Techno-progress: Me, fred and foul farming

At last, I stumble along and make a wee bit of techno progress....
This site as you'll hopefully notice, looks a bit better and has some extra features now. I couldn't even turn on the comments ppl had made til now (!)

So I wasn't being rude, just a bit fred flintstoney (wasn't that car of his the best little eco motor? He still got the whole flash car buzz, probably had a massive loan on it, and didn't cause a negative ozone-depleting emmission...he toned up and only emmitted his own sweat....runnin along pretendin to drive....classic!)

And then to the news....obviously in the UK and Ireland at the mo it's bird flu. First things first: there is one place full of absolute must reads. With all the hysteria, it's worth considering how exactly this deadly strain came about. Are wild birds the victims or the vectors? What role do intensive factory farms and transport routes in various parts of the world play?

And what are the limits to what we as a society are willing to change to stop the spread of the bird flu? On the one hand, various people will be made to jump through life-changing hoops, and mass slaughterings will occur, while on the other, various options are completely off the adgenda.

One of the proposed answers, putting all farmed birds indoors, may be the cause of the problem in the first place. This is deeply troubling on a whole number of fronts. What of organics, and outdoor, backyard foul - keeping outdoor birds feeds feeds hundreds of millions in not billions of people in the majority south?

At times like this, disaster capitalism, and the death of nature spring to mind. Alarmist-sounding terms to be sure, but the ideas behind them are worth developing an understanding of.

But do check out the first link, to get a better picture of just how manipulated, contoured and pre-ordained the limits of the possible can be. It all reminds me of my old 1, 2, and 3 dimensional power days/daze in undergrad politics....

Power is best expressed when some ideas aren't known of as even being an option