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Review of Bright Green Lies

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Wednesday, 5 January 2022

We are grateful to Joe Mitchell for sending this excellent review of Bright Green Lies to us before I'd had a chance to finish reading my copy of the book. There is a great deal that could be said about bright, green lies, by people in and around Merced County in recent years. The polarities exploded around landowners' frenzy for development stimulated by UC Merced,, that great anchor tenant for growth that appeared in the first decade of the new century.

Tocqueville's view revisited

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Saturday, 1 January 2022

CONSORTIUM NEWS

BOOKS, COMMENTARY, FRANCE, U.S., U.S. CONGRESS
Democracy in America 1832 – 2022
December 18, 2021
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Alexis de Tocqueville, the French visitor to the United States 180 years ago, already defined the enduring American character and what would come to pass, writes Micheal Brenner. 

Planning for the other side of the two-front war

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Wednesday, 29 December 2021

Hey 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

Ideology and the science of vaccination

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Monday, 20 December 2021

And 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?

Mexicans ban further GMO planting

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Tuesday, 14 December 2021

A 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

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