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Aneirin -> On Deadly ground ? (6/1/2010 4:07:49 PM)

I have just finished watching the Steven Seagal movie On Deadly Ground, I have seen it loads of times, but I forgot this bit ;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yr-F8z74KM

Now, seeing as there is a big oil problem in the Gulf of Mexico at this moment, something which I understand  a criminal investigation  has just  been launched into it, I feel this speech is pretty pertinent now.

Now I know or at least suspect Seagal is mouthing other people's words, but if that is what it takes, the actors and actresses we are all familiar with to wake us up to the reality and there keep reminding us, maybe the likes of the enviromental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico might become a very rare event, with prosecutions to follow. If that means the crushing of a company, then what an incentive to do the job properley.

But say the people became educated as to what is happening to our world, what exactly can the people do about it, has the time come, to come or passed when the people have any say in this world of corporate interests ?



FirmhandKY -> RE: On Deadly ground ? (6/1/2010 4:26:36 PM)

Damn.

Thought this was a thread about John Ringo.[8D]

Firm



eihwaz -> RE: On Deadly ground ? (6/1/2010 7:03:03 PM)


Some time ago I heard an oil company executive or industry analyst (was it T. Boone Pickens?) surmise in an interview that the end of oil as a major source of energy would occur before oil resources are depleted -- i.e., societies would transition to new energy sources for reasons other than exhaustion of oil resources.  (Pickens has an obvious interest in this outcome.)  Interesting idea.  Other than availability of cheaper energy forms, I wonder what other forces would bring this about (with the definition of "cheaper" the problematic term).

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
...maybe the likes of the enviromental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico might become a very rare event, with prosecutions to follow. If that means the crushing of a company, then what an incentive to do the job properley.

It already is a very rare event.  It just happens to have happened.  As you know, "very rare" doesn't mean impossible.  All technology can fail, no matter how vanishingly small the probability.  The questions are what price are we willing to pay to control that risk and what risk are we willing to accept.

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin
But say the people became educated as to what is happening to our world, what exactly can the people do about it, has the time come, to come or passed when the people have any say in this world of corporate interests ?

The US is verging on corpocracy.  The (an) interesting question is whether the system can self-correct as has happened in the past.

I read an interesting article by James Fallows a few months back in which he proposed that American society is just fine; it's American government that's sick.



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