The current “reality” that the United States is largely ignoring is that it has re-elected one of the worst people in human history. Will there be a price to be paid? To be sure, though it’s too early to know …
Author: craigshields
Noam Chomsky on Hope
Here’s a piece of wisdom from Noam Chomsky. As Arthur C. Clarke put it shortly before his death, “I try to be optimistic, because both optimism and pessimism are self-fulfilling prophecies.”
World Peace
The reader who sent this question posed at left provided his one-word answer: Greed. I’m afraid he’s right. As Socrates said, “All wars are about money.” And as our annual military budget gets ever closer to $1 trillion, all that …
Tagged with: Big Oil profiting enormously from their actions that are warming our planet causing loss of land masses droughts fires desertification floods, consider climate change, loss of biodiversity, national security issues as climate refugees are forced to emigrate from their homelands, ocean acidification
Germany Has Its Own Distinguishing Charactistics
While Germany has a far-right party, the AfD, Alternative für Deutschland, which received 10.4% of the vote in 2021, there really is no equivalent to the low-brow MAGA movement in the United States. Perhaps that’s because the average German is …
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Who Are These Climate Deniers?
As suggested at left, big money bets on science every single time. As Aesop noted 2500 years ago, “A fool and his money are soon parted.” And, since generally the wealthiest individuals and corporations are anything but fools, they can …
Why Wasn’t the January 6th Insurrection the End for Trump?
The answer is simple: There are issues that are far higher priorities than Trump’s lies and criminality. More than half the voters in this country place extreme amounts of value on: • The supremacy of white people. • The rationing …
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Achieving Utopia
As we read the words at left, a kind of incredulity comes over us. This couldn’t really happen, could it? All this turns around the state of world capitalism. As long as our socio-economic system is based on greed, and …
Gasoline
The United States, at 13.4 million barrels/day, is by far the largest supplier of crude in the world. Saudi Arabia is second at 10.8 million barrels/day.
Tagged with: gasoline
Gulf of America
I don’t wish to be mean to these people, but there is something both funny and appropriate about this.
Tagged with: Gulf of America
Customs and Border Patrol (CBP)
Here’s an idea: If you don’t believe that the United States has border security, you could plan a trip with your daughter to the border and see what the ~64,000 federal employees are actually doing on a day-to-day basis (see …
