http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090602_geography_recession?utm_source=LG&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WIFLSFILG091229151087
Dear Jim Archibald,
Grade school Geography about the Midwestern "breadbasket", but one certain consideration that these ridiculous neo-cons seem to be overlooking is that food has to be produced, not just transported.
True, if we have anything left, perhaps we could go back to draft horses, river transport, etc., but to claim that an evolutionary Capitalist "free market" is the path is absurd. We are in overshoot and the population is and will be without coordinated education, effort, and action too ignorant, too incapable, and too old, and too few for any sort of survival to occur.
It is an evolutionary dead end, without the rational evolution to Homa Cooperativo.
Concerning their claims that the US Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, will be/is breaking the back of OPEC is profoundly premature.
By the way, any freezing in the Mississippi Waterway?, and any recognition of the reality of the fossil fuel bust that is going to wreak havoc on an ignorant people who just assume that the ignition is an extension of the hand?
Oh yeah, with all the dead putrefying bodies even the most primitive agriculturalists will not stand even the slightest chance.
By the time the dust clears on the largest cataclysm of all time, such a question would hardly be worthwhile.
But go see Avatar, I guess. The cataclysm will be on some planet far away. The cyclical market will rebound and we only have to switch on cruise control and wait for the invisible hands to continue their WMD performance of aggravated rape on this bountiful land.
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Posted to Michael Moore's Website: 12/30/09
As we neglect the needs of the frozen North American Continent, Obama vacates for Hawaii.
For those of you who are not acutely observant, I pointed out at the time that Private WarBushitler appointed Karzai, that it was quite an appropriate name for a USA ally.
Ham=Pig Meat, Id=Rash Behavior, Karzai= Auto Headlamp.
AmeriKar Bombs and Drones.
Please USA admit to yourselves and the world that the 20th Century was a fluke of human history and let us commit to the peaceful adjustment that conserves the fossil fuels and all valuable resources.
Now, if you all would rise up and show the appropriate amount of indignation, instead of cruising in your rods, I'll make a very successful attempt to perform "Invisible Hands Don't Make It".
By the way, in a moment of blue skying, I called Directory Assistance for Flint, MI and got the number of a Michael Moore. Got his answering machine. Sounded very African American.
So, Michael, in your genius but willy-nilly target market Capitalism attacks on the status quo, if you care to take our work in a more positive benevolent direction, then why don't you contact me...
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
512 W. 10th Avenue, #2
Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 343-3808
peoplesequityunion@earthlink.net
For those of you who are not acutely observant, I pointed out at the time that Private WarBushitler appointed Karzai, that it was quite an appropriate name for a USA ally.
Ham=Pig Meat, Id=Rash Behavior, Karzai= Auto Headlamp.
AmeriKar Bombs and Drones.
Please USA admit to yourselves and the world that the 20th Century was a fluke of human history and let us commit to the peaceful adjustment that conserves the fossil fuels and all valuable resources.
Now, if you all would rise up and show the appropriate amount of indignation, instead of cruising in your rods, I'll make a very successful attempt to perform "Invisible Hands Don't Make It".
By the way, in a moment of blue skying, I called Directory Assistance for Flint, MI and got the number of a Michael Moore. Got his answering machine. Sounded very African American.
So, Michael, in your genius but willy-nilly target market Capitalism attacks on the status quo, if you care to take our work in a more positive benevolent direction, then why don't you contact me...
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
512 W. 10th Avenue, #2
Eugene, OR 97401
(541) 343-3808
peoplesequityunion@earthlink.net
Response to "Local" Genius
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNkugyv2Mkk
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Morin
To: rlogan@igc.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: new paradigm of development
Ravi (and Jason),
With respect to your Post-Peak "Moment":
They'd rather drive.
Also, there is not a cooperative (or intelligent) bone in the USA Body Politic.
All seriousness aside, allow me to make the following commentary:
Good work.
I agree with almost all of what you say.
The planning locus needs to be the village/neighborhood with inter-community unity and cooperation within the watershed (planning region) and, of course inter-regional unity and cooperation.
Federation? That smacks of nationalism. No, thanks. There would need to be a world around unity and cooperation and accord and inter-regional trade and peace relations directly established and carefully nurtured.
I echo the moderator's questions as to how do we get from where we are to our desired destination. Also, where do we start?
I recommend that we abolish the Federal Reserve System and maintain the US Treasury to allocate notes and coinage to Regional Administrative Agencies (Equity Unions) that would allocate money to ecological economic redevelopment community betterment projects and programs based on explicitly stated and inculcated mission and principles. Eventually, a world currency may be the goal.
When you mentioned cooperatives, you omitted housing and other real assets. It is imperative that we completely overhaul the way that we deal with ownership relations in ALL sectors of the economy, particularly the financial/resource allocation sectors. We must fundamentally change the ways and means by which resources are allocated to and within communities and among and within economic sectors.
Very importantly, I will repeat one of my most important messages, that we in the United States and similar environs, need to reduce automotive vehicle use by 80% in the next twenty to forty years. This is absolutely essential to the survival of the species. All "permanent culture" designs, endeavors, projects, programs, and policies need to embody this goal.
More than just models, we need reality.
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
----- Original Message -----
From: rlogan@igc.org
To: Mike Morin
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:32 PM
Subject: new paradigm of development
This finally got posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNkugyv2Mkk
Let me know what you think.
Ravi
----- Original Message -----
From: Mike Morin
To: rlogan@igc.org
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:12 PM
Subject: Re: new paradigm of development
Ravi (and Jason),
With respect to your Post-Peak "Moment":
They'd rather drive.
Also, there is not a cooperative (or intelligent) bone in the USA Body Politic.
All seriousness aside, allow me to make the following commentary:
Good work.
I agree with almost all of what you say.
The planning locus needs to be the village/neighborhood with inter-community unity and cooperation within the watershed (planning region) and, of course inter-regional unity and cooperation.
Federation? That smacks of nationalism. No, thanks. There would need to be a world around unity and cooperation and accord and inter-regional trade and peace relations directly established and carefully nurtured.
I echo the moderator's questions as to how do we get from where we are to our desired destination. Also, where do we start?
I recommend that we abolish the Federal Reserve System and maintain the US Treasury to allocate notes and coinage to Regional Administrative Agencies (Equity Unions) that would allocate money to ecological economic redevelopment community betterment projects and programs based on explicitly stated and inculcated mission and principles. Eventually, a world currency may be the goal.
When you mentioned cooperatives, you omitted housing and other real assets. It is imperative that we completely overhaul the way that we deal with ownership relations in ALL sectors of the economy, particularly the financial/resource allocation sectors. We must fundamentally change the ways and means by which resources are allocated to and within communities and among and within economic sectors.
Very importantly, I will repeat one of my most important messages, that we in the United States and similar environs, need to reduce automotive vehicle use by 80% in the next twenty to forty years. This is absolutely essential to the survival of the species. All "permanent culture" designs, endeavors, projects, programs, and policies need to embody this goal.
More than just models, we need reality.
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
----- Original Message -----
From: rlogan@igc.org
To: Mike Morin
Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 2:32 PM
Subject: new paradigm of development
This finally got posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNkugyv2Mkk
Let me know what you think.
Ravi
Monday, December 28, 2009
Response to "LA Progressive" Editorial - It has Nothing to Do With Obama’s Ethnicity
Duh,
The "fact" that O'Bomber is half African American has nothing to do with his behavior and the racist comment about AA's running away from a noble fight is absurd.
I have blue eyes and I know the problem is that O"Bomber is nothing more than a servile puppet of the militaristic Capitalist moneyed class, colored darker and kinked to be audaciously and atrociously sold to the liberal target market as at least, turns our at most, better than the alternative.
The slander on African Americans is ridiculous and un-called for. Among ethnic groups in the USA, the AAs have the most historical, longest lasting, and strongest radical tradition. As a French-Canadian/Sicilian American from Labor Heritage and an almost lifelong Cooperative Communitarian (Socialist/Communist), I find it easier to reach out and feel solidarity with "black" Americans.
I am frustrated by the ignorance and complicity of "white" people and their inability or lack of willingness to understand and embrace a radical agenda, even if presented in a most peaceful, orderly transition language.
I know it is an oversimplification to say White is to Capitalism as Black is to Socialism, but the History of the OEO of the 1964 Civil Rights Act suggests strongly that the appeal to O'Bombers "blackness" was an audacious rip-off of the legacy of Dr. MLK Jr.
Bringing "whites" into the fold, who seem to believe that freedom is equal to lack of responsibility to, for many, self, and to almost all, others, is problematic.
Chavez is the closest thing we have to a world leader. There is none in the US. His Bolivarian mantra almost draws the line in the sand between White Capitalism and Brown Socialism. If Obama thrusts us into full blown World War 4 in his ignorant attempt to enforce World Manifest Destiny then surely it will be the acts of a Capitalist Oreo and has no reflection on his ethnicity.
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR
The "fact" that O'Bomber is half African American has nothing to do with his behavior and the racist comment about AA's running away from a noble fight is absurd.
I have blue eyes and I know the problem is that O"Bomber is nothing more than a servile puppet of the militaristic Capitalist moneyed class, colored darker and kinked to be audaciously and atrociously sold to the liberal target market as at least, turns our at most, better than the alternative.
The slander on African Americans is ridiculous and un-called for. Among ethnic groups in the USA, the AAs have the most historical, longest lasting, and strongest radical tradition. As a French-Canadian/Sicilian American from Labor Heritage and an almost lifelong Cooperative Communitarian (Socialist/Communist), I find it easier to reach out and feel solidarity with "black" Americans.
I am frustrated by the ignorance and complicity of "white" people and their inability or lack of willingness to understand and embrace a radical agenda, even if presented in a most peaceful, orderly transition language.
I know it is an oversimplification to say White is to Capitalism as Black is to Socialism, but the History of the OEO of the 1964 Civil Rights Act suggests strongly that the appeal to O'Bombers "blackness" was an audacious rip-off of the legacy of Dr. MLK Jr.
Bringing "whites" into the fold, who seem to believe that freedom is equal to lack of responsibility to, for many, self, and to almost all, others, is problematic.
Chavez is the closest thing we have to a world leader. There is none in the US. His Bolivarian mantra almost draws the line in the sand between White Capitalism and Brown Socialism. If Obama thrusts us into full blown World War 4 in his ignorant attempt to enforce World Manifest Destiny then surely it will be the acts of a Capitalist Oreo and has no reflection on his ethnicity.
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR
Saturday, December 26, 2009
Point of Clarification – Terminology: Posted to Venezuelanalysis.com on 12/26/09
The word "Bank" makes me shudder.
In Business School, we learned that "Banks" were investor owned.
Surely the nationalization of such implies that the government will be holding ownership shares in trust for the benefit of the poor and the workers. While nationalist borders are not ideal, such would seem to be a prudent intermediary step, given that the administrators are not corrupt.
Consistent with Hugo's Communitarian philosophy those assets need to be applied to community betterment projects and a portion of not-for-profit endeavors earmarked for other programs and projects.
Certainly, Chinese know-how could be helpful to the folks of ASA, but "investments"? (Which seem contradictory to the non-exploitation goals being espoused and carried out by Mr. Chavez).
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR, USA
In Business School, we learned that "Banks" were investor owned.
Surely the nationalization of such implies that the government will be holding ownership shares in trust for the benefit of the poor and the workers. While nationalist borders are not ideal, such would seem to be a prudent intermediary step, given that the administrators are not corrupt.
Consistent with Hugo's Communitarian philosophy those assets need to be applied to community betterment projects and a portion of not-for-profit endeavors earmarked for other programs and projects.
Certainly, Chinese know-how could be helpful to the folks of ASA, but "investments"? (Which seem contradictory to the non-exploitation goals being espoused and carried out by Mr. Chavez).
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR, USA
Troubled by the Terminology – Posted to Venezuelanalysis.com on 12/26/09
Though I understand Chavez's Maoist philosophy and therefore applaud cooperative relations with China, I am troubled by the word "investment" (Chinese "investment" in Venezuelan economic development).
Such suggests an expropriational relationship with respect to land and labor.
The US has had an exploitative relationship with China for the last generation (be it mostly with Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai?) which has been exploitative of Chinese labor and contradictory to the interests of USA workers and coming to fruition, owners, as it seems that the schism between diluted assets ownership and the mushroomed liabilities of many or most has created a tremendous mess for the folks in the USA.
Maybe it is a Maoist plot to: "I didn't come to praise Reagan, I came to bury him"
I don't know.
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR, USA
Such suggests an expropriational relationship with respect to land and labor.
The US has had an exploitative relationship with China for the last generation (be it mostly with Taiwan, Hong Kong, Shanghai?) which has been exploitative of Chinese labor and contradictory to the interests of USA workers and coming to fruition, owners, as it seems that the schism between diluted assets ownership and the mushroomed liabilities of many or most has created a tremendous mess for the folks in the USA.
Maybe it is a Maoist plot to: "I didn't come to praise Reagan, I came to bury him"
I don't know.
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR, USA
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Letter to "Capitalist" Friend
Ian,
I am writing to request your assistance with respect to my strategy to transition the Private Investment Sector to a Quasi-Public Equity Sharing One. Certainly, if you have perused my web log you would have gleaned reference to such a fundamental paradigm shift from Capitalism to Socialism.
Recently, the USW (United Steelworkers) signed a letter of intent with the Mondragon Cooperative Community Corporation (MCC), a rather hopeful, peaceful evolutionary model that originated in the Basque Region of Spain and has grown tremendously (not without its problems associated with trying to integrate into the Capitalist Economy). I have been trying to work with USW, but have so far been rebuffed. My, not brazenly presented, suggestion that seriously pursuing such an intent translated to evolving the acronym USW to United Socialist Workers was rejected in an arrogant, reactionary manner.
I am frustrated by the apparent lack of historical perspective and long range vision that our Labor "leaders" possess.
Anyway, thee should read about Mondragon. I'll give a very brief recap.
They were formed in the Basque region of Spain, called Mondragon because it was a FORMER region of iron ore deposits and iron and steel smelting. The people of the region were separatists continuing rebellion in sympathy with the revolutionary movement in Spain, of which they were part, that was defeated by the notorious forces of Franco.
The Mondragon system came about as an attempt to positively channel the Socialist ideals of the communities in the region. They started not-for-profit workers' cooperatives with pre-determined revenues earmarked to re-invest in new workers' cooperatives. Being a very principled and democratic organization, based on the principles of the International Cooperative Alliance, and being fortunate enough to be starting while the Capitalist economy, within which they were working, was still in a growth phase (unlike the very dangerous resource constraints that the world faces now) and astute enough to find opportunity, they were fabulously successful.
They grew so much, so fast, that they began to and increasingly to stray from the ideals upon which they were formed, eventually being corrupted by their perceived growth needs and less than fully principled leadership that saw, rightly or wrongly the need to integrate themselves into the ways of Capitalism as they began joint ventures with less than principled Corporations.
Being a product of their times, they are not and never were "green".
Our discussion of Zip-Car, which I stated to be a less than optimal co-optation of the great and necessary idea of vehicle cooperatives, could be a small move in the right direction if it were structured as a not-for-profit worker/community hybrid cooperative.
Your thoughts?
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR, USA
(541) 343-3808
I am writing to request your assistance with respect to my strategy to transition the Private Investment Sector to a Quasi-Public Equity Sharing One. Certainly, if you have perused my web log you would have gleaned reference to such a fundamental paradigm shift from Capitalism to Socialism.
Recently, the USW (United Steelworkers) signed a letter of intent with the Mondragon Cooperative Community Corporation (MCC), a rather hopeful, peaceful evolutionary model that originated in the Basque Region of Spain and has grown tremendously (not without its problems associated with trying to integrate into the Capitalist Economy). I have been trying to work with USW, but have so far been rebuffed. My, not brazenly presented, suggestion that seriously pursuing such an intent translated to evolving the acronym USW to United Socialist Workers was rejected in an arrogant, reactionary manner.
I am frustrated by the apparent lack of historical perspective and long range vision that our Labor "leaders" possess.
Anyway, thee should read about Mondragon. I'll give a very brief recap.
They were formed in the Basque region of Spain, called Mondragon because it was a FORMER region of iron ore deposits and iron and steel smelting. The people of the region were separatists continuing rebellion in sympathy with the revolutionary movement in Spain, of which they were part, that was defeated by the notorious forces of Franco.
The Mondragon system came about as an attempt to positively channel the Socialist ideals of the communities in the region. They started not-for-profit workers' cooperatives with pre-determined revenues earmarked to re-invest in new workers' cooperatives. Being a very principled and democratic organization, based on the principles of the International Cooperative Alliance, and being fortunate enough to be starting while the Capitalist economy, within which they were working, was still in a growth phase (unlike the very dangerous resource constraints that the world faces now) and astute enough to find opportunity, they were fabulously successful.
They grew so much, so fast, that they began to and increasingly to stray from the ideals upon which they were formed, eventually being corrupted by their perceived growth needs and less than fully principled leadership that saw, rightly or wrongly the need to integrate themselves into the ways of Capitalism as they began joint ventures with less than principled Corporations.
Being a product of their times, they are not and never were "green".
Our discussion of Zip-Car, which I stated to be a less than optimal co-optation of the great and necessary idea of vehicle cooperatives, could be a small move in the right direction if it were structured as a not-for-profit worker/community hybrid cooperative.
Your thoughts?
In Peace, Friendwalkin', Community, Cooperation, and Solidarity,
Mike Morin
Eugene, OR, USA
(541) 343-3808
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