The NY Times Is Correct about Keystone

Where the Real Jobs Are - NYTimes.com: "This is precisely the moment for him to argue the case for alternative fuel sources and clean energy jobs — and to lambaste the Republicans for doubling down on conventional fuels while ceding a $5 trillion global clean technology market (and the jobs that go with it) to more aggressive competitors like China and Germany."

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Unfortunately the will needed to achieve the switch to a vibrant new economy is lacking. One reason for this is the absence of vision. What would an after-green world lok like. I have been advocating that forever but there are no takers. This is because the vision transcends specialization. It must to be adequate. Until the President can say car free along with beyond oil dependence, he will not get it. And =neither will we. Veblen would have. Peirce too no doubt.

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A Sociological Basis for Cyber-Communities

A long time ago Robert A. Nisbet A conservative sociologist Established the need for community as a balance to rampant society Community was face to face intensely educational developmental Society was impersonal and reifying turning us into commodities Others of Nisbet's time warned against ego-bolstering by society Today society can be equated with corporate and ego-bolstering is the very marrow of TV That and a sort of bullying subtext We are being fashioned by this force into compliant social beings
This is the sociological reason why cyber-communities are an apposite answer to the untrammeled advance of society -gesselschaft I wish folk like Chris Hedges and Cornel West would get their minds around this
A cyber-community is walkable A cyber-community is face to face A cyber-community places all elements of a city within a mile walk Schools work entertainment commerce residence Scaled to a population of no more than 10,000 A cyber-community requires the involvement of the corporate sphere It requires fruits of mass production and high tech But it also requires that corporations be responsive to  the democratic initiatives of those who form the community
It is a synthesis beyond the failed dialectics of the present binary discussion
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Chris Hedges on CSPAN - Two Demerits

In his excellent appearance on CSPAN BookTV Chris Hedges goofed

But two times
First he wrote off President Obama which has been his general position all alongBarack Obama is the best we can expect given realityThose of us who support him do so because we believe he is playing rope-a-dopeHe will eventually make good on the things we fault him forAnd if he does it will be because we made change happen on the ground
Second Chris said that media on all sides were wrongly critical ofhis friend Cornel WestNot meI merely thought he has said things that the President is entirely aware ofAnd that West's umbrage was because the President would not receive himMaybe I was wrong to make the point but I think it is significant asa dynamic among the President's critics
There is one other thingI think both West and Hedges would benefit from immersion in the philosophy of C. S. Peirce 
Oh and one otherThere is a technological solution to our current crisis which I outline on this blogIt is the creation of cyber-communitiesThe difference between me and Chris is that I propose solutions
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New Japan Quake Little Damage But A Warning Nonetheless

Quake Shakes Tokyo But Causes No Damage - WSJ.com: "TOKYO—A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck under the sea south of Japan on Sunday, shaking buildings in the capital but causing no apparent damage or tsunami.

The quake struck near the uninhabited island of Torishima in the Pacific Ocean, about 600 kilometers (370 miles) south of Tokyo, and its epicenter was about 370 kilometers (230 miles) below the sea, the Meterological Agency said. It didn't generate a tsunami."

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Will anyone listen and stop building nuclear plants.

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MSM Ignores Implication of Romney Blitz

Romney + Super Pac = Death oif DemocracyIf you thought economic and social polarizationPlus current efforts to limit the vote to white people with IDPlus the continuing grip of the cynical arms industryPlus the preening quasi-fascist edge of police power post 9/11 
If you thought these signs rank as thought starters regardingThe challenge to democracy
Consider that the Mitt Romney Super PAC attack on GingrichIs a dress rehearsal for the Romney assault on ObamaRun by the puling Romney supporter who crafted Bush1's  Willie Horton adThe Lee Atwater infiusion underside of Reaganism like Ollie NorthConsider that and ask why most of the MSM with the exception of a Belated NY Times admission
Consider that this makes Romney dangerous at the level equaling or exceeding the levelOf the noxious W
When the MSM says Romney can walk away from PAC actionIt abdicates objective judgmentRomney is using Citizen's United to craftThe end of democracyGingrich has been a merely a prelude toThe Supreme Court's attack on Barack Obama
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Pet Peeves from Alaska

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My First Windows Movie Maker You Tube Video

This demo was recorded in the late 1980s. I send it out this New Years Day to all - dictators, arms merchants, Occupiers, 99 percenters, sick, sad, content, faithful, nervous - all. 
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