I have a modest proposal (thanks Jonathan Swift!)...a new diet....eat the rich....lets process these fat cat Republicans and, if the taste is unappealing to some...lets feed our pets with it. Afterall, the rich have been cannibalizing the rest of us for a long time now. Unfortunately, there aren't really that many rich to be a food source for even our pet population...after all they are only the 1%. Waste not, want not! Hors d'oeuvres anyone?

But, if we steal back that money that they have stolen from the rest of us, and the commons, we could feed the world with regular food. We would stop the rich from raping and pillaging our world and polluting it for the sole benefit of the criminal wealthy elite.

But more on track...it is not only the Chesapeake Bay that needs cleaning....there is a whole floating junk yard the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean...much of it likely recyclable. Man, it's gotta be really tough for all those marine creatures. And if the marine creatures..including all those "sea kittens" (according to PETA anyway) die...then mankind will soon go extinct. That is, of course, if the Sun doesn't fry us first (thanks Maj Ed Dames ;-}). Yes, I know that there are currently some pretty nasty sun flares that might disrupt some electrical devices for a few days.

Or the Mayan Calendar prophecies might zap us all this year...or the Niburu will return and turn us all into their b1tches...or...or....

Hope old Ed Dames' remote viewing wasn't just off by a few years, or centuries, or millennia ;-}). But I'm not going to worry about it. Just want to turn things around so that the few uber-rich greedsters don't either kill us or turn us into their b1tches. All those other things are very likely just non-sense but our path to our downfall is man-made and largely due to psychopathic greed monsters.

But, I am reminded of that frantic and hysterical caller into the Art Bell Radio Show many years ago...when he was warning us all that he had inside information about what some powerful entities had in store for us in a very short time. He indicated that much of the population would be wiped out by these forces...that there is a planned extermination of much of the population. Then....the program went dead....about 20 minutes later...Art Bell came back on rather stymied about what just happened and reported to us that the Satellite feed went dead, as if it was purposely cut off to prevent this guy from saying any more. If it was just this caller...one could have just shrugged him off as a hysteric nut...but went the Satellite feed knocked them off the air for 20 minutes....hmmmmm?!! Maybe it was a Sun Flare...yeah, right!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee3bld4lTG0

So, Thom is right...we need to create jobs that will clean up this earth and not further pollute it...like the Keystone XL Pipeline will certainly do.

At least one paper Mill in Newberg Oregon is grinding up kreasote soaked railrosd ties to burning them to fire a steam generator. I'm not sure but I would consider this practice an environmental hazard since the mill is next to a residential area with families. While mill officials ensure this is the most efficieant furnace capable of passing EPA regulations The practice is prohibited everywhere else.

The mill is owned remote investors who have little or no interest in local health and environmental issues. I personally think as a result of back room bribes, and cronyism they were able to manipulate

local authorities.

While I agree with Thom's point partially, it should be noted that there is such a thing as too far for the EPA. It may be true that jobs are created by many of these regulations and that is a good thing. However, environmental regulations also have the potential to drive away business too.

The biggest problem I see is that we regulate ourselves and penalize our own businesses with regulations and prohibitions while we "allow" our trading partners to act with little or no consideration of the environmental consequences of their activities. I believe that in order to have an effective impact on the environment we need to marry environmental policies with trade policies. Our environmental consciousness oftentimes creates a disadvantage, at least temporarily, for the US. Just as with the arbitrage of labor, we need to enact trade policies that incentivize our partners to be good stewards of this planet as well.

The new green economy, utilizing conservaion technology, will create far greater new jobs then the old petro-chemical economy. We can re-design our dams with low face ladder dams to both create green energy and create fish habitat. New science and innovation will lead the way with government support. After the infrastructure is built the wind and sun is free.

In Santa Cruz CA the people here are facing a big issue. Powerful interests are pushing a desalination water treatment plant on us. The same petro-chemical corporations that tried to plant oil rigs in the bay. We were successful in stopping the oil rigs but we need help to stop this one.

Water from a desal plant is the most heavily chemical treated water available for human consumption. It is the most costly and energy inefficient water system. They want to build this next to Natural Bridges State Park a monarch butterfly sanctuary.

Hydrology studies show we have 10 times the available water as do our neighbors in Monterey. No way are the people of Carmel by the Sea going to build a desal in their neighborhood. Why are we being told we have too? The proggressive people of SC are getting tired of being exploited and marganalized. The water board keep telling us of impending water shortages and drought scenarios. However, the state climatologists have formally proclaimed the end of the drought cycle and the head of water resources have formally stated that with new conservation technologies coming on board that CA will have adequate water resources for the present and forseeable future. Why is there such a great contradiction of truth?

Environmental Historians tell us that redwood forests do not thrive in environments with prolonged drought cycles. Yet this is what the desal people are telling us is going to happen here. They sent out press releases in January warning of impending drought. This press release came a day after another agency backed out of the county desal proposal. How can you predict severe drought for the year in January with our resovoir at 95% full? The SC water board is engaged in a campaign of deliberate deception. Who is the driving force behind all of this deception? Koch industries are the major supplier of water treatment chemicals. The supplier of the treatment chemicals for a desal plant are the biggest winners.

The battle is over use of secondary treatment freshwater. The desal people want it to mix in giant emulsifiers with the toxic brine slurry left over from the process. Using energy to blend up brine slurry and using freshwater to create seawater?They believe this will negate the harmful impact of dumping salt concentrates and dead micro-organisms into a marine sanctuary. We know brine salt concentrate will sink to the bottom and kill shellfish and other marine organisms. We cannot build a desal and have a vibrant marine sanctuary too. Imagine using an equal amount of freshwater and huge amounts of energy to create the same amount of freshwater? The net amount of new freshwater produced will be "zero".

We want to instead convert secondary treatment freshwater into tertiary freshwater. This process eliminates chemicals from our community not add 3 times the amount as a desal system. Secondary treatment water is sterile water laden with treatment chemicals. We eliminate the chemicals and bring the water back to life. We take this water, which in the final stage is more pure and pristine then out present tapwater origins, and return it to our rivers and underground water aquifers. We can draw back upstream what we return to nature downstream. We can build a salmon paradise here while providing green energy with new dam technology. It all takes political will. The way the system is set it up now is we need only 4 people on the city council to pass these measures. We need people willing to step forward to run for city council to pull the plug on the desal. We need educated people who understand the value of tertiary freshwater. We need politicians willing to work to create the new green economy. This will create the jobs we need.

If we are serious about creating jobs then we must institute a 4 day work week with an alternative 3 day shift with a livable wage. We can do this with a new Marshall plan to build affordable, energy and water efficient homes for single income families. We need a new plan to reinvent our infrastructure to support the new green economy.

From what I can find, it appears Hillary Clinton wants this pipeline, Hillary Clinton took the cloak of decider on it, through the State Dept. Wonder why Billie just came out telling us to "embrace" Keystone? Thom? They are Democrats aren't they? Leaders of the Democrat party? Thom, please do the right thing and tell your listeners ALL the truthiness. You do no good ignoring the facts.