You didn’t have to be clairvoyant to foresee what I wrote with great detail in three Reflection Articles I published on the CubaDebate website between February 21 and March 3: “The NATO Plan Is to Occupy Libya,” “The Cynical Danse Macabre,” and “NATO’s Inevitable War.” Not even the fascist leaders of Germany and Italy were so blatantly shameless regarding the Spanish Civil War unleashed in 1936, an event that maybe a lot of people have been recalling over these past days. Almost 75 years to the day have passed since then, but nothing that has happened over the last 75 centuries, or even 75 millenniums of human life on our planet can compare.
Sometimes it seems that those of us who serenely voice our opinions on these issues are exaggerating. I dare say that we have actually been naive to assume that we all should be aware of the deception or colossal ignorance that humanity has been dragged into.
In 1936 there was an intense clash between two systems and ideologies of more or less equal military power.
The arms back then seemed more like toys compared with today’s weapons. Humanity’s survival was not threatened despite the destructive power and the locally lethal force deployed. Entire cities and even nations could have been virtually destroyed. But never was the human race, in its totality, at risk of being exterminated several times over for the stupid and suicidal power developed by modern science and technology. ...... Fidel Castro Ruz, 28 March 2011 ........ M O R E: ..........
http://www.cmhw.icrt.cu/English/component/content/article/53-portada/912-natos-fascist-war- (More...) Reflections by Comrade Fidel: ......
http://www.cmhw.icrt.cu/English/reflexiones-de-fidel-castro
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It already is being destroyed by pollution of fossil fuels.
30.03.2011 20:13
Coal, gas, oil, and atomic energy is destroying the planets livability and therefore the last forty-eight years of ecological green revolution has brought into being the hi-tech tools to put in place wind, tidal, and solar power which transforms to electricity and is more power than can be used by society. No more blackouts. This non-pollution solution is given freely in natures kinder laws and provides work for all and forever more.
The air in our atmosphere has already lost 36% of its oxygen burned out to CO2--carbon dioxide, and we cannot live on carbon-dioxide. The land, and waters are being polluted beyond the ability of nature to sustain natural life anymore. That is now, and is happening by the worlds' empires uniting in Imperialist Camp Militaries such as NATO and NORAD, etc.
They are refusing to get off the stage of history and holding aggressive war as their tool to continue pollution beyond natures abilities to sustain the web of life. They in fact plunder for more and more oil, coal, gas and atomic energy.
We the people now have the tools to put in place the non-pollution solutions such as wind, tidal, and solar power. That is becomming more and more widely available globally, and should be used by all progressive and revolutionary countries. It really has become a worldwide necessity to get out of the quagmire that the Imperial war machine is holding in place. The de-mobbed soldiers could go to work at union rates and actually re-tool the entire industrial revolution. Viva socialist liberation. End pollution wars, not endless wars for more and more pollution. Viva the United States of the world. Workers of the world, unite!!
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31.03.2011 07:13
The Germanys have thousands of these things and they are collectivly regarded as white elephants.
The power output of one is negligable even banks of them in series produce far too little. The cost ofthier construction is massive and the maintainance of each one is like tinkering with an old car
And that is in a country with engineers, the UK has economists, whinges and sociologists
Tidal...
Well this could work if the water went in and out a bit quicker, wave power is in its infancy and the last full scale test lasted less than a week in atlantic conditions.
Solar.
Hmmm, bar the rather obvious fact that the UK sees pittifuly little of the stuff and the the rare earth versions that use just daylight are phonominally expensive and the effort and polution used in thier manufacture will never be equaled in its effective lifetime, the solar panels fitted in most countries cannont be switched off and when you get housefires the firefighter just let the place burn because water and electricity dont mix.
The cubic footage needed for a city, even if every building was covered in them is such that we would have to blanket the country in them, tough to grow crops like that.
The solution is out there, without having to reduce the population (mass extermination etc) a going back to the land (which would again require a genocidal purge of the population by about 85%)
or a frantic attemp to live in the stone age.
The solution lies in developing better and less power hungry machines, a moveable energy supply for personal transport, and a focused look at advanced engineering.
We need the youth of the day to stop takeing shit subjects and take responsibility, the industrial revolution was built on new technology, it harnessed the old and brourght new thinking in a time when univercities had scant knowledge themselves.
Now we have more we must start inventing not chucking bottles at cops, not taking politics,sociology or applied bullshit but Engeering, the sciences modern apprentiships for the more practically minded.
humanity is its own worst enemy
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"The air in our atmosphere has already lost 36% of its oxygen burned out to CO2"
31.03.2011 08:22
Dry air contains roughly (by volume) 78.09% nitrogen, 20.95% oxygen, 0.93% argon, 0.039% carbon dioxide, and small amounts of other gases (Wikipedia, in case you need a source).
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31.03.2011 16:37
The power output of one is negligable even banks of them in series produce far too little. The cost ofthier construction is massive and the maintainance of each one is like tinkering with an old car"
Think this comment is a bit of a white elephant. This idea that alternative energy cannot generate the required energy output next to nuclear is a nonsense.
Take a typical nuclear power generation facility in the UK like Dungeness which is a large facility and compare its total output of 1080 Megawatts to the Dinorwig power station, a hydro-electric facility in Gwynedd, Wales total output of which is 1728 Megawatts and we can see in this instance, that nuclear is the weaker option by a fair margin.
I think when the argument is made about alternate being ineffective against coal, oil and nuclear, the argument seams to consist of putting the largest nuclear facilities up against the smallest alternate energy producers (solar, wind) and then claiming, by a flawed comparison, that nuclear is most effective, and alternate is the least effective.
Broadly speaking, alternate energy is capable of far greater power output than nuclear, coal, oil and gas.
It isn't really a question of efficiency, although that is important, its mostly about realising the required funding to put into alternate. In this, the nuclear lobby is obstructive and troublesome. What has just happened in Japan is another tragedy and will almost certainly deal the nuclear lobby, and their associated industries, corporations and privately financed lobby groups a death blow that it is unlikely to be able to recover from.
Argument and debate is always healthy but the situation is as it is. I think cogent debate will do everyone a favour. Its easy, with just a modicum of diligence and care, to do the research and when done, you will realise quite quickly that the matter is not in the least bit complicated or difficult to understand.
We are moving toward a post nuclear world and it is very important to move in the right direction, not back toward fossil fuels. That way leads only to a cul-de-sac of misery and suffering.
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