The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
We have grossly inadequate funding for schools, infrastructure, elder care, child-care, and a host of other programs and projects that create a more compassionate and life-affirming society. But, boy, the dollars fall like a blizzard on the military industrial security industries. Here is the real truth of where you tax dollars are going. The sums are so large I think they are essentially incomprehensible to ordinary people.
America’s Real National Security Budget — A Trillion Dollars a Year
Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman for the past 15 years have been notable for the accuracy and insight of the comments they make about our economy. When you think about Representative Paul Ryan on the right, and Stiglitz and Krugman on the social progressive side you realize that there is no real comparison to be made. Rightwing economic theory is nonsense and, wherever it is in force failure and crisis follow. Here is Stiglitz' latest.
Why Stupid Politics Is the Cause of Our Economic Problems
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The corporate control of the U.S. Congress, and many state legislatures, may not be enough to protect the Fracking component of the carbon energy industry. Non-carbon energy and falling oil prices have combined to strongly and negatively impact this toxic and dangerous technology. I think this is very good news.
Has offshore drug production and testing finally caught up with us? On Jan 23, 2015, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended pulling four dozen generic drugs because they were approved based on flawed clinical studies conducted in India. A French inspection of GVK Biosciences in India revealed that “data manipulations of electrocardiograms during the conduct of some studies of generic medicines,” occurred for 5 years. Learn more.
This is a wonderful article. Here is real data about community owned energy generation. It is a model we should work for in every state. Actually I would prefer it more decentralized, and I think that is going to happen. On the island where I live and I am going to see if I can help set this process in motion.
I am always on the outlook for new technologies that could help with what is coming as a result of climate change. Here is a very interesting one, a plastic that can be made into pipes and other things that simply by the nature of the plastic converts saltwater to fresh. It holds promise as at least a partial solution to some of the problems of drought in agricultural areas.
A Special Kind of Plastic Pipe Could Be the Solution for California’s Water Woes
A new irrigation system takes saltwater and transforms it into pure water vapor to grow crops.
Consumer Self-Defense: 12 Ways to Drive GMOs and Roundup off the Market
Given the current barrage of pro-GMO propaganda in the mass media, “GMO-Free” proponents need to put far greater emphasis on the fact that it isn’t just the imprecise and unpredictable nature of gene-splicing itself—a process that produces toxin and allergens, and shuts down essential gene functions—that threatens human health and the environment. The billions of pounds of systemic toxic pesticides (herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides), especially Roundup, that are used on GMO and so-called conventional crops, are equally, if not more, hazardous to human health and the environment.These systemic agro-toxins, for the most part, cannot be washed off before eating.
