[kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

[Brendan Quinn]

It’s the kind of thing a psychopath says, it fits. Mao is responsible for
more deaths than Hitler. Possibly more than Stalin. HYPERLINK
"http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE2.HTM"http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills
/NOTE2.HTM

 

Your average kid these days doesn’t know who he is. Or what genocide means…

 

”Are they a band?”

 

“Yeah man, MILLIONS are into it. Huge in China“

 

*nods knowingly, didn’t hear anyway because too busy listening to Panic at
the Disco on iPod*

 

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From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On
Behalf Of sade1
Sent: Wednesday, 26 March 2008 7:04 p.m.
To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)
Subject: Re: [kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

 

  Can we try HYPERLINK
"http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/02/14/chinese.women.ap/"this? Maybe the
Chinese's offer still stands, or maybe we can make 

Killing Joke Island into the Tibetan sanctuary and abode for Gathering
retirees that 

we've all imagined at some point or another....

Brendan <bq at soundgardener.co.nz> wrote:

There's all of what five? on the list, the Killing Joke appreciation gene
is obviously heavily correlated with maleness.


> I'd like to be in charge of the women. Please.

>

> Brendan wrote: Well done, you'll be assistant

> overseer responsible for population culling

> on Killing Joke island. You can start with the filthy capitalists! (Except

> me...special case).

>

>> You win; I concede.

>>

>> Brendan Quinn wrote: v\:*

>> {behavior:url(#default#VML);} o\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);} w\:*

>> {behavior:url(#default#VML);} .shape {behavior:url(#default#VML);}

>> st1\:*{behavior:url(#default#ieooui) } I had an interesting

>> chat with a double PhD geologist while I was fixing his PC last year, he

>> agreed with me that overpopulation is the single biggest environmental

>> problem, (see he deserves those degrees! ;) he said he thinks the planet

>> is capable of sustaining half to a billion people. Not really sure if he

>> knew what he was on about, he worked in oil prospecting I think.

>>

>> Of course there’s a difference between what is capable and what is

>> optimal. The planet might well be able to support 10 billion…but what’s

>> the point? I would tend to go along with what he said. What is anyone

>> doing about overpopulation? From what I know affluence is the cure for

>> that. Cramps the style to have to always clean up baby sick from the

>> floor of the SUV…

>>

>>

>>

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>>

>> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net]

>> On Behalf Of sade1

>> Sent: Tuesday, 25 March 2008 5:51 p.m.

>> To: A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)

>> Subject: Re: [kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

>>

>>

>> "10 percent of the Land..[are] the priviledged Few

>>

>> ..[who] have..[who] own..and hold," ~~

>> ageofgreed

>>

>>

>>

>> I've read that there is enough food, water, assets and wealth on

>> planet Earth for all

>>

>> to live and live comfortably a great quality of life - if the food,

>> water, wealth, and assets

>>

>> were much more evenly distributed among the inhabitants.

>>

>> *I* would never say "go communist" and forcibly expropriate,

>> nationalise, and/or

>>

>> distribute everything, but instead allowed each other a fair

>> opportunity at honestly

>>

>> working for it, we could all live, and live safely and awesomely. And

>> it doesn't take

>>

>> much, either.

>>

>> Brendan Quinn wrote:

>>

>> Overpopulation is a contributing factor to a lot of these kind of

>> problems.

>>

>>

>>

>>

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>>

>> From: gathering-bounces at misera.net

>> [mailto:gathering-bounces at misera.net] On Behalf Of GREG SLAWSON

>> Sent: Sunday, 23 March 2008 7:52 a.m.

>> To: gathering

>> Subject: [kj] not enough Water...it's a Total Invasion

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

>>

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>>

>> Subject: [grunder] Water will be source of war unless world acts now,

>> warns minister

>> From: grunder at furrg.montclair.edu

>> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 14:25:51 -0500

>> To: grunder at furrg.montclair.edu

>>

>> Water will be source of war unless world acts now, warns minister

>> By Ben Russell, Political Correspondent

>> Saturday, 22 March 2008

>>

>> The world faces a future of 'water wars', unless action is taken to

>> prevent international water shortages and sanitation issues

>> escalating into conflicts, according to Gareth Thomas, the

>> International Development minister.

>>

>> The minister's warning came as a coalition of 27 international charities

>> marked World Water Day, by writing to Gordon Brown demanding action to

>> give fresh water to 1.1 billion people with poor supplies. 'If we do not

>> act, the reality is that water supplies may become the subject of

>> international conflict in the years ahead,' said Mr Thomas. 'We need to

>> invest now to prevent us having to pay that price in the future.'

>> His department warned that two-thirds of the world's population will

>> live

>> in water-stressed countries by 2025. The stark prediction comes after

>> the

>> Prime Minister said in his national security strategy that pressure on

>> water was one of the factors that could help countries 'tip into

>> instability, state failure or conflict'.

>> The coalition of charities has appealed for a global effort to bring

>> running water to the developing world and supply sanitation to a further

>> 2.6 billion people. It said international action was needed to prevent

>> competition for water destabilising communities and escalating into

>> conflicts.

>> In their letter, the campaigners say: 'Tackling the water and sanitation

>> crisis is essential if the 'Millennium Development Goal Call to Action'

>> is

>> to be a success, otherwise progress on health, education and

>> environmental

>> sustainability will be undermined. Each year 443 million school days are

>> lost globally to diarrhoea and 1.8 million children die unnecessarily

>> from

>> these diseases.

>> 'Investing in sanitation and water brings the greatest public health

>> gains

>> of any single development intervention and delivers huge economic

>> returns.

>> The G8 would do well to heed the development history of east Asian

>> countries that put tackling these issues at the forefront of their

>> national development efforts.'

>> Ministers agree the world needs to take urgent action to avoid missing

>> Millennium Development Goals to halve the proportion of people without

>> access to safe drinking water by 2015. That target should be met,

>> although

>> progress has been limited in sub-Saharan Africa.

>> Mr Brown's security strategy said 'rising temperatures together with

>> extreme weather will increase pressures on water supplies'. It went on:

>> 'A

>> growing and increasingly urbanised global population will increase

>> demand

>> for food and water, at the same time as climate change and other trends

>> put greater pressure on their supply.

>> 'Already well over 1 billion people suffer from water shortages and 30

>> countries get more than a third of their water from outside their

>> borders.

>> With climate change, those figures are likely to grow, increasing the

>> possibility of disputes.'

>> Charlie Kronick, senior climate adviser at Greenpeace, said the whole of

>> sub-Saharan Africa, most of south Asia and western South America were at

>> risk of water shortages if global warming continues.

>> 'There is no doubt that climate change is going to be potentially the

>> biggest source of water stress,' he said. 'If average global

>> temperatures

>> go more than two degrees above pre-industrial levels you are looking at

>> 2

>> to 3 billion people potentially suffering water shortages. It's a pretty

>> serious business.'

>>

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