Windpower Sketch

I went downtown to Nebraska Bookstore to pick up some artist supplies yesterday.  Want to do some line drawings of historic wind turbines for a project I'm working on. 

As it turns out, I found the perfect paper to use.  Strathmore's Windpower Sketch paper.  They also have Bristol and Drawing papers in their Windpower Series which I'll probably get around to later.  100% wind generated electricity credited to their production.  Only 30% post-consumer fiber however.

Now if I can just find my Mars mechanical pens.  They aren't where I thought they'd be and now I'm wondering if I gave those away to one of my nephews before my last move out-of-state.  Yet another morning project.

Windpower Sketch

I went downtown to Nebraska Bookstore to pick up some artist supplies yesterday.  Want to do some line drawings of historic wind turbines for a project I'm working on. 

As it turns out, I found the perfect paper to use.  Strathmore's Windpower Sketch paper.  They also have Bristol and Drawing papers in their Windpower Series which I'll probably get around to later.  100% wind generated electricity credited to their production.  Only 30% post-consumer fiber however.

Now if I can just find my Mars mechanical pens.  They aren't where I thought they'd be and now I'm wondering if I gave those away to one of my nephews before my last move out-of-state.  Yet another morning project.

Tax Justice Network

On the #13 Normal bus ride home last night, I listened to a podcast [xml]of Laura Flanders doing her thing on RadioNation.  She's a favorite of mine. 

This was a report from Nairobi where the latest World Social Forum was happening.  The World Social Forum is kind of like a counter-Davos (World Economic Forum) gathering.  It is becoming a rather large (over 100,000 participants) networking meeting of the higher end variety of anti-globalization, sustainable development types.

At any rate, Laura had some guests on who represented a UK-based group called the Tax Justice Network.  Their angle is that, like it or not, taxes are required for democracies and part of the reason that many third world governments don't work so well is because of corporate tax-flight from those countries.  No taxes equals no schools, police, etc.. 

Where They Hide the Cash - Guardian UK

"Five trillion dollars has been corruptly removed from the world's poorest countries and lodged permanently in the world's richest countries. That is the "conservative estimate" not of a leftwing anti-globalisation activist but of a leading American businessman and enthusiast for capitalism who has just completed a major study of how multinational corporations, wealthy individuals and unscrupulous governments are using the world's banking systems in ways that spread poverty."

A quick GoodSearch search pulls up a lot of anti-tax responses to the "tax justice" issue.  The usual suspects. 

Tax Justice Network

On the #13 Normal bus ride home last night, I listened to a podcast [xml]of Laura Flanders doing her thing on RadioNation.  She's a favorite of mine. 

This was a report from Nairobi where the latest World Social Forum was happening.  The World Social Forum is kind of like a counter-Davos (World Economic Forum) gathering.  It is becoming a rather large (over 100,000 participants) networking meeting of the higher end variety of anti-globalization, sustainable development types.

At any rate, Laura had some guests on who represented a UK-based group called the Tax Justice Network.  Their angle is that, like it or not, taxes are required for democracies and part of the reason that many third world governments don't work so well is because of corporate tax-flight from those countries.  No taxes equals no schools, police, etc.. 

Where They Hide the Cash - Guardian UK

"Five trillion dollars has been corruptly removed from the world's poorest countries and lodged permanently in the world's richest countries. That is the "conservative estimate" not of a leftwing anti-globalisation activist but of a leading American businessman and enthusiast for capitalism who has just completed a major study of how multinational corporations, wealthy individuals and unscrupulous governments are using the world's banking systems in ways that spread poverty."

A quick GoodSearch search pulls up a lot of anti-tax responses to the "tax justice" issue.  The usual suspects.