I'm surprised and disappointed at this. It's totally false and misleading. The US has NEVER lost AK-47's in Iraq. We lose much better weapons. AK-47's are junk compared to the hardware WE'VE lost track off.
If you're going to just fling around anti-Americanism, PLEASE get the facts straight. Jeez, -'Merika Keith Addison wrote: >Hello Lee > > > >>It now becomes clear, Bush was right on the money. There are weapons >>of mass destruction and they are still being developed and deployed. >> >> > >US nuclear weapons being the main example, and I guess the 190,000 >guns the US lost in Iraq would also qualify, in sheer number if not >in scale, especially when it emerges that the holy US military shoots >250,000 bullets for every alleged insurgent they kill. > >http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2146645,00.html >Oh well. At least losing all those AK-47s builds a market >Saturday August 11, 2007 >The Guardian > >http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article314944.ece >US forced to import bullets from Israel as troops use 250,000 for >every rebel killed - Independent Online Edition > Americas >26 July 2007 > >But I get your meaning. It's just that if you're looking for WMDs and >people who're ready to use them it's long been the case that >Washington's the first place to look. In fact that applies to your >meaning for the term here too, the world capital of dangerous and >rash behaviour is Washington. > > > >>The developing countries are following the path of the developed world >> >> > >I don't think so. Some of them are, but even then it's only in part. >India is an industrialised nation but it's also an agrarian society, >and a traditional one, with its own values that don't necessarily >just collapse into those of California wannabes as soon as they see >some Golden Arches and a bottle of Coke. Just as often there's active >resistance. > >To say that their most powerful members, India, China, Brazil and >South Africa, are following the path of the developed world would be >a gross simplification. > >And "developed" is a very questionable definition, almost Orwellian. >Blind addiction to self-destructive and generally destructive >behaviour is not exactly developed. Better to call them the >industrialised nations. > >Anyway the world isn't really made up of nations, that's just a state >of mind, a "sour ferment of the new wine of democracy in the old >bottles of tribalism". Useful for rulers. > > > >>and mass producing greenhouse gasses and other pollutants with >>technology we all know we should no longer be using. As their >>ability to afford more and consume increases, their medical systems >>improve their population will boom, compounding the effect. >> >> > >On the contrary, the evidence shows that as people's economic >situation improves, as soon as they're not too poverty-stricken to >feed their children, their breeding rate slows right down. > >The surefire way to do that is to empower the women, and especially >to educate the women. > >But the usual "wealth creation" method of improving people's economic >situation generally just extracts wealth, removes it and concentrates >it in the hands of the few, leaving more poverty in its wake. There >are better ways. > > > >>Have we as a species, reached or exceeded the sustainable population >>for our planet? >> >> > >It depends how big your feet are. I said this here the other day: > > > >>... There is NO shortage of food, and there is NO shortage of money, >>in fact there's more of both, PER CAPITA, than there's ever been >>before. Nor is the human eco-footprint outsized, except for some of >>it, which - surprise! - you'll find in exactly the same places where >>you'll find all the money, all the food, and all the silly ideas too >>that we're a cancer on the face of the planet and a few billion of >>us are just going to have to die, pity, but at least it's not us >>because we're not poor and starving. >> >> > >I lifted that from here: >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg57949.html >Re: [Biofuel] Overpopulation Off Limits? > >Overpopulation is a myth, quite an obnoxious one actually. > > > >>We see the depletion of natural resources, in our lifetime, like no other. >> >> > >Is that because of human overpopulation, or because some nations are >addicted to over-consumption and waste, extracting, consuming and >wasting a vastly disproportionate and inequitable "share" of the >world's resources? > >With 5% of the population consuming 25% of the world's energy supply >and emitting a third of the greenhouse gases, the US is way out in >front when it comes to over-consumption and waste, especially of >other people's resources. But all the industrialised nations are >included in that, and you also have to include the elites in the >other countries, even when that country's overall footprint is small >- and you have to exclude the very large and rapidly growing number >of poor people in the US, for instance. > >So it emerges that the depletion of natural resources and the various >other impending disasters which are obviously unsustainable are due >to a particular sector of the human community, which is not even >close to a majority. How can over-population be the problem then? > >When you examine this culprit sector more closely, what you find >isn't a human community, it's mainly the corporate sector, with its >dependent political and government sectors, armed with a >consent-manufacturing industry of unprecedented power and penetration >that keeps the subject societies - the "consumers" - not only subdued >but completely mesmerised, lost in a Disneyesque world of rootless >fantasies and instant gratification. > >So why not ask rather whether we've reached or exceeded the >sustainable limit for our planet of neo-liberal economics and the >ever-increasing levels of extraction, consumption, waste and >impoverishment that it entails? > >But you already know the answer to that question. So why pick on humans then? > > > >>We see politicians promoting profit by population growth like there >>are no limits. We are biological, living on this space bound >>bubble, limited in resources, limits disregarded by financial >>models, by which politicians and corporations live. >> >>Time to get your heads out of the sand. >> >> > >Out of the "hologram" - it won't be easy! > >http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/58437/ >A Feast of Bullshit and Spectacle: The Great American Media Mind Warp >By Joe Bageant, AlterNet >Posted on August 9, 2007 > > > >>Decisions made now, in our lifetime will determine the future for >>our children (and perhaps ourselves if change is rapid). Commerce >>is just as finite as our natural resources. We should be looking at >>a sustainable market, we should make long life products, durable, >>repairable and upgradeable/ extensible. >> >> > >Indeed so. > > > >>We consumers should expect and demand these criteria, too much is >>disposable in just a few years. >> >> > >I don't believe you're going to solve many if any problems by >whatever consumers might expect and demand, consumerism is part of >the problem, not of the solution. > > > >>We do not want to follow the example of bacteria/moulds/yeasts/ >>rodents, boom and bust. >> >> > >Huh? Those are all highly successful life forms. > > > >>The devastation of millions of dead/dying people fighting each >>other for the few remaining resources. >> >> > >Dieoff eh? Please see: > >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/msg70734.html >Re: [Biofuel] Proper intgration of Biofuels for small farms > >Best > >Keith > > > >>Lee >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Biofuel mailing list >Biofuel@sustainablelists.org >http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): >http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ > > > _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/biofuel_sustainablelists.org Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (50,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
