Via the blog ClusterFuck Nation …
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It turns out the real hurricane blew through Wall Street last week, not Galveston.
This morning, Manhattan is strewn chest-deep with the debris of banking and at this hour (seven a.m.) nobody knows how far, deep, and wide the damage will spread.
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We should be frightened by the political implications of this Great Implosion of presumed wealth. Some group of somebodies will have to clean up this mess. Moving toward a major election, it is hard to imagine the American people giving the clean-up task to the very group that created the mess — no matter how many cute little faces Sarah Palin can make on TV. Both parties have so far managed to ignore the gathering crisis of banking and money, but they can’t ignore the sequoia trees crashing down around their ankles and shaking the earth they stand on.
At issue now will be the question of legitimacy in all its human social dimensions. Is our money legitimate? Is the authority of our elected officials legitimate? Are our values and ideas legitimate? These are the things that will determine what kind of future we find ourselves in.
So, to begin this process, and to clarify the situation, I urge readers of this blog to identify the Republican Party by its new brand-name: the party that wrecked America. At least, then, we can reinstate one cardinal value into the juddering structure of what we claim to believe: that actions have consequences, that you can’t just swindle and loot a society and walk away with the swag.
Spread the word, change the tone of this campaign, and keep posted.
This will be a momentous week.
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No shit. get ready for polar cities in 2500. Now.
JHK is right!
That’s a cute comment … neither you nor I will be around in 2500.
Nevertheless, that is NO excuse for not acting now, so that our descendants and those of people around the world can still enjoy the natural wonders of the world 492 years from now.
Let’s hope (for them) that the population of the world then isn’t 20, 30 or 50 billion.