Hallelujah: Nunes resigns!
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Monday, 6 December 2021
12-6-21
Los Angeles Times
California Rep. Devin Nunes leaving Congress to head Trump social media group
Seema Mehta, Jennifer Haberkorn
December 2021
Giroux's warning
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Saturday, 11 December 2021Nobody we know can discuss the relationship between education and society with both the focus and the breadth that Henry Giroux brings to this complex, vital collection of topics. And in these desperate times when the numbnut knuckleheads appear once again to be winning, Giroux's voice is more welcome and needed than ever. This is a long essay; take it bit by bit, let it enlighten and encourage you even as he describes the horrible intellectual and moral geology of the particular cave we're in right now. -- blj
DECEMBER 10, 2021
Post-forest fire replanting may not be enough
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Sunday, 12 December 2021Global warming, massive fires, and the wood-chip industry are creating a disastrous loop of destruction. -- blj
3-12-21
Dissent Voice
Burned-out Forests Are Not Re-Growing
by Robert Hunziker
https://dissidentvoice.org/2021/12/burned-out-forests-are-not-re-growing/
Mexicans ban further GMO planting
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Tuesday, 14 December 2021A story that began at UC Berkeley almost 20 years ago seems to have ended this fall. We don't mean to credit UCB with a positive role because its administration did what it could to buery the research and the head researcher, Ignacio Chapela. But Chapela persisted and prevailed and now the government and highest court of Mexico, the natal home of corn, appears to fully recognize the danger GMO-corn cultivation poses to the diversity of corn varieties that grow in Mexico. -- blj
Thoughts from the past that rime with the times
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Wednesday, 15 December 2021“…For let no one ever forget that it was precisely in the limitation of permissible means that lay the strength of the most perfect formation heroism has ever received, that of medieval chivalry.
Pharma/Sackler bites a bullet
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Sunday, 19 December 2021
12-18-21
Informed Content
Opioid Crisis: Purdue Pharma/ Sackler Family Fails in End Run around Justice
F. DOUGLAS STEPHENSON
https://www.juancole.com/2021/12/opioid-sackler-justice.html
Ideology and the science of vaccination
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Monday, 20 December 2021And how the Democrats’ plans to boost capital-gains taxes may discourage future innovation...The federal government expedited drug approvals and helped to fund the vaccine roll-out. But how were Moderna and BioNTech able to design and deliver highly effective vaccines so quickly — in months, rather than the years it usually takes for vaccines?
The Long noses of the pluto-populists
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Wednesday, 22 December 2021
DECEMBER 21, 2021
Ukraine and the pipelines: the real Eurasian Deal
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Tuesday, 28 December 2021The gas for Power of Siberia 2 will come from the same fields currently supplying the EU market. Whatever demented concoctions the European Commission – and the new German government – may apply on stalling the operation of Nord Stream 2, Gazprom’s main focus will be China.
Planning for the other side of the two-front war
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Wednesday, 29 December 2021Hey kids, and all you young-at-hearts, It's good for us to know that our government is busy planning how to fight a two-front war in the Ukraine and Taiwan.
Badlands Journal Ukraine and the pipelines: the real Eurasian Deal, Dec. 28,2021
--Uncle Badlands
12-29-21
Asia Times
US and Japan float a plan to defend Taiwan
This is the first report of any joint planning between the US and Japan on potential Chinese attacks on Taiwan
By STEPHEN BRYEN
US and Japan float a plan to defend Taiwan - Asia Times