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.
>
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