Archived material from historical editions of The Generator
Mark O’Sullivan, Centennial Coal’s Chairman Kenneth Moss expressed concern over handling of a GreenPeace protest in November. He had to face about six Greenpeace protesters breaking into what Centennial had been told was the “most secure room in Sydney” to tell him why they opposed plans for its Anvil Hill open-pit mine in the Upper Continue Reading →
Senator Rachel Siewert pointed out to the federal government last month that it has responsibility under international treaties for the well being of the 64 wetlands in Australia, listed under the Ramsar Convention.
Over 22 of these wetlands are so degraded that the listing may no longer be appropriate. In two cases the owners were originally supportive of the listing, but are now asking for the land to be de-listed on the grounds that the government is not providing sufficient water flow from the nation’s irrigation systems.
The text of her speech to the Australian Senate is attached.
The Coney Island Polar Bear Club staged a silent protest on Saturday, huddled (but not shivering) on the beach in Brooklyn as record temperatures were recorded in New York City and the surrounding region. The high temperatures may lead to the cancellation of this year’s round of nearly-naked nuts running into bodies of water. It Continue Reading →
The new tidal turbines being tested in manhattan featured on the New York Times TV over the holiday break. You can watch the video, after sitting through the annoying Microsoft ad on the New York Times site . Ebono Institute ran the original story about these turbines back in May.
He joined the Marine Corps when the Spanish American War broke out, earned the Brevette Medal during the Boxer Rebellion in China, saw action in Central America, and in France during World War I was promoted to Major General. Smedley Butler served his country for 34 years, yet he spoke against American armed intervention into the affairs of sovereign nations.
War Is A Racket
A speech delivered in 1933, by Major General Smedley Butler, USMC.
Smedley Butler
WAR is a racket. It always has been
It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.
A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.
How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?
This short video, Thanks for the Memories, explains the CIA’s role in Saddams rise to power. An educational must – 5 star rating.