As our nation starts to draw down the wars overseas, over a million vets will be re-entering civilian life over the next five years -- one of the largest in our country's recent history.
This Memorial Day weekend, we are focusing on the next mission facing our war heroes. We all know our service members and returning vets are committed to our national security -- but as they return home, that mission extends beyond the battlefield, as vets work to ensure that future generations never go to war over resources. The need for sustainable energy and sustainable food are what many of the wars around the world are fought over now -- our returning marines know it, and they're doing something about it.
Watch as Dylan Ratigan talks about the connection between vets, jobs, sustainability and security with Liz Perez of GC Green, and John Hofmeister, former CEO of Shell Oil and founder of Citizens for Affordable Energy, as well as some amazing veterans he met on the road on the West Coast who are working for change.
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Spittin Bullets is nothing compaired to how i feel!
Declare War on Wastefulness.
In the real world that runs on reality, no force known to humankind can confiscate a finite resource that has been exhausted. Its a lost cause.
The Strategy: Out evolve the enemy. Turn technological invention into tactical innovation. Turn destruction into development. Turn weapons into wind turbines. Outmaneuver the overlords. Turn obedience into observations. Turn medals into mindfulness. In the service of the species, world leaders worthy of their office would be at number one on the wish list.
Ecoengineer from Hell!
before election day .Call me a dreamer, The choice between Obama and Romney is no choice at all. I just finished Ex Sen Bill Bradleys new book, brilliant just like him. We need a Third Party now my opinion, not Bradleys . I think the time has never been riper for a Third Party I believe the majority of Americans are as fed up with the current political system as I am. Hey Dylan lets not just get the money out of politics lets get the crooks out of Washington. And the Crooks on Wall St into jail...
As a former U. S. Marine, and combat wounded in Vietnam, thanks for reading this and doing the right thing by thanking a veteran, male, female or canine. The canines (dogs) saved many by alerting them of danger ahead, like an early warning sentenal or sensor. You just cant beat those olfactory sensors (their noses and the enemy's stink.). :-)
http://www.thepuppyrescuemission.org/
First in the name of National Security we need to pass a law that 10% of a product sold in the U.S. has to be made in the U.S. Understand to make the simplest product takes a certain amount of infrastructure going from 10% to 100% in times of crisis is 100 times easier than starting at 0%. But what most forget is making the simplest thing requires making machines that make that simple product. That's where the innovation comes! But without a home market it dies! A whole segment of the economy dies! The Wall Street Economist don't understand!
This is a traitorous act and Wall Street is collecting it's 30 pieces of silver before it's end!
The second thing we can do for National Security and the Planet is apply Environmental Tariffs to imports & Environmental taxes based on manufacturing, transportation, and sustainability.
I'll explain more later got to go to dinner per the wife!
Every man and woman of good will supports not putting poison in our air and water, but the sustainability agenda is so much more than that. It is a means of stripping America of it's power and wealth, and handing Mankind over to an unelected, transnational, technocratic elite. It will be the death of America, and the death of democracy. It is the return of a two tier civilization of overlords and serfs.
It is an ongoing amazement to me how many idiots think they will be in the overlord class.
Reality isn't relative. Take your heating bill and multiply it times 100. Take your electric and water bills and multiply by 100. That will be the true cost of alternate energy.
Not to mention the fact of the total loss of personal liberty when only the rich will be able to drive. Have you seen the price of electric cars?
Of course, the new green overlords will love having the serfs reduced to walking for everything. That will make them much more subservient, right?
Please check what you are comparing, factor in the costs of pollution that we are not now paying and then get back to us.
President Obama has openly stated that he is modeling his green wind power policies on Spain. In the EU going to wind power is acknowledged as the major factor in the destruction of Spain's industrial economy. The reports in the EU were from groups and bureaucracy that are completely committed to the sustainable agenda. So I don't think they are the spin of those who oppose green energy. Cost studies tend to track with those that have been done in America.
If none of the above sounds convincing, just spend an hour or two looking up wind energy for your home. Pay particular attention to the constant warnings of how expensive the maintenance would be. Crunch the numbers, and compare them to your current electric bill. You will see what I mean. It all tracks from industrial down to micro.
If you don't see the costs, you haven't looked.
Decentralized energy will help insure survival.
A massive program is needed without delay and can employ many of our veterans.
See www.aesopinstitute.org to understand the threats and what might be done to prevent the worst from happening.
"Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her sons only for the most noble and humanitarian purposes. That is a lie; and it is an ancient lie, yet generations still rise and believe it." -- Henry David Thoreau
How few americans understand thoreau.