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Strategies & Market Trends : The Epic American Credit and Bond Bubble Laboratory -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: glenn_a who wrote (20813)	10/29/2004 12:21:55 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Respond to of 110194

Glenn, thanks for the info on the IGNORE feature.

To: glenn_a who wrote (20813)	10/29/2004 4:59:49 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110194

Glenn, thought you might find the following passage of interest. it is a quote from Stan Goff, who spent 24 years in the military, primarily Special Forces. the interview is in the November issue of The Sun magazine (i was happy to see that it is available online, so i don't have to type it all out :)... I have been reading a book by Swedish anthropologist Alf Hornborg, who looks at social development through the lens of entropy: the notion that disorder always increases within a closed system. Hornborg says that, within the closed system of the world economy, energy is transferred from peripheral nations into the high-tech, metropolitan core. What’s left behind is immense social disorder. The environmental-justice movement focuses on one aspect of this: the way rich communities make a lot of toxic trash and dump it on poor communities. The rich gain order in the form of resources and export their disorder elsewhere. Reading Hornborg, it occurred to me that as we increase our dependence on higher and higher orders of technology, we not only increase social disorder elsewhere, we’re also increasing the probability that some unexpected event will come along and create an avalanche of disorder here. For instance, twenty-one power plants in the eastern United States shut down on August 14, 2003, leaving millions of people without electricity. And nobody really knows what caused the blackout. Or terrorists fly planes into the World Trade Center, and the whole global geopolitical architecture is transformed. thesunmagazine.org btw, Goff has a website: bringthemhomenow.org it is interesting because it publishes anonymous messages from GIs and their relatives. bringthemhomenow.org