Comments on: Random Linkage 2008-Jan-25 AM http://www.randomlinkage.net/archives/234 Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:55:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Richard http://www.randomlinkage.net/archives/234#comment-125 Richard Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:51:31 +0000 http://www.randomlinkage.net/archives/234#comment-125 So you're the one whose hit keeps showing up on my stats! So you’re the one whose hit keeps showing up on my stats!

]]> By: admin http://www.randomlinkage.net/archives/234#comment-123 admin Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:37:07 +0000 http://www.randomlinkage.net/archives/234#comment-123 Thanks for the feedback. I love your site, by the way - security/anti-security/security-theatre is a hobby interest of mine. Thanks for the feedback. I love your site, by the way - security/anti-security/security-theatre is a hobby interest of mine.

]]> By: Richard http://www.randomlinkage.net/archives/234#comment-122 Richard Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:00:52 +0000 http://www.randomlinkage.net/archives/234#comment-122 According to the story, clearing of the rain forest is being “spurred by heavy market demand for corn, soy and cattle.” The story -- nay, almost any story you read about environmental rape -- does not make the connection between the increased market demand and increasing world and local population … lest we insult someone’s mother, or question the beliefs of a culture dominated by procreation-obsessed Roman Catholicism. Down in the story, is this bit of irony: The coordinator of Greenpeace’s Amazon campaign “said corn is increasingly being grown in the Amazon because of high international prices brought on by U.S. President George W. Bush’s decision to promote use of corn-based ethanol.” Thus the slashing and burning to create crop land in Brazil while U.S. forces slash and burn Iraq to protect our oil supply. According to the story, clearing of the rain forest is being “spurred by heavy market demand for corn, soy and cattle.” The story — nay, almost any story you read about environmental rape — does not make the connection between the increased market demand and increasing world and local population … lest we insult someone’s mother, or question the beliefs of a culture dominated by procreation-obsessed Roman Catholicism.

Down in the story, is this bit of irony: The coordinator of Greenpeace’s Amazon campaign “said corn is increasingly being grown in the Amazon because of high international prices brought on by U.S. President George W. Bush’s decision to promote use of corn-based ethanol.” Thus the slashing and burning to create crop land in Brazil while U.S. forces slash and burn Iraq to protect our oil supply.

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