I only saw your post today when I sorted my infos.

I have been quite bust those days and was not able to read all the comments.

One of my colleagues just wrote a book on the new media power of the blogs. She recognizes that the traditional media are by and large under the control of economic and/or political parties power and that their independence may be contested. She adds that professional journalists may become too involved with the subjects they investigate.

So the blogs reinvent the ways of democracy through – often artificial – national borders, and are a way towards the postnationalism of the modern world. That is a world in which you choose the nation you want to belong to and not where you are determined by your birth, blood, religion, language, etc.

Exactly what Lyle did with the Volt Nation.

Regards,

JC

Yeah sure, he will. He’s proposing to do the same things that got us into this mess. Print money and spend our way out of this; Carbon credits…a made up industry rife with inefficiency and inviting graft (modern day dot.com nonsense); wind farms…limited utility, eyesores, infrastruture (transmission lines) lacking, there seems to be a problem with blades disintegrating; solar panels…have you priced an feasible array lately (I have), expensive, payback – never, life expectancy – who knows (diminishing efficiency over time); corn ethanol, unless its cellulosic it’s the worlds stupidist idea; let’s not do nuclear (despite new processes which eliminate the meltdown threat). I want an electric car because at its root it is a most efficient system, once the battery issue is resolved. Electric motors last forever and there not a thousand moving parts. I don’t want Obama’s or anyone’s Govt designing my car and insisting I buy one through tax policy and subsidies. GOVERNMENT does nothing well and in fact politician’s have a knack for making matters worse. Between Obama’s health care proposals and energy policies the costs for these necessities will skyrocket. There are geniuses out in this country with solutions; let’s provide incentives and let the free market work, for once. In the long term a combination of all energy sources (coal, wind, sun, oil, alt fuels) is necessary. Cheap energy is a REQUIREMENT for a functioning society…unless we outlaw the poor and middle class. There, my rant for the New Year.