Hello Dallas Farnworth, and welcome - your first post. Hm. >The question, as I see it, is not your diatribe on the evils of >government, or the lack of oversite by said government. >All these nasties you speak of relate to money. George W. can't do as >he wants any more than you or I can. Billy (The BJ) Clinton couldn't >do it either. >The question is, what have YOU done about it? >Did you connect your Alternative Energy resources to the grid to >supply power for friends, neighbors and esential services? Or did you >just sit for the last few months pondering how to be nasty and >hateful for no better reason than not being in the position to make >it better. >The Major question is, What the Hell are you doing to make it better? >Rather than Why isn't Government making it better while not costing >me any money. >The world today, (Read that: the USA ) is a slave to the media. >If you are so naive to believe what you see in the high dollar, >slanted press, maybe you should obtain a shortwave radio and connect >it to your off grid power supply. >Dallas Farnworth >PS: >This is not for or against any government agency, it is pointed >toward the people who gripe and do nothing. >DF
Now are you addressing this to me? It seems you are, though I didn't write the article, I just posted it. Nor am I somebody who gripes and does nothing. Nor am I even somebody who gripes. >The world today, (Read that: the USA ) ... LOL! Mr Farnsworth, this is not an American list, the membership is worldwide, Americans are only a minority here, though a valued one. You'll be ridiculed with this attitude. Anybody who's against GW Bush must be pro-Bill Clinton? :-) Anyway, Keith Parkins wrote it, not me, I'm Keith Addison. He's British, I'm not quite sure what I am these days as far as nationality goes, and I couldn't care less anyway, but I live in Japan for the moment. I've been an international journalist for nearly 40 years and I know about the media and who's a slave to it and who pays it for whose benefit and at whose expense. Do you? I don't think you can do, or surely you'd have noticed that Keith Parkins's article wasn't published in the "high dollar, slanted press", it was published by Corporate Watch, which is independent. And British. He also writes for Indymedia, not owned by anyone. Plenty of excellent stuff in the list archives about spin and media bias, if you care to look, by the way. "Diatribe"? Why do you call it a diatribe? It's a well-reasoned critique, factually based, well-researched. I wonder if you even read it, beyond a paragraph or two, enough to decide you disagreed with it. "Rather than Why isn't Government making it better while not costing me any money." You think that's what it's about? If you'd read a little further maybe you'd have realised it had more to do with the big wide world than just the US, and the small and shrill, very un-American segment of the US which seldom encounters anything different from their own lockstep for-us-or-against-us views, and lashes out when it does. >Did you connect your Alternative Energy resources to the grid to >supply power for friends, neighbors and esential services? Or did you >just sit for the last few months pondering how to be nasty and >hateful for no better reason than not being in the position to make >it better. "Nasty and hateful"... I'll hold you to that: please pinpoint precisely what it is about this article that is nasty and hateful. I don't see it in the article, I think it must be in the eye of the beholder, and the tone of your email rather confirms that. >The question is, what have YOU done about it? ... The Major question >is, What the Hell are you doing to make it better? You're so confident we're all do-nothing gripers that you don't even bother to spell out what YOU'VE done about it? Maybe you'll tell us. Not that size matters - if people do what they can according to their circumstances then that's good enough, and they're not to be criticized if someone else in different circumstances does more, or claims to. Anyway, since you ask, someone told us the other day that we've probably saved more carbon than the US government has. Well, maybe that wouldn't be too hard... Anyway, I don't know about that, but if you include this list and the Biofuels-biz list along with Journey to Forever then we've all probably helped to save more carbon than quite a lot of governments have. And we've done rather a hell of a lot more than that. And you? Keith Addison Journey to Forever Handmade Projects Ichijima, Japan http://journeytoforever.org/ List owner >--- In biofuel@yahoogroups.com, Keith Addison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/news/electricity_blackouts.htm > > Corporate Watch: News > > NEWS October 21st 2003 > > > > Brittle Power > > or: Everything you need to know about electricity but don't - yet... > > > > Keith Parkins > > <snip> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/index.php?list=biofuel Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuel/ To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
