The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
I find it fascinating that the Republican Party puts Paul Ryan forward as their leading economist in the Congress. I find his budget and policies naive, incompetent, and heartless. Partly as a result of thinking such as his American children by the millions are in poverty. Here are the facts. U.S. is second-worst of 35 …
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Yet another new breakthrough on solar. This one has huge implications. UCLA discovers how solar cells’ charges can last for weeks A team of UCLA chemists, for instance, have developed a way that will allow solar cells to keep their charge for weeks instead of just a few seconds like current products are capable of. …
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David Roberts’ report is about the best I have read on the issue of the existing grid and the transition to noncarbon energy. It raises most of the major relevant issues. See the SR archive for the previous piece referenced. Why wind and solar power are such a challenge for energy grids
This report has good news. Glyphosate is the modern DDT — whose lingering presence now decades later it should be noted is still killing people. Like DDT it has been hugely profitable, but grotesquely destructive, not only as intended, but in other ways as well. Now a gathering resistance driven from the bottom up challenges …
It seems I am not the only person talking about a real estate collapse because of drought. Although it is a bit flippant, I agree with most of this essay, and believe this is going to be a huge issue within the next five years. California property values collapse as water shut-offs begin… wealthy community …
Whatever lies we tell ourselves about how we love our children by almost any objective social outcome measure it is screamingly obvious that while, at least in some cases, we may love our particular child children as a generality are not loved much at all. Compared to other advanced technological societies the state of children …
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No government, particularly no democracy, can long endure when it is held in contempt by the people whose interests it is supposed to represent. Yet month after month, and now year after year that is exactly what is happening, as this Gallup study makes clear. And yet the subject is hardly mentioned by media or …
