Author: craigshields

Here’s a news article about Ford’s financial woes, how the trade tariffs have cost them $1 billion this this year and forced them to lay of 24,000 employees.  It makes one wonder: How many of them voted for Trump, and how …

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Earlier this week, a three-person team from the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), including its president, its director of Center for Science and Democracy, and its director of their Clean Vehicles Program were, after waiting for over four months, finally granted …

Frustration for the Union of Concerned Scientists Read More »

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Here’s a good article for Americans who believe that there exists a debate regarding the theory of anthropogenic global warming, written by Dr. Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. 

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In a post earlier today I lamented what appears to be the transition the U.S. is making from democracy to oligarchy.  This raises a couple of questions, like How did it happen? and How strong was the democracy in the first place? …

America in Transition Read More »

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What Bernie Sanders says here may or may not be correct.  I see no evidence that the nation won’t survive its transition from democracy to oligarchy, at least on the basis of economics or politics.

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Here’s a short video on a recent study at Oxford University that began as an exploration of sustainable meat and dairy, but wound up concluding that there is no such thing. 

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I was thrilled to see that an old friend of mine, an extremely astute political observer who’s just recovered from a traumatic accident, is back online.  Though he dislikes Trump, he views the presidency with a yawn, which I find …

Notes on the Trump Investigation Read More »

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Though England is the de facto language of Wales, anyone who’s ever struggled through a conversation in that part of the world knows that the accent, along with an occasional Welsh word or phrase thrown in makes spoken communication intensely …

Let’s Applaud Wales for its Historic Action on Climate Read More »

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The State of New York has filed suit against ExxonMobil for misleading investors. According to the complaint, there is ironclad evidence that Exxon systematically lied when it said that it had factored in the costs associated with regulation re: the …

The Heat Is On ExxonMobil Read More »

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Most Americans are unaware that the U.S. is the only country on Earth in which there exists a debate among its political elites as to the validity of the theory of anthropogenic global warming.  Elsewhere, climate change is simply accepted …

America At a Crossroads Read More »

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