Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
Heading south from the tributary rivers feeding the cities and irrigation districts in the north San Joaquin Valley the situation gets progressively worse, culminating in the catastrophe on the Colorado River, gathering force for the past 25 years. -- blj
HAC Bard
Václav Havel: The Power of the Powerless
To the memory of Jan Patocka
Prague
October 1978
https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/the-power-of-the-powerless-vaclav-havel-...
Badlands Journal is happy to announce its choice for the upcoming recall election for governor of California. We are supporting, without reservation, Hank Cluck (they/them), because they is the only candidates in the race that is half human (Anglo-x) and half White Leghorn pullet.
Hank vows to ignore completely drought and water supply and delivery issues and concentrate on culture. -- blj
This is a superb article by Robert Kennedy, Jr. on the subject of the plutocratic megalomanic, Bill Gates and his charming wife and their heroic efforts to save and enhance bad agribusiness practices on a global level.
3-15-21
michael-hudson.com
Removing The Debt Barrier To Economic Growth
Michael Hudson and Paul Craig Roberts
Cross posted from Paul’s site.
Below you'll find a linked summary of articles on recent research into the damage genetic engineering has done, does, and will do. When Bill Gates and his ilk tell you that's all bunk, remember that Gates is not a scientist anymore than Zuckerberg is or Steve Jobs was. They use science to improve their profits; they don't do science to discover truths. -- blj
8-3-20
Gmwatch.org
Gene editing: Unexpected outcomes and risks
Damaged DNA on fire
I apologize for the absence of material on Badlands in recent weeks. I’ve been moving.
I recently asked a learned member of my new community in the desert what “economic rent” was. She had spent her entire career in “Finance,” she said (and you should hear the word as she pronounces it, with a Capital F and italics). She flipped off the following reply to this elementary question: “Payment for the use of something you don’t own.”
MARCH 4, 2021
CounterPunch
U.S. Agricultural System’s Deadly Apartheid
BY BRUCE NEUBURGER
U.S. Agricultural System's Deadly Apartheid - CounterPunch.org
The NY Times of March 1, 2021 cited some chilling facts about agricultural workers and Covid 19:
Sidewalk Sketch of the Skipper
(for Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1919-2021)
From Nothing to Nothing,
Wearing an ironic grin and
A fine hat,
Back straight, naval officer,
The wheel at hand,
The compass within,
Forever approaching
That Beach,
June Sixth,
Nineteen forty-four,
A break in bad weather,
But not in artillery.
Back straight at the wheel,
Into battle,
There went a gent whose
Calm heart will be sorely missed,
Always among us