Wednesday, July 24, 2013
All a matter of branding
News item:
The Bonneville Power Administration has adopted a 9 percent average wholesale power rate increase, as well as an 11 percent spike to transmission rates. ....... BPA says the transmission rate increases are necessary for improvements to infrastructure and for mandatory compliance and security requirements. The power rates increase stems from higher costs to operate and maintain the federal hydroelectric system, higher costs to fund existing long-term agreements for the fish and wildlife mitigation program and because revenue from selling surplus power has shrunk.Putting it more concretely: Dams are faced with two different types of terrorist threat. Economic terrorists (ie Goldman) insist on maximizing grid flow so power can be securitized to maximize Goldman profit. Bonneville must fully surrender to economic terrorists. This is called infrastructure. Bomb-throwing terrorists want to blow up dams. These terrorists operate under several different labels. Bomb-throwing terrorists who wear 'EPA' on their uniforms must be assisted, and we must pay billions to help them blow up a dam any time they want. This is called compliance. Bomb-throwing terrorists who do not wear 'EPA' on their uniforms must be resisted, and we must pay billions to protect our dams against these off-label bomb-throwing terrorists. This is called security. Goldman terrorists and EPA terrorists must have an absolute monopoly on death, destruction and mass poverty. This is called Liberty and Democracy and The Free Market. Understand? No, I don't either. We're fucked. We're light years beyond any hope of salvation. = = = = = Parallel item also in this part of the country:
Federal wildlife officials plan to dispatch hunters into forests of the Pacific Northwest starting this fall to shoot one species of owl to protect another that is threatened with extinction.Branding again. For totally arbitrary and false and antiscientific "reasons", the Gaian mass murderers have decided that spotted owls are the cool brand and barred owls are the off-brand. We must shoot all the off-brand owls to give a complete monopoly to the cool brand owls. This is called Biodiversity. Understand? No, I don't either. ¶ 5:07 PM
