Patriotism that loves our country, our land, and our planet
We’ve written a lot about how Monsanto is one of the worst companies in the world, and how American farmers have taken them to court to try to block their actions that pollute the environment with chemicals and the food supply with genetically modified (GMO) seeds. Today we have word from France that the agribusiness [...]
By James Howard Kunstler When Gaia gets pissed off enough at the antics of humanity, she sends in her hit-man, Reality, to settle accounts. Reality is blessed with a cloak of invisibility. The human race is so busy concocting stories about what it is doing, that Reality steals onto the scene unnoticed – until bodies [...]
The 2012 budget war commenced in earnest today as President Obama presented his spending proposal. Once again, clean, renewable energy and environmental sanity are at the heart of the package. The question is, will the GOP once again gut it like a fish and leave it for dead? (See the full fiscal 2013 budget at [...]
By David Brin In an earlier political posting I pointed out that the top federal income tax rate – for earned income – has seldom been lower than it is right now.. and the rate that Mitt Romney pays on dividends is half of that. Federal taxes, in general, are at one of the lowest points since 1912… suggesting [...]
Is the message about sustainable agriculture finally breaking through? Watch this Chipotle-sponsored video, “Cultivate a Better World”, with a soundtrack by Willy Nelson(singing Radiohead!), and see what you think.
Mitt Romney may have won a pair of psychologically-boosting votes over the weekend, but it may be too little, too late. And when I say little, I do mean little… He won the Maine caucuses with a pitiful 2,190 votes, barely 200 better than Santorum (out of 258,000 registered Republicans). And his allies in the [...]
By David Brin Has a jobs renaissance in America begun, especially in manufacturing? There are definite signs of “in-sourcing” taking place. Oh, but that segues into Clint Eastwood’s Superbowl Chrysler commercial… and the subsequent Republican fire storm against him, by Karl Rove and others, for daring to suggest that the “bailout” of Detroit was actually a [...]
By David Brin To listen to Republicans, you would think we have the most oppressive tax rates ever, with the federal government hogging ever larger portions of the national economy. Ever hear of Orwellian anti-truth? That is where you repeat the exact opposite of the truth and people start believing it. But drop by and look at [...]
By David Brin Watch this segment of Neil deGrasse Tyson about America’s decline amid the changing landscape of modern science. I mean it. Watch this and make your uncles and cousins watch it. Half of our economic growth since WWII came from science and technology. This last decade was the first in 60 years in which the [...]
There’s a funny thing about the GOP establishment narrative that Romney is the inevitable nominee… the man keeps losing primaries. Hm. The GOP narrative is factually challenged? Go figure… Tonight was supposed to be the night that Mittens nailed down the nomination, following his glorious victories in Florida and Nevada. Instead, he got his ass [...]
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