Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: con buona pace di Nahum, la religione non conta un cazzo in America  (WB3)

certo, ci sono i mentecatti che fanno i gruppi di preghiera perchè dio
abbassi il prezzo della benzina quando sale troppo, ma il mondo non lo
mandano avanti i mentecatti, lo mandano avanti i potenti. Ergo conta
solo il petrolio.
Separation of oil and state?
On May 19, in a congressional hearing, Rep. Jason Altmire (D-Pa.)
asked BP America President Lamar McKay: "Is there any technology that
exists that you know of that could have prevented this from
happening?"
"I don't know of a piece of technology that could have prevented it,"
replied McKay.
Given the extremely grave consequences of a deepwater oil-drilling
accident that's a pretty good argument that such operations are too
risky and dangerous to be permitted, is it not?
Moreover, if it could have been prevented if BP had not been so
negligent and reckless to save money, can we count on all oil
companies in the future to never put profits before safety? I think
not. And if an accident happens can we count on the company being able
to rectify the damage quickly and efficiently? Apparently not.
So, will those who serve corporate America learn a lesson from the BP
Gulf of Mexico disaster? Well, consider the following: Oil companies –
even as you read this — are busy making plans for further Gulf
drilling; in June the Mineral Management Service of the US Interior
Department was continuing to issue waivers to these companies which
exempt them from submitting a detailed analysis of the environmental
impact of their plans, not at the moment for drilling new wells but to
modify their existing projects in the Gulf; one waiver was to a
British company called BP. 15... Here's the District Manager for
Louisiana of the Mineral Management Service: "Obviously, we're all oil
industry. Almost all of our inspectors have worked for oil companies
and on these same [oil drilling] platforms." 16... A financial analyst
at the preeminent bank J.P. Morgan Chase announced some good news for
us — the US Gross Domestic Product could gain slightly from all the
expenditures for cleaning up the mess, adding that "the magnitude of
these setbacks looks dwarfed by the scale of the US macroeconomy".
17... And three leading congressional Republicans recently referred to
the spill as a "natural" disaster.
If I were the president I would in fact prohibit all underwater
drilling for oil, permanently. President Obama announced a six-month
prohibition and has run into a brick wall of oil companies,
politicians, and the courts. He'll cave in, as usual, but I wouldn't.
How would I make up for the loss of this oil? Not by importing more
oil, but sharply reducing our usage. Here are two suggestions to begin
with:
The US Department of Defense is not only the leading consumer of oil
in the United States, it is the leading oil consumer in the entire
world. A 2007 report by a defense contractor posits that the Pentagon
in its foreign wars and worldwide military support operations (such as
maintaining thousands of bases at home and abroad) might consume as
much as 340,000 barrels (14 million gallons) every day, a quantity
greater than the total national consumption of Sweden or Switzerland.
19 This is taken from an article with the title: "How Wars of the
Future May Be Fought Just to Run the Machines That Fight Them". If the
American defense industry is added in, the military-industrial complex
would be 12th in the world in oil consumption, more than India.
Accordingly, as president, I would take the admittedly controversial
step of abolishing the United States military. The total savings,
including the mammoth reduction in oil consumption, would be more than
a trillion dollars a year.
Class assignment:
   1. Try and think of the things that would improve the quality of
life in American society, things that money could bring about, that
would not be covered by a trillion dollars.
   2. If you believe that having no military would open the United
States to foreign invasion, state:
         1. who would invade;
         2. why they would do so;
         3. how many soldiers they would need to occupy a nation of
more than 300 million people.
   3. List the dozen wars the United States has been involved in since
the 1980s and specify which of them you are glad and proud of.
   4. On October 28, 2002, five men were murdered by a mob in India
because they had killed a (sacred) cow. 20 On the very same day the
United States was actively engaged in preparing to invade Iraq and
kill thousands of people for control of their oil. Discuss which
society was more insane.
Second suggestion to reduce oil usage: Public transportation would be
nationalized so as to reduce prices to levels very easily affordable
for virtually the entire population, resulting in a huge reduction of
private automobile and gasoline usage. This public transportation
system would not be required to show a profit. Like the military now.

 solo il petrolio.
Non sono di questa opinione. A mio parere l'economia è una 
sovrastruttura della musica sacra.

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chi compone musica sacra campa d'aria o di uno stipendio del
committente?

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dettagli

 sovrastruttura della musica sacra.
:)
Namib