Category — consumption

The great noodly one makes another appearance…

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I found an interesting interview with Richard Linklater from July 2006 with Terry Gross (of NPR), just before the release of his film adaptation of A Scanner Darkly by: Philip K, Dick. They cover Scanner, Fast Food Nation and some of his earlier films. I can’t explain it, but I really enjoy Linklaters’ work. It has some very unique quality,… once again, very difficult to explain, however Terry Gross touches on it briefly. Enjoy!

Democracy Now has a great interview with a former member of the international banking community, topics include globalization, corporate government and greed.

AMY GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. Okay, explain this term, “economic hit man,” e.h.m., as you call it.

JOHN PERKINS: Basically what we were trained to do and what our job is to do is to build up the American empire. To bring — to create situations where as many resources as possible flow into this country, to our corporations, and our government, and in fact we’ve been very successful. We’ve built the largest empire in the history of the world. It’s been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It’s only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort. This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life, through the economic hit men. I was very much a part of that.

The breeding of cattle is extremely bad for the enviornment. About half the water consumed in the United States is used to grow grain to feed cattle. The amount of water used to produce ten pounds of steak equals the household consumption of a family for an entire year. About fifteen times more water is needed to produce a pound of beef protein than an equivalent amount of plant protein. A ‘feedlot’ steer produces (an incredible) fourty-seven pounds of manure a day.