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The road from the fog of bullshit to the fog of war

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Thursday, 17 February 2022

Our government has orchestrated a "story" about the Ukraine, Russia and NATO that is missing so many details that would give it even a whiff of reality that we are actually being clobbered hourly by lies in the service of warmongers in Washington trying to make their insanity history instead of stark ravings in an echo chamber that is effectively walled off from the American people by greed for money, power, and the blood of other peoples' children. -- Bill Hatch

Another German step toward energy independence

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Monday, 14 February 2022

A means of at least partial  escape --step by step -- from being caught between the American oil industry's liquid natural gas and Russian natural gas piped under the Baltic Sea, -- blj

German State Plans Hundreds of Artificial Energy Islands to Deploy North Sea Wind
CLEAN ENERGY WIRE
02/13/2022
By Jessica Bateman | –

The northernmost German state of Schleswig-Holstein has announced it wants to help push forward the energy transition by building artificial power islands in the North Sea, newspaper Die Zeit reported.

Mexico continues to be most dangerous for journalists

Posted by Badlands Journa... on Monday, 7 February 2022

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Besides being targeted for assassination, journalists also regularly suffer assaults and threats. Many have fled for their lives to other parts of Mexico or abroad.
Few of those behind the violence ever face justice. More than 95% of crimes against journalists in Mexico go unpunished, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. The relatively few jailed are often low-level triggermen, not the masterminds who ordered the slaying of journalists.

 

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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

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