For example, I don’t know how many of you have been following developments in Brazil of late, but in Brazil there has been a growing conflict over what to do with the Amazonian basin, with many different “sides”. It is now turning bloody. Rapid deforestation is on the doorstep and Brazil’s leader, though sympathetic to long term ecological sustainability, is getting pressure from both sides (industry, and the communist led locals). Now it is turning bloody.

On another front, industry spin master Michael Lind published a piece in Salon that essentially is blowing smoke up the collective asses of Wall Street investors (as well as their tea partying marks.)

And so on and so on…