City of Death
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Jewish New Year, a moveable feast apparently, but this year it is today.
The children are running to get free soup (not to escape a car bomb as I first imagined). I have seen the same gutted cars in Montreal and New York City and Rio de Janeiro, without the body parts maybe ... but about the same.
Not just gonna be Baghdad go down the way I see it - the very notion of cities may be obsolete in the face of global climate change. It's Apocalypse eh? I'd say so. How do you run a city when you can't heat it, light it, or get around in it? Nevermind frills like water and sewage.
When it comes to figguring the Germans are pretty good. An estimate of "2 million tons of biodiesel every year. Compare that to the 130 million tons of petroleum the German population consumes every year" - this will not cut it; see: 21/09/06, Christian Wüst, The Fuels of the Future, (Archive), Technorati Blogs.
Some still think ethanol gonna save 'em, some nuclear power - it's all nonsense. Solar & wind could do it - I doubt the Muggles can get it together, nevermind 'in time'. Real/actual public transport would help, get city people out of their cars entirely - can't get that together either likely, even if all of the drivers and mechanics (and the policemen too eh? surely gonna need police for this) were women :-)
A-and for those who think the Internet is gonna save 'em? check this out: Zimbabwe: Internet shuts down after gov't fails to pay the bill (an that's nevermind the WI-MAx they are implementing in a city called Parintins in the Amazon not far from Manaus: 22/09/06, Município amazonense é o primeiro no mundo a testar tecnologia de internet banda larga sem fio).
OkOkOkOk - we'll just rewrite the covenant with the commas adjusted: 21/09/06, Russell Smith, 'What's up Doc?' or did you mean 'What's up, Doc?', (Archive). Commas have figured here before - So long, and thanks for all the fish - though it was just 2 million the last time, stakes are gettin' higher.
"Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna.
In the face of doom only love survives, and not much of it I bet.
on Baghdad from the press: (Archive)
25/09, Patrick Cockburn, A journey into the 'Taliban republic'.
22/09, Bernhard Zand, The Battle for Baghdad, Technorati Blogs.
22/09, Patrick Cockburn, New terror stalks Iraq's republic of fear.
22/09, Rupert Cornwell: Nothing the Americans do stops the slide into despair.
21/09, Afif Sarhan, IRAQ: Analysts say violence will continue to increase.
Photos by: Teresa Flowers, Björn Oldsen, Gruppo Garage, Gruppo Garage, Theo Berends.
Tags: Baghdad, Iraq, Doom and Gloom, Zimbabwe, Parintins, Comma, Boobage.
Jewish New Year, a moveable feast apparently, but this year it is today.
The children are running to get free soup (not to escape a car bomb as I first imagined). I have seen the same gutted cars in Montreal and New York City and Rio de Janeiro, without the body parts maybe ... but about the same.Not just gonna be Baghdad go down the way I see it - the very notion of cities may be obsolete in the face of global climate change. It's Apocalypse eh? I'd say so. How do you run a city when you can't heat it, light it, or get around in it? Nevermind frills like water and sewage.
When it comes to figguring the Germans are pretty good. An estimate of "2 million tons of biodiesel every year. Compare that to the 130 million tons of petroleum the German population consumes every year" - this will not cut it; see: 21/09/06, Christian Wüst, The Fuels of the Future, (Archive), Technorati Blogs.
Some still think ethanol gonna save 'em, some nuclear power - it's all nonsense. Solar & wind could do it - I doubt the Muggles can get it together, nevermind 'in time'. Real/actual public transport would help, get city people out of their cars entirely - can't get that together either likely, even if all of the drivers and mechanics (and the policemen too eh? surely gonna need police for this) were women :-)
A-and for those who think the Internet is gonna save 'em? check this out: Zimbabwe: Internet shuts down after gov't fails to pay the bill (an that's nevermind the WI-MAx they are implementing in a city called Parintins in the Amazon not far from Manaus: 22/09/06, Município amazonense é o primeiro no mundo a testar tecnologia de internet banda larga sem fio).
OkOkOkOk - we'll just rewrite the covenant with the commas adjusted: 21/09/06, Russell Smith, 'What's up Doc?' or did you mean 'What's up, Doc?', (Archive). Commas have figured here before - So long, and thanks for all the fish - though it was just 2 million the last time, stakes are gettin' higher.
"Name me someone that's not a parasite and I'll go out and say a prayer for him"
Bob Dylan, Visions of Johanna.
In the face of doom only love survives, and not much of it I bet.
on Baghdad from the press: (Archive)
25/09, Patrick Cockburn, A journey into the 'Taliban republic'.
22/09, Bernhard Zand, The Battle for Baghdad, Technorati Blogs.
22/09, Patrick Cockburn, New terror stalks Iraq's republic of fear.
22/09, Rupert Cornwell: Nothing the Americans do stops the slide into despair.
21/09, Afif Sarhan, IRAQ: Analysts say violence will continue to increase.
Photos by: Teresa Flowers, Björn Oldsen, Gruppo Garage, Gruppo Garage, Theo Berends.
Tags: Baghdad, Iraq, Doom and Gloom, Zimbabwe, Parintins, Comma, Boobage.
