As we recall, Donald Trump’s ex-chief strategist Steve Bannon was hellbent on “dismantling the administrative state.” “I’m a Leninist,” Bannon told a writer for The Daily Beast, in late 2013. “Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down, and destroy all of today’s establishment.” (more…)
Ex-secretary of Labor Robert Reich says it better than I could: Corrupting the legal system is how dictatorships are built.
He’s referring, of course, to U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s dropping the criminal charges against confessed felon Michael Flynn, close Trump friend and ally. (more…)
This article in Barrons actually provides many more than three reasons why the stock market is rising despite the fact 33 million Americans are finding themselves jobless.
The real reason is that there is at most a tenuous connection between the two. People say, “Well, the stock market isn’t the economy.” That’s for sure. (more…)
As you watch the video below, made by late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel, ask yourself this:
Don’t at least some of Trump’s supporters think it’s a bad idea of the President of the United States to be calling his critics nasty names in the middle of the night when he could be spending his time at least trying to help solve the incredibly numerous and profound difficulties we face as a nation? (more…)
Here’s a fascinating graphic that shows the adoption of consumer technology in the typical American home over the last 120 years. If one were to add business and especially medical technology onto this, one would have a complete picture of why, IMO, better gadgetry is really the only thing that makes living in the 21st Century superior to anytime in the past. (more…)
The graphic here provides the reason that responsible people source their food as close to their backyards as possible.
There are over 700 Certified Farmers’ Markets in California alone. It’s a great industry to support, and the people (both the vendors and the customers) tend to be very cool people.
As much as I like Trader Joe’s, I never buy anything there that I can get locally, as each TJ’s SKU comes from one source, which can be anywhere around the world.
Last month, Austria and then Sweden closed down their last coal-fired power stations. They are the second and third countries to go coal-free in Europe; Belgium did so in 2016. (more…)
Those wishing to get at the truth behind the rapid migration to renewable energy, as contrasted by the rubbish that is Michael Moore’s film “Planet of the Humans,” should check out the video below, by the popular YouTube Channel “Just Have a Think.” If half an hour is too big an ask, it’s summarized nicely in the last three minutes. (more…)
The oil companies’ lawyers have been both clever and successful at amping up the attack on would-be pipeline protestors, whether they be indigenous or just garden-variety environmentalists.
In March, they were able to have protests viewed as acts of terrorism (who would have thought?), and reclassified certain crimes that were previously misdemeanors as felonies. Now they can have their opponents sent away for long terms in prison. (more…)
From the Energy and Policy Institute:
Southern Company faces another challenge to improve its limited lobbying disclosures at the company’s upcoming Annual Meeting of Stockholders on May 27, according to a filing by Majority Action. Southern’s current lobbying disclosure policy allowed for secret expenditures to the Utility Air Regulatory Group, which litigated against environmental regulations. The company does not publish or report total lobbying expenditures in Alabama or Georgia despite employing almost 50 lobbyists in the two states, according to state records. (more…)
