There’s only one thing people on the far right hate more than the United Nations, and that’s the United Nations setting international guidelines for sustainable development. I learned this a few days ago, while listening to a special episode of Glenn Beck’s radio program about a secret UN initiative to deal with the looming threats […]
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Agenda 21… Are America’s city planners in on the United Nations plot to enslave us, and force us onto bicycles?
Posted in Environment, History, Observations, Other, Politics, Predictions, Rants, Uncategorized Also tagged 1984, 1992, Agenda 21, Alabama, ALEC, American Legislative Exchange Council, anti-environment, Arizona, bike lanes, Chip Rogers, city planning, competing visions for the future of America, concentration camps, Conference on Environment and Development, conspiracy theories, corporatocracy, Delphi, dyptopia, Earth Summit, Emmeline, fear mongering, Field Searcy, Georgia, Georgia State Senate, Glenn Beck, global climate change, Global Warming, Harriet Parke, mass transit, mind control, paranoia, rationing, regulation, Republican National Committee, Republican platform, RNC, sprawl, suburbs, survival seeds, tea party, the collapse of the Republican party, the future of America, The Handmaid's Tale, the hijacking of the Republican party, the threat of Socialism, traffic circles, United Nations, urban sprawl 27 Comments
Announcing that five Ypsi schools share one librarian, 826 Michigan asks for volunteers to staff libraries so that our children can once again check out books
When I received the above message earlier this afternoon, I didn’t think there was any way that it could possibly be true… I knew, of course, that Ypsi’s schools had suffered severe cuts. Just a few weeks ago, I’d watched Linette design a poster for Fly Children’s Art Center, drawing attention to the fact that […]
Posted in Art and Culture, Education, Ypsilanti Also tagged 826Michigan, Amanda Uhle, Amy Sumerton, Big Bird, books, budget cuts, Bush tax cuts, childhood, dismantling of public education, epic rants, FLY Children's Art Center, librarians, libraries, military budget, Mitt Romney, PBS, public education, tax the rich, Wall Street deregulation, Ypsilanti Public Schools 43 Comments
Pete Larson on the financialization of agricultural commodities
One of our regular contributors, my old friend Pete Larson, who many of you had the pleasure of seeing perform at this site’s 10th anniversary party a few weeks ago, is going to be speaking in Ann Arbor on Thursday about the financialization of agricultural commodities. I took the occasion to ask him a few […]
Posted in Agriculture, Economics Also tagged agricultural commodities, Agriculture, big ag, College Truth Tour, commoditization, Cuba, derivatives, Dodd-Frank, economic crash, financial industry, financial reform, food crisis, food prices, healthy food access, hedge funds, Herman Cain, Howard Stein, human rights, Joe Stiglitz, New World Ecology and Agriculture Group, NWEAG, Pete Larson, pork, Richard Levins, Science For the People, scientists, speculation, stock market, supply and demand, sustainable agriculture, University of Michigan, Wall Street 14 Comments