Two members of Congress have asked what reasons the DOJ had for so zealously going after Aaron Swartz. (Be sure to click on the link to Wired). I hope this isn’t just a we’ll pretend to be interested in fairness and justice...
I checked at Marcy Wheeler’s site, but nothing up about this.
Well, I shouldn’t be surprised, but yet, I still am about the gushing by the nooz broadcasters on the spring weather…
They were just all over the “nice” weather we’ve had the past few days—-50-and 60-degree days. They even went out “on the street” to ask the public their opinion about the great weather we’re having….and they were all positive comments on how great it was to wear a light jacket or no jacket at all in January in Indiana…and they even mentioned that all the comments were positive, except one…guess which one didn’t make it to the broadcast? This was a deliberate choice, folks. Newsroom editors wield huge power in what gets on the air and what doesn’t. And what does get on the air has an enormous impact–they know this.
So…I was a little beside myself with this broadcast. I mean, are people really that dense? Do they not know what is happening? Do they even think about how this summer is going to be if we’re having 60-degree weather in January? Good Grief, how soon they forget when we had 90 degree heat throughout the summer, with a drought, last year, and how dangerously low the rivers were. Thankfully, we’ve had some good rain and that good snow in December, and the rivers are now up to level. A small victory, but it won’t last if we start having 80-degree heat in March like we did last year.
But there’s no Climate Change. These people will just go on their merry way until the last drop of water comes out of the tap…
I mean, seriously, doesn’t anyone think beyond their nose?
What about the too warm water that is a threat to nuclear power plant ability to cool the nuclear core? If the warming trends continue, we will lose the ability to cool the core….can anyone say meltdown? I hate to even think of a worse case scenario of a plant in a scramble that cannot be cooled because the water is too warm to cool it.
Another scenario is this. Discharging hotter water into the already warm water, leading to fish kills and other destruction of the carefully constructed eco system is not a good, well thought out plan.
Speaking of the effects of the warmer weather, the plants are also being affected, as my Sedum Autumn Joy is starting to pop up from the soil. (I brought it here with me–it’s a plant that I’ve had since my son was a baby. I dug it up when I lost my house.)
This weather is not normal and not something to be celebrated.
Earth will survive. We won’t.
Organic Consumers posted this a while back (I’m sooo far behind in emails). Financially supporting the companies that truly have the best interests of their consumers at heart is the best way to go. Well, that and labeling our food.
Read the note on Kashi’s using genetically engineered soy in their “organic” products. It is such a cop-out to claim pollination was the reason the soy was GMO–an easy way to escape accountability. Instead of fighting GMO labeling, they should be fighting against Monsanto and the others involved in genetically modified food. This food is highly likely involved in leaky gut, as the body cannot recognize the grain anymore, and treats it as a foreign substance and that leads to gut inflammation and eventually leaky gut.
A link here to eye problems and leaky gut and GMO’s. Very interesting. My eyes have begun to improve–I was using 1.50 readers and now am able to use the 1.25 magnification. I’m also able to distinguish fine degrees of color, and I had lost some of my ability to determine colors. I know this by my embroidery thread that I used for counted cross-stitch–the thread is numbered and has very minute distinctions, and it was difficult for me to separate them by color. I grew so frustrated at it that I just put them all in one bag, unable to organize them. This began to change when I started to detox.
Here’s a good opinion on the GMO’s.
More here on the global effort to get GMO’s labeled.
A debate between a professor and a neoliberal. (hat tip to organic consumers).
Lastly, I really wonder about the exposure even if you’re not eating GMO foods (or at least trying not to by buying organic). I say this because every year, around late July, I begin to have more severe allergy symptoms, culminating in September, when I usually have headaches several days out of the month (this has been after mercury poisoning–at least, that’s when I first noticed it). I found a link here on the increase in allergies and GMO’s.
Here is a paper that must have been written by a Monsanto toadie, it is so slanted towards GMO’s and gives very little attention or support for research towards health concerns. This is what I was seeing when I was a student in college and I took a class in science writing: they had a forum at this strongly agricultural school on GMO’s when they were first being introduced in 1997-98 (only we found out later that they had been unleashed onto the unsuspecting public earlier.)
A good blog here on GMO.
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Related to this is an stunning affirmation of those in power that amalgams are safe. Just stunning. Absolutely stunning. (hat tip to organic consumers). It just goes to show that Washington is bought by those whose interests don’t include the health and well being of the public, but of who has the $$$ to fund their campaigns.
And my previous blog with this on how not only mercury affects us, but the animals, as well. My other blogs on it here and here.
And I’m finished. So much for catching up on my emails. 😛
Link here. I gotta run…
(Oh, how I miss CSPAN…even though it is slowly becoming mostly conservative views.)
Speaks his mind on President Obama using MLK’s bible to be sworn in. He has strong words about “using King’s fire” and not following up with actions, such as putting Wall St bankers in jail, putting Bush torturers in jail, getting rid of the drones, doing something about poverty...etc.
You know, there is a Canadian program on my public radio station here in FW that airs a part of a segment where a guy has said he had awards for “favorite food, TV program,” etc., and one of the categories is “best performance of impersonating a politician” (or something to that effect) “won by Dan Quayle three years in a row until Dick Cheney came along…”
I think there should just be a category for “best performance by a politician while trying to appear genuine”.
I think Hillary Clinton would win in a landslide….
No, I’m not going to link to any of the political sites that are praising her “performance” today. It really sickens me how they have annointed her Saint Hillary that can do no wrong and refuse to look at her and Bill’s records with any degree of unemotional critical assessment. They would be livid at that same stuff if it were done by a repub.
The fake break in her voice was the top of the performance. Not a tear in the eyes. Her eyes were not even red. My voice doesn’t usually break until the tears begin to fall and the emotions have bubbled to the top.
The anger at the question of what exactly happened? “It doesn’t matter!!” Really?
She didn’t read the memo. Didn’t read the memo….
I recalled that during the Clintons term in office, I always felt manipulated. It didn’t happen overnight, but eventually, it came to be a frequent feeling whenever a crisis would occur and once again they escaped accountability.
DS Wright has an update here.
But the general feeling is that Wall St. will still go unpunished…i.e., jail time. It’s kinda hard to stop these people when they see nothing wrong with what they did and none of them serve jail time.
…because we’d much rather go after computer wizzes who have legal access to files and download them for the public so that the public knows what their government is doing…
link here.
bgrothus has this link in the comments section. Remember, folks, the derivatives were the cause of the meltdown. They were betting on people losing their mortgages….these scumbags were betting on people like me losing their houses.
…and not only betting on people losing their houses, but on people dying. It’s amazing how they can make it seem….normal. Just coldly predict how long someone lives and apply a monetary value to it, i.e., insurance $$.
(crap, I have to go, and I wanted to explore this more….argh)
From Mike’s blog roundup on crooksandliars, a link to Perrspectives’ take on the Israeli elections and their importance.
From the link on the blog to the Clinton Administration’s view on Israel:
“So while the core issues of the conflict must be negotiated, the basis of those negotiations is clear: a viable Palestine, a secure Israel. The United States believes that negotiations should result in two states, with permanent Palestinian borders with Israel, Jordan, and Egypt, and permanent Israeli borders with Palestine. We believe the borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states. The Palestinian people must have the right to govern themselves, and reach their full potential, in a sovereign and contiguous state.”
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Absolutely.
Eagle 
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