Dr. Murphy has a great post over at FireDogLake about the Politics of Water. What it says, in a nutshell, is that the US is exporting one third of our water footprint as farm subsidized crops, while people pay higher prices for bottled water than for gasoline. And Chicago is going to be one of […]
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There’s a disturbing article in the NYTimes this morning entitled Food is gold so billions invested in farming. The article talks about how the Wall Street Weenies are now investing in Farmland and the other infrastructure that farming depends on, such as grain elevators, equipment suppliers, and other essentials for the production of food. From […]
If ever the Dems had a chance to do what they promised us when we all elected them into the majority, the time is now. If they don’t vote down another $163 Billion for Iraq today, they will have broken (again) every promise they made to us, and at a time when they have THE […]
If you are fence sitting on doing your part to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, and, more importantly, fence sitting on pushing your congresscritters to pass MUCH MORE STRINGENT legislation to make sure Corporations and Government do their part, you need to read the blogpost over at TomGram, which also includes an article by Bill […]
The major media attention being paid to the videotaped beating of Victoria Lindsay is, as usual, putting a lot of attention on YouTube and MySpace.
From a recent NY Times article on the prosecution of the 8 kids who were indicted in the beating:
“For whatever reason, this MySpace, my-you, this YouTube has gone too far,” said […]
Night before last I was reading through the comments on Slashdot on the Report about the Bakken Formation, and how it’s now economically feasible to extract oil from it and opening up drilling there would increase the US oil reserve tenfold. One comment on that post has stuck in my mind, because it’s so true, […]
The New York Times reports today on a very disturbing story. This story was first broken on the Common Dreams website on an in depth Campaign Finance article last April, which points up how Obama has repeatedly stated that he doesn’t take money from Federal Lobbyists. The Common Dreams article points to instances where Obama […]
I think any of us who have, whether early on or later, realized that we have no business being in Iraq, will realize who feels they do have business being in Iraq, to the tune of billions of dollars of profit, by reading some of the Audit Reports coming out of the Special Inspector General’s […]
With the alarming reports coming out in Green Niche Media Outlets, it leads me to wonder what in HELL is going on in Mainstream Media with this story. Yeah, Big Media will report that Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize, though of course they also have to quote one of the neocons slamming green […]
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