Admitting, “I don’t need to do this,” Donald Trump today declared a national emergency on our southern border. Then, just like any president might do after declaring a national emergency, Donald Trump left Washington for a golfing vacation in Florida. When asked why he’d declare a national emergency instead of accepting the deal that had […]
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A brief update on our ever-worsening constitutional crisis
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged border wall, Donald Trump, emotional truth, executive overreach, executive power, facts, lies, power grab, racism, southern border, Ted Lieu, xenophobia 7 Comments
Daniel Ellsberg calls on other whistleblowers to come forward, before we’re at war with Iran
Chris Hedges, who I often quote here, just interviewed Daniel Ellsberg, the man responsible for leaking the Pentagon Papers in 1971, hastening the end of the Vietnam war, and contributing toward the downfall of Richard Nixon. And, as it’s been a while since we’ve discussed the increasing severity with which our nation has been cracking […]
Posted in Civil Liberties Also tagged Bradley Manning, Chris Hedges, corporatocracy, Daniel Ellsberg, Espionage Act, fear mongers, FISA, foreign affairs, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Iran, Iraq war, lies, lies in the run-up to the Iraq war, National Defense Authorization Act, NDAA, Obama, Patriot Act, Pentagon Papers, propaganda, Richard Nixon, security state, Surveillance State, the press, the sad state of journalism, threats to Democracy, Tonkin Gulf, torture, Vietnam War, war crimes, whistle blower 7 Comments
The Survival Seed scam
Last night, on my way home from work, I was listening to our resident rightwing radio personality Thayrone X, which I occasionally do when I find myself becoming too optimistic about humanity’s chances, when a commercial came on about the importance of heirloom, non-genetically modified seeds. For a second, I thought that perhaps I’d stumbled […]
Posted in Economics, Food, Media, Observations, Politics Also tagged crisis gardens, fear mongering, food crisis, genetically modified organism, Glenn Beck, gold, Goldline International, heirloom seeds, police state, scams, seed banks, seeds, Solutions From Science, Survival Seed Bank, taking advantage of the scared, taking advantage of the stupid, Thayrone, victory gardens 38 Comments