“I again recommend a law prohibiting all corporations from contributing to campaign expenses of any party.” Theodore Roosevelt.
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“Genetic Engineering of Major Crops: the Most Recent Depressing Episode”
"When it comes to genetic engineering technology and agriculture, we are rarely told the true story—instead, the negative impact and risk of how genetic engineering is deployed in agriculture is often woefully obscured." —David Bronner, CEO of Dr. Bronner's
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“Wealth is socially created – redistribution just allows more people to enjoy the fruits of labor.”
“Don’t the Rich Deserve to Keep Their Money?”
A decade or so ago, it was estimated that Walmart employees consumed some $68 billion in govt aid to make ends meet even though they were working at Walmart.
The tawny emperor (Asterocampa clyton) female
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve Unit, Wisconsin, USA
2018 6/30 _F2A2165aaa2
Democrats are as vile as Republicans:
“Postmaster General DeJoy's 10-year plan to overhaul the USPS is set to take effect Friday, ushering in permanently slower mail delivery while hiking prices for consumers.”
“Calls to Fire DeJoy Intensify as 10-Year Plan to Sabotage USPS Takes Effect”
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“just an fyi curfews were created because the protests were so peaceful and law enforcement needed a reason to advance on people – by being out past curfew, they could find protesters unlawful, even for peaceful protest”
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“The Internet Should Be a Public Good”
“The Internet was built by public institutions — so why is it controlled by private corporations?”
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“Again – billionaire philanthropy is PR. Stop falling for it. Yes, $50 M is a lot of money but had Musk simply paid his taxes at the actual 37% rate, he would’ve paid $51.8B in taxes – which is 104X his donation.”
Also, don’t forget philanthropic donations can be tax deductible
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“To those who are repeating the tire fallacy that the US is a magical death unicorn that can’t enact universal healthcare unlike every other developed nation on earth because of vague economic “realities”…
Please remember that this was the same argument again abolishing slavery. Every other developed country did it but it just wasn’t “economical viable” to imagine paying people in the US for their labor instead of owning them and making the work for free.
People are dying by the thousands every year because they can’t afford healthcare, even with the ACA.
I don’t want to hear that it can’t be done. It can, it has been and the people who are telling you otherwise are defending their profit, period.”
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“Infrastructure for Insects: Congress Should Invest in Bees and Butterflies”
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Microbial 'theft' enables breakdown of methane, toxic methylmercury”
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“Evidence for methanobactin “Theft” and novel chalkophore production in methanotrophs: impact on methanotrophic-mediated methylmercury degradation” - by Christina S. Kang-Yun et al.
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Bah Bye NYC, Miami, DC, Savannah,..,East Coast
“BREAKING NEWS!! LA PALMA UPDATE - LANDSLIDES STARTING TO OCCUR!! (FOOTAGE) CRACKS IN A ROAD!!”
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“First they ignore you.
Then they laugh at you.
Then they fight you.
Then they realize that ignoring you, laughing at you and fighting you generated a shit ton of evidence.
Then you win.”
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“Naval sonar essentially “scares whales to death” researchers discover.”
“New Study Blames Naval Sonar for Hundreds of Whales Mysteriously Beaching Themselves”
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“Classical economics
was part of a reform process to bring Europe out of the feudal era into the industrial age. This required overcoming the power of the landed aristocracy, bankers and monopolies to levy charges that were unfair because they did not reflect actual labor or enterprise. Such revenue was deemed “unearned.”
The original fight for free markets meant freeing th em from exploitation by rent extractors: owners of land, natural resources, monopoly rights and money fortunes that provided income without corresponding work – and usually without tax liability. Where hereditary rental and financial revenue supported the richest aristocracies, the tax burden was shifted most heavily onto labor and industry, in addition to their rent and debt burden.
The classical reform program of Adam Smith and his followers was to tax the income deriving from privileges that were the legacy of feudal Europe and its military conquests, and to make land, banking and monopolies publicly regulated functions. Today’s neoliberalism turns the word’s original meaning on its head. Neoliberals have re-defined “free markets” to mean an economy free for rent-seekers, that is, “free” of government regulation or taxation of unearned rentier income (rents and financial returns).
The best way to undo their counter-revolution is to revive the classical distinction between earned and unearned income, and the analysis of financial and debt relations (the “magic of compound interest”) as being predatory on the economy at large. This original critique of landlords, bankers and monopolists has been stripped out of the current political debate in favor of what is best characterized as trickle-down junk economics.”
Excerpt From: Hudson, Michael. “Killing the Host.”
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“You have to ask yourself:
If our economic system actively destroys the biosphere *and* fails to meet most people’s basic needs, then what is actually the point?” Jason Hickel
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“Conservative and Liberal Brains Might Have Some Real Differences
Scanners try to watch the red-blue divide play out underneath the skull”
“Because human extinction is part of the discussions in this group, I'm hoping we can post about the science of the human brain and its evolution??? Reading a book called Denial with the hope of trying to understand this whole tragedy. On a side note, something interesting and helpful where science can help alleviate some tension: "On the whole, the research shows, conservatives desire security, predictability and authority more than liberals do, and liberals are more comfortable with novelty, nuance and complexity. If you had put Buckley and Vidal in a magnetic resonance imaging machine and presented them with identical images, you would likely have seen differences in their brain, especially in the areas that process social and emotional information. The volume of gray matter, or neural cell bodies, making up the anterior cingulate cortex, an area that helps detect errors and resolve conflicts, tends to be larger in liberals. And the amygdala, which is important for regulating emotions and evaluating threats, is larger in conservatives"”
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“Three Yellowstone National Park wolves killed in Montana”
Deb haaland and Democrats \Republicans can go to hell. Nature does not exist to aid their re-election, it belongs to all people:
Devastating news from Yellowstone! “The spiteful killing of Montana’s beloved Yellowstone wolves, just outside the park, clearly demonstrates the need for emergency protections,” said Jamie Rappaport Clark, our president and CEO. “Montana’s reckless management is putting not only Yellowstone wolves but all Montana wolves at risk. Gray wolves need and deserve federal protections to fully recover.” Learn more: https://dfnd.us/3kMJHqP #StopExtinction”
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