tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36373883.post1032004933514075794..comments2019-12-01T07:24:48.201-08:00Comments on Coyote Times: Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36373883.post-5161089622123112442007-03-17T09:16:00.000-07:002007-03-17T09:16:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.The Sentinelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18407669804421969164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36373883.post-5136236720894683802007-03-16T10:53:00.000-07:002007-03-16T10:53:00.000-07:00Good to read the new and "emboldened" apathysux. :...Good to read the new and "emboldened" apathysux. :-)<BR/><BR/>I actually recall seeing those two shows, about the attempt to "privatize" water in Bolivia, and the struggle of the largely native citizenry to reverse it, which they did,, as well as the one about the struggle between Big Agribiz, in this case I believe it was the likes of Monsanto and the farm chemical giants, on the one hand, against the farmers of India right to produce their own seed, on the other hand.<BR/><BR/>The purpose here, of course, transparent enough, being to reduce the self-sufficiency and independence of the real producers, and to render all dependent upon the global Agribiz giants. It's the extension of the phenomenon of extreme "specialization", as an urbanization consequence under capitalism, and agriculture practise, over the course of capitalist development generally, such as we have seen in our own country. (Which has only worked here to the degree it has because of plentiful and cheap energy sources on the one hand, facilitated by ignoring the environmental costs of it all, and passing those on to future generations, and having "secured" through rip-off of the aboriginal peoples, of course, a continent of vast virtually virgin soil and vast unexploited resources as well. This latter which we are rapidly draining down through over-population, bloated economic development, especially in the US, and over exploitation of resources, there and increasingly here.<BR/><BR/>This "debt" in economic and more strictly environmental terms, though the two are really interconnected, is accumulating and fast coming to a head, exacerbated by "peak oil" realities.Coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01434417442724482063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36373883.post-18370328229393315162007-03-16T10:08:00.000-07:002007-03-16T10:08:00.000-07:00In my macroeconomics class we have been watching a...In my macroeconomics class we have been watching a PBS series called "Commanding Heights". The influences behind the current market economy is from 1 or two people. It is totally frightening to think that this small group is behind global policy. The series is just now getting into the problems raised by globalization. The equalizing that we were supposed to get through 'economies of scale' has just never happened and never will. Economists seem unable to reconcile the human cost with the numbers. This will be their downfall. Because eventually all those who suffer the 'human cost' of capitalism will rise up against the powers that be. It has already been happeniing such as in Bolivia when they tried to privatize rainwater and in India when it was legislated that farmers could not reproduce their own seeds but had to purchase new seeds every year.<BR/><BR/>apathysuxAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03182176598077993050noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36373883.post-1879566156408632032007-03-16T09:18:00.000-07:002007-03-16T09:18:00.000-07:00"Of course, the US capitalist class does not have ..."Of course, the US capitalist class does not have ultimate say over when the crisis comes." wrote Larry.<BR/><BR/>And if one thought they did, this markets shake-out from its epicentre in China, which rattled the stock markets of the entire capitalist world, should have demonstrated that. The toothpick global support system, upon which globalized capitalism currently depends, has not strengthened the new neocon system, but in fact weakened it. At home, certainly in the capitalist states of the West themselves, including the United States, and no less Canada,the new neoconazi ideology guiding capitalist economic practise has resulted in reduced income share overall for the working class, and hence reduced purchasing power and growing indebtedness (mortgages etc.) for the majority working class consumer, all dedicated to improving profitability for the capitalist ruling class of course.<BR/><BR/>But there is inevitably a point at which you draw down working class/consumer share, and the tendency of capitalism to always go too far in this regard is historically well known and understood, you kill their capacity to purchase the goods they produce and thereby complete the market cycle that results in all profitability. You kill the very goose that lays the golden egg for capitalism.<BR/><BR/>Hope, indeed surety and reliance in the new "Neocon period" had been on these new offshore developing capitalisms, with their plentiful cheap labour to exploit, huge, typically impoverished populations, and expanding production and markets for consumption, to raise all global capitalism's boats. This shockwave out of China has demonstrated however, that there are limits and tenuous underpinnings to this "best laid plan" of mice and men. Many of these "developing capitalism" countries , because of the extreme speculation, small and large frauds, and "share" inequalities that characterize them, have increasingly restive populations, and as a consequence of all the speculative economic practise, there are serious and highly vulnerable distortions in their development profiles. <BR/><BR/>Not only is the United States not in total control anymore, but it is also deeply indebted at home and abroad, and bogged down in blood and treasure draining imperial wars, which is finally beginning to destabilize it as well, and create restive working class/ consumer populations of its own. (Just as a demonstration of the superiority of their "White" society, I suppose. If we can fool or delude ourselves into thinking that Amerika or anywhere else (England?) for that matter has "purelY" White populations anymore. :-)<BR/><BR/>As Larry says, while no one can predict exactly the precise outcome path of all this, or when and where what will happen ". All I can say folks is be prepared to walk a lot and grow your own veggies!"<BR/><BR/>Matters, at any moment here, could suddenly deteriorate very quickly. And throw into there for good measure, peak oil and global warming disruptions. Life lived beneath a great bejeezus mountainside boulder indeed.Coyotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01434417442724482063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36373883.post-72021474248347038732007-03-15T19:56:00.000-07:002007-03-15T19:56:00.000-07:00It is like standing under a huge boulder which cou...It is like standing under a huge boulder which could fall at any moment. Some thoughts - I think the US will continue to try propping things up until after the 08 election. A depression now would be a disaster for the Republicans. Once the election is over, if the Democrats get in the financial interests may let it happen, blaming the Democrats for the economic crisis. If the Reps get in, they will also let it happen, but claim the crisis is "an act of nature" and hope they can create some sort of smoke and mirrors "upturn" in 4 years. Of course, the US capitalist class does not have ultimate say over when the crisis comes. There is also Peak Oil and who knows what might happen in China or Mexico. Revolutions or at least serious unrest in either country could pull the whole sucker down. All I can say folks is be prepared to walk a lot and grow your own veggies!Larry Gambonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04965037776214596919noreply@blogger.com