Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
It is sometimes terrible to realize how much more intelligent some earlier Western Americans were than our present leaders are; but that feeling is part of the prolonged tragedy we are living through long after the prophets have come, spoken, and gone, and Manifest Destiny has won such an impressive victory over science.
8-3-21
sheerpost.com
Our Leaders Are Doing Nothing to Quash Corporate Crime
By Ralph Nader
https://scheerpost.com/2021/08/03/ralph-nader-our-leaders-are-doing-noth...
Badlands is always honored whenever it receives a letter from Dr. Felix Smith, the great US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who was in the first team that blew the whistle on the poisoning of Kesterson Wildlife Refuge by heavy-metal laden agricultural runoff from Westlands Water District, a great act of governmental malfeasance by the Service, the Bureau of Reclamation and other state and federal resource agencies. If you ever thought scientists were wimps, I'd like to introduce Badlands readers once again to Felix Smith, a heroic scientist and whistleblower.
Badlands is always honored whenever it receives a letter from Dr. Felix Smith, the great US Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who was in the first team that blew the whistle on the poisoning of Kesterson Wildlife Refuge by heavy-metal laden agricultural runoff from Westlands Water District, a great act of governmental malfeasance by the Service, the Bureau of Reclamation and other state and federal resource agencies. If you ever thought scientists were wimps, I'd like to introduce Badlands readers once again to Felix Smith, a heroic scientist and whistleblower.
In fact, Pelosi has called upon her love for children as a guiding force in how she governs.
I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
• Smedley Butler, US Marine Corps Major General, 1881-1940, author of War is a Racket (1935)
7-16-21
E&E News
Drought threatens to close Calif. hydropower plant for first time
By Anne C. Mulkern |
“You feel dizzy, everything starts getting like dark, the lights dim, the voices echo all around, you see everything in slow motion. When it’s really bad you can’t breathe, your heart feels like it’s going to pound out of your chest, your fingertips get really cold, you sweat a lot and your nails start getting really purple,” Pasillas remembers. “If you want to feel an asthma attack go under water and try to breathe, your inside burns.” -- Aguilera, CALmatters, January 25, 2019
6-28-21
Counterpunch.com
Lethal Heat Hits the Planet
BY ROBERT HUNZIKER
https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/06/28/lethal-heat-hits-the-planet/http...
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