You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea. – Medgar Evers Born in 1952, I grew up in a small town in the South of the 50′s and ’60′s. The state I grew up in, North Carolina, was generally seen as a “progressive” state, but it saw its not insignificant amount of […]
Archive | June 21, 2007
National secrecy Executive Orders vs. the Office of the Vice President
The office of the President of the United States has a vested interest in protecting the United States. This is, after all, one of the main reasons we have a Presidency in the first place – the President is Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. military. Similarly, the Republican Party has claimed national security as their exclusive […]
The political center is wherever you’re standing
By Martin Bosworth Yesterday I came across a Daily KOS diary written by “Bonddad” (aka Hale Stewart), a prominent economics blogger and writer who also has his own blog space. Hale’s a very smart man who’s forgotten more about the markets than I’ll ever know, and I had the pleasure of getting his expertise for […]
The tragedy of innovation: how brilliant ideas are criminalised
“This push for a so-called “green revolution” or “gene revolution” is being done once again under the guise of solving hunger in Africa. Chemical-intensive agriculture is, however, already known to be outmoded. We have seen how fertilisers have killed the soil, creating erosion, vulnerable plants and loss of water from the soil. We have seen […]
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satanicpanic: I've thought about this myself. Other than needin…
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