Pesticide Action Network
This is an edited version of a blog post by our partners at the
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. See the full post here .
With 435 House and 35 Senate races on the ballot last week, the 2018
midterms were closely watched across the nation – not least of all by
advocates of sustainable agriculture. Before heading off to the campaign
trail, Congress left two major ag agenda items danglin
On Halloween, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) made a truly
scary announcement — the agency decided to continue its registration of
Monsanto’s (now merged with Bayer) highly controversial dicamba-based
herbicide, Xtendimax. The chemical has damaged millions of acres of
farmland over the past two seasons of use, and with this decision, the
devastation will continue. Farmers were outraged
In the food movement, people often talk about the importance of
“voting” with your dollars. While it's true that smart consumer choices
can help build a healthier food system, policies and politics matter
too. And often much more. As these past two years have clearly shown,
who’s in charge makes a difference. Next Tuesday’s election is hugely
important in so many ways, including having very real
This post is part of an ongoing project by PAN Farmer Justice Fellows
who are working to uplift the many different voices of farmers in
California. The mission of this work is to broaden the narrative of what
it means to be a farmer participating in the state's agricultural
system by sharing the wide spectrum of relationships that growers have
with land. Rubie Simonsen is the 28 year old Filipino
EPA decides to continue its registration of Monsanto’s (now merged with
Bayer) highly controversial dicamba-based herbicide, Xtendimax. Learn
more Slideshow Category: Flex Slider
This year's Food Sovereignty Prize was awarded to Black Mesa Water
Coalition and Organización Boricuá de Agricultura Ecológica de Puerto
Rico for their commitment to food sovereignty. Learn more Slideshow
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Schools Matter
Submitted to the New York Times, Oct. 26, 2018 In “Why are we still
teaching reading the wrong way?” (Oct 26) Emily Hanford says the
research supports systematic intensive phonics, a method that teaches
all the rules of phonics in a strict order to all children. Here are
objections to this conclusion: (1) Researchers admit we have not
discovered all the rules. (2) Even among those rules that have
“Blowing the racist dog whistle in politics is shameful. This
disgraceful practice against black candidates unfortunately has a long
and shameful history. That this would happen in California in 2018 is
deeply disturbing. It appears you have chosen to follow President
Trump’s playbook of using lies and fake news to smear prominent leaders
of color.” — California Hawaii NAACP letter admonishing Ma
Outside the billionaires' bubble that insulates Betsy DeVos from the
real world, there are employees at the U.S. Department of Education who
are depressed, pissed off or, otherwise, upset over the many ways Betsy
has made life at ED worse under her misleadership. And remember, we're
talking about worse than life under Arne Duncan! In fact, the positive
vibe has dropped from 65% to 43%, which is n
Screw You Guys, I'm Going Home
We've
reached a tipping point where a majority of states now have laws that
protect employees of smaller employers. Most federal discrimination laws
protect employees only if their employers have 15 employees or more (20
for age discrimination, all employers for Equal Pay Act, 4 - 14 for
national origin/citizenship under the The Immigration Reform and Control
Act of 1986). But a majority of states
With
Republicans threatening to cut Social Security benefits, retirement
savings has become a national issue. Some states (not anti-employee
Florida, of course) have tackled this issue by implementing retirement
plans for private-sector employees. The latest state to implement a
private-sector retirement plan is Connecticut . They join California,
Illinois, Maryland and Oregon in implementing auto
Saudi Arabia, Shi’ism and the Illusion of Reform by Robert G. Rabil – @
robertgrabil October 30, 2019 The emergence of the Kingdom of Saudi
Arabia is inextricably associated with the Wahhabi school of Islam. The
Saudi-Wahhabi pact goes back to the eighteenth century when Sheikh
Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab (1703-1792), the founder of the
Wahhabi-Salafi school of Islam traveled to Diriya, the stron
The plight of the Druze hostages: Why Washington should change its
approach in Syria By Talal el-Atrache – @ TalalElAtrache For Syria
Comment – 8 Nov 2018 Throughout the Syrian war, the Southern Province of
Sweida, in coordination with the Syrian army, had succeeded in
protecting itself against the jihadist attacks on the province’s Western
border with Deraa, and on the Eastern flank, adjacent to
By Michael Gerini Residing in the north of Lebanon, Mouin Merhebi is a
member of Saad Hariri’s Future Movement. A staunch opponent of Hezbollah
and the Assad government, he currently serves as Minister of Refugee
Affairs (officially “Minister of State for Displaced Affairs”) in the
Hariri government, a position he has held since December of 2016. Though
coming into the position with little experi
The Straight Goods
Donald J Trump......Coward in Chief Written by grant G It's gone almost
as predicted in a post I wrote November 8th, 2016..the night the US
elected Donald J Trump president election here's the last few paragraphs
in a post titled.... Donald Trump, King Lizard ______ I feel very sad
for the 50% of Americans who voted for Hillary, I feel just as bad for
the 50% that voted for Trump because they bel
thwap's schoolyard
So, plodding dullard, pants-pissing coward, anti-democratic doofus,
brazen hypocrite, overall incompetent, stephen harper has (in a
desperate attempt to appear relevant) farted out a book of sorts. It's
called I'm Really Stupid Now (or something). In it, he apparently says
that something he calls the global free-market economy has produced
winners and losers and that these fucking losers are turn
Vagabond Scholar
(Click
on the comic strip for a larger view.) In 1959, Pogo creator Walt Kelly
wrote: The eleventh day of the eleventh month has always seemed to me
to be special. Even if the reason for it fell apart as the years went
on, it was a symbol of something close to the high part of the heart.
Perhaps a life that stretches through two or three wars takes its first
war rather seriously, but I still
Today,
11/11/18, marks the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I, the
Great War, the supposed War to End All Wars that unfortunately didn't.
I've always been struck by how eager nations were to go to war at the
start and how horrific the reality often was. By the end, by most
estimates, about 8.5 million soldiers were dead and the total casualty
count was about 37.5 million. Add in a
Get
out and vote on Tuesday, if you haven't already! This post will collate
some California and Los Angeles County resources. California voters
should already have received the official voter information guide in the
mail, but it's also online and available in multiple languages.
Unfortunately, some candidates don't include statements, but the guide
is particularly useful for seeing who's
What Is Sustainable
[Note: This is the third sample from my rough draft of a far from
finished new book, Wild Free & Happy . I don’t plan on reviewing
more books for a while. My blog is home to reviews of 196 books, and you
are very welcome to explore them. The Search field on the right side
will find words in the full contents of all rants and reviews, if you
are interested in specific authors, titles, or subjects.
The Rise of Homo Sapiens , by Frederick Coolidge (psychologist) and
Thomas Wynn (anthropologist), is a book about the evolution of human
cognition. It describes the seven million year voyage that resulted in
the magnificent mind that’s throbbing between your ears right now. This
voyage began with the first hominins — bipedal (two legged) apes who
were either our direct ancestors, or our long lost
WWF - Latest News
Alongside the all-too-visible deforestation, the Amazon is facing an
invisible but increasing threat from mercury pollution according to a
new WWF report released today at the 2 nd Conference of the Parties to
the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Geneva, Switzerland. Healthy
Rivers, Healthy People highlights the dangers mercury pollution poses
across the Amazon and calls for urgent action to red
A Very Public Sociologist
Any deal is better than a bad deal. That about summed up the mood at
the Confederation of British Industry annual conference earlier today.
Theresa May will have accepted that as an endorsement of her plan ,
after the worst week a sitting Prime Minister Westminster has seen for
about 60 years. She will take the sideswipe at Jeremy Corbyn by chief
exec Carolyn Fairburn as a jolly consolation. But
Imagine shooting someone for a packet of cheese and onion crisps in the
blasted ruins of Sheffield. With the announcement of Theresa May's
withdrawal deal, it appears, for now, that a Threads Brexit is off the
table. But what smörgåsbord of culinary goodies can we look forward to
instead? The 600 pages of the withdrawal agreement looks like a meaty
affair, but almost two-and-a-half years on from
The moment of decision is with us and the Tories are in a state of
collapse. Two cabinet ministers and four juniors have gone. Theresa
May's presentation of her deal to the Commons received next to no
support, and speculation abounds that enough no-confidence letters have
gone to the 1922 Committee. "Scribble, scribble, Mr Gibbon" replied
Jacob Rees-Mogg to Channel Four's political correspondent
1. Big charities discharge a number of functions . Their raison d'etre
is the provision of some sort of service and/or support for certain
groups of recipients. It may be a cold, grey, loveless thing as Clem
Atlee put it, but unfortunately their works are often important and
necessary. Especially when, for whatever reason, the state refuses to
step in and charity makes up the short fall. Simultan
There's a weird sort of revisionism going on. We're three years into
Jeremy Corbyn's leadership of the Labour Party, and during that time all
the received wisdom that governed the Coalition Government years and
before - mine included - has gone into the wheelie bin and carted off to
land fill. The new politics, characterised by polarisation , the return
of big ideas, and the rude intrusion of mas
Can anything more be said about the so-called People's Vote march in
London that hasn't already been noted elsewhere? According to the
organisers, there was anywhere between half a million and 750,000 on the
streets. Not content with nicking A to B marches off the left, they've
half-inched the revolutionary inflation as well. And what's more, some
of Britain's wealthiest reached into their pocket
Adrienne's Corner
are you serious, Kirsten? You statement is racist. Did you ever stop to
think about that? Of course not, you educated beyond your intelligence
elitist snob. In the previous post Victor Davis Hanson several times
juxtaposed the words arrogant and ignorant as usually going hand in
hand. I've been saying that for years. Kirsten is a perfect example. And
then we have hot shot wild-eyed demodummy majo
have you planned your week yet? "Today is the first day of the rest of
your life" Sounds good, right? Except I think that's rather short notice
to get your life in order. How about this: Monday is the first day of
the rest of your week. That's better - bigger than an acorn and smaller
than a breadbox. My long time readers know that I'm a bit of a planning
freak because if I didn't plan nothing of
one of the best. He's with Glen Campbell in this clip who was also a
super fine guitarist. What is the definition of perfect pitch? Throwing a
banjo into a dumpster and hitting an accordion. I might also add that
most (if not all) banjo players despise Dueling Banjos. You'll be
missed, Roy.
I think so and so does Rush. On November 14, Rush talked about an issue
that I've thought about most my life. As each generation grows older
they bemoan the upcoming generation not having the same quality of
education and values. The answer has always been, "Now, now - every
generation complains about the upcoming generation and it's always been
okay. So just calm down." One thing I've always rec
because I'm all about easy. While Florida attends night classes on how
to count past ten, New York flounders about in a "historic" winter storm
of a couple of inches of snow, and a commie/marxist/libtard judge says
Jim Acosta has a "right" to be rude at the White house, lets talk about
making mug bread. There are numerous recipes on the web for this quick
and easy low carb friendly bread substitu
Gospel for Today 24th Sunday after Pentecost Extraordinary Form of the
Mass Matthew 13:31-35 He put before them another parable: "The kingdom
of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his
field; it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is
the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air
come and make nests in its branches." He told
ArmsControlWonk
Lyric
of the week: “Don’t want to die in a Super 8 Motel just because
somebody’s evening didn’t go so well” — Jason Isbell, “Super 8” in the
Southeastern album Every nuclear weapon awaits a set of circumstances
that could produce truly awful headlines. An accident waiting to happen.
A failure in safety or security …
Dave
Schmerler, Michael Duitsman, and I were gathered around my computer,
admiring satellite images we found of an Indian missile on a launch pad
from May 2017. I pointed to some cloudy streaks on the screen and joked,
“That’s probably smoke from a failed test.” We zoomed out to see more
of the image. “Holy …
Quotes
of the week: “You use a small one, then you go to a bigger one. I think
nuclear weapons are nuclear weapons and we need to draw the line
there.” — George Shultz “I don’t think there’s any such thing as a
tactical nuclear weapon. Any nuclear weapon used at any time is a
strategic …
Quote
of the week: “Wake the damn Bambino. I’ll drill him in the ass.” —
Attributed to Pedro Martinez, 2004, the year when the Red Sox broke the
curse of not winning a World Series after trading Babe Ruth to the New
York Yankees 86 years earlier. Donald Trump announced at a campaign
rally on …
Last
year, cameras in Japan noticed an object streaking the night sky —
possibly the reentry vehicle from one of North Korea’s July 28 missile
test. Did it burn up? Survive? If if it did, or did not, what does that
mean for North Korea’s ability to deliver a nuclear weapon to targets
throughout the …
On
this Veterans/Armistice Day, I’m reprinting a post from August 24,
2010, “The Least Abhorrent Choice.” The military cemetery at Nettuno,
thirty miles south of Rome, is serene and immaculately kept. Almost as
many GIs are buried there – 7,861 – as at Normandy, painful testimony of
how botched the Italian campaign was. I’m named …
Saturday,
today, at AIM WestPhoto by Tony Gonzalez By Tony Gonzalez AIM West
Censored News Location 2969 Mission Street San Francisco . Welcome all
my American Indian Movement-West (AIM-WEST), an inter-tribal non-profit
human rights organization based in San Francisco is pleased to welcome
everyone to its annual AIM-West Coast Conference/Summit in San Francisco
beginning
.
Friday, November, 16, 2018 Contact: protectpeaks@gmail.com
www.protectthepeaks.org Indigenous Peoples Denied Access to Sacred Site
as Ski Area Opens with Sewage Snow By Indigenous Action Censored News
Flagstaff, Ariz. — Continuing years of ecological destruction, threats
to public health, and desecration and assault on Indigenous Peoples’
ways of life, Arizona Snowbowl
Military
vehicles like this one swarmed the Tohono O'odham region today, because
of the racist hysteria of the U.S. President. U.S. soldiers are now
used as pawns in psychotic breakdown -- as U S. government bottoms out
By Brenda Norrell Censored News LUKEVILLE, Arizona-- Lukeville is just
beyond the western edge of the Tohono O'odham Nation. It is a small
border crossing vital to locals
.
Indigen.ous Organizers Face Political Attack by Flagstaff Police for
Anti-Columbus Day Demonstration By Indigenous Action Censored News
OCCUPIED FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flagstaff police stalked and cited an
Indigenous organizer in so-called Flagstaff, Arizona last night for
their alleged role in a demonstration that took to the streets the
previous month on what is now recognized as "
GOLD
MINE, STRUGGLE FOR IDENTITY AND FOR MOTHER EARTH: YOUNG WOMEN FROM
FRENCH GUÏANA SPEAK AGAINST THE GOLD COMPANY 'MONTAGNE D'OR', THE DENIAL
OF THEIR IDENTITY, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR MOTHER EARTH: YOUNG WOMEN FROM
FRENCH GUÏANA SPOKE, ON OCTOBER 13, 2018, DURING THE 'SOLIDARITY DAY' OF
THE CSIA Recorded on October 13th, 2018 Article and translation by
Christine Prat
Read
article at Mohawk Nation News .Mohawk Nation News "Scorched Earth"
http://mohawknationnews.com/blog/2018/11/12/scorched-earth/
Centauri Dreams
Even today, I can well understand the reaction that Dennis Conti had
when confronted with the prospect of finding a planet around another
star with nothing more than an amateur instrument. Conti, who founded
and now chairs the Exoplanet Section of the American Association of
Variable Star Observers , was a newcomer to the transit method just a
few years ago. “I thought, there’s no way for someone
The detection of a planet around Barnard’s Star really hits home for
me. No, this isn’t a habitable world, but the whole topic of planets
around this star has resonance for those of us who remember the earliest
days of exoplanet study, which could be extended back to Peter van de
Kamp’s work at Swarthmore’s Sproul Observatory in Pennsylvania. The
astronomer thought he had found evidence for a 1.6
The first interstellar object detected in our own Solar System,
‘Oumuamua has a pleasing name, translating from the Hawaiian as
something like ‘far visitor first to arrive,’ or words to that effect.
It’s also proven a frustrating catch ever since detected by the
University of Hawaii’s Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Hawaii
during a search for near-Earth asteroids. We’ve put telescope resourc
A crater roughly the size of the area inside Washington DC’s beltway
has been found beneath the Greenland ice. On this, some thoughts, but
first, a reminiscence. If you’ve ever driven the Capital Beltway at rush
hour, you’ll have some sense of the crater’s size. My own experiences
of it have been few, but the most memorable was the afternoon I spent at
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where Greg
The interstellar object called ‘Oumuamua continues to inspire analysis
and speculation. And no wonder. We had limited time to observe it and
were unable to obtain a resolved image to find out exactly what it looks
like. This morning I want to go through a new paper from Shmuel Bialy
and Abraham Loeb (Harvard University) considering the role radiation
pressure from the Sun could play on this deep
To say that the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest
Research Institute has been busy of late is quite an understatement.
Alan Stern, principal investigator for New Horizons, has been leading an
SwRI study examining just how we might operate an orbiter at
Pluto/Charon, with results that are surprising and encouraging for the
future of such a project. Working with spaceflight engine
David Climenhaga's Alberta Diary
Many Albertans were shocked to learn last week that Opposition Leader
Jason Kenney had promised an auto dealers association pouring money into
a political action committee supporting his United Conservative Party
that if elected he would hand enforcement of vehicle sale consumer
protection back to the dealers. Twenty-six Alberta car and truck
dealerships are reported to have donated at least $175
When Premier Rachel Notley announced to the annual general meeting of
the United Nurses of Alberta yesterday morning her government would keep
a promise made to working Albertans 26 years ago by a Conservative
government, it offered an ironic coda to one of the issues that
contributed to the downfall of the Conservative Dynasty in 2015. In
2014, I wrote a number of blog posts about what I then ca
Carl von Clausewitz, the Prussian aphorist and theoretician of war,
famously observed that “war is the continuation of politics by other
means.” Something like the opposite – that politics is the prosecution
of war by other means, or darn close anyway – is likely true as well. I
hope I offend no gentle readers by describing politics in warlike terms.
I do so because the metaphor helps explain the
Former Alberta New Democratic Party leader Brian Mason has been a gale
force presence in Alberta politics for so long it’s hard to imagine the
place without him. Yet there he was yesterday at lunchtime, on stage in
the ballroom of Edmonton’s Westin Hotel, saying farewell to politics,
the NDP he led in the provincial Legislature from 2004 to 2014, and –
perhaps more than a little to his surprise –
When Alberta Advanced Education Minister Marlin Schmidt was tossed out
of the Legislature Wednesday morning for supposedly insulting an
Opposition MLA, the kerfuffle that resulted obviously came as welcome
relief to United Conservative Party Leader Jason Kenney. In recent
weeks, Mr. Kenney has often been on the run, sometimes almost literally,
from questions by journalists about the views some of
Want to know how to deal with the irresponsible refusal by the
organizers of the so-called Munk Debate to cancel their invitation to
former Trump election strategist Steve Bannon to come to Canada and spew
his racist dreck around our country? Follow the example of Jason
Kenney! In most circumstances, the last thing a sane commentator would
do would be to advise Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and h
From the Wilderness' Peak Oil Blog
From Jenna Orkin Researchers Discover Second Earth Pack your bags. Who
Killed Robert Kennedy? - Aljazeera Iowa Grants Gun Permits to the Blind
ICE Targeting Activists in Vermont - DMV Helping Using Goats to Prevent
Forest Fires US Soldiers Secretly Fighting Saudi Arabia's War in Yemen
(May) The death toll from California's fires has risen to 76 — and
nearly 1,300 people are still missing One Dead
From Jenna Orkin The U.S. Military Testing Stratospheric Balloons That
Never Have to Come Down Japan’s Cyber-Security Minister Has ‘Never Used a
Computer’ Woman Blows Herself Up In Grozny - Chechnya Robot Surgery
Fiasco "In a statement after the inquest Mr Pettitt's family said an
"investigation revealed a catalogue of errors including significant
deficiencies in training and competence of the su
From Jenna Orkin Pentagon Fails Its First Ever Audit, Official Says
9/11 Compensation Crusader John Feal Considering Run for Congress
California's Deadliest Fire Now Blocking Sun; Temps Drop By 10 Degrees
As "Hazardous" Air Chokes Residents 654 Central American Migrants
Detained After Crossing Arizona Border 'Mini Ice Age' Looms As NASA
Scientist Warns Lack Of Sunspots Could Bring Record Cold She
From Jenna Orkin Once Fired, There's No Calling a Nuke Back - Daniel
Ellsberg Facebook Reportedly Paid for Smear Campaign Against George
Soros Chinese Soldiers to Plant Forest Size of Ireland Governor signs
bill allowing utilities to increase fees to pay for fire settlements
Revisiting Mike Davis' Case for Letting Malibu Burn Saudi prosecutor
claims Crown Prince Mohammed innocent, seeks death for
From Jenna Orkin Sowing Seeds of Science I hope this is as
permacultural as it appears. As Bezos Earns $191000 Per Minute, Why Are
NY and VA Giving Amazon Corporate Welfare? Official Absentee Ballot
Returned to Sender Sigrid Nunez Wins National Book Award for Fiction
Here's my review Macy's is making a move that signals the death of
department stores as we know them A former CIA officer says the
From Jenna Orkin New Zealand Bans Plastic Where White Nationalists Get
Their Funding post . Fire Tornado in CA SWIFT Cuts Off Iran Central Bank
As Tehran Sells 700,000 Barrels To Anonymous Direct Buyers A judge has
ordered Amazon to hand over recordings from an Echo to help solve a
double murder case Napoleon Reborn: We Need A "European Empire" To
Challenge US And China, French Minister Says Finn
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"Man-made" climate change (CC) / global warming is causing SE Asia rice
harvest to decline? Another proof that the climate alarmism movement is
based on dishonesty, deception and lies. SE Asia rice production keeps
rising, not falling. Climate Change Causing Southeast Asia Rice Harvests
to “Dwindle”… NOT! David Middleton / November 14, 2018
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2018/11/14/climate-change-ca
* This is my article in BusinessWorld on November 13, 2018. Last week,
the October inflation and 3rd quarter GDP growth data were released by
the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and the numbers confirm the
fear of many observers of deteriorating macroeconomic fundamentals of
the Duterte administration. The big jump in inflation rate was triggered
by the TRAIN law. Only 2.9% in December 2017
Brazil's new President, Jair Bolsonaro, has become another inconvenient
truth for the climate alarmism movement. Many 'planet saviours' have
labelled him as a 'climate denier', wow. In the first place, how can
anyone, even skeptics, deny climate change (CC) since the planet was
born some 4.6 B years ago? See some reports here, The Paris Climate
Agreement Survived Trump. Can It Survive Brazil's Bo
* This is my article in BusinessWorld last November 08, 2018.
Integrated Public-Private Partnership (PPP) means the construction then
operation and maintenance (O&M) phases will be done by a single
entity while Hybrid PPP means the construction is done by one entity,
the O&M to be done by another entity. Funding of the former
therefore will be fully shouldered by that entity while in Hybrid PPP,
Wow, WTI prices today went down to $55.7 a barrel ($4 decline in a
day), Brent $65.5, Dubai $69.8. Despite rising global demand, despite
political and military tensions in big oil exporting countries (Iran,
Venezuela,...), oil supply keeps increasing. Thank you America (latest
output 11.6 million barrels a day), thank you Trump. Oil prices must
fall further. Sources: US EIA , https://www.wsj.com/
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