In These Times

Latest Comments view all 138

• • 06 Feb 07
  • 7:33 pm

  The only justification for killing anyone but your self is political. I would have no problem killing right wingers based on the logic that these people are people who incite murder and therefore they are murderers. But they are worse than murderers. They claim the right to kill whole ethnic groups and to deprive you of your rights. I would have no problem killing Bush, the Nazis, the Christan Right and anyone else who threatens large numbers of people politically or physically..

  Posted to How do you feel about the death penalty?

• • 09 Feb 07
  • 10:23 am

  Drawing and quartering might very well be too light a penality for right wingers. I can't think of a too painful a method for the execution of Cheney for example.

  Posted to How do you feel about the death penalty?

• • 14 Oct 06
  • 10:42 am

  The situation in Darfur is caused by increasing deserts. Nomadic desert tribes are being forced to encroach on other peoples land as their watering holes dry up. Desertification can cause wars. Desertification increases global warming. When I went to school the solution was reforestation and hydrology studies on a global scale that would recommend solutions to the problem. Why wasn’t this done more vigorously? Part of the reason is that people will have to be moved. More than likely people would be asked to move to let forests grow and for dams to be built to better manage water resources. This …

  Posted to Chinas Growing Desert

• • 16 Oct 06
  • 1:35 am

  I wish we had some sort of agitation to stop the growing deserts which is a world wide phenomena and problem. There is a potential that the growing deserts and melting glaciers are going to increase water shortages. From what I know of the Three Gorges Dam project it should control water usage to a high degree and the lakes formed should be a good source of evaporate water but ideally heavy forest should be planted around the lake to moderate evaporation. Generally forestation is the best way to increase water supplies. I have heard arguments that one way to increase …

  Posted to Chinas Growing Desert

• • 16 Oct 06
  • 1:42 am

  > “Every year there are sandstorms, and every time there is a sandstorm our cotton is destroyed and we have to replant it, which costs a lot This is another problem, plowing land loosens the soil and increases evaporation increasing drying conditions. That was how the dust bowl of the 1920-30's was made. What is needed is to analyze trends 50 years out and institute preventative practices.

  Posted to Chinas Growing Desert