The colour is orange, when it is 5 to 12. The call for green is long past. On 7 Dez., 15:26, Don Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > Ah yes. And a capitalist is born. Shall I print you up a card? > > -Don > > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:10 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > Panorama (UK current affairs) did a half-hour on business response to > > the ecological challenge last week. You can catch it on BBC I-Player > > if interested. At first sight, it was pretty bland, but the sub-text > > was devastating for our current government. Britain is at the bottom > > of the heap in Europe, ahead only of Lichtenstein and Malta. Along > > comes a guy who has tried to work with government and he says 'It was > > like watching 50 episodes of Yes Minister in slow motion. The MP- > > chair often failed to turn up'. They role on one of the MiIlliband > > brothers, a supposed future PM and he is disgusting, churning out some > > vapid dung about having done all this stuff (to end up in the > > relegation zone) and there being much more to do. There are clips of > > our current PM bleating 'green this, green that'. > > > They moved on from the poison gnomes of politics. In Scotland a > > village has bought their own wind turbine. It produces about £67,000 > > profit a year for the village, spent on better insulation. They paid > > £2.5 million for it, a deal funded by the electricity use. No one > > asks about expanding such schemes to all - or mentions dread old > > phrases like 'ownership of the means of production'. A quick > > calculation went t through my head. £40K per family here spent to > > support the bwankers. 800 people in the village. Invested in > > renewable energy, 270 (say) families could have had a wind turbine > > rather than support bwankers, more or less the village equation. > > > Elsewhere they showed simple and complex schemes being run by Tesco, > > from monitoring heavy-footed lorry drivers to quite complex green food > > production schemes. By the end of this simple programme, I was > > convinced it's time to dismantle or so called democracy and follow > > Napoleon - 'Britain as a nation of shopkeepers'. In short, I'd rather > > vote Tesco because they are more accountable to us than the > > politicians. > > > I think this Panorama may have been an example of journalists > > exasperated by politicians. I've certainly no time left for them in > > Britain and the EU people we get to see are a class act in comparison, > > though we only see good ones - there must be a mass of dross amongst > > the anti-female, slaughter the homosexuals crew. I can't explain > > properly, but I felt I had a glimpse of the possible end of grasping > > consumerism and political sludge in this programme and my response to > > it. > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > ""Minds Eye"" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
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