Badlands Journal
Social, Economic, and Environmental Justice
Mike Whitney, as he has done so many times before, asks the right question and provides a detailed answer. Finance, Insurance and Real Estate (FIRE) and their paid minions in Congress are busy setting up the new scam with the idea of wringing out whatever wealth they left in the people's hands from their last attack.
What Eric Caine, the Pussyfooting Modesto-based Merced College prof, either forgets or never knew was that Mike Wade, the prostitute, back when he had a real job as executive director of the Merced County Farm Bureau, through letters and testimony before the UC Regents, falsely claimed that there was adequate water for the UC Merced campus on site beneath the seasonal pastures.
Earlier in the week this article was published, members of the Badlands Journal editorial board were in a meeting on water issues that included a number of prominent Merced County farmers. A secret ballot vote was taken on the effects of global warming on water issues received an unusually low vote because, it appeared, farmers in the room voted against the very existence of global warming.
9-28-12
ProPublica
All the Missing Horses: What Happened to the Wild Horses Tom Davis Bought From the Gov’t?
by Dave Philipps
http://www.propublica.org/article/missing-what-happened-to-wild-horses-t...
The Bureau of Land Management faced a crisis this spring.
9-26-12
Inland Valley News
CA Governor Brown Signs Human Right to Water
http://www.inlandvalleynews.com/2012/09/26/ca-governor-brown-signs-human...
Sacramento, CA–The basic human right to safe, clean, affordable and accessible water became part of state policy today when Governor Brown signed AB 685.
The main pesticide employed against nematodes around Livingston, Sweet Potato Capital of California, is methyl bromide. The Montreal Protocal to ban the use of methyl bromide because it is burning a hole in the ozone layer has been signed by 196 nations. Exemptions are allowed in the US for various crops, sweet potatoes and strawberries among them, because we wouldn't want to damage the income stream of any blameless agriculturalist fumigating his soil with a gaseous compound that is burning a hole in the earth's ozone layer.
9-17-12
Talking Points Memo
Tax Cuts For The Rich Do Not Spur Economic Growth: Study
Sahil Kapur
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/crs-study-taxes-economic-grow...
There is no clear correlation between tax cuts for high earners and economic growth, according to a new study by Congress’ nonpartisan policy analyst.
9-19-12
Global Research
Fukushima Radiation: Japan Irradiates the West Coast of North America
By Washingon's Blog
http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-radiation-japan-irradiates-the-we...
Radiation from Japan’s nuclear accident has turned up in seaweed on the coasts of California, Washington and other parts of the West Coast of North America.
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All the corporations learned from NAFTA was how to make the next "regional" agreement worse. --BLJ
8-14-12
Food & Water Watch
If you thought NAFTA was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet
Mitch Jones
http://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/blogs/if-you-thought-nafta-was-bad-you-...