abbie Hoffman railing against liberal politicians and what total limp schmucks they were. I could not then, but clearly do now appreciate his viewpoint.
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