The Long noses of the pluto-populists
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Wednesday, 22 December 2021
DECEMBER 21, 2021
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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?
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
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.
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
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/
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
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
Waste of precious open space
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Tuesday, 30 November 2021The VST development project was first conceived of in the 1990s, when the trust property was pledged to a burgeoning UC Merced. The university, which opened in 2005, was built on the trust land… In total, more 2,400 jobs and $8.9 million in city revenue is projected to come from the project, according to Merced Planning Manager Kim Espinosa. Merced City Council’s action on Monday gave support to the potential annexation of the VST development project. representing a critical step in a vision that is still decades in the making. – Merced Sun-Star, Nov 17, 2021
What I remember best about the career of Gen. Colin Powell
Posted by Badlands Journa... on Wednesday, 20 October 2021Address on Iraq, by Dominique de Villepin, French Minister of Foreign Affairs, at the UN Security Council
New-York, February 14, 2003
Mr. President,
Mr. Secretary-General,
Ministers,
Ambassadors,