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  death to the corporate machine

  Colonel Custard of the Greenwash Guerrillas here.

  I pied him, and he deserved it.

  I am not negating his brilliance - but what he does with such brilliance.

  Green is the new Red White and Blue is a treatise on how "green" is what is needed to save US imperialism - it is a plan B for the war on iraq.

  That is the central point, and it is unfortunately a point that many other corporate-minded environmentalists agree with him on, explicitly or implicitly.  "save the planet" really means "save our empire"

  Just because Friedman talks about "those without electricity" doesn't mean he actually gives a damn about them.  The World Bank is supposedly mean to alleviate poverty, they talk about inequality all the time.  But you can't listen to rhetoric, look at policies and their effects.

  Yes, friedman supports "clean" coal.  And nuclear.  After he tells Iraqis to "suck on this [the occupation]" he tells nevadans (Western Shoshone in particular) to "suck it up" and take nuclear waste.

  The man is a rabid war-monger and racist imperialist.  His new green rhetoric does not change that, it is just a more effective and masked means of doing the very same.

  And finally - in response to the need to "put a price on ecosystem services" (comment by "new - Exactly!")...
  This is the critical piece.  this is the reality behind cap-and-trade mumbo jumbo.  This is the new fronteir of capitalism... in the name of "making corporations pay" and "compensating for externalities", the corporate plunderers are using this rhetoric to justify PUTTING A PRICE ON EVERYTHING... they put a price on the atmosphere (actually, the earth's carbon cycling capacity) and this means that they OWN it.  Did putting a price on land through the introduction of colonial private property "save" the land?  Has privitizing water helped Bolivians?  Has privitizing genetic sequences helped the indigenous medicine people whose knowledge was stolen and copywrited?

  This is insidious, and with a new green cloak the corporate rulers of the planet are opening whole new frontiers of accumulation, exacerbating inequalities while continuing their plunder of the human and natural worlds.

  They need to be stopped, and NOW - if there is any chance for a liveable future

  Ta ta,
  Colonel Custard,
  Greenwash Guerrillas.

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